1 32 FROM THE DEATH OF NOO NEHAL SINGH
2 treasure party escorting some seven or eight lacs
3 of rupees to Lahore. After paying themselves all
4 arrears and two months in advance, they per-
5 mitted the party to proceed with what remained.
6 The soldiers, at length tired of their own excesses,
7 modified their demands throughout the whole
8 army to the increase of one rupee per month,
9 with a gratuity of two months' pay as the reward
10 for their exertions in placing Shere Singh upon
11 the throne. These terms being acceded to by
12 the government, tranquillity became partially
13 restored ; but from that period discipline and
14 subordination may be said to have ceased in the
15 Lahore army. The soldiers, conscious of their
16 power, cared but little for the authority of their
17 officers, or even of the Maharajah himself. A
18 certain degree of order, or at least of quiet, being
19 thus re-established, the Maharajah, by the advice
20 of Dhyan Singh, accorded four months' leave of
21 absence to the greater part of the troops, to
22 enable the Minister to devote some attention to
23 the internal administration of the, country, which,
24 as may be supposed, had been almost entirely
25 neglected during the military revolt. Necessary
26 orders for the collection of revenue were issued ;
27 and the property of the most influential partisans
28 of the late Queen Regent having been confis-
29 cated; the Queen herself eflectually got rid
30 of, and others banished from Lahore, — afikirs