The English Press should not pass over without notice the
death of Nuwab Gholam Hussein Khan, K.C.S.I., perhaps the• very best Mussulman servant the Government ever had. He was a man of pedigree, from the wildest district of the Punjab, the Domjat; he discerned, even while Runjeet Singh was ruling, the destiny of the British ; and ho adhered to their fortunes. through good and evil, as if he had been a Londoner. He stood by them in the second Sikh war ; in the Mutiny, he raised for- them a body of 2,000 horse, who did splendid service in engagements; and from 1862 to Lord Lytton's arrival he was our trusted Envoy in Afghanistan. It was not the least of Lord Lytton's many demerits that he despised the services. Gholam Hussein Khan rendered in this capacity, and sought to supersede him by a European, who could not hope to acquire a tithe of the information which came naturally to the devoted. Mussulman. Gholam Hussein Khan escaped the massacre of Cavagnari, being at the time on his road to Cahill, and died peacefully on his own estate, a Knight of &le Star of ludia and a Nuwab, but never rewarded as, had he been an Englishman he would have been. He was the first of a class of great native servants whom we must secure in India, o• go. That we can secure them, his career shows.
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