The Friend of India and Statesman Friday December 6th 1878

The Pioneer speaks in a scornful way of the Spectator's miserable practice of counting the coat of our present squabble—Is not England's preatigo pf infinitely mere moment than the prosperity of its subjects I Shall we reckon the cost of avenging a slur upon our honor! and all that sort of thing.—But surely it is the duty of a Government to count the cost of all it does and judge dispassionately [...] The movement was successful but the difficulty of the mad induced General Roberts to delay the attack upon the Motel till the morning of the 3rd. [...] Then came the attempt to force an entrance through the Khyber without waiting for the permission of the Ainir ; on its failure the dissolution of the Mission ; the fictitious " insult" fabricated specially for home consumption ; and finally the project to " rush" the Khyber Pass with a handful of troops and so commit the Empire to war before the popular indigntion at home over an imaginary a [...] The fact that; the Government did not venture to publish the letter although they had published the letter to which it was a reply justified the incredulity with which the official account of it was received by the public. [...] In the present case the letters attacking the management of the Doveton would have had a more useful effect if the writers had given them the weight of their names And these gentlemen who we presume must be members of the Devotee Society should at the seine time as as they were trying to awaken public interest through the newspapers have taken active steps to convene a public meeting of the