The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-04 00:00:00

which so much mischief hats arisen of strengthening the hands
11( the rulers anto enable them to oppress the people with
comparative impuity. There matters had been Icef we the
Durbrar on the Ilth and 12th, but no conclusion was ar-
rived at. The Queen was so frantic few she loss of her
our as to be incapable of attending to business.
kaanwhile the march of one of our regiments, and the
brae of the order for the others to retire on Ferozepore,
left no doubt as to the sincerity of our purposes. The
whole of the 11th was spent in delibe ration. On the
following day, on witueseing the arrangements for the
abandonme or of Lahore, the hearts of the &niers failed
them, and they repaired in a body to the tents of Mr.
Clinic to c sass their inability to form a Government,
and intimate the determination they had arrived at.
A long an I interesting conference ensued, at which
all the details were fully and formally arranged. On
the 16th of Deetmber—twelve days after the deposition
of the Vuzeer,—• meeting of Council was assembled, at
which upwards of seventy Chiefs and high State ettieills
were posent. Mr. Currie, Colonel Lawrence, and his
sesietant, Lieut. Edwardee, were present as represent-
ing the Briii•la covernment. It was announced that the
determination had been unaniosoutly arrived at, with the
full and entire eon! urrenee of all parties concerned, that
the Governor-General should be entreated to permit a
fume of ten thoumed men to remain at Lahore during the
minority of the Maharajah—the British Resident virtually
to become the Veneer. For the maintenance of these,
twenty-tyro lekhs of rupees—nearly a quarter of a million
sterling—was to be slowed annually; a sum considerably
under the entire expense of the force, but fully covering
the total extra charge to which Government would be put
for their m intenance. There was to be no Vuzeer and
no Regent, even in name. The entire civil administna-
tion of the kittedem is to be vested in our hands each
elerrtresent of the government is to be presided over by a
Fetich Sirdar—Dewen Deena Nath having the revenue
deputize itt, T. j feettgle commanding the army, &c ,—all
under the authority of Colonel Lawrence, than whom
no more ahle or upright representative could have been
found for the British Crown. The Queen is to be allowed
435,000 a year for her private expenditure. Reductions
in the Sikh army, and in usher eepartments where economy
ran easily be introduesd, will enable the treasury to meet
the addition el drafts expected t c be made on it for cane ing
out the new arrangements. The new Treaty is to be
reified et I'mritsir, betwixt the Governor-General and
the Maharajah in person. The Commander-in-Chief is
expected to be pr sent the day appointed is the 22nd of
D. comber —the anniversary of the battle of Ferozeshah
Thereafter Lord Herdinge will accompany his youthful
sharp to the capital, and under the new order of things
again see him re-seated on his throne as holding regal
authority by a for more safe and tranquil tenure than any
his own chiefs c cold have conferred. New cantonments for
our troops have :already been designed, and their site marked
out; and Lahore hereafter is likely to become a favourite. as
it seems a healthy, and will be a well-regulated, station.
Dhulleep Singh is at present seven years old :
for ten or twelve years the country of the Five
Risers will be controlled by British Mope, and
ruled over Icy an English resident. It is needless to
speculate on the events that may occur, or position our
government may assume, before the year 18.h7. The much
censured peaee.p they of Lerd Ilardinge has thus been main-
tained in all its integrity, truth, and uprightness, to the end.
