The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday June 24th 1879

We know the causes of this cessation;but it would not be expedient to state them." Shwa the publication of the correspondence which has passed between the Government of India and the Secretary of State we also know the causes of this cessation and we think it not inexpedient to state them. [...] approval of the whole community ; when the published minutes of Members of the Government itself declare the conduct of the Government to have been such that it must appear to the public to be a breach of faith and predict the fall of the Empire it the disregard of public opinion be persisted in —then it heroines neceiwiry to meet the charge or at least to make a show of meeting it. [...] It is true that when at the close of the last Iluancial year the Government did not sae its way through the gluon that rested over the future it resolved rather than add to the weight of taxation to make temporary use of the famine fund. [...] What wo now desire the public to observe is that the condemnation it has meted out—not without some effect—to the Government in the Finance Department has equally been earned by it in the Foreign Department ; and if the public fail to condemn the one as it has condemned the other it fails in one of the most solemn and important duties which it owes to itself and to the future. [...] Tirane appears to be a want of co-operation is the doings of our Municipal Commissioners and the record 'et the prceedings of the last meeting affords a further revelation of the anomalous condition of affair..