The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-23 00:00:00

RAILIIPAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
HOUSE OF LORDS.

LORD SHAFT ESE URIC'S COMMITTEE.—MANCHESTMR,
SHEFFIELD, ♦N7D:LINCOLNSHIRE (Station at Sheffield
and the Sheffield Canal).—Preamble proved and clauses
agreed to. _

-ISIAITCHESTIIK, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE (Shef-
field Canal Purchase).—Preamble proved and clauses
agreed to.
MANCHESTHR, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE (Ail -
ton Canal Purchase).—Preamble proved and clauses
agreed to .
VALE OF NEA.TH (Power to the South Wales to Sab-
scribe).—Preatable proved and clauses agreed to.
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY ACT AMEND-
MENT.—PreambIe proved and clauses agreed to.
BRISTOL AND EXETER (Glastonbury Navigation and
Canal Purchase). Preamble proved and clauses
agreed to.
WATERFORD, 'WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN.—
Preamble proved and clauses agreed to.
GROUP 11.—MANCIIESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND
LINCOLNSHIRE (Midland Junction and Barnsley Branch).
—Opposition further considered.
SOUTH YORKSHIRE, DONCASTER, AND GOOLE.--
Evidence in favour of promoters.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP No. 3.— MANCHESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCK,
♦ND MIDLAND (Deviation and Branches).—Preamble
proved, but clauses deferred till to-morrow (this day).
GROUP No. 7.— LONDON AND BLACKWALL (Con-
necting Branch).—Preardble proved, clauses agreed to,
(find Bill ordered to be reported.
DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH DEVIATION.—
Case opened, and evidence taken in its favour.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
DUBLIN.
The scrutiny into the validity- of Mr. Reyvaolds's
majority was resumed, and in the course of the day the
petitioners succeeded in striking off two additional votes,
on the ground of non-payment of poor-rates.

SLIGO.
Several witnesses were called to-day, to prove that a
connexion subsisted between the parties administering
the bribes and the sitting Member; but the Committee
decided that the evidence was insufficient to establish
the agency of the individual in question.
The evidence of treating was then proceeded with.

