On the 24th of January, 1852, the Resident requested the King to have the prisoner immediately released.

This was the first time that the case came to the notice of Colonel Sleeman, though Hufeez-ollah had been four years in prison, under a fictitious charge from the pay havildar.
_January_ 11, 1850 .-- At Nawabgunge, detained by rain, which fell heavily all last night, to the great delight of the _landed interest_, and great discomfort of travellers.

Nothing but mud around us--our tents wet through, but standing, and the ground inside of them dry.

Fortunately there has been no strong wind with the heavy rain, and we console ourselves with the thought that the small inconvenience which travellers suffer from such rain at this season is trifling, compared with the advantage which millions of our fellow-creatures derive from it.

This is what I have heard all native travellers say, however humble or however great--all sympathise with the landed interests in a country where industry is limited almost exclusively to the culture of the soil, and the revenue of the sovereign derived almost exclusively from the land.