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been obliged to return to India on medical certificata.
The troops at Hyderabad appear to have continued all
along in a tolerably healthy condition.

SOUTHERN MAHRATTA COUNTRY.

We have only a few items of intelligence to record
from this quarter, but the information discloses nothing
of particular importance in a political point of view.
The terrible malady which has this year visited nearly
the whole of the Indian continent, and committed in
many places such frightful havoc, made its appearance
at Belgautn and ICelapore as well as other districts- of
the Southern Mahratta, country, and occasioned sad
ravages amongst the native inhabitants acd'our sepoy
troops. The European officers, also, did not escape;
and on the 12th and 13th of June Lieutenant Carpen-
dale and Ensign Roberts, of the Bth Madras Native In-
fantry, fell victims to the disease. Soon after these
casualties, a heavy Ml of rain—the first burst of the
S.W. Monsoon—took place, and appears almost instan-
taneously to have arrested the progress of the epidemic.

THE PUNJAUB.
Our news from Lahore extends from the Ist to the
24th of June, and possesses some interest. The ravages
of the cholera, the nth:llion of Prince Peshora Singh,
the continued insubordination of the troops, and a recent
attempt to assassinate Raj s Golaub Singh—:,re the
chief points which attract attention. With respect to
the first, it would secru that the malttly in the city of
Lahore itself has of late considerably aba'ed, the deaths,
whi.•h at one time amounted to betweea six and seven
hundred daily, having decreased in number to from 20 to
30. The disease, however, appears to be still committing
great havoc in other parts of the Ponjatth. Nor has
it been confined to, the &Ali side of the Punjaub. It
broke out about th© middle of June at the British station
of Ferozepore, and did considerable mischief amongst
both the EuroFean and native troops. Many of the men
of her Majesty's 62d regiment fell victims to the dread-
ful disease. To return, however, to our Lahore news,
On the Ist of June (as we stated in a previous number)
intelligence arrived that Prince Pesbora. Singh, whose
insurrectionary,movements had already occasioned no
little alarm, had Surprised with a superior force a party
conveying Government treasure to Peshawur, and after
a short conflict, succeeded in capturing the prize, which
amounted to about six lakhs of rupees (60,0001.). On
receipt of this information, orders were at once issued for
the preparation of a force to proceed to Seealkote against
the Prince, and a body of troops, it would seem,
soon afterwards marched on this service. About
the sth a letter appears to have been received from Pe-
shora Singh by the Khalsas, intimating that " poverty
alone had drivenhim to the course he was now pursuing,
and that, if a provision suitable to his rank was made,
he would immediately desist ; at any rate, he hoped for
the support of the troops." The Khalsas, in reply,
offered him an asylum in their camp ; which however
he, of course, had no idea of accepting. He now en-
sconced himself in Seealkote, and made preparation for
a stout resistance. He seems to have been in possession
of a considerable sum of money, which, it was said, had
been sent him by the nephew of Raja. Golaub Singh.
On the arrival of the troops, a deputation waited
on him, to recommend that he should restore the
money he had plundered, and " pay up the arrears
due by him." To this advice a reply was given to the
effect that " necessity had alone compelled him to do as
he had done, and that poverty now compelled bim to
keep the money." The negotiation having thus re-
sulted unsuccessfully, it was resolved to attack Seealkote,
and the troops accordingly commenced an assault on
that place. The Prince, however, sallied out, at the
head of a strong force, and put them to the rout, losing
100 of his own men, and killing thrice that number of
his assailants. After this somewhat standing manifes-
tation of his prowess, another deputation waited on him
—and on this occasion with greater success. The
Prince agreed. to surrender the treasure ; and Sirdar
Juwahir Sing withdrew the troops from Seealkote. It
appears that the prince has been removed from this plat's)
to a jagheer of equal value at Munkeera ; and the state
troops, after making arrangements for the Government
of the district, returned to Lahore, which city they
reached on the 20th of June.

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We observe that an idea has latterly become again
pretty generally prevalent, that an invasion of the Seikh
empire is in contemplation by the British Indian Govern-
ment. 'We see nothing in the present state of affairs
that supplies the least ground for this conclusion.

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