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NOTIFICATION

Allahabad, May 26, 1842.
The-Rigl)t ITon. the Governor-General of India has
been pleased to direct the publication of the annexed
copies of the despatches from Major-General Pollock and
Major. General Sir R. Sale, K.C.B.

FROM MAJOR-GENERAL POLLOCK, C. 8., COMMANDING
THE TROOPS WEST OF THE INDUS, TO THE SECRETARY
TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Camp, Jellalabad, April 19, 1842.
Sir,—l have the honour to forward a letter from
Major-General Sir Robert Sale, K.C.8., detailing the
progress of events during the long and perilous siege sus-
tained by the fi)rce under his command.
The gallantry of the Major-General and his small
force are too well known to Government to require any
commendations from me, but it is very pleasing to me to
he the channel through which their many trials are
brought to the notice of the Right Hon, the Governor-
General of India in Council.

I have had an opportunity of inspecting the works
thrown up for their protection, by the indefatigable exer-
tions of Sir It. Sale s force, and my surprise at their
strength and extent has been only equalled by my ad •
miration of the excellent arrangements which must have
pervaded all departments, since, after a siege by greatly
superior numbers, of upwards of five months' duration,
I find the garrison in excellent health and spirits, and in
an admirable state of discipline, with a good supply of
ammunition, ready and anxious to take the field, and
most willing to advance on Caubul.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
GHQ. POLLOCK, Major-General,
Commanding Troops West of the Indus,

