The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

EVACUATION OF
AFFGHANISTAN.

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY
(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)
PROCLAMATION.

Secret Department, Simla, Oct. 1, 1842.
The Government of India directed its army to
pass the Indus in order to expel from Affgha-
nistan a Chief believed to be hostile to British
interests, and to replace upon his throne a Sove-
reign represented to be friendly to those interests,
and popular with his former subjects.
The Chief believed to be hostile became a pri-
soner, and the Sovereign represented to be
popular was replaced upon his throne ; but, after
events which brought into question his fidelity
to the Government by which he was restored,
he lost by the hands of an assassin the throne he
had only held amidst insurrections, and his
death was preceded and followed by still existing
anarchy.
Disasters unparalleled in their extent, unless
by the errors in which they originated, and by
the treachery by which they were completed,
have in one short campaign been avenged upon
every scene of past misfortune and repeated
victories in the field, and the capture of the cities
and citadels of Ghuznee and Caubul have again
attached the opinion of invincibility to the Bri-
tish arms.
The British army in possession of Affghanistan
will now be withdrawn to the Sutlej.
The Governor-General will leave it to the Aff-
ghans themselves to create a Government amidst
the anarchy which is the consequence of their

crimes.
To force a Sovereign upon a reluctant people
would be as inconsistent with the policy as it is
with the principles of the British Government,
tending to place the arms and resources of that
people at the disposal of the first invader, and
to impose the burden of supporting a Sovereign
without the prospect of benefit from his alliance.
The Governor-General will willingly recognise
any Government approved by the Affghans
themselves, which shall appear desirous and
capable of maintaining friendly relations with
neighbouring States.
Content with the limits nature appears to have
assigned to its empire, the Government of India
will devote all its efforts to the establishment and
maintenance of general peace, to the protection
of the Sovereigns and Chiefs its allies, and to
the prosperity and happiness of its own faithful
subjects.
The rivers of the Punjaub and the Indus, and
the mountainous passes and the barbarous tribes
of Affghanistan, will be placed between the Bri-
tish army and an enemy approaching from the
west, if indeed such an enemy there can be, and
no longer between the army and its supplies.
The enormous expenditure required for the
support of a large force, in a false military posi-
tion, at a distance from its own frontier and its
resources, will no longer arrest every measure
for the improvement of the country and of the
people.
The combined army of England and of India,
superior in equipment, in discipline, in valour,
and in the officers by whom it is commanded, to
any force which can be opposed to it in Asia,
will stand in unassailable strength upon its own
soil, and for ever, under the blessing of Provi-
dence, preserve the glorious empire it has won,
in security and in honour.
The Governor-General cannot fear the mis-
construction of his motives in thus frankly an-
nouncing to surrounding States the pacific and
conservative policy of his Government.
Affghanistan and China have seen at once the
forces at his disposal, and the effect with which
they can be applied.
Sincerely attached to peace for the sake of the
benefits it confers upon the people, the Governor-
General is resolved that peace shall be observed,
and will put forth the whole power of the British
Government to coerce the State by which itshall

be infringed.
By order of the Right Hon. the Governor.
General of India,

T. H. MADDOCK,
Secretary to the Government of'lndia wi
the Governor-General.

AMERICAN NEWS

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING.
The packet•ship, Captain Delano, which sailed
from New York on the 7th inst., arrived here
this evening, a few minutes before the departure
of the train.

The yellow fever was very prevalent at Mo- ,
bile, and daily increasing. Its ravages were prin-
cipally confined to strangers, and the residents
who had left the city in consequence were ad-
vised not to return until the frost had set in.
Mr. Webster had paid a visit to the city of
New York, and at a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce, he made a lengthened speech, in
which he recapitulated most of the topics intro-
duced into his former speech at Boston, congra-
tulated his countrymen on the settlement of the
Boundary Question, and took a favourable re-
view of the acts of President Tyler, and the policy
which the executive had pursued.
Two steamers bad arrived out—the Caledonia,
which left this port on the Bth ult., arrived at
Boston on the 2d inst., and the Great Western,
which sailed from Bristol on the 22d ult., arrived
at New York on the 6th inst. The packet ship
New York, which sailed hence on the Bth ult.,
arrived out after an excellent passage for a sail-
ing ship, on the 2d inst.
The election for the State and city of New
York would take place on the Bth, and upon its
result would depend in a great measure the fu-
ture complexion of Congress.
Mr. Dickens's book had arrived out, and given
great offence to our Transatlantic neighhours.
, The statements contained in it leave no doubt,

they say, that the offensive article in the Foreign
Quarterly Review on the American press was the
production of the same pen.
Freights were very low, and the rate of Ex-
change was also anusually low-6 per cent. Bu-
siness, as usual, continued dull. The next meet-
ing of Congress, which would take place the first
week in December, was looked to with much
anxiety.
The Planters and Merchants' Bank of Mobile
failed on the 25th of October. A day or two
previous it had resorted to an issue of post
notes; but these the Bank of Mobile and the
Branch Bank of the State of Alabama refused to
receive. The holders of these then applied to
the Planters and Merchants' Bank to have them
redeemed, not in specie, but in the' inconvertible
paper of the other banks of Alabama. This was
refused, and the bank furthermore refused to pay
the checks of depositors in anything but post
notes.
STOCK EXCHANGE, NEW YORK, Nov. 5.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange to-day
were moderate. State Sixes advanced I, and State
Fives 1 per cent.; Stonington Bank also advanced I.
$BOO State 7's of 1848, 1001 ; $l,OOO State B's of 62,
90; $2,000 State s's of 55, 82 ; 25 Shares Canton
Co. Baltimore, 17 ;25 do Mohawk, b6O ds, 50
do Harlem, 15 ; 100 do Long Island, 49; 100 do, b
30 ds, 49 ; 10 do New Jersey Railroad, 651 ; 100
do
do 65 ; '25 do Stonington Railroad, 15k.
SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD.--25: shares Mo-
hawk, b 3 ds, 34; 25 dodo, s 10 ds, 333
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The Master of the Temple, the Rev. C. Benson,
canon of Worcester, has been appointed by the Dean
and Chapter of that diocese to the vicarage of Lind-
ridge, the most valuable preferment in their gift, ex-
cept the vicarage of Bromsgrove. The vacant canonry
will not be filled up, and the emoluments fall to the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
MA RY PORT AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—This work
is now rapidly progressing. The rails have already
been laid from Carlisle to Cardew, about six inne3.
It is not now intended to open the line to Dalston,
until it be finished to Wigton, which will be completed
by the end of February next.—Carlisle Patriot.