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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MOitNIMG, OCTOntit 10, 1841

ionel Bolton, her Majesty's 31st Regiment, for the able
manner in which he condticted the duties of covering the
retirement of the force, and particularly so to Major
.siinner, for the zealous and gallant manner in which he
led the advance against the enemy ;—to Captain Ferris,
for the gallant manner in which, with his corps of Jezail-
chees, he drove the enemy from their position on the
heights ;-to Captain Abbott and Lieutenant Dawes, for
the very successful practice of the guns ;--to Lieutenant
Beecher, for the zealous and satisfactory manner in which
lie, with the detachment of Sappers and Miner 3, con-
structed a road for the guns, and fired the enemy's forts
in the valley ; and to Lieutenant Lugard, her Majesty's
31st Regiment, Major of Brigade ; Lieutenant Mayne,
Assistant-Quartermaster•General ; Captain Lloyd, Sub-
Assistant-CommissarY-General ; and Captain Robert-
son, Field Engineer, fur the assistance afforded me by
them in the field
I have also to express my thanks to Captain M'Gregor,
Political Agent, who, when the opportunity offered itself,
served with the guns.
Inclosed is a sketch of the Shinwarree Valley, and the
ridge over which the troops passed, a retum of ki.led and
wounded, one of the strength of the force employed, and
one of the ammunition expended.—l have, &c..
• T. MONTEATH, Brigadier, Command-
ing the Field Force.

FROM MAJOR SKINNER TO BRIGADIER MONTEATR, C.B
Camp Mazeena, 27th July, 1842.
Sir—l have the honour to report to you, that when
the advance guard, composed of the following details,
viz.:—the eight light companies of the brigade, with two
battalion companies of her Majesty's 31st Regiment, and
the carps of Jezailchees, reached the crest of the ridge
over which the main column was moving abou. eight
o'clock A.M., I observed the enemy posted in small bodies
upon the different heights and ridges in.my front, while
several parties occupied gardens and broken walls at the
foot of the line of hills I was upon, above the valley on

the right hand.
A sharp fire was opened upon the line of skirmishers,
who quickly advanced and drove the enemy off. The
corps of Jt zailchees swept the front, the left hills were
cleared by the light-company of the 31st Foot ; and the
light company of the 33d Native Infantry on the right
skirmished throughout that part of the valley nearest the
ridge : the remaining companies were in support. We
advanced to Secunder Khan's Fort " Muriae over very
broken and difficult country, with frequent descents and
ascents, the enemy sometimes keeping up a good fire, but
always abandoning the lines of heights as we ascended,
and falling back to others. I halted at Secunder Khan's
Fort, from which a few shots were fired as we advanced,
when it was evacuated. _

This fort hangs over a narrow valley on the right
hand, fields of rice in many parts of it now miler water.
A narrow stony ridge in the midst of this valley was
occupied by the enemy, and commanded the post among
trees at the foot of the fort, which I wished to hold ; the
enemy was soon driven otf_the first part of the ridge, and •
fell back to a higher peak, from which it became also
necessary to drive them ; this was done by the Jezail-
chees under Captain Ferris in very good style, who held
it till withdrawn. At the head of the valley in which we
now were, stands a high hill with a fort upon its summit,
a considerable distance off. All the ridges from which
the enemy bad been driven appear to draw to a point at
this fort, and their retreat was always towards it.
Many men were collected there, and large parties ,
were sent out to my right ; this induced me to draw the
companies of the 31st Foot on the left nearer to me.
The enemy soon appearing on the summit of a hill
above my left, however, I sent one company of the 31st
Regiment to drive him away and occupy the hill. This
duty was remarkably well performed by Captain Mar-
shall, of her Majesty's 31st Regiment, whose company
was employed upon it. The enemy retreated with some
loss, and took up another position under cover of a
sungah or breastwork of stone within shot. He was
driven from it with great gallantry 'by Lieut. Wllveen,
of the 31st Regiment, and a party of No. 7 Company of
that corps. Lieut. M'llveeti, a very promising young
officer indeed, was, I regret to say, killed in this assault
upon the sungah.
A narrow valley of rice fields, completely swamped,
separated the ridge, on which my right was, from two
small forts ; a garden at one end of the rice valley below
the ridge towards the first
,of the two forts was held by
the light company of the 33d Native Infantry ; the
enemy descend, ci, from a high line of sand hills, and
occupying these two forts, annoyed my position a good
deal. He was driven from them by the light company and
part of No. 6 of the 31st Regiment, who had no other
ground to advance on but the narrow ridges that di-
vided the terraces ot rice ; they moved along these under
a sharp fire, and drove the enemy from his position. I
occupied these forts, and leaving Brevet Major Urmston,
of the 31st Regiment, in -command of the post., ceased
from further operations. None of the forts I have men-
tioned were tenable by the enemy, the walls were
breached in many, places by the earthquake in February
last. When I was ordered to fall back on the main body,
about half-past one P.M., Major Urmston retired in good
order (followed at a distance by the enemy, who had
fired constantly into the forts when we occupied them)
over the difficult ground behind him, having set fire to
the villages within the two forts before he left them.
