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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Exeter, Ju'y 25.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice COLE-
RIDGE and a Common Jury.)
DINGLE V. BAKER.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover
compensation in damages for the seduction of his
daughter. The case has created considerable interest,
anti obtained some notoriety from the manner in which
it was disposed of at the last summer assizes for Devon-
shire, by Chief Justice Wilde. When the whole of the
plaintiff's case was gone through, and the counsel for
the defendant was addressing the jury, he was inter-
rupted by the Lord Chief Justice Wilde, who stated
that a difficulty had occurred to him as to the right of
the plaintiff to maintain the action. In order to main-
tain an action for seduction there must be a less of ser-
vice, which there did not appear to be in this case, as
the daughter, Mary Dingle, had left her father's service
before her pregnancy had so far advanced as to dis-
qualify her from the discharge of her ordinary duties.
For the plaintiff it was contended that the loss of service
had been occasioned by the act of the defendant, for if
she had not been pregnant by him she would never have
left her father's house. Chief Justice Wilde, however,
ruled that the action could not be maintained, and di-
rected a nonsuit. A rule nisi to set aside this nonsuit
was subsequently obtained in the Queen's Bench, which
was afterwards made absolute without the plaintiff's
counsel being called on to support the rule.
Mr. Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. Greenwood now up•
peered to conduct the plaintiff's case; Mr. Crowder and
Mr. Holdsworth for the defendant.
The facts of the case were, that the plaintiff was the
renter of the tolls of several turnpike gates on the Dart•
mouth and Kingsbridge trusts, and the defendant is a
brewer and spirit merchant, living at Dartmouth. The
plaintiff has six daughters, of whom Mary Dingle, the
subject of the action, was the second, and at the time
of the alleged seduction was 19 years of age, and was
a pretty and attractive-looking girl. She and one of
her sisters received the tolls at one of the gates called
Week Gate, which is close to Dartmouth, sad lived by
themselves at the toll-house. It appeared by the evi-
dence of Mary Dingle, who was the principal witness
in the'case, that the first acquaintance between her and
the defendant was at a ball given in 1845 by Mr.
Moffat, the unsuccessful candidate for the borough at an
election which had just before that time taken place.
On that occasion the defendant was one of the stewards,
and paid much attention to Mary Dingle. An inti-
macy then sprung up between them. For some time
the defendant was kind and respectful in his manner
towards her; but in September, 1845, he met her one
morning, as she was returning from Dartmouth to
Week Gate with her sisters, when he wished her to
get up on a horse which he was riding. This in joke
she did, when he put his horse to full speed and rode
on some distance until she jumped off, when he got off
and took liberties with her. This she resisted, upon
which he begged forgiveness, promising not to do so
any more. She accorded her forgiveness, and they con-
tinued to meet as before, but on several occasions he
took liberties with her, which she resisted, and at last
told him that she would speak to him no more. After
this, on the 15th of April, 1846, Mary Dingle went
into Dartmouth in the evening with one of her sisters
and a cousin named Popplestone. By some accident she
became separated from her companions, and soon after
she met the defendant, who told her that he had met
her sister and Popplestone, and had given them tickets
to go to see some players who were at that time at Dart-
mouth ; he then asked her to take a walk with him,
which she refused, on the ground that on the last occa-
sion that she had met him he had forgotten his promises
and had taken liberties with her. He begged her to for-
give him, and to take a walk with him if for the last
time. She consented, and walked some way with him,
when he asked her to drink a glass of champagne ale
with him " to drink friends," from a bottle which he pro-
duced trom his pocket. She did drink half a glass, and
then asked him to take some of it, but he excused him-
self, saying he had been smoking cigars and drinking
brandy and water, and that the ale would disagree with
him ; ho then threw away the bottle. Mary Dingle
then turned to wish him good night, but he begged her
to stay, saying that he had something particular to say
to her. She then said to him, " You have given me
something which has made me quite drunk," and soon
after she felt herself quite stupitied, and hardly knew
what passed. The defendant then led her into a stable
of his, where he effected her ruin. From this time up
to August frequent meetings took place between them,
and eventually the girl found herself to be pregnant.
On her informing the defendant of it, he told her to
never mind—that she should never want for any-
thing. Ile then wished her to get away from her
friends to some private place, that " things might be kept
sly." She then made an excuse to go to Exeter to see
her cousin there, and saying that she wished to look for
a situation. On the occasion of her going to Exeter the
defendant gave her 2/., and advised her to go to Exmouth
as a more private place than Exeter. After staying
t-oine time with her cousin at Exeter, who was a married
man, named Torr, he took her to Exmouth, where he
engaged lodgings in the name of Wilson, and pa,s4 d her
oil' as his wife; but he (Torr) swore that be never slept
with her there, but slept at a coffee-house. Shortly
before this Mary Dingle had gone to Dartmouth to see
the defendant. She met him, her cousin Popplestone
being with her. The defendant then gave her 3/. to
take her to Exmouth, and promised to give her more
when at Exmouth. This part of her evidence was cor-
roborated by Miss Popplestone, who swore that she
heard what passed between the defendant and Mary
Dingle from behind a hedge. After Mary Dingle gut
to Exmouth she wrote to the defendant several times,
through a girl called Dulling, asking him for money for
her support, but this he did not send her, and at last she
became in such a state of destitution that she was com-
pelled to write to her mother and communicate her
situation. Her mother then came and brought her back
to Dartmouth. On coming back she saw the defendant,
and begged him to do something for her, which he re-
fused to do unless she would say that some one else was
the father of her child, and told her that if she would he
would give her 501. This she indignantly refused, but
said that if he would give her the 501. no one should ever
know the father of the child. The defendant then said,
" that she might do her best, and that he would get the
very best barrister, if one was better than another, to
get him out of it; and that he would get a medical cer-
tificate to show that he could not have been the father of
the child." Soon after this the girl was delivered of a
child.

