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

HER AT AND CANDAHAR.

The Cabul correspondent of the Delhi Gozette
writes on the 20th of December :
" It is rumoured here that the Ameer Dost Ma-
homed Khan is in great want of provisions at Can-
dahar, which has compelled him to detach his force.
The Ameer is far from being well. Gholam Ma-
horned Khan Mookhtar advises him to return,
leaving his sons and the force at Caudahar. Whe-
ther the Ameer accepts his advice or not time will
only show. But the general talk is that he will
not return without settling everything to his am-
bitious satiEfaction relating to the affairs of Herat
and Candahar. Sirdar Sher Alee Khan and a
large troop of the Ameer's have encamped the
other side of Candahar, on the road to Herat, and
his Highness is himself with Sirdar Rahimdil Khan
in the city. The Ameer has in some degree gained
the confidence of the people at Candahar, and is
thinking to strike coin under his own name in
that place.
" Sirdar Mahomed Osman Khan read a lettee2
aloud in the court, said to have come from the
Amcor of Candahar. His Highness writes that the
citizens of Herat have been divided into three dif-
ferent parties—ono Sadozaees, Fofulzaees, Haza-
rahs, and Aimaks ; second, Barukzaee, Aloka-
nee, Ghilzaees, and the Affghansi n the city ; and
the third, Persians and Heratees. The second
party being stronger than the first, the latter have
sent petitions to the Ameer, and inviting him to
proceed to Herat, which will be made over to him
without bloodshed. It is also added that Mahomed
Sadek Khan, having marched from Geerushk with a
lightly equipped force, had attacked the detachments
of the Herat Prince stationed at Farah. Though
he has sustained a partial "defeat, it was only in-
tended to lull the enemy into careless joy, and he
was now preparing to strike an effectual blow,
which will be terminated in the capture of Fara.li
and the flight of the prince from Herat. The letter
further states that the King of Persia has disap-
proved of the conduct of the prince in taking flight,
adding that the late Yar Mahomed Khau, of He-
rat, was attached to Persia, and that it was not the
wish of his Majesty that the household of that late
personage, as well of Kohundil Khan, of Candahar,
should be annihilated by a prince dependent upon
the Shah.
Sirdar Mahomed Omar Khan also read that

through the influence of Sooltan Mahomed Khan,
ex-chief of Peshawur, a hearty alliance was formed
between the Ameor and the Candaharees headed by
Sirdar Rahimdil Khan, who have resolved to send
all their families to Cabul in proof of their confi-
dence in the Ameor. The Ameer has taken this op-
portunity of reminding his chiefs and brothers
(who did not like his treaty of friendship with the
British at the time) that had ho not contracted alli-
ance with the English Government, the troops at
Peshawur would have taken advantage of his ab.
EitillCO, and subverted the Government of the Baruk-
zaees.
"Such is the purport of the Ameer's letter re-
ceived by the Cabul governor, but the people say
that it is fabricated to keep the country quiet, and
that no one in the city and Kohistan should intrigue
in favour of the Herat Prince and. against the
Barukzaees.

PERSIAN AFFAIRS.
(From the _Bombay Times of Fcb. 13. )

The tidings brought by the Tigris from the Per-
sian Gulf afford but cold comfort for the Sempronii