The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

lIERAT.

The following Cabul letter, which we extract
from the Delhi Gazette, will be read with interest.
All the Indian papers now admit the fall of the
place.
Cabul, Nov. 25.—Two Cossids from the sacred Mu-
shid came to Cabul, and in confidence mentioned that on
the day when they left the sacred Mushid, they met on
the road to Herat a party consisting of a thousand horse-
men who were escorting Esa Khan, the late chief of
Herat, to the presence of the King of Persia at Tehe-
ran. When they arrived at Herat, they say that all
the gates of Herat were open ; they went into the city
and remained there three days. They heard from the
inhabitants that Esa Khan had for a long► time been
wishing to secure his personal safety, if he should
evacuate the fort. The commander of the Persian forces
always replied to Esa Khan, that without the order of the
king he could not guarantee his life. A firman at length
came from the king ; and in compliance with the orders
received, quarter was granted and an assurance of
honourable treatment given. Esa Khan surrendered
the fortress and presented himself at the Durbar of the
Prince of Persia, who conferred on him a handsome
and valuable dress of honour and several thousand
golden boodkies. Note that each boodkie, like Moor:Ts,
is of small intrinsic value, probably not exceeding six
rupees. The Prince then providing him with a honour.
able escort of one thousand sowars, sent him to the
King of Persia, who was at Teheran. The children
and family of Esa Man remain in the fort of Herat ;
and under orders conveyed i❑ a royal firman, they are
residing in the house of the son of Yar Mahomed Khan.

BRIGADIER CHAMBERLAIN'S EXPEDI-

TION TOWARDS CABUL.

In the Bengal Ilurkara we read :

We mentioned on Thursday that we bad authentic
information to the effect that a part of the so-called
Meerunzaie force was actually on its way to Cabul,
under command of Brigadier Neville Chamberlain,_an(!
that, according to latest advices, it was within four
march of the capital of the Ameer Dust MahoTed
. days
briefly alluded to the secresy with which this
cannot
imbutportant
military measure had been carried out, but
express our surprise that none of the up-couitliatvry. journals,received
even the one nearest the frontier, should
interesting
or furnished any information on this highly
move. whether the detach-
We are not in a position to say
meat of Brigadier Chamberlain, whose distinguished ser-
vices iu AffghanislAn, and
intimate acquai.ntance with
the country and its people,
t
peculiarlyo fifitll,hiismi for the
l post be has been so wisely Selected
for service, or as our escort under whose wing the ruler
of Cabul is to hold an interview with Sir John Law-
rence ; but whatever may be the object, there is no doubt
that the route selected has been a most judicious one.
It completely turns the Afreedees of the Khiber, whose
permission to "pass on " it might have been necessary
to purchase. The expedition will make us acquainted
with a road years ago pronounced the best to Cabul by
the sagacity of Major Coke, and the arrangements for
its despatch could be, and were apparently, made in that
retired nook at Kohat, without exciting the observation
which they must have attracted at Peshawur. There-
fore, the exact force, the strength of which we do not
know, is accompanied by Captain Sladen's Punjaub bat-
tery, with the view, no doubt, of testing the practicability
of the route for guns.
It is generally believed in the Punjaub, and there
seem strong grounds for thinking, that an army will
be formed at Peshawur within the next three months,
and that the regiments ostensibly on their march
to reliev o the curps at that station will form the
nucleus of the force. The only indication to the con
trary we can find in our letters is that her Ma-
jesty's 61st Foot are still under orders to march, about
this date, for Ferozepore. Her Majesty's 27th Regi-
ment ought to be close to Nowahera by this time, having
marched out of Sealkote on the 15th November, while
Captain Rothney's Sikh Regiment are approaching the
same point, though their names never appeared in orders.