3 JANUARY 1846, Page 6

The Indian mail tells us that in the Punjaub the

pear now ripens apace : the Sikhs have done their best to deserve "inter- vention' by waiving all self-government, and now they seem about to provoke it by beginning aggression. The ripening, in- deed, appears to have approached its present stage very slowly ; but perhaps we only think so because the frequency of the mails enables us to watch the process so minutely. Rome was not built, neither was Carthage destroyed, in a day.