We do not like the Reuter telegram of April 28th
from Calcutta. The draftsman of that message is clearly a high official, and he says that "there is reason to hope that the Ameer will be able to vindicate his authority." "Should, how- ever, the Ameer's administration be overthrown, it is understood that, according to certain projects already under consideration, such an eventuality would not necessarily lead to complications between England and Russia. It might, on the contrary, afford occasion for the two Powers to enter into joint arrangements for the suppression of tribal war in Afghanistan, and for the administration of the whole country under a protected ruler agreeable both to England and Russia." We must not prejudge a plan not before us ; but we should say, pending more evidence, that would never do. The English distrust Russia too entirely, and we should have a war scare once a week. Sorely we had enough of dual government in Cairo, without trying it in Caul.
