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MEMORIAL TO THE LATE C4I7,NER.A.,L
SIR WILLIAM NAPIER, K.(' B.
At a Meeting held at the Royal United t service Tlnst itu-
tien ou the Bth May, 1860,
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge? F,.G.
G.C.8., in the chair,
It waF, proposed by his Grace the Duke of Ri ohm' ond, K.G.,
and seconded by the Earl of Ellenborouvh„ G.C.8.,
That the late General Sir William Napior as a soldier
-and a military historian, merited the s.dmirat ion and grati-
tude of his country.
Proposed by General Sir John Burgoyne, • Bart., G.C.8.,
R.
and
C seconded by General Sir Thom as Brotherton,
8.,
That he immortalised the glorious deede of our Army in
Spain, Portugal, and France, by his histr ,ry of the war in
those countries—a history that no true, soldier can read
without instruction and advantage, and without being in-
sp'tred by the heroic sentiments and spill' ty -stirring language
the author.
Proposed by General Sir Robert Gar finer, G.C.8., and
seconded by Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith
Bart., G.C.8.,
That a subscription he immediately r nened for the erec-
tion of a statue to the memory of the cb livalrous soldier and
unsurpassed military historian.

No.

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" 14. The Government of I aiiia hopes, as the result of the
efforts that are now being made, that the finances of India

will be placed on a thoroughly- sound footing ; that they
will be rendered adequate, not only to enable the Govern-
ment of India to provide fully for the legitimate wants of
every branch of the public service, but to be free from all
serious elements of uncertainty. Provision must also be
made for that increase of expenditure on the whole machi-
nery of civilised administration which must be foreseen by
any Government desiring to do its duty to the nations which
Providence has intrusted to our rule in India.

15. But so large a financial result can never be expected
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administrationao
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"16. In accordance with the resolutions of Govern.
ment which have been already published, rules have been
prepared and fora"; prescabed for carrying out a regular
system of budget and audit in eves Government end pro-
vince, and tls7oughout every department of the Govern-
ment service.

A. LAWRIE, Hon. Sac.
COMMITTEE.
K.G.,
His Ito al
Cal Highness the DLKE OP CAMBRIDGE,
G.C.B.
His Grace the Duke of Somerset.
His Grace the Duke of Richmone it K.G.
His Grace the Duke of New j.
Iris Grace the Duke of Leinster.
Its Grace the Duke of Wellingtc m, K.G.
The Earl De Grey and Ripon
The Earl of Ellenborough,
The Viscount Palmerston, K.G., G. 0.8..
Field-Marshal Viscount Comberm ere, G.C.B.
Field-Marshal Lord Seaton, G.C.V.
Lieut.-Gen. the Earl of Lucan, K.C.B.
General Lord Clyde, G.C.B.
The Right Hon. Lord John Rrtssell.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart.
General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.B.
General Sir Hew Ross, G.C.B.
General. Sir George Brown, G.C.B.
General Sir Robert Gardiner, G.C.B.
General Sir James Ferguson, G.C.B.
General Sir Thomas Brotherton, K.C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.B.
Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Aitchison, K.C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Rowan, K.C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Shaw Kennedy, C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Charles Gore, K.C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Wetheiall, K.C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Love, K.C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Knollys.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Yorke, K.C.B.
Lieut,-Gen. Cator, C.B.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. R. Clayton, Bart.
Major-Gen. Sir Richard Airey, K.C.B.
Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.B.
Major-Gen. Sir Harry Jones, K.C.B.
Major-Gen. Wylde, C.B.
The Chaplain-Gen. of the Forces.
Lieut.-Gen. Beatson, K.S.F.
Major-Gen. Watkins.
Major-Gen. Willoughby, C.B.
Colonel Sir John M. Wilson, C. 8., K.H.
Colonel the Hon. James Lindsay, M.P.
Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall, K.C.F.
Colonel Pitt Kennedy.
Colonel Harding, C.B.
Colonel Harvey.
Captain Claxton, R.N.
lieut.-Colonel George Hall.
Major Gavin, M.P.
George Jones, Esq., Royal Academy.
Andrew Lawrie, Esq.
Captain Burgess.
(With power to add to their numlior.)

