The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-22 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

This mail brings dispatches of the following dates :—From
Calcutta, Oct. 8; Bombay, Oct. 15 ; Delhi, Oct. 1; Hong-
Kong, Sept. 1. Our letters from Alexandria are to the 7th
of November.

Accounts from the Punjaub announce the death of Jowahir
Singh, the Wuzeer, by the Seikh soldiery, in revenge for the
death of Peshora Singh. The Queen-Mother continues to di-
rect the State affairs.

Letters to the 24th from Lahore state that :Meean Prithee
had at first been appointed to carry on provisionally the
affairs of the State. Raja Lall Singh had been released;
and Jewun Singh, who had not gone far, having been seized,
received a good beating, but was set free. Lail Singh Mo-
rareea had hidden himself among his own troops. On the
24th Prithee Singh was deprived of the seals of office, and
the Ranee assumed the full powers of Sirkar.

There is no news from Sinde.
The ex-King of Caubultied of cholera at Loodianah.
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The Nizam'S dominions continua disordered, and it is
;bought that hostilities will be resorted to.
A civil war is threatening Burmah.
There is nothing nciv from China.

(From the Bombay Times, Oct. 15.)
There has been a fresh revolution in the Punjaub. Sirdar
Juwahir Singh, the weak minded and dissolute Minister, has
been murdered by a portion of the troops, in revenge for the
death of Prince Peshora Singh, whose assassination ho is
supposed to have instigated. The direction of state affairs
was by the last accounts in the hands of the Queen-Mother,
though the majority of the soldiery were most anxious that
Ghoolab Singh should assume the post of Vizier, and had re-
repeatedly entreated him to come to Lahore for that purpose.
The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, remains for the present on
the throne, but the troops have on more than one occasion
threatened to depose him, and elevate a son of the late Shere
Singh's, so that his tenure of power can hardly be deemed
very secure. There can be little doubt that this important
intelligence will have some effect on the views of the Go-
vernor-General in reference to the Punjaub.
From Sinde there is scarcely a particle of news. The
season promises to be less hot than usual, and the trifling
character of the sickness that has as yet appeared leads us to
hope that it may prove very much less unhealthy.
There is no news from Affghanistan, but we hear from
Lootlianah of the death from cholera of Zemaun Shah, the
blind-old ex-King of Caubul. The Nizam's dominions con-
tinue in a most disordered state, and it is thought the British
Government will have to resort to hostilities for the thorough
restoration of tranquillity. A. civil war is threatenning in
Burmah.

From China we have received some recent intelligence, the
most important item of which is that the principal inha-
bitants of Hong-Kong have addressed a memorial to
Lord Stallley, in which the miserable prospects of the
colony, and the impolitic and oppressive nature of its
government, are graphically detailed. Backed as
this will be by the representations of Mr. Montgo-
mery Martin, it cannot fail, we should think, to
produce considerable effect. Sir Henry Hardinge is ex-
pected to reach Agra about the 20th instant and it is said he
will meet the Commander-in-Chief at Meerut on the 15th
proximo. Our local news comprises few incidents of im-
portance. The monsoon seems to be entirely over, and it
has been a most defective one. The prospects of the agri-
culturists are consequently anything but cheering. Much
satisfaction has been caused by the announcement that his
Excellency Sir Thomas M‘Mahon is to retain the post of
Commander-in7Chief of the Bombay army another year. In-
vestigations will shortly be in progress in reference to the
prospects of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway; and we
observe that the Chamber of Commerce is about to memo-
rialise Government, recommending the introduction of rail-
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way communication into this country, but claiming for Bom-
bay due participation in the advantages of any system that
may be adopted, and expressing an opinion inimical to the
construction of a "short experimental line," as proposed by
the Court of Directors, as a means of testing the benefits de-
rivable from the new mode of locomotion.

