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~,.. , is this body has'been so nero . ^: „ted tivat , e. ':_2-_ , l r h t ed to h...; recognised. ft. ,.. c a.di, g to the ittlitloians it does exist -- retty generally. They exist *h e riati :ce States, Nagpore, for instance, . the police is the best in India ; and. iii rxlvParti ef the Nizarn ' s territory, where the rherl3*, I , lhtr, or collector, attends to them pro fley are sound to be efficient. These_ 6t LL . lll 'glit be again reformed ; they would only h e r tise locally; and the military police would Ad) materially ; but to trust to the mili- Ni l Nice alone for the protection of property A s Pe rson. is to ex p ect more than i s poss ibl e . Yet. however , it is unfair t o j u d g e of his rdship's Anoth purpose. th er, and the last object worthy of notle . e , Ithe prom c a 1S acts of G overnment during the mouth, ulgation o f an o rd er restrict i ng the QC . ik4 e ", o 4 of staff app o i ntments to five years, and ti on : l 'has been said on boo:. si d es ofthe ques k —ll The new syste ' rni will certainly distribute more generally than at present . the army, and will give a spur to indivi al ex . ertion, not only in those who _ho b l e d ap 41;41ents (for they can be contained . N I) Years at the pleasure of the Governor-G 3 ene- Wh e ' n b ut ill all ranks to attain to !hem. Now, tti,eaman attains to a staff appointment, it is rally considered that he is to it for his -4 vi e or till promotion deprives him of it, and pro 4, I,llbe is tolerably attentive, he manages to ' on quietly t o t h e en d o f hi s t i me . e la test news f rom C a l cu t ta i s , t h a t th e tito- C142 - General goes to Si mla to consu l t with Mr. Si th , l ',who is ill t h ere; and i t is sa id that Shere 'las applied to Lord Ellenburough for aid br bis Minister Dhyan Sing. This person s hhieh tifie la bla.t Sing, commands the Sikh army, in his interest, so that-interference be . I t e toore probable. ,*ll ooze stated that the army of reserve o ` r lter the Punjaub in November; and that . Revenue, help !the eXpenses of the war, the S b u ( r ) - - ist 'd4"(l Thuggee departments are to be a and a tax of 5 per cent. put on all civ anti staff-officers' allowances. . ()11 JELLALABAD. WOlterm t er dates from this quarter extended, at the e 4 of last mail (July 19), to the 24th of June, ktita t e ,, ll un' have received intelligence to the 3d of 'ltti — ,,:' We were in error in stating that at the . fors of these dates Brigadier Monteatti s tio; "ad returned from Pesh Bolak ; they have only tl) ule into camp after a six weeks' foray amongst 4° : l ti ciuntai na• Near Pesh Bolak the trees wFre the ti l and the forts destroyed—the enemy offering . no . t 1 . 41 . l'Rhtest resistance. The fort itself had beenbe o _ desthe.velled by an earthquake, so here the work o f kf tll %;ill ey een w was perfected to our hands ; the rest_ Most as laid desolate in every quarter.. , A ar lo t s th 4ProPerty left behind by Captain Ferris s.p y qrtijavetaber I st, together with a gun, was recovered. oti. hopii a rid forage being plentiful, the troops co to 414 4 ela ke the best use they could of the oppor beet! qeollecting supplies, 700 camel-loads having to p ay s ?t to Jellalabad. The chief at length agreed 4 to . Mulct of 3,5001. Having continued here for 4,t44418ht, Brigadier Monteath proceeded to make T a . , t j aia (mg lo, k "e trees the twins,levelling the forts and destrpo3l r as he pceded to rejoin General o tovvarl,he tribes at the beginning were found friendly . teCl is y th k erni and freely tendered whatever was r i e l. IN ;i.`"eul• On the 24th of July a party, co _ 171itib-t.',._two .companies of her Als...ty's 31st, and I,.'te c i, t, '_mpanies of two of the infiluatory regiments, ~'4 ll et knea to a reconnoissance of the Shinwarree NA, iii,, preparatory to the destruction of the. forts. ,;'11()w, seven miles lon nd half a mile hrottd, 4 tli s -vered with water, for the n irrigation of the ric . e Li vat, Ihe troops met with little resistance on their 11 (40 but on returning they were obliged to Illll s itsl:l their way back to the camp. Our loss lt 26, L t ee killed and wounded—all natives. 0n SArt Oil! Monteath moved out with the principal 6 ' 14 brigade about 2,300 strong, leaving the i l 'ktt w . c harge of six companies of light infantry Ze adv-,:cluadrons of the Ist light cavalry, 800 in all.. sietii b efore rapidly along the heights, driving the , r 1 ,14 f 3: uetbr e hi m. The vlley was no where more Lqttra r° , l 4l 2oo to 900 yards in width. The brigade , , s are e r : "u. °amp late in the afternoon after twel It_ture -untlrlued and severe exertion under a tempe- *ji, st ated to have been 145 deg. (!) Lieutenant % a f e , e i n, of her Majesty's 31st, was the only officer 3 !all fell :, two Jezailchies having been killed, and 23 leers, wounded, including nine Europeans, i!o .. ith sent in After this all theprincipal chiefs in the vet_ to a el t i u l t in their submission. The brigade returned 4S klAs 4 t • 4ll „, ad afte r six week s ' absence, on the 3 In its A, l're aSUre to the amount of 100,0001. alsois tem. 4 ; 1 4, and would reach about the Ist of Sep t 'Qs army 9( . 31 ' a week is required for pay alone, and 'lslvar,r4tuc'w three months in arrears. The rockets )) __ Ivq.e divieYlthaagy some months since from Delhi krt hay. ed into tw A ° separate parts at Ferozepo i r , Is t he fariAtbea„,,eu s'isPatehed by water from Shuk cur o Xoettab om - e-u• thence through the Bolan pass to Jaab for p ii Part 1 14 „ lo _ tt4topect, s t h ed el .. g been sent through the Fu I::Cidwilotrtier3° camel ,lks cal at Jellalabad leads of these, with -4. descriptions of ammunition, were . about the 26th—this givingrise to fresh reports of an advance upon Caubul. 4, CANDAHAR. fi l m of da,te of o u r last intelligence from Candahar ken , 5f 11tle), Cnel Wymer, with a force of 3,000 riorth all arms, were under orders for a march to the .. Iltirit;%eq, their destination being unknown, but re Plie s. 1 t hel'a to take with them eighteen days' sup- , 4 pl at _ t Was believed to be Ghirisk, on the Helmun_d tb,,,,? of considerable strength, eighty miles off. it ehqls for that a general foray amongst the disaffected .e lttr o .' I ° l ' the purpose of levelling their forts, and c .I - ttrlynq their orchards and corn-fields, was alone in ttieZ'i, In thi s we were every where successful, the ts„ . ttr I," a ving fled before us, or offered submission on A s ti„..,Pt°ach, and nowhere attempted resistance. 1 3 1 14 11c1 Pa first proceeded down the valley of the Ur botori an river as far as Nar-o-Kareez, the seat of ..1-, (i)zada°llll.q.Le.et:ooting moolah (priest!) named Salm , titi tti Ails stronghold, named after himse . lf, was direttiY destroyed. The force proceeded in . the 141 the irC of Ghirisk, but afterwards, turn!ug. t o ti, previous course moved about thirty nille ee estward. They then made a' sweep, and 1 irr e d 0 , qa r (0 4 tl 'ite country round" within sight of Canda hill,. -le 22d and 23d), and having very success tpaksPred ravag e and devastation all around them — returned to y o nly the few who had kept faithful to us; bext " e d to Camp on the 28th without loss. For 91 . `fertol three Weeks the army remained inactive. G , k tratZ t having expressed its dissatisfaction at the o il k h, ,‘-lilents of General England embodying the _ . e ... 4 bat t r-IpanieS of the native regiments in Scinde into ) 5 t1 1 , 4 +1 , 1°11 , this was ordered to be dissolved on the It was le Men returning to their corps. At this tin b i takit,l,laderstood that a retiring movement was to e N. i "Y this d etachment, and some of the late Shah's t kili a rlle ,°, .s, on the 22d—these leaving behind them tlic, -- `'Noolah a force strong enough to maintain \vith,s,t till the ma i n body fell back on it ; carrying Infant em meanwhile to Qu e tt a h th e 12th N ative the - ll' bY whom th e f or t h a d b een kept since ti ~ i k , e 4th of June. Eith er th e army must have tj °n, o k i . e Pt in profound ignorance of their destina tsver , i. a sudden and unlooked-for change had come that `,l'e resolves of Government ; for the expectation tilt de whole force was to retire on Quettah witn 114,,'ay continued uniform and unabated till the they Nir er ""r spread, about the 27th of July, that - •willy 'Pos e d , to be divided —about 4,000 retiring as lightly equipped as lio 4 t,cd, and 7,000 moving on t °tli le ill the direction of Ghuznee, andt e h: l e t u n h ' e tu p i rn a i fi n i g a ro ute tight acros s the Sooliman range, by fr t , o4 e . to descend upon Dera-Ishmael-Kh a large an' and the l iou a s t „._ n ct "w on the banks of the Indus, this was ) sslarY of the Punjaub. The order tr ue d on the 30th, from which it appea f r o e r d that the eerP destined for Quettah, under General England, blloek 114 k. -14t v e l of Cooper's Troop Horse Artillery, a ,e ti 'llial r a , " I)( Prs.), detachment of Poonah Native two fsiltr—is Christie's horse, 25th Bombay ?d, s ' l Cfluipanies late light battalion, and the . , s t io itt ld sth Bengal Irregular Infantry 411 ln -, (late Shan ), ti lt ettsoearly 4,000 men. These were to e 1 ave about Pi tt, tlisTiOr Bth of August. They