12 SEPTEMBER 1846, Page 1
When substantial news is failing, the Indian "news-writers,' eager to
do suit and service in their places, make up for the de- ficiency by reports, easily manufactured in that distant land. Poli- tically there is no event : the cholera in Seinde is dying away ; the Governor-General provokingly remains at Simla. The pre- sent offers nothing to report; but there is the unfailing and in- exhaustible future ; and accordingly, we have abundant rumours, anticipations, and calculations of troubles to happen hereafter in the Punjaub, of recurring disease in Scinde, et cetera. So far as present appearances can be trusted, India is quite tranquil—for India.
