5 MAY 1849, Page 2

The Indian news is very satisfactory. The expectation that General

Gilbert would follow up the victory of Goojerat has been fulfilled : by an admirable scheme of forced marches, in which his slower troops were successively left behind as reinforcements, while his quickest pushed on at the crupper of his own horse, he pursued the flying Sikhs to the uttermost confines of their ter- ritory, took Shere Singh prisoner, and at the despatch of the last advices was in pursuit of Dost dohammed and our old treache- rous allies of Cabul. Preparations were in progress for some final arrangement of the Punjaub, probably of the nature of an- nexation; a process in which Sir Charles Napier may find solace on being too late for the fighting.