Dhunolee and Bhumoree have been levelled with the ground.
_December_ 9, 1849 .-- In the news-writer's report of the 3rd December, 1849, it is stated--"that Ashfakos Sultan, Omrow Begum, one of the King's wives, reported to his Majesty, that a man named Sadik Allee had come to Lucknow while the King was suffering from palpitations of the heart, and, in the disguise of a Durveish, hired a house in Muftee Gunge, and taken up his residence in it.

He there gave himself out as one of the Kings of the Fairies (_Amil-i-Jinnut_); and the fakeer, to whom his Majesty's confidential servants, the singers, had taken him to be cured of his disease, was no other than this Sadik Allee.

The King, on hearing this, sent for Sadik Allee, who was seized and brought before him on the 2nd December.

He confessed the imposture, but pleaded that he had practised it merely to obtain some money, and that the singers were associated with him in all that he did.

The King soothed his apprehensions, and conferred upon him a dress of honour, consisting of a doshala and roomul, and then made him over to the custody of Ashfak-os Sultan.