To say that the " tremendous administrative changes in Indi have been received with acclaim is but to state a plain fact; and traly, it was a great occasion greatly used. The importance and beneficence of the changes are in fall keeping with the auspicious occasion, when all the best and noblest in the land were assembled to do homage to their Sovereign. In the land of gorgeous colour and pageantry it is safe to say that the spectacular grandeer of the Delhi Darbar is without parallel; and in the annals of history, ancient or modern, there has been no equal to the spectacle that was presented three days ago. The presence of the Sovereign in a land which has has not seen one in person for over two hundred years naturally evoked unbounded enthusiasm rich and poor, peasant and prince, have vied with each other to pay their homage of loyalty, respect and love to their Emperor and Empress. It was an act of gracious condescension and consideration on the part of their Majesties to undergo the hardships of a long sea voyage in order to be present among their Indian subjects and without doubt the action touched the chord of loyalty and love of the Indian people. But his Majesty came with something more. He came armed with Lrirappes rook of that sympathy which, as he said five years ago, if infused into the administration of India, would be responded to by the Indian people tenfold. There is no keener observer of his people than his Majesty. It is an open secret that the changes that have taken place in India during the past few years owe not a little to his sympathy and solicitude for that country. And the same sympathy permeates the concessions that have been granted to his Indian subjects on this famous occasion. Is it any wonder that this feeling has been responded to, even as the King-Emperor traly foretold The changes proclaimed Tuesday by command of the Emperor have well been described as "startling and tremendous" and, as Lord Curzon said, "an abrupt ae
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