were. to be accom -I%oi jsoy Tin -lour Shah, the only son of the late Shah 0 14,'; who has throughout conducted himself d N e v r i e th IlirasZte propriety. Sutler Jung, who surrendered lz.re vi :''' t° us two months since, after requiting our Itßaih.olls kindness to him by six months fighting Ileet; l st lls, is to be left at Candahar, where all is ex kool: ,t° become uproar and wild confusion the Wit t e' we retire. General Nott was to march ea tlio v hout the same time that General England ei ill the opposite direction. The the e count r i es SCINDE. betwixt the Bolan Pass and Kurra : ,jeq for the line of Indus, furnish us scarcely a su h o _ tiles:lune line of narrative. The most turbulent state of f Profell'lstricts appear at present to be in . a ha ve .na Iranc,quillity; and even the mountain robbers i the nlitl;c'rrupted the traffic of plunder which has been P111:; 111 s ource of support to the chief t• ar_ of in- Tu eitio - r vo c o _ al Lig the skirts of Cutchee from time i i ven Partienia- Under the Candahar head we , a‘ f e or g ce of bet wixt -1. : m (4 the retirement of England s presume, will be i e ':'', ° and 4,000 men ; these, statio n d" P ec i at Quettah the troops presently , -e they , will by down the Bolan Pass ~,000 strop e 5 and movepresently ass eMbl e d n g . in all the Camels to a large extent are being distri at Sukkur, and collected sto re ets around commissariat with °ll ; while arsenal and comm 19 the largest scale, are getting ready here It is tome delay for a similar destination. Ineo u . 5 000 -ie delay' • cantonments for , . since permanent arr an -er e ordered to be constructed at Sukkur, and ii„-u Relnents to a similar effect are now making at P r , rra ; , c hee by the sea. Meanwhile, officers at this " c oe h 1 3 • ' such of their r©- y h ave been ordered to join ' — ` 4l4ll at ars in Scind. without a moment's defy ; ^! - „ %a Arne id or 26 of .titese - Prcie&d nn the Ist by 'steilry. It is statenliat atl army. of reserve or .ob servation is . 03 b ititkiibleol, under command of Sir G. :& - opitf., who leaves immediately; and we believe there is no officer under whom it could have been placed in whom greater'cenfldenee Is, reposed by the army of India in general. He is senior to General Et!gland 4 aiid. will supersede , him in command. The point on which these movements are directed is said to be Hyderabad, where we have some old scores to settle. Itissaida!so that the Ameers have given us re cent cause of mistrust, which must be looked into. C 11 ). ETTAII. There is scarcely any separate or independent in telligence from this quarter—its affairs being mingled with those of Candahar and Scinde. Lieutenant Rammersley had been very sick ; and his removal from political charge, in so far as that was assumed consequent on the statements contained in General England's dispatches, hai occasioned much specula tion, and excited no small sympathy. NtisSeer Khan was, at our latest dates (3:1. August), at Moostung, thirty miles from Quetah. It is understood that the Shawl country will be given over entirely ,to Kelat. It will be remembered that eighteen months ago similar charges were brought against these chiefs by the press generally, in reference to the murder of Lieutenant Loveday, our Envoy at Kelat, which are now laid against Akbar Khan in, reference to the death of Sir W. Macnaghten,—and that the former carried on the war against us as inveterately, and, on some occasions, as successfully, in proportion to his means and the extent of operations then on foot, as the latter chief. The mode which we took to redress our wrongs, and brighten the lustre of our shield, with the Beloochees, was to restore them their chief and leave their country.; and no one will dispute that in doing so we acted wisely. Is Caubul destined to furnish a further parallel to Kelat, than that which it has already supplied?. LOSS OF THE ADELE. Accounts were received on Wednesday last of the total loss of the barque Adele, from hence to the Mau ritius, on the night of the 4th instant, while attempt ing the passage between the Cherbaniani Bank and the island of Chittae. She struck upon a coral reef, we presume the one on which the Shaw Byrumgore was lost some years ago, and hence called the Shaw Byrumgore Reef. The masts were immediately cut away, and every attempt made to get her off; but owing to the heavy sea running, all their exertions were useless, Fortunately she held together till day light of the sth, otherwise not a soul would have been saved. As it was, twenty-four persons appear to have been drowned; the remainder succeeded in reaching the island of Chittae, where they were hos pitably received by the inhabitants. On .the. 13th, the captain and seven of the crew started in the long boat for the coast, and reached Calicut on the 15th.er 16th. The remaining officers, crew, and passengers expected to be able' to leave for Cochin about the end of the month. They were in all ninety-five souls on board.—Bombay Times, July 30. BRIGADIER MONTEATH'S SUCCESS. SECRET DEPARTMENT. Bombay Castle, Aug. 26, 1842. -- The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to re publish, for general information, the following notifi cation issued at Allahabad, on the 11th inst., under the orders of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India. By order of the Hon. the Governor in Council, J. P. WILLOUGHBY, Secretary to Government. NOTIFICATION. Secret Department, Allaha bad, Au g . 11, 1842. The Right Hon. the Governor-General is pleased to direct the publication of the following letter from Major- General Pollock, and of the report from Brigadier Mon teath, of the successful operations of the force under his command in the Shinwaree :Valley. By order of the Right Hon. the Gover-General, (Signed) T. H. MADDOCK, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General. FROM MAJOR-GENERAL GEO. POLLOCK, C. 8., COMMAND ING TROOPS WEST OF THE INDUS, TO T. HADDOCK, ESQ., SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT POLITICAL DE PARTMENT. Jellalabad, July 29, 1842. Sir,—l have the honour to forward herewith a copy of my letter to the Adjutant General of the Army of this date, fon', arding copies of letters and other documents from Brigadier Monteath. reporting the result of an at tack on the enemy in the Shinwaree Valley. The loss sustained by the enemy must have been con siderable, for in a letter which one of the chiefs addressed to Captain M•Gregor on the 28th instant, he states that they were still burying their dead. The effect in the whole valley by such a complete defeat of the Shinwarees, and the destruction of so many of their forts, will be pro ductive of the most beneficial effects.—l have, &c. (Signed) G. POLLOCK, Major-General. Commanding Troops West of Indus. FROM MAJOR-GENERAL POLLOCK, C. 8., COMMANDING IN AFFGHANISTAN, TO MAJOR-GENERAL LUMLEY, ADJU TANT-GENERAL OF TYE ARMY. Head Quarters, Simlah, Camp Jellalabad, July 29, 1842. Sir—l have the honour to forward for the information of his Excellency the Commander in Chief a copy of a letter. dated Camp Mazeena, 27th instant, from Brigadier Monteath, C. 8., commanding the troops in the Shinwaree Valley, together with copies of the documents to which it refers. Although the loss of the enemy on this occasion has not been stated by Brigadier Monteath, I have every reason to believe, from authentic sources, it has been cnsiderable. One of the chiefs, Shadoo, had a nephew and a first cousin killed in the action, and another chief, Hoosain, also lost a son. The enemy were busily employed during the afternoon of the 26th in burying their dead, and on the day subse quent to the engagement the Shinwaree chiefs sent into camp to express their willingness to pay the revenue. — I have, &c. (Signed) G. POLLOCK , Maj or-General. Commanding Troops West of the Indus. FROM BRIGADIER MONTEATH. C. 8., COMMANDING FIELD FORCE, TO CAPTAIN PONSONBY, ASSISTANT ADJUTANT GENERAL. Camp, Mazeena„ July 27, 1842. Sir—l have the honour of addressing you to state for the information of Major-General Pollock, C. 8., that in accordance with the intention expressed by me in my letter of the 24th inst., I marched out yesterday morning at daylight to attack the enemy with the following troops and guns : Five 9-pounders, one 24-pounder howitzer, 50 Sappers and Miners, one squadron Ist Light Cavalry, seven com panies her Majesty's 31st Regiment, seven companies 33d N. 1., seven companies 53d NJ., and Ferris's corps of jezailehees. As the road into the enemy's country was nearly im practicable for loaded animals, and we must have lost a gr eat many camels had I attem p ted to move with our baggage, I resolved on returning to my present position after the operations I had in view had been concluded ; therefore, having compressed the camp as much as pus • sible by striking a portion of it, and collecting the tents and baggage on one spot, I left it in charge of Major Hewitt, 33d Regiment, with the following troops: — Two companies of her Majesty's 31st R egiment, dtwoitto 33d Native Infantry, ditto 53d Native Infantry, squadrons of light cavalry, 50 Jezailchees, and 100 of Torabaz Khan's men. On the troops gaining the left ridge of