St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-03

pitched battles. the final result being
the retreat of the invaders across the
Sutlej and the surrender of Lahore 10
the British. BY the terms of the peace
Dhuleep Singh, the infant son of
Runjeet, was recognized as raiah.
The second Sikh war broke out n
1913, but it proved to be short-lived, the
British forces under Lord Cough snc-
ceeding In destroying the Sikh army
and in anneXing Punjab to the queens
possessions. As result of this war
young Dhuleep Singh received an
allowance Of $4,000 fromh is conqu arors.
Hewitt his mother, moved to England,
became Christian, and on his estate in
Suffolk cultivated the habits of an Eng
lish gentleman. He was an intimate
friend of the Prince of Wales. who used
annually to spend part of the shooting
season at Dhuleep's country home.
The maharajah's first wife was a
little Syrian maid whom he met in Cairo
In 1865, when on his way back from
Bombay, where he had gone to take
back to its native soil the body of his
, mother, that it might be there cremated.
The maharanee died in 1887, and
couple of years later-in May. 1SS9-he
married in Paris Miss Ada Douglas
Wetherill.
Dhuleep watched closely the advance
of Russia into Asia, and when he
thought the proper time had come he
renounced Christianity and issued
manifesto to the Sikh nation claiming
the throne of his father. But his
Remuneration of the creed of Baba
Nanuk and his suspected illegitimate
blrth-it was asserted by the Sikhs
themselves that he was the son of his
mother through an intrigue with one of
the rajah's water earriers-had long
since estranged the feelings of the
screate Sikh rebellion in the Land of
the Five Rivers there were other princes
better than this maharajah to lead such
an enterprise.
The British made short work of his
pretensions. He was travelling with
leisurely dignity on his great mission
In P. and o. steamer. when at Alden he
was Informed that return passage
had been secured for him. and that he
would not be permitted to land in India.
A Sikh rebellion would have been
serious matter for England, for never
were the British forces more evenly
fought then on the battle fields of
Mooltan. Chillianwallah and Ghuznee.
There were at that time about ten regi-
ments of Sikhs in the Indian army, ac-
knoWledged by British officers to be the
finest in the service, and In most of the
Punjab regiments there was q very
large proportion of Sikh soldiers.
After his abortive astempt to stir up
the Sikhs into rebellion against British
rule, Dhuleep went to Russia, think.
Ing to enlist the sympathy of the car
In his behalf, but his greeting was not
over warm. So the king without
country established htEself in cos
mopolitan Paris, where he lived up to
the time of his death. Life on the
continent seemed to unsettle somewhat
the domestic morals of this Oriental
Christian. and an hereditary predis-
position to poIygamy asserted itself.
The maharajah recently expressed
deep regret for the course Of hostility
which he had pursued toward England,
and her majesty, by the advice Of her
ministers, was graciously pleased to
accord ner pardon to him.
Gen. Dick Taylor, of Louisiana, used
to tell story Of al encoanter with