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 a crime which they have not as yet felt called upon to commit. But, did Sir Dennis give himself time to find out whether the testimony of such interested parties as the Nizam's officials could count for anything in the eyes of a sane man? His Excellency Sir Asmanjah has issued in the Home Department a resolution on Col. Indlow's report on the inquiry into the Salar Jung Bribery Case, I alluded to in these columns more than four months ago. It keeps up the mark of its "predecessors" some of which I have the pleasure of noticing in my letters. The valuable services of the gentleman who conducted the inquiry are duly recognised; the official charged with accepting bribes from one of the Begums of the Salar Jung family is honorably acquitted; and those who gave evidence against the official are condignly punished. Seeing that rumours that had been afloat in the city for some time about two of the Begums of the Salar Jung family offering bribes to a certain official and that found expression in a paragraph in a June issue of the "Deccan Times" affected the reputation of no less a personage than the Nawab Fateh Nawaz Jung, a very careful enquiry into the matter was ordered: that is what the Resolution gives us to understand to begin with. Then the document goes ou to give us an idea of the manner in which Colonel Ludlow set to work to find out the truth-never making so much as a passing allusion to the fact that the Nawab Akber Jung was associated with Colonel Ludlow in the earlier stages of the enquiry, and he had subsequently, for some unknown reason, to sever his connection and leave the inquiry solely in the hands of the Colonel who could never be so useful as himself and tells what tremendous success crowned his efforts, where he located malice and intrigue, what satisfaction the results of the inquiry have given His Highness the Nizam and how those who deserved punishment have been punished. The Resolution is, on the whole, a remarkable document--the ring of jubiliation it has about it is as remarkable as the punishments awarded to Maulvi Syed Abu Torab for interfering in the interests of his niece,