The girl Dinglo was subjected to a most severe cross•
examination of five hours in duration, the object 01
which was to show that she was a girl of immora
habits, that she and her sister were in the habit of re•
ceiving male visitors at the toll-house, and that she had
charged other men with being the father of her child.
The case for the prosecution having been closed, the
case was adjourned till this day (Tuesday).
Mr. CROWDER then addressed the jury on behalf of
the defendant, and requested them, however they might
during the examination of the witnesses for the plaintiff
have been led to give credence to their statements, to
suspend their judgment as to the credit due to those
witnesses, until they had heard the witnesses whom he
should call on the part of the defendant, who would con-
tradict in the most positive and direct terms nearly all
the material facts that had been sworn to by the wit-
nesses for the plaintiff. He would prove that the char t
ge
was utterly false, and supported by conspiracy, by direc
e
falsehood, and perjury. H requested the jury to ob-
serve that the only evidence on the part of the plaintiff
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corroborated the statement of these witnesses had
they been correct, and yet not a single other witness was
called. He drew the attention of the jury to the contra-
dictions in the evidence of Mary Dingle and her sister
Rebecca, and their cousin Popplestone. As to the al-
leged scene at Dartmouth, from the statement of Mary
Dinglo it would appear that she met Baker after the
others had gone to the play, that he took a pint bottle of
champagne ale out of his pocket, and a glass, which he
had in his handkerchief, and in the middle f the street
requested her to drink. She at first refused, but after-
wards drank some of the ale, Baker himself declining to
take any. She then described that she became nearly
senseless, went into the house, and there, while she was
in this state of lethargy, the connexion took place. Now,
it was not pretended that Baker was aware that Mary
Dingle was in the town, and if so, how did it happen that
at this purely accidental meeting the defendant should
have been so well prepared to effect his purpose? Again,
none
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dremw members of the plaintiff's family were
called to prove that Mary Dinglo and the defendant
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Torr himself could not say what was
the name of the house at which he had slept; and, al-
though a twelvemonth had elapsed since the last trial,
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little child who had seen them in bed together caet oE
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mouth, he would contradict entirely the statement xo-f
Tore that he had slept at any public-horse or coffee-
shop on either of the occasions to which he had sworn.
From the evidence which he was instructed he would be
able to bring forward, he would show that Mary Dingle
was a girl of loose character, and after the jury had
heard the evidence to be given by the defendant's wit-
nesses, he believed they would arrive at the conclusion
that the charge made by the plaintiff was utterly un-
founded, supported by fraud and perjury, and he confi-
dently anticipated their verdict for the defendant.
Numerous witnesses were then called to support the
case which had been opened by the Learned Counsel.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE then replied,
After which Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the
case to the jury, contrasting the evidence which had
been given on both sides, and remarking on the extra-
ordinary nature of the ease. The jury were to judge of
tie credibility to be given to the witnesses called on
•the one side and the other, and they were to say

