the Colony. Coming now to the second question, -- that is, who is to pay for the proposed museums, -- an opinion has been gaining ground for some time that it is not fair that India alone should bear the cost of institutions such as the India Museum and the India Library, from which this country derives quite as much advantage as India does. The Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Glasgow, Belfast, and Leith, as also the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, in their memorials urging upon the Government the necessity of a better provision for the India Museum and Library, have accordingly at the same time expressed themselves in favour of a course by means of which the required expenditure would be shared equally between England and India. Mr. Fawcett, however, goes a step further, and considers that not even a share of the expenditure should fall on India. It is impossible not to respect the motives which lead Mr. Fawcett to entertain that opinion, and which make him at all times the champion of what he considers to be justice to India; and it is impossible to deny that there have been occasions on which the Indian Exchequer has had to bear a larger share of expenditure than could in fairness have been demanded from it. But in the case of the India Museum and Library it seems that justice to India does not demand more than an equal sharing of the expenditure. To assume