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and Rungagora Stockades, supportal by the stations of 

 the Dibroo Ghur and Jaipoor, to warrant the supposition 

 of their never again resorting to their former predatory 

 habits ; but we are grieved to find another instance on 

 record which proves we were over sanguine. Two of 

 their most formidable chiefs, the Beesa Gam and Nin- 

 grew Lah, met with summary punishment, only last year, 

 from the political authorities, on being detected in the 

 perpetration of crime under aggravated circumstances, 

 and promoting dissension amongst those tribes of the 

 Singphoo favorable to British rule. Whether their period 

 of confinement has terminated, or whether from lenient 

 motives the political authorities have relieved them from 

 that confinement, we have not heard ; but it appears 

 strange that a circumstance of the nature now alluded 

 to, should have again transpired at a place semi-distant 

 from the Stockades of Ningrew and Rungagora, about 15 

 miles each way and, if we mistake not, an actual stock 

 ade itself, Koojoo where, we know, some few months 

 back, troops were stationed, as a piquet, close to the tea 

 plantation of Mr. Bonynge. This gentleman, supported 

 by a respectable agency house here, suffered similarly 

 about the middle of his crops in 1844, fortunately for him 

 without personal injury in anticipation of an attack, 

 perhaps, he having but just commenced a march into 

 Rungagora when the Singphoos arrived. The whole of 

 his property was destroyed, including a very elegant 

 library ; and we have been put in the possession of the 

 manner in which everything was disposed of, as witnessed 

 by a hidden spectator. Balls of opium, farm yard 

 stock, vessels of different kinds, were forthwith despatched 



