text:  In both cases--perhaps from a benevolent anxiety to accommodate our diplomacy to the primitive ideas of those with whom we had to deal-- "the good old rule Sufficeth them the simple plan That they should take who have the power And they should keep who can"-- was assumed as the basis of our proceedings: and though the brilliant success which for a time attended our philanthropic exertions in the cause of good order and civilization beyond the Indus so completely threw into the shade the minor glories of Aden that this latter achievement attracted scarcely any public attention at the time of its occurrence its merits are quite sufficient to entitle it to a more detailed notice than it has hitherto received in the pages of Maga