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

AFFGHANISTAN.

We find in the Belfast 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...force in Jellalabad. Most
earnestly do we hope that the next accounts will put
an end to all anxiety on the subject :
" Jellalabad, Jan. 13, 1842.

" Dear Sister,—We marched from Caubul on the
11th of October last, and were engaged on the 12th
forcing a mountain pass, and had to fight our way from
Caubul here. I may say we were engaged, day and
night, from the 12th of October till the Ist ofDecember
We arrived here on the 12th November; and I assure
you I thought the whole world was after us, as the peo-
ple from every. village turned out against us. 'After
taking possession of this town, the enemy surrounded
it in thousands ; but on the 14th, two days after We came
in, we sallied out, and drove them off the plains, killing
great numbers. Still they annoyed us very much until
the Ist of December, when we dashed 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 had nothing what-
ever with us but three days provisions. •
." We are fortifying the town of Jellalabad, 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 if we don't soon get relief,
God knows what the consequences will be. '1 hough it
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. Burnes . 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.
assure you we are now in a dangerous situation
how long it is to last we don't know. The present
force consists of hut '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.—l remain, your affectionate brother,
"M. BROWN."

LAW INTELLIGENCE,
COURT OF Q►UE'ENNS BENCH, April 30.

THE QUEEN IN RE WOOLLEY V. THE GREAT WESTERN

RAILWAY COMPANY.

It will be in the recollecion of our readers that in December
last an accident occurred •on the Great Western Hallway, by
which several persons were killed, and among others a man of
the name of Woolley, who died a few days afterwards within
the borough of Reading. The Conmer for the borough held
an inquest on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict of
accidental death,
with a deodand of 1001. A rule had been ob-
tained to set asid,! this inquisition, on the ground that the ,
Coroner had no jurisdiction. • It appeared on the face of the
inquisition that the cause of the:sleath arose in the parish of
Sonning, in the county of Berks, and that the death itself
Occurred in Reading, and the inquisition was taken by the
Reading Coroner.
Mr. WADDINGTON now showed cause against the rule, and
contended that the Coroner of the borough, where the death
actually occurred, had full authority to summon 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 inquisiton, and an inquisition onuld 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 caused it in another.
The old law, which might have raised a doubt of this sort, had
been remedied by the Statute of Edward I.
Mr. KELLY, in support of the rule, said that the defect of
the old law had not been remedied ; that a case like the tiresent
had never been provided tor; that the jurisdiction of the ceroner
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, and as that was not the case, he had no right to
hold the inquest. At all events, if the statute had 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, and
therefore time ought to be taken to consider its judgment.

An old man, named Noel, residing at Portbail
(says the Journal de la Manche), had been for some time past
attacked with mental weakness, sometimes even imagining Sim
self dead, and going to the cemetery to see if his grave was dug.
Hiisonoweeattitr•he attention,fdrohmimhwisithstgrarenagtefanei
es fealriiengwsoasT 'however,
accident
might
obliged to go out a few evenings since. and he shut his father up
in the house. The old man contrived to get out, and entered
the court-yard of a neighbour, where a workman hearing the
noise Of his approach, thinking him a robber, ran down to at-
tack him. He inquired who was there, and receiving no
answer, he immediately struck the intruder with the butt end
of a gun, and beat him until the stock broke ; hethert stabbed
hint with a knife, and would have continued, had not the old
man cried-out in a feelle voice,-"'You want then toskill-me.",
The man, who appears to have been as stupid as he was brutal,
astonished, stopped his hand, and called out for help. Every
aid was offered, but the sufferer died the same night.