360 The Nizam Diamond . [July, 
The return journey to Bombay gave time for other reflec- 
tions. At present our “ enormous dependency, India, the 
most populous and important that ever belonged to a nation, 
and conferring a higher prestige on the ruling race than has 
ever been conferred by any other subject people,” — as the 
judicial Trollope has it, — is, has been, and under present 
circumstances ever will be, somewhat negleCIed by the gene- 
ral public of England. No home Britisher can interest 
himself even moderately in such a colony. It is too distant, 
and it can hardly be brought nearer by local parliaments 
and similar institutions. Although “ taxation without re- 
presentation is tyranny,” we are not yet prepared to grant 
what eventually must be granted, representative government. 
We are therefore driven to seek some other course. 
At Haydarabad, as in India generally, we are living 
upon a volcano, which may or may not slumber for years. 
The remedies hitherto proposed for the natural disaffection 
of the great native powers, kept as they are in a state of 
quasi-tutelage, appear to be mere quackeries, likely to do 
harm rather than good. For instance, to make the energetic 
Indian Prince more powerful within his own jurisdiction 
would be simply to arm him against ourselves. 
But why not at once admit a certain number to seats in 
the House of Lords ? Of those who claim salutes of 21 guns 
there are, besides four foreigners, three Indian Princes, — the 
Nizam, the Gaikwar, and the Ruler of Mysore, — who all 
happen at present to be minors. Amongst those honoured 
by 19 guns we find Scindhia, Plolkar, and Udepur; whilst 
Jaipur, with twelve others, has 17 guns. Of course it 
would be necessary to limit the number to six or seven, but 
the hope of eventually rising to the dignity should not be 
withheld from the chiefs of lower grade. 
Nothing would tend more direCtly to conciliate the Princes 
of India, and to make them our firm friends, than to admit 
them to the highest dignity of the Empire, — to a House 
where they would doubtless hasten to sit, where they would 
learn their true interests, and where they would find them- 
selves raised to a real instead of a false equality with the 
ruling race. 
