Summary:  their enormities, but on maturer reflection I am doubtful whether it would be advisable in the present situation of affairs; your opinion will much determine mine.” Such instances of the unflinching administration of justice by the Company’s servants in the last century disclose in a striking light the capacities possessed by the officials to preside over the intricacies of Oriental affairs, and exhibit a side of their character which stands before us unim- peachably and unblemished as the guileless sageness of Nestor, as brilliant in the detection of crime as the Somali trackers of the present day, as vigorous