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" 17. The object of these measures is twofold:-Ist, to
ascertain beforehand the probable requirements of the public
service, so as to enable the Government of India to review
end provide for the wants made known to it, and to main-
tail' an effectual check on the subsequent expenditure; 2dly,
to enable every branch of the public service periodically to
review its own wants, and to submit the result of such
review to the Government of India.

" 18. For this purpose every office in every department
will be required to prepare annually an estimate
iof its pro-
bable requirements, during the coming year. This will be
submitted, through the head of each department, to the
local Government, and ultimately to the Government of
India, by which the estimate will be finally sanctioned, and
laid down as the guide for expenditure during the coming
year.

" 19. Every authority through whose hands the estimate
passes on its way to the Government of India will be re-
quired carefully to scrutinise the demand thus made on the
public income ; and, as long as the present financial pressure
continues, it will be the imperative duty of every head of
an office or department to reduce the estimate to the very
lowest amount consistent with the absolute necessities of
the public service.
" 20. The facilities which will be given for effecting
reductions will henceforward be greater than have ever
before been afforded, for the budget and audit rules have
been so framed as to leave to the head of each local Govern-
ment, or of each branch of administration, a much greater
discretionary power than has heretofore been allowed in
re-arranging the details of expenditure.

"21. The grand totals of each department will be fixed
by the Government of India in the sanctioned estimates,
and the responsibility of keeping within the limits so fixed
will be strictly enforced. But, in re-arranging the details
of the expenditure within each department, the discretion
of the local administration will be fettered only by the
necessity of implediate report to the Government of India,
and by the observance of such rules relating to prospective
expenditure, and to rates of salary and of pension, as are
needed to secure uniformity of practice, and a due regard
to the pledged faith of the Government of India.
" 22. The time, moreover, is Peculiarly favourable for
such a review of the requirements of the public service as
this duty demands. India is at peace, externally and inter-
nally; and while the presence of an army much stronger
than has ever before been at the disposal of the Govern-
ment of India gives a feeling of general security, it has
been the desire of the Government of India to give the
fullest effect to the principles laid down in her Majesty's
proclamation, to remove every cause of heart-burning, dis •
trust, and animosity, and to secure to her Majesty's sub-
jects of every rank, and of all races and creeds, the fullest
and most undisturbed enjoyment of their respective rights
and lawful usages. The renewed influx of European capital
and enterprise, after a brief period of suspension, is one of
the many facts which indicate the necessity for a revision
and extension of many branches of our administrative
machinery; but it is, at the same time, evidence of a return
of that public confidence which alone can render such re-
vision profitable, and such extension practicable.
"23. It follows, however, that to bring the expenditure
in each office down to the standard of any former year will
not be sufficient. The reasons of, and necessity for, every
item must be closely scrutinised, and must be tried by the
test of the present and prospective wants of the public
service. Nothing but the clenrest proof that the faith of
Government is committed can be allowed to excuse the
continuance of any expenditure for which absolute neces-
sity cannot be shown.
