The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday July 8th 1879

The lesson to be learnt from this quarrel ought to have been engraved on the hearts of all English statesmen — :namely that the wishes and feelings of the distant parts of tire empire must /be considered as much as those of the mothecountry ; that though England is the head she is not the head and the members too. [...] But surely that can be no reason in the world forour cheerfully agreeing (in the words of the apologist) " to strike out the cost of the war and the advance from England from both sides of the account " " in order to obtain a true conception of our financial position." The tennis and nature of the advance constitute precisely the reason why it should not be struck out but very carefully kept in [...] In the meantime it will be courteous and convenient to accord conventional belief to the conventional statement that the extent of the Secretary of State's discretion will be limited strictly by the "592 The Friend of India and Statesman. [...] news-purveyor but at least the public has a right to ask the 'Viceroy to stop his official from "muttering now this now that ineptitude." THE SITUATION AT THE CAPE Tun chances of a dissolution of Parliament before the end of the year seem to increase probably in a direct ratio with the magnitude -of the bills that are coming in for tha p of the :South African war for which it is understoodt [...] WHEN embossed envelopes were offered for sale with a charge upon them over and above the value of the stamps no as to cover the cost of paper and manufacture they had little attration for the native public ; and it was determined to offer the envelopes at the value of the stamps borne by them with the result that the Postal Department has never been able as yet to fully supply the demand.