FROM MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ROBERT SALE, TO THE SE-
CRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Jellalabad, April 16, 1842.
Sir,—The relief of this place having been at length
effected bfthe victorious advance through the passes of
the Khyber, of the army under Major-General Pollock,
C. 8., 1 conceive that I owe it to the troops who have so
long formed the garrison here, to address to you a re-
port, which may convey some notion of their conflicts
and the severity of their duties, labours, and privations.
It has before been made known to Government, that I
reached Gundamuck on the 30th of Octoher,.lB4l, under
instructions from the authorities at Caubul, and there re-
ceived intelligence of the breaking ordaf a terrific insur-
rection at the Afghan capital on the 2d November. My-
retracing my steps on that city was, in a military sense,
impracticable, since the first inevitable sacrifice would
have been of the lives of 300 sick' and woarided, Whord I
could not have left in depot with the treasonable irre-
gulars at Gundamuck, whilst my cattle was unequal to
the transport of my camp equipage, and my ammunition
insufficient for protracted operations. In the position
which I occupied I could not absolutely command a
day's provisions or even water, and should have been
hemmed in on every side by hostile tribes, amounting to
30,000 or 40,000 men, part of whom might have seized
Jellalabad, and reduced it to ashes, or holding it, have
left me no alternative but a disastrous retreat towards
Peshawar. I therefore came to the resolution of anti-
cipating any movement, of this kind, and by possessing
myself of this city, establishing a point on which the
force at Caubul might retire, if hardly pressed, and le-
storing a link in the chain f communication with our
provinces. Two marches brought me, after a successful
contest at Fattahabad, to Jellastbad. My breaking up
from Gundamuck was followed by the immediate defec-
tion of the irregulars there, the destruction of the can-
tonment, and a general rising of the tribes. I found
the walls of Jellalabad in a state which might have
justified despair as to the possibility of defending
them. The enciente was far too extensive for my small
force, embracing a circumference of upwards of 2,300
yards. Its tracing was vicious in the extreme ; it had
no parapet excepting for a* few hundred yards, which
there was not more than two feet high. Earth and
rubbish had accumulated to such an extent about the
ramparts, that there were roads in various directions
across and over them into the country. There was a
space of 400 yards together on which none of the gar-
rison could show themselves, excepting at one spot ; the
population within was disaffected, and the whole enciente
was surrounded by ruined forts,- walls, mosques, tombs,
and gardens, from which a fire could be opened upon
the defenders at twenty or thirty yards.
The garrison took full possession of the town in such
a state on the morning of the 12th of November, and in
the course of the day the place and detached hills by
which on one side it is commanded were surrounded,
and surmounted by a force of not fewer than 5,000 in-
surgents., A general attack on the 14th of November
ridded us of these enemies, and a similar array brought
against us a fortnight afterwards was dissipated by a
second sally on the Ist of December. But we had seized
the town, having in our possession not quite two days'
provisions and corn for our men and horses, and beheld
the arduous task before us of striving to render the
works defensible, and collecting supplies for our maga-
zine from the midst of a fanatical and infuriated peope,
with very narrow means in the way of treasure to pur-
chase them. I appointed Captain Broadfoot of Shah
Soojah's Sappers, Garrison Engineer, and Captain Abbott,
of the Artillery, Commissary of Ordnance. Captain
M`Gregor, Political Agent, gave me the aid of his local
experience, and through his influence and measures our
Pak communication with India was restored, and a great
quantity of grain collected, whilst the unremitting and
almostincredible labours of the troops, aided by
the zeal and science of Captain Broadfoot, put
the town in an efficient state of defence.
Captain Abbott made the Artillery disposition in
the ablest manner, and used every exertion to add to
and economize our resources, in the. way of gun and
musket ammunition, in both of which we were deficient
for the purpose of a siege. Lead and powder were pro-
cured in and about' Jellalabad, and a quantity of cart-
ridges discovered in an old magazine, and thus the
troops completed to two hundred- rounds per man. It
is to be remarked, that I might, in the second week of
November, have marched upon Pesh Bolak, relieved
from investment the corps of Jazailchees under Captain
Ferris, and with it operated a doubtful retreat upon
Peshawur. But I felt it to be my duty to give support
to the last moment. to our troops, struggling against
their numerous enemies at Canbul, and maintain for
them a point on which to retreat and rally if they met
with reverse.
On the 9th of January I was summoned by the leaders
of the Affghan rebellion to give up the place, in fulfil-
ment of a convention entered into by the political and
military authorities at Caubul, but as I was fully assured
of the bad faith of our enemies, I refused to do this, and
on the 13th received the melancholy intelligence of the
disastrous retreat of our troops from the capital, and their
annihilation in the Ghilzie defiles by the rigours of the
climate and the basest treachery on the part of those in
whose promises they had confided. Almost at the same
time it became known to us that the brigade of four
regiments marched to my succour from Hindostan had
been beaten in detail, and forced to fall back upon Pe-
shawur; my position was most critical, and I might,
whilst our enemies were engaged in plundering the
force from Caubul, have attempted, and perhaps effected,
though with heavy loss, a retreat across Khyber, but I
resolved at all hazards on not relinquishing my grasp
on the chief town of the valley of Ningrahar, and
the key of Eastern Affghanistan, so long as I had
reason to consider that our Government desired to re-
tain it. The discouragements of my garrison at this
moment were very great, their duties most severe, their
labours unceasing, and the most insidious endeavours
made by the enemy to seduce the native portion of them
from their allegiance. But their fidelity was unshaken,
and their serenity amidst labours and privations un-
clouded. With reference, however, to the state of fana-
tical excitement and national antipathy which prevailed
around us, I had been compelled, -as a measure of pru
donee, to get rid, first, of the corps of Khyber Rangers,
and next, of the detachment of Jazailchees, and a few of
the Affghan Sappers and a body of Hindostanee gunners,
who had formerly been in the employment of Dost Ma-
homed
Khan. Works had, in the meantime, been com-
pleted, of which the annexed reports and plans of Cap
taro Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may
state, they consisted 'in the destruction of an immense
quantity of cover for the enemy, extending to the demo-
lition of forts and old walls, filling up ravines, and de-
stroying gardens and cutting down- groves, raising the
parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widen-
ing the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching
three of the gates, covering the fourth with an outwork,
and excavating a dit;h ten feet In depth and twelve
feet in width round the whole of the walls ; the
place was thus secure against the attack of any
Asiatic enemy not provided with siege artillery.
.But it pleased Providence, on the 19th of February,
to remove in an instant this ground of confidence. A
tremendous earthquake shook down all our parapets,
built up with so much labour, injured several of our
bastions, cast to the ground all our guard-houses, de-
molished a third of the town, made a considerable breach
in the rampart of a curtain in the Peshawur face, and
reduced the Caubul gate to a shapeless mass of ruins.
It savours of romance, but it is a sober fact, that ,the
city was thrown into alarm, within the space of little
more than one month, by the repetition of full one
hundred shocks of this terrible phenomenon of nature.
The troops turned with indefatigable industry to the
reparation of their walls, but at the moment of the great
convulsion;Sirdhar Mahomed Akbar Khan, Burukzye,
the assassin of the late Envoy, and treacherous destroyer
of the Canbul force, having collected a body of troops,
flushed with a suecess consummated by the vilest means,
had advanced to Murithail, within seven miles of our
gates. lie attacked our. foraging parties with a large
body of horse on the 21st and 22d of February, and soon
after establishing his head-quarters to the westward, two
miles from the place, and a secondary camp to' the east-
ward, about one mile distant, invested the town and esta-
blished a rigorous blockade. From that time, up to the
7th of April, the reduced garrison was engaged in a suc-
cession of skirmishes with the enemy, who, greatly su-
perior in horse, perpetually insulted our walls by attacks
and alerts, and compelled us daily to fight at disadvantage
for forage 14 our rattle. The most remarkable of these
affairs were those of the cavalry. under Lieut. Mayne,
commanding a detachment of Shah Soojah's 2d Cavalry,
and Jemadar Deena Singh, sth Light Cavalry, already
reported ; a, sally under Colonel Donnie, C. 8., to defeat
a suspected attempt of the enemy to drive a mine, on the,
11th of March; the repulse of an assault upon the trans-
verse walls to the northward of the place, on the 24th of
the same month, by detachments under Captain Broad-
foot (who was severely wounded) and Captain Fenwick,
her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry; the capture of bul-
locks and sheep by Lieutenant Mayne on the 30th and
31stuf January; 'and the seizure of large floeks of the
latter, in the. fece of Mahomed Akbar's army, by a force
of infantry under Captain Pattison, of her Ma3jesty's 13th
Light Infantry, and of cavalry under Captain Oldfield,
on the Ist instant. These successes were crowned by