" 24. The fact that we are at present spending 16 per
cent. in excess of our estimated income has been already
noticed. It is thereby evident that, after making allowance
for those items which, like the interest on the public, debt,
are beyond our immediate control, it will be necessary that
that portion of our current expenditure which we can con-
trol must be reduced by a much higher rate than 16 per
cent., in order to bring the total outlay within the limits of
an income equal to even that of the current year, 1860-61,
which, it must be remembered, is estimated at a higher
rate than that of any previous year.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.
/iia Royal Highness the Duko of Cambridge ~ £25 0 0
Colonel Pitt Kennedy .. • • • . General Sir John Atkinson, K.C.B.
.. .• . .
20 0 0
10 0 0
General Sir Robert Gardiner, G.C.B. . • .. 25 0 0
Colenel Sir John M. Wilson, C. 8., K.Pt. .. 5 0 0 „.General Sir John Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.B.
.. 6 0 0
-Lieut.-General Sir Harry Smith, Bart., G.C.B. 5 0 0
Lien.t.-General Sir Charles Yorke, K.C.B. ..
~..Ca-ptain Claxton, R.N. .. .. • • 50 0
.. 20 0 0
..,J;he Widow of Major W. H. Jackson ..
"ii• Duncan MacDougall .. • • .. .. 11 0
0 0 Captain Frederick Robertson .. . • .. 20
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Major-General Wylde, C.B. .• • . .. 55 0
The Earl of Ellenborough .. . • •.20 0 0
His Grace the Duke of Somerset .. .. 25 0 0
hlir Grace the Duke of Leinster • • .. Pield 10 0 0-Marshal Lord Seaton, G.C.B. ..
Mai.,.-Gen. the Hon. Sir J.Yorke Scarlett,K .C.B. 50 0 0
Gym. the Right Hon. Sir G. Brown, G.C.8.,K.H. 10 0 0
Colonel P. Macdougall ~. • • .. .• 25 0 0 General Sir Thomas Brotherton, K.C.B. .. 20 0 0
Henry Bruce, Esq., M.P. .. .„
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Colonel Rathbone 25 001 • • • • . . 10 10 0 1
Lieutenant-General Sir W. Rowan, K.C.B. .. lO 10 0
Lieutenant-General J. S. Kennedy, C.B. .. 10 0 0
general Sir James Ferguson, G.C.B. .. .. 10 0 0
Andrew Lawrie, Esq.
Lieutenant-General Sir W. B. Clayton, Bart. 15 0 0,
Lieutenant-General Cater, C.B. • • • • 50 0
~„V. V. Ind, Esq., late 75th Regiment .. .. 1 1 0
I.;.,_aptain John Norton, late 34th Regiment .. 1 ') 0
Dira. Butt .. • • • • ' 60 0
0. Perston, Esq., M.D., h.-p. 13th Lt. Lragoona 1 1 0
Major-General Freer • .. • • • • 11 0
Colonel J. W. Fitzmayor, C. 8., and Sundry
Officers, R.A. .. .. .. ..
Lord de Grey and Ripon .. .. ..
'Officers and Sergeants of 63d Regiment
Lieutenant-General H. Brooke, 88th Foot ••.
kaj. A. Wombwell, Depot Battalion, Winchester
Colonel Horton .. • • • •
Colonel Carey, 18th Royal Irish
Colonel Bainbridge .. .. ..
Officers Ist Battalion 22d Regiment ..
Major-General Cameron, C.B. .. .. ..
General Sir H. Douglas, G.C.8., G.C.H.
Major-General Dupuis, R.A. .. • • • •
Lieut.-General Sir J. F. Love, •X.C.8., K.H.
fficers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Pri-
vates 2d Battalion 6th Foot
.. .. • •
Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, 22d Regiment
-Drain skins, F. R. S., Deprity-Inspector- General
Rev. D. Dobrie .•••
•• •• ••
Liseute • • nant-Colonel H.all, Durham Artillery,
übscription of O.ficers and Non-Commis-
Colonel Sh d Officers ~. .. • • •• ' •• .
adwell,, 98 •th Foot .. '
FkStern, Esq, • • • • • • • . • •
r rjrummorAil, Esq., late Rifle Brigade ..
min A"..sistant Adjutant-General's Office,
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eera, and Men let Battalion 9th Foot..
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..Atitbert Hutchings, Esq. .• •• .•
"Subscription of Officers and Men, Ist Battalion
10th Foot
•• •• •• •• •• 412 4
Major Deshon, 2(1 Depot Battalion, Chatham .. 5 0 0
ict3srs. T. and W. Boone • • • • • • 50 0
;,?lan Aldridge, Esq.
0° i 1,..,• Charles R. M'Grigor, Bart. .. .. .. 10 10 0
-1. !le Right Hon Sidney Herbert • . .. 10 0 0
I;lent-Colonel Brown, 4th Light Dragoons .. 1 0 0
4detit...General Beatson, K.5.F... • . • • 50 0
