The news from India by the mail this week does
not vary from that received in November ; it is only more of the same sort. The rulers of the Sikhs have been killing each other off like the slaughter at the end of FIELDING'S Tom Thumb ; for the tragedy of real life can only be paralleled in farce. A doom seems to be upon them: they stand in confessed incompetency not only to rule the country but to keep up a show of ruling. Scinde, as we learn, is tranquil, and is likely to prove more profitable than burdensome, if all expectations be realized. The Sikhs make the Punjaub the last great nuisance in India : that "absorbed," our territory will be compact, and the last great depository of internal hostility abolished. The temptation will prove too great to be resisted, and now it is evidently only a question of time. If the extension of territory be accompanied by acts for the interests of the natives, our power will be really consolidated, and some atonement will be made for our long aggression and encroachment. It was supposed that Lord ELLENBOBOUGH had plans in petto—something more substantial than mere official reforms : when is he going to begin in earnest ?
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