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AGE, 55-60. THE INDIA COUNCIL—MISS NIGHTINGALE
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(itself probably incomplete). In Council he invariably " showed
his strong determination to endeavour to deal with questions on
their own merits and not only by custom and precedent." 6s
Amongst subjects in which he took a strong line of his own in
the discussions of the Council, may be specially instanced his
action in the matter of the cotton duties (in which he defended
native Indian manufactures as against hostile Manchester
interests) ; the Vernacular Press Act, the necessity for which he
fully recognised ; . and the retention of Kandahar, for which he
recorded his vote in a strong minute. In all these three cases,,
which are typical of many others, his opinion was overruled, but
having been carefully and deliberately formed, it remained un-
affected by defeat.
In all matters connected with Central Asian affairs, Yule's
opinion always carried great weight ; some of his most com-
petent colleagues indeed preferred his authority in this field to
that of even Sir Henry Rawlinson, possibly for the reason given
by Sir M. Grant Duff, who has epigrammatically described the
latter as good in Council but dangerous in counsel.°°
Yule's courageous independence and habit of looking at all
public questions by the simple light of what appeared to him
right, yet without fads or doctrinairism, earned for him the
respect of the successive Secretaries of State under whom he
served, and the warm regard and confidence of his other
colleagues. The value attached to his services in Council
was sufficiently shown by the fact that when the period of ten
years (for which members are usually appointed), was about to
expire, Lord Harting-ton (now Duke of Devonshire), caused
Yule's appointment to be renewed for life, under a special Act of
Parliament passed for this purpose in 1885.
His work as a member of the Army Sanitary Committee,
brought him into communication with Miss Florence Nightingale,
a privilege which he greatly valued and enjoyed, though he used
to say : " She is worse than a Royal Commission to answer, and,
in the most gracious charming manner possible, immediately
finds out all I don't know ! " Indeed his devotion to the
" Lady-in-Chief" was scarcely less complete than Kinglake's.
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68 Collinson's Afenzoir of Yule.
69 See Notes froze a Diary, 1888-91.
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