The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-03 00:00:00

Bolak on the 21st, since which they have been collect-
ing grain, &c., and tlic chiefs have agreed to pay
back the 30,000 rupees which Captain Ferris lied
abandoned. He had buried it some feet under
ground before his departure, with some private
cash, but it was found out soon after the.
flight of the garrison. The natives are extremely
civil ;, they have no wish now to oppose us,
it being their good old rule to side with the
strongest party.. A letter from the brigade says here
is the old system again, this taking of forts, which,
however, is a practice that hurts or injures no one, nor
I may say benefits any. The inhabitants are our best
friends. Just imagine, twenty-one forts garrisoned
by two companies! The Ist cavalry are encamped
on fair ground, but the infantry are in the bed of a
rugged nullah. Plenty of wood, and grain and other
articles of food much cheaper here, but I fancy that
is because there are none of our blood-suckers,' the
Commissariat baboos, within call. The lost gun
which was at a place called Duysurruk, has been
brought in, and we expect to get much of the plun-
dered property back during our stay, which will be
four or five days ; our further movements are not
known, except to our Brigadier, who, if he be em-
powered to act, will do the thing well and neatly.
" At five o'clock on the evening of the 22d, Ge-
neral Golaub Singh paid a visit to our General, under
a salute of eleven guns from the battery, and during,
their conference we had a very sharp shock of an
earthquake, caused I fancy by the meeting of two
such great potentates, whilst settling the future des-
tinies of Atfghanistan.

" Captain Lawrence started at ten o'clock to-day
for Peshawur on a raft, accompanied by Captain Lip
trott of the 3d Irregulars, for Lallpoorah, Mr. Adams,
3d Dragoons, for _Meerut, and one private. Captain
Liptrott fully expected to be fired at, bat from what
I hear no individual cares less for these messengers of
death than he does.

" The Sikhs are nearly all across the river ; they
only brought up one month's supplies. I heard they
solicited our Commissariat to supply them, but the
request was civilly declined.
"The two resallahs of Tait's horse have just come
in from Lallpoorah, having been relieved by two
sallahs from. this.

" An accident, which might have been serious, oc-
curred in the 3d Dragoons—the roof of one of those
taekhanas, belonging to Captain White and Cornet
Roche, fell in. Fortunately both• officers escaped,
Captain W hite being a little bruised on the back, the
other getting off free.
"A few days ago a letter was received from a
young lady (a daughter of a Mr. Wynn, at Kurnaul),
stating she was in a village about eight miles off, that
after her husband was murdered she wandered on and
was taken a prisoner, that since then her occupa-
tion has been to fetch water, &c., and that no insult
has ever been offered to her. The apothecaries here
are sending out clothes, and I hope the politicals
will exert themselves to procure her release. Alas
for the gallantry of our country ! Three thousand
soldiers within eight miles of the poor creature and
none.dare move to the rescue for fear of offending our
devoted friends and political gentlemen.
" Nothing more from Caubul or from our pri-
Akbar is in full possession of the Balla His-
sar, and the natives say Futteh Jung will not let him
oat. If such be true, great changes will take place.
A supply of beer has just arrived, price sixty rupees.
per dozen. But most of us are followers of Father
Mathew—our poverty, and not our will consenting
thereto."—/bid.

son ers.

