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 King's message'—and without doubt, if it could have been so arranged, if the Viceroy, on reaching that point of his address which preceded the King's message, had announced that 'His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught will now deliver to the Durbar the gracious communication of His Majesty the King-Emperor to his Indian subjects,' what an outburst of enthusiasm it would have called forth! The heart of everyone in that splendid assembly would have been touched, and the reason of the Duke's presence on the dais, the object of his deputation by His Majesty, would have been made manifest, not only to the Durbar, but to the whole of India.

The key-note of loyalty in India is devotion to the Crown of England; this has been strikingly illustrated during the Royal incidents to which allusion has been made. It will once more be made manifest when their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales visit India, and of all those who pay their homage there will be no more loyal hearts than the Chiefs of the Indian Empire.