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184 sented. Peace and popularity seemed as remote from the Viceroy as ever. Another question, bristling with difficulties, was that of the rewards to be accorded to officials for their services during the Mutiny — a matter on which strong feelings were certain to be entertained, and any injustice, or supposed injustice, to be bitterly resented. Sir C. Wood's measure for the amalgamation of the European force in India with the Queen^s army had now been passed, and the arrangements for carrying it into execution involved a heavy burden on the Indian authorities and especially on the Head of the Government.

In the autumn of 1860 Lord Canning started on another tour in Upper India, received the Bengal Rájás at Patná and Benares, and, crossing into Central India, held a Darbár at Jabalpur for the benefit of Holkar, Sindhia, and other Maráthá magnates.

Returning by Lucknow, where he performed a pleasant task in receiving in Darbár the Baillie-Volunteer Guard, some of the most distinguished heroes of that gallant defence, the Viceroy in February returned to Calcutta, where a host of important questions were awaiting his arrival — military re-organisation, consequent on the recent changes in the Indian army — alterations in the structure of the Legislative Councils, and the creation of High Courts in which the old Supreme Court of Warren Hastings' day, and the Sadr Court, in which Civilian Judges