text:  _What is at present the value of the Order of the Doorani Empire_ with its showy decorations of the first second and third classes the last of which was so rightfully spurned by poor Dennie? [39] The following remarks of the _Madras United Service Gazette_ though intended to apply only to the Secunderabad disturbances deserve general attention at present:--"We attribute the lately-diminished attachment of the sepoys for their European officers to _a diminished inclination for the service_ the duties whereof have of late years increased in about the same proportion that its advantages have been reduced