We notice with pleasure the arrival of Sir Saler Jung,
Premier of the Nizam's Dominions, perhaps the ablest, and certainly the strongest, of the most hopeful class of native politicians in India, the Viziers of the native States, the only natives with true politi- cal careers. This particular one has, we fear, come on unpleasant business—to ask that a province which has become British, andin which great interests have grown up, should be handed back to rule which may not always be in his 'steady hands—but he per- sonally deserves every welcome. He saved British power in the Madras Presidency during the Mutiny. If Hyderabad had gone, Southern India would have gone ; and that it did not go was due to Sir Saler Jung's brains, courage, and influence over the Arabs of the Deccan, who swarmed at his summons to the capital. He is not much in favour in high quarters, because he did not make his boy-Sovereign wait on the Prince of Wales; but these Premiers have to manage their own Courts, as well as to conciliate ours, and this particular service was impossible. A little less firmness on his part, and a little more haughtiness on the part of the Resident, and the Prince might have been welcomed by a rising of half the Mohammedans of Madras. Hyderabad is the weak place in our armour, and a man who can rule it, and is willing to do so in a friendly spirit, deserves cordial recognition. He will be plun- dered, of course, but that does not matter. What does matter is that his place in the Indian world should be frankly acknow- ledged.
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