UNIV.

VINNOJITVO

SPEECHES

DELIVERED IN INDIA,

1884-8,

BY THE

MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA.

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PREFACE.

Ir is the custom in India for the Viceroy's speeches to be printed in the Private Secretary's office, each speech being preceded by an introductory heading, descriptive of the circumstances under which it was delivered. Although Lord Dufferin, as he himself has told us, did not think it very desirable that the Viceroy should appear frequently on the platform, he was compelled during his term of office to deliver 177 speeches. The present volume consists of such of these as, from one cause or another, may be considered as possessing peculiar interest, and they are now published in the belief that some of them may prove useful to the large number of persons who have of late begun to turn their attention to the affairs of our Indian Empire.

Four non-Indian speeches have also been inserted. Two of these were delivered by Lord Dufferin before he went to India, namely, one at the Empire Club, and one at a dinner given to him in Belfast. The other two were made after his return to this country: one at the Mansion House on the 29th of May, 1889, and the other at a banquet given to him by the London Chamber of Commerce on the 30th of October, 1889.

DONALD MACKENZIE WALLACE.

LONDON,

15th February, 1890.