25 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 2

The Indian journals ink the dooars or valleys taken from

Bootan may be valuable, as they yield cotton, silk, and tea. We daresay they do, but as we have some millions of unoccupied acres possible defence indeed is that they did not authorize the acts corn- already in the valley of the Burhampooter which also yield tea, plained of. cotton, and silk, as accees is no easier, and the neighbours much less pleasant, one does not see the exact use of the acquisition.

Apples are nice to a child, but giving him twice as many as he can eat on condition that he carries them till he can is not kind- ness. We had to take these valleys no doubt, but it is a nuisance to be endured, not a subject for hymns of thanksgiving.