The advance guard, being collected together above
Seconder Khan's fort, joined the main column. I have
great pleasure in assuring you that, during several hours
ot the most active operations over the difficult country
we were in, every officer and man under my command
behaved admirably.—l have, &c.,
THOMAS SKINNER,
Major her Majesty's 31st Regiment.
Return of Killed and Wounded, &c., in action, under the
command of Brigadier Monteath, C. 8., on the 26th
July, 1842 :

J ug,

Camp Mazeena, July 27, 1842.
Killed-1 officer her Majesty's 81st, and 2 Jezailchies
—total 3.
Wounded-7 privates her Majesty's 31st ; 1 sergeant
and 8 rank and file 33d Native Infantry ; 5 rank an file
53d Native Infantry ; and 2 Jezailchies—total 23.
Strength of the Brigade-103 officers, European and
Native ; 152 sergeants, ditto ; 2,000 rank and file, ditto
—total 2,263.
Ammunition Expended—Abbott's battery, 37 rounds ;
her Majesty's 31st, 4,889 ; 3d Native Infantry, 2,892 ;
53d Native Infantry, 4,954 ; Jezailchies, 6,678—t0tal
19,450.
(Signed) T. MONTEATH, Brigadier,
Commanding Field Force.
(Signed) EDWARD LUGARD, Lieut.,
Major of Brigade.
(Signed) T. H. MADDOCK,
Secretary to Government of India with the
Governor-Gcneral.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF THE OFFICERS
AND LADIES AT CAUBUL AND CHAREEKAR
WHEN THE OUTBREAK COMMENCED,
SHOWING THE KILLED, WOUNDED, AND
PRISONERS.
Mrs. Anderson and family, Mrs. Boyd and family, Mrs.
Eyre and family, Lady Macnaghten, Mrs. Mainwaring
and child, Mrs. Sturt, Lady Sale, Mrs. Trevor and
family, in the hands of Mohamed Akbar.
Airy, Captain, A.D.C., detained as hostage.
Alexander,
.Lieut., sth Native Infantry, killed on the
road from Caubul.
Anquetil, Brigadier, commanding Shah's General Staff,
killed at the Barriers.
Anstruther, Capt., 54th Native Infantry, killed on the
road from Caubul.
Anderson, Capt., commanding Shah's 2d Cavalry, with
family, as hostages.
Balfour, I)r., her Majesty's 44th, killed on the road from
Caubul.
Bazett, Lieut., sth Light Cavalry, killed at Barrier.
Berwick, Dr., Residency Surgeon, medical charge of sick
at Caubul.
Bellew, Captain, A.A., Quartermaster, kille3 oa the
road from Caubul.
Bird, Lieut., killed oa the road from Caubul.
Blair, Captain, sth Light Cavalry, killed on the road
from Caubul.
Bott, Cal-A., sth Light Cavalry, killed at Barrier.
Bo) d, Capt. A. C. G., detained with family as hostage.
Broadloot, Capt. M. S., murdered in the garden.
Brydon,Dr., arrived sate at Jellalabad, slightly wounded.
Bryce, Dr., Artillery, killed near Tezeen.
Barnes, Sir Alex., P. R. C., murdered in his garden.
Barnes, Captain, Assistant Resident, murdered in the
garden.
Burke, Captain, Paymaster her Majesty's 44th, killed on
the road from Caubul.
Burkingyoung, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed
at Gundamuck.
Bygrave, Captain P. M., wandered for five days in the
jungle, gave himself up in Ghilzee country, lost part
of one foot by frost. Prisoner.
Cadett, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Soorkab.
Carlyon, Lieutenant, 37th Native Infantry, killed on the
road from Caubul.
Cardew, Dr., 54th Native Infantry, left mortally wounded
at Tezeen.
Chambers, Cul., comg. 4th Light Cay., Killed at Barrier.
Codrington, Captain, comg. Shah's 4th Infantry, killed
at Charekar.
Collyer, Capt., sth L. Cay., killed near Jellalabad.
Collins, Capt., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gundamuck.
Conolly, Capt John, P. A., detained as hostage.
Currie, Capt., 54th Native Infantry, killed on the road
from Caubul.
Cumberland, Lieut., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gun.
damuck..
