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London, England, 1842-04-25 00:00:00

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order or decree shall, at the expiration of the time
limited for the performance thereof, be entitled to a
writ or writs of attachment against the disobedient
party, and in case such party shall be taken or de-
tained in custody under any such writ or attachment
without obeying the same order or decree, then the
party prosecuting the same order or decree shall, upon
the Sheriff's return that the party has been so taken
or detained, be entitled to a commission of sequestra-
tion against the estate and effects of the disobedient
party, and in case the Sheriff shall make the return
non est inventus to such writ or writs of attachment,
the party prosecuting the same order or decree shall
be entitled, at his option, either to a commission of
sequestration in the first instance, or otherwise to an
order for the Sergeant-at-Arms,• and to such other
process as he hath hitherto been entitled to upon a
return non est inventus made by the commissioners
named .in a commission of rebellion issued for the
non-performance of an order or decree.

" 12. That every order or decree requiring any
party to do an act thereby ordered shall state the
time or the time after service of the order or decree,
within which the act is to be done, and that upon
the copy of the order or decree which shall be served
upon the party required to obey the same there shall
be endorsed a memorandum in the words or to the
effect following, viz.

" 'lf you,' -the within-named A. 8., neglect to
obey this order (or decree) by the time therein
limited, you will be liable to be arrested under a
writ of attachment issued out of the High Court of
Chancery, or by the Sergeant-at-Arms attending
the same Court, and also be liable to have your estate
sequestered for the purpose of compelling you to
obey the same order (or decree).
"47. Thai a creditor who has come in and esta-
blished his debt before the Master, under a decree or
order in a suit, shall be entitled to the costs of so
establishing his debt, and the sum to be allowed for
such costs shall be fixed by the Master, without taxa-
tion, at the time the Master allows the debt of such
creditor, unless the Master shall think that such
costs ought to be taxed in the regular mode, in which
case the same shall be so taxed by the Master, and
the amount of such costs, or the sum allowed in re-
spect thereof, shall be added to the debt so established."
LYNDHURST, Chancellor.
LANGDALE, Master of the Rolls.
L. SHADWELL, Vice-Chancellor.
J. L. K. BRUCE, Vice-Chancellor.
J. WIGRAM, Vice-Chancellor.

THE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN.
(From the Caledonian Mercury.)
We have been favoured with the following interesting
communication from India, by the kindness of a gentle-
man resident in this city. It is written by Dr. Harper,
64th Regiment, and dated

