a crime which they have not as yet felt called upon to commit.
But, did Sir Dennis give himself time to find out whether the
testimony of such interested parties as the Nizam's officials could
count for anything in the eyes of a sane man?
His Excellency Sir Asmanjah has issued in the Home
Department a resolution on Col. Indlow's report on the inquiry
into the Salar Jung Bribery Case, I alluded to in these columns
more than four months ago. It keeps up the mark of its
"predecessors" some of which I have the pleasure of noticing in
my letters. The valuable services of the gentleman who conducted the inquiry are duly recognised; the official charged with
accepting bribes from one of the Begums of the Salar Jung
family is honorably acquitted; and those who gave evidence
against the official are condignly punished. Seeing that rumours that had been afloat in the city for some time about two of
the Begums of the Salar Jung family offering bribes to a certain
official and that found expression in a paragraph in a June
issue of the "Deccan Times" affected the reputation of no less
a personage than the Nawab Fateh Nawaz Jung, a very careful
enquiry into the matter was ordered: that is what the Resolution
gives us to understand to begin with. Then the document goes
ou to give us an idea of the manner in which Colonel Ludlow
set to work to find out the truth-never making so much as a
passing allusion to the fact that the Nawab Akber Jung was
associated with Colonel Ludlow in the earlier stages of the
enquiry, and he had subsequently, for some unknown reason,
to sever his connection and leave the inquiry solely in the hands
of the Colonel who could never be so useful as himself and tells
what tremendous success crowned his efforts, where he located
malice and intrigue, what satisfaction the results of the inquiry
have given His Highness the Nizam and how those who deserved
punishment have been punished. The Resolution is, on the
whole, a remarkable document--the ring of jubiliation it has
about it is as remarkable as the punishments awarded to Maulvi
Syed Abu Torab for interfering in the interests of his niece,