| Show from the london times tiie tile 11 md afan dian FAN DURBAR AT bahor on the last month as the oie telegraph informed us sir john lawrence hoid held hold a durbar at labor tiie the meaning of this simple announcement was that the queen of england had by her representative and deputy the VI viceroy e cr y of or ind india been holding a levoe levee i in C central asia and had received the homage of six hundred princes assembled from remote regions in her honor perhaps in tho tha narratives of yrol malt mait we might find a dese description in or two i yielding fieldin flonie some idea of the tic spectacles pt ati I w which h 1 c 1 royal rosal t 0 al meetings presented dented before i the til e i splendor p lei let i or of semi aemi barbarism had been i put aside by advancing civilization but we may as ali well say at once that nr edid r did a and nd i D v r could rii ril nish such sueh a show as that at lahore r ony ly iu in the easl east are the tho distinctions of long iong ong descent and interminable history combined with the primitive habits of half halo civilized races only there is barbarism noble and magnificent there chiefs and princes Princea who at the invitation of the tho british viceroy went up to labor might be deemed uncivilized if measured by a modern standard but one of them represented a it line of sin gin kings 98 who according to the firm belief of or the country have llave reigned in tho the same dominions for ten thousand years audret and aud yet he lite only came seventeenth in int the order of precedence these The semen semon men were all dig 1 I 0 ni lilied proud and powerful and many of them them so independent that they had never deigned jtb attend such a levoe levee before the ther punjab is the north westernmost province of british india so 80 far does it pene penetrate into asia that talat a single eingle step over the border will weil take you vou into in dependant 7 it is conterminous with the tilo rudest parts party of china aid the wilds of on these frontiers reside chieftains amenable to little authority save that of opinion monarchies avith yuh considerable territories or princes with patriarchal power in lit the tile province itself there is un an aristocracy of no mean quality iua jua lity whose has hils passed from a native sovereign to the tiro queen or this realm to this province as large larga and anti as populous as a it surope european an kingdom sir john repaired in the tiie course of a progress through the ole presidency and there invited all the ehl cht chiefs kiefs within range to a high durbar six hundred and four obeyed tho the summons including kings under our protection princes 0 or tiie hills military lords from I 1 the border horder and the laih high nobility of the punjab itself no native c monarch had ever convoked such a court the mongul mangul sovereigns could not ot have thus commanded the punjab eshagh liw bew scort grent bakir cd 0 thae the punjab could not have controlled tiie the princes on the frontier but on this occasion none were so hiah or so iso low as to neglect the call partly from froin the local renown of sir john lawrence but partly niao alao from the enhanced and growing reputation of the british rule all till concurred in tendering the compliment conveyed by the ceremony even the tiie old and infirm being brought to the rendezvous ohp durbar was held in magnificent i morite pitched on a smooth plain outside the walls of labor the commencement of the ceremony was expected at nino nine in the tile in morning oming but the smaller chlon chiefs began to arrive at seven and before half past eight the highest of the assembly were wore in places in the east magnificence of costume is stilled pecked and the dresses of these asiatic princes might be chronicled like the toile toilette tei tet of our royal koyal drawing room the tho wilkle ra rajah najah h I 1 of was dressed in iu pure white muslin gleaming all over with wl th diabo diamonds 1 ids and emeralds anda 1 yellow ti turban th the maharajah Mah arajah nos cos 1 oteala a very important i personage wore a dress of rich lavender silk ut but so overlaid with emeralds and pearls that the eolo color r could hardly be distinguished tho tiie maharajah Mah arajah of cashmere and his on ft a boy of ten tell were in white with red and yellow turbans emeralds and diamonds one chief of great stature appeared 1 in black gold with a green turban another 1 showed ills his true sikh extraction by a robe of pure yellow the character and histories jethree teth Jeth ese eee princes were as striking and varied as ali their apparel there thero were two high priests of the sikh nation lineal descendants cen een danta ts of tile the very prophet who founded the state there was the very sikh nobleman who AS the best horseman of his bis race had led the charge against us at there nv was as the noble persian of the Kussi russi bash basu tribe who bad rescued the english pris boners from babul there was a little nabob only seven