Excerpt from The British Quarterly Review, Vol. 50: July and October, 1869 Lawrence Sahib, ' they went awa contented. The magistrate took very little pains to increase is personal attention to outward forms. His court had no pretensrons to di ity. Very often John Lawrence would be found pronouncing so emu decisions in pyjamas and shirt-sleeves. The same disregard of a pearances' rendered him, for a time, slightly unpopular in C outta society after his appointment as Viceroy. Idle tales soon went the rounds concerning the penuriousness of the new governor-general. He would go into a shop and chafi'er about prices, or decline to buy because the article was too dear. He walked to a Presbyterian Church one hot Sunday morning without even a man carrying an umbrella b his side. This news was circulated through the saloons wit unaffected horror. What would the natives say Could they respect a Viceroy who lived as unosten tatiously as a lawyer's clerk The fashionable world of Chowria ghee and Garden Reach felt convinced that the glory of the Governor General's ofice had declined to revive no more. Even the dinners at Government House were not what the used to be. The wines were bad; the lord of the feast won (1 actually quit the side of a fine lady, and go and talk by the half hour together with some obscure individual who had some information to impart, or whose views were fresh and original. Many of the disaffected natives were led to think there would soon be another opportunity before them; but, although the Viceroy ne looted pageantry and kinds to the last hour of is stay in India, the never found the grim-visaged ruler a man to be He was obeyed without a murmur. At his durbar in Oude, in 1867, the nobles id homage to him with more respect than they might have n willing to show to a man who had not given proofs that while he could be scrupulous in preserving the rights of others, his band could strike heavily when occasion required. Our Eastern fellow-subj ects respect stren th more than any other rsonal quality, and they have had a undant proof that John wrence rs a strong man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.