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 HYDERABAD, 14th November 1891.

After experiencing the hospitalities of His Highness the Nizam and Sir Asmanjah at the entertainments given by then in his honor, Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick left Hyderabad the day before yesterday morning. He, no doubt, carried away with him many lively recollections of convival gatherings at which he had been treated to an exuberance of oriental civility, and enthusiastic display of high regard by the sleek officialdom; but how few were the occasions on which he tried to do his duty by the people of the land, to secure good Government here which means the well-being of the State? The more one thinks of the many opportunities Sir Dennis had of helping to put the administration on a satisfactory footing, to provide against the oppression and the nepotism of upstarts, alien officials, of the means he possessed in his abilities and keensightedness born of arduous service in the past, whereby he could have cleansed the Augeau stable' here, one is inclined to believe either that there is an irony of fate under which even the best-intentioned become not only useless but positively harmful to the suffering masses, or that the Hyderabad political atmosphere is such that even the best hearts and powerful minds are perverted by its influence. What is worse than anything done by his predecessors, Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick's policy has brought the least capable men into prominence and invested the most unscrupulous with almost unlimited power. This is an unquestionable fact-a fact which anybody with an open mind can see at a glance or testify to. Ask honest, independent men like the Nawah Abdul Lateef Khan of Bengal and Mr. Nelson, the retired civilian of Madras, what they think of the present administration; and they will tell you what I have all along told in these columns, in my own feeble way, that it is the greatest curse that Hyderabad has known for a very long time. Yet this was the administration that the wise Sir Deunis gave his support to, cordially and unstintingly.

It is a far cry from Bombay to Allahabad that the dissapprobation of the Resident's official conduct is restricted to the