The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday June 17th 1879

This takes the fields of the map in aerial order and records the name and rent of the tenant occupying each or notes the fact that the land is waste or a road or a grove as the case may be. [...] Ties lack of principle of common honesty the unscrupulous exercise of power and the regardlessness of the interests of tide country which the Rome Government and their pliant instruments at Simla have shown ill the partial abolition of the cotton duties have become so painfully manifest that the courtliest of our contemporaries is obliged to speak of theta with astonishment and horror. [...] The truth is that the proceedings in connection with the Licouse-tax the Famine Fund and the cotton duties have only made the conductand character of the heads of the present Government palpable to those people who were too charitable too prejudiced or too little interested in affairs of State to perceive them in their naked deformity in connection with their Alf-2118n policy. [...] It means the sacrifice of any part of the Empire to the interests or supposed interests of England ; and the interests of England mean tho maintenance of the Conservatism party ; and the maintenance of that party is only to be secured by the adhesion of Lancashire and Lancashire can be only secured by the support of the cottospinners. [...] The true Imperial statesman does not seek to secure every advantage for one part of the Empire at the expense of the rest; be aims at the welfare of the whole political organism by a careful consideration of the needs of each member.