years old who behaved with as much intelligence and composure as its thie the most experienced ruler one chieftain present was noted as tai the hands oniest onlest man in lit tite tiie northwest another HA ai the wittiest a third ia as 4 the heaviest be who was BO so largo large indeed that tilo lie iio arms of hia bla chair had to be cut oil before before lie could bo be seated not a state no not dynasty not a principality not an I 1 of AR W not a dignity remained rt aa c 11 n lal biml P ibay ibar and who were they who rec received elved the reverence of this unparalleled assembly the two first representatives of the sovereign of india had been irish lads at school at londonderry the next was a it bluecoat blue coat boyat boy at christs hospital less than thirty years ago one of cheso however now in lit of his queen gouverneu gover governed neU the tile whole of india more completely and absolutely than it ever had been governed by the great moguls and as afi anc entire meeting rose in lit ins his honor lionor he lie addressed the chiefs in their own language with the ease case and fluency of a native never up to this time had llad such a it proceeding been recorded some borne of the tiie earlier governors of india could certainly havo spoken but they never enjoyed such sreh an occasion of doing so it wass wait reserved for sir john lawrence to unite unit ethe the accomplishments and the power which thus brought him into direct intercourse with the rajahn rajahs the Mara jahs theNa the nabors nabobs bohs bobs and anti the sir dars data of territories once onee beyond our knowledge and aud to these princes ho lie a I 1 dressed words of simplicity and force ile ho told them how liow when lie had hid lately stood in the tile pr presence of the queen of of england she had inculcated to liim ailin the duty of promoting their welfare and how hei her consort the prince whose g greatness re atness and goodness gooduck s were everywhere known had always felt the deepest interest in the prosperity of india he reminded them of the solid advantages which they tiley had actually derived from the english rule and acknowledged the devotion by which in the hour ilour of our peril they had repaid the obligation he told them to educate educato their children in sound learning and to acquaint themselves with the tho true policy and intent intentions imis of their rulers go so that they might discern and recognize the character of our orr gover government lim rim nt then the whole M hole hoie six hundred were presented to him hint on one by one princes and aliel iren heirs apparent great greal minister of states kajans and nabobs nabors spiritual potentates and military chaivre chiefs it was thought that six bix hours would be required for a it list of presentation presentations of which none could be omitted emitted or hurried but so successfully were the ceremonies conducted that half balf the tile time was saved bavm and the durbar war over at noon first rolled away the viceroys Vice vlee royh roys carriage escorted by his body guard and under a alroyal royal salute and then three or four princes of the highest rank were escorted with almost equal ceremony but when the most lordly of the g grdner franr dem dew had departed the tho assembly broke tip up and resolved itself into a stately mob of oriental dignitaries conspicuous in the crowd were two ambassadors from kogan rogan a city remote and ohse obscure ure oven even in the eyes of tho sikhs themselves who had bad arri Cirri vedon a mission irom rom ae the fabulous regions hars hure two battalions of british ry with a few squadrons of cavalry sufficed cd to represent the military ider lder power idor of that empire to which all th this 8 reverence had been bech paid and one of these regiments conduced in no slight degree to the gratification of tile the nobles assembled sem som bled bied whether from fastidiousness of taste or otherwise it inight be dangerous 1 at 1 g er to enquire ent luire but of all european music musie the indian car loves that of af the scottish bagpipe alone and when the iho pipes of 0 tile the yard were ordered out to play the grattic grat gratification nie fic atlon of her or Maje princely vassals was vas complete three times were the pipes brought u up and tind played played round the great tent to tte del light lit of the company ani and the mahara i juh jah a of cashmere casamere iye iyo we vye are informed hns has sent an embassy to Seal kote for theeb the express press purpose of getting instructions on the instrument from the highland corps corns quartered bartered uart ered there thore while another hill chieftain chieftain has bis bespoken the tile genuine 4 ar j tide tlde direct from edinburgh 1 f 4 av w joho john john Jv ho where is your today d 11 1 on bir sir recruiting IT ra xing zing is he that goidl 1 i wheres 4 he recruiting up jj in the white mountains sir elrre rt 1 liis ills heal health beaith 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