The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-19 00:00:00

HERAT AND CANDAHAFL

The Cabnl correspondent of the Delhi Gaulle
writes on the 20th of December :

It is rumoured here that the Avner Dost Mahomed Khan
is in great want el provisions at Candahar, which has com-
pelled him to detach his forcz. The Ameer is far from being
well. Oholam Mshomed Khan Mookhtar advises him le
return, letv.ng ►is tons and the force at Candahar. Who.
Vier the Ameer accepts ha aee'cs cr cot time will only show.
Bat the general salt is that he will not return without sat-
Wog everything to his ambitious satisfaction relating to the
sifairs of Herat and Candahar. Sirdar Sher Alee Kt au and
a large troop of the Arneer's have encamped the other side
of Candahsr, on the road to Herat, and his highness is him-
self with Sirloin Itshimdil Khan in the city. The Ames,
has in some degree gained the cocEdence of the people at
Candahar, and is thinking to strike coin under his own
name in that place. . _ _

Girder Mahound Osman Khan read a letter aloud in the
court, slid to have come from the Ameer of Candahar.
His Highs's* writes that the citrus of Rent have been
divided into three different parties—one Sedum., Fcful-
saw, Ha he, and Aimaks ; second, Barukme, Aloha.
:lee, °Misses", and the Afighace in the city; and the
third, Persian* and Hennes. The seeond party being
stronger then the fint, the letter have sent p.titions to the
Ameer, and inviting him to yrweed to Herat, which will
be made over to him without bloodshed. It is also added
th►t Mahound Sada Khaa, having marched trim Geentalik
with a lightly equipped fore., had rotecked the dettchmente
of the Herat prince stationed at nosh. Though he bee
1 sustained apartiel defeat, it win cnly intended to lull the
enemy into carden j-iy, and he was now preparing to
strike ea effectual blow, which will be terminated
in the capture of Farah and the flight of the
prises from Heerat. The letter further states that
the King of Persia has disapproved of the conduct
of the primes in taking Herat, eddies that the late
Yu' Mshomed Khoo, of Herat, was attached to Pertilli,
and that it was not the wish of his Majesty that the house-
hold of that late personsge, as well of Kohundil Khan, of
Candahar, should be asnibilated by a ptiuce dependent
epee the Shah.
. . . .

Birder llabomed Omar Khan also read that through the
influence of & ohm Mahomed Ktan, ex-ckief of Pesha-
war, a hearty alliance was formed hew( en the Amcor and
the Candaharees beaded by Sillier Rahisdil Ktan, who
have resolved to tend all their families to Cabal in proof of
their coefideoce in the Amec•. The Ameer has takes this
opp,rtanity of reminding hie chiefs and brothers (who did
not like hie treaty of friendship with the British at the
time) that bad he not contracel alliance with the English
goveroosect, the troops at Peshawur would hays taken ad-
vantage of his absence, and subverted the government of
the Baraleaseez. . _ .

Such is the purport of the Amaar's letter, received by the
Cabal governor, but the people say that it is fabrieutsd to
keep the country quiet, sod that no on. in the city and
Kohistaa sboald it:aligns in favour of the Beret Prima
and against the Barskaseei.

PERSIAN AFFAIRS.

(From Um Bombay Time, of Feb. 13.)

The tiding, brought by the Tigris from the Persian
Gulf afford but cold corer .rt for the Semprooii of the peer.
The Persians are moving on Herat, as they were this tints
twenty years age. Whether they will get on falter than
they did in 1838, or do more when there than they did
1838, remains to be seen. The matter need in so way what-
ever concern us. Profound trauqudlity seems to reign
around all the shores of the Golf. The lif.ttsh residents
in Bwhire, so far from being likr ly to seek refuge on board
the /Odell& or Victoria, sent for their deliverance, enjoy
the special protection of the Persian government, consider-
ing it anytbirg but a kindness to be compelled to leave.
Bethke itself, which the Friend of India seems to consider
too formidable for • landing-place for the grand army in
contemplation, is a miserable mud built, unwelled town.
which might to bettered to p'eoes from our gunboats, sad
which oar 'semen could burn down in sic hours time with-
out the slightest risk of danger or fear of resistance.;
There sense sot the smallest ground for associating the
late misunderstanding with the fell of Kare, Russian inter-
position, or scything count dad with the policy of the West.
The facts already related by us seem perfectly &efficient to
explain the whole quarrel, beard es it is on the arrogant
assumptions of Sir John Malcohn's treaties and the indiscre-
tions of Mr. Murray. Ihe lights under which we 'peek are.
we readily el:ow, apt to fluctuate sad vary ; we at present
most et rtelely can NC so ground +loiterer of apprehending
a rupture with Persi.. Were the Shah to f ace • quarrel'
upon us. Teheran would be garrisoned by Bombay troops
within • month of the sailing of the first transport from our
harbour. Bet thee, though we might iefllet an infinitude
et mischief os Persia, we could do no good whatever to our-
Delves. Fivers six millions might be thrown away. in the
moat teglorioes, beeaure the • orst resisted. of titmouse', but
then the country is rot worth keeping. We have already,
more than writ, ry enough ; we want no more eertaiely to
the westward of the Indus until that which we tared,
possess at limit meets half its charge s.

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

Crams ova owx

PLYMOUTH, TEZIDAY.

The African Mail Company's screw steamer Gam-
bia arrived this morning with the homeward malls.
She left Lagos on Feb. 11 ; Sierra Leone, Feb. 25;
and Madeira, March 11. She brings 19 passengers.
and 1,948 canoes of gold.
Business on the coast generally doll, but the meat
was healthy.
There had been a disturbance at Cape Coast, in
which thirty natives had been killed and about one
hundred wounded. _ .

The ships Saracen sod Martha, of Liverpool, were
destroyed by ere at Bonny on the 11th January.
The Niger, company's steamer, arrived at Tenerifre
Oa the Srd of March.

Tut SIEGE OF Roxs.—M. Dant zell, die-sinker at
the Paria Mint. who &signed the medal commemorative of
the last aew ha., by order of the Minister of Steee
just designed a new one in memory of the sieve of Rome.
Oa ewe side is ihe *they of the Empiree of the Frznett, and
oa the othi r a Wilde represeoting France crowned with
Jewels and armed with a sword, patting Anarchy to flight
and delivering Rome, which ia persoTfl.d be a wombs
seated. The medal bears the inscription, ..Itspugosndo,
lospitat Romani Quilts I'lLettem tatstur. Sadittone op-
grease. MDCCCXLVIII."