About three miles from the Fortress-palace of Akbar stands in park-like grounds a handsome marble pile which illustrates the gulf between the suzerainty of the English and the suzerainty of the Mahratta and the Moghul. It is the Mayo College, founded by the great ruler whose name it bears, for the education of young Rajpoot princes. At a great durbar which he held for the reception of the chiefs of Rajpootana in October, 1870, Lord Mayo made a speech so illustrative of what our policy and feelings towards the nobles and the people of India should be that it cannot be too often quoted : " I, as the representative of the Queen, have come here to tell you, as you have often been told before, that the desire of Her Majesty's Government is to secure to you and to your successors the full enjoyment of your ancient rights and the exercise of all lawful customs, and to assist you in upholding the dignity and maintaining the authority which you and your fathers have for centuries exercised in this land.
" But in order to enable us fully to carry into effect this our fixed resolve, we must receive from you hearty and cordial assistance. If we respect your rights and privileges, you should also respect the rights and regard the privileges of those who are placed beneath your care. If we support you in your power, we expect in return good government. We demand that every where throughout the length and breadth of Rajpootana justice and order should prevail ; that every man's property should be secure ; that the traveller should come and go in safety ; that the cultivator should enjoy the fruits of his labour, and the trader the produce of his commerce; that you should make roads and undertake the construction of those works of irrigation which will improve the condition of the people, and swell the revenue of your States ; that you should encourage education and pro vide for the relief of the sick.
" And now let me mention a project which I have much at heart. I desire much to invite your assistance to enable me to establish at Ajmer a school or college which should be de voted exclusively to the education of the sons of the Chiefs, Princes, and leading Thakoors of Rajpootana. It should be an institution suited to the position and rank of the boys for whose instruction it is intended, and such a system of teaching should be founded as would be best calculated to fit them for the im portant duties which in after-life they would be called upon to discharge. It would not be possible on this occasion to describe minutely the different features of such an institution, but I hope to communicate with you shortly on the subject ; and I trust you will favour and support an attempt to give to the youth of Rajpootana instruction suitable to their high birth and position.
" Be assured that we ask you to do all this for no other but your own benefit. If we wished you to remain weak, we should say, ' Be poor, and ignorant, and disorderly.' It is because we wish you to be strong that we desire to see you rich, instructed, and well-governed. It is for such objects that the servants of the Queen rule in India ; and Providence will ever sustain the rulers who govern for the people's good.
" I am but here for a time ; the able and ardent officers who surround me will, at no distant period, return to their English homes ; but the power which we represent will endure for ages. Hourly is this great Empire brought nearer and nearer to the throne of our Queen. The steam vessel and the railroad enable England year by year to enfold India in a closer embrace. But the coils she seeks to entwine around her are not iron fetters, but the golden chains of affection and of peace. The hours of conquest are past ; the age of improvement has begun.
" Chiefs and princes, advance in the right way, and secure to your children's children, and to future generations of your subjects, the favouring protection of a power who only seeks your good." Thus spoke the strong and worthy representative of a Queen who during her long and illustrious reign laboured to exercise her power for the good of India, and shared in the joys and sorrows of her Indian subjects. History will record how she won their affection. The presence in that magnificent pageant on Coronation Day, of Sindia and his hereditary foes the Maharaja of Jeypore and the Regent of Jodpore, bore witness to the personal loyalty which she created among the chiefs and princes of India. After their reception at Buckingham Palace by her son, one of the most illustrious and proudest of the feudatory chiefs, struck by the splendour of the scene and the dignity and kindness of his Emperor, declared he was now proud to be a feudatory of the Empire. The frequent visits of Indian princes to England should be indeed discouraged, because they are fraught with evil to themselves and their subjects. But it might be sound policy to expect that every chief before he ascends the musnud should pay a visit to England and present his nuzzur, and receive from the hands of the Em peror the emblems of sovereignty.