Cunningham, Lieut., 54th Native Infantry, killed at
Gundatnuck.
Deas, Lieut., sth Native Infantry. killed on the road
trom Caubul.
Dodgin, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Barrier.
Drummond, Captain, detained as hostage.
Duff, Dr. Supt. Surgeon, killed near Tezeen.
Elphinstone, Major-General, wounded as hostage, dead.
Ewart, Major comg. 54th Native Infantry, killed near
Tezeen.
Eyre, Capt. A. C. 1)., kept with family as hostages.
Fortye, Lieut., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Lugbaba.
Gordon, Lieut., 37th N. I:, killed at Mahomed Shereeff's
Fort.
Grant, Capt., A. A. G., killed at Gundamuck.
Green Capt., M. 1., Shah's Artillery, killed at Gunda-
muck.
Grey, Lieut., 11. M. 44th, killed on the road from
Caubul.
Griffith, Major, 37th N. 1.. taken prisoner at Gundi
muck, severely wounded in the arm, in the hands o
Mahomed Akbar.
Harpur, Dr., Lt. Cay., killed near Jellalabad.
Haig, Capt., sth N. 1., killed on the road from Caubul.
Hallahan, Captain, Quartermaster IL M. 44th, killed at
Barrier.
Hamilton, Captain, sth Lt. Cay., killed at Gundamuck.
Harcourt, Dr., H. M. 44th, killed at Gundamuck.
Hardy man, Lieut., 3d Lt. Cay. killed on leaving Couts.
Haughton, Lieut., Shah's 4th infantry; severely wounded
at Chareekar, left sick at Caubnl.
Ilawtrey, Lieut. 37th N. 1., killed at Gundamuck.
Hay, Captain, commanding escort, 37th N. 1., killed at
Gundamuck.

Hopkins, Captain, killed near Jellalabad.
Horsburgh, Lieut: sth N. 1., killed it Khoord Caubul.
Johnson, Captain, P. M., Shah's General Staff, detained
as hostage.
Kershaw, Major, Lightlnfantry, killed at Gundamuck.
King, Captain, 13th Light Infantry, killed at Tezeen.
Kirby, 54th, N. 1., killed on the Hoft Kothul. •
Laing, Lieut. 27th N. 1., killed on Deymaroo Hill.
Lawrence, Captain, M. S., detained as hostage.
Lu Geyt, Captain, Shah's 2d Cavalry, killed on the road
from Caubul.
Leighton, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Tunjee
Tareekee.
Lumsden, Lieut. 8., 27th Native Infantry, killed after
leaving Ghuznee.
Macintosh, Captain sth Nativo Infantry, killed on Dey-
m
Maenkre°n°zilil
ei,Ci.aptain, A. P. A., detained as hostage.
Meekrell, Lieut.-Colonel, her Majesty's 44th, killed at
Reika Bashi...Fort Cantonments.
Macnrtnev, Lieut., killed on the road frOm Cau!
Macle;ay, Captain, Assistant-PaymaSter' Shah's General
~.2..btatf, killed on the road from Caubul.
M'Crea, Captain of her Majesty's 44th, killed at Reika
Bashi Fort Cantonments.
MacaaeMen, Bart., Sir 'William, murdered while at
confcralce, by the Sirdar Akbar Khan.
Mac'rath, I)r., 37th Native Infantry, taken prisoner near.
Tezeen (wounded).
Marshall, Captain, 61st Native Infantry, killed on the
mad from Caubul.
Motile, Captain, K, R., killed at Kar Darra.
Melville, Lieut., 51th Native Infantry, wounded at
Tunjee Tareekee, and taken prisoner, in the hands of
Mellowed Akbar.
Metcalfe, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed at
Gundamuck.
Miles, Captain, sth Native Infantry, killed in Tunjes
Tareekee.
Nlorrieson, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, killed at
Gundamuck.
Nichol!, Captain, commanding Horse Artillery, killed
at Barrier.
Oliver, Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the sth Native
Infantry, killed on the Deymaroo Hill.
' Palmer' Captain, sth Native Infantry, killed on the
road from Caubul.
Palmer, Colonel T, 27th Native Infantry, killed after
quitting Gliuznee.
Patton, Captain, A. A., Quarter-master, killed at Khoord
Caubul Pass.
Putenger, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed on the
road from Caubul.
Pottinger, Major P. A. T., detained as hostage.
Pottinger, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, killed at
Neemla.
Primrose, Dr., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gundamuck.
Raban, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Ma-
homed Shereef's Fort Cantonments.
Rind, Captain, 37th Native Infantry, killed at Gundamuck.
Robinson, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Maho-
med Shereeff's Fort Cantonments.
