The news from India explains a curious mutiny Wong certain
of the troops, whose efficiency was impaired by an impolitic at- tempt to effect the impossibility of making war cheap ; and it closes the history of that embarrassment with the announcement of a liberal donative. We have also advertisement of pending troubles in the Punjab—either another revolution, or British intervention be- tween the Court of Lahore and the Afghan AKHBAR Khan, who ap- pears as an invader. These are indications that the troubles of India will no more cease than they began with Lord ELLENBOROUGH'S presence ; that the same temptations that beset him and his pre- decessors will beset also his successor; and that it will need a union of the utmost activity, patience, and moderation, to meet difficulty and abstain from profiting by the storm. The elements of future trouble in India are just the same as ever : is the controller different ?
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