ABSTRACT
In the records of Indian affairs during this period, we find a curious mingling of notices, – the formation of companies for the construction and management of railways, which are to encourage commerce and extend peace over the whole of those vast regions; and hints that the British may soon be compelled to interfere in the Punjaub, from the excesses that were perpetrated there against one after another of the rulers who succeeded Runjeet Singh. One more battle – that of Aliwal, fought on the 28th of January, 1846 – drove the Sikhs from our territory, and impelled them to take refuge in their last stronghold on the left bank of the Sutlej. In 1843, the Sandwich Islands – the Hawaiian Islands, or old Owhyhee – were ceded by their king, Kamehamella, to Great Britain, because the poor Sovereign found himself embarrassed by claims of reparation for injury done to British subjects.