Providence by the issue of the brilliant and decisive at-
tack on the camp of the Sirdhar, on the 7th instant.
I have to notice, as a measure of defenci,, my having
enrolled, as a provisional battalion, a large body of our
camp followers, and armed them with pikes and other
weaporfS. On all occasions of assault and sally these men
were available to make a sho vir upon our curtains, and I
have pledged myself to them to recommend to Govern-
ment that they should enjoy all the pecuniary advantages
of native soldiers beyond the Indus ; I at the same time
held forth to the troops of Shah Soojah's force the ex-
pectation that they would be put, during the special
service, on the same footing with -their comrades of the
Bengal army:
From the time that the brigade threw itself into Jel-
lalabad the native troops have been on half, and the fol-
lowers on quarter rations, and for many weeks they have
been able to obtain little or nothing in bazaars to eke
out this scanty provision. I will not mention as a priva-
tion the European troops from the same period having
been without their allowance of spirits, because I verily
believe this circumstance, and their constant employment;
have contributed to keep them in the highest health and
the most remarkable state of discipline. Crinie has been
almost unknown amongst them, but they have felt se-
verely, although they never murmured, the diminution
of their quantity of animal food and the total want of
ghee, flour, tea, coffee, and sugar ; these may seem small
matters to those who read of them at a distance, but they
are serious reductions in the scale of comfort of the hard
working and fighting soldier in Asia. The troops have
also been greatly in arrears of pay, besides their severe
duties, in heat and cold, wind and rain, on the guards of
the gates and bastions. The troops, officers and men,
British and Hindostanee, of every arm, remained fully
accoutred on their alarm posts, every night from the Ist
of March to the 7th of April. The losses of officers and
men in carriage cattle, camp equipage, and baggage, be-
tween Caubul and Jellalabad, were heavy, and their
expenditure, during the siege and blockade, in obtaining
articles of mere subsistence and necessity, has been ex-
orbitant.

success.
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I feel assured that Major-General Pollock will consider
it a most pleasing duty to brine,,c, the series of labours,
privations, and conflicts, imperfectly sketched in the
foregoing details, to the notice of the head of the Su-
preme Government in India, and through his Lordship
to that of the Court of Directors and our Sovereign, as a
claim for public acknowledgment and substantial reim-
bursement and reward.

