FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE EXTRA.
Victoria, Tuesday, 14th April, 1846,
peace frère, leitat Berorecard, when his Jone pushed on to Harseke, and we may easily imagine the length of their countenances when Sir Henry Hardinge retur dan the glow of victory, and ad mitted them again into his presence.
Office Friend of China,
Tuesday, 14th April 1840, sleft on i INPORTANT NEWS FROM INDIA. From an extra of the Singapore Free of the 20th Ult, we learn that a fourth battle had been fought with the Sikhs, in which they army were totally defeated. The British erossed the Sutledge, and by despatches from Lahore, dated the 20th of February, which ap- peared in an extra of the Englishman of the 2d March
the capital of the Punjab was in pos- We re-publish session of the British troops. the whole of our contemporary's extra, which appears to contain full details from the Bengal
papers,
Opium Sale, 23rd February,
Bebor, Benares,
Chests Highest Lowest Average
1,450 1,476 1,540 2,165
1.350 1,320 1,326 800
THE BATTLE OF HUREEKE.
From the Friend of India, Feby. 26)
A fourth battle has been fought with the Sikhs on the British territories, more disastrous to them, and more triumphant on our part than of our preceding engagements.
KKILLDO
Major General Sir R. Dick, KCB Comde 30
Division
Col (Brigadier) CC Taylor, C, B, Hot foot, Comdg 2d Brig, 2d Division.
Lieutenant Col G. L. Davies, H. M. 2nd foot Lieutenant Col Thos. Ryan, K H, H. M. 50th Captain G. Edward D. Warren, 11- M. 53d foot Lieutenant H. E. Y. Faihful, H. A... Lieutenant E W. A. Hamilton, 1st Eur. Lt. Inf. Brev, Capt, Fletch Shuttleworth, 1st Eur Lt Inf. Captain Rob. Hay (50th NI) Adjt. Nusseree Battalion.
Ens. Gord II. Davidson, 1st Eur. Lt. Inf Capiain John Fisher, (23d NI) Comdg Sirmoor Battalion,
Lieutenant John S. Raton, 63 N 1. Lientenant W. Tyler Bartley, H M 62nd foot. Captain G. McLeod Tew, H M 50th foot, Lieutenant Andrew McQueen, 42nd Light Inf. WOUNDED.
Major General Sir John Littler, K CB, Comdg 4th Division.
Major Gal. W. R. Gilbert, Comdg 2d Division.. Major Chas. Grant, H Artillery. Lieutenant Col Gough H. M. 3d DragOffg, Qr Master General (through both legs.)
Lieutenant Col Gold, HM 53 foot. Lieutenant W D. Playfair. 33d N 1 (ditto.) Lieut. and Adjt Dunning H M 53 foot (ditto.) Lieutenant A. B. O. Stuken, H M 53rd foot shot in the breast.
Capt. Thos Smart, A M 53d foot, leg amputated. Lieutenant John Chester, LIM 53d foot, shot through the lungs and back.
Ens. Henry Lucas, H M 52d foot, slightly by a bayonet in the leg.
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Lieut. Roht, N Clarke, H.M 53d foot, badly. Lieutenant Colonel M. Barr, Offg, Adjt Genl. M Forces, lost an arm,
helent to afford the army a very
handsome battar or donation, which it most richly deserves, and which, however liberal, will hardly repay to many officers losses they have sustained in the cam paign. We expect to receive further news in the course of the day*
Monday February 23rd -A letter received from the Governor General's Camp, the previous after- noon, dated the 13th instant states that the Ga vernor General was to cross the Sutledge the fol lowing day.
Thrusday February 20th.—The despatched rela live to the battle at Sobraon, together with the Governor General's proclamation are published this day.
(From the Englishman, March 3.) GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. GENERAL ORDER OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE
THE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF INDIA Foreign Department, Camp Lahore, 20th Feby. The Right Honorable the Governor General, requests that the Commander-in-Chief will cause the following arrangements to be made for escort- ing His Highness the Maha Raja Duleep Sing to his Palace in the Citidele of Lahore this afternoon. The Escort will consist of
2 Regiments of European Cavalry.
2 Regiments of Native Cavalry-the Body Guard to be one.
1 Regiment of Irregular Horse.
2 Troops of Horse Artillery-1 European—1 Native.
The Secretary to the Government of India, F. Currie, Esquire, will take charge of His Highness and his Suite, and will be accompanied by the Po. litical Agent Major Lawrence, the Governor Ge. neral's Secretary Charles Hardinge Esquire, the A.D.C. of the Governor General, the A. D.C. of the Commander-in Chief, one A.D.C. from each Ge neral Officer of a Division in Uniform.
