The intelligence from India shows early fruits of the pernicious
course which Sir Charles Trevelyan rashly adopted and Lord Ellenborough deliberately approved. The Native press, finding a backer at Madras, getting an unexpected ally in a Governor, has opened. fire on the new scheme of finance. Mr. Wilson has ably defended his policy in the Council, and the Government has firmly resolved to carry it out. It is also satisfactory that the order for the recall of the Governor will cross a request for his recall coming from Calcutta.
The faint hope that-the Emperor of China would concede the demands of the Western Powers and thus evade a war, has been shaken by the receipt of unofficial information to the effect that the Emperor has refused the conditions offered by France and England. If that be so, the expedition must go on, and the Allies mukt go to Pekin,
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