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the Regiment has now adopted the following uniform, &c., which, 

 we presume, is permanent for some good time to come. 



The uniform of the present is : 



Blue Blouse, Breeches, and Blucher Boots, white Pugree and Regu- 

 lation Helmet with silver spike and chain, black and brown Belt, 

 Martini-Henry Carbine and light Sword. 



The Governments of India and Bengal have always displayed the 

 keenest interest in the welfare and progress of this Regiment. The 

 Lieutenant-Governor is Honorary Colonel ex-officio^ and has often 

 done them the compliment of coming to inspect them ; nay, it was 

 only the great pressure of work and the urgent necessity for his pre- 

 sence in Upper Burma which prevented the Commander-in-Chief 

 from paying the Behar Light Horse a similar well-merited compli- 

 ment after the Camp of Exercise at Delhi. We do not know that any 

 former Commander-in-Chief has ever expressly conveyed his desire to 

 personally inspect this or any other Volunteer Regiment, and high com- 

 pliment though it would undoubtedly have Leen, the Light Horse of 

 Behar were well worthy of it, nor do they despair of mustering again 

 ere long to acquit themselves like men and soldiers under the eye of 

 one of the finest of England's Generals. When he comes, he will be 

 thrice welcomed to Behar, and to the hearts of the loyal Behar Light 

 Horse. 



The North and South Ganges Troops inclusive, the Regiment, now 

 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hudson, consists of 

 troop, and musters 320 strong, and are, as we have before remarked, 

 in a state of high efficiency. 



But what boots it that so much has been done, whilst any remains 

 still unaccomplished ? We have troops of the Light Horse having 

 the'following head-quarters : Mozufferpore, Motihari, Chuprah, Gya, 

 Arrah, and Bankipore, and not at one of these places have we a 

 single fort or anything in the nature of one, which could afford ade- 

 quate, or indeed the slightest, protection in times of trouble. This 

 is surely not as it should be. Have we again lapsed into that false 

 and deadly feeling of security and laissez faire which preceded the 

 mutiny and its horrors ? God forbid. A grain amongst the sands of 

 the seashore a drop in the vast ocean a tiny bit of leaven amidst the 

 lump of India's millions, so tiny that we may hardly hope and must 

 not trust to leaven the whole lump are we to disregard all due pre- 

 caution and to be in jeopardy even to the eleventh hour, because the 



