The Friend of India and Statesman Friday November 22nd 1878

IT is said that His Excellency the Viceroy will come down to Calcutta for a few days to meet the Chief Commissioner of Burmah and the Burmese officials for the purpose of ratifying the treaty with the new Government of Mandalay. [...] THEB3 is nothing much to note about the weather and the crops beyond the fact that the former is generally unseasonable and that the prospects of the latter have not changed. [...] Lot the conductors of the Rome Press and the leaders of English thought once wake up to the objects of the war and the chorus of approval they havo been singing will give place to a cry of astonishment. [...] The Envoy had previously delivered a Tieparatu letter to the (fraud Vizier and another to the Ile is said to have been introduced to the Imperial apartment with the utmost secrecy and only Osman Pasha read Bey and the Shaikh were present at the interview. [...] An officer in charge of a police station wishes to establish his authority over that of some village Hampden of a landlord ; so on the lint occasion of a crime in the village he reports the local magnate as throwing difficulties in the way of the police inquiry and the result is an order from Lead-quarters to send the alleged 'indignant in under arrest.