The Indian mail brings us a checkered report of small
gains and continued doubt. The Sontal insurrection had been par- tially suppressed. Its force, indeed, appears to have been broken ; and Qovernm,ent speculated upon compelling the na- tives to make roads through their district—two hundred miles from Calcutta! The report of Herat is still the reverse of final ; and Dost Mohammed was making some movement in the direc- tion of Persia,—the Dost himself being a word of doubt for Eng- lish interests. Oude remains disordered, but not worse than it has been, under the growing profligacy of its King ; and among the " notions" that form the cargo from India this time, we have a treaty with Japan, which admits English vessels for trading and repairs to the ports of Nagasaki and Hakodadi, with all kinds of Japanese restrictions upon their doing more than anchor themselves in the waters of those harbours. The treaty goes upon the principle of " the most favoured nation " ; and perhaps, as English and American admirals are competing to obtain concessions, we may screw something more out of this most reserved of semi-civilized, peoples.
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