which they believed. No doubt their task would be
a difficult one, as there was a great discrepancy be-
tween the story told on one side and that on the other.
The jury then retired, and after being locked up about
an hour, found their verdict for the plaintiff—damages,
20/.
The case was not finished until eleven o'cicck at
night.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIL-

LIAMs.)
John Grimy .s was indicted for having stolen a cow, the
property of Robert Baker, at Chumley.
Mr. Lempriere conducted the prosecution; Mr. Stone
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that when the prisoner was first arrested
on the charge he made his escape from the lockup, and
the defence now was that he was not the person who had
thus been formerly apprehended.
The jury, however, found him Guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to twelve months' imprisonment.
John Richards was indicted for having, on the 16th of
July, broken and entered the dwelling-house of the Rev.
R. T. Beadon, and with having stolen therefrom a bank-
note, value 51., and five sovereigns, the property of Henry
Dirnicombe.

Mr. Collier conducted the prosecution; Mr. Cox de-
fended the prisoner.
It appeared by the evidence adduced on the part of
the prosecution, that on the morning of Sunday, the 16. th
of July, the prosecutor, Mr. Beadon, and his family,
were all gone to afternoon service, except one female
servant; and during church time the prisoner called at
the door of a cottage near to Mr. Beadon's, and inquired
of an old woman who lived there, if the minister lived at
the house which he pointed out. She told him that he
did; but the minister was out. He said it did not mat-
ter, but went on towards the minister's house. Very
soon after this the old woman was alarmed by Mr. Bea-
don's servant coming down and saying that there was a
man in the house. .

The servant, Dinah Kingdon, proved that she was
Beadon, and was left alone in the
question. She fastened up the house,
and
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whets she heard the glass of
the kitchen window broken, and the footsteps of a man
go across the kitchen. She came down stairs and went out
of the drawing-room window, which is on the ground
floor, and called a man named Ridge, who lived near; he
returned with her. They heard the man in the house,
but he made his escape by a back door without their
seeing him. Upon this the man-servant of Mr. Beadon,
Henry Dirnicombe, was called out of church, and on his
coming to the house he found that a five- pound note of
the Barnstaple bank, No. 818, and five sovereigns, and
also a bad shilling, had been stolen from a box of his in
the servants' hall. Upon this he mounted a horse and
rode on the Barnstaple road, where he overtook the pri-
soner, about two miles on the road. On searching him,
the 51. note was found on him, as also the counterfeit
shilling, both of which the witness at once identified.
The prisoner was then given into custody of a con-
stable, who was just about to wrap up the note with the
shilling to take care of them, when the prisoner jumped
forward, seized the note and instantly swallowed it.
The constable, however, not to be outdone in ingenuity,
sent for a surgeon, who administered an emetic to the
prisoner, who became sick, and the note was brought up
by the prisoner uninjured.
Mr. Cox having addressed the jury, they immediately
found the prisoner guilty.
A former conviction of felony was then proved against
him, and the Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to
be transported for 14 years.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, July 25.
There was seven cases disposed of to-day, the num-
ber of prisoners charged being thirteen. The crimes
were principally assaults and robberies to a small
amount on persons who appeared to have been what
in Staffordshire is familiarly termed, " the better for
drink."

NORTEERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 25.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.)
Ilis Lordship was occupied the whole day in disposing
of a class of cases the details of which are unfit for pub-
lication.

The trials of the Chartists at Bradford and elsewhere
are fixed for tomorrow (Wednesday).

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

LAUNCH OF THE FIFTY-GUN FRIGATE INDEFATI-
GABLE.—The launch of this splendid ship will take place
according to existing arrangements, at Devonport Dock-
yard this day, at about half-past two, p.m. She will be
named by Miss Louis, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir
John Louis, Bart., the superintendent of the dockyard.
The Indefatigable has been constructed by Wm. Edyr,
Esq., the present master•shipwright of this dockyard,
and is considered by the most competent judges to be a
perfect model of her class, not only for symmetry of pro-
portions, but for the superior advantages she is estimated
to possess as a thorough and " regular-built" frigate of
the first class. Iler keel was laid down on the 22d of
August, 15 t 6, she has therefore been a few days over
one year and eleven months on the stocks. The weight
of shot which this frigate will throw from her broadside
at one discharge would be 2,272 lbs., or equal to 1 ton,
1 qr., 4lbs. 'lnc Indefatigable was proposed to the Ad-
miralty to be built as far back as 1820, but was at
that time considered to he too large as a frigate. As a
proof of the saying, tempora mutantur, et nog mutamur in
illis, she is in the present day pronounced to be not too
large, hut a fine specimen of naval architecture, and the
beau ideal of a British 50. gun frigate. Her armament
is superior to that of any
ship of her class in the navy,
and the weight of shot she will be enabled to discharge
. from her guns (2S long 56-pounders, and 22 long 32-
pounders), at one broadside, 8 equal to the fire of a 74•
gun ship; but her great superiority will consist in being
able to fight all her guns in any weather, which a two-
deck ship of 74 or 80 guns could not do, being unable
safely to open her lower deck ports in blowing weather.
Iler capacity of hold, we are informed, is very great,
having room for the stowage of eight months pro-
visions of every description under hatches, with 300
tuns of water. Notwithstanding this extent of capa-
city, her lines are of the most beautiful form, end
it is hoped she will soon be put in commission, and
then prove herself to be equal to the anticipation of her
sanguine constructor and admirers—a perfect frigate.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN PORTSMOUTH HARROUR.—As
George Darton, a seaman of the Birkenhead steam-
frigate, was hooking on the back rope purchase astern
in the Growler steam-sloop, he over-reached himself,
and slipped off the bumpkin braces overboard. Upwards
of fifty men were looking at him at the moment of his
immersion, but seemed paralysed. In a moment after,
however, three of them leaped into the water, and dived
about fur him for some time without effect, nor has the
body been picked up since.
The Rifleman propeller schooner, Lieutenant Crofton,
R.N., left Portsmouth for Cork, with dispatches, &c.,
for Sir Charles Napier, on Monday night; and the 'rri
dent paddle-wheel iron steamer, Lieutenant Risk, B.Ne
lett the same port yesterday afternoon, to place herself
under the orders of Rear-Admiral Mackay, the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Irish station, for whom she car-
ried dispatches and supernumeraries.
The Fairy royal yacht, Captain Lord Adolphus Fit:-
Clarence, G.C.IL, embarked her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester and suite at the Royal Clarence
Victualling Establishment yesterday evening, at ten
minutes past five, under the usual compliments and cere-
monies incidental to a royal visit. Her Royal Highness
was received by Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., the Commander-
in Chief; Major-,General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence
and staff, Sir W. E. Parry and the chief officers of the
Clarence-yard, Mr. Superintendent Stevens, of the rail-
way company, and other officers, and left immediately
in the Fairy for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Russian cutter Orianda, 6, Captain Oun Rouly,
remains here.

