The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-07 00:00:00

THE CONSPIRACY AT DINAPORE.

A few days before Christmas day a native officer of the Ist
Regiment of Native infantry reported to Major Rowcroft,
that certain persons had been tampering with the men of his
own and of other regiments at Dinapare, giving them money,
and setting them against " the Sirkar Bahadoor." Major
Rowcroft gave immediately notice to the civil authorities It
Perna, which led to the speedy arrest of a regimental moon-
ohee, of the name of Peer Buksh. The confession which
he made on being examined led to the apprehension of
Said Rahaat Alle, a discarded deputy collector, and
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long a well-known Radical of Patna. -His papers were
seized simultaneously with his person, and, from a careful
examination of these, it became apparent that the Said
himself and Khwaje Hussun Allee Khan, a native gentle
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other names
subordinately concerned, a paper called a mazurnarnee being
found on Raahaat Allee, with some 700 signatures, binding
the subscribers to uphold their religion against all attempts
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of _the Goveunment to subvert it. It appeared also, in the
course of the investigation, that reports had been indus-
triously circulated among the villages in the interior of
the several districts of Behrt, that on a certain date (the
20th of this month, we believe), the different magistrates
would issue orders to all their Thannahs, prohibiting cir-
cumcision, and forcing the Hindons to eat together generally.
It is r,ot ascertained, as far as our information goes, whether
the " Patna plot " had any connexion, as previously surmised,
with native states, though it is believed Lot. But it is be-
yond a doubt that letters have been intercepted, throwing
' light on intrigues against our supremacy, which may here-
after lead to further discoveries. Khwaje Hutsun Allee
Khan has managed to abscond, and all his landed property
has very properly been attache] by the local authorities.
Upwards of 100 tulwars were found in his house, and both he
and the Said Raaltaat Allee had by them sums of money,
wrapped in sloth, exactly corresponding with the pay of the
Suwars and native officers of the different grades in the
British irreguler cavalry. The principal native police officer
in the city of Patna, Meer Mahamed Bakur, was found to
have visited the station of one of these corps, and to have
been intriguing with some of the native officers, in the hope:
of inducing them to join in the conspiracy he was assisting
to hatch. Shah Kubbur-ood-deep, of Sasseram, is suspected,
but nothing has yet been proved against him ; he is, pending
further investigation, kept under surveillance in his own
house at Arran. Said; Raahut Alee distinguished himself
somae years ago as taking an active part against the resump •
tion laws, and has ever since been the chief instigator in
every petition or complaint that has been made against any
of the officers of Government. Copies of all these petitions
have been found in his sheristech. He and the other mal-
contents have, it appears, taken advantage of the opening
given by the late gaol disturbances, to excite the native pub-
lic mind against the Government, and have, most likely, en-
tertained some faint hopes of the reverses in the far west
giving them a chance of disturbing the peace in their own
neighbourhood for a little while at least. Mr: Ravenshaw,
the commissioner, has taken upon himself to stop some of
the regiments that were proceeding up the country, and has
ordered four companies of the 66th to be posted at Patna.
One company of the Ist N. I. is at Gyah. The Chupra
and and Shaliabad districts remain quiet, but some alarm is
being exhibited at Patna by the townspeople, consequent on
their fears, it is surmised, of being found implicated in the
o plot,