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page, with its carriage cattle, was captured by Captain
Broadfoot's carp's and the 3d Irregular Cavalry.
I have much gratification in reporting that the troops,
both European and native, of each branch and depart-
ment, well supported the character of British soldiers.
Where all are equally zealous is the cause, and keep
to their duty, my thanks are equally due to all ; but I
may be permitted to mention the names or corps and de-
partments employed. Major-General M`Caskill, K. 11.,
commanding the right column ; Rrigadier Tulloch, com-
manding the left column ; Captain Abbott, commanding
the light field battery ; Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor,K.H.,
commanding her Majesty's 9th Foot ; Major Huish,
commanding the 26th Native Infantry ; Capt. Napleton,
commanding the 60th Native Infantry ; Major Blair,
commanding the 10th Light Cavalry ; Captain Oldfield,
commanding squadron of the sth Light Cavalry ; Cap-
tain Tait, commanding the 3d Irregular Cavalry ; Cap-
tain Abbott, Field Engineer ; Lieut. Becher, command-
ing Sappers and Miners ; and Superintending-Surgeon
Stiven and Captain Nugent, officiating Sub-Assistant
Commissary--General. The officers of the staff who con-
veyed my orders to the different columns, and otherwise
aided in the movements of the day, were Captain Have-
lock, Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General Capt. Smith,
Major of Brigade; Captain Ponsonby, Assist.-Adjutant-
General ; Captain Macadam, Deputy Judge-Advocate-
General ; Captain Lane, Commissary of Ordnance ;
Lieutenant Richmond Shakespear, Military Secretary ;
Captain Codrington, Assistant Quartermaster-General ;
Lieutenant Payne, Officiating Deputy-Assistant-Quar-
termaster-General, who was most active throughout the
day ; Lieutenant 'l'ytler, Baggage Master ; Lieutenant
Pollock, Aide-de-Camp, and Captain M.Gregor, Aide-
de-Camp. To the last-mentioned officer, I am not only
indebted for services in the field, but for valuable infor-
mation, and for constant exertions to obtain supplies for
the force, which his local knowledge and personal ac-
quaintance with the Mullicks enables him to do.
I have this morning heard from several quarters
that the two chiers, Hadjee Ali mid Khyroolah Khan
have gone to Caubul, attended by about sixty men. If I
had removed to Gup at Gundamuck yesterday, there can
be little doubt that the enemy would have re-occupied
this place, and he would have anncunced to the Caubul
authorities he had beaten us back. Khookhi Khail has
been destroyed by fire. The fort and village of Mammoo
Khail have been also destroyed by fire, and before I
quit this place the trees, to which much value and im-
portance are attached, will be cut down.
I have the honour to inclose a return of casualties.
I regret I shall be deprived of the services of Major
Huish, 26th Native Infantry, and Captain Edmonds, her
Majesty's 9th Foot, for some time, though I hope mot
long. Lieutenant Robertson, of the 37th Regiment Na-
tive Infantry, doing duty with the 26th Native Infantry,
is slightly wounded, and will, I trust, soon return to his
duty.

I have the pleasure to inclose reports from Major-Gen.
M'Caskill, K.H., and Captain Broadfoot.—l have, &c.
(Signed) G. PoLLocrs, Major- General,
Commanding in Affghanistan.
FROM MAJOR-GENERAL J. M'CASKILL, K.H., COMMANDING
INFANTRY DIVISION, TO CAPTAIN G. PONSONBY, AS-
SISTANT ADJUTANT-GENERAL.
Dated Camp, Mammon Khail, Aug. 25,1842.
Sir,—l beg to detail to you for the information of
Major-General Pollock, C. 8., the operations of the right
column in the affair of yesterday, after it had become
separated from that of the left, on the complete success
of the combined attack on the enemy's position in ad-
vance of Mammoo Khail.
You are aware that this force consisted of four com-
panies of her Majesty's 9th Foot, and six of the 26th
Regiment of Native Infantry, under the immediate com-
mand of Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, K.H., of the former
corps. The enemy had fled before our troops and
abandoned the village of Khookhi Kail, but reinforced
strongly by the fugitives driven back by Brigadier
Tulloch's column, he assumed a menacing attitude, and
occupied in force a range of heights and detached
summits in the Soofaid Koh. The most salient of these
was a spur of the mountain within long musket range
of the buildings at Khookhi Khail. From this and
from other eminences of the most precipitous character,
the Ooloos were dislodged with the utmost spirit and
gallantry by the details under Lieut.-Colonel Taylor,
aided in the most effective manner by a part of Captain
Broadfoot's corps of Sappers and Miners. The enemy
were reinforced from time to time, and made many bold
attacks, and kept up a sharp fire of jezails from the
loftiest peaks of the mountain, but our troops, though
so much pressed as to be compelled to recede from
ground which they had gained in one direction, main-
tained an advanced position among the hills until with-
drawn by order of Major-General Pollock, first into the
plateau in front of the village of Khookhi Khail, which
they burnt down, and then back upon the present site
Of encampment. In retiring over the plain, between
the two principal villages, the movement was covered
by a squadron of the sth, and another of the 10th Light
Cavalry, but the attempts of the Ooloos to annoy were
timid and feeble in the extreme, and our troops did not
sustain a single casualty from their effects. Lieutenant-
Colonel Taylor speaks in high terms of the support
which he received from Major Huish, commanding the
26th Regiment Native Infantry, who was wounded, and
afterwards from Captain Handscombe, of the same corps,
and from Captain Ogle, commanding her Majesty's 9th
FoOt ; and 1 beg. to be permitted to bear my testimony
to the merits of the Lieutenant-Colonel's own exertions
on this occasion, as well as to express my sense of the
gallantry of all the troops engnged, and to acknowledge
the able assistance which I received from Captain Have-
lock, her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, Deputy As-
sistant-Adjutant-General ; Lieutenant Mayne, 37th
Regiment Native Infantry, Officiating Deputy Assistant
Quartermaster General ; and Lieutenant Bethune, her
Majesty's 9th Foot, my Aide-de-Camp. The intrepidity
also with which Captain Broadfoot's Sappers and Miners
aided in the attack on one of the advanced heights de-
serves my marked commendation.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) JOHN M`CasisiLL, Major-General,
Commanding Infantry Division.
