From the extreme East and West come the most opposite
re- ports—of tranquillity and bloodshed. India is quiet. Two events, however, serve to keep important duties in mind. The seizure of a Minister, at open day, in Oude, is one illustration of the incurable ill working in that organized anarchy called "Native government." And a very disagreeable quarrel for possession of a Hindoo girl, between a missionary and her relatives, shows that any more extensive progress in making proselytes might give rise to serious embarrassments, unless such difficulties be anticipated and duly provided against by needful regulations. Santa Anna, President of Mexico and Generalissimo of her forces, has been routed, and the American Generals are pushing the invasion home to the capital. The immense number of Mex- ican prisoners seems to imply great lack of resolute courage in their leader.
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