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London, England, 1842-10-07 00:00:00

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roops was not negleeSed. The: report at first • passarses reached Bombay in the beginning of
circulated among General No tt's division was, August.' Some of the men had died of cholera.
that they.Were‘ to proceed fr om Candabar to- The 28th Regiment, from • New South Wales,
wards Ferozepore, ria '.,lie lat-y-Gbilzie, and had also arrived there. The resolution and
Dera Ismael Khan.. This Ii ne of route, a part activity displayed by the British Government
,
of which is . unknown to I ?.u. ropeass,
dared tobe' but a feint. was consi- on this occasion had infused new vigour into the
The position of the fore -:0 at Jellalabad under The Finance Committees were at work ; but
General Poilock during the: mesiths of June and the utility of attempting to effect savings by re-
July had attracted much attention, for the ducing the salaries of the civilians was much
difficulties which surround ed. them had been ex- questioned.
aggerated to extremes by . the croakers. There The examination into time causes of the Caubul
,was abundance in the car Jp of every necessary, disasters was continuing, under the superinten-
but not of luxuries. T 1 se principal want was deuce of Mr. Cameron, the Law Commissioner.
beasts of burden. Ar song the rumours was There was an odd discussion attempted to be
one that the owners o e the animals taken on raised by interested parties, as to the propriety
hire; from India had, refused to allow their of reinstating Dost Mohammed hi Caubul. But
cattle to proceed further than Peshawar. The the policy of this proceeding was much doubted;
activity .and ene;.gy of the Government agents for Futteh Jung, the new Sovereign of Caubul,
had in ,a great, degree. obviated this difficulty. is the second son of Shah Soojah, and had
The force at Jellalaba d was then considerable, succeeded in virtue of his elder brother
for besides the " ill' astrions" garrison, which having voluntarily resigned his rights to
had, under General F.ale, withstood the siege of the throne. Futteh Jung is now King, and
,Akbar Khan, and ';he troops that stormed the admitted to be such by even ,the noto-
Rhyber Pass, and sr General Pollock, a con_ rious son of Dost Mohammed. It would be a
sideralde body of Sikhs, against whose belie- strange act, if' the British rulers should now
',dour, as auxiliaries, no great complaints were attempt to dispossess the son of Shah Soojah,
urged, was collected there, and to whose custody in order to replace Dost Mahommed, who never
it was said thaS: the fortress of Jellalabad and was more than an Arneer or Prince, who,
the care of the Khyber Pass were to be intrusted although he had for some time exercised some
atter the retirement of the British. rights as a Chieftain, never could establish his
The unwarlike hesitation of the troops at Jel- claim to the absolute sovereignty of any part of
labtbad having bee ;n misinterpreted by some of Affghanistan, and much less of the whole
the' Affglian chiefs i-a the neighbourhood, whose country.
bullying properisifses lead them always to assault The news from China was to the 7th of June. It
the se who exhil As any symptoms of doubt or contains the account of the capture of Chapoo,
fear, and above all those who seem inclined to on the 18th of May, which was effected without
rein eat from be'kre them, it became necessary
loss to the British, but when the troops were
Ultra General Pollock should chastise the most moving through the town, violent resistance
re fractory- • Detachments
were therefore sent was made from a Joss-bouse, into which some
Ot/ t' whiel•t. Soon brought those worthies to their Tartar soldiers had retreated, who, fearing that
8-pl)*es) a 7 ad obliged them to pay the sums due to if they surrendered they would be cut to pieces,
the rev. enue. unexpectedly fired on some British companies.
Irish, was
Colonel Tomlinson, of the 18th Royal
li 1 )11"zhel3th of July a new negotiation on be-
killed, and Colonel Mountain, and Captain
Tar fof Akbar Khan was commenced, Captain
Is Campbell; and Lieutenant Jodell wounded.
ttnP, who had been Major of Brigade in the
o•
ritisll contingent to Shah Soojah, and n
who is A apprehension prevailed in India that but
a of the prisoners, came to Jellalabad: he was
be little would be effected this year against China,
.:c°lllParli d b Candahar chieftain. The in consequence of the delays that had taken place.