Commencing with an act of unusual generosity, neither
fraud nor forte, violence nor equivocation, hes been re-
sorted to. We have shown no symptoms of regret for the
magnanimous moderation of our proceeding in March, or
the slightest desire to recall what we had promised, or
meeify what we had undertaken to perform. The ceun-
try whiela might then have been legitimately seized,
but could tint have teen conquered without cost, danger,
and abundant obloquy, has now, by the spontaneous act
of the people themselves, become ours. A people ac-
customed to the government of England for the space of
twelve years, is little likely either to desire or to be able
to revert to native rule; and the Durbar, doubtless, in
adopting the step no unanimously resolved upon, were
peril ctly aware that they were making over the country
to our power. A case such as this has never before oc-
curred to we We may learn from it how little need we
have to resort to fraud or violence—that we may safely abide
our time to have the Potentates of the East at our 'let One
excuse for our eleasion of Sande was, that if we did not d --
throne its rulers now, we should by and bye have occa- I
Mon to do so when the operation might he less con-
venient for us! With equal propriety might we have
anticipated a legacy likely to fall due, by shortening the
life of the too ator ! We have on the present occasion
waited the course of events, and the possession so eagerly
coveted has been placed in our hands. The following
troops have been ordered up to take the place of those who
have so well maintained temquillity during the past ten
months ;-11.11 10th Foot ; the 7th, 31st, 321, 38th, 514,
54th, 55th, and Gith Regto. N.I. ; 11th Irregular Cavalry ; two
companies of Sappers' and Miners; 4th Troop 2d Brigade IL
A. ; sad 3rd and 4th companies 3rd Battalion Foot Ar-
tillery. The conduct of the Governer-General has through-
out been most ably seconded in all his noble efforts by his as-
sistants, Mr. Currie and Col. Lawrence. If there have
been blunders in the field in abundance to deplore, there
have been. o .sets in the department of diplomacy we have
cause to blush for. The Seikhe have spontaneously taken
on themselves the charges of an army which we must at
any rate have maintained, and paid—as most right, but
most unlikely, they should—for the preservation of tranquil-
lity on our north-west frontier. So much has been said in
disparagement of Goohiub Singh, that there seems no-
thing too monstrous to he believed against him, and it is
doubtful whether anything stated to his advantage will
obtain credit with his enemies, It is with no small mea-
sum of gratification Poet we halm been assured of the de-
ference he pays to the counsels of the British Gem rnment
ie all thlogs, fled that, in conformity with our wishes, he
has set Lis face against Infanticide and Suttee, wince will
hereafter cease throughout his dominions.
JULIA:9DI3R Trans-Sutlej affairs within oar
own possessions we have nothing of any consequence to
note. The or& is for the raising of the four new regiments
may be expected in a very short time, and as the settlements
arc proceeding with rapidity, we msy aeon know what the
acquired territory is actually worth. The hill portion of the
Jullundur Dealt cempoeing Mender, Koo'oe, Sm., has been
placed under Mr. Erskine, the Commissioner of the Cis-
Sutlej hill prosiness, and his salary has been raised from
1,500 to 2,000 rupees a month. The fair at Hoesheearpoor
has, we regret to ray, turned out a complete failure, this
year at least, and we do not know whether the experiment
will be repeated. It is te be hoped, however, it will, as the
disturbed state of Kashmeer must have proved a great draw-
back to its susses on the present occasion. Moe of the
regiments ordered to the Jullundur Doeb have reaehhd their
several destinations." •
GWALIOIL—Murders were of frequent occurrence in the
districts. The Assistant-agent had returned from his tour,
which it is to be hoped would be productive of entree ame-
lioration in the existing deplorable condition of the eulti-
vetoes remote from the capital.
NOUTII-WEST RIOVINCE3.—Lord Elphinstcme left Al-
lahabad on the th Nov. en route for Nepsul, having
previously visieed the garrison.—The Commander-in-Chief,
Lord Gough, was expected to reach Loodhinna on the 21st
Wt., and Delhi about the 20th January.—The Lieutenant-
Govemor left Ajmeere for Beawr on the sth December. His
tour thromeh the districts was likely to be productive of
much good, as rimy of the native rulers take such an op-
portunity of performing various acts which otherwise
would probably never be thought of. He had found good
cause of complaint in the wretched condition of some of
the roads, and had ordered their immediate repair. A road
from the seat of his government (Agra) to Nuwembad,
had been ordered, and it is said that all the Rajahs through
whose territory it would paso had signified their inter-,
lion of forwarding its completion. Military movements
continue to be of constant occurrence—reliefs moving
backwards and forwards all along the frontier. Recent
events in the Punjaub have removed all apprehensions of
further aggression in this quarter for some time to come.
One regiment of Queen's, seven or eight of company's in-
fantry, with a troop of horse, and two flatteries of foot artil-
lery, it was expected, would immediately cross the Sutlej
for ILahore, as a relief for those mow cantened in the capital
of the l'unjeuh.
