The Friend of India and Statesman Friday March 28th 1879

The petitioners say they " are notaware of the probable cost of the war but the prime cost alone has filled the people of India with alarm and the subsequent cost of maintaining the fruits of this war has also produced the greatest consternation among them." We do not think that any member of the Government has any idea of what the actual cost of this war will be. [...] These results Willy of course depend partly on the character of the Act itself and partly on the character of the officials who work it and we may be obliged to condemn the working of the Act Without departing from the poeition we held as to the real.grotinds that existed for legislation. [...] One of the chief grieknees of the Zulus against the Boers was the seizure by the latter of the lands which have lately come to be spoken of as the disputed territory. [...] We indicated one of these the other day in referring to the doubts entertained by Indian Mussalmans as to the orthodoxy of the editor of the A l-Jataail ; and another instance is the tone adopted by native Indian newspapers towards the Shah of Persia. [...] Meanwhile (to quote the words of the Constantinople journalist) "ti.e English Government wishes to take the lead mid while dexterously contriving to lull the apprehensions of the rest of Europe seeks to acquire a right of interference in the internal affairs of the Ottoman Empire.