On Tuesday a deputation waited on the Chancellor of the -
Exchequer from the Conservative Organisation at Manchester, to express their confidence in the Government, especially as regards- its colonial and foreign policy. Sir Stafford Northcote expressed, of course, his great pleasure in receiving this assur- ance from such a quarter, and added that in Spite of great anxieties, he hoped that the issue of the foreign complications would be satisfactory to England, or at all events, such that the people will feel that the Government have been "earnestly and conscientiously and with a single mind endeavouring to do their duty, and to watch carefully over the interests of the coun- try which are for the time committed to their care." thatis- cautious language, and all we object to in it is the "single mind." That the Cabinet are earnestly and conscientiously (though not very effectively) trying to do their duty, we believe, but certainly not with a single mind. There is one mind of the Prime Minister, and another mind of the Secretary for India and his friends, and the two minds alternate, with no good result to the country.
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