The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-28 00:00:00

THE PUNJAUB.

CASHMERE.—The tranquillisation of the discontented
Seikh districts, which promised to advance favourably
at the date of last dispatch, has all but realised its pro-
mise. We formerly noticed the simultaneous advance
of the two large forces under Brigadier Wheeler and
Major-General Sir John Littler—the former from the
Jullundur Doab, the latter from Lahore—both proceed-
ing in the direction of Cashmere. The following notice
of these movements, and of the present position of the
troops, has been furnished us by an officer with General
Littler's force ; it is later in point of date than any com-
munication from the same quarter we have seen :
LATEST NEWS FROM HEAD-QUARTERS OF
THE PUNJAUB DIVISION.
Camp Bukree Wallah, left bank of the Chenaub,
31st October, 1846.
Sir John Littler marched from Lahore on the 15th
instant, arrived at Seealkote on the 21st, and has com-
menced cro:,sing the Chensub to-day. The 12th Native
Infantry, sth Troop Ist Brigade Horse Artillery, 2d
Company 6th Battalion Foot Artillery with No. 9 Light
Field &tarry, are directed to cross to-day ; 80th
Foot, 42,1 and 45th Regiments N. 1., and Wing 2d Irre-
gular Cavalry, complete the Brigade marching with the
Major-General, and which is commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel Huish, C. 8., senior officer present. The
Brigade under command of Brigadier Wheeler, C. 8., is
one march in advance, moving towards Bimbur : it
consists of the 15th, 30th, and 33.1 Regiments Native
Infantry ; 4th Troop Ist Brigade Horse Artillery,
and 4th Irregular Cavalry. Detachments of Sappers
are with.each brigade, and a large depot of medical
stores—upwards of 100 camel loads—accompanies the
division. The mountain tops to our northwest are now
covered with snow."

Colonel Lawrence, agent for the Governor-General,
it will be remembered, quitted Lahore on the 15th of
October with a view of joining the foremost of the ad-
vancing troops. He joined the combined Seikh armies
of Ghoolab Singh. and Tej Singh at Naoshera on the
18th. His assistants, Captainj Brougham, and Lieuts.
Edwardes, Nicholson, and Wroughton, had arrived there
before. Some days before this the leader of the insur-
gents, Sheikh Emaum-ood-been, had intimated his de-
sire to submit, and in evidence of his sincerity,
ordered the siege of Hurree Purvut to be suspended.
On the 17th and 18th the Jammoo troops were engaged
with the insurgents, the former being successful. About
this time Fuqueer Oola Khan, Chief of Rajouree, and
son of Ruheem Oola Khan, one of the most active leaders
in the rebellion, surrendered himself to Lieut. Edwardes,
at Naoshera, and it was intimated that on the 23d the
Shiekh himself was about to quit Cashmere with the in-
te
mightntioh of
have
been surrendering.ait
ered ish isprobableu rhei sd e
Ipauyrepdo, s
as
he had not, so far as appears, been heard of at the head-
quarters of Sir John Littler on the 31st. Extended in-
formation dispels the delusion that, the Cashmere insur-
rection was the result of any general feeling of indigna-
tion amongst the people, awakened by
aversion to the rule
or hatred of the oppression of Ghoolab Singh. The excite-
ment seems to have owed its origin to the machinations
of two or three individual chiefs, who, caballing toge-
ther for their own personal ends,
managed to collect
followers, and to incite all the idle, dishonest, and dis-
contented to insurrection who hoped to gain by any
change. The cause has none of the dignity of a war o