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We can best end our account of the article with

which we have been dealing by reminding our readers that our view is 'one which is entirely free from any party feeling, or from any prejudice against the present Govern- ment as a Government. The subject is far too serious for anything of the kind. We can assure our readers that we do not insist upon the magnitude of the political blunder that has been committed because 'we are opposed to the Government. As for the writers in the Nationai Review, they are, we believe, on other questions strong supporters of the Ministry, and are firmly opposed to the Liberal party. They write, not because they wish to injure Mr: Brodrick or Mr. Balfour's Administration, but out of a sense of public duty, and because they realise froni the depth of their Indian knowledge and experience that the Cabinet have been playing with fire.

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