the Shinwaree Valley, which was the most practicable, the enemy re tired out of their forts, and I detached Lieutenant Beecher, of the corp s of Engineers, ith the sappers an miners, to set fire to them, which he did in succession up to the tort of Secunder Khan, at the head of the valley, the force moving parallel along the ridge for the protec tion of the party. Thus, at one time the interiors of 35 forts were in a blaze along the valley, the enemy con templating the scene from the heights in the vicinity of Secunder Khan's fort, where they had taken positions, and from whence they were driven in gallant style by the advance, consisting of the Light and two battalion com panies of her Majesty's 31st regiment. At this moment the guns, having been brought into position by Captain Abbott, opened a fire of shrapnell shells upon them, which did considerable execution, and so disconcerted them, that parties left the field altogether and never returned. Having effected everything in the way of destruction, I caused two companies of the 53d Regiment to. be ex tended along a ridge below that from whence the ad vance had driven the enemy, and of which it remained in possession. In rear of the companies of the 53d a com pany of the 33 d was extended along the top of an other ridge, and in the rear of that company, on a higher ridge, two guns were placed in position, to aid in cover• ing the retirement of the 'advance from the enemy, who were all ready . to attack, them, as soon as they, should comme nce their descent from the heights. On these ar rangements being completed, the recal was sounded to the advance, and I am happy to say, the whole joined the main body, without a single casualty occurring. Major Skinner's party being exceedingly fatigued, for the heat had been excessive and the labour great, I di reeed them to fall in with the main column, and ordered out two companies from each of the three regiments to cover our retrogression homewards. These were formed into two parties, and extended across the ridge in two lines of skirmishers. In rear of the second line I placed two guns, with a company of her Majesty's 31st Regi ment flanking each of them, also a party of forty cavalry, and a line of skirmishers was thrown out along the whole right flank of the column to the edge of the ridge (where the ground from its brokenwh cha communicated with the rear line of the covering force placed tinder the coin:nand of Lieutenant-Colonel Bolton, of her Majesty's 31st Regiment, at his s3licitation. In this order we retired seven Miles and a-half over as bad a road as can well be supposed, and although I had anticipated loss and great annoyance from the enemy throughout the march, yet it seemed as if they had had enough, as their attacks were languid and remarkably cautious throughout, and I am rejoi..ed t wo sayut , that at half-past three p.m. we arrived in camp itho l injury of any kind. It gives me great pleasure to record the zealous con duct of the troops generally, and the cheerful and praise worthy manner in which the soldiers of her Majesty's 31st Regiment laboured to drag the guns tip such places as the horses, notwithstanding their unequalled qualities, were incapable of doing. Herewith I beg to enclose Major Skinner's report, and I can myself bear ample testimony to the gallant con duct of himself, and those under his command, and I should be unjust were I net to say that the conduct of Captain Ferris, his native commandant, Hyder Ali, and the whole corps of Jezailchees was highly distinguished. )4ty thanks are are very justly due to Lieutenant-Co- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MOitNIMG, OCTOntit 10, 1841 ionel Bolton, her Majesty's 31st Regiment, for the able manner in which he condticted the duties of covering the retirement of the force, and particularly so to Major .siinner, for the zealous and gallant manner in which he led the advance against the enemy ;—to Captain Ferris, for the gallant manner in which, with his corps of Jezail chees, he drove the enemy from their position on the heights ;-to Captain Abbott and Lieutenant Dawes, for the very successful practice of the guns ;--to Lieutenant Beecher, for the zealous and satisfactory manner in which lie, with the detachment of Sappers and Miner 3, con structed a road for the guns, and fired the enemy's forts in the valley ; and to Lieutenant Lugard, her Majesty's 31st Regiment, Major of Brigade ; Lieutenant Mayne, Assistant-Quartermaster•General ; Captain Lloyd, Sub- Assistant-CommissarY-General ; and Captain Robert son, Field Engineer, fur the assistance afforded me by them in the field I have also to express my thanks to Captain M'Gregor, Political Agent, who, when the opportunity offered itself, served with the guns. Inclosed is a sketch of the Shinwarree Valley, and the ridge over which the troops passed, a retum of ki.led and wounded, one of the strength of the force employed, and one of the ammunition expended.—l have, &c.. • T. MONTEATH, Brigadier, Command ing the Field Force. FROM MAJOR SKINNER TO BRIGADIER MONTEATR, C.B Camp Mazeena, 27th July, 1842. Sir—l have the honour to report to you, that when the advance guard, composed of the following details, viz.:—the eight light companies of the brigade, with two battalion companies of her Majesty's 31st Regiment, and the carps of Jezailchees, reached the crest of the ridge over which the main column was moving abou. eight o'clock A.M., I observed the enemy posted in small bodies upon the different heights and ridges in . my front, while several parties occupied gardens and broken walls at the foot of the line of hills I was upon, above the valley on the right hand. A sharp fire was opened upon the line of skirmishers, who quickly advanced and drove the enemy off. The corps of Jt zailchees swept the front, the left hills were cleared by the light - company of the 31st Foot ; and the light company of the 33d Native Infantry on the right skirmished throughout that part of the valley nearest the ridge : the remaining companies were in support. We advanced to Secunder Khan's Fort " Muriae over very broken and difficult country, with frequent descents and ascents, the enemy sometimes keeping up a good fire, but always abandoning the lines of heights as we ascended, and falling back to others. I halted at Secunder Khan's Fort, from which a few shots were fired as we advanced, when it was evacuated. _ This fort hangs over a narrow valley on the right hand, fields of rice in many parts of it now miler water. A narrow stony ridge in the midst of this valley was occupied by the enemy, and commanded the post among trees at the foot of the fort, which I wished to hold ; the enemy was soon driven otf_the first part of the ridge, and • fell back to a higher peak, from which it became also necessary to drive them ; this was done by the Jezail chees under Captain Ferris in very good style, who held it till withdrawn. At the head of the valley in which we now were, stands a high hill with a fort upon its summit, a considerable distance off. All the ridges from which the enemy bad been driven appear to draw to a point at this fort, and their retreat was always towards it. Many men were collected there, and large parties , were sent out to my right ; this induced me to draw the companies of the 31st Foot on the left nearer to me. The enemy soon appearing on the summit of a hill above my left, however, I sent one company of the 31st Regiment to drive him away and occupy the hill. This duty was remarkably well performed by Captain Mar shall, of her Majesty's 31st Regiment, whose company was employed upon it. The enemy retreated with some loss, and took up another position under cover of a sungah or breastwork of stone within shot. He was driven from it with great gallantry 'by Lieut. Wllveen, of the 31st Regiment, and a party of No. 7 Company of that corps. Lieut. M'llveeti, a very promising young officer indeed, was, I regret to say, killed in this assault upon the sungah. A narrow valley of rice fields, completely swamped, separated the ridge, on which my right was, from two small forts ; a garden at one end of the rice valley below the ridge towards the first ,of the two forts was held by the light company of the 33d Native Infantry ; the enemy descend, ci, from a high line of sand hills, and occupying these two forts, annoyed my position a good deal. He was driven from them by the light company and part of No. 6 of the 31st Regiment, who had no other ground to advance on but the narrow ridges that di vided the terraces ot rice ; they moved along these under a sharp fire, and drove the enemy from his position. I occupied these forts, and leaving Brevet Major Urmston, of the 31st Regiment, in -command of the post., ceased from further operations. None of the forts I have men tioned were tenable by the enemy, the walls were breached in many, places by the earthquake in February last. When I was ordered to fall back on the main body, about half-past one P.M., Major Urmston retired in good order (followed at a distance by the enemy, who had fired constantly into the forts when we occupied them) over the difficult ground behind him, having set fire to the villages within the two forts before he left them. The advance guard, being collected together above Seconder Khan's fort, joined the main column. I have great pleasure in assuring you that, during several hours ot the most active operations over the difficult country we were in, every officer and man under my command behaved admirably.