The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-02 00:00:00

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Poland ! IWI you your voice will fail cheeringly .
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sun falls on the chilling night path of the wanderer. SON,. ' --_
let your free and noble voice go forth ; let it be heard
in good season, and God Almighty bless you for it !
(Protracted cheering.)
The meeting terminated with enthusiastic cheering
for M. Kossuth.

THE EXPEDITION TO PERSIA.

(From Correspondent of the Times.)

BOMBAY, Nov. 3.

As was anticipated, the English mail of the 26th
of September, which reached Bombay on the 23d of
last month, brought out final orders regarding the
Persian expedition, directing its immediate de-
spatch. Some days previous to the arrival of the
mail the constitution of an " expeditionary field
force for foreign service beyond sea" bad appeared
iu general orders. Major-Gen. Stalker, C. 8., was
eppoini • 1 to the chief command. To the command
of the Ist Infantry Brigade, consisting of her Ma-
jesty's 64th and 20th Native Infantry,...Col. Stop-
ford, of the former regiment, was nominated • and
to that of the 211, Col. Honner, of the 4th Native
Infantry (Rifles), having under his orders his own
corps, the 2d Bombay Europeans, and the 2d Be-
looch Battalion. The cavalry portion of the force
was given to Lieut.-Col. Tapp, of the Poonah Irre •
gulag Horse, with two troops of his own men and
two squadrons of the 3d Light Cavalry. Two com-
panies of Sappers and Miners, under Major Hill, of
the Engineers, and artillery (one troop and one
field battery), under Lieutenant. Colonel Trevalyan,
complete the details of the force, which may num-
ber in all, as I have before mentioned, something
more than 5,000 men. The two regiments of
the Ist Brigade, which were both stationed at Bel-
gaum, have by this time reached their port of em-
barkation, Vingorla. Two of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamers, the Pottinger and
the Precursor, each it ith a sailing vessel in tow,
left the harbour for Vingorla two days ago. The
light cavalry stationed at Rajcote, in the peninsula'
of Kattywar, will embark from the native port of
Porebunder, on that coast, while two regiments
of the 2d Brigade will take ship at Kurrachee.
The rest of .the force will sail from Bombay, and the
flotilla in the harbour, augmented by the transports
and steamers on their return from ✓ Vingorla, will
number probably upwards of 30 sail. The total
number of sailing vessels engaged as ;transports is
26, with an aggregate of 24,000 tens, to which is
to be added 6,000 tons for three vessels of the Pen-
insular and (Mental Company, and those belong-
ing to the Bombay Steam Navigation Company.
It is expected that the fleet will sail about the 10th
inst. Sir Henry Leeke, Commander-in-Chief of the
Indfau Navy, and a Rear- Admiral of the reserved
list of the Royal Navy, hoists his flag on board the
Feroze, in command of the naval portion of the
expedition. Under him are several officers of much
experience in the Persian waters.
The first point for which the fleet will make is
Bassadore, the station of the Indian navy in the
Persian Gulf. Thence they will probably move up
to the Gulf, and occupy the island of Karrack, or
lihareg, a dreary and desolate spot, but important
and convenient for operations against the ports of
the mainland in general and Bushire in particular.
Accordingly, it is prolable that with all practicable
despatch Bushire will be summoned to surrender,
and in the event of a refusal will have its defences
shattered by the gunboats of the fleet and be taken
fore(ble possession of. Earthworks or other forti-
fications of a more scientific character than those
( hey replace will then be thrown up, and the place
will be occupied by the troops, pending the sub-
mission or &fiance of the Shah. Should the spirit
of that Sovereign not give way at the first blow
operations in the interior will be necessary, and for
this purpose the small force about to be despatched
from Bombay will be totally inadequate. Even
already rumours are abroad of troops to be sent to
the westward through one or both of the famous
passes whose names were so well known through-
out England 15 years ago—the Khyber and the
Bolan. Such reports, though as I believe unfounded
at present, are nevertheless not unlikely to be re- •
newed with form and consistency hereafter. In the
direction of the latter of the two above-named
mountain gorges more than oue British officer has
already proceeded from Calcutta or Bombay, pre-
sumably with the view of arranging with our ally
the Khan of lihelat for the formation of a contin-
gent force in his territories, which lie exposed to the
Shah, should Southern Affghanistan fall into his
hands.