r The report of Captain Broadfoot, in his capacity of
Garrison Engineer, will meet with attentive perusal. I
have already stated how much I have been indebted to
his scientific attainments, as well as his distinguished
activity and resolution during the siege. His fertility in
resource obviated great difficulties in procuring iron,
timber, and charcoal, and to the foresight of his arrange-
ments we owe our having had a very ample supply of
tools. The corps under his command performed, from
Bootkhak, the duties equally of good sappers and bold
light infantry soldiers, and the Affghan Huzaree and
Eusifyze portion of it have been singularly faithful in
time of general defection. The two infantry regiments,
under the lamented Colonel Dennie and Lieut.-Colonel
Monteath, have vied with each other in the steady per-
formance of the duties of that arm ; and it would be im-
possible for me to discriminate in favour of either, in
awarding praise to the squadron of sth Light Cavalry, un-
der Captain Oldfield, and the Rissala 2d Shah Soojah's
Cavalry, under Lieutenant Mayne ; Lieutenant Plowdea
of the former has been distinguished on several occa-
sions. The artillery practice of No. 6, Light Field Bat-
tery, has ever been excellent, mid has been equalled only
by that of the mountain train. Captains Abbott and Back-
house, and Lieut. Dawes, have proved themselves excel-
lent officers of ordnance. I have more than once brought
it to notice that Captain M'Gregor, Political Agent, has
cheerfully rendered very able assistance in serving the
guns in every crisis of pressing danger. Of his labours
in his own department I ought not perhaps to attempt to
constitute myself a judge ; but I know that they have
been unremitting, and their result in obtaining for my
force supplies and information, and keeping up our
communication with India and with Caubul, and secur-
ing for us Affghan co-operation, I May be allowed to ap-
preciate, and am bound to point oat tb Government.
The medical duties of the garrison have been ably ful-
filled by Surgeon Forsyth, Superintending Surgeon of
Shah Soojah's force, and Assistant-Surgeons Robertson
and Barnes, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, Hare,
'3sth Regiment, and Brown, late in charge of the Irre-
gulars.

Capt. Mainwaring, Commissariat Officer to the force,
has been indefatigable in his efforts to keep the garrison
well supplied, and his arrangements in very difficult
times have merited my highest praise. Captain Moor-
house, 35th Regiment of Native Infantry, has satisfac-
torily discharged his duties as Brigade Quartermaster;
he was severely wounded on the 7th inst.

It is gratifying to me to forward the opinion of my
second in command. Lieut.-Col. Monteath, C. 8., placed
on record, without solicitation, his high sense of the merits
of the 13th Light Infantry, of which corps I am proud
of being a member. I fully concur in the sentiments
which he expresses, and hope the distinctions which he
recommends for the officers of his own corps will be ac-
corded. The cheerful and persevering manner in which
the native soldiers laboured with the shovel, mattock,
and hand-barrow, were as surprising as their steadiness
and courage in the field were conspicuous.
_ _

I have to acknowledge the zealous manner in which
Brevet-Major Fraser, Light Cavalry, Brevet-Captain
Gerrard, of the corps of Jazailchees, Captain Burn and
Lieutenant Hillersdon, of the Khyber Rangers, and
Lieutenant Dawson, of the Janbazees' when their ser-
vices could no longer be available with their corps, vo-
lunteered to do duty with any regiment in which they
could be useful.

I must finally express my gratitude to Providence for
having placed so gallant and devoted a force under my
command; in every way it has exceeded my most san-
guine expectations, and I beg leave in the strongest
manner to solicit the interposition of Major-General
Pollock, C. 8., who has nobly laboured and fought to
relieve it from its critical position in the midst of a hos-
tile empire, in now committing it to the protection and
favour of the Right Honourable the Governor-General
in Council, and through him of the Court of Directors
and of our Sovereign.