Rose, Lieutenant, Shah's 4th Infantry, killed near Cha-
reekar.
Sulisbury, Lieutenant, Shah's 4th Infantry, killed at Cha-
reekar.
Shaw, Captain, 54th Native Infantry, killed at Tunjee
Tareekee.
Shelton, Brigadier, her Majesty's 44th Regiment, com-
manding 3d Brigade, detained as hostage.
Scott, Major, her Majesty's 44th, killed near Tezeen.
Skinner, Captain, A. A. C. G., killed at Jugdulluck,
do mo
ne dt
hAe krbo aa rd while going over to a conference.
Souter, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, wounded and taken
Steer,pris ionz,u„ Gtun3d7atinh Nativeuck,i Infantry,nthehandso lal e
from Cali-bill.
St. George, Lieut., 37th Native Infantry, killed at
Khoord Caubul Pass.
Stuart, Lieut., Artillery, killed at Gundamuck.
h
Stiirt, Capt. E. 8., mortally wounded at Koord, Caubul,
where he died.
Swayne, Major, sth Native Infantry,
Kohul. killed near Hoft
Swayne, Capt., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Mahomed
Shereeff's Fort Cantonments.
Swinton, Lieut., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gunda-

muck.
Planer Major, A.D.C., killed near Jud on the road
gdulluck.
Tombs, Lieut., sth Native Infantry, kille
from Caubul.
Trever, Capt., murdered at a conference, whilst in com-
pany with Sir W. Macnaghten.
Troup, Capt , 8.11., Shah's General Staff, detained as
hostage.
VanTeuen, Lieut., 37th Native Infantry,
killed on the
road ft om Caubul.
Wade, Capt., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Jugdulluck.
Walker, Capt., 4th N. L, mortally wounded on Deyma-
roo Hill, died in Cantonments.
detained Lieutenant of Artillery, detained with family as
hostages.
Walsh, Captain, Sappers and Miners, detainectis hostage.
Warburton, Captain G. C. M., Shah's General Staff, de-
tained as hostage.
Warren, Lieut. sth N. 1., killed in Tuojee Tareekee.
Weaver, Lieut.s4th N. 1., killed at Gundamuck.
\S Lieutenant, detained as hostage-
Westmacott, Capt, 37th N. L, killed at Reika Bashi
Fort Cantonments.
Wheeler, Capt. R., killed atKar Darr a.
White, Captain of her Majesty's 44th, killed at Tunjee
Tareekee.
Willis, Mr., Veterinary Surgeon, sth Light Cavalry,
killed on the road from Cailbul.
Woodburn, Captain, killed near Ghuznee:
Wyndham, Captain 35th Native Infantry, killed near

INDIA PAPERS.
MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.
We have been favoured with many extracts from
letters received from the captives in Caubul, one of
which, to the sth of July, will be found below. All
the letters we have yet seen breathe one feeling of
gratitude towards Akbar Khan for his treatment of
the prisoners, and it is but fair that he should have
the full benefit of so honourable a proceeding. One
of the communications contains the following Pas-
sage :—" The Sirdar's treatment of us has been, from
first to last, most kind ; no European Power could
have treated prisoners of war better ; there is a feel-
ing abroad that we have been ill-treated, but it is very
erroneous, and Akbar has enough to answer for with-
out this being added to his sins." We are very
willing, as we have always been, to allow the full
credit for the actual good treatment of the prisoners,
and have never doubted the fact, but not so the mo-
tive. The prisoners are all allowed to walk in a
spacious garden, and bathe in the river or canal,
though attended by a guard, and the following is the
daily bill of fare-10 ladies, 19 children, 15 officers,
and 2 soldiers :--Two sheep, 72 seers atta (this is for
servants all), six seers ghee, three seers oil, six seers
rice, six seers milk, firewood, and last, not least, tea
and sugar as required. The conduct of all the ladies
is spoken of as beyond all praise, and such as to make
every Englishman prouder still of his countrywomen.
Lady Sale and Mrs. Sturt continue to afford ex-
amples of magnanimity and patient suffering to those
of weaker mould.
Since writing the above we have learned that all
the prisoners are assembled in th
--e 43a11a Hissar, and
that on the 12th instant the military secretary to
General Pollock gave public intimation that any one
wishing to send letters could do so, as an opportunity
had occurred of forwarding them. Captain Law-
rence had returned to Jellalabad,
and is expected to
remain there some time. We have also seen a letter
doubt brought to camp
01 of so old a date as to
afford little news, we cannot refuse doing the chiefs
" Mountains near Tezeen,
fbryoln Captain one
of
the justice they deserve by giving the following ex-
Tthreouppr. prisoners, no
Although
de
ate d
are all excessively kindly
treated by the chiefs, and are in a fine climate, where,
in the evening, I am glad to put on a fur cloak.
