The news from Bootan is bad. The reinforcements have started,
but Her Majesty's 80th and 55th, with a battery of Royal Artillery, have left Kooshtea for the frontier in boats, so crowded that " cholera has shown itself in both regiments," and the rains are coming down furiously. Sir Charles Wood on Thursday night, while refusing to answer questions, said every precaution had been taken to preserve the health of the troops, but Sir Charles never travelled on an Indian river in a boat with the rains coming down. The advance on Dewangiri is to begin, as we predicted last week, about the first week in April, and the first thing to be done will be to retake Dewangiri, where there is no command of water, but are some 10,000 of the enemy, many of them, it is becoming clear, refugee sepoys. The Bootees have invaded Durrung, a British tea-planting district, and have forced both planters and cultivators to fly.
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