The Del'. i Gazette overland summary supplies us with
the following items of intelligence :
" We have to record that Lord Hardinge arrived at Kan-
nra on the I.3th of Nov.. and remained there until the 16th,
paying a visit during his stay to the proposed Sanaterium at
Dhurumsale, but such appeared the difficulties of access,
and so great the distance from the plains, that his lordship is
understood to have negatived the proposition for making it
either a statton fur troops or a sanatorium, on the plan of
Landour. Its natural beauties and elevation offer, how.
vet, such advantages that we hope to hear that pri-
vate enterprise may one day carry out the original
idea, and make Dhurumeala what Nainee Tal bas
become. From Kangra the Governor-General reached
Hoosheearpoor on the 21st of November, where he
was joined by his camp. Ile remained to see as much of
the fair as was to be seen on the let of December, and
then proceeded rid Jullundur to the left bank of the Beets,
opposite Bhairoowal, so as to be as near Lahore as possible
during the important occurrences which have taken place.
The camp WAS still there on the 16th instant, and Mr.
Secretary Currie was expected in a day or two. -- The
Right Honourable the Commander-in-Chief left Simla on
the Bth of December, inspected the two European Regi-
ments at Subathoo (let Bengal Fusilier") and at Kussows
lee (29th Foot) on his way down to Kalka, remained at the
latter place till the 12th, and then moved on towards Load-
heeanah, at which station he will arrive this day. His
subsequent movements seem to be so far definitely fixed
that we ma expect kis lordship in Delhi about the 20th of
January. Mr. Thomason is progressing through the states
of Itajpootana, in company with Colonel Sutherland, and
will doubtless do much good by his presence amongst the
sovereigns of that port of India."
SCINDE.—Our tidings from the banks of the Indus arc not
much less important than those from the Sutlej. From
home we some time since heard that the Court of Directors
had requested the Governor-General to favour them with
bin opinion as to the justifiability of the original
conquest, and the expediency of retaining posses-
sion of a country ;which destroyed the strength of
our; frostier, aid caused the annual sacrifice of some
thousands of men and above a million sterling of money.
It was well known to be the wish of a majority in Leaden-
hall-street that the country should be restored to its owners.
Further accounts brought tidings that the Board
of Controul h d agreed that the government would
be abolished a e an independent one, and the ma-
nagement of the country for a time entrusted to
the hands of a civil commission. The army, which bad
amounted to nearly sixteen thousand men when the parlia-
mentary returns showing tho charges of the country to
exceed its income Icy a million sterling were made, had sub-
ssquently been augmented by about thirteen thousand,
emeisting of additional battalions to local corps, with nine
thousand men sent from Bombay. The withdrawal of the
Bengal troops reduced it once nacre by tight thousand, so

that at this moment it musters above 21,000 men. Of
these seven thousand were under orders for Bombay, when
an alteration of the arrangement became necessary, a)
that matters now stands as follows: —tier Ilajtsty'a 17th
have just returaed to Bombay. The 14th and 17th N.I.
are under orders for Karrachee, on their way to the
presidency, the latter of those having no fewer
than 330 men in hospital, though the season was
considered unusually healthy. The 3d cavalry have also
been ordered to the coast. The 10th N.I. proceed to
Mandavie, from which their boats bring the 16th to Bombay.
The 3sl proceed to Shikarpore, to relieve the 4th
Rifles, under orders for Ilurrachee. Thi•her also the 7th,
the Seinde Horse, and 2nd Belooch Battalion, proce.d.
The 11th remain at Sukkur : the 18th end Ist Belooch
battalion stand fast at Illydrabad. This is all we
have heard as to the latest arrangement& for the
reliefs. The boasted frontier of the Indus has
since the seizure. of Scinde been some fifty mile in our
rear • while our troops are well protected against the
assaults of their brother soldiers advancine from India, they
are own to those of the enemy. The various outposts
along the margin of the desert and base of the mountain.%
ore arranged as if the object but been to give
the enemy every advantage—to permit them to burst down
upon I. healthy and strong from the mountain fastnesses
into which no regular troops could follow them, to assail us
in the weakest possible pueitions, and with in general a moiety
of our troops in the docuir'e hands. On these points any
lee may satisfy himself by simple reference to the map,
On the 10th December intimation t etched Shik irpora that
the mountaineers were down upon us above a thousand
strong, and had ravaged the country a. fir at Meerpore
'flee officer in command at the station having proceeded
against them with fifty troopers, found himself so outnum-
bered that he was compelled to retire without anything hav-
ing been effected by him. The officer at Khangur, with a
