The latest news (May 20) from the Burmese capital, Mandalay,
comes from a correspondent of the Indian Dally News, Calcutta, and shows that the King is amicable, that he denies all share in the attack on Colonel Browne's expedition, and that he has sent no troops to the frontier. As the correspondent derives his information from the King himself, lie may be deluded, and Sir Douglas Forsyth has started for Mandalay, as Plenipotentiary from the Government of India, taking with him a guard of eighty European soldiers. That is sufficient, as in the event of treachery he has only to fight his way to the river, where he will be beyond attack, and the Government has plenty of friends in the palace to give him early warning. The precau- tion shows, however, that he is the bearer of serious demands, and no one can tell what a King of Burmah in a moment of irritation may do.
