The Star of Wednesday published a statement, which it had
" reason to believe," that at the date of the latest advices from India the Government of India were in hourly expectation of a Sikh revolt. The statement tallies with a very current expectation in the North-West provinces, but is otherwise unsupported. Government would hear of any very serious movement in eight days, via Constantinople, and Sir John Lawrence ought to have landed on some day in this week. The frontier war has, appa- rently, been terminated by the Boneirs giving hostages, and the Momund raid—the word which puzzles M. Reuter so much—is of no importance. We must add that these expeditions are not, as some journals suggest, of doubtful origin. They are never under- taken except to protect British subjects, whom the mountaineers plunder, kill, and carry off. If Government taxes them it must guard them, unless it wishes to see them turn brigands too.
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