—l have, &c., THOMAS SKINNER, Major her Majesty's 31st Regiment. Return of Killed and Wounded, &c., in action, under the command of Brigadier Monteath, C. 8., on the 26th July, 1842 : J ug, Camp Mazeena, July 27, 1842. Killed-1 officer her Majesty's 81st, and 2 Jezailchies —total 3. Wounded-7 privates her Majesty's 31st ; 1 sergeant and 8 rank and file 3 3 d Native Infantry ; 5 rank an file 53d Native Infantry ; and 2 Jezailchies—total 23. Strength of the Brigade-103 officers, European and Native ; 152 sergeants, ditto ; 2,000 rank and file, ditto —total 2,263. Ammunition Expended—Abbott's battery, 37 rounds ; her Majesty's 31st, 4,889 ; 3d Native Infantry, 2,892 ; 53d Native Infantry, 4,954 ; Jezailchies, 6,678—t0tal 19,450. (Signed) T. MONTEATH, Brigadier, Commanding Field Force. (Signed) EDWARD LUGARD, Lieut., Major of Brigade. (Signed) T. H. MADDOCK, Secretary to Government of India with the Governor-Gcneral. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE OFFICERS AND LADIES AT CAUBUL AND CHAREEKAR WHEN THE OUTBREAK COMMENCED, SHOWING THE KILLED, WOUNDED, AND PRISONERS. Mrs. Anderson and family, Mrs. Boyd and family, Mrs. Eyre and family, Lady Macnaghten, Mrs. Mainwaring and child, Mrs. Sturt, Lady Sale, Mrs. Trevor and family, in the hands of Mohamed Akbar. Airy, Captain, A.D.C., detained as hostage. Alexander, .Lieut., sth Native Infantry, killed on the road from Caubul. Anquetil, Brigadier, commanding Shah's General Staff, killed at the Barriers. Anstruther, Capt., 54th Native Infantry, killed on the road from Caubul. Anderson, Capt., commanding Shah's 2d Cavalry, with family, as hostages. Balfour, I)r., her Majesty's 44th, killed on the road from Caubul. Bazett, Lieut., sth Light Cavalry, killed at Barrier. Berwick, Dr., Residency Surgeon, medical charge of sick at Caubul. Bellew, Captain, A.A., Quartermaster, kille3 oa the road from Caubul. Bird, Lieut., killed oa the road from Caubul. Blair, Captain, sth Light Cavalry, killed on the road from Caubul. Bott, Cal - A., sth Light Cavalry, killed at Barrier. Bo) d, Capt. A. C. G., detained with family as hostage. Broadloot, Capt. M. S., murdered in the garden. Brydon,Dr., arrived sate at Jellalabad, slightly wounded. Bryce, Dr., Artillery, killed near Tezeen. Barnes, Sir Alex., P. R. C., murdered in his garden. Barnes, Captain, Assistant Resident, murdered in the garden. Burke, Captain, Paymaster her Majesty's 44th, killed on the road from Caubul. Burkingyoung, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed at Gundamuck. Bygrave, Captain P. M., wandered for five days in the jungle, gave himself up in Ghilzee country, lost part of one foot by frost. Prisoner. Cadett, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Soorkab. Carlyon, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, killed on the road from Caubul. Cardew, Dr., 54th Native Infantry, left mortally wounded at Tezeen. Chambers, Cul., comg. 4th Light Cay., Killed at Barrier. Codrington, Captain, comg. Shah's 4th Infantry, killed at Charekar. Collyer, Capt., sth L. Cay., killed near Jellalabad. Collins, Capt., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gundamuck. Conolly, Capt John, P. A., detained as hostage. Currie, Capt., 54th Native Infantry, killed on the road from Caubul. Cumberland, Lieut., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gun. damuck.. Cunningham, Lieut., 54th Native Infantry, killed at Gundatnuck. Deas, Lieut., sth Native Infantry. killed on the road trom Caubul. Dodgin, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Barrier. Drummond, Captain, detained as hostage. Duff, Dr. Supt. Surgeon, killed near Tezeen. Elphinstone, Major-General, wounded as hostage, dead. Ewart, Major comg. 54th Native Infantry, killed near Tezeen. Eyre, Capt. A. C. 1)., kept with family as hostages. Fortye, Lieut., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Lugbaba. Gordon, Lieut., 37th N. I:, killed at Mahomed Shereeff's Fort. Grant, Capt., A. A. G., killed at Gundamuck. Green Capt., M. 1., Shah's Artillery, killed at Gunda muck. Grey, Lieut., 11. M. 44th, killed on the road from Caubul. Griffith, Major, 37th N. 1.. taken prisoner at Gundi muck, severely wounded in the arm, in the hands o Mahomed Akbar. Harpur, Dr., Lt. Cay., killed near Jellalabad. Haig, Capt., sth N. 1., killed on the road from Caubul. Hallahan, Captain, Quartermaster IL M. 44th, killed at Barrier. Hamilton, Captain, sth Lt. Cay., killed at Gundamuck. Harcourt, Dr., H. M. 44th, killed at Gundamuck. Hardy man, Lieut., 3d Lt. Cay. killed on leaving Couts. Haughton, Lieut., Shah's 4th infantry; severely wounded at Chareekar, left sick at Caubnl. Ilawtrey, Lieut. 37th N. 1., killed at Gundamuck. Hay, Captain, commanding escort, 37th N. 1., killed at Gundamuck. Hopkins, Captain, killed near Jellalabad. Horsburgh, Lieut: sth N. 1., killed it Khoord Caubul. Johnson, Captain, P. M., Shah's General Staff, detained as hostage. Kershaw, Major, Lightlnfantry, killed at Gundamuck. King, Captain, 13th Light Infantry, killed at Tezeen. Kirby, 54th, N. 1., killed on the Hoft Kothul. • Laing, Lieut. 27th N. 1., killed on Deymaroo Hill. Lawrence, Captain, M. S., detained as hostage. Lu Geyt, Captain, Shah's 2d Cavalry, killed on the road from Caubul. Leighton, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Tunjee Tareekee. Lumsden, Lieut. 8., 27th Native Infantry, killed after leaving Ghuznee. Macintosh, Captain sth Nativo Infantry, killed on Dey m Mae n k r e ° n ° zi lil e i ,C i. aptain, A. P. A., detained as hostage. Meekrell, Lieut.-Colonel, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Reika Bashi...Fort Cantonments. Macnrtnev, Lieut., killed on the road frOm Cau! Macle;ay, Captain, Assistant-PaymaSter ' Shah's General ~.2..btatf, killed on the road from Caubul. M'Crea, Captain of her Majesty's 44th, killed at Reika Bashi Fort Cantonments. MacaaeMen, Bart., Sir 'William, murdered while at confcralce, by the Sirdar Akbar Khan. Mac'rath, I)r., 37th Native Infantry, taken prisoner near. Tezeen (wounded). Marshall, Captain, 61st Native Infantry, killed on the mad from Caubul. Motile, Captain, K, R., killed at Kar Darra. Melville, Lieut., 51th Native Infantry, wounded at Tunjee Tareekee, and taken prisoner, in the hands of Mellowed Akbar. Metcalfe, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed at Gundamuck. Miles, Captain, sth Native Infantry, killed in Tunjes Tareekee. Nlorrieson, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, killed at Gundamuck. Nichol!, Captain, commanding Horse Artillery, killed at Barrier. Oliver, Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the sth Native Infantry, killed on the Deymaroo Hill. ' Palmer ' Captain, sth Native Infantry, killed on the road from Caubul. Palmer, Colonel T, 27th Native Infantry, killed after quitting Gliuznee. Patton, Captain, A. A., Quarter-master, killed at Khoord Caubul Pass. Putenger, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed on the road from Caubul. Pottinger, Major P. A. T., detained as hostage. Pottinger, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, kill e d a t Neemla. Primrose, Dr., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gundamuck. Raban, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Ma homed Shereef's Fort Cantonments. Rind, Captain, 37th Native Infantry, killed at Gundamuck. Robinson, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Maho med Shereeff's Fort Cantonments. Rose, Lieutenant, Shah's 4th Infantry, killed near Cha reekar. Sulisbury, Lieutenant, Shah's 4th Infantry, killed at Cha reekar. Shaw, Captain, 54th Native Infantry, killed at Tunjee Tareekee. Shelton, Brigadier, her Majesty's 44th Regiment, com manding 3d Brigade, detained as hostage. Scott, Major, her Majesty's 44th, killed near Tezeen. Skinner, Captain, A. A. C. G., killed at Jugdulluck, d o m o n e d t h A e k r b o a a rd while going over to a co nference. Souter, Captain, her Maje st y 's 44th, wounded and taken Steer,pris i onz, u„ Gtun3d7atinh Nativeuck,i Infantry,nthehandso l a l e from Cali - bill. St. George, Lieut. , 37 t h Native Infantry, killed at Khoord Caubul Pass. St u art, Lieut., Artillery , kille d at Gundamuck. h Stiirt, Capt. E. 8., mortally wounded at Koord, Caubul, where he died. Swayne, Major, s th Native Infantr y , Kohul. killed near Hoft Swayne, Capt. , her Ma j est y 's 44th, killed at Mahomed Shereeff's Fort Cantonments. Swinton, Lieut., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gunda- muck. Planer Major, A.D.C. , ki lled near Ju d on the road gdulluck. Tombs, Lieut., s th Native Infantry, kille from Caubul. Trever, Capt., murdered at a conference, whilst in com pany with Sir W. Macnaghten. Troup, Capt , 8.11., Shah's Genera l Staff, detained as hostage. V a nTeuen, Lieut., 37 th Nativ e Infan t ry, killed on the road ft om Caubul. Wade, Capt., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Jugdulluck. Walker, Capt., 4th N. L, mortally wounded on Deyma roo Hill, died in Cantonments. detained Lieutenant of Artillery, d e t a ined with family as hostages. Walsh, Captain, Sappers and Miners, detainectis hostage. Warburton, Captain G. C. M., Shah's General Staff, de tained as hostage. Warren, Lieut. sth N. 1., killed in Tuojee Tareekee. Weaver, Lieut.s4th N. 1., killed at Gundamuck. \S Lieutenant, detained as hostage- Westmacott, Capt, 37th N. L, killed a t Reika Bashi Fort Cantonments. Wheeler, Capt. R., killed atKar Darr a. White, Captain of her Majesty's 44th, killed at Tunjee Tareekee. Willis, Mr., Veterinary Surgeon, sth Light Cavalry, killed on the road from Cailbul. Woodburn, Captain, killed near Ghuznee: Wyndham, Captain 35 th Na tive Infantry, killed near INDIA PAPERS. