The Friend of India and Statesman Friday May 9th 1879

Dicey as a mitedMeard'ittime of whose members are directly amenable to the authority of the Khedive and others are practically responsible to foreign governments while all are under the general sepervieion of the creditors of the State." Much delay took place in the formation of the ministry. [...] The Ministers laboured earnestly; but toll° put/mite ;' arid at last the Khedive came forward openly as the champion of the people and declared that foreigners were eating up the resources of the country that the native officials were not duly paid that the peasantry were unable to bear their burdens and that an immediate rada- tion of the debt was necessary for the salvation of the country [...] Yet it may be that the inquiries into the details of Indian administration in its higher branches arising out of the recent movement among the junior members of the Covenanted Civil Service have suggested some doubts as to the necessity of the large salaries attached to the chief charge of districts in Bengal and the North-Western Provinces. [...] This would be to create a delusion which we may avoid by stating at the i ofitset that the special interests of India were openly attacked in the House of Commons and that while pure philanthrophy in the person of Lord Shaftesbury opened the debate in the Lords the measure proposed is enthusiastically supported by the party hostile to India in the Commons and in the -opinion of many author [...] If therefore we take into consideration the National State County Township aud Municipal indebtedness of the nation the loss to the Southern Staten of slave and other property the loss to the remainder of the Union of its merchant marine and carrying trade as well as the diversion and suspension of industry for more than four years and the difference between a currency and gold valuation o