I ask permission specially to recommend the following
officers for honorary distinction or brevet rank, or both,
viz. :—Lieut.-Colonel Monteath, C. 8., commanding 35th
Regt. Native Infantry, now second in command ; Brevet-
Major Fraser, Light Cavalry, who acted as my Aid-de-
Camp on the 7th inst. ; Captain Abbott, Commander of
Artillery-and Commissary of Ordnance ; Captain Back-
honse, commanding the mountain train, and senior officer
of the Shah's troops with my force ; Captain Broadfoot,
commanding Sappers, and Garrison Engineer ; Captain
Oldfield, sth Light Cavalry, senior officer of that arm
Captain Seaton, 35th Regiment Native Infantry, par-
ticularly recommended for his conduct on the 7th inst.
by Lieut.-Colonel Monteath ; Captain Younghusband,
of the same regiment, who was distinguished with the
advanced guard in the Khoord Caubul Pass, and there
severely wounded ; Captain Burn, late Commandant of
the Khyber Mangers, and doing duty with the 35th
Regiment Native Infantry ; Captain Wilkinson, on whom
the command of the 13th Light Infantry devolved in the
field on the fall of Colonel Dennie, C.B. ; Captain Fen-
wick, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, whose highly
deserving conduct in the Pass of Jugdulluck, was noticed
then in my despatch ; Captain Havelock, her Majesty's
13th Light Infantry, Persian Interpreter to Major-
Generals Elphinstone and Pollock, and attached to me
as staff, and who commanded the right column in the
final attack on Mahomed Akbar's camp.; and Captain
Hamlet Wade, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, my
Brigade-Major, whose exertions in the action of the
7th I have elsewhere highly commended. Both these
latter officers rendered most valuable services throughout
the investment and siege. The officers of all ranks, and
soldiers of all arms, European and Native, I have like-
wise to represent as generally and individually deserving
of reward and encouragement, and I hope that the Go-
vernment will sanction my calling upon commandants of
corps and detachments to send in rolls of such native
officers as they may deem worthy of the insignia of the
Order of "Merit of British India."—l have the honour
to be, &c.,

R. SALE, Major-General Commanding,
Jellalabad.

NAMES OF OFFICERS WOUNDED.— Artillery—Captain
Abbott, slightly. Sappers and Miners—Captain Broad-
foot, severely. Her Majesty's lath Light Infantry—
Lieutenant and Adjutant Wood, slightly ; Ensign Oakes,
slightly.

RETURN OF KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING OF THE
TROOPI UNDER THE COMMAND Or lIAJOR-OBIKERA.L

B. Y. LALZ, S C. 8., FROM FZB. 23, TO APRIL 6, 1842.
' No. 6, Light Yield Battery-1 corporal killed ; 1
European ofdoer snd 1 private wounded.
Detachment of sth Light Cavalry-1 haleciar and 2
troopers killed ; 4 ditto wounded ; 1 horse killed and
12 wounded; 1 syce killed. 2 ditto wounded; and 1 grass
cutter killed of the Artillery rind Cavalry.
Her Majesty's 14th L. 1.-4 privates [tilled; 2 officers,
1 corporal, and 11 privates, wounded.
35th Regiment sepov killed ; 1 corporal and
10 sepoys wounded.
Mountain Train—No casualties.
Detachment 2d Cavalry S. S. Force-1 trooper killed;
4 ditto wounded; 9 horses killed, and 3 wounded.
Sappers and Miners-4 privates killed; 1 European
officer and 30 privates wounded.
Detachment Gth L. I.—No casualties.
Total killed, 14; wounded 66, not including camp fol-
lowers, &c. ; horses killed, 10; wounded 15.

RETURN OF CAMP FOLLOWERS ENLISTED ON THE 15TH
JANUARY 1842, BY ORDER OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR R.
SALE, R.C.B.,'AS A PROVISIONAL GARRISON.
Jellalabad, April 1, 1842.
No. 6, Light Field Battery—Mustered followers,
armed 37 ; not mustered, armed 61 ; total 97 ; killed
(luring the siege, 2.
Squadron sth Light Cavalry—Mustered followers,
armed 7. unarmed 69 ; not mustered, armed 6, unarmed
19 ; total 101.
Rissala Anderson's Horse—Mustered followers,
I armed 4, unarmed 11 ;. not mustered, unarmed 57 ;
total 72.
Her Majesty's 13th L. I.—Mustered followers, armed
124 ; unarmed 233 ; not mustered, armed 100 ;
total 462.
351 h Native Infantry—Mustered followers, armed 77;
unarmed 46 ; not mustered, armed 55 ; unarmed 110 ;
total 288.
Sappers and Miners—Mustered followers, armed 69 ;
unarmed 19 ; not mustered, armed 49 ; unarmed 61 ;
total 189.
Commissariat—Mustered followers, armed 103; billed
during the siege 7, and wounded 6.
Grand totar-1,311 ; killed 9; wounde:l 6. •
Those followers that were unarmed were told off to
the ramparts, for the purpose of throwing large stones,
a great quantity of which were collected. Th.; whole of
the camp rendered much assistance in the conveyance of
building material, and working with furwahs and spades.
R. SALE, Major-General,
Commanding Garrison. Jellalabad.