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. We have been favoured with many extracts from letters received from the captives in Caubul, one of which, to the sth of July, will be found below. All the letters we have yet seen breathe one feeling of gratitude towards Akbar Khan for his treatment of the prisoners, and it is but fair that he s hould have the full benefit of so honourable a proceeding. One of the communications contains the following Pas sage :—" The Sirdar's treatment of us has been, from first to last, most kind ; no European Power could have treated prisoners of war better ; there is a feel ing abroad that we have been ill-treated, but it is very erroneous, and Akbar has enough to answer for with out this being added to his sins." We are very willing, as we have always been, to allow the full credit for the actual good treatment of the prisoners, and have never doubted the fact, but not so the mo tive. The prisoners are all allowed to walk in a spacious garden, and bathe in the river or canal, though attended by a g uard, and the following is the daily bill of fare-10 ladies, 19 children, 15 officers, and 2 soldiers :--Two sheep, 72 seers atta (this is for servants all), six seers ghee, three seers oil, six seers rice, six seers milk, firewood, and last, not least, tea and sugar as required. The conduct of all the ladies is spoken of as beyond all praise, and such as to make every Englishman prouder still of his countrywomen. Lady Sale and Mrs. Sturt continue to afford ex amples of magnanimity and patient suffering to those of weaker mould. Since writing the above we have learned that all the prisoners are assembled in th --e 43a11a Hissar, and that on the 12th instant the military secretary to General Pollock gave public intimation that any one wishing to send letters could do so, as an opportunity had occurred o f forwarding them. C a p tain Law rence had returned to Jellalabad, and is expected to remain there some time. We have also seen a letter doubt brought to camp 0 1 of so old a date as to afford little new s, we cannot refuse doin g the chiefs " Mountai n s near Tezeen, f b r y oln Captain one of the justice they deserve by givin g the followin g ex- Tthreouppr. prisoners, no Although d e ate d are all excessively kindly treated by the chie fs, and are in a fin e c limate, where, in the evening , I am glad to p u t on a fur cloak. 20th May, The 1842. letter Troup left us at the commencement of this month for Caubul, where he now is with Mabomed Akbar Khan. I believe all the folks at Caubul are at logger heads, and had our army come UP a month age they would have done so without a shot being fired. The city is almost destroyed." Khan EXTRACT "fort of Ali Aciauh OE A LETTER. , four miles from rultled k , 1 July 1842. Caubul, " Our situation is the most tantalisin g you can ima gine ; we are completely in the dark as to the object ofour Government, and as to whether our troop s are corning up to Caubul or not. A short time ago they would have had nothing to do but to tam e possession of the whole country without a shot being fired, and even now I am convinced they might Come up without seeing an enemy. The whale people, an d especially the inhabitants of Cau bul, are in the greatest dread Of the punishment which they expect...awaits them. If US Off +:1 the Sirdar delays carrying tiny. our troops march from Jellalabad, if they are to march, I think it possible our rescue will be attemptedcaseWhat byhat the Kuzzil bashes and others, but inmay be the r esult? 'Probably our release, and probably our mu rder. If, however, t he Sirdar should take it into his head to send us into Turkistan, which we hear is his intention before our troops ularch, we may then hid farewell to a release for an indefinite. period. It will be some consolation to our friends in India and elsewhere to know that we have always been kindly treated by the Sirdar ; but he has set of scoun d re l s about him, and none greater than his father-in-law, Mahon2ed Shah Khan ( a Ghilzie chief), who, I re gret to say, is his principal a dviser. Th e Si rdar is now all-powerful at Caubul. The other d ay h e h a d twenty followers, and not a pice of m oney. In this fort our party consists of those who were taken pri soners during the retreat, those who went over to him with their families, a nd about twenty European soldiers. We understand the hostages who were left behind when we retreated from Caubul are also to be [a- sent in here."—Delhi Gazette. - lIEI, A.T-I-G II IL ZIE. HEROIC DEFENCE. Although we have been pretty well-informed of all that has been passing in the western division of Aff ghanistan, and been enabled to lay before our readers, and communicate to many of our contemporaries, the earliest intelligence of events in that quarter, we have but very lately learnt the r eal hardshi p s w h i ch the garriso n o f lihelat-t-Ghillie have suffered during the period of their investment b y the Ghilzi es. The heroic valour with which they re p ulsed an overwhelm ing enemy on the 21st of May is now kn own t o a ll India. Tho following from an officer in the garrison will lessen the wonder at their having done §o, for, like the illustrious band at Jellalabad, men who could patiently bear such privations as they have undergone, and remain true to discipline, are equal to any service, however, formidable it may appear. The garrison con sisted of Captain Craigie s Regiment of the Shah's force, about 600 strong three companies of the 4 3 d Regiment of Native Infantry, about 250 men, under Captain Webster and Lieutenant Trotter; forty European Artillerymen, and about sixty Sappers and Miners—in all 950 men. During the whole of the six months they were completely cut off from all communication. The snow was during two months very deep on the ground, and more than once the thermo meter was 8 degrees below zero. As for - doors or windows to the cells inhabited by the officers, they were out of the question. For three weeks in the depth of winter the European artillerymen had no meat—nothine• but bread and water, and the same for six weeks preceding the relief; while the Sepoys, for nearly four months, had only three-quarter rations, an I could purchase nothing. The officers were li mited to half a sheep a day amongst eleven, and that only an apology for a sheep, for they had neither bhoosah, barley, nor grass to feed their small flock on. For 12 gays preceding the 21st of May not a man could go outside of the gates, so strictly were they watched. The strength of the fort, or, as the writer says, " the hill called Khelat-i-Ghilzie, for it does not deserve the name of a fort," seems to have been much overrated, as not more than one-half was surrounded by a wall, the remainder resting for its defence on the steepness of the ascent. The only artillery wire three old rattletrap brass guns that formerly belonged to Dolt Mohamed, mounted on condemned carriages. Not above half the garrison were engaged on the morning of the assault, which took place just as the moon went down. The Ghilzies confessed to 410 killed on ti.e spot, the greater number of whom they were enabled to carry off. We now submit to our readers the narrative al luied to:—`° We marched into quarters at Khelat-i- Ghilzie in November, 1841. Our barracks were ex cellent, but the fortifications of the place were little more than commenced on, and along some hundred yards of the works there was neither wall nor ditch. Directly we got news of the insurrection at Caubul, the sepoys were set to work to strengthen the de fences of the post ; scarps, palisades, parapets, and a ditch at the most accessible part of the works were commenced on, and both officers and men continued to work at them until the winter set well in, and the frost rendered the ground so hard that there was no longer any working it. On the 9th of December about 1,.500 Ghilzies made their appearance, with the intention, as they said, of besieging us. They took up their ground about two and a half miles off, but their warlike efforts were confined to firing a few shots into the place at night, and an at tempt made by a party of their horse to cut off some of our men, who were cutting bhoottah for fuel, in which they were foiled by the sepoys of the guard. A fall of snow compelled them to decamp after nine days, and the only damage they did us was to make all the chiefs in our neighbourhood yagee:* Of all