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London, England, 1846-03-28 00:00:00

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An Extraordinary Gazette was published last evening,
containing the Official Dispatches of Sir H. Hardinge,
Sir H. Gougb, and Sir H. Smith, detailing the proceed-
ings of the army of the Sutlej from the 22d December,
1845, the day after the victory of Ferozshah, to the 30th
January, 1846, two days after the victory of Aliwal.
The first dispatch given is the general order cf the
Governor General, dated Camp Ferozepore, Feb. 2,1846,
announcing the victory of Aliwal, which has already
appeared in the Sun. Then comes the following:—
General Sir llugh Gough, Bart., G.C.8., Commander-in•
Chief in India, to the Governer-General.
Camp, Nihalkee, Feb. 1, 1846.
(Extract.)
After its final repulse, on the 22d of December, the Seikh
army retired, in great confusion, across the ferries and fords
of the Sutlej.
I established my head quarters at Sultan Khan Walla on
the 24th, my divisions being encamped at that place, at Peer
Khan Walla, and at Kool. On the 27th, I advanced to Hur-
ruff ; and, the same day, personally pushed a reconnoissance
to the banks of the River, at the Ghat of Sobraon.
The enemy was seen stretching along the right bank in
force, not more than half-a-dozen of his stragglers being sur-
prised by our irregular cavalry on this side.
Major-General Sir Harry Smith's division I placed in an
advanced position, with its right on the village of Mallowal,
and its left on a nullab, an offset from the Sutlej.
From this point the enemy was watched by the Major-
General with equal activity and circumspection, whilst the
the rest of our troops were held in hand ready to support him,
should the Seikhs venture to resume the initiative.
On or ::bout the 6th, out 'attention was directed to a pre-
datory incursion of the enemy, in the direction of Looffiana.
They burnt a few of the residences of our officers, and bar-
racks of our soldiers, at that station, but avoided the combat,
when the Sirmoor battalion, and other troops, interrupted
them in the work of destruction.
Rumour exaggerated the nature and extent of this inroad,
and excited some alarm for our communications ; but the
object of this foray was, eventually, discovered to be for the
purpose of favouring the escape, across the Sutlej, of the
Raja of Ladwa, who had alone, of all the principal princes
and chiefs of the Protected States, evinced towards us, at
this conjuncture, decided hostility. With him, the predatory
Seikhs recrossed the Sutlej.
On the 12th of January, I determined to bring my whole
force into a position, from which it might more closely ob-
serve the movements of the enemy, now posted near the
greater Sobraon, on the right bank. At an early hour, it
executed an oblique movement to its right and front. Major-
General Sir Harry Smith, supported by a cavalry brigade,
under Brigadier Cureton (recently brought up, from Meerut)
was, in his new alignment, still on the right, opposite to
Hurreke Puttun ; Major-General Gilbert in the centre, and
Major-General Sir Robert Dick on the left, covered again by
cavalry. Major-General Sir John Grey, posted at Attaree,
watched the Nuggur ford. The troops of Major-General Sir
John Littler occupied, or were drawn around, the canton-
ment and entrenchment of Ferozepore.
The enemy, on his side, reinforced his army on the right
bank; completed and strengthened his bridge, and increased
the force of his posts and picquets on the left bank. These
parties having, on the 14th, evinced more than usual
audacity, I caused that body of his infantry which held the
head of the bridge, to be driven in by the fire of artillery
and rockets, supported by the presence of our light troops.
On the following day, a partial cannonade, which was again
opened, on our side, upon the boats of the Seikhs, on their
outposts on the left bank, and their encampment on the
right, enabled me to ascertain, from the direction of their
corresponding fire, the nature of all their defensive dis-
positions.
Meanwhile, the upper Sutlej has become the scene of very
interesting operations.
It is a strange feature of this war that the enemy, pressed
for supplies on his own bank, has been striving to draw them
from his Jaghire States on this side of the river. In the
town and fort of Dhurmkote, which were filled with grain,
he had, in the second week of January, a small garrison of
Mercenaries, Rohillas, Eusufzies and Affghans. Major-
General Sir Harry Smith was, on the 18th, sent against this
place, with a single brigade of his divison and a light field
battery. He easily effected its reduction, the troops within
it surrendering at discretion, after a few cannon shots. But,
whilst he was yet in march, I received information of a more
serious character. There remained little cause to doubt that
Sirdar Runjoor Sing Mujethea, had crossed from Philour,
at the head of a numerous force of all arms, and established
himself in position at Baran Hara, between the old and the
new courses of the Sutlej, not only threatening the city of
Loodiana with plunder and devastation, but indicating a de-
termination to intersect the line of our communications at
Busseean and Raekote.
