The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-29 00:00:00

BAHAWULPOOR.

The new ruler of this province appears to be a
very questionable sort of character, and the prege has
called for justice to be meted out to him by the Go-
vernor-General tor his late conduct. The Lahore
Chronicle of the 25th June gives the annexed ac-
count of the recent murder committed by him :

THE B.►uAwct.rooa THAGEDY.—The surmises in which
we indulged on Wednesday, regarding the real nature of
the doings at Derawul have been fully verified. An Extra
of the Iternaer- Naos (an 0..rd00 newspaper published at
Moolean) of the 113. h June, 1333, thus reports the murder of
Fukeer Suraj-ood-deen, late Wuzeer, or Prime Minister, of
the Bahawulnoor State, by the Daoodpootras and Beloches,
on the authority of a letter received by the editor on the
18th, from a correspondent at Ahmudooor.
On the 7th Ramzan (15th June, 18.53), about 5 o'clock.
p.m., or 4 ghurees betore sunset—a Daoodpootra wee sent
to Fukeer Surej-ood-deen in the place of his coafinement
in the Derawul Fort. He spoke insultingly to the Fukeer,
I who mildly 'Twins, rated with him, but in vain; on the
contrary, the Deoodpuotra grew more and more insolent.
The Fukeer at last became enraged, and gave him a slap
on the face. The Dcooclpootra then drew his pistol from
his waist, and attempted to fire at him, but it did not take
effect, and the Fukeer hastily seizing the pistol from him
fired at him, sad he fell down from the effect of the shot.
On this the Belock and the Daoodpootra Sirdars, who
it seems were in waiting, approached the place. The
Fukeer seeing that there was then no hope for escape,
embraced his younger brother, Shah Nuwez-ood.deen,
weeping, and told him that he was determined to die
bravely. Both the brothers then read the " Kulma Shu-
bsdut.'

By this time the Daoodpootras drew nearer to them,
Chemed Khan, Jumedar, and Surwur Shah, being fore-
most amongst them. The brothers called out to them lr
beware of where they were coming to ; their call, however,
was responded to by a discharge of musketry • the brothers
then rushed on I.thatud Kite/sand Surwur Shah, and wrest-
ing their swords from them, disabled them by striking a
blow on each.

Seeing this brave and undaunted conduct on the put of
the Fukeers, the rest of the assailants were dispirited, and,
drawing back, fired at them front their matchlocks and
pistols ; but the brothers attacked the assailants sword in
band, felling down by a single blow the parties who tired
at them. At last one of the assailants struck a blow at
Surej-ood-deen from behind, which severed his head from
his body. Shah Nuwarood dun, turning back, avenged
the death of his brother by a blow which cut the man in
twain. The people then poured in from all sides, and
attacked Shah Nuwax-ood-deen with swords, and he fell
covered with wounds. The Nawab, hearing of this, came
up to the spot, and carried away Shah Nuwaz-ood-deen,
who still breathed, but was not expected to live, and most
probably died the following d
Suraj-ood-doen was in tils 32nd year. Shah Nuwax-ood-
deen was in the bloom of life.

A few nays before the murder of Fukeer Suraj-ood-deep,
all the Punjabees and other foreigners in the service of the
&bairn!poor state were turned out of that territory by the
Nawab's officials ; even all the Punjabees (several hundred
men) of old, belonging to the regiment of Captain John
(Holmes ?), wets at once discharged. This, perhaps, was
done under an impression that the Punjabees might espouse
the cause of Fukeer Surakood-deen.
It is reported that the Nuwab will be at Ahmudpoor on
the Ilth Ramsan—(l9th June, 1853).
It is quite clear, from the above narrative that the mur-
der of the late minister was premeditated ; that neither he
nor his brother were armed, as had been previously alleged,
and that the Nawab llejes Mahomed, lacking the pluck to
bring them to a formal trial for their alleged treason,
adopted this dastardly method of ridding himself of men
who had entailed a burdensome debt of gratitude, which
he paid by murdering them, for it is impossible to believe
that, being on the spot and within the precincts of a small
fort, he cannot have been eognoiant of all that was passing.
He was most probably the direct instigator of the act of
violence, which has ended so tragically.
When Hojee Mahomed was a prisoner in the same fort,
condemned to a slow, but certain death, by his ignoble
brother, Sadeek Mahomed, and besought the British
government to obtain him a competent maintenance w;t11 an
asylum in the Punjab or elsewhere, we strongly advocated
his cause, believine such small interference as the negotia-
tion would imply, to be warranted by our obligations to his
father. But now that, successful in his attempt to resume
his hereditary right, he has proved himself unworthy, by
his crimes, of the countenance extended to him by the
British government, we certainly think that although the'
Oovernor-General cannot recall hie investiture as Nawab o
Bahewulpoor, some means should he taken for marking, in
a strong and decided manner, the abhorrence of his crimes
by the government of India, and showing him, that though
I.e has probably a right to do as he pleases in his own coun-
try,
he may not exercise it with impunity in the shape of '
murder and rapine. He is evidently not the man to pre-
serve intact the state, the mismanagement of which has
devolved upon him.—Lahore Chronicle, June 25. 1