Lord George Hamilton should write one more letter to the
Daily News in relation to his controversy with " Iguotus." lie had stated in his letter to the Daily News of March 1st that " Ignotus's ' accounts of Lord Lytton's objects and intentions" were "a compact mass of falsehood," and this on the faith of a man who spoke "with a full knowledge of all Indian corre- spondence, both public and confidential, relating to our policy in Afghanistan up to March, 1880." To all plain minds which have studied the correspondence lately laid before Parliament, Lord Lytton's minute of September, 1878, amply confirms the strongest statements of " 1gnotus," and makes it simply unin- telligible how Lord George Hamilton can have branded them as "a compact mass of falsehood." That they are not "a com- pact mass of falsehood," but, whether absolutely and, literally accurate or not, at all events just such a statement of the facts as most people who had read the new Blue-book would have given, is now plain to all persons, except, perhaps, Lord George Hamilton. That Lord George Hamilton would deliberately Bay what he believed to be false, no reasonable man would for a moment suppose. But the principles on which certain mem- bers of the last Tory Government, especially when dealing with Indian or Foreign affairs, characterised certain statements as true or false, are so entirely obscure, that we do think Lord George Hamilton would do a public service by explaining publicly whether or not he had Lord. Lytton'e minute in mind when he wrote as ho did, and if he had, how be reconciles that minute with his very bewildering as well as very sweeping and violent language.
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