of any kind whatever.  Those who can afford to wear silk or satin wear the petticoat and robe, or mantle of that material, and of any colour.  On their ankles they can wear nothing but silver, and above the ankles, nothing but gold; and if not, nothing, not even silver, except on the feet and ankles.  No Hindoo of respectability, however high or wealthy, can wear anything more valuable than silver below the waist.  The Tilokchundee Byses can never condescend to hold the plough; and if obliged to serve, they enlist in the army or other public establishments of the Oude or other States.

[* Salbahun must have been one of the leaders of the Scythian armies, who conquered India in the reign of Vickramadittea.]

The late governor of this district, Hamid Allee Khan, is now, as I have already stated, in prison, as a great defaulter, at Lucknow.  He was a weak and inexperienced man, and guided entirely by his deputies, Nourooz Allee and Gholam Allee.  Calamities of season and other causes prevented his collecting one-quarter of the revenue which he had engaged in his contract to pay.  Gholam Allee persuaded the officers commanding regiments under him to pledge themselves for the personal security of some of the tallookdars whom he invited in to discuss the claims of Government, and their ability to meet them.  Four of them came—­Hindooput, of Sudowlee, who called on me this morning; Rugonath Sing, of Khojurgow; Rajah Dirg Bijee Sing, of Morarmow; and Bhoop Sing, of Pahor.  They were all seized and put into confinement as soon as they appeared, by the officers who had pledged themselves for their personal safety; and Gholam Allee went off to Lucknow to boast of his prowess in seizing them.  There he was called upon to pay the balance due, and seeing no disposition to listen to any excuse on the ground of calamity of season, he determined to escape across the Ganges.  He wrote to Hamid Allee to suggest that he should do the same, and meet him at Horha, on the bank of the Ganges, on a certain night.

Hamid Allee sent his family across the Ganges, and prepared to meet Gholam Allee at the appointed place; but the commandants of corps, who suspected his intentions, and had not received from him any pay for their regiments for many months, seized him, and sent him a prisoner to Lucknow.  Gholam Allee, however, effected his escape across the Ganges, and is now at Delhi.  The story of his having run away with three lacs of Hamid Allee’s money is represented here as a fiction, as the escape had been concerted between them, and they had sent across the Ganges all that they could send with that view.  This may or may not be the real state of the case.  Hamid Allee, as I have above stated, married a daughter of Fuzl Allee.  Fuzl Allee’s aunt, Fyz-on Nissa, had been a great favourite with the Padshad Begum, the wife of the King, Ghazee-od Deen, and adoptive mother of his successor, Nuseer-od Deen Hyder, who ascended the throne in 1827.  She had been banished from Oude by Ghazee-od