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5th of November. In order to understand the bearing of | 
these events it will be cetaes to revert = the eee 
of ‘thin Pun 
course of things. _ Our read ders will be awa © tha t the 
t 
Nehal 
1 t sid ante barians, that he had no interview with oe zs 
‘eih oO. an 
Tt ite 3 shi +, } bh +h 
td P " J f a 
| may be in this 5 but it is at east certain that the ambi- 
tyrannical oes ty uct towards his father, A gale a probable 
Indus rivers, 
kingdom. 
e Company 
0 the suspicions. Bs yer may, Khorru k | 
| Sing died, : a ee death or by po 
of the 5th November an his ded tl 
The first f his is rei; eign _— to witness, on the forenoon of 
that day, i he burning of his mother alive 
along with | the bor of his father! Returning in triu mph 
from ne revolting, but to him agreeable, exhibition, 
the 
ee 
ton, whic Biss e mvcestul Nethiog was pa ry the 
other pris used by 
the Comm modes, oe nless Keshen would begin the ne- 
gotiations in reality, recourse bear be had bd cg 
The 14th and 17th of December been d as the 
dere f attack 5 ck ; but on t the 13th Capt. Elliot hed gone to 
acao, an 
still open, i troop d si isan, 
iy 
which put seal” a his inaugurat ion 
y 
Sing, whose po oli icy it was, aided by a pr rofound sagacity, 
one of the 
gates of “Ears when he was in progrest = the Ravee 
r ‘ 
of ow arms, 
sions the most friendly relations with our _ Government ; 
ttee. One of - 
elephant s pressed against the pares g beam of t 
rawbridge 3; the Baga Se wey and fell upon be le 
and raised the Seiks from the grade of predatory hordes. 
under a rude oligarchy, to the status of a powerful and 
t nation. ed i 
which the interests of the 
and then he on te 
must. By the 
div: pera 
y 
et Sing, 
any 
erms of our firs . trea ty “vith Runje 
ourselv ves of the 
western side of the Su tlej. 
jing, breaking the rai of O 
a his papain; & and fracturing his own skul ne 
died that night from the injury. Thus "pera hed No 
Nehal Sing, on ens first day of his _— in a crisis 
of a most important of eve was 
the | 
make ages a ong t hs. m ; out 
of 4,000 men who were lan cea - this island, it is said 
that no more be: an 800 were effective at the da te of the 
latest intelligenc 
are very 
The relations between England and the 
Imted 
br The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom 
had been referred the message of the President, , transmit- 
series 
only son of tis father, and the aah 
of sane, Sing, the other 
mains — pees the 
r Gov 
extinct, but ithe itr e inbertance lies with ee 
ma, alt hough known spurious, he 
with Ang sigh gp «4 we 
triumph 
» XC» = completed his 
Ey wit nesse sed 
tan, ra 
by the sequisition of "Cash me get Mord 
e 
sons are Tara Sing, Meckabis Sing, Peshawara Sing, and 
Cashmeera Sing, named ape three eet) Tespectvely in 
had never 
fresh accession to his coat a 
wal Khan, ai an ally of ours, from his Trans Sail do- 
the yenk of princes, ey Hoon it 
d he 
me aos er ae a military em 
tion of Scinde, and the possession of the entire course 
of the Indus. | The impor rtance o! of this con quest w _en- 
1 of ti he Maharajah i is | 
to the burni ig of the steam-boat Caroline, Pe the de. 
pose made le for he besa oa i M‘Leod, had reported 
e the House of Representati a. the craw referred 
othem. The report f tifi 
mee 
It also 
potter pot "erie t but Chester and of no talent, 
and besotte os the habi tual use # opium and arden 
perotie d towards the Bash, 
ard, bb ones him that the woseeireli sway of 
or at least was protec so, in the hopes s that so 
ah her, per the su 
culty. She has recently se 
a power involving the x fsa 
aus is not entire ay free fro ae 
zed our vessels and exercised 
ind 
tion with the & Eas pots him with a lucrative commerce, 
and enable to enter into European alliances, and 
ing a attitude in regard to British 
of search, under te ‘pretext 
F trad which ser 
Ti th 
in, 
hrough o » that our 
Y ? 
most probab! 
