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151 Engineer concerned. The re-inssatement, I need hardly tell you, is due not to a conviction on the part of the authorities of Mr. Maucherji's innocence-though there is not the slightest doubt that he is innocent-but to the fact that he is a man of influence. Since writing this I have seen a leader on the Diamond case in this morning's issue of the "Deccan Standard" in which the Nawab Vicar-ul-mulk is extolled for the way in which he acquitted himself of the very difficult task of writing a manifesto for the Nizam. It is difficult to understand wherein lies the excellence of the manifesto-whether in the laudatory phrases showered upon his Judges, or in the silly condemnation of Jacob's past conduct and the consequent proclamation of the gullibility of His Highness and those about him or in the tone of warm approval in which the Prince of Wales' condescension to appear before a Court of Justice is spoken of-for effect to be sure. I should like to ask the Nawab Vicar-ul-mulk to compare his fulsome praise of Judges in the manifesto with the lashing administered by His Excellency the Minister in the resolution issued on the City Murder Case, as well as how far the approval of the Prince of Wales' conduct was time-serving and how far sincere, seeing that His Highness the Nizam thought it consistent with his dignity only to appear before a commission in Hyderabad and thinks it derrogatory to go to the Calcutta High Court. It would be also interesting to know whether the far-sighted Vicar calculated on the counter-blast' in which Jacob trumpets forth to the world. The Nizam purchased the diamond outright. He may say anything he likes now. I have no fear of the result of the case."