" Camp, ICuwulnir, Jan. 31, 1842.
"My dear Brother,—l wrote to (another bro-
ther) last month, but God knows if ever it reached him
—the safe conveyance of letter's from this place being
very uncertain, owing to the very disturbed state of the
country. I have just returned from a miraculous escape
of being both starved and shot. Ido not suppose that
two regiments ever made so narrow an escape ; but I
must give you a description of it, that you may be able
to understand it. Our brigade arrived here on Christmas-
day, consisting of four corps, a company of sappers and
miners, a company of artillery, and a risallah of local
horse ; but we found that the whole country was up in
arms against us—that is, through the Khyber Pass, which
I dare say you have heard a great deal about. Well, our
brigade being totally inadequate to force it, we made up
our minds that we would be kept here until another
and stronger force joined us, which were on their
road through the Penyously. However, one fine even-
ing, when we were all sitting at mess very comfortably,
about eight o'clock P.3t., iu came an order from the
secret and political authorities, ordering two corps, viz.,
ours and the 53d, to get under arms with the least pos-
sible noise, and march that same evening at ten o'clock
r.3t., towards a f'ort called Alli Musjid, situated six& en
miles into the Whylia Pass. Never was such a mad
project attempted. Thanks to the accursed stupidity of
our politicals, even the Khybers themselves did not sup-
pose that we were such idiots, as was evidently shown
by their not having the slightest idea of our intended
advance. We marched all night, having had only three
shots fired at us, and reached the fort, our place of desti-
nation, about eight o'clock next morning. By this time
the enemy discovered our trick, and began to collect in
considerable force. There was some sharp skirmishing.
However, we took the fort, having had only twelve men
wounded—one officer severely. We got securely into the
fort, and crowned all the heights around; so that we were
safe enough from the fire of the enemy. But alas ! we
found, that we had only four days' provisions. The fort
is one of the most miserable places you can imagine.
No shelter whatever ; and we were not allowed to take
our tents with us—so that the privaticns we suffered
were beyond all description. In the first place, we were
put on half rations of the very worst kind, and we were
obliged to sleep out under the wide canopy of heaven for
eight nights, with the rain pouring incessantly on us,
and with a temperature below freezing point. The fol-
lowing morning, after we left this place, the other two
regiments, with the artillery, sappers, and miners, &c.,
attempted to force.the pass to come to our assistance,
but the whole country was up in arms, and they were
repelled at the very entrance of the pass, with great
slaughter. They made the same attempt two or three
successive days, but with like ill fortune. Our brigadier
and the major of brigade at the very first onset, together
with some 15 or 16 officers, and God knows how many
men, finding that it was impossible to come to our
succour, and knowing that we must be soon starved
out, the politicals offered the Khyber chiefs 5,000/.
sterling to allow our two corps to return ; but
so exasperated were they at the trick we had
played them, that they answered " No, .you may give us
your money, but we will cut the throats of every one we
have secured in the fort." You will see that we were
rather in an unpleasant situation. We remained in the
fort for nine days, until we had not a single scrap" to
eat; and not seeing any assistance coming to our aid, we
were compelled to come to the determination of cutting
our way back. On the morning of the 25th instant we
sallied out, but had not got outside the fort when a volley
opened on 113, from whence we knew not, every man
behig behind a rock, with aftille in his hand of up-
wards of six feet in length. Our muskets had not the
slightest chance with them. They could knock us
over at a distance our musketry had not the slightest
chance of reaching. This destructive fire was kept up
during the whole of the long march ; and when we
had got about half way through the pass, we found it
was stopped by a wall of twelve feet high and about ten
broad, of blocks of rock intermingled with thorns. Here
we were at a stand, with the murderous villains pour-
ing their unceasing fire on us. We immediately, how-
ever, got up the sappers and miners, and blew up and
pulled down the obstruction. Most fortunately for us, the
force that we had left here concluded that we must make
the attempt, on that day, to cut our way through, and
they made a demonstration at the mouth of the pass,
and, entering it, and crowning the heights about the
mouth of it, kept up a perpetual fire ; otherwise every
man of us must have been massacred. We, however,
arrived here about three o'clock, P.M., although with
fearful loss. We had in our own corps alone 178 killed
and wounded ; the 53d Regiment about as many ; and,
I suppose, out of the whole brigade, not less than 600
men, and from 20 to 25 officers killed and wounded.
" I was walking at the head of our regiment with the
commanding officer, as good a fellow as ever lived—a
Scotchman ! (he and I were bosom friends), and Lieu-
tenant Itattray. The balls were whizzing about us like as
many peas—men falling on all sides of us-L-when poor
Wilson remarked to me, ' Isn't it wonderful that we three
have escaped all these balls so long ? "The words were
not well out of his mouth, when a ball struck him on
the left breast ant came out at his back-bone. He im-
mediately fell. I lifted him up, but he never made the
slightest attempt to speak, and died almost immediately.
I had scarcely ordered him to be carried off, when a
ball struck Rattray, entering the fleshy part of his fore•
arm, passing through, and it was found the next
morning flattened, and deeply imbedded in the hilt
of his sword. But for this he must have been shot
dead. He is, however, doing Well. But poor Wilson's
death is one of a most melancholy description. He had
just returned from England with a most beautiful lady
--his wife. I delivered her of a son and heir at Feroze-
Pore. They were the happiest couple I ever saw. But,
poor fellow ! he seemed to have a presentiment that he
was to fall. He said to me when we were in the fort,
Harper ! if anythinc, happens to me write to my poor,
poor wife.' I pretended' to laugh him out of it. He
said, I'll do the same for you should anything happen
to you.' Poor lady ! what a trial it will be for her
when she gets my letter. I think I forgot to mention
that we lost all our baggage, horses, &c. They all fell
into the hands of the enemy. I lost every article I had
with me •, and what I regret most is the loss of two beau-
tiful Arab horses that I would not have taken 1501. for.
Well, here we are waiting for reinforcements, which will
striive in a few days, when we are again to attempt
to force the pass, although it is the act of madmen
to attempt it with any force, as there is no doubt
but one thousand determined men could hold it
against any force we could bring against them. The
most frightful sight throughout the whole day's en-
gagement was just as we were getting out of the pass,
Captain Locke had crowned tokeight with his company,
and after getting fairly possession of it, he ordered his
men to advance to take another hill. They had not left
him one hundred yards, when two or thtee of the enemy
rushed in on him. He fired his pistol at one of them,
but unfortimat4 missed him. They immediately, car-
ried him off to a high hill, and, in sight of us all, stripped
him naked, and then cut his throat, severed 'lris bead
from his body, and carried it away, a very considerable
reward being given by tho chiefs for every Faringee
(European) head. Of course you have heard of our
awful disaster in Caubul. Our army there has been mas-
sacred almost to a man. God know what steps the
Government will take when they hear of it. I suppose
I have given you enough of this. I have upwards of
200 patients in the hospital, so that every hour of my
time is occupied. Lots of surgical operations to per-
form. What think you of taking; off five limbs in one
day ? lam regularly fagged, and what is worse still, I
have pricked the middle finger and thumb of my right
hand, so that I am nearly unable to hold the pen,
although I have wrote you, such a long letter. lam
very uneasy about my fingers, as I am afraid some putrid
matter has got into the wound."

We learn that the attempt to reduce the hard earn-
ings of the poor stocking-weavers, at Mansfield, has proved
abortive. A public meeting of the trade was called on Monday,
w hen the little bag-hosiers' sliding scale " was made known,
and entirely disapproved of by the whole assembly. The work-
men to whom the abatement had been offered were waited
upon, and readily agreed to a cessation from labour, until the
price they had heretofore received could be obtained.