FROM CAPTAIN J. DROADFOoT, SAPPERS AND MINERS,
COMMANDING RIGHT COLUMN, TO CAPTAIN G. PON-
SONIIY, ASSISTANT' ADJUTANT-GENERAL,
Dated Camp, Mammoo Khail, Aug. 25.
Sir— -Agreeably to orders, I have the honour to report
the proceedings of the column entrusted to me by the Ma-
jor-General commanding, in the action of yesterday.
I moved, as directed, with the Sappers (about 220
men) and the 3d Irregular Cavalry (250) across the ra-
vine to the right of the force. We found the enemy
strongly postal in an orchard with some enclosures, and
the usual field-works of loose stones in their front were
also occupied. This position flanked the approach of the
main body.
Having formed an attacking party in front, I sent the
rest of the Sappers in column under Lieutenant Orr, to
turn the enemy's left flank, and Captain Tait's horse
still more to the right, and in advance, to cut off their
retreat. While we waited in this order the advance of
the force, the enemy reinforced the orchard, and moved
out to attack us. I was therefore obliged to advance be-
fore the force arrived. The enemy's positions were
quickly carried in succession. One party was driven
towards the 3d Irregular Cavalry, who pursued, and the
remainder fled to the village of Mammoo Khail, into
which the main body of the enemy were at this moment
driven by the force of our artillery. They opened a fire on
us, ill-directed, but so heavy that we were obliged to attack
the village. They fled when we reached it, and the Sappers
pursued to the fort, but were so exhausted by the march
from Futtehabad, and the previous operations, that the
enemy was able to enter and barricade the gate. Their
fire was kept down by one party of the Sappers, while
the rest climbed on each other's shoulders over a half-
repaired bastion, about eight feet high, and covered with
thorns. The enemy fled over the walls on the other
side, leaving the rear gate barricaded. This, and de-
svending from the walls, lost so much time, that pursuit
was nearly hopeless as far as our now exhausted men
were concerned. We pressed on with the least fatigued,
however, and, keeping up to the hills, forced the enemy
into ground. Our cavalry were approaching, and we
had the satisfaction of seeing the cavalry overtake and
attack them.
Parties were now directed to destroy the forts aban-
doned on the cavalry approaching, while with a few men
I pushed on to the last village near the hills. There we
surprised the enemy, whose head-quarters were there,
driving them out of the village and adjoining camp, and
obtaining their tents, cattle, and ammunition, and a good
quantity of provisions. The enemy (who were evidently
the Jezailchees from Caubul) fled to the hills, the fire of
which swept the village.
I was now directed to take a party of her Majesty's
9th Foot—the Sappers being worn out, except
about six men—and attack the hills ; the first and second
heights were carried at the point of the bayonet, and
flanking parties having turned the shoulders of the high
range, we were advancing up it when the main force ar-
rived, and our further progress was stayed. My sepa-
rate command now ceased, and I was soon after ordered
with Sappers to head-quarters.
The conduct of the troops, officers and men, European
and Native, was admirable ; and it is due to the 26th
Native Infantry to mention, that in storming the second
height with a party of her Majesty's 9th hoot, a party
of the former corps joined us, and behaved with the
same spirit as the rest.—l have, &c.
(Signed) G. BROADFOOT, Captain,
Commanding Right Column.
Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing, of Troops
under the Personal Command of Major-General Pol-
lock, C. 8., commanding in Affghanistan, on the 24th
of August, 1842 :
Detachment sth Cavalry.-1 sepoy wounded, 1 horse
missing.
3d Irregular Cavalry-1 sepoy, 1 camp-follower, and
3 horses killed ; 1 European officer, 1 sepoy, 1 camp-
follower, and 5 horses wounded.
No. 6 Light Field Battery-1 camp follower wounded.
Her Majesty's 9th Foot-2 privates killed, 1 officer,
1 sergeant, end 7 privates wounded.
26th Regiment Native Infantry-1 sepoy killed ; 2
European officers, 4 havildars, 4 nuicks, and 17 sepoys
wounded.
sth Company Sappers and Miners—No casualties.
Capt. Broadfoot's corps of ditto-2 sepoys killed ; 1
sergeant ; 1 native officer, 1 drummer, and 4 sepoys
wounded.
'Patel killed, 7 ; wounded, 49 ; grand total of casual-
ties, 56.
Horses, 3 killed, 8 wounded, and 1 missing.
(Signed) G. PONSONDY, Captain.
Assist.-Adjt. General.
Names of Officers Wounded—Capt. Tait, command-
ing 3d Irregular Cavalry, slightly ; Capt. R. S. Ed-
monds, her Majesty's 9th Foot, severely ; Major G.
Huish, 26th Regiment N. 1., ditto ; Ensign G. Robert-
son, 37th Regiment, N. 1., slightly.

WOOD PAVING.—On Saturday the first section of
a new system of wood paving was laid down at the
entrance to Lombard-street. It is called by the in-
ventor the " Stereoprism " system, and about the
sixth now upon trial in the metropolis.