The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-01-12 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CHITRAL AND ITS RULERS.  There appears, says the Times of Indio, to be no truth in the story—it was, indeed, nothing isore :Lan a bazaar rumour at the best—that the Nizam• ulk gained the Melitarship of Chitral with tire of his uncle, fi;iere Afzul Khan, whose seizure of Me throne was recently recorded. The story went -n to say that Shere Afzul merely advanced on surprised the guard, and killed his younger nephew, Afzl.l, for the sole purpose of putting the Nizam-ul-Mulk in possession, he himself being ntent with the,post of Commander-in-Chief. As t matter of fat—if stilt indefinite news as now ereolates through from Clara] can be acceided as fact at all—the Nizam-ni-Malk began to celket hie forces for a struggle immediately after his brother had routed bits at Yasin, and was whine a few mites of Chitral before he learnt that Afoul bad hi en treacheroudy shot and the throne re,zeil bythe 'wicked uncle." Shere Attul seems to have bound himself outnumbered, aed, unable to rely upon the People over whom he had thus suddenly assumed the rulership, to have incontinently fled, leaving the field in the possession of his elder nt phew, who now holds practically undisputed sway. This is the Chief whose intrigues with Russian agents have been threatenieg trouble for so long, but the Indian Government will, it seems, have no alternative but to recognise him as Mental. • Chitral. Ths Nizatn-ul-Mtilk is the tourth ruler in power at Chitral in as many months, and it is characteristic of the delightfully irrespomible way in itcl, these matte-s are allowed to develop on the frontier that the Indian Government 1,a3 had no chance of either acting or saying a word in the Liatter from first to last. The Government learner! in the closing days of September that the old Meldar was dead. They had no sooner acquiesced in the secession of Afzul-ul-Mulk (ju,.ly discreditthe story, carefully circulated by Unita Klee raajaur, that the old ruler had been murdered by 1:s younger son) than the old Mehtar's• brother aepears upon the scene and assumes the rulership; and, before this intilligerice is properly digested, the Nizate-01-Mulk puts the usurper to fliglit and race More rings the changes on people, arsenal, and tre.rmry. It is not given to every people to have • math variety in so Mart a time, and so leer; ae n, lives are 104, the Cnitralis should be propel.tionately grateful. A cont-nted people, adapting themselves to the changes of destiny, they will at any rate always have a pleasing sublect for contemplation in the problem of who is - to be .tttr neat ruler.  Mr. %V. F.. H. Lenity's address on the "Political Value of ' History," delivered before the Birmingham and Midland institute in the Town Hall, Binninghain, last October, has been reprinted, witl, additions, and issued in book form by Mr. Edward Arnold. 'rhe Bristol Library, sellich contains upwards re 5C,01.0 volumes.incluoing many very rare and valuable books, is about to be transferred by the shareholders to the Cori oiation of that city, ant Sir Cbtrles Wathen has promised to pay all the debts of the institution. Tois library, which was a resort of Coleridge, Scuthey, and Landor, was founded in 1772.