DEFEAT OF SHERE SINGH. [From the Calcutta Englishman, March 3.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 413, 18 July 1849, Page 3

DEFEAT OF SHERE SINGH. [From the Calcutta Englishman, March 3.]

We have just received a letter from Lahore announcing the complete rout of the Sikhs ou thp 21st, with very trifling loss to our army. "The battle commenced at half- past three on the morning of the /21st. Oar guns were kept playing on the enemy for three hours. The attack was then ordered, and appears to have been successful at every point. Thirty of the enemy's guns were taken, also his camp and baggagp, and he was completely routed. The cavalry were still in pursuit at 9 p.m. The enemy fled towards the Jhelum, and it is supposed will make for Attock. Our loss has been very s-mall; it is said no more than 200 killed and wounded. 'The 10.-s of the Sikhs is not said to be very great, as they soon took to their heels. r% The only officer whose name is mentioned as killed, is- Captain Anderson of the artillery. We understand that the Commander-in-Chief's despatches have not jiet arrived. They will be looked for with much eagerness. It is to be hoped that there will be no more bard fighting-unless the Dust dares to make a stand. ' ' ' GOVERNMENT'N'OTITICi.TIONS. „, a • Foreign Department, Fort William, Matcli3, 1849. -■The Presjdent-in "Council is pleased Jo" ditect the publication of the following notification,, issued by the Right Honorable the Go-rernor-General at His Lordship's head quarters £t Ferozepore, and to direct that a salute of 21 guns' be 1 fired from therampart* of Fort William. "" .- -a; - r . By order of the President of the Council of India in Council. „' -„ ■ " Fked. Jas. Halxfdat, #t"-r. Officiating Secretary to the Govern-/ _ i ■/■"- m|n j tf iriaii.' 2"

Notification. — Foreign Department, Camp Ferozepore, 23rd February. — The GovernorGeneral has the gratification of intimating to the President in Council, and notifying for public information, that lie has this day received a despatch from Major Mackeson, C.8., Agent to the Governor- General with the, Commander-in-Chief, conveying the intelligence that the forces under his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief on the 21st instant, attacked and routed the Sikh army* in the neighbourhood of Goojerat. The enemy was beaten at every point, and retreated in disorder, leaving in the hands of the British troops, by whom he was pursued, a great portion of his artillery, his ammunition, and the whole of his standing camp. The official despatches of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief will be published as soon as they are received. The Governor-General directs that a salute of 21 guns shall be fired at every principal station of the army, on the receipt of this notification. By order of the Right Hpnorab'e the Go-vernor-General. H. M. Elliott, Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General.