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THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA.

The following letter from our correspondent in the
Deccan was unfortunately written before the latest in-
telligence from Lahore had reached him. It contains,
however, such just views upon Indian politics as will well
repay perusal :

CAMP, NEAR KOLROOR.
It is needless for me to give you details of the splendid
victory at Sobraon. You will have read in the Govt rnor-
General's order, and in Sir H. Gow's dispatch, how with

[mmense loss the Seikhs were driven from.theirformidable

intrenchment, constructed on the most scientific European
principles by their Spanish engineer, how our noble
troops, European and native alike, carried these without
a check, and how, pushing the disordered masses be-
fore them on to their narrow bridge and into the hardly
fordable river, thousands perished there from the fire
of our artillery, and were drowned in the deep waters.
This news will be received with the enthusiasm it de-

serves ; it was, indeed, a noble achievement ; we have
fought no such battles in India as those with the Seikhs
—we have never been so nearly matched, either in mi-
litary science or bravery in tha field ; but, under the
aid of Divine providence, their invasion has been hurled
back with mighty power, and we are now in our turn
invaders of the Punjaub.
The force followed immediately after the battle, and
is now concentrated at Kussoor, if it be not, as I trust to
hear, advanced to Lahore ere this. We have in our
possession 220 pieces of their best and most serviceable
field artillery, and though the arsenal of Lahore was
said to contain 400 pieces, there seems to have been no
effort made at Lahore to send out any reinforcement of
this arm, the applications from Runjoor Singh and
others being tauntingly answered, that their forces had
better seek their old ones where they lost them. Colonel
Wheeler was to have crossed near Phulloor ; indeed it
is reported that he had taken possession of that place
without opposition, the disorganised Seikh army having
fled at once without offering any opposition.
bo far, therefore, our operations have been a splendid
succession of victories ; the vaunted prowess of the
Khalsa army has been signally broken. Never has any
war been prosecuted with greater 'vigour or bra-
very. There were murmurs at delay, but it has been
well proved by the event that any attack upon the po-
sition of Sobraon without heavy artillery would have
b, en dangerous ; and any check of our army would have
had a baneful effect throughout India. If the Governor-
General, holding with firm expectation to a peaceful line
of policy in the first instance, omitted provision against
the coming storm, we have seen how energetically, how
fearlessly, how amply he has since carried on the war.
No stint of troops, no stint of money, or supplies, or ma-
terial is apparent. As a gr. at and final effort should t e
made, so has this been cars ied out, and has won for him
and his gallant companion in arms imperishable renown.
Nor, on reflection, would I have seen any other line of
policy pursued. Confident in his own resources, the Seikhs
were allowed to advance by the Governor-General; their
long doubted intentions thus plainly put to the proof,
unprovoked by any preparation or demonstration on
the part of the Government of India. The most pre-
judiced party-writer cannot advance as a position of
reprehension that this invasion and war were brought
about by any threatenings, any obvi: us desire of
conquest. We should have had a Punjaub war under
Lord Ellenborough, had he remained, long ere this, but
it would have been one open, and justly open, to cavil.
Some strange demand would have driven the over-confi-
dent Seikbs to off:nsive operations, even if we had not
taken the initiative, and it may be questioned whether
our actions and conduct of the war w ould have come up
to the present standard. Our men would have displayed
the same gallantry, but the director of all, the practical
experience of an old and tried general, uniting with
military skill profound political knowledge, would
have been wanting. No, the war has come well as
it is, and in the unprovoked agc'ression there is ample
reason and necessity for those stringent terms which will
be eventually dictated, and which the Governor-Gene-
ral's proclamation from Kussoor shadows forth. Like his
previous ones, this is a straightforward, manly, unmis-
takable document, and reads almost more explicitly in
Persian than in English. In the flush of recent victory,
there is no boast of success beyond the simple notifica-
tion that the Seikh army has been defeated and expelled
from the left batik of the Sutlej. The Governor-General,
following his previous proclamation, again reiterates
that these operations have been "forced upon him " for
the protection of the British possessions and for the
punishment of the violators of public peace and solemn
treaties ; and again, that by the war the British Govern-
ment had no desire of territorial acquisition—that
no preparation for hostility was made that the
sincere desire of the British Government was to
see a strong Seikh Government established,
that the conduct of the Government and
the army had rendered these desires furtile,
and that whatever now befals both will be the conse
quences of their own misdeeds. These positions are in-
controvertible either here or in England, and it will be
satisfactory to our Government to proclaim them to the
world in defiance of misrepresentation of motives.
Whatever aggressive character our previous Indian con-
quests may have had, and alas! they are neither few nor
unimportant, this stands alone in its integrity of purpose
from first to last.
But with the foregoing it is explicitly set forth that
for indemnity for the past and security for the future,
the British Government will retain a portion of the
_

