7 APRIL 1849, Page 2
By the mail from India we learn, with the Caesarian
conciseness of a hasty despatch, that Lord Gough had at last won a victory over the Sikhs. The accounts still ascribe something Irish to the mode of this achievement : as the victory which Lord Gough won before was much like a defeat, so the undoubted victory which he has now gained is as- cribed to General Whish. However, it is something to have chastised the audacious barbarians.