text: " The increase of means which the return of the army from Affghanistan will place at the disposal of the Governor-General will doubtless do much in either overawing or suppressing these insurrectionary demonstrations; but even in this case the snake will have been only "scotched not killed;" and the most practical and effectual method of rendering such attempts hopeless for the future will be the replacing the Indian army on the same efficient footing as to numbers and composition on which it stood before the ill-judged measures of Lord William Bentinck