The difficulty in. Oude as to the position of the
talookdars seems to have ended. Sir John Lawrence has published and obeyed Sir Charles Wood's orders, and the inquiry is therefore strictly con- fined to the existence of sub-rights acknowledged before the annexation. To this the landholders do not object, for the very good reason that there are no such rights in Cade. The Financial Commissioner, we are informed, discovered that so far from the peasants demanding perpetual leases, their special grievance was that the landlords would not let them throw up their holdings. There is so much virgin soil in Oude that a lease is considered an oppression, as binding a man to stay on a half-exhausted farm. in other provinces nothing can induce a tenant to quit, and Sir John Lawrence was deceived by a false analogy.
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