not dwell on names. It must suffice to mention the chief departments of State. The four judges of the Sadr Diwání and Nizámat Adálat, that is to say the Judges of the Supreme Court, Civil and Criminal. The Board of Trade. The Board of Revenue in the Lower Provinces. The Board of Revenue in the Central Provinces. The Board of Revenue in the Western Provinces. The Board of Customs, Salt and Opium.
The Civil Servants are divided still into classes under the old-fashioned titles of Senior Merchants, Junior Merchants, Factors and Writers. Mr. Brooke, who was senior Judge of the Court of Appeal at Benares, had been appointed to the Service in 1768.
'Mr. Brooke,' writes Bishop Heber in Sept. 1824, 'has been fifty-six years in India, being the oldest of the Company's resident servants. He is a very fine healthy old man, his manners singularly courteous and benevolent, and his tone, in speaking Hindustani and Persian, such as marks a man who has been in the habit of conversing much with natives of high rank.'
Even now in this year 1824 Commercial Residents, Superintendents of Lotteries and Export Warehouse Keepers (to say nothing of Salt agents and Opium agents which survive) alternate with Judges, Magistrates, Collectors, Superintendents of Police, Registrars of Zillah Courts, and assistants to all these. The Registrars of the Zillah Courts were really supplementary Judges and Magistrates. Since the days of Lord
