The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-02 00:00:00

AFFG LI ANISTAIti.

We find in the Bcyast Vindicator the following
extract from a letter written by Sergeant Brown, of
her Majesty's 13th Light infantry; being a portion of
Gen. Sale's brigade, shut up in jellalabad, at the date of
the last accounts. The letter is addressed to his sister;
at Tandragee. With the events stated the reader is.
already acquainted ; but the fact mentioned regard,.
ing the shortness of 'ammunition, in the beleaguered'
fortress, is calculated to produce great uneasiness for
the safety of the little foree in Jellalabad. Most
earnestly do we hope that the next accounts will put.
an end to all anxiety on the subject

Jzllalabad, Jan. 13, 1e42.
" Dear Sister,—We marched frOm Caubui on the
11th of October last, and were engaged on the loth
forcing a mountain pass, and had to fight our way from
Caubut here. I may say -we were-engaged, day and
night, from the 12th of October till the Ist ofllecember
W e arrived here on the Nth.. Noverriber ; and I assure.
you I thought the whole world Was atter us, as the peo-
ple from every village turned• outragainst us. After
taking possession of this town,.the enemy surrounded
it in thousandsibut on the 14th; two days after we came
in, we sallied cat, and drove tfierii oft' the plains,killing
great numbers. Still they annoyed us very much until
the Ist of December, when we daThed out, swept them
before us, and drove hundreds into a large river, where
they were drowned, leaving the plains covered with
bodies. We suffered severely on our way from.Caubul
to this place, as the roads are through high mountains,
and our men had to drive the enemy on the sides of
the hills before any baggage or main body of the co-
lumn could' proceed on the road ; but still the Affghans
shot all our camels, so that at length we were obliged
to burn almost everything we possessed, tents and all ;
and when we came in here we 'lied nothing what-
ever with us but three days' provisions.
" We are fortifying the town of Jelialabad, and
doing our best against the enemy ; but we are short of
ammunition. We could hold out 'a long time, if we
had plenty of that ; but it' we don't soon get relief,
God knows what the consequendes will be. hough it
is three months since the disturbances broke out, still
we have got no assistance from Bengal. This rebellion
burst forth in one day, the 2d November. On that
night' the natives murdered: Sir A, Burne3' and his
brother, and every European that lived outside of can-
tonments in Caubul ; since that period, the whole peo-
ple have been in arms, to put every European in the
province to death, or drive them out of the country.
I assure you we are now in a dangerous situation ;
how long it is to last we don't know. The present
force consists of but our regiment and the 35th Ben-
gal Native Infantry, one squadron of Native Cavalry,
and some guns, with a detachment of Native Sappers
and Miners. So here we are besieged, until relieved
from Bengal.--I remain, your affectionate brother,
• "M. BROWN."

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

SOUTH AMPTON.

The whole time of the Committee has been occupied with
the subject of a conversation between Mr. and 'Mrs. Callan and
; but it was not brought to a close when we left,
nor would it be during the day, the CoMmittee having to.rise
at two. The only fact proved was., that Mr. Callan v.,ted ; that
Mr. Wrenn gave Mrs. C. 101., but that no one could say ex-
actly what lor.

READING. +
The Committee having heard long arguments dceided on ad-
mitting the poll-books ai evidence.

PENRYN AND FALMOUTH.

The Committee met at eleven o'clock ;" Mr. C. WOOD in the
Chair.

The Committee proceeded to hear the evidence of bribery,
of which it has been alleged, the sitting Member, Captain
Plumridge, has been guilty by his aLtents.,
The first witness produced was Mra. Gay, who proved that
before the election her husband received GI. ; and that a Mr.
James came to her on the day of the ,lectiun and gave her a
sovereign, desiring her to bring her husband to vote for Cap-
tain Plumridge.
The next witness produced was Sarah White, who proved
that Richard James came to her lintue with Capt. Plumridge
on the day of canvassing, and that on the day of election she
went to Jataes' house by the direction of Mr. Tilly, a lawyer,
and that she received tit. from James. Her husband voted for
Vivian and Pion:midge.
On her cross-examination, she stated that her husband had
nothir gto do with the money. 'the' money belonged to her;
the vote to her husband.—(l.aughtee.) Her husband was a
voter 35 years ago. The first monej• they ever received was
from the Whig ptrty.--(Laughter..).. - •
The next Witness prouneed was Thomas. Williams, who was
under examination when our account was brought off,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
cOVRT OF QUEEN 8 BEA (,'H, April 30.

THE QUEEN IN ItE WOOLLEY V. THE GREAT WESTERN

11AILWA V COIIVAY.

