The telegraphic anticipation of the Indian mail last week was
a very faint and imperfect shadow of the real events. There has been another great battle in Scinde, which Is even more notable than that narrated in the previous accounts, since it exhibits the relative power of the European and Scindian armies in a lightcal- culated to make the strongest impression on the newly-conquered province ; and there is an air of finality about the complete rout. of the enemy. The discipline and science which enabled a few thousands of British to crush what would otherwise have been an overwhelming multitude of .warriors, was animated by a valour as romantic as any that veritable romances tell ; and the sage old General was as forward a hero as jibe had Orlando's fated person : he invited to the attack with a gay waving of his hat amid a storm of bullets. After such feats, he sits down and writes very states- manlike instructions to his civil subordinates, respecting the col- lection of revenue in the new province ; cautioning them not to shock the native prejudices by hasty breaches or changes in their customs and institutions. Lord ELLENBOROUGH has remitted a good amount of revenue ; so that the first effect which the people of Scinde feel from the change of rulers will have been a saving in their payments for taxes. If the government of the territory be continued in the same spirit, the error of its annexation may be considerably repaired. The fighting at Kbytul, which was mentioned by the telegraph, was nothing more than a paltry revolt by an ambitious woman, a kind of CHRISTINA of Spain on a small scale ; who could not carry out her plans, and fled. A similar little affair, only still more trifling, occurred at Jeypore. Nothing had happened in China ; but, in the absence of facts and explicit statements, the aspect of matters looks unsatisfactory. The Imperial Commissioner had died, and rumour adds, either by poison or suicide : why, if all went well ? Sir HENRY POTTINGER had thought it necessary to warn the authorities that there must be no renewal of the riots at Canton. And instead of awaiting ELEPOO'S successor at Canton, he meant to go to the North again to renew the negotiations there : why, if he believed that the Chinese continued to act in good faith ? Such questions will arise ; but they can have no answer before next month at the earliest.
