The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-04 00:00:00

trifling. The spirit of disaffection appears unfor- r,
tunately to be rather on the increase than otherwise, i
since the capture of Samunghur ; and as there are
still six other forts occupied by the insurgents, far i
stronger and more inaccessible than that now taken, I
(From the Post.) the occupants of which have expressed their determi- I
Boldneee Nov. 1, 1844.—The intelligence for the
nation to hold out to the last, there are but slender
may except the proceedings around Kholapore, in the Past month has been very deficient in interest, if I hop es of the affair being soon settled. The origin of
this disturbance requires no explanation further, than
_
.b
th fallen into our hands, after holdin out
Southern Mahratta country. The port of Samunghur that it has arisen from the same source whence the ma- i
jority of the disputes in India usually arise, viz., an I
g g
!las at fen
oppressed peon le against designing Ministers, who, 1
_longer than we supposed. The enemy are said to
Ito fill their own pockets during the continuance of a I
have lost between five and six hundred men, with as I
! considerable minority, have imposed taxes on an al-
laanY prisoners. We have—although the number of
r
casualties are very few—to regret the loss of three ready overburdened people—the one counting on the 1
aid of a powerful ally, while the other party resort
_el! cers during the continuance of these operations—
to the only alternative left them, of shutting up them-
Lieutenants Shakspeare and Irvine, from wounds re-
selves and families within those mountain strong-
e2i"d, and Captain Silrer, from cholera. Colonel
' holds which are endeared to them, having been the !
.Uutram has been appointed Political Resident, and
safeguards of their ancestors against similar oppres-
h
ving succeeded in rescuing the young Raja, who is
sion, and out of which the fear of death will never
!minor, from the hands of the two discontented par-
ties of his subjects, is about to set off in company dislodge them.
Though Colonel Outram has now been appointed !
*ith Col. Outram, with the view, if possible, of re-
the Political Resident in this district, and justly
Cl,eving grievances which have led to the insurrection.
famed as he is for his ability and unexampled success 1
aki.(l. Outram is at Kholapore. Troops and supplies of
in all pacificatory matters, he will certainly perform
II kials continue pouring in. There are six other forts
a feat of statemanship of no mean order, should he
!till to subdue, should the rebels hold out. The Pun-
succead in bringing about an adjustment of those dif-
Jiattb is said for a time to be saved from the anarchy
ferences at present existing between the Ministers
:Pending over it, from the reported cementation of
of the youthful Raja of Kholapore and his apparently
ir
differences between Goolaub and his nephew
desperate subjects. lie has already released thoe
_ sera Singh, who had already, for the purpose of Raja and his chief minister from the hands of the
PP°sing his uncle, marched the majority of his
malcontents, and is stated as about to set off on a
troopson their way to Jumbo°. Goolaub is re-
tour through the country, with the intention at re-
rrted to have under his command at present
moving the grievances which had been the cause of
r°,ls°o men, with ample supplies of money, and is
the insurrection. In whatever manner these dif-
"dY for every contingency. The rumour of the
ferences may for the present be settled, it appears
,I,ssination of Dewan Sawur Mull, Governor of most probable that a contingent force will be raised
his son
has during this month been confirmed, and and other necessary means resorted to for the future
Bon appointed in his room. protection of the Raja and his Government.
he accounts from Sinde continue favourable
Though the intelligence from the Punjaub has,
'With the exception of those from Shikarpore—
throughout the month, and up to within a day or so
Zost the whole of the brigade being laid up from
back, been as war-looking in its character as the
In all our other posts the troops were
sickness,
imaginations of native news writers about that
tolerably healthy. The disturbances in Bundle-
quarter could possibly picture it to be, it is with
thlind, it is to be hoped, are now finally at an end ;
pleasure that we find it in our power to contradict
fei; ex-Raja of Jeitpore Pareechut, with his con-
statements, or, at least, to curb for a time those 'pe-
tit:rates, having been taken up. The intelligence
culations which the perusal of the mass of Lahore
htitill Affghanistan can scarcely be depended on— intelligence, appearing 'this month in the newspapers,
more
it represents the Dost and his son Akbar as
would certainly create in the minds of the public at
h. re firmly • seated in their authority than they
home, did it not receive the additional check through
0: a for a long time been. Gwalior continues dis- the medium of the anticipatory letters.
billtended under the supervision of Ram Roo
The death of Dewan Sawur Mull, the Governor
2lkea, who has not as yet found out the perpe-
of Mooltan, is now confirmed, having met his death
as or or instigator to his attempted assassination,
by the discharge of a pistol fired at him by a criini-
iik the Tara Bhaee had conceived a marked dis-
nal which he was examining. His death, from a
he! for him. The chief subject of local interest
matter of policy, was for some time kept a secret,
ti_ re has been the trial and conviction of the note- matter
is supposed by his sun, who seems to hare been
ortis Aloe Paroo, for his participation in the villanies
yearning after his father's office—to which he has
hi
thene Bander gang, and being deeply concerned
since been appointed by Heerah Sing. The revenue
, burning of the ship Belvidere, burnt in the
he contributed to the Lahore treasury has been on an
ii(leluisi of Singapore some considerable. time back.
average half a million annually, while his own in-
-10 has realised from his villainies no less than
come is said to have been as much.
