The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

MADRAS.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—GeneraI Showers, it is
said, ,will proceed immediately to Bangalore to assume
the command of the Mysore division, vacated by the ap- •
pointment of Sir Hugh Gough to be Commander-in-Chief
of the army. Lieut. L. MaNneen, acting aide-de-camp
to Sir Robert Wok, is, we hear, to succeed to the deputy-
j adge-advecate-generalship, vacated by the promotion of
Captain Nepean.
Detachments of the Company's recruits have arrived
from England in the ships Justina and Malcolm, under
the command of Lieutenant Inverarity of the Engineers,
and Major Messier of the 39th regiment. The Enter-
prise steamer has taken 2,000 stand of arms for the Bom-
bay Government, in addition to 250 boxes of treasure.
It is rumoured that the Military Board have at last,
through the representations of the Commandant of Ar-
tillery, recommended that some three or four additional
warrant officers and 100 Lascars should .be immediately
sent to China, and six Gomer chamber mortars will, it
is supposed, be forwarded by the same opportunity. We-
regret to learn the Government have decided on breaking
up the European veteran battalion. This, if it prove
correct, will fall heavily on the poor fellows' pensioned
on the small pittance termed " Established Pension Pay."
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—It affords us much plea-
sure to record the late splendid passage of the good ship
Owen Glendower, which, leaving London on the 18th of
June, anchored in our roads en Sunday last (sth instant,)
having thus accomplished the passage in the almost in-
credibly short space of 79 days.TIIE
GoYnalloa.7-We regret to hear that Lord El-
phinstone has been seriously indisposed of late. Previous
to his visit to the. Seven Pagodas, his Lordship was un-
well, and since his return his indisposition has unfortu-
nately increased.
The Ldodianizh (Mbar; of the .27th of August, con-
tains the following :
SOUTH HYDERABAD.—The• cholera is committing
great havoc in South Hyderabad, and has caused the
voice of mourning to be heard from all quarters. Within
the last ten days between 8,000 and 9,000 people have
died pf this distemper. Newab Ruffant-001-Moolk, a
great and much-esteemed chief, has fallen a victim to
the plague.
NeWatib Moobaroz-001-Dowlah, who, on a charge of
treasonable practices, had, with a large party of friends,
been confined .in the fort of Coolcundah, and subjected
to great indignities, by order of the Nizam, will be re-
leased, it is 'said, as his innocence is now apparent to
the King.
DOST MOHAMED.—We are sorry to hear that Dost
Mahomed is, labouring under a severe attack of fever,
and is reported to dave been delirious. Many of the
persons comprising the suite of the ex-Ameer, . together
with his son, •Hyder Khan, have also suffered from the
same, cause. The climate of Bengal, at this unhealthy
season, appears to be as little congenial to the Affghan
constitution as to that of Europe.

CANDAHAR.
The long-looked-for intelligence of the battle with
the forces of Uklitar Khan has reached us at last. From

the dates of our various letters it would appear that

betwixt the 21st--_--the.clate from Quettah when the first

rumour arrived here on Tuesday se'nnight—and the
29th ult., to which our present letters from Quettah ex-
tend, some interruption in the daks betwixt Quettah
and Dadur must have occurred. The present encounter

appears to have been the most sharp and bloody of any
in which we have been engaged since our troops en-
tered Affghanistan. Our own loss has been, under the
circumstances, extremely trifling, and the number of
killed and wounded on either side fall, as usual, much
below what was originally believed-700 is still a severe
list of casualties against the enemy, equal to more than.
one-third that which occurred during Lord Keane's cam-
paign, and nearly double the amount of the slain at any
of the thirty actions or thereby in which we have been
engaged since February, 1840. The accuracy of the fol-
lowing particulars may be relied on :
On the evening of the 10th of August intelligence was
received that the combined forces under Ukhtar Khan,
Akram Khan of Duramut, with the chiefs of Bugnee and
Bagram, in number about 5,000 men, had marched down
the valley to the village of Secunderbad, about twelve
miles from camp. At dawn on the 17th, a force consist-
ing of four six-pounders, wing of the 2d regiment Ben-
gal native infantry, 400 ; Ist and sth regiments of the
Shah's native infantry, about 900 ; wings of the Shah's
Ist cavalry, 250 ; and the Ist and 2d regiments of Jam-
baz, 650 ; marchd against them, under the command of
Captain Griffin, of the Bengal establishment, and on ap-
proaching the enemy were formed up in the line of
contiguous columns at open order, with the guns in the
centre, and the cavalry on each flank, about 150 paces in
the rear.

