The Indian mail brings no fresh assurances to dissipate the
uneasiness created by the last. On the contrary, the measure which Lord Clyde had taken to arrest the efflux of the disbanded Anglo-Indian soldiers appears to have had very partial success ; and it is computed that about 10,000 will demand their passage home. We have nothing to confirm the denials of disaffection in the North-West ; on the contrary, we now read of reports injurious to us diligently propagated in the Native newspapers.
A proposal has been thrown out in London for counteracting the mistake of refusing the reenlistment bounty to the late Com- pany's soldiers, by offering them bounty on limited. reenlistment for the war in China, with return home after the war. But the men seem to be labouring under a paroxysm of nostalgia ; and the competition among officers, to conduct the men home, implies a similar passion even in the commissioned class.
Rumour talks of another return home as imminent—that of the highest personage in India ; but we have at present no authority for the report except Indian expectation.
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