THE PUNJAUB.
(From the Delhi Gazette Extra, Sept. 30.)
We have been most anxiously expecting the details of the
ast great tragedy in Lahore, but unfortunately for us the
dak from the north-west frontier seems to have been unac-
countably delayed on this occasion, and did not reach Delhi
till near five yesterday afternoon. We lost no time, never-
theless, in giving the particulars received by us to our station
friends, and now proceed to make them more generally
known. They are to the following effect :—The troops had,
it is said by our letter (dated September 22), gone out to
the encampment ground of Meean Meer for the ostensible
purpose of preventing any damage to the town during the
scenes on which they seem to have been determinedly bent.
It has been stated in our previous accounts, brought down
to the 19th of the month, that four chiefs had been de-
tained by them as hostages for the fulfilment of the de-
mand they had made that the Ranee should bring out the
Maharaja to them, accompanied, if she pleased, by Sirdar
Juwahir Singh. Fukeer Noor-ood-deen, one of them, had
been allowed to return to the fort on the 20th, to communi-
cate to the Ranee the firm determination of the troops to
abide by their resolution. He seems to have succeeded in
his negotiation, supported by the persuasions and assurances
of Raja Lall Singh, who declared that he had ample re-
liance in the troops, for towards the evening of the 21st the
royal party issued from the fort, the Ranee first, in a well-
protected palkee, and then the Maharaja, on an elephant,
with his uncle (Sirdar Juwahir Singh), behind him on the
same elepant ; the Wuzeer was unarmed, without even his
sword or shield, and carried a small parasol. These were
followed by some of the Ranee's women, on elephants. The
troops had, in the mean time, become impatient at the pro-
tracted delay, and the procession had scarcely got clear of
the gate, when they were told that some of the battalions
were approaching with the declared intention of at once
storming the fort. The consequence was that the Maha-
raja's certige soon fell in with the first of them, which
happened to be the Dhera of Court Saheb. These im-
mediately turned about and conducted the royal per-
sonages to their own particular encampment, close to the
spot where the Maharaja's tents had been pitched in an-
ticipation of the visit. A salute, but not of the required
number of guns, was fired. On reaching the appointed
spot the court troops broke off, and tumultuously surrounded
the several elephants. The Ranee was made to enter one of
the tents, the mahout of the Maharaja's elephant was or-
dered to cause his charge to kneel down, and, as he seemed
to hesitate, his movements were hastened by a shot in the
side, which severely wounded, but did not kill him. The
elephant knelt, a soldier seized the Maharaja, and carried
him in his arms either into the tent, or to a little distance,
when the elephant was immediately made to stand up again,
and a volley of musketry was directed against Juwahir Singh.
The first discharge not taking effect, the wuzeer prayed they
would spare him, and seized the opportunity of a momentary
pause to assure the troops that he had, at that moment, one
sack full of rupees, and anotherof golden bracelets and armlets
with him, readyfor distribution amongst them. The commu-
nication had an effect the reverse of what the sirdar seemed to
expect, and the firing having been forthwith renewed, the wu-
zeer was soon put out of his misery. Two of his principal fa-
vourites, named Chatta Baia and Baba Ruttun Singh, who were
following, well mounted, thought to escape by the speed of
their horses, but were soon overtaken and shot down. With
the death of these three persons, the revenge of the blood-
thirsty soldiery seems to have been satisfied for the time.
They kept the Maharaja, however, and the Ranee, in the
camp during the whole night, but allowed them to return
to the fort about ten on the following morning (22d inst.)
also releasing the chiefs Deewan Deena Nath, Bukhshee
Bhuggut Ram, and the Attareewallah Sirdar. Raja Lall
Singh, who had, it appears, returned to Lahore with Juwahir
Singh on the Bth, and who is, on all hands, declared to
be the paramour of.the Ranee, was alone kept a close pri-
soner, and bad, according to one account, been put in chains
by the troops. He immediately set about doing all he
could to obtain his release from his rapacious gaolers; and,
amongst his other representations (how far warranted by
the facts of the case we cannot tell. but it seems to us un-
likely, and to have been said to divert the attention of the
troops), we are assured he has told the soldiery that Sirdar
Juwahir Singh had deposited, in a spot between Ferozepore
and Loodianah, two krores of rupees. He further solemnly
promised them, in writing, fifteen rupees per man as pay,
and a pair of gold bracelets as a present gratuity, if they would
release him, and appoint him wuzeer, while another candidate
for the favour of the army, Meean Prithee Singh, has also
given them a written promise that they shall have 18 rupees
per man, and the bracelets to boot ! It is very confidently
asserted that the Ranee would never have left the palace on
this unfortunate occasion, had she not been assured by Ra-
ja Lall Singh, in the most solemn manner, that he had eight
battalions in his'favour, and he seems to have been so far
correct in his assurances, that it is generally believed that
had the court troops not made short work of the matter, he
would have been able to protect the wuzeer, and that the
respective parties would have been engaged in a general
battle. The bodies of the late wuzeer, Sirdar Juwahir
Singh, and of his two fellow-sufferers, were publicly burnt
on the afternoon of the 22d in the Badamee Garden, which
has of late been made the scene of so many frightful trage-
dies, and of one on the present occasion still more frightful,
if possible. Three, or according to another account of this
disgusting event, four women were burnt with the bodies,
and, most shocking to relate, such was the disgraceful rapacity
of the villanous mob surrounding the funeral pyres, that not
only the more valuable ornaments of the unfortunate women,
but their very clothes were torn from off their bodies before
the,v stepped into the fire. A number of the slaves of the
Ranee, Dewan Deena Nath, Bukhshee IThuggut Ram, and the
Attareevrallah, Kallewallah, Birders, with a large concourse
of people, attended the funeral on elephants. Raja Ghoolab
Singh was shortly expected in Lahore, when our letters came
away, and it was supposed that either he or his
nephew, Juwahir Singh, younger brother of the late
Sirdar Heem Singh, would be elevated to the post of
wuzeer. He must be a brave man who undertakes it with
the fate of Dheean Singh, Heera Singh, and recently
Juwahir Singh, before him. It appears that Sirdar Juwabir
Singh's brother, Heera Singh, was in Lahore at the time
of the tragedy, but that his life was spared, as also that of the
slave Mangela Goolee, the favourite of Juwahir Singh, who
has been frequently mentioned, and who is known to have'
had great influence. Sirdar Jewun Singh, Toshekhaneeah,
and Lall Singh Morareea, had succeeded, it is said, in saving
themselves by flight, and it is not known whither they had
gone. The most important part of our news, if the fit hold,
as it is certainly on them, is, that the soldiery had declared
their positive intention of crossing the Sutlej. Nous verrons.
They appear undoubtedly in a state to do anything.
Since writing the above, we have received letters to the
24th from Lahore, stating that the Meean Prithee had at first
been appointed to carry on provisionally the affairs of the
state. Raja Lall Singh had been released ; and Jewun
Singh, who had not gone far, having been seized, received a
good beating, but was set free. Lall Singh Morareea had
hidden himself among his own troops. On the 24th Prithee
Singh was deprived of the " seals of office," and the Ranee
assumed the full powers of " Sirkar."