Having thus most practically declared that India is quite unfit for representative institutions in the ordinary sense of the word, Mr.Norton proceeded to point out that, as the desired power for reconstituting the government is not likely to be obtained in India, they must work on the people of England, who at present believe, he says (p.

92), that the Indian Government is "being beneficiently carried on." "You must disturb that belief," he continued.

In other words, he might have said, you must do what the Parnellites did, or attempted to do, in England.

And accordingly the Congress wirepullers have set up an agency in London, and have posted placards purporting to be an appeal from 200 millions of India to the people of England.
But after all, the desired majority in the Indian Councils, which the delegates rightly declared to be the key of the whole position, would be insufficiently supported without an army and an armed population at the back of it, and all in sympathy with the native soldiers in the English service.

These wants, however, are carefully attended to in Resolutions 5 and 8, which we will now briefly glance at.
Read by itself, the Fifth Resolution seems to be harmless, and even laudable, for it expresses a desire (p.