The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-11 00:00:00

THE ARMY OF THE INDUS.

We subjoin our latest intelligence from Candahar.
CANDAHAR, AUGUST 18, 1839.—Every thing 1S
quiet here, but the dawks between this and Cabul are
quite cut off, and we have no accounts from the army
ahead. A messenger from the Shah to the Prince
brought the intelligence of his having entered Cabul, on
the 4th instant, but we have no letters testifying the
statement. I am sorry to say, most distressing accounts
have just been received of the breaking out of cholera
at Quetta in Shawl, where the 2d Brigade is stationed.
We heard some time ago that this insidious and merci-
less scourge had followed the heels of our army from
Bliawulpore, by Roree and Bukkur to Shikarpore, and
thence across the desert of Cutch Gundava to Bhag and
Dadur ; but we were in hopes, the Bolan Pass, and
Solyman range would have checked its progress. I
am sorry to say, we have been disappointed, and the
cholera is playing sad havoc amongst the troops—
Lieutenant Baynes, of the Bombay Artillery, a most
talented and gallant officer, besides a well-known
sportsman, rider, hog hunter and writer in the
Maga, with five Europeans of his Company, have
already fallen victims, and numbers of the Se-
poys of the 31st and 42d Regiments, with bearers, camp
followers, &c. are daily carried off. I hope to God it
will not spread to Candahar, for if it does, the crowded
and filthy state of the city is enough to make it conta-
giods, and our troops, after the hardships they have en-
dured, the loss of bedding and clothing, want of food,
and
.bad Attah and water, are ill fitted to contend, with
diseases of any kind. ;The corprat' Quetta have, each
about 200 men in the hospital, whilst here we are pretty
healthy, but we hear Girisk has become so sickly, that
Captain Woodburn, who commands there, is meditating
bringing his corps into Candahar. You are mistaken
in supposing Colonel Stoddart has. .been liberated.
Letters having just been received from Herat, stating
all was quiet there, and that letters had been received
from Bokhara, dated the beginning of July, at which
time Stoddart was still a prisoner. No instructions
have yet been received to proceed against Kelat, but
the 2d Brigade are daily expecting orders to take it,
We hear reports of great discontent among the Shah's
officers, and that Nicholson and Moorhouse have ten-
dered their resignations. We are of course all most an-
xious to know what is to be our destination, and what
corps arc to be left in Affghanistan, for to suppose we
can leave the country to the care of the Shah and his
troops, while the whole of the chiefs are at large, and
when not more than the two capitals and some five
miles round them have been conquered, is incredible.
If any party is left, we feel assured they will be treated
with as much consideration as the Shah's officers, and
get the same allowance as they do. Double full batta
is not sufficient to make up for the additional expense
of residence here, but this is surely the least Govern-
ment can have the conscience to grant.—Delhi Gazette,
September 25.
The following is an extract from a commercial letter
received by the overland mail from India :
" Singapore, Aug. 19,1839.
" Our latest letters from China state that Commis-
sioner Lin had issued an edict, which was placarded at
Macao, requiring that the ships and merchants should
go to Whampoa and Canton in five days time, or other-
wise should leave altogether. There was also a thun-
dering edict addressed to the Portuguese Governors,
demanding a Chinese who was a Catholic convert to
Christianity, and who was accused of opium dealing, to
be sent to him in five days, or he would come down
with 20,000 men and drive all hands into the sea. This
man claims to be a Portuguese subject, and was to be
protected at all hazards. Two Englishmen, formerly
Supposed to be opium dealers, were also demanded,
that they might be strangled."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

. VESSELS SPOKEN WIT/I.—The Gunga, of Whitehaven,
24th ult., lat. 37, long 14 ; Sir William Bensby, Quebec
to London, 6th inst., lat. 49, long. 7, by the Tyro, Wool-
verton, arrived at Falmouth; British Merchant, Bombay
to Liverpool, Aug. 26, out fifteen days, by the Tigris,
Symons, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope; Commodore,
London to the Mauritius, Aug. 10, on the Equator, by the
Robert Brown, Mansfield, arrived at the Cape of Good
Hope ; Clarence, of Hobart Town, with 500 barrels, by
the Lady Blackwood, arrived at Sydney ; Elizabeth, of
London, out thirty-three months, with 2,100 barrels, by
the Pocklington, arrived off Otabeite ; Mitbridates and
arrived abt St. Helena; Proteus,
Bombay, eastward of Mada-
S
ca
Isabella Uda, this side of the Cape, by the Star, arrived at
14ts.Hr,
,in April, with 1,100 barrels, British Sovereign, in April,
600 barrels, Nimrod,
ebillyntah;e FGriallisiekYla' ndfr, frommrriß
in May, with 800 barrels, Lucy Ann,
in June, with 500 barrels, and Sarah and Elizabeth, of
Hobart Town, out three weeks, clear, lsy the Clarkson,
arrived at Sydney ; Lady Leith, with 300 barrels
Woolach, with 400 barrels, by the William, arrived at
Sidney.

The following has been received from the AdMiralty,
addressed to the Secretary at Lloyd's
Admiralty, Dec. 9 1839.
" SIR,--I am commanded by my Lords' Commissioners
of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith, for the in-
formation of the Committee for managing the affairs of
Lloyd's, an extract from the Journal of St. Petersburg,
regarding the Northern Lighthouse of Catherinenthal, at
Revd.

4, I am, Sir, your most humble servant,
" Mr. Dobson, Lloyd's. "J. BARROW."
Extract from the Journal of St. Petersburg, of the 15th