Show Prince Victor Dhnleeps Resolve Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Dec 2The rumor of the engagement of Prince Victor Dhuleep Singh o Miss Jeanne Turnure calls to mind an in eresting chapter of Indian history Victor is a son of the Maharajah Dhuleep Singhand a grandson of the celebrated Run jeet Singh called the Lion of Punjaub once ruler of 20000000 of subjects in what is now the ho most northern province of British India and original owner of the famous Cohinoor diamond Dhuleep father of PieaVhf qs s ect but recently has gone to Moscow vhero he is waiting an opportunity to get rack his throne When Runjeet Singh died Jhuleep who was born in 1S2S was an infant in-fant and owing to Sikh wars England finally annexed the Punjaub in 1849 the condition being that Dhnleep should receive re-ceive a pensiou of 40000 per annum The Mahraajah after going to England became a Christian was naturalized as a British subject and purchased an estate near Ox ford In 1SU he was married at the Bri ish consulate at Alexandria to a young Protestant lady an English subject and Prince Victor is the result of the marriage The young prince is described as short dark and at present is attached to the staff of General Sir John Ross K C B com nander of her majestys force in British forth America About two years ago Dhnleep protested to the government that 40000 was insufficient to support him with becoming dignity and made a claim for the restoration of his private family estates salt mines and other personal property which his father Runjeet Singh had inherited in-herited because as he said by the terms of the treaty of annexation the state property prop-erty only falls under the badge of confisca ion He Dhuleep Singh started for India but on his arrival at Aden he was arrested by order of the British government He hereupon wrote a wrathful letter to the Times of India respecting his treatment by the British government He declared hat though prevented from entering Bombay Bom-bay by the ordinary route ho would yet reach the goal by other means and appealed ap-pealed to his countrymen for financial aid as he had resigned the miserable stipend received from England Should the British government veto his countrymens generosity gener-osity he said that he would transfer his allegiance to some other power This he virtually did soon afterwards and became be-came a subject of Russia and determined to await the coming as he said of the inevi able struggle between England and Russia for supremacy in the far east ivhep the son of the Lion of Punjaub intended to lay > an important part In a letter which he addressed to the people of the United States about a year ago ho said 1 prefer to be a Russian subject to being a duke of Great Britain a nation which professes to be guided by the high code j Christian morality though practising not oven rudi ncntary justice toward her weak victims I hav3 formed a solemn resolve bo thecon sequences what they may to consecrate he remainder of my life in freeing my countrymen from the yoke of Britains ia tolerable tyranny He has also made a solemn resolve to some day get back the most famous diamond dia-mond in the world |