The Friend of India and Statesman Tuesday July 22nd 1879

The story of the boatloads of starving wretches drowned in the river Jhelum or in one of the lakes I disbelieve although the atrocities committed by the Dogrils' in Gilghit and Yaseen and among the Dhoond tribes in years gone by were much worse and were undeniably true but they were never intended to reach the knowledge of the British Government." A CORRESPONDENT writing from the Punjab on [...] The Afghan war and the whole policy which led up to it were the joint product of the Viceroy and the Secretary of State while the Council of neither the one nor the other had ever a chance of making its voice heard. [...] Toes letter from the Chamber of Commerce to the Government of India in the Financial Department which we publish this morning is dated the 16th of June the very day ou which the Government of India published the circular to the Local Governments which it hoped would give the Chamber inforin' tion calculated to remove its "misapprehension" of the policy of the Government. [...] It seems that the Board of Revenue fathered the exaction of this ill-advised tax on the Madras Government which now repudiates the measure and tells the Board of Revenue) that as they were the cause of the imposition of the said tax; they had better go mad put down the reballion caused by the levying of the seine I An unhappy Member of the Board has therefore had to go to the ware—and On leaving [...] The cost of the college is now about £24 000 a year inclusive of the cost of the tuition and the maintenance of the students ; and probably this could be materially reduced.