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Rh contained an infinity of gold plate and jewels, including five hundred drinking-cups, some of which were made of "one piece of Ballace Ruby." The servants, gardeners, grooms, and others, attending upon the court, he estimated at thirty-six thousand. There were also twelve thousand elephants, three hundred of which were reserved exclusively for the emperor's use. The daily expenses of the court were fifty thousand rupees, besides thirty thousand for the harem; or, altogether, £9,000, which comes to three and a quarter millions a year.

A COMBAT WITH IRON CLAWS.

Hawkins describes the emperor as far from popular with his subjects, "who stand greatly in fear of him," and ascribes this partly to his preference for Moham-