of the 1st of July 1850.  Maheput Sing had just left the house to perform his ablutions, but on seeing them, he suspected their designs and re-entered the house.  The subadar’s party saw him, immediately surrounded the house, and demanded his surrender, Maheput Sing begged Prethee Paul to join him in defending the house or cutting their way through; but Prethee Paul told him that he had ruined himself by his atrocities, and must now submit to his fate, since he could not involve himself and all his family in ruin merely to assist him.  Prethee Paul then took him by the arm, brought him out, and made him over to Seetul Sing, who had threatened to set fire to the house, forthwith unless he did so.  He was then secured and taken off, well guarded, and in all possible haste, to Captain Orr, lest his gang might collect and attempt a rescue.  Captain Orr sent him off, under a strong guard and well fettered, to Lucknow, to Captain Weston, the Superintendent of the Frontier Police.

Prethee Paul, the tallookdar, for the good service, got back his estate from the Oude sovereign, and an addition of five hundred rupees a-year to his nankar or personal allowance.  Gunga Aheer is now a pensioner on the Residency fund, and his family has been provided for.  Maheput Sing and his associate Gujraj were sentenced to transportation beyond seas, and sent off in October 1851.

It is remarked by the people, that few of these baronial robbers ever die natural deaths—­that they either kill each other, or are killed sooner or later by the servants of Government.  More atrocious crimes than those which they every month commit it is difficult to conceive.  In the Bangor district, through which we passed last month, this class of landholders are certainly as strong and as much disposed to withhold the just dues of Government, and to resist its officers and troops, as they are here, but they do not plunder and burn down each other’s villages, and murder and rob each other’s tenants so often as they do here.  The coalition has introduced among them a kind of balance of power, which makes them respect each other’s rights, and the rights of each other’s tenants, for the chiefs are dependent upon the attachment and fidelity of their respective tenants.  The above list contains only a part of the leaders of gangs, by which the districts of Dureeabad, Rodowlee, Sidhore, Pertabgunge, Deva, and Jehangeerabad, are infested.  We have seen no manufacture of any exportable commodity in Oude, nor have we seen traffic on any road in Oude, save that leading from Cawnpore to Lucknow.

In consequence of some bad seasons, a good deal of the grain required at the Capital, and in the districts to the north-cast, comes from Cawnpore over this road.  Were the road from Fyzabad to Lucknow good and safe, a good deal of land produce would, in ordinary seasons, come over it from the Goruckpoor district, and those intervening between Lucknow and Fyzabad.  It would, however, be useless to make the road till the gangs which infest it are put down.  A good and secure road from Lucknow through Sultanpoor to Benares, would be of still greater advantage.