[From the Hurkaru, March 24.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 420, 11 August 1849, Page 4

[From the Hurkaru, March 24.]

The following being the contents of a Delhi Gazette Extra, of the 18th instant, which came in late last evening, it contains news highly important if true :—: — All the Sikh Sirdars are announced as having given themselves up, 37 in number. Twelve of their guns in the camp of General Sir W. Gilbert, and the heavy ones coming in. A troop of the Body Guard left Ferozepore on the 13th March for Kussoor, ostensibly to disarm some turbulent chief in that neighbourhood, but really, according to a correspondent who has never yet been wrong, to escort Dhulleep Singh, Moolraj and Narrian Singh, to the provinces. Should this information prove correct, we may look for the final determination of Government in a very few days. The slh Light Cavalry return to Siakoda. H. M. 3rd Light Dragoons are to bs cantoned at Julundhur; and it is said the 9th Lancers proceed to the same station. Thanksgiving for Peace. —The Bishop has anticipated the suggestion of our correspondent, " A Member of the Church of England," and we have much pleasure in giving publicity to the circular issued on the occasion, by his Lordship's orders, to the clergy of his diocese: — To the Reverend Clergy of the Diocese of Calcutta. Reverend and Dear Brethren. —The Bishop instructs me to say, that he wishes you to return thanksgiving to Almighty God, with your respective congregations, on the two Sundays next after your receiving this letter, for the recent victory at Goozerat, by using the Thanksgiving Prayer, " For Peace and Deliverance from our Enemies." His lordship also desires me to call your attention to the propriety of your directing the thoughts of your congregation in your discourses to the great mercies we have received as a nation ; and to point out to them the duties and responsibilities which lie upon us all, as a people so highly favoured of God, with greater diligence than ever to adorn the Gospel in our lives, and to use every means, and encourage every design, for the setting forth of God's glory, and the promotion of the temporal and eternal welfare of the millions who are living in this land under British Rule. — I am, Reverend and Dear Brethren, your most faithful friend and brother, John H. Pratt, Commissary and Acting Aichdeacon. Bishop's Palace, Calcutta, March 9, 1849.

Deliverance from our Enemies." His lordship also desires me to call your attention to the propriety of your directing the thoughts of your congregation in your discourses to the great mercies we have received as a nation ; and to point out to them the duties and responsibilities which lie upon us all, as a people so highly favoured of God, with greater diligence than ever to adorn the Gospel in our lives, and to use every means, and encourage every design, for the setting forth of God's glory, and the promotion of the temporal and eternal welfare of the millions who are living in this land under British Rule. — I am, Reverend and Dear Brethren, your most faithful friend and brother, John H. Pratt, Commissary and Acting Aichdeacon. Bishop's Palace, Calcutta, March 9, 1849.

The Punjaub. — Later advices from Calcutta confirm the intelligence previously announced in the Straits Times, of the surrender of the Sikh Sirdars and their troops, and the virtual termination of the Punjaub war, after a struggle of nearly twelve months. The work of peace is not yet complete, or the war concluded ; the Governor-General expresses his determination to keep dp the campaign " until Dost Mahomed Khan, aud the Affghan army, are either driven from the province of Peshawur, or destroyed within it." An ounce of determination at the first breaking out of the Sikh rebellion would have saved thousands of lives. Nothing is said about annexation.