20th May,
The
1842. letter
Troup left us at the commencement of this month for
Caubul, where he now is with Mabomed Akbar
Khan. I believe all the folks at Caubul are at logger-
heads, and had our army come UP a month age they
would have done so without a shot being fired. The
city is almost destroyed."
Khan
EXTRACT
"fort of Ali Aciauh
OE A LETTER.
, four miles from
rultled k
,1 July 1842.
Caubul,
" Our situation is the most tantalising you can ima-
gine ; we are completely in the dark as to the object ofour
Government, and as to whether our troops are corning
up to Caubul or not. A short time
ago they would
have had nothing to do but to tam e possession of the
whole country without a shot being
fired, and even
now I am convinced they might Come up without
seeing an enemy. The whale people, and especially
the inhabitants of Caubul, are in the greatest dread Of
the punishment which they expect...awaits them. If
US Off +:1
the Sirdar delays carrying tiny. our troops
march from Jellalabad, if they are to march, I think
it possible our rescue will be attemptedcaseWhat
byhat the Kuzzil-
bashes and others, but inmay be the
result? 'Probably our release, and probably our
murder. If, however, the Sirdar should take it into
his head to send us into Turkistan, which we hear is
his intention before our troops ularch, we may then
hid farewell to a release for an indefinite. period. It
will be some consolation to our friends in India and
elsewhere to know that we have always been kindly
treated by the Sirdar ; but he has set of scoundrels
about him, and none greater than his father-in-law,
Mahon2ed Shah Khan (a Ghilzie chief), who, I re-
gret to say, is his principal adviser. The Sirdar is
now all-powerful at Caubul. The other day he had
twenty followers, and not a pice of money. In this
fort our party consists of those who were taken pri-
soners during the retreat, those who went over to
him with their families, and about twenty European
soldiers. We understand the hostages who were left
behind when we retreated from Caubul are also to be
[a-
sent in here."—Delhi Gazette.

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lIEI, A.T-I-G II IL ZIE.
HEROIC DEFENCE.
Although we have been pretty well-informed of all
that has been passing in the western division of Aff-
ghanistan, and been enabled to lay before our readers,
and communicate to many of our contemporaries, the
earliest intelligence of events in that quarter, we have
but very lately learnt the real hardships which the
garrison of lihelat-t-Ghillie have suffered during the
period of their investment by the Ghilzies. The
heroic valour with which they repulsed an overwhelm-
ing enemy on the 21st of May is now known to all
India. Tho following from an officer in the garrison

will lessen the wonder at their having done §o, for,
like the illustrious band at Jellalabad, men who could
patiently bear such privations as they have undergone,
and remain true to discipline, are equal to any service,
however, formidable it may appear. The garrison con-
sisted of Captain Craigie s Regiment of the Shah's
force, about 600 strong three companies of the 43d
Regiment of Native Infantry, about 250 men, under
Captain Webster and Lieutenant Trotter; forty
European Artillerymen, and about sixty Sappers and
Miners—in all 950 men. During the whole of the
six months they were completely cut off from all
communication. The snow was during two months very
deep on the ground, and more than once the thermo-
meter was 8 degrees below zero. As for -doors or
windows to the cells inhabited by the officers, they
were out of the question. For three weeks in the
depth of winter the European artillerymen had no
meat—nothine• but bread and water, and the same for
six weeks preceding the relief; while the Sepoys, for
nearly four months, had only three-quarter rations,
an I could purchase nothing. The officers were li-
mited to half a sheep a day amongst eleven, and that
only an apology for a sheep, for they had neither
bhoosah, barley, nor grass to feed their small flock on.
For 12 gays preceding the 21st of May not a man
could go outside of the gates, so strictly were they
watched. The strength of the fort, or, as the writer
says, " the hill called Khelat-i-Ghilzie, for it does not
deserve the name of a fort," seems to have been much
overrated, as not more than one-half was surrounded
by a wall, the remainder resting for its defence on the
steepness of the ascent. The only artillery wire three
old rattletrap brass guns that formerly belonged to
Dolt Mohamed, mounted on condemned carriages.
Not above half the garrison were engaged on the
morning of the assault, which took place just as the
moon went down. The Ghilzies confessed to 410
killed on ti.e spot, the greater number of whom they
were enabled to carry off.
We now submit to our readers the narrative al-
luied to:—`° We marched into quarters at Khelat-i-
Ghilzie in November, 1841. Our barracks were ex-
cellent, but the fortifications of the place were little
more than commenced on, and along some hundred
yards of the works there was neither wall nor ditch.