)°°°l. sterling, besides property to a great
4tnou • -
—the whole of which has been con-
Up to this time the warlike preparations said to
or
nte
have been making between Goolaub Sing on the
ethe_ted, and himself banished for life. An-
one hand, and his nephew, Heerah Sing, on the
her: ease, which deserves a prominent place
other, has naturally led to the most lively interest.
' is that of a species of wanton and
And the startling statement, that the majority of the
41rite,...Matie cruelty perpetrated by the captain of the
troops had already quitted Lahore, and were pretty
ttr.P.l•NePtune, from Liverpool. His name is Thomas
well on their way for meeting those of Goolaub
'thwaite. The cruelty referred to was exercised .
°II his
hrtita, steward, and consisted of divers means of Sing, who was stated to have at present under his
flit nty. That exercised to his apprentice—a youth- command an army of upwards of seventy thousand
fighting men, with funds to the amount of 8,000,000/.
Tire Frenchman—consisted in giving him 250 lashes.
sterling, independently of the support which he had
sad at has been tried before the police-court here,
at his nod, in the influence and wealth of his sister-
por he has merely been mulcted in a paltry fine.
in-law, the widow of the late Soochet Sing. These,
the boy's case he will be brought before a jury. and numberless other statements of a similar nature,
butrt
_he intelligence. from China reaches to August 28,
have been at the eleventh hour, as it were, consider-
,r". continues barren in interest. ably smoothed down by the reports that matters have
ittonfie disturbances formerly stated to have arisen
at length been amicably arranged betwixt these two
try, 'll Kholapore in the Southern Mahratta coun- dagger-drawn personages—a report that every one
tin having assumed a form much more formidable
must feel happy in hearing fully confirmed. But there
the was anticipated, it may be as well to continue
appear to be some doubts existing as to the actual
;:_were so
try narrative of operations from the point at which
truth of the report itself, which will of course require
abruptly broken off in my last. The
the next mail to clear up. The Pundit Jolla—the bone
)Doi Colonel . t under Colonel Wallace having occupied a
of
contention between the uncle and nephew, ap-
4gh directly in front of the fort of Sarnunghur
;adt, ' pears still to strut about Court—a circumstance which
ineri_me
' guns having been placed in position, com-
hlited to play until the evening of the 12th, formerly so highly incensed the uncle ; while the
~. aPParently with but little effect. The command- reported departure of Jowahir Sing, the Minister's
younger brother, to live under the roof of his uncle,
ti,!: engineer was therefore directed to reconnoitre
at Jumbo°, a coalition which Heerah himself had so
isiehlit breaches which had been made, who suggested
ththewhole of the might be turned upon
at gunsthreatened to prevent at all hazards, renders
often
triltde cia a small tower to the right of the south-
Rest the whole of the Lahore intelligence this month at
best but very doubtful.
e,krdsbastionof the fort, which being shortly after-
The accounts from all parts of Sinde during the
so consideredfor escalade, practicable,while the other was
klfiallymonth continue extremely favourable, with the ex-
lame
for preparations. were accordingly.
caption of Shikarpore, which presents a rather un-
leelis, attacking the fort at daylight the following
favourable view as regards the health of the troops
(11-",,,1ng. The troops under the command of Major
114::"st of the 20th Regiment Native Infantry, stationed there. Of the 69th Regiment N. 1., fifted,
in -i'lg been formed into two columns, were accord- file only could attend muster on Ist October, and
is 7th Cavalry had only sixteen men fit for duty;
ell tlirected to be in readiness at four o'clock, the
first under the command of Captain Jones and the while the majority of the force stationed there
the forces
Captain Gillanders ; other dispositions were suffering much, though not nearly to
efi'le forces having been made with a view of cutting were becoming frequent,
this extent. Deaths
thutue retreat of the besieged. Everything being and the want of medical officers much felt.
re ;ed operations, and within half an hour the fort judiciously arranged, the storming parties com- Much inconvenience was felt at Hyderabad from
the excessive heat, and a considerable diminution
1,,,:
as enter and taken possession of. But little annoy- in the depth of the river apparently observable.
