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London, England, 1865-04-27 00:00:00

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prilon of hig &made talent, and 41'4 liow proialuarit ado
tors on the American stage."

Wilkes Booth is also said to have been on the stage, and
to have boon an especial favourite at Mobile. It was
probably by moans of his familiarity with the arrangements
behind the scenes that he contrived to effect his escape
from the theatre.

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

INDIA.

it. As to that point, we reserve our opinion, which at
present inclines to a view quite contrary to that which we
were originally led to entertain. The old mistake of un-
dervaluing the enemy seems to have been committed, and
we are paying the price of the mistake. How great that
may be, when sickness is added to the casualties of re-
newed hostility, remains to be seen. We fear, however,
that the event will prove very unsatisfactory, as we have
to combat with a foe much stronger than the Bhootan
people, and against which numbers will avail us little. It
is to be regretted that the expedition, at first undertaken
during the favourable season, was not planned on a scale
calculated to effect the objects which such large reinforce-
ments as have since boon sent up are required to ac-
complish."

The news from Affghanistan continues to grow
more and more unfavourable to the Ameer. His
friends are further fallen away from him, and
his enemies multiplying. The Friend of India
says :

" The famous Kuzulbash corps have quarrelled with
him ; the Ghilzoes and other hill tribes, who so often
served his father, incline to his enemies ; Khelat is said to
have sent Boloochee reinforcements to Candahar, and the
people of Furrah and the neighbouring country have given
in their allegiance to Mahomed Ameer Khan, the Can-
dahar chief. Nor does the Ameer fare better in his Balkh
or Toorkistan dependencies, which the captive Afzul
Khan conquered for Dost Mahomed, and Bokhara covets.
Abdoolrahmun Khan, the son of Afzul, who through his
father aspires to the throne of Cabul, is increasing in
strength, and courting Persia, Bokhara, and Russia with a
view to get assistance from them. The Amoer's funds
seem to be running dry, and he finds difficulty in procuring
ammunition."

Our advices from Calcutta by the present mail
are no later than those already received via Bombay.
The Madras A thenxum of the 27th March refers
in the following terms to the Bhootan war :
" It was mentioned in our last summary of Indian newS
that the Governor-General had determined to bring the
vexatious petty war in Bhootan to a close as soon as pos-
sible, by the employment of a force sufficiently strong to
render resistance on the part of the predatory mountaineers
altogether ineffectual, should they only hm e to be encoun-
, tered. A telegram addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor
of Bengal by Lieut.-Col. Hopkinson, on Feb. 28, says :
The Bhooteas seems to have ceased entirely from their
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apac©, Pereparations for hutting the Europeans are
Briggs will have the road to the foot of
the hills ready by the time the force want to use it." The
post of Dewangiri has doubtless been reached before this
time, as an attack upon it was impending when the latest
accounts reached us, but whether the British troops will
be able to occupy it during the rainy season, now at hand,
appears to be uncertain. The Englishman states that Sir
John Lawrence has asked the opinion of his Excellency
the Commander-in Chief as to the practicability or expe-
diency of holding the place during the wet season, and
that according to his advice the question will be decided.
It is rather a serious one, for our contemporary observes,
' that after the next few weeks it may be impossible to send
supplies to Dewangiri, or to keep labourers at work in
making or repairing the roads leading to Dewangiri along
the plains' Already (the Friend of India informs us) the
rains seem to have deluged Bhootan as heavily as they
have visited Calcutta unseasonably, and disease has again
shown itself in the British force employed. This is the
greatest danger to be feared, for, although the Bhooteas
aro represented to have taken advantage, as far as they I
could, of the opportunity afforded them of erecting Aug 4,..„, _ ,
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means of defence as lie within their power, they must ine-
vitably succumb to the amount of military strength now
brought to bear upon them, which is represented in some
quarters to be now as far beyond the necessity of the case,
as that originally commissioned to subdue them fell below