. -
The Lightning steam-vessel, Petley master, sailed yes_
terday afternoon for the coasts of Sussex and Kent, to
protect the fishery.

is ordered to be paid off at this port without any of her
internal fittings or bulkheads being removed. She was
placed in commission in December, 1844, and was built
in 1838, by Sir Wm. Symonds.

THE CONSPIRACY AT LAHORE.
(From the Delhi Gazette, May 20.)

•
Extract of a letter, dated May 15 :
" The startling disclosure of a plot to massacre all the
British officers and their families at Lahore, has, indeed,
as you may well suppose, caused a fearful commotion
and excitement amongst us, the more especially when it
appears evident beyond a doubt, that not only had it
been well organized and matured, but that it had been
hatching for more than two months, that several of our
own Sepoys are implicated, and that it was only disco-
vered and prevented by one of the conspirators' own
party, barely a week before the time fixed for the carry-
ing out their fearful tragedy.
" On Thursday, when Golahah was reprieved at the
very foot of the gallows, with the rope dangling over
his neck, he promised to disclose everything, and his
Tear and trepidation on seeing his two colleagues placed
at the drop were too genuine and evident to admit of
any doubt but that he would act up to his promise. It
appears that the conspirators had met nearly every
night for some weeks to decide upon and arrange
their plans ; that Golahah, who was with one of our
native regiments at Moradebad, had relatives
in the corps, and being thus intimate with the
men, was employed as the agent to tempt them by offers
of high payment to act a treacherous part, and admit
the conspirators into the city. They were actually pro-
mising 60 rupees a month as their fixed pay, and money
was freely distributed by the Ranee's Moonshee as an
earnest
of futurethis—that
on the 13th of I
remuneration. Theiay ,
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last Saturday,
decided upo n
was a
certain number of men were to be told off, ten to each
officer's bungalow or quarters, who, on the firing of a
gun announcing that entrance had been made into the
city, were to massacre every European. The Sepoys,
who had been bribed to open the gates in two or three
different quarters of the town, were to make an appa-
rent resistance by firing blank cartridges at the assail-
ants, who, after the murder of the British officers, would
have pillaged the city, and made themselves masters of
our guns and ammunition. They would then have
easily raised the standard of revolt, and numbers would
have flocked either to Lahore or Mooltan, and joined the
rebels.
" Singular to say, the only remark made by Khan
Singh and Gungah Ram, just before their execution on
Thursday, was to the effect that they were perfectly ' re-
signed to their fate, it being the will of God, but they
should have wished to be spared two days longer that
they might have witnessed the tumasha t This would
show that they still expected the catastrophe would have
taken place.
" Another odd coincidence was that the men of the
65th Regiment Native Infantry, some of whom are said
to be more deeply implicated than any others, were
drawn up close to the gallows instead of on the high
road, and when they saw that Golahah was reprieved,
the guilty ones must have guessed that they were not
safe. That night one of the Sepoys in this regiment,
a Brahmin, deserted. This was reported to the
Brigadier the next morning, and at six o'clock,
P.m., the corps was paraded for the purpose of pick-
ing out the traitors. Two Sepoys were instantly
detected by the approver Golahah, who with his
chains on proceeded slowly down the line, and strange to
say, in the presence of the Brigadier, Brigade-Major,
and all the officers of the regiment, three more Sepoys,
who had fallen in with the others, made their escape un-
perceived, and have got fairly off. Could this have oc-
curred without the connivance of their comrades? Now
happened a strange incident; the guard over the two
Sepoys who were picked out of the ranks were ordered
to load their muskets, and the prisoners, fancying they
were going to be shot to death on the spot, made a bolt
tor it, and literally got several hundred yards before
they were taken, the officers who were mounted riding
them down!
" A Bunneah in the artillery, a mess Khansmah of the
Regiment Native Infantry, had previously been
pointed out by Golahah, and were apprehended in the
course of the day.
" On Saturday other regiments were paraded and ex-
amined; but, though none were picked out of the ranks
by the informer, seven other Sepoys from different native
corps have deserted, none of whom have been yet found.
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This makes a total of nine missing, and two only in con-
finement. The number stated by the parties who first
discovered the plot was twenty-two—a small number,
you will perhaps say, out of eight regiments.

