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We are informed upon seemingly good authority that Sir Stafford

Northcote does not go to India, and the Viceroyalty is therefore open to competition. A strange rumour is at the same time afloat among Indians that Lord Stanley is willing to take the office, a rumour we are wholly unable to believe. He would be the absolute best Viceroy India could get, and India never does get the absolute best Viceroy. Tying Lord Stanley's hands when once possessed of full local knowledge—and he has been in India—would be difficult work, so difficult that the country would probably govern itself, for the first time since Lord Dalhousie's retirement.

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