The Ashantee preparations are going on more briskly than ever,
and Sir Garnet Wolseley will shortly be on the spot with his staff, when matters will probably look a little less alarming, all force being concentrated for the one great effort. A railway of forty miles is to be sent out, and a number of traction-engines, besides a very large supply of doctors, medicines, and distilling apparatto. The number of English soldiers to be sent has also been raised to three thousand. The object of the railway, we apprehend, is to open a communication between the sea and some healthy encampment, where the soldiers may be as safe as in any New Zealand station. We would venture to suggest, as there is so much " jungle" work and exploring work to be done, that a large supply—really large—of revolvers and cartridges for them should be forwarded at once. The Americans like nothing so well for supplementary weapons in the forest, while they enable engineers and men not disciplined to resist treachery as nothing else will.
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