We hardly understand the fuss made because the Maharajah Dhuleep
Singh is now in Russia. It appears to be quite true that he is there seeking assistance to threaten the British Government into increasing hie pension, that he has constant interviews with M. Katkoff, and that he is about to proceed to Central Asia ; but what does that matter ? His position as son—not grandson—of Rnnjeet Singh will not give him the slightest influence in any Mahommedan country ; and if he reached the Punjab from the North as an avowed enemy of the British Government, he would be arrested, under the State Prisoners Act, without ceremony or hesitation. There is not the slightest evidence that he is recollected among the Sikhs, and no other section of the population of the Punjab has reason to remember his father with favour. His history, too, stands in his way. He has, no doubt, renounced Christianity ; but the Sikh is a Hindoo sect, and it is the first principle of Hindooism that the wanderer once fairly outside the pale can never return. Any able adventurer with money and a name can, of course, give trouble in India ; but the career of the Maharajah so far contains no indication of ability.
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