, 1893-09-09

ing is only too likely to end in so per cent.
approximations.
After the storm a calm. The week at home
has been lefreshingly dull. On Monday
indeed. the House of Commous was tile scene
u1 Il public "act Of contrit,un. On rather.
perhaps, al triton" rs the "a holic theologi.
ans s'y,-on the part Of Mr.. Hayes Fisher
and Nh. Logan fer their share in Bringing
about the political cyclone Of Vhurs}ty we,l
This had been arranged in 4 private 10 ,tl4ve.
in which Mr.. Fisher. Mr.. Logsu, Mr.. Nj iori.
banks, Sir William Walrond, and Nj. Whas.
ton, took part. to concer' the details Of the
apology to the House Ii Mas. wee e folt
understood that Mr.. Logan, whose aggressive
d I'M nstratIon came first IN order Of time
though by no means III order Of violence
should set the example Of penitence but Mr.
Logan declared that he did not so understand
it, aud Mr. Hayes Fisher, therefore, was tile
first to express his sorrow and humiliation at
his own part in the affray. Then followed
Mr. Logan, with the usual hypothetical
apology. "lf my action in crossing the Hoor
or the House did IN any way rsgrettably lead
to the scene which followed an hypothesis
which we may regard as absolutely verified.
then Mr.. Logan deeply regretted. and
'apoIogised most humbly" for, what he had
done. Hereupon, the Leader Of the House.
the Leader Of Opposition, and the Speaker
all expressed their opinion that the incident
should end there, and that the scene should
be as soon as possible forgotten. Mr.. Mac
Cartfy, however, put in a claim for the
formal whltewashing Of the Irish Party, of
which no one took any notice at all. Indeed
after Mr. /. PsOConnor's formal apology OH
Thursday week, the claim was not only un3
TONndnd hDf TJf10rlATa
On Friday, July 28th. Lord Roberts
received the freedom of the City of Glasgow
In a speech as modest and straightforward as
that OF a soId!eg should be, he spoke some
excellent sense about the craze of "India
for the Indians" The question is, which
Indians? People forget that "in many
respects the Punjabi Mahommedan and the
Bengal, the Sikh aud the Madrasi tho
Pathan and The Mahratta, are more widely
separated in feelings aud ideas than arc the
English and Russian the French and Germans
or the Italians and Norwegians." A Madras
native gentleman was once asked bv Lord
Roberts what he thought of Ind for the
indians" He replied, "Go to the ZoolocictI
Gardens and open all the cages you will
then see what would be the end Of India for
the Indians. There would be a grand fight
N'" a. VIC auiluais, WIN the result that
the tigeri would walk. ovor... the i lad
bodies of the rest" On being asked whom
he meant by the tiger, he replied, The
Mahommodan from the North" The moral
of this allegory of my friend-who was Ger
talnly one Of the NEST enlightened native
gentlemen l have ever met wlth-Was that
India could not DO left to herself, and that Il
supreme power was necessary to hold together
the varied and various races That little
story is worth a hundred ponderous diatribes
Of the kind usually INDUCED in by retired
Anglo-Indians, who seem to grow dull in
their bewildermenr at the idea of the Ryot
going to the poll "in his myriads'' to vote for
a social purity" programme coucocted by Mr..
Game and his friends.