The Escort will be formed at the nearest conve- nient spot to the Governor General's Camp at 2 o'clock, and proceed to His Highness' Camp and thence to his Palace.
On Alighting from his Elephant a Salute of 21 Guns will be fired by the Horse Artillery.
His Highness the Maha Raja of the Sikh Na- tion, selected by the Chiefs as their Sovereign, have ing on the 18th instant, intimated his intention to proceed to the Governor General's Camp, at Lul lecana, attended by His Highness' Wuzees Raja Golab Sing and other Chiefs, was received in Dur bar on the afternoon of that day by the Governor General, the Commander-in-chief and the Staff being present His Highness Minister and Chiets
Lieutenant John Becheer, Engrs. Captain W. H. Halford, 41st NI Captain Jolin Cumberlege, 41st N I severely. Lieutenant M. F. Kemble 41st N 1. Lieutenant A. W. Onslow, 41st NI. Captain Aenay Alpe, 41st N Arig. Fenoy Comdg Nusseree Bat., slightly_ Brigadier Jas McLaron, Comdg. 3th Brig 2d Di- there tendered his submission and solicited the cle.
vision.
Lieut. ('Brien, Adjt. Nusseree Battalion, Capt Nerdham, H. M. 50th Foot, Major Polwbele, 42d Light Infantry, TOTAL Killed and Wounded 2,383.
mency of the British Government.
The Governor General extended the clemeney of the British Government to a Prince the decemb ant of the maha Raja the late Runjeet Sing, for s many years the faithful Ally and Friend of the British Government, as the representative of the Sikh Nation selected by the Cliefs and People to be their Anler, on the condition that all the Terms imposed by the British Government and previously explained to His Highness Minister and Chiefs should be faithfully executed.
(From the Englishman, Feby. 28) - Letters received to-day from the Fromier state that the treaty was already signed on the 19th inst. The portions of the country already mentioned in the two proclamations are ceded, and the Seikhs
On withdrawing from the Darbar the Maħa Roja agree to pay the expenses of the wat estimated at two Crores of Rupees which are stated to be all-received the usual salutes due to His Highness ex- ready packed at Lahore, where the Governor-Ge- | alted rank neral was expected to arrive and to receive the money on the 20th.
His Highness has since remained near the Glo. vernor General's Camp, and as it will be conducive to His Highness's comfort that he should rejoin his family, the Governor General desires that he may with all honor and in safety be conducted by the British Troeps to the Gates of his Palace this day.
At present it is sufficient to state, that on the arrival of the heavy guns and mortars, it was deter mibed at once to storm the Sikh entrenchments and drive them across the river. On the 9th of Febru ary, the Governor-General left Ferozepore with his staff, and rode to Hureeke, a distance of about thirty miles, to the Commander-in-Chief's encampment, where the plan of operations for the approaching battle was settled. If we are to credit the sketch of the entrenchment of the Sikhs which has been cir- culated with the Delhi Gazelle, their lines extended in the form of a crescent on the left bank of the Sutledge, at a place where the river describes a bend, so as to present an unbroken front, bristling with cannon, to any attack which might be made on them Our reconnoitring parties appear to have discovered that the weakest point in their works, was that por, tion which rested on the Sutledge to their right, and H. M's 53rd supported by native troope, was select ed for the duty of penetrating it. It is said that on the evening of the 9th the Generals of division and the Commanders of Brigades attended the Governor- General's tent, when the arrangements for the enga- germent where explained, and their several duties allotted to them. The next morning the 10th, the troops were under arms at an early hour, and the action began by a heavy cannonade from our great guns and mortars, which was replied to by the Sikh with the utmost resolution All the ammunition of the mortars is stated to have been expended in two hours; and then the Sikhs manned their works, and our troops advanced to attack them nt the point of the bayonet. It will not escape remark that through. out this war, we have unfortunetely been weakest, aud the enemy strongest in artillery; that our casu- alties have been chiefly occasioned by the superiority of the enemy's guns, and that our triumphs have been achieved by the bayonet, and the unflinching courage with which it was wielded. On the pre- sent occasion it was found that the entrenchments of the Sikhs had been constructed with the highest mi- litary skill, under the direction, it is supposed, of a Spanish officer, Col. de Alcantara. During the whole of our career in India our troops have seldom, if ever, been called to storm works so formidable, and defended by such determined valor. A deep* ditch in front effectually prevented the advance of Cavalry into the Sikh encompment, and the glory of the day was thus left to the Infantry. While the battle was raging at all points, and the various Bri- gades were emulating each other in their attemps to storm and enter the enemy's entrenchments, it ap pears that H. M's 53rd approached the weak point of the Sikh encampment, wading ankle deep through the sands of the Sutledge, and advanced amidst a tempest of balls with the most admirable steadiness to their object. An