" The Woordee Major and Lance l)uffedar of
Wheeler's Regiment of Irregular Cavalry (7th), and one
of the men in the Guide corps under Lieutenant Lums-
den, who disclosed the conspiracy in the first instance,
were publicly rewarded on Friday morning by Sir F.
Currie, in the presence of the whole regiment. They
received as khillus a handsome sword, a brace of pistols,
shawls, and bags of money, amounting in all to about
2,100 rupees in value, divided in different proportions
among
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cellent They
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deserve a memento from every officer in the garrison
and cantonment, for, humanly speaking, in all probabi-
lity to them we owe our lives."
We do consider that the number of culprits, 22, out
of about six thousand men, is small considering the
temptation to which the Scpoys were exposed, and the
fact is highly creditable to the native soldiery. Those
implic.ited are said, with one exception, to be bad cha-
racters, in debt and difficulties, who thought this a good
opportunity of clearing themselves. We presume that
if the furnishing of the money actually paid to those
who joined the conspiracy, at the rate of two rupees per
diem, can be traced home to the Ranee, that lady will
not continue very long an inmate of Shaikhoopoora, but
be sent to Benares, ors perhaps,
,to Chunar, to grace a
palace or a prison in our provinces with her presence,
on greatly reduced allowances. Her inclination weld
doubtless lead her to Agra.
On the evening of the 14th the wing of her Majesty's
15th Light Dragoons and the 7th Irregular Cavalry
were directed to hold themselves in readiness to turn out
at a moment's warning to act against a body of men sup-
posed to have assembled on the other side of the Ravee,
and they proceeded the following morning in search of
them—with what success we have yet to learn. Those
are probably the men who were to have carried out the
details of the conspiracy, but for the timely discovery
that has taken place.
A report has reached us that the mess lihansmali
above alluded to has been found guilty of an intention
to poison the officers of his corps, and that he was to be
hung forthwith.

Iris stated in well-informed quarters, that the ar-
rangements for the " army of Mooltan" are already
sketched, and that it will consist of six troops of horse
artillery, two light field batteries, three European ca-
valry regiments,
irregular, six regiments of European infantry, and six-
nine regiments of cavalry, regular and
teen native ditto, with a large siege train. The Com-
mander-in-Chief is to take command on the Ist of Octo-
ber. If operations are really to be postponed so long,
and so needlessly, and with great dangers staring the
authorities in the face—a subject on which we shall
have a few words to offer in our next—we may as well
defer awhile the chapter on preparations we spoke of in
our last.

