The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-02 00:00:00

.25th, and has sent written proclamations here calling on all
to attack us. But the affairs of the 14th of December and the
Ist of January have considerably damped the zeal of the crusa-
ders, and we get heaps of supplies. At Jellalabad every day
increases our strength and adds to our means of subsistence.
If the Khybarees take part with us we shall be all rt ht; at
present they waver, and our two successes on the 15th ,Der.von-
her and let of January, alone prevented their closin,, the pass.
It appears that the enemy invested the intrenchcd sump in
great numbers, and no res,,urce was left, but to sally out and
attempt to drive them back. The engagement was mast
severe, and the insurgents were enabled to repulse our troops,
and to capture their only gun, but our men, falling back an
a reserve, soon returned reinforced to the attack, re-captured
the gun, and drove the enemy back with great slau;hter.
Anderson's cavalry again shone conspicuJus and did great
execution, and the fire of the infantry is said to have been very
well directed; in this engagement Abdeollah Khan and four-
teen other chiefs were killed.

From another letter, of the same date, we glean the follow-
ing : —There are now three months' provisions in Jeltlabaci—
an agreeable contrast to the state and the anticipations of the
troops when they arrived there, for from all acconuts nothing
could have been .nore disheartening than when, on t►e 73th
ultimo, they found there were only two days' half rations for
the whole force, the walls destitute of parapets, and Lull of
breaches, with shelter for an enemy within twenty paces of
the ramparts. The enemy on the 14th of November were all
but inside the fortress, when the sally of Captain 01,15eld's
squadron of the sth, with a Itissalah of Anderson's horse drove
them off.

CANDA H A R.
We have letters from Candahar to the 3d December.
All was quiet then at that place. The principal intelligence
which our correspondent forwards to us relates to the return of
Colonel Maclaren's brigade, news of which has just reached
Candahar. The brigade had found it impossible to overcome
the difficulties in its way, and was, therefore, obliged to
abandon the undertaking, and fall back again on Candahar,
leaving a wing of one of the regiments at Khelat-i-Ghilzre to
strengthen that post. The following extram from a litter from
Colonel Maclaren's camp, dated Tazee, November 2s, will give
the reader a gond idea of what the force suffered, before it. was
compelled to make the retrograde movement announced else-
where :
" We arrived at Khelat-i-Ghilzee on the 23d, when we suc-
ceeded in getting some few camels and donkeys, and vest day
continued our march. Leach was very anxious that he 'should
make a diversion to capture a few hostile forts near Oolan
Rohauts, and urged the Colonel to give the orders, but in
vain. Erery day was of material consequence to as, and, con.
sidering the positive orders he received from the General. he
could not have complied with Leach's requisition. Oa the
'24th we continued our march, and reached this place cm the
2(3th, without experiencing any d fficulties, excepting from the
donkeys knocking up. The march to this ground was through
rain and snow, comfortless and wretched, and now se aro
kabed in consequence of the continued fall of snow, hail, and
rain. When we shall be able to move it is impossible to say.
We are really in a most critical situation. Last night 3011
donkeys with their loads deserted, and an hour eearosly
elapses without reports being made of deaths amongst the re-
mainder. who was on rear guard at this place, left
100 or upwards with their loads on the road, unable to get
them to move. The cold was most severs, and it Was not
till three of our men had fallen speechless and insensible from
the effects of it that they abandoned the donkeys and came
into camp. You cannot conceive how great the sufferings of
our poor camp-followers are. They are perfectly uselms, and
beginning to die with wet and cold. From a-head we learn
that at llookoor the snow is knee-deep on the ground, so you
may imagine what a pleasant prospect we have. It is not
improbable that we may have to abandon the whole of our
baggage, as camels cannot live through such weather as we
now have, and, even then, I fancy, we shall be able to proceed
but a few marches, before we are brought up altogether. The
idea of carrying our commissariat supplies on donkeys is quite
ridiculous. Report has it that a large force is now .aSsernbling
at Oba to oppose us ; we cannot, of course, rely c.n it. Not a
word of news from either Cabul or Ghuznee, or I should rather
say not a dak from either place since that which contained the
envoy's despatch. You have, of course, beard of poor Gud-
doo khan's fate. It is believed that he was the hearer of im-
portant letters from Cabul. The natives of the country say that
Cabul has been reduced to ashes, and not less than 5,00 b or 6,0(10
of its inhabitants killed. What the real state of things is there,
we can only conjecture at. Whatever it may be, I aou't fancy
there is the least prospect of our brigade being able to arrive in
sufficient time to render the troops there any assistance—to-
deed, there seems little chance of our being able to advance More
than a could() of marches further."
From the Agra Uhhbar.)
" OUDE, DEC. 4. Confusion and anarchy are often talked
of, but I may well say that they exist to the very letter of the
words in this devoted country. The whole kingdom is up in
arms; she Chuckladers are slaughtering the Ryots oa one side,
and the Phaloodars are, on the other hand, murdering the
King's troops whenever they get the advantage. The Chock-
leder of Sultanpore had received as /peat a licking as ever a
merciless tyrant could have deserved, from the Rajah et Phi-
loodar of Budiyan, a place not three miles from the British
cantonment of Sultanpore, Roberts' Ist regiment was en-
gaged in this bloody conflict with the rest of Nujjeebs,
traekpeorttoedittshhateetllsiisunonieere
tihnevicnocznibmlearnefionfiecantpwmasiiintiolorsbe.lsig,edwht:
gallantly, at the head of his. men, showed the use of his aura-
pers. They pursued the King's troops for two miles. pt.
Hearsey suffered a loss of 80 men in killed and wounded ;
amongst the former Lieut. Spry, nephew to Dr. Spry, of Cal-
cutta, and a Air. Nesbit."

