The Friend of India and Statesman Friday December 20th 1878

I also think that the policy of the Government of Iodic ever eines Lord Lytton's arrival in the country has been to irritate and excite the suspicions of the Amir mid the present complications are only duo to the policy of the Government itself. [...] The letters written by the English nobleman the representative of the Imperial Lady who once held up the Hebrew Bible as the symbol and explanation of England's greatuels—are specimens of diplomacy of the most insincere and untruthful order. [...] The Pioneer says of the statement made to the Lords by the Secretary of State :- All we eon say out hero is that the statement —as it is calculated to impress ignorant hearers at home and in the simple sense of the words is nonsense. [...] We warned the country from the very first what the occupation of Quetta really meant and now that the fact can uo longer be contended the Times has the effrontery to toll the nation that as it `sanctioned' the occupation of the place it is of no use now to question the policy of the step. [...] We owed to him the most conspicuous blunders that marked the closing years of Lord Canning'sreigu and his elevation from the Supremo Council to the Governorship of Bombay when Sir John Peter Orton had been already nominated to the office—proved the direct occasion of stimulating the speculativa excitement in that island to the point of madness.