The safety of the rich and populous town of Loodianah
had been in some measure provided for by the presence of
three battalions of Native Infantry under Brigadier Godby ;
and the gradual advance of our reinforcements, amongst
which was included her Majesty's 53d Regiment, and the
position of the Shekawattee Brigade, near Busseean, gave
breathing time to us in that direction. -
But, on the receipt of intelligence which could be relied
on, of the movements of Itunjoor Singh, and his apparent
views, Major-General Sir Harry Smith, with the brigade at
Dhurmkote, and Brigadier Cureton's cavalry, was directed
to advance by Jugraon towards Loodiana ; and his second
brigade, under Brigadier Wheeler, moved on to support
him.
Then commenced a series of very delicate combinations,
the momentous character of which can only he compre-
hended by reflecting on the task which had devolved on this
army, of guarding the frontier from Roopur down to Mun-
dote.
The Major-General, breaking up from Jugraon, moved to-
wards Loodiana, when the Sirdar, relying on the vast supe-
riority of his forces, assumed the initiative, and endeavoured
to intercept his progress by marching in a line parallel to
him, and opening upon his troops a furious cannonade. The
Major-General continued coolly to manoeuvre ; and, when
the Seikh Sirdar, bending round one wing of his army, en -
veloped his flank, he extricated himself, by retiring, with the
steadiness of a field day, by echelon of battalions, and
effected his communication with Loodiana, but not without
severe loss.
Reinforced by Brigadier Godby, he felt himself to be
strong; but his manoeuvre had thrown him out of commu-
nication with Brigadier Wheeler, and a portion of his bag-
gage had fallen into the hands of the enemy. The Seikh
Sirdar took up an entrenched position at Budhowal, support-
ing himself on its fort; but, threatened on either flank by
General Smith and Brigadier Wheeler, finally decamped,
and moved down to the Sutlej. The British troops made
good their junction, and occupied the abandoned position of
Budhowal. The Shekawattee Brigade and her Majesty's
53d Regiment, alto added to the strength of the Major-
General; and he prepared to attack the Seikh Sirdar on his
new ground. But, on the 27th, Runjoor Sing was reinforced,
from the right bank, with 4,000 regular troops, twelve pieces
of artillery, and a large force of cavalry.
Emboldened by this accession of strength, he ventured on
the measure of advancing towards Jugraon, apparently with
the view of intercepting our communications by that route.
It is my gratifying duty to announce that this presump-
tion has been rebuked by a splendid victory obtained over
him. He has not only been repulsed by the Major-General,
but his camp at Aliwal carried by storm, the whole of his
cannon and munitions of war captured, and his army driven
headlong across the Sutlej, even on the right bank of which
he found no refuge from the fire of our artillery.
I have the honour now to forward the Major-General's re-
port, which has just reached me. It is so ample and lu-
minous, that I might perhaps have spared some of the de-
tails into which admiration of the Major-General's conduct,
and of the brave army confided to him, in these operations,
has led me.
It now remains for me only to congratulate you, Right
Honourable Sir, and the Government of India, on the bril-
liant success hich, under Divine Providence, the Major-
General has achieved ; and to record my opinion that,
throughout these arduous and important operations, he has
displayed all the qualities of an able commander. Most
strongly, and most earnestly at the same time, I beg to bring
to your notice, and to that of his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, and the Honourable the Court of Directors, the offi-
cers and corps on whom lie has so justly bestowed his com-
mendations.
This is followed by the dispatch of Sir H. Smith, K.O 8.,
to the Adjutant-General of the Army, dated Camp, Field of
the Battle of Aliwal, Jan. 30, 1846, giving the details of that
glorious victory, and of the masterly manoeuvres of the
British troops by which it was preceded, and followed by the
return of the killed and wounded. This dispatch has also
been already published. An abstract only has as yet ap-
peared of the following official
Return of Ordnance, Captured from the Enemy, in Action at
Aliwal, by the Ist Division of the Army of the Sutlej,
under the Personal Command of Major-General Sir Harry
Smith, K.C.8., on the 28th of January, 1846.
