NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THOSE who know Asia best will be least satisfied with the news 1 from Burmah. According to the latest telegrams, which come clown to June 2nd, the King had received the Chinese General who attacked Colonel Browne's expedition with high honour, and Colonel Hamilton, Inspector-General of Police in Peg,u, had been murdered by Burmese " dacoits,"—in other words, irregular soldiers. The King was believed to have got together forty thousand men, whom he is arming with rifles ; and the Times' correspondent telegraphs from Calcutta that confidence in the peaceful intentions of the Court has greatly diminished. All that looks like a situation out of which, in Asia, war is certain to spring, unless indeed there is a Revolution in the Palace, which is quite possible, as the King is hated by his family. If the Cabinet of Pekin is, as is suspected, urging on the King, war may be con- sidered certain, but we shall know within ten or twelve days, as Sir Douglas Forsyth arrived at Thyatmyo on Wednesday, and ought to reach Mandalay and be admitted to his first audience by Monday at latest. If the next telegram announces a " riotous " attack on his guard, the chance of peace is over.