Directly we got news of the insurrection at Caubul,
the sepoys were set to work to strengthen the de-
fences of the post ; scarps, palisades, parapets, and a
ditch at the most accessible part of the works were
commenced on, and both officers and men continued
to work at them until the winter set well in, and the
frost rendered the ground so hard that there was no
longer any working it. On the 9th of December
about 1,.500 Ghilzies made their appearance, with
the intention, as they said, of besieging us. They
took up their ground about two and a half miles
off, but their warlike efforts were confined to firing
a few shots into the place at night, and an at-
tempt made by a party of their horse to cut off
some of our men, who were cutting bhoottah for
fuel, in which they were foiled by the sepoys of the
guard. A fall of snow compelled them to decamp
after nine days, and the only damage they did us was
to make all the chiefs in our neighbourhood yagee:*
Of all the chiefs whom we had paid and supported,
only one man adhered to us, and he a person of no
great influence. The winter now set in with seve-
rity, and the cold soon became excessive. We had no
doors for the barracks, and neither doors nor glass
for the windows of our quarters, which were large
and lofty rooms, some thirty-six feet long, and our
supply of firewood we were obliged to husband, so
that we never could keep our rooms warm. You must
recollect Khelat-i-Ghilzie, its situation is a very ex-
posed one, situated in the throat of a tunnel ; high
winds prevail throughout the year, and in winter the
lower the temperature sunk the higher blew the north
wind. Snow lay for two months on the ground, and
the thermometer fell as low as 40 degrees below the
freezing point. With no doors to the barracks,
and only such rough purdahs as grain bags, which
were all we could get, you may conceive how much
our men suffered; a gale of wind always blowing,
when the temperature was below zero, and usually,
too, blowing most strongly at night. - I have never
experienced a,' winter -so•continuously cold. When
we entered the garrison, we had provision in flour for
the troops kir upwards of six months, but as we got
an increase of 300 men to the post, when Colonel
Maclaren's brigade pissed us on its return to Canda-
her, e had many additional mouths to feed, and we
knew not how long we might be required to hOld the
post. We had a quantity of wheat in store, but with
the country all round yagee we had not the means
of grinding it. We got possession of some mill-
stones, and tried to get up mills, but after getting all
the machinery in order, we found that all the water
we could command was not sufficient to keep the
machinery in motion. We then tried a bullock mill,
which also failed, from our not being able to fabri-
cate the iron work of sufficient solidity, and we should
have been utterly nonplussed had not an officer in the
garrison possessed a book on mechanics, in which was
contained a description of a vertical hand-mill capable
of grinding sixteen maunds daily. This we succeeded
in constructing after two months and a-half's labour
upon mills, and no little anxiety as to the result. We
were now easy in our minds, for this, with some
' small hand-mills, gave us the means of supporting
our garrison for some two or three addi-
tional months, and we knew our men would fight
and hold the post against all the - Affghans in
the country as long as our provisions lasted. We
had occasional communication with Candahar by
means of highly paid cossids, and we- thus learned the
disastrous fate of our Caubul comrades. The tedium
of the winter was excessive, but it passed at last.
With the spring our labours on the defences re-com-
menced, and as soon as the weather became mild, the
hostile chiefs of the two great Ghilzie tribes in our
neighbourhood made their appearance. These gen-
tlemen had spent the winter in a more sheltered loca-
lity, and, as long as they were not near us, the vil-
lagers brought in commodities for sale, but, with their
appearance, all supplies ceased. On two occasions
we were obliged to chappow sheep—the first was a
peaceable affair ; we secured a whole flock without let
or hindrance ; but, on the second occasion, we had to
fight for them, and had a few men wounded. We
had forty-three European Artillerymen in the garri-
son, and it was chiefly for them that the animal food
was required. The supply of all the necessaries ran .
out in winter, and on two different occasions they
were for some days on bread and water, yet they
never grumbled, worked as well as if they had been
highly fed, and bore all their privations with the most
admirable good humour. The hostile Ghilzie chiefs at
first brought only a few hundred men with them, and
took up their quarters at a safe distance of some miles
from us ; but during all April they were receiving
accessions to their force, and with these accessions
their boldness increased, until they diminished their
distance to less than a mile from the place. As they
approached, our range necessarily became more
limited, and we had neither cavalry nor the means of
moving a gun, and the country round Khelat-i-Ghil-
zie is full of ravines, and exceedingly favourable to
the skulking mode of fighting which these gentry
most approve of. We were latterly, as the invest-
ment becdme more close obliged to confine ourselves
to the narrow space within our defences ; these by the
continued labour of our men had become very respect-
able, and such as we deemed no Affghan without the
aid of guns would have attempted. In this, however,
we were agreeably disappointed. Towards the middle
of May the enemy commenced to dig trenches round
the place, working at them all. night. By the 26th
they had completely surrounded us with them, the
nearest being within 250 yards of our defences.
