The Friend of India and Statesman Friday October 11th 1878

It is now understood that the Viceroy with the Foreign Office and perhaps the Military Member of Council will go for a time to Lahore but that the other offices will come as wand to Calcutta where the Viceroy will follow towards the close of the year. [...] The news of the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank was followed by the intelligence that the London house of Messrs. [...] Putting the matter simply and not eloping to give the phrase all the shades of meaning it might be made to beer the supreme official Verdict on the situation is that the famine in the North-West has been the best managed famine in principle of any we have yet had. [...] The disclosures which there met me mud what I there saw of the dying people led me to write a letter to the &Menton calling the attention of the Government to the existing state of matters —a state unknown to any ono but the local officials. [...] We have no misgiving as to the justice with which we have attributed the present policy of °overtime% in regard to Affghauistan to the political exigencies of the situation of the present Tory Government.