The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-19 00:00:00

CAS a IMRE.

Our Bombay correspondent corrected by last
mail the report for a time generally credited in
India that G-olab Sing was dead. The following
letter from his valley will be read with interest.
It is dated July 6 :
" Think Jig a few lines from the valley of Cash-
mere may not prove unacceptable either to you or
to your numerous readers, I feel much pleasure in
ending you the following items :
"Ever since the news arrived hero of the
sanguinary outbreak, and the atrocious bar-
barities perpetrated at Delhi, the Mararajah has
taken wise and prudent precaution to preserve
the peace within -his own dominions ; for, as be-
low in the plains of India, so up here, and also in
the mountains, the minds of the whole Mahomedan
population havelbeen greatly excited, if not roused.
This class of the community have, however, thanks
to the wisdom and foresight of Golab Sing, been
kept in due subjection, and in peaceful demeanour,
at all events outwardly, whatever their innerniost
thoughts may have inclined them to do; at the pre-
sent crisis to be forewarned is to be forearmed ;'
and amongst other wholesome and sound ar-
rangements the Maharjah caused written no-
tices to be posted up on all the bridges and on
all the public buildings and places of resort
in the city, cautioning his subjects, as well
as all idle retailers of gossip, gup and guwa, to
beware that if they spoke disparagingly of the
Company's Government, or of the Sahibologue
(which the budmashes had already commenced
doing so as to bring the English visitors into disre-
pute), they would be laid hold of sharp, and sen-
tenced to five years' imprisonment. This had a
most salutary effect.
" Another wise measure was to atop the native
correspondence by native dawk, and to allow no
person either to enter or to depart from Cashmere,
without a pass ; no traitorous correspondence from
the new (but temporary) dynasty at Delhi, or
even nakiss huwa from esteemed correspondents"
at Lahore, or at Umritsnr, or elsewhere, can enter
Cashmere by mums of the native dawk. Troops, ac-
companied by several pieces of cannon, have been
likewise sent to the frontiers of Cathmere, so as to
prevent the entrance of any mutineers, disbanded
and deserter Poorbeea Sepoys ; otherwise measures
.have also been takento preserve the peace unbroken,
and to give security to life and property. Thus
'much for news political:
" The Maharajah Golab Sing is very affable. His
highness holds a review of his troops present at the
capital every Sunday afternoon. These consist of
artillery, cavalry, and infantry, armed and dressed
partly after the fashion of the Company's army and
partly Hindostanee. They pass in review, march
well, keep the step very fairly, and look very well
for a purely 'native' disciplined army. A military
band welcomes the arrival of the Maharajah and his
son, by striking up our own God save the Queen,'
and when the troops are put in movement, they
march to the tune of Home, sweet home,' and one
or two other hackneyed strains of English music ;
all this looks and sonnds strange in Cashmere.
Golab Sing likes to see his European visitors
assist at these reviews, where he shows them
every attention, having them seated .beside him,
while the troops are on the ground. At the
expirat'on of et ery fortnight, the Maharajah gives
a grand dinner and a nautch to the European
visitors, and feels rather hurt, if any of them, de-
cline to present, regarding their absence as a
slight show to his hospitality and to his kind
feeling for his European friends. His High-
ness is an abonne of the Lahore Chronicle,
the contents of which are regularly translated to
him by an Eurasian in his service, who is a native,
[ believe, of Farms Dunga, near Chandernagora.
At such a moment, while the native army is in re-
belljon, it shows a greatness of mind on the part of
the Maharajah not to allow the ill-judged and ill-
timed observations, headed ' tiling in the Doctor,'
(vide Friend of India,C April 30, reprinted in the
Lahore Chronicle) to poison his mind, or to estrange
his thoughts from continuing in the even tenor of
their way, in respect t ) his honourable and strict
fidelity towards the British Government and its
servants. Such au article, appearing in a paper
known to b.) the Government organ, and,
in a measty e, speaking its sentiments, would have
shaken the faith of any Christian ruler or governors
in biceps.

"The Maharajah's own dawk frequently arrives
21 hours before the government mail from Lahore,
although both travel to:zether from Sealkota ; that
is to say the Maharajah's bag brings on the com-
pany's dawk from that place.
" Golab Sing has hat Vigne's Cashmere' trans-
lated to him, as &so Cunningham's. I have
heard that he'gives the preference to the last work,
but this is said only when the respective merits
of both works are' discussed. His highness says,
`Read Cunningham's—it is the hest work.' Why ?
Simply because Vigne wrote and published his
mind, and penned his innermost thoughts too
freely to please the Maharajah.
" Last month, on a Sunday night, a fire broke
out in the large bazaar which extecded from the
gates of the Shuhurgurhee to the parade-ground.
It broke out at t:in o'clock, and burnt nearly
all night ; it was a frightful conflagration, all
the houses being of wood. The whole bazaar
was burnt down, the end of the bridge (called
Amir Kutul) caught fire, and had to be partly
destroyed ; some lives were lost. •Yesterday after-
noon(sone Sulidlay)a frightful hurricane, or tornado,
such
coulda expect only in the China Seas, the
latitude of the Mauritius, or in the West Indies,
3 Enormousl )swept al
ung
planethe IL' coining from the north-Wast.
were uprooted by its violence.
The natives here say that such furious toofans and
monster blasts of wind only happen when the ele-
ments in the plains are a prey to a hallah-goolah,
of fire and sworde,, and strife and blood. Curious,
if true."

THE FORT OF AGRA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—As the rumours respecting the safety of our
countrymen in Agra are of a gloomy character, and cal-
culated to cause unnecessary and unfounded alarm to
their relatives and friends, 1. beg to place at your dis-
posal positive information from that fort up to the 22d
of July, received by the Maxseiiles portion of the mai•
yesterday, and contained in a letter from an officer of
the Civil Service, holding a high position at Agra.
At that date the garrison were in good spirits and
health, provisions and ammunition abundant. There
were no rumours of attacks from any quarters, nor the
presence in the vicinity of Agra of any hostile force.; but
they were anxiously looking out for the arrival of rein-
forcements. .

As regards the strength of the fort and its capabilities
of a defence lengthened residence and a thorough ac-
quaintance with Agra enable me to add that there is no
chance of their being overpowered, for the fort has guns