India sends us word of petty border agitations. Affreedies have
attacked our troops in Peshawur ; and, though gallantly repulsed, with something too much like impunity. Tohore murmurs with whispered reports of incessant plottings. The Nizam cannot keep quiet. But these commotions will of course have their usual re- sult, as at Sikkim : the Rajah detained two English botanists, and released them after some demur : he is brought to submission, and —a piece of his territory has been " annexed." The mutiny at Lahore is not so serious as it looked in the first description, and it has been vigorouslyput down. On the whole, our army, id effici- ent enough to keep these semibarbarians in check ; and they have felt it, though not without expense of English blood. But can an army be kept in a state of efficiency without an occasional exercise in actual fighting ? India has not proved a bad school for officers ; witness the many who have studied there, from Wellington to Edwardes.