Sevan will sar cabs ie pe ta to the throne. 
present the Puja is gical . he: mt mn entirely at 
he o hav ost. 
At 
our 
t 
She h has seen in he intercourse with us, refused in- 
s to property, on a pre 
mercy, It ish ard to sa 
t aes 
ha 
Ashe nistan, brought matters = this dangerous Ee 
hav 
occurred. Had Now Nehal ‘Siew a hrc in power, there 
and t which, oe eo her ap position Bermuda 
bo ballon e that the P 
by 
iach an extent and degree of consolidation, that he 
ambitiously calculating | the time when, an d preparing the 
at 
in the West ae is of the last 
importance to our: r national gt sara n the debate 
Ar. Granger, of the 
would have been ours 
right 0 of (cong and t hovg: if wit every one who has 
curity of ow 
any 
means b 
r empire in | 
Committee on —" Affairs, stated that Ip » Teport had 
‘ de 
y 
for the empire of India. He had Bien’ assembled an the E t ry clara- 
army for the conquest of Scinde, and act My on of war.’ He said it mad Pp hich Great 
march upon Shikarpore, when the danger 0 perma a besides Naldile a sup and the er Brita tain ht p, and go to war at once. e 
aroused our Indian Government. Lord Au Skland cao flag would an unchalle angen: S oe Ae bsg us to po | would not abi va the issue as presented. There were many 
he ovcasion with his usual pom _ Resa Bos was | ocean, over the wide plains his chance at | things presented in the report as causes of complaint 
informed that jiewed present ect to owl gone rea may still benefit again Great Britain, as to which they ee no informa- 
as an act of I ith byt the late events, and we hope Lord “Auckland will take | tion, and in was not for 
accordingly. This declaration was ee ik rca apability. faking: bad alt these gratuito us is tai ihe ens, the 
preparations in 1837, and the Ma’ Gk a aa bp Mansi The line of of the Lomeiies in pea 3 aay the 
com d to forego his ambitious designs western | cession Ba y Sent vodhioati te he formidable endency to the pres of peace. It 
side of India. Soon after followed the crisis of the Persian | Seik ar of 40 pave Sensinse? bsttelions be ‘pening rated rie boldly and plainly ; ne. cos they hope to 
question of Herat, the Russian intrigues in bul, and | and devout force of ours, like the Hyde e peace by deceiving them yt yes as AS. facts? He 
e hostile projects of Dost Mahommed, which led to gent, 1 maintained = Fash ees shy a political omen "ot py ‘for nly looked t ar of defence 
grand military operations in sae <a to s t Lahore to exert a 1 salu utary | when it might be necessary. S sien that 
proper base for _ = it became n tot tr the object in maki me was, in part, to call 
geneee for our troops and ome moors through the | all exte an saci with other oxy discontinued, the attention | Congress and the American people to 
njab. The Meanermale — Sing, nor his usual | except through the medium of the the necessity of sorenaioas for the national defenee ; 
discretion, Risegna 4 ith the best gra kt admitted that the a of the ge hs be availble for British but that the mek had the € concurrence bag of a bare 
i was treaty of alli as entere 0, by which required ; officers majority of the committee, it—Mr. 
on aig n from Caubul w: to pass | the Seik service e who ar are not Boelish es no longer r ente Adams said he was eg that ¢ report “Ss strict 
through the Punjab. But the Seik sation pow the con- | tained ; th party character. Wha would = its effect 0 a 
cession a advance on Caubul with deadly dislike, | the Indus, and give p Peshawar to Shah Shoojah. Th le ? orld? ould it not thet nina 
and anxiously looked out for some reverse to our arms, | terms, or snaniiong- eae them, are os for the se- | that it was the Bic defeated enemy, setting for 4 
which Id enable them to take the — — us. curity of ee aed yon ions, and the Saag of the | a tenement that che was apie to abandon? He would 
Soon after Runjeet Sing, one of the grea’ longer adm with danger not dis ispu ute the positions of the report "put whe would 
the East has ever produced, died, and ng succeeded by | tk 40 battali i | i 
his son Maharajah Khurruk Sing, the lately deceased pert under French ae Italian officers, reroute force of | mit the + ORNS: & any i issue on this alae That the 
ruler. Runjeet Sing had several nominal sons, two of ak troops, and they — bring 60, gid or < ph report, if sent o 
whom only were acknowled; y him; viz., Khurrak to the field ; they har a park of exposé f of the views and determinations of the Govern- 
Sing and Shere Sing. Bu second, although dignified p ment. But who had made up this issue? He had no- 
with the title of Shah-zadeh, or prince, was regarded as a the most eres part ‘of out our come at the disposal of | thing to do with it. No one had been about it. 
