THE INDIAN NIGHTMARE.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 982, 18 August 1877, Page 2

THE INDIAN NIGHTMARE.

To the Editor of the Globe. Sm, —Lord Salisbury, the Conservative Minister for India, has recently administered a well merited castigation to Lord de Manley who made a Kusso-phobist speech in the House of Lords. Some thiugs which Lord Salisbury said may be studied with advantage by those colonials who never weary of displaying their own utter ignorance of a great question by talking of Russian designs ttpon India. Let me give a few brief extracts from his Lordship’s speech : —“ An immense mass of Englishmen have no notion of distance or of scenery outside of England, and cannot recognise that Russia is still really further, much further, from Lahore than from London, and with infinitely greater obstacles to overcome between them, . . Now I have a colonial friend who has been very much exercised in his mind in connection with the Cape of Good Hope. He pointed out to me that Russia was in Armenia, that Armenia is the key to Syria, that Syria is the key to Egypt, and that any one advancing into Egypt has the key to Africa. By this link of keys, long drawn out, he shows that the present victories of the Russians seriously menace South Africa. I have done my best to console him, but I feel his anxious feelings are only characteristic of the apprehensions which I constantly hear around me.” S. Yours, &c., Christchurch, August 16th, 1877.