The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-22 00:00:00

OVERLAND FROM INDIA.

(From the Delhi Gazette Extraordinary, November 16.)
We hasten to lay before our readers the following important
Government Notification this instant received, which cannot
fail to be perused with great interest :
ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.
SECRET DEPARTMENT.

CAMP DE BUDDEE, THE BTH NovEmena.—The Right Hon.
the Governor. General of India is pleased to publish, for ge-
neral information, the subjoined extract of a letter from Lieut.-
Colonel S•oddart, dated Herat, the 10th of September, 1838,
and addressed to the Secretary to the Government of India:—
" I haze the honour, by direction of her Britannic Majesty's
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and the
lion. East India Company's Envoy at the Court of Persia,
to acquaint you, for the information of the Right Hon. the
Governor-General of India in Council, that his Majesty the
Shah of Persia yesterday raised the siege of this city, and
with the whole of the Royal Camp marched to Sangbust,
about twelve miles, on his return to his own dominions. His
Majesty proceeds without delay by Tocrbut, Shehhi Jaunt
and Iffeshid, to Tehran."

" This is in fulfilment of his Majesty's compliance with the
demands of the British Government, which I had the honour
of delivering on the I2th instant, arid of the whole of
which his Majesty announced his acceptance on the 14th of
August.

His Majesty Shah Kamran, and his Vuzeer Yar Maho.
med Khan, and the whole city feel sensible of the sincerity of
the friendship of the British Government, and Mr. Pottinger
and myself fully participate in their gratitude to Providence
for the happy event I have now the honour to report."
In giving publicity to this important intelligence, the Go.
vernor- General deems it proper at the same time to notify,
that while he regards the relinquishment by the Shah of
Persia of his hostile designs upon Herat. as a just cause of
congratulation to the Government of British India and its.
allies, he will continue to prosecute with vigour the measures
which have been announced, with a view to the substitution of
a friendly, for a hostile pori cr, in the Eastern Provinces
of Afghanistan, and to the establishment of a permanent
barrier against schemes of aggressions upon our North West
Frontier.

The Right Hon. the Governor-General is pleased to ap-
point Lieutenant Eldred Pottinger, of the Bombay Artillery,
to be Political Agent at Herat, subject to the Orders of the
Envoy and Miniver at the Court of Shah Shooja 00l
Moolk. This appointment is to have effect from the 9th of
September last, the date on which the siege of Herat was
raised by the Shah of Persia.
In conferring the above appointment upon Lieut. Pottinger,
the Governor- General is glad of the opportunity afforded
him of bestowing the high applause which is due to the signal
merits of that officer, who was present in Herat during the
whole period of its protracted siege, and who under circum-
stances of peculiar danger and difficulty, has, by his forti-
tude, ability, and judgment, honourably sustained the repu-
tation and interests of his country.
By Order of the Right Honourable
the Governor-General of India.
W. H. MACNAGHTEN,
Secretary to the Governor of India,
with the Goi,ernor-General.
" The troops under Sir John Keane embarked at Bombay
on the 23d November, in steamers, to proceed up the Indus
to Skakarpoor, where they will meet the Bengal troops, or
rather a division of them, as it was understood that Sir H.
Fane, the Commander-in-Chief of India, would return to
Bengal, with a large part of the Bengal troops, as Sir John
Keane's army was thought sufficient to place Shah Shoojah in
possession of Cabdul. Whether the movements of the Nepaul-
ese and Burmese may have hastened the return of Sir H.
Fane, is not known; but the peace with Persia and Elerat
has rendered fewer troops necessary to place Shah Shoojah
at Cabul."