text:  But though the appropriation of the Punjab in whatever form effected cannot be long delayed "the pear" (to use a Napoleonic phrase) "is not yet ripe;" and as we intend to return to the subject at no distant period we shall dismiss it for the present; while we turn to the consideration of the recent occurrences at Gwalior--events of which the full import is little understood in England but which involve no less consequences than the virtual subjugation of the last native state in India which retained the semblance of an independent monarchy and which scarce forty years since encountered the British forces on equal terms at once in Hindostan and the Dekkan