INDIA.
THE REVOLUTION AT MOOLTAN.
The follow 'mg particulars of the murders at Mooltan
will be r- act with interest ; they are extracted from a
later, written at Lahore on the 28th of April:—
" Our. worst fears are realised, Lieutenant Anderson
was mortally wounded at the first, but Mr. Agnew was
shot three days after his being first attacked at the gate-
way, his head taken off and hung outside the walls of
the Fort, while his body was ignominously dragged
through the city. A third victim is poor Mr. Wilkin-
son, the apothecary, who quitted Lahore two days after
the other parties, having made a rapid journey from
the Julundhur to join his appointment. He way
much esteemed by all who knew him in the Queen's.
10th Reu 1
ment and Artillery. How far Moolraj
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personally concerned in this act of cold-blooded
treachery and cowardly assassination, we at pre-
sent know not. The probability is that, though not
premeditated, the emeute might have been stopped by,
him at once had he been so disposed. The version of
the affair, as communicated by his own friends, is, that
after Mr. Agnew had received possession of the.
Fort, &c., he told the Dewan that he could not
quit Mooltan for Lahore until he had made up
his accounts, and had arranged the revenue of
the present year in the different districts. To
this Muolraj replied that the Lahore durbar had al.
ready received his accounts, and passed them, giving him
a razee namah. He then quitted Mr. Agnew's presence,
and retired into another apartment, much disurbed and
excited. Here he was joined by his brother, who, after
chiding him for his being so affected on such a point,
significantly told him that the ' Sahibs were at his
mercy, and could be put out of the way at once.' The or-
der, either direct or implied, was then given to some of
his own personal attendants to follow the officers, and they
were attacked in the manner you are acquainted with,
Mr. Agnew b&ng the first assailed, and while separated
from his companion. Lieut. Anderson was much more
severely wounded, as he had no one to assist him, and
though carried to his tent alive, he had in all probability
received his ieath wounds from the tul wars of his cowardly
murderers. Mr. Agnew was enabled to write a detailed
account of the affair to the resident at Lahore, and
did not apparently at this time entertain any idea that
they would meet with further violence. He sum-
moned Moolraj to his presence, and of course in-
sisted that the men should be summarily punished,
which, as the Dewan states, was done at once by the
parties implicated being immediately executed, but that
he himself had no concern in the murderous attack.
This so far may possibly be true, but the subse-
quent murder of Mr. Agnew three days after, could
never have been perpetrated without his consent and
connivance. Why they did not quit Mooltan at once
'on finding that treachery was intended, we cannot un-
derstand ; the probability is, however, that Lieut. An-
derson was too ill to be moved, and that Mr. Agnew,
acting from a chivalrous feeling of honour, would not
quit his friend till death had put an end to his suffer-
ings,
and thus he fell a sacrifice to his gallantry and
kindness of heart. None of their servants or
attendants have yet returned to Lahore, and
how many of them may have been killed
is unknown. The whole affair is a most melancholy one,
and has caused a groat sensation in Lahore, where their
loss is much felt by all who know their excellence and
worth. What steps will be now adopted is still uncertain.
The division orders of yesterday countermanded ' the
marching of the brigade at present, but it is told to hold
itself in readiness.' fhe Sirdars also, Dewan Deena Nat'l
and Shere Sing, were recalled after having got some few
marches on their way. If the fort hold out, and
Moolraj raises the people of the country in revolt,
there will be some sharp work for our troops and big
guns in the next cold weather. The delay, how-
ever (five or six months), before we can avenge
the loss of our friends, is much to be regretted.
I would have taken all risks of illness and started
at once. There is some difference of opinion I
imagine on this point between our politicals and the
military authorities. The most ridiculous reports are in
circulation every day about the unsettled state of the
county, rising of the people at Peshawur, &c., to which
you need pay no attention."
Another account says—
" Agnew and Anderson, accompanied by Khan
Singh, who was to succeed Moolraj, arrived at Moot-
tan on the 18th. They were received with all ap-
parent frankness and cordiality, and on the 19th
Moolraj went through the ceremony of handing over
the place to them. Agnew placed guards over the
gates, and was issuing out of the last about 100
yards behind Anderson, who was riding along with
Moolraj. Whilst in the act of mounting his horse, a
couple of Suwars rode up and cut him down. Khan
Singh, who was with him, immediately jumped off his
horse and protected him from further injury, mounted
him or. an elephant, and conveyed him to-
wards tho • .Eedgah outside the town, which
had been assigned as their residence. They
saw no more of Moolraj, but found Anderson lying by
the road side dreadfully wounded, and nearly dead from
loss of blood. Directly they got into the Eedgah, the
guns of the place opened on them, and continued
firing the whole day. The range, however
too long, and no damage was done, as,
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the building was substantial and surrounded by
a purdah wall, which sheltered them and their
escort, consisting of three hundred Seikh troops
(Goorkhas), seventy Suwars, and six li ht guns. On the
morning of the 20th the Moolt neeg moved out and
a
replied,
MilianSingh, command of the
surrounded them.
troops, asked what was to be done? Agnew
fight it out to the last • on which the Sirdar ordered
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the infantry to reserved 'their fire until the enemy
close; on these approaching the whole escort moved
out, and went over to them. Agnew on this told the
Sirdars to provide for their own safety; th
ey
refused, th y
refused, drew their swords, and expressed their resO-
luti•on to stand by the British officers. Agnew had
scarcely time to bid Anderson, who could hardly sit up
on account of his wounds, good bye, when the enemy
rushed in upon them. Agnew presented his pistol at
tine first man; the piece missed fire, but he cut him
down, when they were immediately both overpowered
and put to death. Their heads were cut off, and every
indignity offered to their bodies. Khan Singh was
wounded by a matchlock ball, and bound hand and foot.
Sir Frederick Currie received the report, under Agnew's
hand, of the state of affairs up to the evening of the 19th,
and the rest was supplied by native news-writers.”—
Delhi Gazette, May 3.
"LAHORE, APRIL 27.—There is too much reason to
believe that Moolraj is at the bottom of this emeute at
at Mooltan. The assassination of the Political
• Commissioner, however, could have formed no part
•of - his preconcerted plan for retaining possession
•of his principality nolens volens. Such an atrocity
* admitted of no extenuation and eventually in-
. volved his ruin. To retain them as prisoners, and
to use them as hostages, to ensure good terms on sub-
mission, are most probably the extent of his designs
against their safety. Be that as it may, the dismem-
• bered limbs of Agnew and. Anderson, it is now certain,
are exposed on the walls of the Fort of Mooltan. The
Seikh force of 500 men attached to the two com-
missioners, had they remained staunch, would, and
Tuld, have held out for three days. Before
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lat time elapsed the Bawulpore chief with
his men would have arrived to the rescue. After
taking possession of the building outside the walls, to •
which the party entered on being
unexpectedly attacked,
Agnew had ordered his men to reserve their fire till their
assailants were within killing distance. During the 19th,
the guns from the Fort of Mooltan playing upon the
buildingin which the commissioners and their party
had taken refuge, did little execution, the distance being
a long range.

"During the night, however, there was
great com-
motion in the city, and it was reported to the refugees
that a large undisciplined rabble was approaching the
place where they had placed them
then they were confident of being able to defend
themselves, but at this crisis Khan
elect, rushed into the apartment where the tnsvcO.
British officers were, and announced to them that
the whole of his men—the .500 Seikhs—had gone over to
the Mooltanees. ' Now, Sahibs,' he said, 'we have no.
thing for it but to die; hut I die with you.' Agnew ex-
postulated with him, saying—' Khan Sing, once already
you have saved my life—now leave us to our fate and
save your own.' Anderson and Agnew then shook hands,
and bade each other an eternal adieu.
"Anderson was already dying, but Agnew, though