I jib. e y a
Ject The want of vigour in the prosecution of this war
of his mission was under pretence of
makingwas much spoken of, particularly as the season
terms for the restoration of the prisoners
in
for sailing along that coast, without danger, was
Ara exchange
for the reinstatement of Dost
I\-a""Ito (1 ain time, and to delay opera- allowed to pass over. The expedition was, how-
-7 lions F,to g .
ever, said to be preparing to attack Nankin, the
until the approach of another winter
;issois
southern capital.
of
L'' be sufficient to paralyze the movements
The monsoon had set in rather late, but a
b,.-- the 'lndian troops. But those negotiations
plentiful fall of rain had. taken place subsequent
t_7lus as far as Abbar Khan was concerned,
t7utled to no purpose, and several letters brought to the well-known
.holiday, called " Cocoa-nut
hales
YiCaPtai T CaptainTroup from the prisoners, both fa- day," when the Indians suppose that the violence
of the storms has ceased. The cholera had con-
J1'714" and males, addressed to their friends in
Ildia, have contributed to allay the great tinued its ravages, but the heavy rains would, it
ctlxiery felt on their account. They were then was hoped, speedily lessen them.
rSeve"fined in a fortress five miles distant from
ral shipwrecks had occurred: among them
'4lllsul, the approach to which is described as were mentioned that of the Adele from Bombay
atfier difficult. Some "of them were allowed to , for Mauritius, of the Copeland from Liverpool to
1/luve about the mountains, and to ride in small China, of the Martha Ridgeway and the Two
le;ksties into Caubul. Lady Sale, who (rea-
Sisters in the Eastern Seas.
tkluallY botanized, was always gitarded •by The Nabob of Surat and the Ruler of Odey-
,, -4° Affghans.. The officers might perhaps man-
pore had died. Time latter, although the sun of
ge to escape, but Akbar Khan's agents took too Hindoo royalty and mythological ceremonies,
had not the honour of having more than one '°°d care of the ladies and children, whom he.
, Ooked upon as his safe hostages. The most ac- lady of his numerous family burned with his
.
corpse. Suttees begin not to be quite so fashion-
4redited report respecting the real position of
4
./k(har Khan was, that he had appointed himself able in India as they formerly were.
The removal of the troops from Jellalabad ap-
v izier under Futteh Jung, the son and nominal
al tecessor of Shah Soojah, but that he was not Peared to be necessary, as sickness prevailed,
mt favour with the inhabitants of Caubul, and several officers had• died there since the
rer some of whom lie exercised the most arrival of General Pollock. Every preparation
h°rrible tyranny, and who also appeared was making at the period of the latest intelli-
-1;0 -.l_.
vengeance of Bsi. gence for a speedy movement.
i_ uread the approaching
m' that
troops. The Kuzzilbashes, a strong party' In a postscript it is stated that the troops were
.4 that town were opposed to 'him. He was to march from Candahar on the Bth, 9th, or 10th
01erefbre compelled to act with sonic modera- August, and that rumour asserted that Akbar
rl4fin. towards the prisoners, for the people of the Khan whose great object was delay, had sent
: WTI and district looked to them being protected another of his prisoners Captain Lawrence on
Sr Futteh Jung as the acknowledged represens to Jellalabad, to try to make' sonic further
`trove of his father in the alliance with the arrangements.
n ritish. The report industriously circulated by The fall of rain in Bombay during 10 days pre-
icterested parties some months ago, that Akbar vious to the departure of the mail bad been very
.I:lhan intended to take the prisoners, in case of great. It was stated that the overflowing of the
:his being hard pressed, over the Hindoo Khosh. Ganges had done considerable injury to the in-
t into Bokliara, had lost credit, for it was said that digo crop.
Colonel
King of Bokhara, although he treats Letters from Mauritius mention that some
...'ulonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly, his pre- commercial difficulties had arisen there, caused
iss.ocriit Captive .5 is,
.s with great rigour, does not wish by the want of sufficient metallic currency.
Chieniftgr'e Periuglmees; and having subdued the The banks had therefore narrowed their ope-
ti
me
watilltse of Kobel', and gained, influence, with rations.
to refusee of
Kholooin, had:obliged the latter
. permission to Akbar Khan to take
tithose prisoners through the passes. It was,
Bierefore, supposed that on the arrival of the
ritisl) troops from Jellalabad. and Candahar at
Caubuls the ill-acquired domination of the ambi-
tious son of Dost Mahommed would speedily be
terminated. There is no doubt now of his having
murdered Sir W. H. Macnaghten, for the fact
of his having done. so has been admitted
by
himself. ne ' ' '...
