Show VOLlN CAMPBELLS WAY A correspondent of the Sun of New York copies from Archibald Forbess Life of Colin Campbell some refer ences which seem lo have especial ap plication lo present events In South I Africa Here Is a paragraph In 117 Campbell Lahore dlmrlct look command of tho and Instituted cerlaln precautions a nhiM mirprlxo and To him attack wrote Sir Charles Napier In thcuo words 1 am delighted at nil cauUons against your pro who take pains Mirprlso In India wi are reckoned Bo aKaurod that cowards S a Inn dualling English ofucors think It thing to bo surprised rako lo no precaution axiom In Formerly It wag an war that no man was lit to bo a commander fho permitted himself Murprixcd but in bo things arc on a more nohlu footing now It seems the British officers who vent to South Africa had not read that very necessary book for a long time Again ho says Before the battle of Cbllltanwallah January 13 JSU this incident occurred In the uiemolr of tho late Sir > rand Henry DU by hta sons occurs an Imerexrtnj t passage Illustrative of Campbells anxiet anxiety that the ground nn which the enemy position was to bo uppronchod should bo I property reconnoitered Durand writes Gough Vnhilpbell hud seeing that his lordthlp tx > nl no Intention of properly rc ronuoltoruVg iho position was anxious on tho subject and wo wont Into the tent of the chief engineer to discuss the mailer etc S And again on tho batlle of Goclcrat February 21 1849 Campbell wrote In hlsijournal this1 I was ordered to stonn this nullah dry ditch but to have done so with ivcm Id have ocvuKloncd Infantry a useless and needless loss of life S Wo had too much slaughter at Chllllumvatlah because duo Precaution had noi been taken to vent It pro by the employment of our maf nlnc0nt artlllery U seems as If Lord Cough rather than Colin tho Campbell was authority followed fleets by the British of The need of much caution in India It seems was Sir Colin Campbells great anxiety Tho truth Is the English of ficers had become so accustomed lo rifle through and over the halfnaked ene inlws in India thai they had grown care less There 1 another feature about It tOO They determined to keep Indias people always Impressed with the Idea that they did not need to take any precautions that they could whip any enemy that appeared That might do fighting lhere but they have paidvery dearly for adopting the same tactics in Natal If they had ever read the his tory of Holland how she kept up a war for eighty year rather than to give up It would have boon of use to them and their own experience at Majuba hill ought lo have Impressed them with the Taut that they were not going to light an Inferior toe but luther a foe quite as brave an themselves and one too Infinitely better equipped In the way tot slarp8hootlnjf than any regiment of British regular a that ever cxlalod because be-cause English officers have Ignored the < dvlrc jyhleh has been given them re I peatedly year after year that the j I I L safety of their army might some taleS tale-S depend upon the individual ability of the soldiers to shoot straight and quickly They are learning those serious seri-ous lessons and so far the war has demonstrated nothing much to the praise of Great Britain except the old I time British valor whit ms as pronounced pro-nounced as ever According to the dispatches I dis-patches there ought to lie news In two or three days of nome terrific fighting in the neighborhood of Ladysmith The British lion has had his claws clipped and h < has a sore head but he la still I the nrltinh lion And show no signs of I any Intention to give up the light t |