Camp, Aliwal, Jan. 30. 1846.
Howitzers. •
One brass 8-inch. 2 feet 9 inches long, serviceable.
One brass 24-pounder, 3 feet 11 inches long, serviceable.
One copper 13-pounder, 3 feet 9 inches long, serviceable.
One brass 12-pounder, 4 feet 9 inches long, serviceable
One bras 12-pounder, 4 feet 9 inches long, serviceable.
One brass 7-pounder, 3 feet 5i inches long, unserviceable.
One copper 12 pounder, 3 feet 9 inches long, serviceable.
One copper 12-pounder, 3 feet 9 inches long, serviceable.
One copper 12-pounder, 3 feet 9 inches long, serviceable.
One brass 12-pounder, 3 feet 9 inches long, highly orna•
mented, serviceable.
One copper 9. pounder, 3 feet 11 inches long, highly orna•
mented, carriage inlaid with brass and steel, serviceable.
One copper 9-pounder, 2 feet 91St inches long, serviceable.
One copper 12-pounder, 3 feet 41/2, inches long, serviceable.
Mortars.
One brass 10-inch, 2 feet 3 inches long, mounted on a field
carriage, serviceable.
One copper *inch, 1 foot 9 inches long, mounted on a field
carriage, serviceable.
One brass 6-inch, 1 foot 4i inches long, a curious old piece,
with highly carved and ornamented carriage, mounted on
a field carriage. •
One brass 41 inch, 1 foot 4i inches long, a curious old piece,
mounted on a field carriage.
Guns.
One brass 8-pounder, 10 feet 2 inches long, ornamented with
dolphins and rings, apparently a French battering gun,
being heavy metal, serviceable.
One copper 8-pounder, 4 feet 11i inches long, serviceable.
One brass 8-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, serviceable.
One brass 8-pounder, 5 feet 1 inch long, serviceable.
One brass 7-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, heavy metal,
serviceable.
One brass 7-pounder, 4 feet 3 inches long, heavy metal,
serviceable.
One copper 6i-pounder, 5 feet 1 inch long, serviceable.
One brass 6-pounder, 5 feet long, serviceable.
One brass 6-pounder 4 feet 1 inch long, serviceable.
One copper 6-pounder, 5 feet 3jF inches long, serviceable.

One brass 6-pounder, 5 feet 51 inches long, unserviceable,
being heavy metal.
One brass 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, serviceable, being
heavy metal.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 10% incheslong, inscription in English
characters, owner, King Runjeet Sing, Commander Meg
Sing, Kawkur, maker Rai Sing Lahore, 1833, No. 1, ser-
viceable.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 8 inches long, serviceable.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 11% inches lung, highly ornamented
carriage, serviceable.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, inscription in English
characters, owner King Runjeet Sing, Commander Meg
Sing, Kawkur, maker Rai Sing, Lahore, 1833, No. 1, ser-
viceable.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 8 inches, Persian inscription, ser-
viceable.
One 6-pounder, 5 feet long, no inscription, serviceable.
One copper 6-pounder, 5 feet long, no inscription, serviceable.
One brass 6-pounder, 4 feet 101 inches long, no inscription,
serviceable.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 10i inches long, no inscription, ser-
viceable.
One copper 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, being highly
ornamented, carriage in-laid with brass and steel, service-
able.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, being highly orna-
mented, carriage in-laid with brass and steel, serviceable.
One brass 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, no inscription,
serviceable.
One brass 6- pounder, 4 feet 9 inches long, no inscription,
serviceable.
One copper 6. pounder, 4 feet 10/4 inches long, no inscrip
tion, serviceable.
One gun-metal 6-pounder, 4 feet 10 inches long, no inscrip-
tion, apparently a capital gun.
One brass 53%-pounder, 5 feet 7 inches long, Persian inscrip-
tion, serviceable.
One brass *pounder, 5 feet 9 inches long, no inscription,
being heavy metal.
One brass 4-pounder, 4 feet 7 inches long, no inscription,
being heavy metal, serviceable.
One copper 3-pounder, 3 feet long, Persian inscription, ser-
viceable.
One 3i-inch brass pounder, 4 feet 7 inches long, no inscrip-
tion, serviceable, being heavy metal.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, sunk in Sutlej.
One unknown, spiked onlbetcppaltefillent-
One unknown, spiked on the opposite bank.
One brass 6 -pounder, taken possession of in the fort of Gun-
grans.