The enemy were found to occupy a low ridge,.running
along our front—their left resting on a fort and some
inclosed gardens, from which they commenced,a desul-
tory fire. A few discharges of shrapnell, well directed,
soon cleared the heights, and the enemy were obliged to
retire to their second position, which was a very strong
one, amid gardens and vineyards, inclosed with high
walls, and loop-holed. From these they opened a heavy
fire, killing and wounding a number of our men. Two
companies of the second regiment Bengal N. 1., sup-
ported by two companies of the Ist regiment Shah's
N. 1., under Lieutenant Gardner, were therefore de-
tached to dislodge them, and led on by Lieutenants
Cooke and Travers (both of the'Bengal establishment),
gallantly performed this duty, and expelled the enemy
with great loss..
The Shah's cavalry then charged, and pursued the
enemy to the extreme left of their position, turned it,
and fell upon another body who had commenced their
retreat, pursuing them, for upwards of a mile. In the
pursuit the Jambaz regiments, under the command of
Captain Hart, of the Bombay, and Captain Goulding, of
the Bengal establishments, highly distine'miShed them-
selves, and redeemed their character and wiped off the
stigma attaching to them for their misconduct in the pre-
vious engagement with I:khtar Khan.
The loss of the enemy in this action was exceedingly
severe, one account stating that upwards of 700 dead
were counted on the field of battle. The following list
also shows our own loss was severe, and that the contest

'was well maintained. Horse artillery, 1 trooper wounded;
2d Rcgt. Bengal Native Infantry, 7 killed, 30 wounded;
Ist cavalry, S. S. force, 5 killed, 17 wounded • Lieut.
Crawford, Bombay establishment, slightly wounded; Ist
Regt. N. 1., S. S. force, 11 wounded; Ist ditto Jambaz,
4 killed, 11 wounded; 2d ditto, 1 killed, 13 wounded.
Total, 17 killed, 83 wounded.
Ukhtar Khan, the leader of the insurgents, is reported
to have fled at the very commencement of the fight.
Prince Timeur, son of Shah Soojah, was present, and
is reported to have behaved most gallantly, two of his
favourite dependents being cut down by the enemy by
his side.—Times, Sept. 22.
MURDER OF DR. FORBES.