CANDAIJAR.
DEFEAT OF AN AFFGHAN FORCE.
This month furnishes us with the most important
items of intelligence we have to present to our
readers. We gave in the postscript to our last, parti-
culars of the victory gained by the garrison of Kelat-
i-G-hilzie over the insurgents, while endeavouring to
storm the town on the 21st May ; and the official
account of this affair will be found extracted from the
Calcutta Government Gazette in our present issue.
Colonel Wymer's force reached, as was expected, on
the 26th, and preparations were immediately made
for the withdrawal of the garrison, and dismantle-
ment of the fortifications. The former consisted of a
wing of the Bengal 38th N. I. (450), the Shah's 3d
.cavalry (500), with two 18-pounders and two
6-pounders, and half a company of artillerymen (70)
—in all 1,020 men. The fortifications had been com-
menced by us on a very extensive scale early in 1841,
Nelat-i-Ghilzie having been originally fixed upon
by Lord Keane as furnishing one of the best
places of defence in Western Affghanistan. They
were only in part completed when the -insurrec-
tion broke out in October, and they have now
been entirely destroyed. Colonel Wymer, with . the
garrison under escort, reached- Candahar on the. 7th
of June without having experienced loss or en-
countered
opposition on the way. Meanwhile Prince
Suftur Jung, the youngest son of the late Shah.
Soojah, had resolved to carry his threat into execu-
tion, of beating 'up the, quarters of General Nott
during the absence of Colonel Wymer with more than
a third of the whole force. The enemy on the morn-
ing of,the 29th—the day intimated by them a fort- •
night before—approached the cantonments,- about a
mile from the town, with a force computed at about
6,000 men, mostly cavalry. Colonel-Stacey was de-
spatched with the 42d and 43d Bengal N. 1., and four
guns to reconnoitre the ground; these were quickly
followed by her Majesty's 41st, together with eight
guns and about 300 irregular horse. About one
0.
o'clock the heights on which the enemy were
posted were stormed under a heavy fire of artil-
lery. The Affghans were speedily driven from
their ground and dispersed in every direction. They
were hotly pursued by the irregular horse under
Lieut. Chamberlain (16th Bengal N. who dashed
in and did great execution amongst the retreat-
ing infantry. This part of the action was scarcely
over when the hills just beyond appeared covered with
large masses of the enemy. These were quickly at-
tacked and beaten • they retired with precipitation
into the Baba Wullee Pass. •Here the flight of the
enemy was in part cut off by a field-work intended
to prevent our advance, and heavy carnage ensued.
We had in all 42 wounded, including Lieutenants
Chamberlain and Travers, with six other Europeans.
The enemy's loss is estimated at about 400. The
Dooranees having fled to their camp beyond.Urghun-
dab, were next day followed by Colonel Stacey, when .
they broke up and fled on our approach. An order
had meanwhile been issued for the preparation of a 4
large force, consisting of Leslie's horse artillery and
Blood's battery, nine guns in all ; detachments of
Skinner's and Christie's horse, and 3d cavalry, with
the•l6th and 38th Bengal N. 1., and light battalion 4
Bombay N. I.—in all about 1,000 cavalry and 2,000
infantry, to hold themselves in readiness to join
Colonel Wymer on his return, and proceed on an •
expedition requiring fifteen days' provisions to
be taken along with them—the destination being
kept secret till after the march. Colonel Wymer
having returned on the 7th, the force just named
moved, out to join him beyond the walls, and pro-
ceeded on their march ,On the 11th or 13th. They
were to destroy the strongholds of the insurgent
chiefs around, and proceed to relieve Ghirisk, a
fortress on the Helmund, about 80 miles to the west-
ward, which had been held fornearly a twelvemonth
by Bulwunt Singh and 100 sepoys. How they came •
to have been left so long in a post of so much danger,
whose maintenance was wholly useless, it appears difficult to imagine. Of the proceedings of this force
no particulars of note have as yet reached us. On .4
the morning •of the 19th June Prince Suftur Jung,
with a number of the insurgent chiefs, surrendered
themselves to General Nott, hinting pretty intelligibly •
that they hoped this act of submission on their part
would-meet the gracious consideration of the Govern-
ment. This Prince is the youngest, the favourite,
and the most worthless of the sons of the late
Shah Soojah. His dissipation was formerly of 1
that brutal cast at which even the' dissolute
were scandalized. He resided at Candahar, along
with his brother, Timour Shah, the nominal
governor, till the beginning of January last,
when he left the city, and joined the insurgent chief.
Atta Mahomed, then in arms against us. Jellalabad
letters inform us that a despatch had been sent by
General Pollock immediately on receipt of. Lord. '
Ellenborough's permission to remain through the hot.
season beyond the Khyber Pass, directing General
Nott to continue at Candahar for the present. This
would reach him about the 26th, six days before
Colonel Wyrner's brigade returned from Ghirisk.
This seems a prudent .precautionary measure. It sup-
plies no proof of any intention on the part of Govern- • •
ment to remain longer in the country than was sup-
posed ; and should the enemy threaten to march •
force on Jellalabad, a demonstration on the part a -
General Nott in the direction of Ghuznee or Canbul
would find them occupation at home. The Candahar
force of nearly. 12,000 men, with 26 guns and abun-
dance of carriage, commissariat, and treasure, is in
all respects equal to that with which Sir John Keane
moved on Ghuznee, in July, 1839. They are equal to
any operation, had they a few more cavalry, in the
open country, which a regular army would desire to
take in hand in any part of Asia.

CA.
(Prom the Bombay UB
TULimes, of July 19.)
Akbar Khan, after suffering from all the fluctua-
tions of fortune 'attendant on the movements of an
energetic insurgent chief, has at length succeeded in_
establishing himself in the citadel of Caubul, and geirr—
ing, as it appears, virtual ascendancy in the Govern—
rnent. We have, since November last, seen this man
a fugitive in the wilds of Kohistan or Tranoxania.
Next we find him appear in Caubul (November 25),
when the insurrection was at its wildest, expected to
mediate between the insurgents and the garrison ;
then we see him in active negotiation with the Envoy
for the betrayal, it is said, of his brother sirdars ; then
he is affirmed to be the murderer, and, as it turns out,
apparently the slayer, because the intended victim
of Sir W. Nacnaghten. The officers escorting tf4