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Page 25 HYDERABAD, 27th November 1890.

The gnashing of teeth and searching of hearts caused in certain official circles by my letter on the Hyderabad Treasury frauds published in your issue of the 14th Instant-the running man might have seen. Speculation has been rife in some quarters as to the authorship of the letter-and I am credibly informed that the house of a poor innocent suspect who has the misfortune to live in the Moglai Jurisdiction was searched. But no one has ventured to gainsay the facts mentioned therein or question the inferences drawn therefrom. The Government organ, as expected, attempted a reply to my letter, but the reply only tended to expose the extreme weakness of the cause it essayed to advocate. Evidently on the principle, "Call a dog by a bad name and then hang it," the "Deccan Standard" termed my experience "unfledged" and slurred over my remarks anent the administration of Justice in Hyderabad. Though it is not pleasant or convenient for interested men here to remember, it may interest your readers to know, that what I said in my letter about the way in which things are managed in the Hyderabad Courts had been stated before that in stronger terms by a well- known Barrister who has had a great deal to do with these courts in connection with Gribble vs. Gallagher thus: "It is a well-known fact that Justice in Hyderabad is a loss up, aud the Judges are all more or less partizans of the Government." The "Hyderabad Record" reproduced my letter on the Treasury frauds in its issue of the 24th Instant. But for its having changed hands, the letter would I am sure, have been allowed. to pass unnoticed by the "Record." Either its present proprie- tors are strong enough to do without the favour of the men in power or they are not aware of the threat--to withhold all Government patronage, in the shape of Job-work, &c.,-held out to its former proprietors in a confidential letter from the Home Secretary, on the occasion of the publication, in its columns, of a paragraph to the effect that Mushtak Hussain was more anxious to add a few ciphers to his own salary than to do