text:  Nor can a more opportune juncture be found than the present when the late events in Cabul have apparently had a marvellous effect in opening the eyes of our statesmen both in India and England to the moral and political delinquency of the system we have so long pursued--of taking the previous owner's consent for granted whenever it suited our views to possess ourselves of a fortress island or tract of territory belonging to any nation not sufficiently civilized to have had representatives at the Congress of Vienna