justly due to the Lahore Government from their Kardars and managers in the territories ceded by the provisions of articles 3 and 4 of the treaty of Lahore, to the close of the Khurreef harvest of the current year, viz., 902 of the Sumbut Bikramajeet. Art. 7.-The Lahore Government shall be at liberty to remove from the forts in the territories specified in the foregoing article all treasure and state property, with the exception of guns. Should, however, the British Government desire to retain any part of the said property, they shall be at liberty to do so, paying for the same at a fair valuation, and the British officers shall give their assistance to the Lahore Government in disposing on the spot of such part of the aforesaid property as the Lahore Government may not wish to remove, and the British officers may not desire to retain.

Art. 8.-Commissioners shall be immediately appointed by the two Governments to settle and lay down the boundary between the two states, as defined by article 4 of the treaty of Lahore, dated March 9, 1846.

MAHARAJAH DHULEEP SINGH, (L.S.)

BHAEE RAM SINGH, (L.S.)

RAJAH LAL SINGH, (L.S.)

SIRDAR TEJ SINGH, (L.S.)

SIRDAR CHUTTER SINGH ATTAREEWALLA, (L.S.)

SIRDAR RUNJOOR SINGH MAJETHEA, (L.S.)

DEWAN DEENA NATH, (L.S.)

FAKEER NOOR-OOD-DEEN, (L.S.)

H. HARDINGE, (l.s.)

F. CURRIE.

H. M. LAWRENCE.

By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India,

F. CURRIE,

Secretary to the Government of India,

with the Governor-General.

No. 7.

Treaty between the British Government and Maharajah Gholab Singh, concluded at Umritsir on the 16th of March, 1846. Treaty between the British Government on the one part, and Maharajah Gholab Singh, of Jummoo, on the other, concluded on the part of the British Government by Frederick Currie, Esq., and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the orders of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., one of Her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Governor-General, appointed by the Honourable Company to direct and controul all their affairs in the East Indies, and by Maharajah Gholab Singh in person.

Art. 1.-The British Government transfers and makes over, for ever, in independent possession, to Maharajah Gholab Singh, and the heirs male of his body, all the hilly or mountainous country, with its dependencies, situate to the eastward of the River Indus, and westward of the River Ravee, including Chumba and excluding Lahool, being part of the territory ceded to the British Government by the Lahore State, according to the provisions of Article 4 of the treaty of Lahore, dated 9th March, 1846.

Art. 2.-The eastern boundary of the tract transferred by the foregoing article to Maharajah Gholab Singh shall be laid down by commissioners appointed by the British Government and Maharajah Gholab Singh respectively for that purpose, and shall be defined in a separate engagement after survey.

Art. 3.-In consideration of the transfer made to him and his heirs, by the provisions of the foregoing articles, Maharajah Gholab Singh will pay to the British Government the sum of 75 lacs of rupees (Nanuck shahee), 50 lacs to be paid on ratification of this treaty, and 25 lacs on or before the 1st of October of the current year, 1846.

Art. 4. The limits of the territories of Maharajah Gholab Singh shall not be at any time changed without the concurrence of the British Government.

Art. 5.—Maharajah Gholab Singh will refer to the arbitration of the British Government any disputes or questions that may arise between himself and the Government of Lahore, or any other neighbouring state, and will abide by the decision of the British Government.

Art. 6.-Maharajah Gholab Singh engages for himself and heirs to join with the whole of his military force the British troops when employed within the hills, or in the territories adjoining his possessions.

Art. 7.-Maharajah Gholab Singh engages never to take or retain in his service any British subject, nor the subject of any European or American state, without the consent of the British Government.

Art. 8.-Maharajah Gholab Singh engages to respect, in regard to the territory transferred to him, the provisions of articles 5, 6; and 7, of the separate engagement between the British Government and the Lahore Durbar, dated March 11, 1846.

Art. 9.—The British Government will give its aid to Maharajah Gholab Singh in protecting his territories from external enemies.

Art. 10.-Maharajah Gholab Singh acknowledges the supremacy of the British Government, and will, in token of such supremacy, present annually to the British Government, one horse, twelve perfect shawl goats of approved breed (six male and six female), and three pairs of Cashmere shawls.

This treaty, consisting of ten articles, has been this day settled by Frederick Currie, Esq., and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the directions of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., Governor-General, on the part of the British Government, and by Maharajah Gholab Singh in person, and the said treaty has been this day ratified by the seal of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., Governor-General.

Done at Umritsir, this 16th day of March, in the year of our

Lord 1846, corresponding with the 17th day of Rubbeeoolawul

1262, Hijree.

GHOLAB SINGH, (L. s.)
H. HARDINGE, (L. s.)
F. CURRIE.

H. M. LAWRENCE.

By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India,

The resolutions which follow the report of the speech of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., in the House of Commons, were proposed in the House of Lords by the Right Honourable the Earl of Ripon, in a most effective speech; but which, in a great measure, was to the same purport as that of the Right Honourable Baronet at the head of Her Majesty's Government.—The motion was seconded by the Right Honourable the Marquis of Lansdowne, who was succeeded in the debate, in the following words, by his Grace

The DUKE of WELLINGTON :-My Lords, I could not hear a motion of this description discussed without adding, to what has been stated, my unqualified approbation of the conduct of the troops on this occasion, and also of the officers who commanded them; and particularly of my Right Honourable and gallant friend, the Governor-General, who, after having made all the

arrangements appertaining to his duty as Governor-General, in order to collect all the resources of the country for the purpose of the great contest impending, having collected all the troops and made all the arrangement for the security of the country, volunteered his services in his rank in the army, in order to give his assistance to the officer commanding the army in chief in carrying on those operations which remained for him to carry on in order to secure the public interests and the possession of the country. There is no obligation on an officer placed in his situation to take that course; you can hardly point to a single instance of a man being placed in that situation; but he has given us an example which I hope will always be followed. When he found his services could be useful, he laid aside his position and even his power as Governor-General; for it should not be forgotten that he would have carried with him into the field the power over the military operations of the army; he laid that asidewhich indeed it is true, according to the usual practice, could not in that way be exercised, and most particularly in his case could not, because Her Majesty, when he went to India, and the Court of Directors, gave him his commission to succeed the command of the army after the death or coming away of the present Commander-in-Chief; but he volunteered his service and his assistance to the Commander-in-Chief in the great contest which was impending. But it has been said truly, that all exerted themselves and did everything in their power to obtain the great result which has crowned their efforts. It is not generally known, my Lords, but I know it, that the enemy's position was completely closed in by entrenchments, so closed around, that it deserved rather the name of a fortress than a fortified position; and notwithstanding the advantages our troops in India have, of having water carriages and persons attached to each company whose duty it is to supply them with water, they laboured in this action under the singular disadvantage of being deprived even of that refreshment for nearly twenty-four hours, because the country happened to be so much dried up, and the villages so