Major
'un. Gavin, M.P. • .. .. 50 0
it-Colonel Hort, the Officers, Non-commis-
sioned Officers, and Prh ates of 36th Regiment 24 7 2
Colonel Jeffreys, C. 8., the Officers, Non-com-
Iniasioned Officers, and Privates, sth Depot
~,,,it_attalion, Parkhurst .. • • .. • • 36 4
.-„,t'i tortescue, Esq... • • • • ** " 010 0
~.1-..eut.-Colonel George Hall, Durham Artillery 5 0 0
Bight Hon.
Sir George Wetherall, K.C.B. 5 0 0
Right
Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart. .. • • 50 0
'.,`..l'elt Hon. Lord John Russell .. .. .. 50 0
•Laeta.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Charles Gore, K.C.B. 10 0 0
at • :
am Wilson, 55th Regiment.. • . .. 10 0
ator-Getteral Sir H. D. Jones, K.C.B. • • 50 0
yeneral Sir H. Rose, Royal Artillery, G.C.B. 5 0 0
Inndry Officers, Royal Engineers
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Andrew Ferguson, Inspector• General of 4 9 6
Hospitals • .
• . 2 2 0
.olonel Willoughby" •••• •••• **
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Major-General
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-najor-General Watkins
General Sir John Ball, G.C.8... 5 0 0
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Captain Burgess .. .. • • .. ..
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.15 Grace the Duke of Newcastle
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Lieutenant-General Macintosh K.H. •
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oicnel Brock ,
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a outenant-General Sir W. G. Moore, K.C.8.•20 0 0
—:1•11°1131/"18. • • • .. .. . .. 25 0 0
-elm Carrick Moore, Esq.. . •:
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Lieutenant-General Knollys . . .. :. 3
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general Sir W. Gomm, G.C.8... .. .. 10 0 0
..-4f•:eral Sir E. Blakeney, G.C.8., G.C.H. .. 5 0 0
Rjulevu.teltn.allPt:GGerna,eerrE:l Sir H. D. Jones, K.C.8... 5 0 0
Countess of
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Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of
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Iris Grace the Duke of Richmond.. 3 3 3•ui • . 20 0 0 Lieutenant-General Sir W. Codrington, K.C.B. 10 0 0
Subscription of Non-Commissioned Officers and
,GPrivates of Army Hospital Corps „ 1 9 6
eneral Lord Clyde, G.C.B. •
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: 20 0 0 Major O'Leary, late 55th Regiment ... . 20 0
Rev. Peter Carey • • .. • • • • • • 10 0
'lort-Commissioned Officers and men, 39th
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Colonel Kelly, and officers• •31th Regiment
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Colonel E. R. Hill.. • • • ' • ' • • 50 0
colonel
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,i-,,eorge 'Jones, Esq., R.A... •• . •
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°ltiCerl, N.C. Officers, and Privates 91st Regt. 16
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Nte"re• Cox and Co., Craig'sycourt, Charing-cross.
0 sers. -Drummond, Charing-cross.
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Bart , and
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Charles-street, St. James's-sqre.
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.„,_ Secretary of the Royal United Service Institution,
Whitehall,
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" 25. Unless therefore the aggregate estimates for 1861-62
show, exclusive of interest on the publiC debt, a total reduc-
tion exceeding 16 per cent. on our estimates of 1860-61, we
shall not attain the desired and absolutely indispensable
result of equalising our current income and our current ex-
penditure for the corning year ; and considerably more than
this must be effected in the way of reduction of expenditure,
or of increase of income, before the finances of India can be
pronounced as resting on a sound and satisfactory footing.

