On the verge of a famine which, hut for tho railway communication, would depopu late whole districts, India has to pay for the expedition of Indian troops to the Soudan. As India is tho poorest country in the world, the Indian protest is very strong, very general and very unanimous. From our files we see that the vernacular and the English press are in perfect accord on this matter. The one word which is common to all tho agi tators, both of the press and platform order, is “injustice.” The protesters against the injustice of maxing the Indian Treasury pay for what is prob ably not a matter of Indian concern, and certainly not exclusively a matter of Indian concern, fight hard without distinc tion of race or political view. The word of their unanimity—“ injustice ” —is a serious word. It may ho an epoch-making word. As a thoughtful writer has pointed out, " tho loyalty of British India, it should never bo forgotten, has been the slow growth of tho just administration of British India." Now, if the administration is universally proclaimed unjust, and by common consent of European and native, of Hindoo and Afghan, of Ghoorkha, Sikh, Mahratta, Rohilla and Pathan, what will become of the loyalty of the various people of India so slowly grown up ?

The question which affects tho colonial world ia of a different complexion. Men are asking why the occupation of Egypt, and replying for the protection of the British trade route through tho Canal j and commenting that Australasia has as great au interest in that as India. Tho time is not far off when the financial responsibility of Empire will ha upon us. We shall have to decide whether we shall remain in the Empire with the Canadian statesman, who is prepared to strain the whole might of the Empire rather than go out-, or stay in with Sir Charles Lilloy, who sees no magic in crystallising a perfectly good natural sentiment into a bad political union.