attempt was made by the sikh Cavalry to check their advance, but the steady front they exhibited induced the enemy to retire, when they continued their march The Sikhs, seeing a British force thus established between their main army and their reserve, , and pressed at the same time by our divisions in front. were seized with a panic, abandoned their works and made for the river, the bridge over which had been rendered unserviceable by our guns. Then commenced a scene of carnage such as no field in India has presented since the bat tle of Panipat Our Infantry exhausted their ammu nition on the enemy, and our field pieces then took up and completed the work of destruction. The season is rapidly advancing. What is to be done Sikhs fell like stalks of wheat under the stroke of with the Khalsa troops their present daperzion the sickle. The entrenchments were filled with will not prevent them from massesabling and again heaps of slain, and the Sutledge was choked with overcoming their own government if some later PROCLAMATION BY THE RIGHT HONORABLE the dead and dying. At the lowest computation, be not permanently stationed in the Punjab of a
Foreign Department, Camp Lulleeana, 18th Feb. Ten thousand of the enemy perished in the terrific totally different character. There have been enough slaughter. The route was complete. The whole of subsidiary armies, and we think that our Go-The Chefs, Merchants, Traders. Ryots and other of their encampment, with their standards, guns, verament wel hardly wish to increase their num Inhabitants of Lahore and Umritsic are hereby in ammunition, and provisions fell into our hands. Our ber. The Punjib, however, must be protected formed, that He Highnes Maha Raja Dulceb Sing own loss, though not to be compared with that we against internal as well as external enemies, and has this day waited upon the Right Honorable the sustained at the less skilfully massaged and Iras auspi- an army of some kind formed. It is to be hoped | Governor General and expressed the contrition of cious baule or Ferozeshahr, has also been very that foreign adventurers will be peremptorily ex-huself and the Sikh Government for their late hus- severe The number of officers killed, is said to eluded for the future, and the bege so long enter tile proceeding. The Mala Haja and Durbar hav have amounted to Fiten, among whom ste Sir taised of establishing a French India in the northing acquired in all the terus and Conditions im- Robert Dick and Col. Taylor of 13. M. 29th, and west finally extinguished. The hat three months posed by the British Government, the Governor Cle- have taught the British Indian Government seral bas every hope that the relations of friendship the officers wounded are gold at Twenty fire; but the caset number cannot be ascertained till the dis a leans, which it will long remember, and enable will speedily be re exaqlahed between thas two Go- paylas are published. The number of renk nud people in England to estimate the dangers from recomments. The Inhabitants of Labors and Umriti- more currectly than before, sir have nothing to fear from the British Atty. tile and non-command chivers killed and wound, wh
Gaute entices à report that the The Governor General and the Brush Troops,
Ant ed is by some ginest only Five Hundred, while
de and the Barce is the condition shore adverted to are falfill others swell it to Two Thousand. Great as bone ter
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Our letter says- The country between the Sutledge and the Beas is the must fertile in the whole Punjab, it gives us two or three hill sta *tions. The unfortunate Seikhs have been made
The following Proclamation wes issued on the to pay for their ainusement. The territorica con- fiscated on this side the Sutledge will yield twenty 18th instant by the Governor General, promising lakhs a year, and I think those between the Suprotection to all persons at Lahore and elsewhere, tledge and the Beas twice as much.” Another, who psaceably continue in their usual employments letter says: The Khalsas may make a distur- of frade and industry.
• Lance again, but I Incy they will not fight, "having hat more than they liked at Iurecka, our loss has been very hewy certainly. In the Des- patch of the Feruzeshuhr affair they put down the numbers of killed and wounded at 3.250, whereas a true account was 4,250 ! pretty well *s out of t5,000.
The Governor General is satisfied after the ex- perience of this Campaign, that he can rely on the discipline of this invincible Ariny, as fully and se- curely as be has always been confident that the day of battle under their distinguished Commander would be one of victory.
He trusts at present that no Officers or Soldiers will pass the advanced Sentries of their encamp- ment to enter the Town of Lahore, and he requesta His Excellency the Commander in-Chief to give the necessary intructions to carry this Order strict-
(From the Englishman, March 2-) The Delhi Gazette Eztra, which we republished yesterday, confirms the accounts received by let
ing provisions into Camp. ters, the contents of which appeared in our Sitary into effect, as well as to protect all persous bring-
By order of the Right Honorable the Clovernor . day evening's paper. Our own Corres mindent an tiesa serious resistance at Umridar, so that General of India,
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