LAHORE, MAN 18.
" Last night Mr. Cocks, through the aid of the re-
prieved men, seized another of the conspirators. Every-
thing is coming out, and you will open your eyes as I go
along. If no one else has favoured you, I will first tell
you how we were to have been butchered. The attack
was to have been at the Delhi-gate. On the night of
the 18th, a party of men were to have been admitted by
some of our discontented Sepoys on duty at that gate;
the Sepoys were to have fired blank cartridge, throwing
away their balled ammunition; the party admitted were
to have been joined by some 20,000 or 30,000 men in-
side, when they would have commenced operations all
round, down to the Tausulee and Buttes gates, which
were not to have been opened, but have remained shut,
for the purpose, as they said, of preventing our escape.
This was their arrangement. Now if you get a plan
of this city (Smyth has one in the History of the
Seikhs'), I will just shoW you what a foolish one
it was. The Delhi gate is about half a mile
from the Tausulee gate, one European and two native
regiments on one side, and two native regiments on the
other side. Now, say they got admitted, and the Sepoys
commenced firing with blank cartridge, as agreed upon
—do they suppose these regiments would have been idle
all that time? Depend on it, at the very first shot every
man would have been at, his post, and all ready, long
before they could have got over 100 yards (if that, for
they would have to cut up the Bth Regiment first) of the
halt mile, and by the morning, instead of being assail-
ants, they would have been assailed from every point. II
give the fellows more credit. Now, if they had.waited
till the force from Mooltan came, and assailed us at
every point, inside and out at the same time, we should
have had hard work. General Khan Singh did not
show much judgment. Now for the discovery, which
will startle you. A Russeldar of Major Wheeler's, or
7th Irregular Cavalry, had been suspicious for some time
that something was brewing, and immediately mixed
with the townspeople. He got scent of the plot, and
engaged himself as a conspirator. When ho had fully
ascertained all their plans, he lost not a moment in tel-
ling his own commanding:officer, who instantly informed
the Resident. But, will you believe it?—he spurned the
idea, and told Major Wheeler that his man must have
been made a fool of. Fortunately Wheeler knew the
native character better than Sir Frederick did, and that
his man was to be trusted, and so persuaded Sir Frede-
rick to investigate each, when lo and behold! everything
turned out as represented by the Russeldar. Sir Frede-
rick, quite aghast, exclaimed, as most people do when
outwitted, Who would have thought it?' Now for the
Sepoys. I am sorry to say the report is, that nearly. all
the native regiments stationed here are more or less im-
plicated, but a few days will show the extent of it. I do
not place much credit in the report, given as it is by
a man with a halter round his neck. At all
' events it should be taken cautiously. That there
are bad characters in every regiment is certain ;
r' but that one man from every regiment should
attend the meeting every evening and represent him-
self as the representative of his regiment, is absurd.
No doubt one or two dissolute or inexperienced boys

will be found in the force here that have attended the
meetings; and if it can be proved that they have shown
any infidelity, hang them up at once, without any court-
martial, as an example. The report is that the 50th
Regiment was under arms last evening when the Briga-
dier, with the Politicals, and the reprieved men were in
attendance, for the purpose of pointing out the indi-
viduals said to be concerned in this conspiracy. Two
men were hit upon, and two others concerned made
their escape. The 18th were out this morning, but I
have not heard the result. The Moonshee hung in
company with General Khan Singh was employed by
the Ranee. The part she bas taken in this business is
advancing the money. Some say upwards of two lacs
of rupees have been disbursed."
There is an item not touched upon by any of our cor-
respondents, which we repeat on excellent authority, viz.,
that General Ventura was in Lahore ineog. at some time
during the disturbances, if we may so call them. A
French gentleman, who came with him from France,
ostensibly for the purpose of purchasing shawls. was
still in the Seikh capital on the 20th, after General Ven-
tura had a quiet hint from the authorities, who had early
notice of his unwelcome presence, to quit the place. He
is now, we believe, in the neighbourhood of Umballah,
with the Raja of Patteeallah.
A correspondent from Ferozepore says that the Ranee
is most strictly watched, the house in which she is
located (near the Artillery Bazaar) having sentries at
every corner. She is said to be under the temporary
charge of Captain Maitland, of the 72d. The 51st tur •
nish the wing for her escort to Loodianah. An express,
received on the evening of the 20th instant, is said to
have conveyed orders for sending back a slave of the
Ranee's to give evidence on a fact recently discovered,
and it is added she left immediately by dark. Our cor-
respondent says the slave is the notorious Mungia; but
on this subject he must permit us to express a doubt, as,
if we remember rightly, that lady was removed to
Kangra somewhere about the time her mistress was sent
off to Shaikhoopoora. It may be that the authorities
allowed her to return, at the urgent solicitation of the
Ranee. If they did, they did wrong.