WHY THE LATE GENERAL GORDON RESIGNED HIS INDIAN APPOINTMENT.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1848, 28 May 1885, Page 2

WHY THE LATE GENERAL GORDON RESIGNED HIS INDIAN APPOINTMENT.

The Bombay Gazette, in giving what it states to be the true version of General Gordon's resignation of the Private Secretaryship to Lord Kipon, say» that "the grounds upon which he severed his connection with the Vice-Jiegal Court had nothing whatever to do with Yakoob Khan, Sir Lepel Griffin, or with Lord Ripon personally. la a letter written by Gordon at the time, he said : — * I found out when I was at the receptions at Parell what they wanted ma to do. It was expected that I should shake hands with everybody, and say how glad I was to see him, even though I had never laid eyes on him before, and he was quite indifferent to me. This could not be right or straightforward. I knew what I would have to do when I we.nt on to Simla. I would have to go up to —and aay, 'My dear — , lam delighted to see you.' If I would speak the truth what I should say to that man was, ' Sir, you are a great scoundrel and lam sorry to see you here,' Then, of course, there would have been a scene: People would have said that there was a scandal, and that I ought to have kept my opinions to myself, and said something pleasant. That is not my way. Ido not want to force my religious views upon any man j but I do believe that God has made this world, and that he controls and direct* it. It cannot be pleasing to Him that a man should speak insincerely merely to gain some trumpery end, or that he should suppress his honest opinion of people like-."