15 MAY 1875, Page 1

Lord Salisbury has appointed the Duke of Buckingham and

1 Chandes Governor of Madras. That is an opportunity lost. The Duke has held many posts with respectable credit, and ma administer the Southern Presidency fairly well, but he is not th originating Governor Madras wants. As to his rank " impressing '7 the natives, that is conventional rubbish. How much are we impressed with their rank? Passed Cabinet Ministers, however, Who will govern Colonies have a oertain claim to govern thejn, and the notion which has somehow grown up in England that a

Duke must be stupid is a superstition, the result of an instinctive dislike to allow that anybody can have all the good things at once.