The troops at this place continue healthy. At Suk-
esheiet sterns to have been experienced from the enemy
hee-t effecting the breach—a' few shots only having kur the utmost interest seems to attach to the pro-
these-h
fir meting
from the bastions flanking the places where jected assembling of the court-martial to be shortly
Kith Were and so completely were those holden here for the trial of Colonel Moseley,
Were made;
kik taken by surprise, that our troops entered when twenty-one field officers are expected to
te 11st without opposition. The enemy, however, seem be collected hither for that object ; the
hirlive provided for every exigency in the event of our President of which, it is expected, will be General
terg 'l an entrance ; the long rolls of cloth which Simpson—Colonels Douglas and Woodburn had been
faetoix'se their turbans having been found suspended ordered even from Kurrachee, all the way, for the
eatiur numerous places around the walls, by which purpose. A detachment of her Majesty's 78th
th,,„ 6) though some managed to escape from the fort, Highlanders arrived on the 18th ult. Seventy-one
r' were all either secured by the reserve of our men of the 64th had been discharged the service
st •
tiettei stationed around the base of the bill, or ulti- for their participation in the late mutiny. The
of thY cut off; while those who had been deprived troops were all healthy, though the heat during the
itseejetkineans of escape, or were totally unable to day was very intense. Kurrachee has become the
the 'ernselves of such, were taken prisoners, and to El Dorado ofiour Sinde possessions ; what with the
gettee„ted, it of the Europeans portion of the force, it is completion of broad airy streets, capacious canton-
spett,i-'`, 13' admitted that the life of every one was merits, the extension' of the pier, the erection of spa-
the ,„. which could by possibility be so, even although cious buildings on the verge of the race-course, the
ritkv
elltitieCatiOn given in some instances but slightly adornment of the grounds with the choicest plants
enteriti °
Some of the enemy to such forbearance. On and shrubs, and the great addition lately made to the
1e0,i4 "f# the fort the scene presented is described as supply of excellent water, with numerous improve-
We been heartrending in the extreme. Numbers ment.s, it had now become the place alone entitled to
re ~
While
ti)und mortally wounded from several shots, be the Government bead-quarters.
to the ,ue Poor wretches were at the moment reduced The intelligence from Affghanistan seems on
Were
f'ast extreme from starvation. Several women the whole to hold forth the prospects of Dost
*01,114°141d with children in their arms severely Mahommed, and the members of his family, as in
parts ed, and one had thrown herself from the ram• every way in the ascendant—at least so it is
II; bY which she had fractured both her thighs. given out by those in whose statements at no
earn C houses were soon entered by the Sepoys and time ought implicit reliance to be placed. He
ratlit'e-rfohllowers, against whom, by the way, some is now said to be firmly seated on his throne, with
,eavY charges of wanton cruelty have been the most formidable of the other states exceedingly
Prefer,
jog
offs---but nothing whatever, at all worth carry- anxious to do him homage. The Dost and Akbar
have
den
f aPPears to have been found within the are said still to be within their capital, and that the
ore.
the operations against this fort, we Dost had expressed himself anxious to proceed to the
ee 'en deprived of the services of three much- eastward of his dominion, on another expedition most
—sPeeted
2(I °ffieers. Lieutenant Shakespeare, of the likely. He was said to be particularly incensed at
Europeansf 11 • •
eleetarismarks
, e a victim to the deadly aim of the the Lahore Court, and the proof of this is drawn
!ion . arksmen—having come out from a posi- from the fact of his refusing to dispatch the ac-
on comparative safety to assist in carrying off customed nuzzurana or present expected by the latter
the a,
from' the 'I3(IY a a Sepoy who had been mortally wounded
- at the advent of the Dusserah festival. The real
same quarter ; Lieutenant Irwine, another
5!°llnEC officer i cause of the rupture on this occasion, like most affairs
„nv cer of the Madras Artillery, and Captain ! pertaining to this distant country, remains enveloped
" er, who
died of cholera. After the occupation .
Of
this fort b
gents, between
y our troops, in mystery.
another body of the incur- .
1 The disturbances, if such they can he called,
ti 500 and
on, and6oo strong, took up a '.. which have for such a length of time afflicted
Colonel g, post
scene
of Outram—who had arrived at the Bundlekund, and regarding which su much dif-
the
Samunghur, for '
the insurgents--came
tee purpose of negotiating with happily terminate • dby the seizure of Pareechut, the
rgents--came
see
up with them, and after a ' ex- lop p 7 " • h of Jeet ore and the accomplices in
conflictthern___u succeeded in completely punishing his marauding expeditions. It was rumoured about
field,
__ ,
~_, 100 having been left dead on the the departure of last mail that he had voluntarily
r.,,, 4" jult)"' 200 havin •
• i lus• et?
~.,
~, g !,Pen taken prlsoners, come in with hie fellows in guilt, in order to take
is
st'tt'd to . ne,ny during thuio proceedings n Ivare..-3ge of the offer lately made him by (3overn.
~ lil_,amount to between fioo and (500 with merit of two hundred rupees a month, provided he
x nurrv., ,sr 14,41„. , p,'l,..oners, while our
own
' u ave es- resided within the Company's territories, hut having
bee; in comparison,
exceedingly come so far on the way with this view, he is said to

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