LONDON AND BLACKWALL
RAILWAY.

On Monday the half-yearly meeting of the Shareholders of
this Company took place at the London Tavern, William
!loath, Esq., in the Chair. The Report showed a gradual
anti steady development of the traffic of the line. The num-
ber of passengers during the half-year was 1,1E16,351, and
the money taken 22,5091. I Is. 10d., being an increase of 40
per cent. on the previous half-year. During the past year,
2,058,092 passengers were carried, of whom 124,816 were
from the intermediate stations ; but the number that used
the railway to and from the steam-boats was much leas than
that ant i.ipated. Arrangements had been made the running
boats from the Brunswick-pier re Herne Bay, Margate,
Ramsgate, and Dover, the first of which, the Eclipse. com-
menced last Monday. The arrangements for the goods'
traffic were expected to be completed by the end of the past
year. A spacious warehouse at the London end has been
prepared, and the branch line for the West India warebonses
and the Brunswick •pier has been completed; but the lower-
ing apparatus at the London end, and the lifting machinery
at Poplar, were still incomplete. The apparatus is Fen-
church-street was, however, so forward, that an experiment
of the traffic of goods had been tried from the West India
Dock-warehouses, and was found successful. The Directors
lAt confident that it would not be necessary to raise any
further capital by spates, as they had introduced into a bill in
Parliament for other purposes, a clause enabling them to dim arse
of property (aboat 30,000/. ) near the station. After the expen-
diture there was a sum of 13,1351. 19s. Bd., which was proposed
to be divided amongst the old Shareholders, at the rate of
per share. The total payments to the 31st of December, were
1,071,717/. 4s. 7d., and the revenue from traffic for the last
eighteen months was 57,306/. 19s. 7d., leaving the above
balance. A discussion on various points of the report was
commenced by Mr. Saintsbury, Mr. \Vistraw, and Itfr. Biggs,
when the Chairman observed that 20,000/. might probably be
the excess of expenditure over that produced by the sale of
property, and that no portion of their funds had been devoted
to steam-boat speculations. The property unsold waa valned
at 70,000/. and some of it, to the extent of 12,000/. and sold
lately. Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, said the anneal ex-
pense of the wire rope might be about 2,000/. and that it had
not broken for the last four months. In reply
the Chairman said that more than three millions of pasviiig:mr-s
had been carried without the slightest accident. D 7
r.
was
Thom-
son Hanks y moved the adoption of the Report, w Ile'b•
seconded by Captain Page, and carried unanimously,o.
05 the
lotions were then passed for paying a dividend fe _._ectors,
d the re-election of thre tits.
24,000 original shares, an
Directors, and the
when a vote of thanks was passed to the
meeting adjourned. to a Proprietor,

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rity in the division, which took place on Tuesday, on the
question of rennin"; trains on Sunday, have commenced an
Rutherford, the late Lord Advocate, but the majority were
taocoti
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Andrew found
Advocate already retaine4w6 the other side.