detachment of similar strength, had also attempted to
*lack th, m, but was compelled t. retire. Ou hearing of
these things, Colonel Stack, with the main body of the cav-
alry—consisting, however, of no more than one huldvil and
twenty-flee sabres—instantly took the field, followed by
two hundred of: the 4th N. 1. rifles. Detachments; joined
them as they advanced, at Meerporo and .Mobarauck pore,
and brought up their strength to two hundred and ten
sabres. Advancing a mile beyond Houda the enemy were
found drawn ue on a hill in close and dense array, with
videttes on the hills to their left front. Their position was
found inacemible ta an attack by cavalry. The officer in
command felthimself obliged toretire. On the morning of the
13th orders were sent to Meerporef wthe return of the detach-
ment, cavalry and infantry, to Shikarpore, which they reached
that morning, and in a few hours afterw;lrds reports
arrived that the Doogties were again coming on. The Scinde
Horse, under Capt. Jacob, and Camel corps, commanded by
Capt. Fi•ogerald—both very efficient bodies of irregulars,
under able officers—were instantly ordered up, and would,
we have no doubt, quickly drive the robbers to their homes, it
indeed they had nut returned thither before the troops went
forth at all. There doubtless they will remain till weakened
outposts or a sickly season again admit of their pursuing the
trade of plunder with safety and advantage. Sr Charles
Napier is said to have expressed himself in the last degree
diseatisfied with the occurrences just narrated. It is
underst rod that the consultation of the Duke of Wel-
lington in all thing* is one of the conditions on which
the Whigs hope to hold office, and that the surest channel
to his grace's favour is through Lord Elleaborough and
the Nopiera—the hitter of whom are, it is said, ordered to
be supported, at whatever consegu-uce or hazard.
Isuione.—The most astisfnetory accounts continue to be
received. The Resident, Mr. Hamilton, was on a tour, and
intended crossing over into Bhopal, end from thence to
Augur, a new station formed for part of the Greedier contin-
gent.
He had presented new colours to the Bheel corps at
Bhopawur. A Mr. Tweetland, connected with Mr. Ste-
phenson's railway, hail been in Malwa for some time, en-
gaged in taking levels of the country.
AFFGHANISTAN,—We copy the following summaryof
Cabool news from the Delhi Gazette of the 9th December;
from whi.l it will be seen that matters arc in a fair way of

amendment :
" We have received intelligence front our Central Asian
news writer down to the seventh of October. From his
letters we learn that on the twenty-third of September,
a letter w...s received front Sultan Mahomed Khan, warning
the Ameer to receive with much caution any information which
might bear unfavourable ou the connection existing between
Maharajah Goolab S ugh and the British authorities, as the
Sirdar was fully convinced that the best understanding sub-
teisted between them. It is added that letters were for-
warded to Ahm d Khan, Meer Akhor, desiring hint to
depute some confidential persona to receive the Vakeel of
the British authorities, who was coming from Peshawar.
The confirmed announcement of the arrival of such a
Vakeel again caused considerable astonishment at Cabool,
and it was believed by many that his actual coming be-
tokened a renewed and genre interference on the part
of the British government in the affairs of Aflghani•tan.
A rumour respecting the British Vakeel got abroad on tbisoc-
casion, to the elect that his chief, indeed his only objeet,would
be to collect intelligence of what was going oa in B ikh.tra,
Oorgunj, Turkestan, &c., and forward the same to his Gover-
n the 3rd of October a letter was despatched to Sirdar
Mahomed Akram Khan, prohibiting his carrying out his
previous orders to proceed into Toorkestan, and enj 'Ming
his speedy return to Kabul after he should have realwed the
revenues of Bamocan, &c.
MOULMAIN.—Tyranny and oppression have mgt their
reward; Captain Durand, commissioner in the Tenasserim
Provinces, has been removed, and been sameelled by Mr.
J. It. Colvin, late resident at Nepaul. The Eastern
Star says :—" We believe there was no doubt that Mr. J.
P. Grant was the first intended for the post, but his pre-
sence in the Mysorc territories continues to required by
the financial dis:rganisation of the Itajah's treasury,
and an opportunity has thus been given to the collectors,
of singular coincilences, who have been jotting down
he alternate successions of Lords Ellenbomugh and Auck-
land, to minute a bit of fact about the private secre-
taries of those noblemen. Capt. Darind, as we are told,
returns to his regiment: to duties which he has before
illustrated by active, zealous, and able discharge, and from
which he cannot more than ourselves regret that routine
patronage removed him to others that will furnish so un-
pleasant a reminiscence in his career. We have our doubts,
however, if a political place will not be found for the late
Commissioner by the time he prepares to join his military
duties."