The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-04 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.

The treaty of peace between the Indian Company and the
Maharaja of Lahore was signed at Lahore on the 9th March.
By Art. 3, the Maharaja cedes to the Company all the terri-
tory comprised between the rivers Beas and Sutlej. By Art.
4, the Maharaja, finding it impossible to complete the pay-
ment of the indemnity agreed upon, cedes to the Company
all the mountain territory comprised between the Beas and
the Indus, inclosing the provinces of Cashmere and of Maza-
rah. By Art. 5, the indemnity to be paid by the Maharaja
is settled at fifty lacy of rupees. In a word, the Company
obtains by Art. 10 the right of passage across the ter-
ritory of Lahore by the troops wherever required, By
Art. 12, the Maharaja recognises Ghoolab Singh as inde-
pendent Sovereign of the territory which he at present pos-
sesses, and of whatever the Company shall choose to cede to
him hereafter.

On the 16th of March a counter-treaty was signed at
Umritser, between the Company and the Maharaja Ghoolab
Singh.
By Art. 1 the Company cedes to Ghoolab Singh the terri-
tory at the east of the Indus and west of the Rave.
Art. 3 stipulates the payment to the Company by Ghoolab
Singh of 800,0001.

By Art. 6 Ghoolab Singh engages to join all his troops to
those of the Company in the operations which may take
place within the limits of the Company's territory.
By Art. 10 Ghoolab Singk recognises the supremacy of
England, in testimony of which he will pay annually to the
English Government eleven goats and six Cashmere mules.

INDIA AND CHINA.

(From the Times and Herald.)

Our dispatch, in anticipation of the Bombay mail of the
Ist of April, brings the gratifying intelligence of India being
at present in complete tranquillity. The late rapid campaign
on the Sutlej bas terminated in the complete subjugation of
the Seikhs. Qur correspondent has forwarded to us the
Delhi Gazette Extraordinary of the 23d of March, containing
several most important documents connected with the
treaties which were signed for the pacification of the Pun-
jaub. The first is a notification published by the Governor-
General, and contains a note of the conference held on the
Bth of March, between the British diplomatist, Mr. Currie,
and the Minister and chiefs of the Lahore durbar, and also
translations of two applications on behalf of the young Ma-
haraja Dhuleep Singh, praying for the protection of the
British troops.
The second document gives an account of the proceedings
attendant on the treaty.
The third is a memorandum of the proceedings of the
durbar (public levee) held at Lahore on the 9th of March,
in the state tent of the Governor-General, during which he
delivered an address, which was interpreted sentence by sen-
tence, to the Lahore Chiefs and Minister, by Mr. Currie.
The address is a remarkable document, as it explains the
policy of the British Government, and the stipulations which
are required from the Seikh Government.
The fourth document is the treaty of peace between the
British Government and Dhuleep Singh. It is comprised
in 16 articles, and cedes all the territory south of the Sutlej,
and also the hill country which lies between the Beas
and the Indus, including the provinces of Cashmere and
Husarah. The Maharaja is to pay 50; lacs (half a million
sterling) on the ratification, and engages to disband all the
mutinous troops of Lahore, and to keep 20,000 infantry and
12,000 cavalry, and no more. The British armies are to be
allowed to pass through the Lahore territory, and all the
guns pointed against the British are to be surrendered, as in
fact they have been. The control of the rivers Beas and
Sutlej to the Indus is vested in the British. No European
or American is to be employed by the Lahore Government
without the sanction of the British. Rajah Ghoolab Singh
is to become an independent Sovereign in the territories
which the British may cede to him. All changes in the
frontiers of the Lahore state are prohibited, and all its dis-
putes are to be referred to the British authorities, who are
not to interfere in its internal administration.
This treaty is also remarkable in not using the title Pun-
jaub or Five Rivers. The dominions of Dhuleep are confined
to the Lahore state.

The fifth document is the memorandum of a state visit
paid by the Governor-General to the Maharaja Dhuleep
Singh, at which the Lahore Minister, Dewan Deen a Nath,
pronounced an address of thanks to the British leader for his
generosity.

The sixth is a note of the proceedings of the Minister and
Chiefs of Lahore, 'assembled together on the 11th of March
in durbar, during which articles of agreement were signed
for the occupation of the city of Lahore during ten months,
in order to protect the Maharaja while organising his army.
The seventh is a copy of the treaty entered into by the
Governor-Genei al with the (now) Maharaja Ghoolab Singh,
to whom the British give over, in independent possession, all
the hilly or mountainous country lying between the Ravee
and the Indus, including of course the valley of ashmere
and the province of Hazarah and Chumba, but excluding
Lahool.

Ghoolab Singh is to pay half a million on the ratification
of the treaty, and a quarter in October next, and is not to
employ any foreigners. The British undertake to protect
him against all foreign enemies ; while he and all his forces
are to be ready when called on to aid the British. In ac-
knowledgment of British:supremacy, he engages every year
to present a horse, twelve shawl goats, and three pair of Cash-
mere shawls.

Thus the Jamoo Chief, who contrived to obtain possession
of the greatest part of the treasures of old Runjeet, has been
able to raise himself into the rank of an independent Ma-
haraja. While he was Wuzeer of Lahore he, in February
last, promised to pay 1,500,000/. to the British; but when
the day of payment arrived, in March, the money was not
forthcoming, and new treaties became necessary, by
which
the Lahore Government was deprived of the Kohi?tan
country), and Ghoolab or Gholab (for his name is written
both ways), having undertaken to pay half a million down
and another sum of a quarter million seven months after-
wards, was declared an independent Raja (or rather Maha-
raja—Great King), with the_ far-famed valley of Cashmere
as his dependence.
There is a remarkable omission in the Lahore treaty, to
which it may be useful to awaken attention—viz., that no
mention is made of the province of Moultan, which is known
to have been always independent of Lahore until the reign
of Runjeet Singh. The non-mention of this most important
commercial entrepOt, leads to the belief that some further
military movements for the occupation of that province may
be expected after the rainy season shall have passed over--
that is, about October next.
The Sinde army, which had reached Bhawulpore, was
ordered to be broken up on the 10th of March, and most of
the regiments returned to Sukkur, Sec., in order to be sta-
tioned in Sinde, while the Bengal troops proceeded towards
Ferozepore. Sir Charles Napier, who by a most rapid march
had reached the Governor-General at Lahore on the 3d
of March, and where he was received with every distinction,
was to return to Sinde as Governor. Some foolish reports
have been circulated of the surrender of the Indus and Sinde
to the Ameers, as if that great river was not now more than
ever requisite for maintaining the preponderancy of the Bri-
tish supremacy in the north-west of India. General Sir J.
Littler, at the head of 10,000 men, is to occupy Lahore for
the remaining months of 1846 ; the Lahore Government has
to defray the expense of the British troops there. The Ga.