One step which Ministers have taken will be hailed with
ap- probation from every quarter—it is the appointment of Mr. Sidney Herbert to be the chief in a Commission authorized to consider the proper sanitary arrangements for the protection of the British soldier in India. The report of this Commission ought to be taken together with the blue book,—we can scarcely say the Report, of the Committee on the Organization of the Indian Army ; the two being essentially branches of one subject. We believe that if the question of organization were thoroughly -reconsidered an fond, it would be found inexpedient to maintain, in India, permanently, so large a force as 80,000 Europeans ; hence any sanitary arrangements which might be suggested by Mr. Sidney Herbert's- Commission would become more temporary in their character, if not more restricted in their scope.
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