FROM LIEUT.-COLONEL T. MONTEATH, COMMANDING 35TH
REGIMENT BENGAL N. L, TO MAJOR•GENERAL SIR R.
SALE, K.C.8., COMMANDING IN GARRISON, JELLALABAD.
Jellalabad, April 16, 1842.
Sir,—The exertions of the garrison of Jellalabad be-
yond ordinary routine having ceased since the decisive
victory obtained over the enemy on the 7th instant,
and now finally terminated by the arrival of the Bri-
tish army under Major-General Pollock,- C. 8., I trust
-I may not be considered as going beyond the limits a
my proper duty in addressing you, to state as follows
As doing but due justice on this occasion to her Ma-
jesty's 13th Light Infantry might be looked upon as a
highly-coloured record of the merits -of your own regi-- •
ment, and seeing that no such partial bias can possibly
be supposed to guide my feelings in the estimate I have
formed of their deserts; I have pleasure in sincerely de- -
daring, that their conduct. throughout the painful and
perilous position in which they have been so long placed,
has been such as fully to deserve the applause and admi-
ration of their country, and the confidence and best con-
-sideiition of our well•beloved Sovereign.
On our throwing ourselves, on the 12th of November
last, into the old and ruined town of Jellalabad, without
money, without food, and almost without protection,
with a nation of highly excited and barbarous enemies
in arms against us, our situation seemed as hopelss a _
one as British troops were ever called upon to confront ; '4;
notwithstanding which the enemy was twice within 20
days attacked, and on both occasions defeated with signal

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on yourself wt, ioubtless detail the works performfk-
by the regiment ; let it then be onlymyprovince, who httve I.(f`oz„
witnessed their exertions almost hourly, during a period P"`„4t
of five months, to record that their devoted perseverance --4,17a0
and cheerfulness amidst all the gloom that surrounded
them, after the destruction of their comrades of the
Caubul force, could not have been surpassed by any rs
troops in the world ; and that after months of extreme

if will d

toil, when an earthquake such as man is not often in the 04.
habit of experiencing, in a moment left scarcely a vestige
of their labour standing, their flying as they did with -.
redoubled zeal to the work and completing it in ten - -
days (so that on the arrival of the enemy before Jellala- -
bad, they declared that the calamity which had befallen
the valley arose from nothing but English witchcraft, it
being the only place that had escaped uninjured), was
what none but British soldiers could have performed,
and what no price could have purchased, for it was the
labour of the heart—work- of all others most deserving
of distinction and reward.

In regard to the native troops of all arms, I shall re-
frain from saying much, for a reason which has in a
,01,t
measure induced me to address this letter 5 you, but as as;s
you have yourself been a daily witness of their conduct
under every description of circumstance, you have it fully
within your own power to say all of which the Govern-
~•••E.
ment they serve may very justly feel proud, and it maY 6C4
•
serve to show, as an example for imitation, what noble ,
enthusiasm and zeal may be lighted up in their breasts
by the high bearing and considerate conduct of deter'
mined British officers. ---

I shall conclude by observing that we can now, Sir, ;,.4
proudly march forth from this garrison with the enemy's
standards in our hands, and their captured cannon to fire
a salute, on delivering over the care of the honour of the
British name, which we have had within our keepmg
for the last five months, pure and unspotted, and without
a single circumstance existing to cast a breath upon its
lustre.

