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Foreign Jurisdiction Act he had power to try “ the Criminals” though they had been tried and discharged by a Moglai Court. The speech seems to have had the desired effect, for Myr Bosau- quet has applied to the Resident for permission to try the case.
Whatever wight be said against the Nawab-Vicar-ul-Mulk, this much must be admitted that he is a very hard-working and energetic official. In spite of the illness that took him te Bom- bay, he did not let slip the opportunity that presented itself of interviewing Sir Mortimer Durand who is spoken of as Bir Dennis Fitzpatrick’s successor here. What the nature of the interview was, it is not possible to say, But I hear that accord- ing to a telegram from Bombay the interview was" satisfactory.”
Moulvie Ekbal Ali is again a judge of the High Court. What has become then of the decision come to by the Chief Justice and his colleagues soon alter Mr. Ali’s departure to the North-Western Provinces that the Court could get on very well without one more Judge ?
One of the many that have got their grievances here, is Mrs. Tyther, well-known here and elsewhere for her phil- anthropy. She sent, I am told, some paintings and articles worth about 4,000 H. S. Rs. to His Highness the Nizam for his inspection some time ago. His Highness inspected them and kindly ordered that they should be kept in the palace and Mrs, Tytler paid for them. But the order received little attention from those about him. Mrs. Tytler waited for a good long time for the money due; and finding it to have been in vain she called at the Sarjikass office some days ago and was told that a certain person about the person of His Highness would not yet "them” pay her. What the person has to do with the money due to Mrs. Tytler by His Highness—God only knows. Tired of waiting here for her dues, Mrs. Tytler left for Bombay this morning and it is I believe her intention, to lay her case befere the Foreign Office in Calcutta,