It will be in the recollecion of our readers that in December
last an accident occurred on the Great W,tern Railway, by
which several persons were killed, rd others a man of
the name of Woolley, who died a few days• afterwards %c ithin
the borough of Heading. The Cor,ther for the ("trough held
an inquest on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict Of
accidental death, with a deorland_of A7ittle had thaen ob-
tained to set aside this inquisition, oa the .graturd that the
Coroner had no jurisdiction, It apheaed on the 'face of ttAs
tat the cause of the death arose in the parish of
Sunning, in the county of 13ei and that the death itself
occurred io Reading, anti the tt quisiticin was taken by the
Reading Coroner.
Mr. WADDINGTON now showed cause agairA the rule, and
contended that the Coroner of the borough, where . the death
actually occurrtd, had lull authority to sinianon a Jury and
take the inquisition, and that the Coroner for the county had
no such authority, because the body was not in the county at
the time of the inquistton, and an ioquisition could only be
taken on view of the body.; that to say the borough Coroner had
no jurisdiction would be to prevent an inquest altogether, when
the death was in one jurisdiction and the cause of it in another.
The old law, which might have raised a doubt of this sort, had
been remedied by the statute olk Edward I.
Mr. KELLY, in support of the rule, said that the defect of
the old law had not been remedied ; that a‘cale like the ixesent
had never teen provided for; that the jurisdiction of the Coroner
did not exist, because the possession of the body alone was not
sufficient, but the cause of death and the body being found must
both concur, aid as that was not the ease, he bad no right to
'hold the inquest. At all events, if the statute bad remedied
any defects as to Coroners of counties, it had not been extended
to Coroners of boroughs.

The COURT said it was a matter of great importance; anti
therefore time ought to be taken to consider its judgment.

POLICE 1 ;.% TEL:LIG:II>CE.
MAA SION 110pKt.
A poor woman, named Elea4or Ann Preston, who ap-
peared
to be in deep affliction, waited upon the Lord Mayor
for the purpose of craving his Lord hip's assistance in her
most derlorable extremity. the applicant had, she said, re-
sided in the family of the Rey. J. Lowry, of Armagh, in the
county of Tyrone, Irdand, for fifteen years, and had by great
economy during that period, and for some time veviuusly, con-
trived to save the sum of 750/., which was t, ansmitted to her'
from the butt at Armagh, through Messrs. Spooner and
Attwood's house, and which she received in ono note of 5001.,
one note of 20C/., and one note of SUI. Being determined to
place the whole of the money in the English tutus, she deposited
them in her pocket inclosed in a poCket-book, autl got into an
omnibUs at Hamtnersunth, where she resides, for the pur-
pose of calling upon a broker in the City to purchase the
stock. When she was about to leoat the omnibus, however,
she discovered that her clothes had ben cut, and her pocket-
book stolen. As soon as she was able, after the shock, she
called at the' banking-house of -Messrs. Spooner and Attwood,
who inlbrined her of the numbers of the notes, which she forth-
with communicated to the Bank of England; but she heard
no intelligence of their presentation until the loth instant,
when she was told that the 500/. note was in the hands of Mr.
l3ult, the bullion •dealer, in Cheapside, who had received it
from a house in Paris, where it was cliimcbed a few dais before.
She also learned that the other note, of which she had been
robbed, wete'cloinged in Paris.
The following is the answer of the money-broker in Paris,
into whose hands the note for ZaW/. passed atier the robbery,
to Mr. Flower, of Aloorgate-street

" Paris, April 20, 1842.
Replying to your favour of the ltth instant, I purchased the
tote for ..t.:001 , i think, on the 12th of April; but I do not 1:tow
the person from whom 1 received it; but it strikes me that it
was of a Monsieur, of about thirty-Seven ytirs of age, of good
manners, and of. respectable appearance. I think T caused him
to wtite hts name on the back of the note, winch you can aster-
thin. When these notes were lost,- y.nu should have sent me a
list of the numbers; 1 should then lito4, known how to have
acted. 1 ren.ember when this note was presented to me, and
consulted all the advices 1 had t, ceived of lost notes, but none
agrreing Oth sour number, I purchased it.without hesitation.
1 regret it is not in my power to r,tlord you mote information.
higned) " V. LAIERIQUE."

The Lotto 111A-rox-askrit the poor woman whether she bad
any of the iuentity of the pet s4ais who sat near her in the
omnibus in which she was robber replied, that :he had
nOt the slightest knoWleuge who they were.
His Lordship, alter communicating. with John and Daniel
Fors ester, the Aicers, who stated that bank notes of consider-
able amount, obtained in the manner in which the applicant's
property had been obtained, wile regular y taken ev r to the
continent and sold, and thus all l osThility of tracing was re-
moved, told the unfortunate woman the, he had not ths slightest
eapretatmn of succeeding ill ptoeuring the restoration of the
bank noses, the amount of winch Wl:3 no doubt divided by this
tune between tilt thieves who Ns atiled abti followed her into
the omnibuF.

Ike applicant Said that she was now completely destitute,
alter having worked and economised all he r lite for the purpose
of tatting bark upon her savings in l.er old age.
The Loan 111.4itoe. deflated that he would most willingly
receive subscriptions for a poor object, who was plunged in so
pitiable a condition by her iliforaocc of the ways ol the town,
and hoped that the press would give the details of this
most lamentable Bate.