The Indian overland mail has arrived in London ; and
the first report, that it brought no news from China, proves not to be lite- rally true—the news is two days later than that brought two months before. This scanty addition exhibits the English forces under Plenipotentiary ELLIOT remaining in a state of inaction, while the wrath of the Emperor increased, and his commands to concen- trate troops upon Canton had grown in the brief interval fiercer and more pressing. Such was the posture of affairs at the begin- ning of the two months for which no account has yet reached us. Those who philosophically refuse to look at any but "the bright side," are confident in the belief that if any thing of moment had occurred, immediate intelligence would have been despatched by Captain ELLIOT. The assumption must be based upon the prior assumption that Captain ELLIOT always does what he ought, and does it promptly and decidedly. It is poor consolation to weigh against the recollection that the British troops, penned up in a corner of a hostile country, with precarious means ofsubsistence, were dying off under the influence of the climate, while the Celestials were making large preparations to overwhelm them with numbers. Under such circumstances, it will be a relief to receive actual information that nothing important bad occurred in the two months, and that the reinforcements with which Sir GORDON BREMER has left Calcutta will do something more than restore the diminishing numbers to the point at which he left them. But there must be a desperate fear . in Downing Street that some crowning exploit of Captain lamor's has yet to be chronicled. ' There is only one point of interest in the Indian news—the pro.- tracted anarchy in the Punjab; where an English officer, co • SHAH SOOJAH'S harem, was held at bay by an army_of,Sellis upon robbing him. Yet it is said that Lord An:4kis:6:1 745 ,4 ,Irf interfere. Ile is too busy with China.
