The Indian Government has two or three little wars on
its hands, one of which began on September 25th or 26th, and is of some moment. The tribes of the Black Mountain, a great hill district beyond the Indus, have been giving trouble ; and it has been decided to chastise them by destroying their principal stronghold, Baio. So great, however, is the re- sistance expected, that Sir W. Lockhart, according to a Times' telegram from Bombay, takes with him five thousand men, including two British Regiments, a Ghoorka Regiment, and four mountain batteries. That is a strong little army for India, but the bill tribes just now are uneasy, owing appa- rently to rumours from Afghanistan, and it is good policy to avoid the possibility of defeat. It is fortunate that these warrior tribes never unite, or we should have a campaign to fight in the Himalayas, to which most of our Indian wars would be child's play. The mountaineers are as brave as the Sondanese, and they, as Rudyard Kipling singe, " broke a British square."
