The Prince of Wales, who with the Princess sailed for
home on Monday, took farewell of India i,n replying to a municipal address at Karachi this day week. In his speech the Prince assured all his friends in India that be left it with feelings of gratitude and affection. Their journey had been in all parts most, delightful,—" an unending and un- broken series of happy and most instructive experiences." The Times correspondent, who has accompanied the Prince on his tour, sums up its significance in a striking letter which appears in Tuesday's issue. The ground covered—eight thousand miles by rail and a sea voyage of two thousand miles from Calcutta to Rangoon and thence back to Madras— brings home the magnitude and variety of the wonderful Indian panorama unfolded before the Royal visitors. In con- clusion, the Times correspondent pays a well-deserved tribute to the Indian Civil Service. " We are apt at home," he observes, " to forget what the Government of such a country as India means, though it is perhaps the greatest administra- tive achievement which the world has ever seen, and it is an achievement which would be impossible without the high standard of efficiency and devotion to duty to which the Indian Civil Service has attained." It is, therefore, no slight consolation to them to know that their future Sovereign " will come home with a fuller appreciation. of • the large and really splendid share they take in bearing the white man's burden for the benefit, of the whole of the Empire." That is well said. We are all too apt to ignore India, and to confine our Imperial thinking to other and newer portions of the Edpire.