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With regard to Herat, I think I may assure you,
though I would not venture to be confident, that up
to the end of Sept. the place was still held by Esa
Khan, in spite of all the efforts of the Persian gene-
rals. The story of its fall, told, as I have before
mentioned, by the Lahore Chronicle, has been con-
tradicted from various quarters. There took place,
indeed, if we are to credit information derived from
a " very intelligent and trustworthy Mahomedan
gentleman at Shikapore," who has a son at Canda-
har, a very desperate engagement between the be-
siegers and the besieged on the 29th Aug.
a At first
the assailants got the better of the Heratees, suc-
ceeding, through treachery on the part of the officers
commanding, in establishing themselves in several
important points of the works. At that moment it
may have been that the news spread abroad that
the day was irretrievably lost, and that Herat had
fallen. But, be that as it may, Esa Khan rallied
his dispirited followers, and delivered in person so
vigorous an attack upon the enemy that they were
speedily swept from every position they had occu-
pied, and, leaving the ditch of the fortress choked
with their dead, were chased back with further loss
upon the main body of their army. Then Esa Khan,
triumphant over the foreign levy, returned to pu-
nish with terrible severity the domestic treason.
Thus far the worthy Mussulman of Shikarpore--
whose tale, though 1 cannot vouch for its truth, I
yet could not have omitted to repeat. The late
correspondence of the Delhi Gazette from Cabul, if
it says nothing of this particular assault, is at least
equally positive as to the continued success of the
Heratees in the defence of their city. The Ameer
Dost Mahomed quitted Candahar for Cabul on the
13th of Sept., leaving at the former capital 9,000
men and 30 guns, wider the charge of his son,
Ryder Khan. The object of this move on his part
was thought to be to receive and confer with a,
British officer. This, it is suggested, may be Col.
Cavenagh, who lately left Calcutta on a political
mission, which is supposed to have had Cabul for
its direction. On the whole, the Ameer appears
to have been feeling more at Isis ease than for
many months past; and his indomitable spirit felt
a grim delight in the prospect of handling English
arms and 20,000/. of English gold. His brother,
Sultan Mahomed, indeed, the ex-chief of Pesha-
war. had been caught intriguing against him with
the Persians, and summarily ordere off to Cabul.
This, however, troubled the Dost but little ; it
would take something very strong indeed in the
way of treachery and intrigue to astonish him ; and
in high glee the old man rode off for his capital
a few days later, talking. to his Sirdars, about his
expected English visitor, and saying that if he
did not come up to Cabul with all speed he him-
self would go down as far as Jellalabad to meet
him.
I should mention that I read nothing firther of
the movements cf the Persians from Farrah to-
wards Ghirisk and Candahar ; but it must be this
division of their army, if any, which is causing
alarm to the Khan of Khelat.
From the Punjaub frontier there is little news.
The field force which Brigadier Cotton had taken
out for exercise from Peshawar at the end of Sep-
tember was forced to return to the camp
17th of October, owing to the troops left behind
having been incapacitated for the duties of the
station by severe sickness. Fever on the
prevalent among the troops conineing
had also been_la
the field
force, especially crippling the 87th Fusiliers,' (3
Punjaub irregular force, under Bri-
gadier Chamberlain, is in the field, either simply
for exercise, or (more to parade the
probablY) .
Hango Valley, or (as a wild rumour has it) to
march through the Khyber
gered.among the
Any hopes that may bare
'nof their
Mussulmans of the Carnatic that the rule
titular Nawabs would not be abolished at the death
of the late Nawab must have been dissipated by
a formal announcement of the fact made by
Nawab's soldiers.
the Government agent to the
The men had the option given them of entering the
ranks of the company's army or being otherwise
About one half immediately enlisted,
provided for. •
and the affair passed off with perfect quietness ; buts
shortly afterwards there appeared, and have conti-
nued to appear, posted in the mosques of Madras,
sanguinary and inflammatory
placards of a s charac-
ter, calling on all good
Mussulmans to rise and
slaughter the Europeans. The reasons assigned in
justification of this summons are our faithlessness
in general, and in the matter of the Carnatic Mus-
nnd in particular.

DEATH OF R. V. YATES, ESQ., OF LFirERPOOL.—W6
regret to announce the death, yesterday, of Richard
Vaughan Yates, Esq., of the Dingle, near Liverpool.
one of the oldest and most respected of the inhabitants
of that port. His benevolence and charity were un•
bounded, and his name in connection with the Prince's-
park, which he fitted out for the use of the people of
Liverpool at his own expense, will never be forgotten.
As a tribute to his memory the ensign floated half asst:
high at the Liverpool Town.ball yesterday.