One 9 -pounder, no inscription, taken possession of in the fort
of Gungrana.
One 6-pounder, 4 feet 11 inches long, no inscription, ser-
viceable.
Seven, unknown, sunk in the Sutlej.
Two guns, since brought in, unknown.
Abstract of Captured Ordnance.
Serviceable-12 howitzers, 4 mortars, 33 guns; total, 49.
Unserviceable-1 howitzer, 2 guns ; total, 3.
Sunk in the Sutlej, and spiked on the opposite shore-13
guns.
Since brought in-2 guns.
Grand Total, 67.
Forty swivel camel guns also captured, which have been
destroyed.
G. LAWRENSON, Major, 2d Brigade,
Horse Artillery, Commanding Artillery
Ist Division Army of the Sutlej.

‘, PROTECTION" PETITIONS.
(From the Carlisle Journal of this day.)
We have this week the opportunity of presenting to our
readers a very" remarkable" petitioe.
In the House of Commons last week, a petition for " Pro-
tection to British Industry" was presented by Lord George
Bentinck, Purporting to be from " 3,000 persons engaged in
the cultivation of land in the eastern division of Cumber-
land ;" and amongst those who had signed it Lord George
asserted that " with the exception of those engaged on one
farm, Cubby Hill)" it had received the signatures of " every
one of the tenants of his Right Hon. Friend, the Laird of
Netherby Hall (Sir James Graham), praying the House to
reject the measures of the Government." The accounts add
that " the presentation of the petition created a considerable
sensation."
Well, when we consider that the Eastern Division of Cum-
berland contains upwards of 5,000 electors—that the petition
bad been hawked from farm-stead to farm-stead to catch the
important signature of each stable-boy—that every village
school had contributed its quota of names—the wonder is,
not that there were 3,000, but that there were not 10,000
signatures. The result which the fact furnishes—supposing
the 3,000 were bond fide signatures is, that not one-tenth of
the electors had signed the petition. But, when we show,
as we shall do presently, that in innumerable instances the
signatures were not bona fide—that they were either for-
geries, downright frauds upon the Legislature, or had no
existence at all—the utter worthlessness of the peti-
tion as a representation of public opinion or public
feeling must be manifest. Of course Lord George
Bentinck merely followed his brief—stating only what
he had been told by those who instructed him ;
but his instructor must have known the falsehood he was
trying to play off upon the House and the country ; and if
Lord George be an honest man, he will denounce his betrayer
to the world. Some time previous to the Protection petition
being sent off, we heard of the fraudulent way in which
signatures had been attached to it ; but we could not believe
that any one who had the least value for his character, as a
man of honesty and trnth, would venture to instruct a
Member of the House of Commons to proclaim a falsehood ;
and we, therefore, declined noticing what we had heard until
the proof was undoubted. That proof we have now before
us, in the form of a petition to Parliament, signed by one
hundred and fourteen of Sir James Graham's tenants, pray-
ing for a total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws, and
denouncing the statement of Lord'George Bentinck as an
untruth !
The tenantry on the Netherby estate is probably one of
the most intelligent bodies of agriculturists in the kingdom,
and the indignation with which they read Lord George Ben-
tinck's misrepresentation of their feelings and opinions may
easily be conceived. To be held up to the world as selfish
monopolists, caring only for their own interests, and as so
ignorant as not to know that in freedom of trade is their only
true protection,must have been galling beyond measure. A
meeting was immediately held amongst a few of the most
influential of them, and a petition drawn up which received
the signatures of not less than 114 of the tenants in less than
two days. There was not time to see the farmers in what
are called the " out manors " of Sir James Graham's estate,
or the number would have been swelled considerably. A
few of the parties who have signed have attached to their
names the amount which they pay in rent. These amounts
will speak for themselves as to the interest which the peti-
tioners possess in the land, and show how little intelligent
men fear competition with foreigners. The total amount of
rent paid by the petitioners is, we believe, somewhere about
15,0001. per annum—nearly three-fourths of the whole. rental
of Sir James's estate.
Here then is ample proof of the grossness of the frauds
practised upon the House by what are called "Protection"
petitions ; and we shall be much surprised if this exposure of
the utter worthlessness of the East Cumberland petition in
favour of " Protection to native industry" do not create a
" sensation" much more " considerable" than that created by
Lord George Bentinck's most untruthful statement.