the chiefs whom we had paid and supported, only one man adhered to us, and he a person of no great influence. The winter now set in with seve rity, and the cold soon became excessive. We had no doors for the barracks, and neither doors nor glass for the windows of our quarters, which were large and lofty rooms, some thirty-six feet long, and our supply of firewood we were obliged to husband, so that we never could keep our rooms warm. You must recollect Khelat-i-Ghilzie, its situation is a very ex posed one, situated in the throat of a tunnel ; high winds prevail throughout the year, and in winter the lower the temperature sunk the higher blew the north wind. Snow lay for two months on the ground, and the thermometer fell as low as 40 degrees below the freezing point. With no doors to the barracks, and only such rough purdahs as grain bags, which were all we could get, you may conceive how much our men suffered; a gale of wind always blowing, when the temperature was below zero, and usually, too, blowing most strongly at night. - I have never experienced a,' winter -so•continuously cold. When we entered the garrison, we had provision in flour for the troops kir upwards of six months, but as we got an increase of 300 men to the post, when Colonel Maclaren's brigade pissed us on its return to Canda her, e had many additional mouths to feed, and we knew not how long we might be required to hOld the post. We had a quantity of wheat in store, but with the country all round yagee we had not the means of grinding it. We got possession of some mill stones, and tried to get up mills, but after getting all the machinery in order, we found that all the water we could command was not sufficient to keep the machinery in motion. We then tried a bullock mill, which also failed, from our not being able to fabri cate the iron work of sufficient solidity, and we should have been utterly nonplussed had not an officer in the garrison possessed a book on mechanics, in which was contained a description of a vertical hand-mill capable of grinding sixteen maunds daily. This we succeeded in constructing after two months and a-half's labour upon mills, and no little anxiety as to the result. We were now easy in our minds, for this , with some ' small hand-mills, gave us the means of supporting our garrison for some two or three addi tional months, and we knew our men would fight and hold the post against all the - Affghans in the country as long as our provisions lasted. We had occasional communication with Candahar by means of highly paid cossids, and we- thus learned the disastrous fate of our Caubul comrades. The tedium of the winter was excessive, but it passed at last. With the spring our labours on the defences re-com menced, and as soon as the weather became mild, the hostile chiefs of the two great Ghilzie tribes in our neighbourhood made their appearance. These gen tlemen had spent the winter in a more sheltered loca lity, and, as long as they were not near us, the vil lagers brought in commodities for sale, but, with their appearance, all supplies ceased. On two occasions we were obliged to chappow sheep—the first was a peaceable affair ; we secured a whole flock without let or hindrance ; but, on the second occasion, we had to fight for them, and had a few men wounded. We had forty-three European Artillerymen in the garri son, and it was chiefly for them that the animal food was required. The supply of all the necessaries ran . out in winter, and on two different occasions they were for some days on bread and water, yet they never grumbled, worked as well as if they had been highly fed, and bore all their privations with the most admirable good humour. The hostile Ghilzie chiefs at first brought only a few hundred men with them, and took up their quarters at a safe distance of some miles from us ; but during all April they were receiving accessions to their force, and with these accessions their boldness increased, until they diminished their distance to less than a mile from the place. As they approached, our range necessarily became more limited, and we had neither cavalry nor the means of moving a gun, and the country round Khelat-i-Ghil zie is full of ravines, and exceedingly favourable to the skulking mode of fighting which these gentry most approve of. We were latterly, as the invest ment becdme more close obliged to confine ourselves to the narrow space within our defences ; these by the continued labour of our men had become very respect able, and such as we deemed no Affghan without the aid of guns would have attempted. In this, however, we were agreeably disappointed. Towards the middle of May the enemy commenced to dig trenches round the place, working at them all. night. By the 26th they had completely surrounded us with them, the nearest being within 250 yards of our defences. These were all loopholed, and afforded the enemy perfect cover ; they were constructed, too, with some skill as to position, as the advanced trenches were in protected' by two or three trenches in their rear, and they were uniformly p l a ced, so as to have the advantage of any natural cover afforded by the ground. From these trenches the hottest fire any of us had ever seen Affghans keep up, was poured upon any one who exposed himself; obviously picked marksmen were selected for the duty, for they fired exceedingly well for Affghans, and at ranges of from 600 to 700 yards their long jezails threw balls with great accuracy. They were so completely shel tered in these trenches that we seldom hael an oppor tunity of firing at them excepting when parties were relieving each other, and then the double barrels and rifles of the officers came into play. Such had been the monotony of our previous existence, that it was a matter of great amusement firing at these gentry, and it was seldom that any fellow got into the nearer trenches in day-light without running the gauntlet of a few double barrels. On the evening of the 20th of May the enemy were unusually quiet, and so few of them visible that it was a matter of doubt whether the greater number of them had not decamped. A. few of them were observed, by means of our teles copes, at a distant fort practising escalading . with scaling-ladders, and this was the first intimation we had of their having constructed these articles. Offi cers and men had, for several nights previously, kept at their posts ; there was bright moonlight and the night passed with unusual quietness until, towards morning, the moon went down. The attention of the officer on duty was then suddenly arrested by the clatter of horses feet, indicating the close presence of a large body of horse, and the word was passed round to get ready. Shortly afterwards the whole northern face of the works was assaulted by dense masses of the enemy. The morning was so dark th at they. were within 100 yards before they were observed, though we were on the look out for them, and they with great boldness, shouting " Allah Allah . fireey ! c „ am i e l on were received with discharges of grape, and a hot of musketry, which must have done heavy execution, on among their dense mas ses ; still they pressed pushing their attack with the greatest vehemence at the northeast and north-west angles of the works, where the ascent was most easy, and the defence ap parently most accessible. At the north-east scarp of angle the defences consiste d o f a ditch, a slope of some eight s even or eight feet height, • 111utinous, riotous, feet between the top of dile Kean) and the parapet, the latter consisting of sand-iyags, The enemy, by the aid of scaling-ladders ' crossed did ditch, ascended the scarp and sloping bank, and endeavotteed to get over the parapet. Here .they were resolutely met with the musket and bayonet. Thrice they came boldly on the assault, planting one of their standards within a yard of the muzzle of one of cur guns, and thrice they vv..lre driven back ; only one man suc ceeded in getting into the place, and he, was shot with his foot on the axle of this gun. Two guns were in position at this part of the works, and the attempts of the enemy to get within the works through their embrasures, and over the parapets on either side, were so determined, that the artillerymen for some minutes were obliged to quit their guns and betake themselves to the musket and bayonet, with which they did good service; the Sepoys too fought well ; one of them was observed by the artillerymen to bayonet four men. The principal annoyance suf fered by the garrison was from showers of heavy stones, these were thrown into the works in great quantity to cover the escaladers, and several of our men were knocked down and smartly bruised'by them. During the height of the assault the enemy fired little; they had apparently slung their matchlocks, and came on sword in hand, but they were met by a fire so deadly and well sustained that they had no chance of success. The officers of the garrison were all surprised at the boldness and determination of the attack, but we un derstood afterwards, that, trusting to their numbers, and emboldened no doubt by their previous successes at Cauhul and Ghuznee, they reckoned so confidently on taking the