Intelligence was yesterday received at Agra of the dis-
tressing murder of Dr. Forbes by Ibrahim Khan, the
Beelochee chief of Seistan. Dr. Forbes, under the pro-
tection of Mohumud Reza Khan, the most influential
chieftain in Seistan, had completed the circuit of the
lake, and visited all sites of interest in the province,
accompanied by one Persian servant. From the
residence of Mohumud Reza Khan he was
escorted to Jehanabad, the fort of Ibrahim Khan,
Beloochee, and after remaining with that chief a
few days, he left for Sash, . with a party of Ibrahim
Khan's horse, for a guard. The Khan joined him at a
short distance from the fort; they breakfasted together
its a friendly manner, and Dr. Forbes was immediately
murdered. Our report says that being attacked by a
large hound, brought out to hunt the hog, he shot it in
self-defence, and the Khan, in a moment of irritation,
immediately fired on him. The other and more cpro-
bable story is, that the Khan, on pretence of examining
his arms, got possession of his gun, pistols, and sword,
then immediately gave the signal to his horsemen, who
seized the doctor, dragged him through the water of the
lake until he was half drowned, and•when he was brought
out the Khan shot him with his own hand. • ,
His Persian attendant was barbarously murdered p day
or two after.—Agra U Aar, Sept. 16.
MURDER OF. MR. O'GonMAN.—The only news we
have from the north-west is the following letter giving
an account of the murder of Mr. O'Gorman, at Candaha r,
alluded to in our supplement of Saturday last. The
letter is dated the 26th July:—
" I lament to inform you that a most respectable and
well conducted European met with his death yesterday
morning, from the hands of a murderous Affghan. Ile
was a Mr. O'Gorman, who had accompanied Major Todd
on his mission to Herat, in capacity of writer, and who
remained here on that officer's departure for Hindoostan.
He was quietly taking his morning walk through the
Chasons, when the villain watching his opportunity, quietly,
walked up to him and buried his murderous chaco in
his bowels ; he immediately attempted to repeat
the blow, when a recruit of the 38th, who was on the
spot, brought him to the ground by a seVere blow of a
lathee across the temple; he endeavoured to rise, where-
upon the sep6Yrepeated the dose which enabled him to se-
cure the culprit and hand him over to the civil authorities..
sciti.celYelapsed when the perpetrator of
launched into eternity, being blown
hfoouulrdhewlea.
was
from a gun. The poor unoffending European survived but
tAhne
a few hours when he expired from internal *hemorrhage.
Is it not extraordinary that the political authority will -so
far insult Christian feeling by the execution of those vil-
lains on the Sabbath day, which he has done in two.in-
stances since my arrival here. Ithmediately before the exe-
cution of the felon he confessed he had followed a palanquin
for a great distance, watching for an opportunity to murder
the feringhee in it, but not being able to effect that
(the palanquin having turned up a narrow gully) he .re-
turned and met his unfortunate victim. It is supposed
that Dr. Jacob, of the 38th Native Infantry, was the
person intended, he having just passed that way in the
palanquin, proceeding to his hospital. He further stated
that there were seven more men in the city who had
bound themselves by oath on the Koran to destroy every
European they could meet with, having an opportunity.
That tragic scene was scarcely concluded when an
armed Sowar presented himself in the evening at
one of the gates of the city, demanding admit-
tance of the sentry on duty ; the sentinel
.declined,
saying if he divested himself of his arms, AC might do so,
but that his orders were to admit no armed man throughs
the gate after nightfall. On this the Sowar drewwl.iais
pistol and fired, but fortunately, though the sentry
quite close to him, he missed his mark ; the scpo! then
his
presented his fixed bayonet at the horse to prevent
h* sabre and
entrance, whereupon the Sowar drew, is
ho however, finally
wounded the man in three places:swsai
th scoundrel is
succeeded in securing him.
It
who accompanied him
one of Mr. Macpherson's Sowars,
a few days since from _
servants just now
Quettah. - 3
en about
t August 0 expi ate his
inform me that he is this
G te
.crime on the gallows."—Delh mo i
me
,_
—ONCE.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGE.
The latest advices frdm Canton, which extend to the
21st August, represent every article of import, both
.from England .and India, as lower than was ever before
known in China. This extreme depression was attributed
-to Abe scarcity of money arising from the abstraction of
the biz millions of dollars to pay for the ransom of Can-

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ton, and to the absence of the', Shroffs, why wen in the
habit of making large advance oodij4 fio had
withdrawn their capital in consequ • - --- - tof
confidencein the existing temporvirxt tP aftirs•
cuttike
Another cause is, that the lionr itiV h
compelling the teamen to take payment in cotton, and
other goods; and the latter, anxious to realise, had been
doing so, in many cases, at a fearful sacrifice.
- The exports of tea since the Ist October last amounted
to about twenty-seven millions of pounds, 'and four or
live ships were finishing their lading, which would carry
the season's supply by the end of September to about
thirty millions of pounds, which would clear the market,
except a moderate „supply of kinds remaining suited to
America, to which .quarter the exports this year had
been unusually small. Not more than two-thirds of the
money sent last year to the tea country had been for-
warded during the present season.
A letter dated Macao, 24th August, says :—" Major
Malcolm-went up to Canton in the Nemesis steamer on
13th August, wit h 'a letter to the Commissioner, enclosing
one for Pekin, telling them the reply would be required
soon at the Peiho. The Kwang-ehow-foo came to the hall
and took the letter. A strong endeavour was made tomix up
old llowqua in the discussion, but this was steadily re-
fused by Major Malcolm. The Cohong have made a de-
mand for a release from all, responsibility from fire,
plunder. &c., before they will allow ships to be secured.
This innovation lia*been resisted lair all but one party,
who signed a paper to the 'effect wanted. One reason
assigned by- the Cehong is, that new folk's words cannot
be relied on ; and written not rim vocc engagements are
required: All quiet yet, but this is not expected to be
long the case at Canton."