text:  The doctrine of the responsibility of ministers (which the Khan in a former part of his narrative as we had occasion to remark seemed either to have been unacquainted with or to have lost sight of ) is here stated with a full appreciation of its practical bearings; and is pronounced to be "the best law which the English ever made for the government of the people by imposing a check on the absolute will of the sovereign; resembling the similar restraint on the power of our monarchs which prevails in Islam though with us the check is still more powerful and effectual as the judge is empowered by the Koran to demand satisfaction from the sovereign himself!" The details of the British finances are briefly touched upon with a special denunciation of "that most extraordinary tax laid on the light of the sun when it comes through a window:"--but the Khan contents himself with stating the amount of the national debt and the interest annually paid to the public creditors without offering any scheme for its extinction like that of his countryman Mirza Abu-Taleb who with perfect gravity and good faith proposes that the fundholders should be summoned before Parliament and informed by the minister that since the pressure of the taxes necessary to meet the interest must inevitably erelong produce a revolution in which the whole debt would be cancelled it would be far better for them at once to relinquish with a good grace great part of their claim and accept payment of the balance by instalments