These were all loopholed, and afforded the enemy
perfect cover ; they were constructed, too, with some
skill as to position, as the advanced trenches were in
protected' by two or three trenches in their
rear, and they were uniformly placed, so as to have
the advantage of any natural cover afforded by the
ground. From these trenches the hottest fire any
of us had ever seen Affghans keep up, was
poured upon any one who exposed himself; obviously
picked marksmen were selected for the duty, for they
fired exceedingly well for Affghans, and at ranges of
from 600 to 700 yards their long jezails threw balls
with great accuracy. They were so completely shel-
tered in these trenches that we seldom hael an oppor-
tunity of firing at them excepting when parties were
relieving each other, and then the double barrels and
rifles of the officers came into play. Such had been
the monotony of our previous existence, that it was
a matter of great amusement firing at these gentry,
and it was seldom that any fellow got into the nearer
trenches in day-light without running the gauntlet of
a few double barrels. On the evening of the 20th of
May the enemy were unusually quiet, and so few of
them visible that it was a matter of doubt whether
the greater number of them had not decamped. A.
few of them were observed, by means of our teles-
copes, at a distant fort practising escalading. with
scaling-ladders, and this was the first intimation we
had of their having constructed these articles. Offi-
cers and men had, for several nights previously, kept at
their posts ; there was bright moonlight and the night
passed with unusual quietness until, towards morning,
the moon went down. The attention of the officer on
duty was then suddenly arrested by the clatter of
horses feet, indicating the close presence of a large
body of horse, and the word was passed round to get
ready. Shortly afterwards the whole northern face
of the works was assaulted by dense masses of the
enemy. The morning was so dark that they. were
within 100 yards before they were observed, though
we were on the look out for them, and they
with great boldness, shouting " Allah Allah .
fireey
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were received with discharges of grape, and a hot
of musketry, which must have done heavy execution,
on
among their dense masses; still they pressed
pushing their attack with the greatest vehemence at
the northeast and north-west angles of the works,
where the ascent was most easy, and the defence ap-
parently most accessible. At the north-eastscarp of angle
the defences consisted of a ditch,
a slope of some eight
seven or eight feet height,

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feet between the top of dile Kean) and the parapet,
the latter consisting of sand-iyags, The enemy,
by the aid of scaling-ladders' crossed did ditch,
ascended the scarp and sloping bank, and endeavotteed
to get over the parapet. Here .they were resolutely
met with the musket and bayonet. Thrice they came
boldly on the assault, planting one of their standards
within a yard of the muzzle of one of cur guns, and
thrice they vv..lre driven back ; only one man suc-
ceeded in getting into the place, and he, was shot with
his foot on the axle of this gun. Two guns were in
position at this part of the works, and the attempts
of the enemy to get within the works through their
embrasures, and over the parapets on either side,
were so determined, that the artillerymen for some
minutes were obliged to quit their guns and betake
themselves to the musket and bayonet, with which
they did good service; the Sepoys too fought well ;
one of them was observed by the artillerymen to
bayonet four men. The principal annoyance suf-
fered by the garrison was from showers of heavy stones,
these were thrown into the works in great quantity
to cover the escaladers, and several of our men were
knocked down and smartly bruised'by them. During
the height of the assault the enemy fired little; they
had apparently slung their matchlocks, and came on
sword in hand, but they were met by a fire so deadly
and well sustained that they had no chance of success.
The officers of the garrison were all surprised at the
boldness and determination of the attack, but we un-
derstood afterwards, that, trusting to their numbers,
and emboldened no doubt by their previous successes
at Cauhul and Ghuznee, they reckoned so confidently
on taking the place that many of their women were
waiting in the ravine close et hand to share in the
plunder of the garrison. The assault lasted from 20
minutes to half an hour, and at daybreak they drew
off, carrying away all their wounded and many of
their dead. A party of them took refuge behind some
rocks at the north-west angle of the works, and just
under the barracks, popping their heads out occasion-
ally ; they fired a:few shots at us, but they fired so
seldom that their numbers were supposed to be few.
