It is officially notified that Lord Napier will succeed Sir
William Mansfield, as Commander-in-Chief in India ; a great reward, well deserved by his conduct of the campaign in Abyssinia. Lord Napier, if we recollect rightly, is the only Engineer officer who has ever reached the post, and one of the very few Company's officers ever permitted to attain it, their experience being considered too local. In both capacities his advice to the Government of India, which is weighed down with engineering questions and questions arising out of the amalgamation, will be most valuable, while the Army has thorough confidence in him as a fighting general. Per- haps it may be given to him to solve the problem which even the Mutiny left unsolved,—how to make an Indian army as mobile as it is usually effective. An Indian regiment will still go anywhere and do anything, except move without a train bigger and costlier than itself.
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