THE PRINCE OF WALES IN INDIA.
The Prince of Wales has been carrying all before him in India, says the Singapore correspondent of the Argtis. He has been welcomed everywhere, and, somewhat strange to say, has passed through the country which eighteen years ago was in open rebellion against b,is mother's rule, and which rebellion was only put down with a sternness not far removed from cruelty, without an angry word being heard, much more any overt act attempted against him. His Royal Highness has to work very hard. His day is mapped out for him, each hour from morn to night being set apart for some reception, visit, review, &c ; bnt he stands it well—a great deal better than any of his suite. The visit of his Royal Highness will be the last great incident in the career of Lord Northbrook as Viceroy. Reuter says that his lordship has sent home bis resignation, and the great prize has been awarded to Lord Lytton ; but I should fancy that other and more prominent public men among the Tories would have claims of greater consideration. The new viceroy, whoever he may be, will have
a more difficult part to play than had the outgoing pro-consul. Though matters are kepn very quiet, they are not exactly as they might be wished to be in Northern India and across the Indus. War is not inevitable, perhaps not quite probable, but serious complications are beginning in Affghan and Cabul affairs, and if the present ruler of those countries, now an old man, were to die, there would be a fight between YacoobKhan, bis eldest son, now an exile in disgrace, and his younger brother for the mastery. It will require a cool head and steady hand at the helm to steer straight (though for the matter of that it does so now) when the contingency I have mentioned occurs, and if a Chinese war breaks out no two men will have harder and more difficult work on their hands than the Indian Viceroy and, however great the descent may appear, the Governor of the Straits Settlements.
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 528, 26 February 1876, Page 3
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352THE PRINCE OF WALES IN INDIA. Globe, Volume V, Issue 528, 26 February 1876, Page 3
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