Two companies of Sepoys sallied out to un'
earth them, and, to the surprise of all, at least
300 men broke cover and -bolted for. the neighbour-
ing ravine 3 faster than we ever saw Affghans run
before. A heavy fire was poured into them, but they
ran so fast, and cover was so close, that few of them
fell. The greater part of the enemy retired into the
ravines, into which they had dragged their dead and
wounded, and from daylight until half-past two P.M.
they were employed in carrying them off. From
their trenches on the north face of the works, which
were filled with men, they kept up a pretty constant
fire to cover this process. Had we possessed a few
goad cavalry, we should have inflicted a heavier loss
on them, but they were strong in horse, having about
800 in the field, while we had not a mounted man;
and so it was judged prudent, as the ground afforded
excellent cover for their mode of fighting, to rest sa-
tisfied with the threshing we had given them, and to
permit them to carry off their wounded without in-
curring the loss of our men in moving on to attack
them. They left 104 dead bodies at the foot of the de-
fence and within a few days after the assault, the
Political Agent ascertained that the number of
killed, and of wounded men, who died within a
few days after the action, considerably exceeded 400.
On the dead bodies were found quantities of our
own magazine cartridges, supposed to have been
procured at Ghuznee, and which accounted
for their unusual expenditure of ammunition.
Computed by themselves the lowest number
of assailants was stated at 5,500 men, the highest at
7,000. On the body of the Nezir of Mere Allum,
chief of the Hotuck tribe of Ghilzies, who fell in the
assault, was found the muster-roll of his contingent,
amounting to 2,000 and odd men ; he furnished
about a third part of the force, so that the number
of the assailants must have been about 6,000 men.
By sun-set on the day of attack, not an enemy was
visible, and it was a source of honest congratulation
to. the garrison, that we had driven off our enemies,
and inflicted a heavy loss on them by our own efforts.
The garrison consisted of about 900 men, about 500
of whom were actually engaged. When we took
plssession of the place it consisted of little more than
three ranges of barracks for the troops, built on a
commanding position. By the assiduous labours of
the Sepoys and the constant supervision of the engi-
neers and officers, it had been converted into a post of
such strength, as, if well defended, would have puzzled
regular troops, unfurnished with guns, to take, and did
defy the Affghans. It must have heen a source of honest
pride to our excellent Commanding-officer to find
that when position of greater strength had sub-
mitted, he had not only fortified his own post, but
maintained it,and signally defeated the enemy before it.
Troops in quarters in this country have seldom
suffered more from the severity of the climate and
the privation of accustomed necessaries than those at
Khelat-i-Ghilzie. During the more severe days in
winter, the Hindoo Sepoys did not cook for two days
together, and even the Europeans, so bitter was the
cold, were glad to keep their barracks, and even their
bels, to keep themselves warm. Our bazaar was
latterly destitute of everything excepting the usual
Commissariat rations issued from the godown, and for
some months these were served to the Sepoys on a
reduced scale. As for the officers, they laughed at
their own privations, but they will not soon forget the
dreary winter days, their shivering meetings at mess-
table, their tiffins on bread and water, and their
nights at mess to discuss their scanty fare, to which
hunger was an excellent sauce, and the only season-
ing. Two days after the defeat of the enemy we
heard of the advance of Colonel Wymer's brigade to
relieve us, which arrived• on the 25th of May. We
move 1 into camp, the barracks and defences of Khelat-
i-Ghilzie were destroyed, and the 7th of June saw us
safe at Candahar."—Delhi Gazette, Aug. 10.

COMMERCIAL REMARKS.
IMPORTS.
Cochineal.—ln consequence of the late extensive
imports from Bombay, &c., the price has declined con-
siderably.
Cotton.—Bombay, 7 to 9.2 ; Bengal, 8 to 9.6; Madras,
10 to 10.5 nominal, as none is in first hands.
Cotton Goods.—The late imports per Ackbar, &c.,
have caused a still further decline. Grays are now
worth dr. 2.30 a 2.so—Whites, 2.10 a 2.40. Sales have
been made at $2.75 a 2.80, but the price of the teas
bought has been in proportion.
Cotton Yarn-18 a 40, $27 a 29 per pecul, stock
nearly 7,000 bales, and price declining.
Long Ells.—s6:l for assorted colours. Scarlet, $9 a 91.
Lead.—s6.2s. A native mine has lately been worke,
which has caused the decline in this article ; it must,
however, be only temporary, as the Chinese cannot pro-
duce native lead at less that 37 per pecul.

EXPORTS.
Teas are rather dearer in consequence of the anxiety
lately shown to sell Bombay cotton, and for which parties
are compelled to take teas ; as the teamen are fully aware
of the quantity of cotton on its way here, they will
doubtless nold out for higher rates for teas, which, in the
present scarcity of cash, parties will be compelled to take
for their cotton.
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ei tet o.
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DEATH OF THH DUCHESS OF ATHOLL.--Her Grace
the Duchess of Athol' died at Dunkeld House, on
Monday, the 4th of October, at a quarter before five
o'clock, in the 81st year of her /Age.