The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-13

the vicinity of Calcutta. Near that
 city, on the shores of the Hujii river, at
 Garden Beach, stood this Oudh kings
 palace. From the British he received
 an annual allowance of six hundred
 thousand dollars, which he always managed to spend in full and to eager 1 ly await the next payments. Indeed,
 he frequently drew on the treasury of
 the empire for additional sums of mon-
 ey. This was largely spent in keeping
 snake mounds, menagerieS and main
 taining similar forms of entertainment | for his royal delectation. He was fond
 of parading in gorgeous array through
 the streets of the Indian city. Soon af- 1 ter his sem-captivity was effected his
 queen and the Prince of Oudh and par
 ty went to London to appeal for adop-
 ton of different policy toward him.
 While on this mission his queen died in
 Paris in January, 1858, and the prince in London a month later.
 The Zulu war in South Africa is esti-
 mated to have cost the British govern
 ment almost twenty-five million dol
 lars, but Cetywayo, the king of the
 ZuluS, was held for a while as a pris-
 oner by the British, was subsequently,
 assisted by the British in his efforts to
 regain the throne, He was defeated at
 Ulundi by the British on July 4, 1879,
 and was captured after a long pursuit
 on August 2S, following. He was taken
 to Cape Town In september, whence he
 sent several petitions to the queen for
 restitution of his domain. He was held
 prisoner for many years at Ghome.
 Later, in 1882. he was allowed to pro- ceed to London, where he visited Glad stone on August 6, the queen five days
 later and the Prince of Wales on Au- gust 16. He was later restored to a part of his kingdom, with certain re- strictions in favor of the British and was proclaimed at Ulundi, January 23, 1SS3. Then came strife with his chiefs and he was announced as a fu- gitive from justice seven months after being proclaimed king again. He surrendered in October, escaped and was recaptured by the British in Janu- ary, 1884. He died of heart disease. His son, Dinizulu, was crowned king by the Zulus before ten thousand peo- pie, and was granted amnesty, after promising fidelity to Great Britain.
 The King of Delhi, old Bahadur shah the last of the line of great Mo- khuls, was captured in the British as- sault on the City of Delhi on Septem- Der II, 1857, and after q trial, lasting a month and half, on the charge of high treason, was sentenced as state pris- oner to transportation" He was sent aboard d ship to the Cape of Good Hope, in December, 1858. The colonists there refused to receive him, and he was finally sent to Rangoon. There, in a small hut, this potentate the lineal descendant of shah Jehan and Aurang- zeb. passed the remaining years of his life in obscurity and poverty. Both his sons had been slaughtered In the fall Of Delhi.
 Tantia Topee, who headed a division of rebels in June, 1858, In India, and a rebel leader claimed to have been less culpable than Bahadur Shah, met worse fate He fought the British des- perately, was beaten at Guzerat and other points, hemmed in and deserted by his troops and finally captured in April, 1859. He was executed on the | gallows eleven days later.
 Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, the favor ite of the Maharanees, was exiled to England when his state, in 1S49, was | annexed to British dominion. | He was ''requeste ed" to take up his res idence in England, with yearly in- come of two hundred and forty thou sand dollars from the British and he wisely acquiesced, There was no oth- CT course, however, open to him. Once in England, he purchased an estate in where he resided for many | years practically in the position of a wealthy English country gentleman. Frequently he expressed desire to revisit his native country, protesting absolute loyalty to the British sover- aign. but he was never permitted to travel east of the Isthmus of Suez. His sons entered the British army, and ,ne of them, Prince Victor, married the daughter of the Earl of Coventry, but neither has been allowed to go to the and over which their ancestors wield- ,d the scepter.
 Prior to the formal annexation of the ounjab, Moolray Singh, ruler of the ;ikhs, had treacherousy murdered MT. Fans Agnew and Lieutenant Anderson, Several conflicts with the British followed close upon these mur ers, and the Sikhs were beaten and doolray City taken, in January, 1S49, .fter a protracted siege. Moolray was to death in the following Au -"------