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India is full of rumours that her two chief functionaries

are returning home,—Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General, for ill health ; Sir Charles Napier, the Commander-in-chief, for disgust at the limitation put upon his powers by the "Military Boards.". The English war-ships in the waters of China have been busy in castigating the " pirates " that infest those regions, under eir: cumstances that imply a connexion between the pirates and the Celestial Government. Are they pirates, in the European MEW of the word, or an irregular navy in Chinese pay ? In either case, it is no doubt more convenient, diplomatically, to treat them as individual outlaws; besides, to de so vials the segre■ches of the Peace party in England, since tbe castigation of pirates is not called " war.

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