Happily such Magistrates are rare.

Government, in a letter dated the 25th February, 1848, state--"that it is the duty of the magistrates of our districts bordering on Oude to adopt vigorous measures for preventing the assembling or entertaining of followers by any party, for the purpose of committing acts of violence on the Oude side of the frontier." [* See their letter to the Government of India, 27th May 1835.] _December_ 8, 1849 .-- Pukharpoor, a distance of fourteen miles, over a fine plain of good soil, scantily tilled.

For some miles the road lay through Rajah Hurdut Sing's estate of Bumnootee, which was, with the rest of the district of Bahraetch and Gonda, plundered by Rughbur Sing, during the two years that he held the contract.

We passed through no village or hamlet, but saw some at a distance from the road, with their dwellings of naked mud walls, the abodes of fear and wretchedness; but the plain is well studded with groves and fine single trees, and the crops are good where there are any on the ground.

Under good management, the country would be exceedingly beautiful, and was so until within the last four years.
In the evening I had a long talk with the people of the village, who had assembled round our tents.