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ly on your own conduct, and I shall see what 

 stuff you are made of." This was the way to 

 have efficient officers, and all selected by Sir 

 Charles were thoroughly efficient, but it made 

 personal enemies of the friends of the disap- 

 pointed. 



Sir Bartle Frere, K. C. B., the late Chief 

 Commissioner, proved himself a first-rate man 

 at a perilous crisis, and he had a staff worthy 

 of their head. The measures projected by the 

 Great Captain who added this important front- 

 ier province to the British territory, have been 

 in most instances carried out, notwithstanding 

 the obstructions that were, for a time, offered 

 by small-minded men in power. SIndli too has 

 been singularly fortunate in falling under the 

 rule of those, not only anxiously desirous to 

 develope to the utmost the resources of the 

 country, but equally so to advance its people 

 in the scale of civilization ; for which unfor- 

 tunately there was too much room, through 

 the tyrannical and degrading policy of the 

 Ameers. It is beyond my power to say that 

 the SIndhians are happier under our Govern- 

 ment than they were under that of the Ameers ; 

 l.)ut I believe them to bo so, as nothing could 



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