place that many of their women were waiting in the ravine close et hand to share in the plunder of the garrison. The assault lasted from 20 minutes to half an hour, and at daybreak they drew off, carrying away all their wounded and many of their dead. A party of them took refuge behind some rocks at the north-west angle of the works, and just under the barracks, popping their heads out occasion ally ; they fired a:few shots at us, but they fired so seldom that their numbers were supposed to be few. Two companies of Sepoys sallied out to un' earth them, and, to the surprise of all, at least 300 men broke cover and -bolted for. the neighbour ing ravine 3 faster than we ever saw Affghans run before. A heavy fire was poured into them, but they ran so fast, and cover was so close, that few of them fell. The greater part of the enemy retired into the ravines, into which they had dragged their dead and wounded, and from daylight until half-past two P.M. they were employed in carrying them off. From their trenches on the north face of the works, which were filled with men, they kept up a pretty constant fire to cover this process. Had we possessed a few goad cavalry, we should have inflicted a heavier loss on them, but they were strong in horse, having about 800 in the field, while we had not a mounted man; and so it was judged prudent, as the ground afforded excellent cover for their mode of fighting, to rest sa tisfied with the threshing we had given them, and to permit them to carry off their wounded without in curring the loss of our men in moving on to attack them. They left 104 dead bodies at the foot of the de fence and within a few days after the assault, the Political Agent ascertained that the number of killed, and of wounded men, who died within a few days after the action, considerably exceeded 400. On the dead bodies were found quantities of our own magazine cartridges, supposed to have been procured at Ghuznee, and which accounted for their unusual expenditure of ammunition. Computed by themselves the lowest number of assailants was stated at 5,500 men, the highest at 7,000. On the body of the Nezir of Mere Allum, chief of the Hotuck tribe of Ghilzies, who fell in the assault, was found the muster-roll of his contingent, amounting to 2,000 and odd men ; he furnished about a third part of the force, so that the number of the assailants must have been about 6,000 men. By sun-set on the day of attack, not an enemy was visible, and it was a source of honest congratulation to. the garrison, that we had driven off our enemies, and inflicted a heavy loss on them by our own efforts. The garrison consisted of about 900 men, about 500 of whom were actually engaged. When we took plssession of the place it consisted of little more than three ranges of barracks for the troops, built on a commanding position. By the assiduous labours of the Sepoys and the constant supervision of the engi neers and officers, it had been converted into a post of such strength, as, if well defended, would have puzzled regular troops, unfurnished with guns, to take, and did defy the Affghans. It must have heen a source of honest pride to our excellent Commanding-officer to find that when position of greater strength had sub mitted, he had not only fortified his own post, but maintained it,and signally defeated the enemy before it. Troops in quarters in this country have seldom suffered more from the severity of the climate and the privation of accustomed necessaries than those at Khelat-i-Ghilzie. During the more severe days in winter, the Hindoo Sepoys did not cook for two days together, and even the Europeans, so bitter was the cold, were glad to keep their barracks, and even their bels, to keep themselves warm. Our bazaar was latterly destitute of everything excepting the usual Commissariat rations issued from the godown, and for some months these were served to the Sepoys on a reduced scale. As for the officers, they laughed at their own privations, but they will not soon forget the dreary winter days, their shivering meetings at mess table, their tiffins on bread and water, and their nights at mess to discuss their scanty fare, to which hunger was an excellent sauce, and the only season ing. Two days after the defeat of the enemy we heard of the advance of Colonel Wymer's brigade to relieve us, which arrived• on the 25th of May. We move 1 into camp, the barracks and defences of Khelat i-Ghilzie were destroyed, and the 7th of June saw us safe at Candahar."—Delhi Gazette, Aug. 10. COMMERCIAL REMARKS. IMPORTS. Cochineal.—ln consequence of the late extensive imports from Bombay, &c., the price has declined con siderably. Cotton.—Bombay, 7 to 9.2 ; Bengal, 8 to 9.6; Madras, 10 to 10.5 nominal, as none is in first hands. Cotton Goods.—The late imports per Ackbar, &c., have caused a still further decline. Grays are now worth dr. 2.30 a 2.so—Whites, 2.10 a 2.40. Sales have been made at $2.75 a 2.80, but the price of the teas bought has been in proportion. Cotton Yarn-18 a 40, $27 a 29 per pecul, stock nearly 7,000 bales, and price declining. Long Ells.—s6:l for assorted colours. Scarlet, $9 a 91. Lead.—s6.2s. A native mine has lately been worke, which has caused the decline in this article ; it must, however, be only temporary, as the Chinese cannot pro duce native lead at less that 37 per pecul. EXPORTS. Teas are rather dearer in consequence of the anxiety lately shown to sell Bombay cotton, and for which parties are compelled to take teas ; as the teamen are fully aware of the quantity of cotton on its way here, they will doubtless nold out for higher rates for teas, which, in the present scarcity of cash, parties will be compelled to take for their cotton. RATES OF EXCHANGE AND PRICES OF BULLION. On London, six months' sight, 4s. Bd. Government, 30 days, 4s. 9d. On Calcutta, 30 days, 224 to 226 Company's rupees per 100 Mexican dollars. East India Directors' Bills, at 60 days' sight, 224 rupees per $ lOO . On Bombay private bills, at 30 days' sight, 225 ru pecsditt On Madras private bills, at 30 days' sight, 227 ru pees sy d e e i t e t o. silver, large I per cent. premium, small 2 per cent, o l d id discount. iea dollars in Canton 7 to 8 per cent. premium. Ferdinand dollars, in Canton at 717 weight. Republican dollars, 6 to 7 per cent. discount, for cut money. Freight to London from Macao 51., from Whampao 31., very scarce and difficult to be procured. . , S tates, LATEST DATES.—England, March 4 ; Tjnitea Jan. 22 ; Calcutta, April 20 ; Bombay, April 14 ; Java' April 2 ; Singapore, May 12 ; Manilla ; Amoy May 28 ; Chusan, May 26. CALCUTTA MONEY-MARKET. Hurhuru-office, Calcutta, Aug. 12, 1842. Bank shares are stationary at our qnotations, and some speculation in them at tbose rates. B ANK SHA.RES. Rupees. Rupees. Bengal Bank (Company's rs., 4,000) 2,400 to 2,450 pm. Union Bank (Company's re., 1,00 0 ) 1 , 130 to 1,140 p m. A g ra Bank (Company's rs., 500) •::: l9O to 200 pm. Bonded warehouse .................50 to 5 dis. B o mbay Bank ........................... 120 to 170 pm. RATES OF INTEREST AND DISCOUNT. BANK OF BENGAL. Per Cent. Discount on private bills and notes, at or - within three months .......................... 8 Discount on Gove rnmen t acceptances, a t or within three months 6 Interest on loans and accounts of credit, not ex ceeding three months, on deposit of Com- 6 parr y's paper .................................... . . Interest on deposit o f o p ium and salt 7. I n t er est on deposit of m etals and indigo 1 Interest on deposit of other goods 8 UNION BANK. Discounts—Government acceptances 6 Discounts —Private bills, adjusted policies of insurance, account sales, &c., not having more than 3 months to run 10 us o s t e t paehrdrcaewnta.blies withouta ll9w lo e allowed o 3 n o Loans and cash cre dits—On deposit of securi tiesd in bonded ware posits—lntienroensetyhanot Fixed de days' notice, and deposited less than three months. for not BILLS OF EXCHANGE—UNION BANK. S. d. Six months after sight.. .. . ................ 2 0 Four months after sight ............. 2 Oik Three months after 5ight................ 0 Two months after sight ..............1 11i The Bank grants no bills at longer date than six months after sight. DEATH OF THH DUCHESS OF ATHOLL.