The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-07 00:00:00

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LONDON,WEDNESDAY,MAR.7.
Elia CHARI.ES NAPIER tells us in his baggage pam-
phlet that time are but five months for making war
in India—that is, from the commencement of De-
cember .o the end of April. As *general can sanely
get his force into the field and bring his enemy to
action in lees than eight or ten weeks, half this period
has elapsed before his capabilities as a general
as be tested. And as it then takes about
the same time of eight or ten weeks for
tidings to reach England, and directions to be seat
out in answer, it follows that the bad choice of a gene-
ral, or the disasters of a campaign, are utterly irre-
mediable, except in about a twelvemonth's time
after the fact of the Wunder or bad choice hating
been found out.

There is no power which it is so necessity to dele-
gate with immediate conditions of recall as military
command. Cisil administration may tarry. A blander
can bat create discontent, and discontent can wait.
Then the resolves of civil government aro taken, more
or less, by aidof council. Bed military authority is con-
centrated in one man—depend, upon his temper, his
capacity, his qualities. A mistake of his may hurry
thousands to destruction, may destroy armies and
ruin empires. The greatest sagacity may fail in a due
selection, or the officers selected may. lose the
coolness and the command of self requisite for the
task. Barely the remedy ought to be at
hand. And What is a Governor-General of kdia
fit for, if he is not to have the power of removing an
incapable commander? Lord DALuoutnu, it seems,
h not this power. He must see the whole Britial;
army in India ruined ere he can interfere : he may, we
believe, order the commander in-chief to conduct
operations in this or that region, but remove him
from supreme command he moot. For ten weeks
or three months after the battle of the Jhelum Lord
GOUGH may continue to do what he pleases with the
British army. No successor from this country an arrive
until the campaign and the season have expTred.
Lord Wyatt has owed his recent succession of
high commands in part to seniority, in part to job.
He was considered no unfit commander for a dash at
the Chinese ; but no one ever thought him a fit officer
to command an Indian army.
Had the disastrous conflict of the Jhelum been
retarded some damenfficient time might have elapsed
to allow of Sir W ua.ien GOMM superseding Lord
(loran eventually is the command. Now, what are
the reconuosodations of Sir WILLIAM Ocriew ? Age,
and no more ; and such an effect have yeses had upon
Sir Wawa, that his infirmities have rendered him
incapable of transacting the civil badness of his colo-
nial administration.

Sir WILLIAM (3ollm is now to be set adds by Sir
Citaxim Hama, a sharp writer and swordsman,
and cos in whom the army, and perhaps the
have academe. But, after all, are not Sir Camas
NAPIZR'S military qualities and precedents very
mach akin to those of Lord Goren P Is he not a
dashing sad adventurous soldier ? His chief claim is
that elhaviag, at the head of 2,800 'oldie'', attacked
22,000 BeseeatMeante, andbeaten them, by sheer
Mfrs
fighting.
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1,000 yards from am lime, whisk sem traversed as tailings-
lag mad la a few sheer the empleest became
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dews west these bail sad shard sada the ear-
riselce the steam sad barest.Wh
is this bat as adios essy after the
saw el Lord Cloocis—with this rence' that it
was trassemdel? The Belooohess had not the die-
ciplineor gimmakidp, or arms, of the Sikhs, nor did
the Amon bed than as the Singhs head their foi-
-1 lowers. Had they done so, MONA might have been
a Chithanwansh. -

We are strongly opposed to the eystem of large
armies in time of peace. Bat we are not parties=
at undertaking great conquests with a small force.
The East India Oempfiny have been prodigal and bad
=rof their resources. They are deeply in-
and they make war in a most expensive
fashion. They are thus obliged to eocoomise their
native force, and they mead generals to fight, as at
Meaner, a force eight times greater ; and Lord Gonna
had to cope with an army of Bahs double the number
of his own. Of coarse, victory is only to be achieved