territory of the Lahore state ; and for the present the
portion is contingent upon the conduet of the durbar.
The country between the Sutlej and the Beeas, embrac-
ing the hill district to the south and east of Simla, is at
once taken as a part of the indemnity. What the other
districts intended to betaken ere is not known, but it is
most probable they may be Moultan, the more espe-
cially if, as it is stated, the authorities are favourable.
Cashmere may be considered too distant without the dis-
tricts between the Sutlej and the Beeas afford a road to

it, and this hardly appears practicable by the map.
Again, with a solemn and impressive warning as to the
consequences of further. opposition, does the Governor-
Generalh . of the
Go-
vernment to submit themselves to the authority l
British Government, and to enable the Governor-Genera
summon the chiefs and officers of the Seikh I
hope we • not to
de-
scendant of the late Maharaja.ale
have a subsidiary treat/. There are able men enough
to organise a Seikh Government in the person of a
among the Seikhs to form a strong
seemGovernent. and
an independent one, and I would far rather an inde-
pendent one, which should have some care for and pride
in itself, than one of those effete, miserable things called
Governments, such as at Hyderabad, and which are the
ine
which would weaken us, and
yitale result of this system.. By establishing such a
end in strengthening the Government
Government, we should deprive the Seikhs of their
wsth
henerenvnbre; :(in feudatories,
( ue)prtdodausi tsa:ii
.blr
cordially
ee
hopeiseif
t may is to
be baen Government at all,
then, one, as,
ability to serve as allies, weaken the north-west frontier,
and find ourselves engaged with border tribes and in
quarrels between this Government and its wild neigh-
apffoastarseawaii tooh,ouattouri
whatevern t e r m
present d 1 i n ge'
NI
fetphaisu le
cannot
is n
nabeltehteo
brought
otgechtt itself,
ahoabout
to i help
would us r
,ft
hne-r seese cone,
trh .
andwho
whole
eo manage
made
inconvenience; we cannot now stand upon trifling
con-
siderations ; the protection and security of
Y our whole
a ißtsroitwisnh
frontier are at stake.
I say again, I hope there may be no subsidiary force.
We should require one of 30,000 men at least,
the.
veterans of the army and 10,000 Europeans to be a
portion of it. You do not seem at present able to spare
us any more, but you must ere long, Our
present
European force will bold the country against all odds •
but we must have more to fill up the places they have'
left vacant all over India. Sir Henry Hardinge has
provided for the sapply of the native army, and I have
not the least doubt has laid before your Government his
want of European troops. Even the mere casualties
have thinned their numbers fearfully, e. y ....,
of the 50th,
450 men and officers have been killed, wounded, and
disabled, out of 650, and other corps in proportion.
The Governor-General recognises the probable ex-
istence of a Seikh army, as a matter of course, only as
an appendage to a regular and .independent
Government.
The mere mention of the army. gives me more hope of an
independent, though circumscribed, government, than any
other part of the' proclamation. Under it strong adn