The conduct of the officers of the 35th Regiment gene-
rally, as well. as of those doing duty with it throughout
the siege, I am proud to say, has been such as well to
deserve any reward or distinction that can be conferred
upon them.
Of those holding the rank of captain, and above it,
which enables her Majesty to advance them a step, I
could strongly recommend Captain Seaton, 35th Regi"
ment ; Captain Younghusband, 35th Regiment (severely
wounded); Brevet-Major Fraser, late 2d Light Cavalry,
and Captain Burn, Ist Regiment Native Infantry, both
doing duty with the 35th Regiment.
Of the native officers of the 35th Regiment I could
al, o strongly recommend that six should, as a compli-
ment to the regiment for its gallant and meritorious con:,
duct, receive the Order of " Merit" and of "British India:
viz. Sahib Ram, Subardar ; Manick Sing;Subadar ; De-
nim! Sing, Jeinadar; Rambaccus Tewarry, Jemadar ;
Hoolas Ram, Subadar ; and Hurram Sing, Jemadar.—l
have the honour to be, &c.
T. MONTEATH, Lieut.-Colonel, Coln'
manding 35th Regiment.

PORTUGAL.
By the Montrose steamer, which arrived at Falmouth,
on Friday afternoon with Malta and Peninsular InailSv
the accompanying dispatches were received ;
her .dates
are from Gibraltar 28th, Cadiz 29th, Lisbon 31st July,
Oporto Ist, and from Vigo 2d inst. Passengers per Mn"
,
trose : From Gibraltar—Mr. Lobstein, Captain Tay
lor
Mrs. Taylor, three children, and servant; Captain l'n't
R.N., Lieut. Thompson, R.N., Captain Carr, 38th !Bliss
ment; Mrs. Melville, two children, and servant
Nowell and Miss Macauley. From Cadiz—Ur. it
ND'
Mr. Vigna, Mr. J. Gordon, and Mr. Burden.
Lisbon—Mr. V. J. Lisboa, Mr. J. Lisboa, Mr. J• A'
Magalhar, Mr. Cockram. From Oporto—Mr. RegaUnt
two Mesdames Regalia, and Mr. Deltoree.
The Montrose brought a Malta mail.
LtsuoN, JULY 3 I.—Since the opening of the
Chambers little more than a war of words, alike
fatal in its consequences as detrimental to the public
weal, appears to have absorbed the entire atten-
tion of the members composing them. Three
weeks have already elapsed, and no legislative business,
no preliminaries to the taking into consideration the
pressing necessities of the country have been arranged.
The Hydra of discord is amongst them, and in addition
to the numerous difficulties they have to encounter, its
annihilation is not of the least of them.'
M. Aguilar reached Lisbon on Friday, and'his arrival,
although not unexpected, has given birth to the usual por-
tion of surmise and "on dits.' His mission is reported
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to be of a most serious nature ; sr much so, that the I,
portant despatches which are transmitted to London by
this mail have been the cause of the steamer being or- ..,O'Stpoc
dered off this morning (Sunday) in lieu of to-morrow at ,:r2 9 ori
5 p.m., the usual sailing day and hour. The marching Of ,d
troops to the frontiers, the peremptory character of the 1,„9°61
,
alleged demand, 'savour a good deal of Spanish bluster -,,110‘
and fanfarronade ";and it is to be hoped that, as usual, al
will terminate amicably, and that the customary distri Ga
-
bution and orders, and such like, will quell all disposi-
ti©n to quarrel.
The Count des Antas sailed yesterday in the steamer
for Gibraltar, to proceed from thence via Alexandria and
Suez to India ; he has been appointee Governor-Gene-
ral of Goa, &c.
A meeting was held yesterday at the residence of -Q13.41‘'
Lord Howard de Walden (convoked by his Lordship) of
some of the principal British merchants of this city, for • oi, uo
the purpose of having laid before them the proposals of
the Portuguese Government respecting the amendment.
of the Custom-house Tariff. Nothing decisive trans'
pired, and an adjournment was proposed till to-morrow.
The Queen, King, and other members of the. Rear'
Family are at Cintra, in the enjoyment of perfect h Rear'
The late lamentable occurrence which has thrown France
into tears, has been likewise deeply felt here by every
thinking mind. The Court, of course, are ordered to
wear' mourning.