0 4 0

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"26. The Governor-General in Council trusts that every
head of an office, whatever the class of that office may be,
will bear this truth in mind in framing his estimates for the
coming year. There is probably no office in which some
immediate reduction is not practicable, and the smallest
reduction in expenditure or increase of revenue will have its
effect.

"27. Tho higher the class of the office or department,
the , greater 'will be the responsibility of its head in this
respect.

" 28. Many will have some control over income as well
as expenditure, and will be able to promote the desired re-
sult by increasing the former as well as by diminishing
tho latter. Projects for general taxes cannot be considered
with a view to any immediate action ; but there are malty
branches of existing income which are susceptible of mate-
rial improvement, some by a modification, others by a
stricter enforcement of the present rules ; there are many
more which must become more fruitful with the general
prosperity of the country, and there are probably none
which will not feel the effect of a wise and liberal general
administration.

" 29. There is one great branch of the public expenditure
over which few minor offices or departments have any direct
control. The military expenditure is directly affected
mainly by the action of the Governments of India, of
Madras, and of Bombay, and by the great officers of depart-
ments of military administration. But it may be truly said
that there is hardly an office or department in the public
service in India whose action does not more or less affect
the answer to that most important question—What is the
amount of military force indispensably required in India?
The great political functionaries and officers at the head of
the various separate administrations have a direct voice in
the amount of military force to be kept for local protection
within their several jurisdictions. Every detachment saved
—nay, every sentry dispensed with, is a practical and
effectual step in reducing our military expenditure. This
power for reduction is shared by many district officers ; and
there is no officer of that class with a range so limited but
that he can contribute so to rule the country that ethall
be possible to reduce our standing army to the fewest
rea-
sonable limit. The more prosperous and the more
con-
tented we can make the people of each .district theor e nearer
we shall be able to approach to that lunditt.h
e cost. .of various
been prominently brought to the notice
" 30. Over the police expenditure, an
semi-military bodies, all administration and. district officers
and the Governor-General in
have direct influence. The mode in which economy and
efficiency in this branch of the. public tervice may be best
r commend the subject to their
promo
of
soCtfriaonluleilrhocuearlssd attention,l'oettnenlity: f:u:iffreut 411 'ide; g , next to the military charges,
the readiest means of at once diluinishing the burdens on
the resources of Government.
31. The Governor-General in Council trusts that the
united efforts of the various offices and departments through
which the estimates will have to pass, and of each (level n-
Inca and alittini2ll.Lii,ot by which they Will be submitted
to the Government of India, will effect such a reduction in
their aggregate amount that it will not be necessary for the
Government of India to enforce any further check beyond
a strict observance of the limit of the sanctioned estimates.
The work is one in which every officer of every grade in the
service of Government can bear his part, and it is one which
the Governor• General in Council feels confident will not lie
neglected by any who have at heart the prosperity of the
country, or who duly value the character and credit of the
British Government in India.

" Ordered, that a copy of OA above resolution be for,

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;* Governments,t and officers:

,esolution be publ lEhed in the
vernor-General. in Council,
,USHINGTON, Secretary to the
Government of India."

REPULSE OF DR. CAMPBELL'S FORCE
FROM SIKKIM.
(From the Bombay Times and Standard.)

