On Thursday night Sir Charles Wood chdracterized the abandon-. meat
of Dewangiri as " disgraceful." He was in an unusually frank mood, for he allowed that he really did. not know what was doing there, though of course he asserted that every precaution had been taken to ensure the health of the troops. Every precaution always 'is taken by the official account, but nevertheless Europeans, are marched from Mhow to Kirkee without necessity in the hottest weather, and then, when cholera has killed a fourth of their number, officials• return a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." Every Secretary of State for India ought on assuming: office to be marched twenty miles in full service uniform, with knapsack and firelock, and all the rest of it, through ploughed' fields under an August sun.- The system of Indian reliefs would: then be very speedily altered, and if we lost a Secretary or two in the process, why there are more of them.
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