residence of the Nazim, or local governor, during several months in the year; and the landlord, Seobuksh, cannot venture to exact his property-tax from them.  The air and water are much praised, and the general good health of the troops, civil establishments, and residents of all classes, show that the climate must be good.  The position, too, is well chosen with reference to the districts, and the character of the people under the control of the governor of the Khyrabad district.

The estate of Seobuksh is very extensive.  The soil is all good and the plain level, so that every part of it is capable of tillage.  Rutun Sing, the father of Seobuksh, is said to have been a greater rack-renter, rebel, and robber than his son is, and together they have injured the estate a good deal, and reduced it from a rent-roll of one hundred thousand to one of forty.  Its rent-roll is now estimated in the public accounts at 54,640, out of which is deducted a nankar of 17,587, leaving a Government demand of only 37,053.  This he can’t pay; and he has shut himself up sullenly in his mud fort, where the Nazim dares not attack him.  He is levying contributions from the surrounding villages, but has not yet plundered or burnt down any.  He was lately in prison, for two years; but released on the security of Rajah Lonee Sing, of Mitholee, whose wife is his wife’s sister.  He, however, says that he was pledged to produce him when required, not before the present Nazim, but his predecessor; and that he is no longer bound by this pledge.  This reasoning would, of course, have no weight with the Government authorities, nor would it be had recourse to were Lonee Sing less strong.  Each has a strong fort and a band of steady men.  The Nazim has not the means to attack Seobuksh, and dares not attack Lonee Sing, as his estate of Pyla is in the “Huzoor Tuhseel,” and under the protection of Court favourites, who are well paid by him.

Lonee Sing’s estate of Mitholee is in the Mahomdee district, and under the jurisdiction of the Amil; and it is only the portion, consisting of one hundred and four recently-acquired villages, which he holds in the Pyla estate, in the Khyrabad district, that has been made over to the Huzoor Tuhseel.* He offered an increased rate for these villages to the then Amil, Bhowood Dowlah, in the year A.D. 1840.  It was accepted, and he attacked, plundered, and murdered a good many of the old proprietors, and established such a dread among them, that he now manages them with little difficulty.  Basdeo held fourteen of these villages under mortgage, and sixteen more under lease.  He had his brother, maternal uncle, and a servant killed by Lonee Sing, and is now reduced to beggary.  Lonee Sing took the lease in March, 1840, and commenced this attack in May.

[* Anrod Sing holds twenty-eight villages in the Pyla estate, acquired in the same way as those held by Lonee Sing.]

The Nazim had with him, of infantry, 1.  Futteh Aesh Nujeebs. 2.  Wuzeree, ditto. 3.  Zuffur, Mobaruk Telinga. 4.  Futteh Jung ditto; Ruza Kolee Khan. 5.  Captain Barlow’s ditto.  Eleven guns.  But, being unable to get any duty from the three regiments first named, he offered to dispense with the two first, on condition that the command of the third should be placed at his disposal for his son or nephew.