One point comes out in the Blue-book on the Baroda
trial which ought to attract Lord Salisbury's serious attention. It is quite evident that the standing quarrel between Bombay and the Viceroy's Government has extended to the affairs of the Native States. Sir Philip Wodehouse's orders to the Resident at Baroda were quite different to Lord Northbrook's, and when Colonel Phayre was superseded, the Governor actually suggested that he should be compensated for supersession. The possibility of this kind of quarrel ought to be terminated. It is bad enough when the subject-matter is internal taxation, but when the differ- ence extends to the political department, it may produce serious disasters. A Resident ought to listen to any representations from the Governor of the Presidency in which his State is an enclave, but surely he ought to be responsible only to the Viceroy. We might almost as well make Mr. Layard, the Minister at Madrid, responsible to the Foreign Secretary and the Governor of Gibraltar.
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