our Government should take upon itself the responsibility of governing them well and permanently.  All classes, save the knaves, who now surround and govern the King, earnestly pray for this—­the educated classes, because they would then have a chance of respectable employment, which none of them now have; the middle classes, because they find no protection or encouragement, and no hope that their children will be permitted to inherit the property they may leave, not invested in our Government securities; and the humbler classes, because they are now abandoned to the merciless rapacity of the starving troops, and other public establishments, and of the landholders, driven or invited into rebellion by the present state of misrule.  There is not, I believe, another Government in India so entirely opposed to the best interest’s and most earnest wishes of the people as that of Oude now is; at least I have never seen or read of one.  People of all classes have become utterly weary of it.  The people have the finest feelings towards our Government and character.  I know no part of India, save the valley of the Nurbuddah, where the feeling towards us is better.  All, from the highest to the lowest, would, at this time, hail the advent of our administration with joy; and the rest of India, to whom Oude misrule is well known, would acquiesce in the conviction, that it had become imperative for the protection of the people.  With steamers to Fyzabad, and a railroad from that place to Cawnpore, through Lucknow, the Nepaul people would be for ever quieted, with half of the force we now keep up to look after them; and the N. W. Provinces become more closely united to Bengal, to the vast advantage of both.  I mentioned that we should require a considerable loan to begin with; but I think that an issue of paper money, receivable in Oude in revenue, and payable to public establishments in Oude, might safely be made to cover all the outlay required to pay off odd establishments and commence the new work.  Little money goes out of Oude, and the increased circulating medium, required for the new public works and new establishments, would soon absorb all the paper issued.  It might be issued at little or no cost by the financial department of the new administration.  Though everybody knows that the King has become crazy and imbecile, it would be difficult to get judicial proof that he is so, where the life and property of every one are at his mercy and that of the knaves who now govern him.  His every-day doings sufficiently manifest it.  There is not the slightest ground for hope that he will ever be any other than what he now is, or that his children will be better.  There are too many interested in depriving them of all capacity for a part in public affairs that they may retain the reins in their own hands when the children come of age to admit of their ever becoming better than their father is.  I have not lately made the reports which Lord Hardinge directed the Resident to make periodically, but shall