By special telegram from Calcutta, dated. Dec. 7,
intelligence has reached us of the defeat it tb e force
which advanced into Sikkim in October last ; from
30 to 40 of the Sebundee Sapper corps are reported
killed, and the gun which accompanied the force is
lost. As it is•not often that public attention is
drawn to this remote district of the Himalayas, the
following short account of British connexion with
it, and of the causes which led to the expedition
the disaster of which we now record, may prove
acceptable to our English readers. In 1835 we
wanted a sanitarium for Bengal, and offered to
purchase Darjeeling from the Rajah, as we now offer
to buy Parisnath from the Ra.nec of Palgunge. He
at first declined to take payment, but subsequently
received 3,000 r. a year, which was afterwards
doubled. All went on well till he appointed a Dewan
who has been described as a bad specimen of Yeh.
At his instigation regular raids were made into our
territory, our subjects were murdered or carried
off, and no satisfaction could be obtained. At
last even the Superintendent of Darjeeling.
and Dr. Hooker were kidnapped, and were
rescued only when we despatched troops to their
assistance. In consequence of this we ceased to
pay the Rajah his allowance, and in 1850 annexed
a portion of his territory. In 1853 he abdicated
in favour of his son, and since then our relations
with Sikkim have been at least peaceable, if not
friendly. But for some time back the old Dewan,
having asserted his influence over the new Rajah,
has resorted to the old custom of massacre and
plunder. Warnings, remonstrances, and threats
were alike in vain, and unavailing to procure
redress. Aggressions on the part of the Sikkim
State reached its climax when, during the past
rainy season in July last, a party of kidnappers
suddenly passed over into our territories, and,
having cruelly maltreated a man and his wife,
made a rapid retreat into Sikkim, carrying away
as captives the two young children of their victims.
Some of our ryots also have beeri forcibly carried
into captivity by these marauding subjects of the
Fikkim Rajah, and this insecurity of person and
life has tended greatly to disturb the minds of
our peaceable subjects.
Dr. Campbell, the Superintendent of Darjeeling,
promptly demanded redress at the hands of the
Rajah, the restitution of the children, and the
delivery of the criminals to us. The children, after
some little delay, were recovered ; but the Rajah,
yielding to the pernicious counsels of the Dewan,
refused to surrender the guilty parties, or to restore
the ryots carried off from British territory, not-
withstanding that the justice of the Superinten-
dent's demands was urged upon him by the Lamas
and influential men of the country. In this state
of affairs the Government, adopting the recommen-
dations of the Superintendent, authorised the
occupation of a further portion of the Sikkim ter-
ritory in addition to that annexed on the misun-
derstanding of 1850. Accordingly, in October, 100
men of the Sebundee Sappers, under their comman-
dant, Captaiff Murray, with one gun (a 3-pounder),
marched down to a place called Goke, upon the
confines of the British territory, ready to cross the
Rummam river into Sikkim, should the Rajah
decline to accede to our demands. This potentate
still refusing reparation, the force above mentioned,
'accompanied by the Superintendent, crossed the
river and entered Sikkim on the Ist of November
last, hoisting the British flag under a salute of 21
guns, and faking possession in the Queen's name of
a tract of country defined in a proclamation issued
by the Superintendent to the Sikkim officials. It
sets forth merely that the Rajah having declined
compliance with our just demands, we were going
to occupy that portion of his country lying to the
north of the Rummam River, and to the west of
the Great Runjeet River; that we intended injury
to no one, provided our force were not molested, in
which case the people must expect the chances of
war. The Superintendent also addressed some
friendly and conciliatory remarks to the officials,
enjoining them to use their influence for the pre-
servation of quiet and order. This proclamation is
stated to have produccd the best effects upon the
population. The area of the newly occupied ter-
ritory is stated at about 050 square miles, and con-
tains within its limits one of the loftiest peaks of
the Himalaya.
Speaking of the expedition, the writer in the
Englishman, from whose narrative and from the
Friend of India the foregoing account is taken,
says, somewhat vain-gloriously we cannot help
thinking, " Truly, this act of Dr. Campbell may be
deemed a plucky affair, considering that in 1840-50
Mr. Lushington and General Young with some
2,500 men were afraid to advance into Sikkim
when the honour of our nation was much more
involved than it is at present." Plucky, no doubt,
but we cannot help thinking not very prudent.
Unquestionably, the main cause of the disaster
which has overtaken Captain Murray's force is its
unimposing strength. True policy requires that,
whenever our Government thinks it necessary to
make a military demonstration among the hill
barbarians on our frontier, the force sent should be
such as effectually to overawe resistance and make
success a certainty. This is the system so success-
fully carried out by Chawberlain and Edwardes on
our northern frontier. Petty detachments only
invite attack, and, if hard pressed, are pretty sure
to suffer defeat, with all its embarrassing compli-
cations and loss of prestige.

* Home, Foreign, Military, and Public Works De-
partments.

t Governments of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, North-
Western Provinces, and Punjab.
Accountants-General to the Governments of India,
Madras, and Bombay. Accountants—Bengal, North-
Western Provinces, and Punjab. Civil Auditors—Bengal,
Madras, Bombay, North-Western Provinces, and Punjab.
The President of the Audit Board. Military Finance
Department.