By the last intelligence from India, Lord Dalhousie remained at
a distance from Calcutta and his Council. He had moved from Simlah, but only to the base of the mountains. This apparent aver- sion to the constitutional cheek of his Council is the only shade on the otherwise judicious conduct of the present Governor-General. It appears to imply, that he does not understand the important art of working with and by others, so indispensable to every chief administrator of extensive territories.
The Nizam has had a reprieve, but on terms that indicate merely the postponement of the fatal day. He has had a longer term for payment allowed him, on paying one-half of the instalment. of late so peremptorily demanded. But to raise the forty lacs which he has paid, he has been obliged to pawn his jewels and promise usurious interest. His ultimate rum is as certain as that of the tradesman who gets into the hands of the pawnbrokers.
The insurrectionary movements in the South of China are urged with unabated vigour. The trade of Canton has in consequence been curtailed to one-half of its ordinary extent: general after general sent out against the insurgents has been defeated by them ; and the Imperial anger has given itself vent in degrading the chief Mandarin of the province three degrees. Roused by this example, the Governor had left Canton to meet the rebels, but with a force so small as to suggest a suspicion that (as in the case of the pirates) he counted more upon buying off their leaders than subduing them.
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