The Pall Mall Gazelle publishes a curious correspondence between Mr.
Saunders, the British Resident at Hydrabad, and Sir Saler Jung, the able Administrator of the Deccan. The cor- respondence will not bear condensation, but the drift of it is that Sir Saler lung objected to the Nizam, a child of eight, going to Bombay to -visit the Prince of Wales. He pleaded that in the opinion of seven Court physicians the child's health would suffer. Mr. Saunders, however, insisted with extreme tenacity on the visit, plainly menacing Sir Saler Jung with serious political con- sequences if he persisted in his refusal, till the Minister was obliged to reveal the secrets of the harem, and tell Mr. Saunders that the child if separated from his mother would cry himself into an illness, and that his mother would not go. Mr. Saunders, however, persisted, and the Nizam was to have gone, but according to a recent tele- gram th.e Viceroy has given way and the child stays at Hydrabad. The native physicians' opinion is valueless, as they of course obey orders, and Mr. Saunders was probably of opinion that the ref nsal was intended to assert an equality of rank between the Nizam and the Prince of Wales, but he made a mistake in bringing such very heavy guns to bear on a timid woman and a crying child. He was sure to be beaten, for he could coerce neither of them, and sure to excite great irritation in India, where the quarrel may make it a point of honour among the Princes not to acknowledge the rank of the Heir-Apparent. There may be difficulties of etiquette in this visit yet.,
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