The news from India is stirring, though the British have
not been fighting. The most striking spectacle of the month is Sir CHARLES NAPIER'S conference with twenty thousand Beloochees, chiefs and their followers, at Hyderabad. They appear to have been mustered that they and the English might look at each other; that they might recognize and feel the power of their conquerors, deliberately ; that they might, in each other's presence, swear alle- giance, obey the summons, and see each other obey it—each man an example to the rest, and all a twenty-thousand-fold example to him. Sir CHARLES provided for the muster with precautions that evince his notion of the dangerous and dubious character of his guests: they were surrounded by troops and artillery prepared to combine and act at a moment's notice; half of the wild warriors were kept unarmed; as each man entered the lines he was under a kind of police surveillance ; a month's provisions were collected, as if the British were to be prepared for a siege ; and all the Englishwomen were kept out of the way. The parley led to no battle; but whether it answered its specified purpose, remains to be disclosed. From China we learn that the Imperial officers continued to act in good faith ; and it is even said that the Government intended to legalize the opium-trade ! The Celestial Empire will become Europeanized in time.