--Her Grace the Duchess of Athol' di e d at Dunkeld House, on Monday, the 4th of October, at a quarter before five o'clock, in the 81st year of her /Age. CHINA. The latest China date is the 7th of June. The intelligence of most importance is the capture of Chatioo, the mart of the China trade with Japan. It apilFars from the following accounts that the place was taken without the loss of a single ,man, but unfortunately a rencontre occurred berween 300 Tartars and a small British force, in which one officer and ten men were killed, and several wounded. A great many transports, steamers, and several ships of War, had arrived at Hong-Kong. The first division of the reinforcements, consisting of the tndymion frigate, three steamers, and. seven transports, bad sailed for the northward, and the others would be dispatched with as little loss CJ time as possible. Sir Henry Pottinger was still at Hong-Kong, and was to proceed to the northward in a few days in time steamer Auckland. Nothing authentic has transpired as to the plan of the approaching cam pain. Some are of opinion that the Yang tse:keang and the -.Great Canal are to be the points of attack, and- not .Pekin. Others, with perhaps greater probabiiity, think ghat Pekin is the object at• which the cfforis of our n o o r r n e c r t n i r capital etna icntoawte. snore ,13c troops are to be where they will either is frighten the Emperor beyond the great wall, or drive a sh tit ;!, aanye e that than ever before an o:wet of attention, attract ing a like all eyes, foreign as well as nativ e , f a r and near. At Tientsen, and all along the Penn), from the sea to the cJpital, the Chinese have made great preparations for defence. The forts are reported to be more than a hundred in num ber, and the troops almost innumerable. No thing of this, however, appears in the Pekilly- Gazettes, which, d o wn to about the middle of April, are filled with the usual memorials, edicts, notificationSof new appointments,&c. The rumour that the Eniperor had fiedfrom Pekin into Tartary is not confirmed. The monarchs of the reigning dynasty have beenaccustomedgenerally to spend the hot season at Moukden, in Mantchourie, tint ancient residence of their 1111114; a practice-for some years fliscontinued by the present -Em peror. Whether the advent of the British ar mament may induce him to resume the practice remains to be seen. The original sentence passed upon Lin, namely; banishment to Ele, " the cold country," has bee:' carried into exe cution. Keshen has been baulAed to Mant , chouria, and old Elepu sent again to liekeang. 7 In the south the British authoritie; averse to commit themselves to measures that might require the retention of a large force, ha's , permitted the Chinese to rebuild their defences ; and from a little above Whampoa, upwards, Canton and its approaches are more strongly for tified than ever befbre. Chusan has been virtually abandoned to the Chinese Government, and it must be recaptured. Her Majesty's present Government, it is painful to know, have not rectified the blunder com mitted by their predecessors in dividing the re sponsibility of the different heads of the expe dition. Sir Henry Pottinger, it seems, can only advise with Sir Hugh Gough and Sir V. Parker, not control them. As it is, there is every pro bability that the present season will not witness the conclusion of the enterprise, and that it may he spun out to a fourth year, and thus entail on England the expense of the vast armament now in China during another twelvemaonths. The settlement on the island of Hong-Kong appears to progress rapidly, so far as the erection of private buildings is concerned ; it has, however, been ordered by the higher authorities to be held only as a military post. All the public works which were in progress hove been sud denly stopped. This seems strange and unac coun table. Shipments of bullion and specie are in pro gress from England to China. The steamer Memnon, has left Singapore with 150,000 Spanish dollars on board for the public service—a prac tical commentary on the wisdom of Captain Elliot in sending the Canton ransom money out of China. The expenses incurred both ways, in sending the treasure away, and bringing it back again,, must be very great. FALL OF CHAPOO. (Letter of an Officer in the Fleet.) OFF eIIAPOO, MAY 23.—We moved from Chusan on the Bth, and on the 16th we reconnoitred in the Phlegethon and Nemesis without interruption, And satisfied ourselves of the Chinese means cf defence. The line of land from east to west, for three miles, ending at the suburb of the city, comprised separate hills; the slopes between were fortified by field works, and on the last of these hills next the town were two batteries, about one-third up, consisting of seven and five guns. In front of the town facing the water was a circular battery, mounting, I suppose, fou rteen or fifteen guns, .1 further to the westward ajother, al together about forty-five guns on the sea face. The hills and works appeared to be covered with soldiers. On the 17th we moved in ; and on the 18th the Corn wallis, Blonde, and Modeste, being anchored abreast and as close to the battery as possible, opened their fire, which was very faintly returned. To our right (eastward) the troops disembarked on a fine sandy bay without accident, and headed by the gallant Sir Ilugh, pushed on over the heights, and soon came upon a causeway leading to the city. The Chinese fled before them in every direction. As soon as possible after the troops moved from the east, the naval brigade landed at the west end of the heights, and joined the troops between the heights and the suburbs.: Up to this time every defence had been ctraororpiesd, finding with scarcely impossible,yanyloss;but about 300 Tartar and being inspired with the idea that the English would give no quarter * took possession of a joss-house on the spot, defending themselves most desperately ; and it was not until the house fell upon them that about forty were taken — the rest perished. in this affair we have met with a very severe loss. Colonel Tomlinson, of the 18th, and eight men of the army, killed. Colonel Mountain, the Adjutant-Ge neral; Campbell, 55th; and Jodell, 49th, wounded severely ; and 45 men. The Navy—Two killed and four wounded. The Chinese had about 10,000 men, one-third Tartar troops. We captured an immense quantity of arms of all sorts.- -Bombay Times, Aug. 17. POSITIONS of the BRITISH and CHINESE FORCES.--CHAPOO and HANG-CHOW. Hangchan lies on the north bank of the river Tsientang, at a point where that river, after a rapid course from the southward and westward, through • the western districts of the province, begins to open out and form a wide embouchure towards the sea. " The tide when full," says Sir G. Staunton, in his account of , Macartney's embassy, " increases the width of this river to about four miles opposite the city. At low water there is a fine level of strand near two miles broad, which extends towards. the sea as far as the eye can reach." On its southern shore, as we proceed eastward from Hangchan, this swift-flowing river has deposited, during the lapse of ages, upon the slope of a ridge n of hills that skirt it to the southward, bank uponstrbeaanki of sand and earth, brought down by its rapid the off-branches of the Himalayas) wheroefm h hardened from the high mountain range (one of the . o I t t m . o as st i o ts f source. Under the triple distinctiot in its progress centuries have so narrowed the st i r t ean h i ns been left on onward, that the deep channel th. ground, firm sands, and quick s ands, n hese deposits of vcssels, when sent out rapidity, which even the steam to and e s r tides to stem. . . on its northern edge . has been found to flow with a survey, were unable durin) . p . . built kept m repair with n e a s of from :Chinese en gineering c the :I s el t a o enb n nn e cur c ro af : " II d e:f t s , serve s, on the northern bank, to keep gineerine• skill, u t o n f i orisLerxnenrdtios the gene • rally flat country that lies between this place and the Yangstz' kiang—a country everywhere intersected with streams, rendering it rich and fertile in the hi ghest degree, and, at the same time, sufficiently diversified make w i t h hills to add beau t y t o the scene, and to it in all respects one of the most lovely and interesting parts in the whole empire of China. The sand-banks on the southern s hore t o Chinhai, not many miles to-the reach nearly - e westward of w hi c h the unfortunate ship Kit e was l crew conveyed to Tszli and Y ost in 1840, and her Ningpo. The river Tsaun go, uyan, and thence to - the Chekiang province, rising in the c e n tre of straight line, int o th ngo, e flows northward, almost in or embouchure of the Tsientang or liangchan river . • the line of these and thus mak es a s li g ht break iir sand•banl is,-to examine which Com mander Collinson has recently been sent out, but with what su ccess to learn. he has met we have yet ~n C ommunicating, too, with the r iver of B " gpo by means of a canal, that ex tends l ikewise from the Tsaungo, westward past the city of Shanhing, and ends at a place d irectl y .oppo site to liangchan a line of com munication by inland waters is thus afforded between the British position bf Chinghai and Ningpo, and the head quarters of the Chinese force at that provincial capital—a line which has been twice described to us—first by the PP. Bouvet, Fontenay, and others, on their route from Ningpo by way of llangchan to Pekin in 1687 and then, by a portion of Lord Macartney's embassy, proceeding in an opposite direction, from Hangchan to rejoin their ship at Chusan, in 1793. The em bankment and causeway, on the.northern shore of the Tsientang river and embouchure, extend from Hang chat), w ith little interruption, to the knot of hills that encircles the bay and town of Chapoo, passing by the ancient Capra (Kanpu) of Mohammedan travellers, before it reaches this the modern seat of the rich trade with Japan ; and nearly parallel with this road runs a canal, its banks adorned at short distances with pret tily wooded villages. Ve have thus three modes of approaching Hang' _~;f! t '