, Simultaneously with the receipt of the order
,°3r General Nott, an advance movement had
4' en effected from Jellalabad by Captain Broad-
-I°ot, who took post on the 24th of July at a
salall fort 15 miles from Jellalabad, at which fort
1t fortress
supposed that a part of the force from that
would soon arrive.
Most of the Affghans in and around Caubul
were stated
beggimmg . sted to entertain great alarm, and were
iluil written notes and little bits of scribbled
Pser front the prisoners to serve as tokens for
in their preservation. It appeared to be expected
__ souse usually well informed quarters that little
7 no-,opposition would be made to the advance of
'the British.
All these it . iese statements, coupled with the facts
msla,t have occurred since the disastrous retreat
slsia_st.January, serve to prove that the fatalities
_ November, December, and January, were
`lll7l.ng,,more to the want of talent and energy on
_T Part of the British leaders than to the enter-
rrlse or patriotism of the Affglians. Captain
__Troup had declared " that no doubt exists, if a
4sslogle wing of a regiment had marched into
of
on the 2d of November, the much talked
I insurrection would have been completely and
efleetually put down."
The distance from Candahar to Ghuzuee via
Ik helat-y-Gbilzie is about 240 miles. In the
wear 1839 Sir John Keane's army took from the
-
-nth of June to the 21st of July, both days in-
eluded, to perform that march. Ghuzuee and
Jellalabad are nearly equi-distant from Caubul,
"ell being somewhat more than 90 miles. It
Was expected that both armies would meet in
Caubul before time middle of September. The ex-
Dense of this campaign has been estimated as not
likely to exceed 25 lacs, ora quarter ola million
laterling, while its moral effects in India will,
1t was expected, prove incalculably advantageous
to denionstrating„ not only to the Affglians,,but to
When properly led
,are invincible. It will also
f,,eare the result of having the prisoners restored,
NI. io Caubul they can be demanded, not
h 41 the tricky negotiator Akbar, but at the
i-eiat
Giii of the sword from all the chiefs of the
will i Zies:and Dooraunies united. This campaign
ithaal" enable the Supreme Government to
the _NI-
T its soldiers from the valleys lying to
wis-estward of the Soliman Mountains, and will
dis,:" the present Governor-General from the
Drat _race of being the first that accepted dis-
,r:ful terms as dictated by a semi-barbarian.
in,,,, t, e Policy of Lord Ellenborough in maintain-
', °s ow • own secrets, and in communicating them
B°lelY
net . to the Commander-in-Chief and to the
' terals, ha •ta ]laving produced considerable advan-
ges it Was
4bo_ , said that the Governor-General was
stpsuety Si
proceed from Allahabad to Kurnaul, or
ilk"' , Simla, in order to facilitate those commu-
atlas-. ~..
ssss_ Lis• she army of reserve was ordered to
'isle in November
, next on the Sutledge.
The
frent Presence of this army so near the Sickh
i
ls mom Was s
tos to• pposed to have some object in re-
valest,
s. time dissatisfaction and disturbances pre-
that it "„roPng them; but the real fact appears to be
Sity. 170e011eCtCd to be useful in case of neces-
is to be Csthe same reason a corps of observation
Bombay, formed in Scinde of troops sent from
England' ' in 'addition to those under General
This co; as soon as 'the monsoon terminated.
Charles Ps is to be under the command of Sir
~
me Napier.
•'` ' trans
'oforee ports sent from England with the re-
hu uri ments had arrived. The 78th High-
ers and Both
Regiments
having, made rapid
;sass:4

The commercial intelligence differs little from

that received by last mail. The markets were
generally dull, and freights continued extremely
low. Bills of Exchange, on the 12th of August,
were quoted at from ls. 114 d. to 2s.

FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL.
VIENNA, SEPT. 24.—The Duke and Duchess of
Leuchtenberg arrived here the day before yesterday
from St. Petersburgh. The Duke went yesterday
to Schonbrunn to pay his respects to their Imperial
Majesties, and to the Princes now there. His august
consort has been unfortunately so ill since her arrival
that she is confined to her room.

