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 opposition here. If the opposition includes the children of the soil, there is reason for this cry. But if by it is meant the party out of power, the outs" as the "Bombay Gazette" styles it, nothing could be a greater travesty of truth than it is. "How long are we to put up with this injustice and zoolum?" said a Muhamedan gentleman the other day. And when I told him that the authors of so much mischief must sooner or later sink weighted down by their sins, he said, "It seems as if that day will never come." The feeling herein portrayed is the feeling of almost every Hydera badeo and of most of those interested in his welfare. The "Bombay Gazette" in a long leader devoted to the review of Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick's work in his issue of the 11th Instant, says that as Resident his duty lay in supporting Sir Asmanjah and that duty he discharged remarkably well. This definition of the Resident's duty "beats" Sir Dennis's- and it smacks of the counsel for the defendant and not the fair critic. Did the Editor of the "Gazette" give himself time to think what supporting Sir Asmanjah really meant? Did he remember that the Minister was but a puppet that danced at the pulling of the wires by a set of aliens with an eye to their profit?

Last Monday was His Highness the Nizam's birthday; and it differred from its predecessors, in that attempts were made thereon by some to show that the people fully approved of the trust reposed in the present Ministry by His High- ness. What a miserable success these attempts proved to be, any one who cared to take a stroll through the streets of the city last Monday night, could tell. The enthusiasm that expressed itself in the lighting of houses did not extend beyond a few officials, some Hindu noblemen who are more timid than straight forward, and a few of the inhabitants living in dread of the influence of some of the Municipal authorities. And instead of a blaze of light all round, a few well-lit houses met one's view occasionally-and this but tended to bring into bold relief the