27 JULY 1907, Page 2

Lord Curzon, at the dinner of the Grocers' Company on

Wednesday night, spoke in a spirit of optimism in regard to the unrest in India. Vigilance and firmness, coupled with the sympathy of comprehension, will, we are convinced, get rid of the present perplexities. If we prove to the makers of unrest and those on whose prejudices they operate that we are in no sense dismayed by seditious rhetoric, and that we do not mean to yield to panic either in the direction of unwise eoneessions or unwise violence of action, they will soon abandon as useless their attempts to undermine our rule. The real danger would arise if unhappily the impression should be conveyed that we are over-anxious or think ourselves in peril.