The Looshai Expedition seems to advance successfully. The two columns
are threading the highest ranges occupied by the tribes, destroying their villages, burning their stores of rice by the 10,000 maunds at a time, and generally making war as hard for the women and children as they can. There is no help for it if other means are wanting, but we beg our readers to note three little facts, of which the two last are from writers on the spot. This war will cost 1750,000. The men who plunge into the jungle after the savages whenever they show fight are Ghoorkas. The Looshais who are captured and agree to act as coolies "do not desert." Does not that seem to show that about a tenth of this expenditure would have turned the tribes into faithful fron- tier policemen, useful for just the same work as the only men who can catch them,—the Ghoorkas ?
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