The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-23 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock.

RELEASE OF THE CAUBUL
PRISONERS.

We have great pleasure in publishing the fol.
lowing gratifying intelligence. All the prisoners
except one, have been restored. What will the
prophets say now, who foretold that AKBAR
KHAN would murder every prisoner the moment
the British forces marched on Caubul?

SUPPLEMENT TO THE GOVERNMENT
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF THE
30TR SEPTEMBER, 1842.
Head-quarters, Simla, sth Oct. 1842.

Since the public notification of the 30th ult., the
GOVERNOR-GENERAL has received the gratify-
ing intelligence of the safety of all the European
prisoners but one, in the following extract from
a communication from Major-General POLLOCK,
C. 8., dated the 21st ultimo :
Extract Iron) a letter to the GOVERNOR-GENERAL
from Major-General POLLOCK, C. 8., dated
Camp, Caubul, 21st Sept., 1842.

"MY LORD,—It gives me great gratification to
be-enabled to state that the whole of the Euro-
pean prisoners are now quite free from the hands
oFl4.4AnomEn ARBAR, except Captain BYGRAVE.
I will make my official report on this subject
rhenever they reach my camp, which will no

doubt be to-mow-ow. I sent a lightly equipped
three, under Sir R;SALE, to meet them; and the
whoieof the partyllis with him, with the follow-
ing exceptions, who have already reached my
camp:—

" Major POTTINGER, arrived this morning.
" Captain JOHNSON, ditto. , •
" TnEvon and eight children.

" Captain mild Mrs. ANDERSON, and three

children.

" Captain TFLOUP and Dr. CAMPBELL.
" One European woman and four priva.tes.
" By Order of die Eight 'Honourable the Go-
vlart-tx OR-G TANEUAL of India,
(Si4,paed) " T. H. MADDOCK,
4' Secretary to the Government of India,
with the (4.overnor-General."

We ptab?i:vit this day some additional dispatches
iie gallant conduct of the British
fin.cos in Afl .gbanistan and China. The dispatch
or General POLLOCK, giving an account of the
bittile with ',Lima KHAN at Tezeen, and the
triumphant entry of the troops into Chubul, a
place associated with such painful recollections,
will he read. with much interest. Every regi-
ment, Indian. as well as British, displayed the
utmost gallaxrtry, and, though fighting under an
intensely hoc sun, and exposed to great dif-
ficulties, fro-m the nature of the ground,
vied with easch other in avenging the death of
their slauginA 3red countrymen. On their way
through the p asses they were moved to fury by
witnessing the white bones of the unfortunate
victims of treavchery, and after collecting them
together, and burying them with as much care
as time would! permit, they met the Afghan
army, commas Lded by the assassin of Sir
WiL-
LtAM NACNAGI iTEN, in the valley of Tezeen, and
gained a coral ?fete victory. On the following
day they eau tred the city, when the British
+standard was :boisted, the band struck up
" GOD save tine QuEEN," a Royal salute
was fired, an* d the whole of the troops
gaVe three cheer rs. How different would have
been the scene, and how degraded these brave
men would have considered themselves, had Ge-
neral PoLLocK. marched back ingloriously to
India, and left to he cause of his country andhis
murdered contra des unavenged The dispatches
of Admiral P .RKER and Sir
HUGH GOUGH,
though not of a very late date, give interesting
details of the c Aerations at WOosung and in the
river Yang-tz, .t-Keang. The silence of the
FrenCh Papers in the interest of the Government
on all these imp sonata results is certainly remark-
able. Little Pl!' nothing is said in any of them
respecting the course France will pursue, when
four additional , perts are thrown open to English
commerce, am I, probably, for a good reason,
The war was co ndemned by French writers, the
ultimate defeat ()idle British was pronounced all
but,certain, aid d few of them, therefore, can
muster courage to demand a share in advantages
to which their ,c ountry contributed nothing. Two
or three of the C ipposition journals certainly claim
an equal right I rith the English to the commer-
cial fruits of the victory, but that affair they must
settle with the ''''Bright Eye," who will probably
tell them that o sie "barbarian "is quite sufficient.

A gr'eat publi k meeting of merchants, manu-
fauturers, &c., was held yesterday, at the
Alan tchester, on the subject of the
Corn-laws,
at wi ich the best possible spirit was
manifested, not by words only, but by deeds, for
a almost mof no less; than 4,000/* was raised—it may
be said, o a the spur of the
moment—for
tire.purpose of furthering the patriotic efforts
now making by the League, to obtain a total
repeal of the Ca. rn-laws.. When men part with
their money thus freely, it is proof "strop.- as
holy writ" that: their whole heart 12'
is in the
cause to which they subscribe; mere declama-
tion is no vouch Aer for their sincerity,
i since the
most specious and eloquent speakers are often
the most insinc, are; but when they once begin
to draw their pu arse-strings, and substitute solid
cash for'soundinl r rhetoric, then there can be no
posibility of do? 1 bang their earnestness. Such
is ROW the case vvith the great merchants and
manufacturers in. 'the commercial districts. From
all quarters they- are pouring in their contribu- I
tioi'is to the Antii-Corn-law Leegue Fund, not by
dozens or scortio of pounds, but by hundreds;
wad this earnestness, backed by perseverance, is
destined, ere any great length of time has
eiap,sed, carry all before it. The League will
as tiorely (Ally the repeal of the Corn-lit.wso as
the Catholic A ssociation carried Emancipatio,l; or
the Birmingham Union the Reform Bill.