The Duchess of AngoulemQ, accompanied by her
niece, arrived here a few days ago from Rirchberg,
and proceeded on the 21st to Goritz, the winter‘abode
of the Bourbon family. The Duke of Bordeaux is
expected at that place very shortly.
ST. PETERSBURGII, OCT. I.—Accounts have been
received from Pernau, dated 10th Sept. (probably
22d), announcing that the lighthouse in the island of
Felsand, which was built this year, had fallen down
a few days before, on which account there will be, as
formerly, only one light in the second lighthouse.
POLISH FRONTIER, SEPT. 30.—We learn from
Warsaw that official information has been received
there, that the Emperor will arrive in the Polish
capital, in the first half of October, and stay there
some days.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—TIIE LATE FIRE IN BROM,
TON-SQUARE.—Wednesday evening an inquest was
held before Mr. Higgs, at St. George's Hospital, on
the body of Jesse Montague aged two years, who
was unfortunately burned to death on Sunday morn-
ing last, under the circumstances detailed below :
Clementina Campbell deposed that she resided at No.
2, Brompton-square. Deceased was her niece, and
with her mother had been on a visit at her grand-
mother's since Friday last. On the evening of Satur-
day witness retired to rest between nine and ten
o'clock. The deceased had been put to bed by her
mother about six o'clock, and about ten o'clock wit-
ness heard her sister cry out, " 0 God, 0 God, my
child will he burnt to death." Witness ran out of her
room, and saw that the upper part of the house was in
flames. The alarm was given, and two policemen
came into the house and went up stairs, but were un-
willing to enter the room and rescue the child. The
grandmother of the child rushed in and brought it
out. It was taken to a surgeon's, and afterwards
brought to the hospital. Deceased's mother made a
statement to witness to the effect, that having heard
the child cry, she went up stairs and opened the cur-
tains, but had not held the candle near. She was a
most affectionate mother, and was heart-broken at the
occudrerceena es
ee
having.A I rD
baeve ins , b
rhoouugshe
t- house-surgeon, uo rtgheeo deposednh,ospi
hospital
tibo
utot
the
half-past eleven on Saturday night.
dying state, and lived only two hours. Se
Shev
Several
ls
otherin a
witnesses were examined, but nothing material as to
cct rnt
aiggi
rbo e
uf t
ut
n 1
I.)
ten
et fido r eda e
acover uh
dl
bbt e
uthl
oc,
whi taet ec
d thenfie The Jury ac-
li
raseod
rilgvia,saateed-
there was not sufficient evidence to deteermine. It
was stated by the Coroner that the deceased child was
heiress to 8,000/. per annum, and would, if a boy,
have been entitled to the Dukedom of Manchester'
ABOLITION OF PUBLIC OFFICES.—On the 28th inst.
an Act will come into operation, under which a number
of offices in the Court of Chancery will be abolished.
The offices are the clerks of enrolment and their
deputies, comptrollers of the hamper, six clerks,
sworn clerks, and waiting clerks, except as to the
recovery of bygone fees, and to certain rights. The
duties hitherto performed in the offices mentioned are,
after the day stated, to be transferred to other persons.
The Lord Chancellor is to fix the compensation allow-
ance to persons whose offices are abolished. Orders
are to be made with the sanction of the other equity
Judges, or any two of them, and the Lord Chancellor,
with such consent, can stay the operation of the Act
for a period not exceeding six months. The expenses
of the Act are directed to be paid out of the interest
arising on the money in the Bank of England. Another
Act was passed, which will come into operation on
the Ist January next, abolishing certain offices on the
revenue side of the Court of Exchequer. The officers
are the first and second secondaries, of sworn and
side clerks, of registrars, and of bag-bearer in the
Remeinbrancer's-office. The parties are to be awarded
compensation, to be fixed by the Lords of the Trea-
sury. The Court of Exchequer to make certain fees,
and, from the Act coming into force, attorneys of the
superior Courts to practice on the revenue side of the
Exchequer.

All great brewers of whom histor takes notice,
from Odin and Cadwallader, down to fhrale and Sir
Felix Booth, are prone to hospitality.—Tait's illog •