The Friend of India and Statesman Friday December 27th 1878

What_ fatal thing is it that converts the Civil orrice into a more 'successful hunting ground for the toady the courtier and the charlatan while it perverts the very powers of the good and able to the ruin of the people :—" Ever learning never able to corns to the knowledge of the truth." All honor to the Civilian' hand that has told this tragic Mysore story with so faithful a pen. [...] The necessity for this sheave the evident strain on the department and also the introduction of the principle of increasing the junior ranks without increasing the warrant appointments; a principle in every way detrimental to the interests of those already serving. [...] The Commission is thus required to deal first with the general economic condition of the people under our rule and the measures by which it may be ameliorated ; and in the second place with the actual calamity of famine declaring what the responsibilities of the State really are and prescribing the course which the State should take at such periods. [...] The result is that we have imported the ideas of 'landlordism' and 'freedom of contract' iuto the country to the creation by the former of a vast class of middlemen drones living in idleness on the land while we have reduced the cultivator by theother to the position of a slave. [...] As one of the columns of the Russian expedtionary force which has been partly the cause of the present war with Amu' Shore Ali was to have marched on the Oxue by way of this valley it will not be uninteresting to quote M. Otshanin's experiences of the kind of country and the sort of road along which the army would have travelled.