spurious offspring by the Maharajah, and never looked » Who only await a fitting occasion to be open | But init was the i f peace or s 
upon with any favour. Khurruck Sing, his successor, foes put forth nothing upon which they were not willing to 
an imbecile; an . alles sumed the reins of Cums a.—The news brought by the overland mail is of } take the i f war. ere were some. i 
state, than he was oa tual restraint by his only t with reference dino the a of * added, pending between the two nations, as to which they 
ow Nehal Sing. a orton and ambitions young Bri er — with the Chinese gov: The ht be wrong and Great Britain right. He would not, 
man, of little more than 20 years of age. Intoxicated w gotiati up as ue 18th of penchant were to have therefore, put the question of or war on this report. 
P ¥ ne aE Sine eee for the Chinese seemed Aft th te, the . for printing the report 
=a predictions, which designedly took the ene aot shuffling soles It appears that Admiral Elliot, wi as carried by 103 to 68. a the subsequent arrival of 
his ) known wishes, and Promised him a speedy ¢ extension con: niooranio arrived on the 2Uth the packet Enola an learn that in the House of Re- 
N or ear Canton. On the 21st a a presentatives, on the 16th ult., the rules 
against our rule i - dhergz akin ng in a concen! d in th were suspended as soon as the House met, to enable Mr. 
degree of the national dislike borne by the Se iks to to the foe, in — to ct i a letter for Keshen. A boat was Fillemore, of New York, to introduce a resolution, ‘‘ in- 
English, he enco pest: Dost Mahommed, by t sent off but it ting mittee on to report a 
large subsidies in money, to make his late attempt or on Chinese from the forts. The boat then reared, "and | bill for making the: necessary appropriations for fortifica- 
Caubul; he entered in| itl which st tions, naval arman and other Y preparations, 
and denied a pas: of Abinto e98 her. place the northern and north-east ti a pre-~ 
the late untoward course of events required the British anne then abe os nes Capt. “Bilt went sub- per state of defence.” [t also appears t the resolu- 
Government to send to Caubul. Our agents at Peshawar An } tions offered to the: presentatives of the S 
intercepted the remittance, or advices relating to it ; apology was demanded for the insult to the flag-of-truce, | of Maine, on the subject of repelling what is 
and Lord Auckland, seizing jes the occasion ha- which, after some delay, w as assented to » by Keshen. On } British + have been taken up by * 
bitual energy, made instant arrangements for the concen ee : ee by sp 3 Ke 
tration of a Tin e army on the Sutlej for the i invasion ef | forts, eshen was suspected ucing unnecessary in: ’ ollars for the defenee of the 
the Punjab. The toc “a of a Sea wes Snr bs pol 7 into Canton, } State, were referred to the dary Co ‘The 
Wleidestens: + ‘a having taken care to give previous notice of his arrival to i sapuationt: were also offered and r to the 
would take f Kburruk | the Admiral. wn the Sh the Admiral om on the ground of Sapa “* Whereas the State of Maine is now 
, and his son i Nehal ‘ee on ee same day, palpitation of the heart, resigned ering th ng ea of unresisted British invasion, 
par: the Punjab without a head. It jan been known the command of ition to ‘scare Sir J. in 1839, stip in "1840, and continsed up oe baw 
: in violation of # mont soles stipulations, and ae 
of a 
we have no rf 
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