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Rh without thought of worldly matters,' remain in Delhi to ponder Christian problems. We wrestle now not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of the darkness of this world.

On April 7 Mr. Colvin arrived at Simla. He had left the camp at Saháranpur on March 12 to join his wife at Karnál, where four days previously a fifth son had been born to him. Lord Auckland meanwhile had marched through Dehra Dún to Mussooree; and, returning on his steps, reached Simla on April 3.

Some fuller account is now required of the relations between the Government of India and the countries beyond the Sutlej. But, before entering upon it, a few words are needed to explain why so much space is about to be devoted in this Memoir to a sketch of the events which led to the first Kábul war. In Sir John Kaye's History the responsibility of the war has been laid upon Lord Auckland's Indian advisers. As the Governor-General was absent from his Council throughout 1838, his advisers were assumed to have been the Secretaries who accompanied him. Since then, fifty-six years have passed; and documents to which Sir John Kaye made little reference, can now be quoted in their entirety. They show whose were the instructions under which Lord Auckland acted; and what were the measures indicated for his adoption. They prove that the policy of 1838 was not that of Lord Auckland's Indian subordinates, but of his English masters. It is therefore necessary in this Memoir to trace the course of their influence on the