We subjoin a copy of this remarkable petition, with a few
of the names attached to it; and it is proper we should add
that neither Sir James Graham nor his steward had the
slightest knowledge that such a petition was in agitation.
The first intimation Sir James will have of its existence
will be its presentation to the House by Mr. Cobden,
who was selected for this honour, not less as a com-
pliment to him for his great services to the country as
a real "farmer's friend," than to show that it was by no in-
fluence or dictation of their landlord that the farmers on
" the Laird of Netherby Hall's" estate have thus come for-
ward to vindicate their claim to be considered men of com-
mon sense end intelligence.
The petition was sent to Mr. Cobden on Thursday, and
would probably be presented to the House last night. The
following is a copy :
" To the Honourable the Commons in Parliament
assembled.
" The petition of the undersigned the tenants of the Right
Honourable Sir J. R. G. Graham, Baronet, M.P., on the
estate of Netherby, in the county of Cumberland,
" Sheweth,—That your petitioners are a class of men not
accustomed to dabble in politics, but at the same time on this
most important crisis cannot refrain from expressing their
undivided opinion on the great measure now before your
Honourable House ; that they view the measure of the Go-
vernment with the greatest satisfaction, but cannot refrain
from saying that total and immediate repeal would still
more heartily have met their approbation.
" We beg also to state to your Honourable House, that
the assertion made by Lord George Bentinck on the presenta-
tion of a petition from East Cumberland in favour of protec-
tion to agriculture, that the whole of the farmers on the
Netherby estate, with one exception, had signed that peti-
tion, is erroneous and unfounded in fact.
" That some few of such farmers did sign the petition is
true ; but they now regret having done so, and admit that
they were induced to sign it in an unguarded moment,
whilst the names of others were attached to it without their
knowledge or cos sent.
" That your petitioners look upon the great measure pro-
posed by Government as wise, generous, and healing ; and
therefore pray your Honourable House to pass it into a law
as speedily as possible.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Rent.
" William Reed, Moat Farm £6OO 0
William Graham, Cubbyhill,—farms 393 acres of
land ... 207 0
John Corrie, Fauld Mill 145 0
240 0
Irvine Reay, Brisco-hill
350 0
Frances Stockbridge, Bush-on-Lyne
John Wilkin, Randalinton
Archibald Thomson, Parcels-town
Richard Carruthers, Hornick-hi11..
Joseph Johnston, Stone House
Mary Baxter, Fauld
Jane Little, Guards' Mill
John Birrell, Guards' Farm 558 0
60 0
John Fawkes, Smalms• town 0
Robert Gibbons, Mossband . ..... 325 0
Herbert Wilkin, Bush Farm 730 0
William Armstrong, Batinbush
John Ferguson. Glinger Mill - 75 0
John Jonston, Millees Braehead l6O 0
Robt..Fergusson, Clinger Bank
J. Plenderleath, Rea Cleugh
W. Johnston, Shadwell Crook
Ann Ridley, Shadwell Crook
W: Graham, Crow's-yeat
Wm. Nichol, Dafflestownrigg
Barbara Little, Olinger Burn
John Atkin, Beck
George Johnston, Bogburn
Thomas Graham, Franks-town
Wm. Beattie. Bogburn
Charles Graham, Bogburn
Wm. M`Vitie, Bogburn
John Beattie, Beat,ie's-town
George Graham, Hills-town
John Beattie, Moss-side
George Bell, Calwellpath
Simon Johnston, Nether Beek,

John Blaylock, Beckside
Robert Wilson, Beckside
John Beattie, Croft
John Parish, Becklees
Thos. Graham, Beck Common
James Brown, Brown-rigg
Lucy Wilson, Loaning
James Irving, Close.gap
Richard Peel, Braehead
Frances Graham, Braehead
John Livingstone, Braehead
Richard By. rs, Braehead
George Graham, Pattenstown
John Robson, Pattenstown
Andrew Ward, Longtown
Francis Lamb, Longtown
Wm. Graham, Longtown
Win. /Layton, Plump."

An artist at Stuttvirt, named Wenng, is said to have
discovered a process by which copies of drawings may be multiplied
to an unlimited extent, without the aid of pressure. The copies thus
obtained present the appearance of aquatint prints, lithographs, and
crayon drawings. They can be executed by none but artists. The
Augsburgh Gazette states that it has received copies, which seem to
prove the fltlCCeee Of the invention.