INDIA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 19.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 333, 7 October 1848, Page 3

INDIA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 19.]

We regret to state that the news from India leaves little doubt that the Punjaub is by this time again the seat of war. At Mooltan two British officers, named Agnew and Anderson, had been seized, and, it was feared, murdered; this would appear to hare been part of a conspiracy to murder, or drive oul of the country, all the English. As soon as the news of the seizure of Messrs. Agnew and Anderson reached Lahore, it was supposed that a large force would be sent against Mooltan, and when the troops bad marched, it was intended to overpower those left in Lahore, and murder the political officer. The native troops had been tampered with, and upwards of twenty men of the 50th regt., (N. 1.,) had been seduced from their duty, and received the wages of treason. A native subaltern detected the conspiracy, and gave information, when a number of persons were arrested, and two of their principals, Khan Singh and Gunga Ram, were hanged at the city gates, lamenting that they hadnot lived two days longer to see their plot carried into effect. A third chief, named Golauba lost heart at the foot of the gallows and offered to turn approver, and being heavily ironed, was then marched down the ranks of the regiments on parade, and pulled out the miserable men who had been seduced from their allegiance. There being reason to suspect the Queen-Mother of being concerned in the plot, she had been made a prisoner, and carried a thousand miles from the frontiers. It was stated that an " Army of Mooltan " was to assemble in the cold weather, to consist of nine Queen's regiments, nine regiments of native cavalry, and sixteen of infantry, with artillery, and a heavy siege train, and that the Commander-in- Chief was to take the field in person.