The new accounts from India justify the most unpleasant appre
- hensions in regard to Burmah : the anarchy of the country appears to be only one mode in which the enemy harasses the British troops during a pretended truce; and "the robbers" have threatened an important post in such strength, that Sir Sohn Cheape was obliged to detach a considerable reinforcement to the support of the commander. The peace will probably not last long. Assassinations of British officers, by an Affghan, and by Arab irregulars in the Nizam's territory, indicate a general uneasiness on the borders of British authority. At such a time, the choice of a Governor-General be- comes a subject of urgent importance: the new Governor must be not only a liberal and intelligent man, capable of conducting, the progressive reforms marked out for India, but a man capable of facing military difficulties, and able to keep numerous and un- ruly tribes under firm control.