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DEATH OFJOIINBANIM, ESQ.
It is to-day our melancholy duty to announce, with
feelings in which the deep regrets of private friendship
are mingled with the higher sorrow resulting from the
sudden loss to literature and to Ireland, the death of our_
country's Banta.
He first and most popular novelist, John Bni.
He expired on Thursday night at his residence, Wiadgel)
Cottage, near this city, in the forty-second year of his
age. Mr. Banim was a native of this city, of the *WI
in which he died, and which owes to him its celebrity-se
the scene of some of the most exquisite of his tales.-
At a very early age—so early as to have been almost
deemed an unhealthy_ precocity—his. genius began to be
develoPed; and there are still in existence manuscripts
of his prose and poetry written in the fresh bloom of
boyhood, which contained ample promise of the excel.-
lence to which he afterwards attained. But whatever
expectations of, literary fame might have been created in
the minds of his friends at that early period, they were.
exceeded by their hopes of his success as a painter ; for
he displayed considerable taste and skill in " that sister ,r,
art," 'and was for. some years resolved on making it his
regular profession. When scarcely seventeen Years Or
age he became editor of the Lcinster Journa At - osol°l,o
the age of eighteen he produced the admirable play
OF Damon and-Pythias. In tee following year appeared
his poem of the Cvles'll'arltdise- Whoa abuut tweet,' 0:3.4 •
years of age, Mr. Banim married, and proceeded to
London, where he became imnaediatoly editor of the -10 is)
Literary Register. However, he abandoned the comps' 'al
ratively unprofitable work of editorship, in a few year „
when the great success of the first series of " The 0. &
'llsre
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Tales" opened the way to certain fame and fortune. La-a -
houring for several yours with incredible industry. be ,17
produced—after" Crohoore," the " Fetches," and "John .
Doe"—his "Boyne Water," the "Anglo-Irish" (first pub'
fished anonymously, but since avowed), the " Nowlans,
and innumerable other tales, essays, and sketches. The
" Nowlans," published when he was only 26 years of agP, es
tablished him. as the very first of Irish writers of fiction, yN
and left him leisure, if he chose to enjoy it, to complete „tf,
with little labour the fame he had already acquired.
But, unhappily, he continued his incessant toil—his _
health gave way ; and in 1832 he was obliged to seek, in
a milder climate, for the treasure which he had lost
through over exertion in London. He remained in Paris .
till 1835, and then returned to this his native city, in the
vain hope of recovering the greatest of earthly blessings, 1,
which, alas! was irrecoverably gone. From the publica- .
k ticonnnoyt: h
lie ade
pNuobwl
ilsa.hnesd,",,iernh
elBl)2e9n,
otuoncheis d,
,r,Te tititernc
rtoorpriyi,l,-,
" The Smuggler," " The Ghost-hunter," " The Mayor of
Wintigap," with numberless contributions to the annuals
and monthly periodicals. A few tales in the magazines,
and his recent work, " Father Connell," were the fruits
of his exertions while in Kilkenny. It is with additional
pain that we have to mention the general fate of genius.
Mr. Banim died impoverished. A pension of 150/. a
year was granted to him by the late Government in 1837.
This was subsequently increased by an addition of 401.
a year for the education of his only child, a daughter.
But the necessities Of his prolonged illness rendered this
sum insufficient. for his support; and to his amiable a idoa
and child, the only legacy he could leave was the memory
of his life and the renown of the genius which outlasts it.
—Kilhenny.lournal.

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APPROACHING 11.1111RIAGE IN ITIGHLIFE.—It has
this week been promulgated that Lord Prudhoe, the only
brother of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, is
about to be married to the eldest daughter of Lord
Grosvenor, and grand-daughter of the Marquis of West-
minster. The information has been a source of gratifi-
cation to all parties on the Northumberland estate ; and
arrangements were immediately commenced for cele-
brating the event with proper rejoicings. Letters re-
ceived from their Graces in Ainwick, this wee... express
their" delight at the anticipated addition to their family.
The bride elect is 22 years of age, and his Lordship was
horn in 1792. The nuptials are expected to take place in
the course of a foquight.--Berwiefi Paper

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