1 quin of his royal master, being occupied in keeping the lliv
2 front its contents, thus showing his respect to the la»t. On
3 the arrival of the procession outside of the Delhi gate, a (inn
4 and profuse royal salute was given by the tliunderiug of
5 car, non from the fort and ramparts of the city, upon which
6 tin: minister aud sirdars returned, leaving the remains and
7 .presents to Ire conducted by the guard. The mourning lasted
8 thirteen days, the colour of the costume being white.
9 After the obsequies of Runject Sing, his legitimate son,
10 Kurruek Sing, ascended the Guddee (throne), who, besides
11 being a blockhead, was a worse opium eater than his father.
12 1 vice a-day he deprived himself of his senses, and passed
13 his wl ole time in a state of stupefaction It was quite
14 natural that the government could not long remain in the
15 hands of such an individual. His guardian, or tutor and
16 factotum, Sirdar Chet Sing, being desirous to become an inde¬
17 pendent minister, was a rival of Dhyun Sing, arid was contriving
18 to remove him. IJe intended to assassinate him one morning
19 in ;iiti durbar, i'or this purpose he had collected in the fortress,
20 where he lived with Kurruek Sing, his two recently organised
21 fatal lions of body-guards, and had ordered the sentinels at the
22 three gates, devoted to Dhyun Sing, to be changed early in the
23 morning fixed upon for the murder of the minister; but this
24 plot was not concealed from Dhyun Sing, and he hastened to
25 prevent the treacherous act, in which he nucceeeded by the
26 assistance of the royal prince, No-Neh&l Sing and a few of the
27 sirdars; nud with the aid of his two brothers and some relations,
28 Kurruek Sing and Chet Sing were assailed in the fortress before
29 the break of day, when Chet Sing and all his relations and partisans
30 were destroyed. This was the beginning of the bloody scenes
31 in tin: Punjab, which could only end by the interference of the
32 Tngljsh.
33 After the murder of Chet Sing, the. royal prince, No-Nehal,
34 Kurruek Sing's only son, took possession of the government,
35 and ordered Ins father to retire to his private house in the
36 cit\, where he soon became indisposed A few months after-