The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Royal Dinner party at- Buckinghani Palace, on
Wednesday evening, included the Earl of Liverpool,
Viscount Jocelyn, and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
The band of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner. •
The Hon. MisS Murray and the Hon. Miss Lister
have succeeded the Lady CarOline Cocks and the Hon.
Miss Cavendish as the Maids of Honour in Waiting on
her Majesty.
The Royal Dinner party at Buekingluun Palace, -yes-
terday evening, included her Royal 'Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Eaal
Daawarr, the Earl of Jersey, and Sir Henry Wheatley.
The band of, the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner, and in the course of the evening performed the
folluwifig pieees March, RudolphSibuld. Duetto,
Un tenure;" Roberto • nevereuX, DOnizetti. Valse,
" Rosita," Jullien. Cavatina, "A. to dine,". Roberto De-
vereux, Donizetti. Quadrille, "St. Cloud," Musard.
Tarantella de la Garde Royal, Mr. CharleS Raper.
His Royal Highness Prince Albeit received Addresses
of Congratulation on the birth of the • Prince of Wales,
'yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, which were presented
by the following noblemen and gentlemen :
The Mayor- of -Chichester, Dr. M'Carrogher, M.D.,
accompanied by Lord -Arthur Lennox; and Mr. J.
Abel Sinith, M.P.—from Chichester.
Mr. William Craufurd, Deputy Paymaster-General of
her Majesty's Forces, from the Magistrates of West-
minster.
The Mayor of Bedford and the Members for the Bo-
rough, Messrs. Polhill and Stuart, from Bedford.
A Deputation from Newcastle.
Mr. Cartwright, late High Sheriff, and Mr. R. W.
Hand, Under-Sheriff, from the County of Stafford. An
Address was also presented from the Borough of Stafford.
Mr. William Warrington, Mayor of Congleton, Sir
Philip Egerton, M.P., and Mr. Tollemaehe, M.P., from
Congleton.
Captain Manning, 2d Royal Surrey Reginient, from
the Royal Manor of Portland.
Mr. J. M. Coley, the Mayor, from the Inhabitants of
Bridgenorth. •
Mr. Alfred Daniel (Mover) and Mr. Waymouth (Se-
conder), from the Vestry of Marylebone.
Mr. Wilshere, M.P., from Great Yarmouth.
Mr. B. P. Wilts, Prime Warden, Mr. J. Weston,
Renter Warden, from the Fishinenger's Company.
Sir Charles Douglas, M.P., from Warwick.
Mr. N. Earle, Mayor, Mr. E. L. Sidebotham, and Mr,
Legh Richmond, from Ashton-under-Lyne.
The Mayor, from Newport.
A Deputation, from the City of Exeter.
Mr. 'l'. Stear, Mayor, Mr. J. Usell, and Mr. E.
Jackson, from the Mayor, Alder Men, and Burgesses of
WisbeaCh.
Sir Allan M'Nab and Dr. Rolph (3) from Canada.
The Mayor, accompanied by Mr. M`Lean, M.P., and
Mr. Langton, M.P., from Oxford.
The Earl of Bandon, from Bandon.
A Deputation from Lymington.
The Mayor, and Mr. W Patten, M.P., from Preston.
The Duke of Beaufort anti Deputation, from Bristol.
Sir J. Hanster, Sir J. Williams, and Mr. Tubbs, from
the Magistrates of Middlesex.
Prince Albert was attended by the Marquis of Exeter,
Groom of the Stole.; Lord George Lennox, Lord in
Waiting; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting ; and
Colonel Godwin, Gentleman Usher in Waiting.
1 heir Royal Highnesses the'Duchess of Kent and the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Cambridge, and
Prince George of Cambridge visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent received
Addresses of Congratulation yesterday from the follow-
ing places and public bodies;
Staffordshire—Presented by NIT.. Cartwright, late High
Sheriff, and Mr. Hand, Under-Sheriff.
Chichester Corporation—Presented by. Dr. .111‘Ca
rogher, M.D., Mayor ; Lord Arthur Lennox, M.P.
and J. Abel Smith, M.P.

OxfOrd Borough—Presented by Alderman Browning,
Mayor ; Mr. M'Lean, M.P. ; Mr. J: Hunt,. Sheriff ; Al-
dermen Sadler and Thorp.
Westminster Justices—Presented by Mr. Pownall,
mover, and Mr. Craufurd,.Deputy-Payma.ster,General.
Middlesex Magistrates-7-Presented by Sir J. Williams,
Mr. Tubbs, and Sir J. Hanster.

Warwick. Corporation and Inhabitants—Presented by
Mr. G. C. Greenway, Mayor, Mr. Greives, Town Coun-
cillor, Sir C. Douglas, M.P., Mr. W. Collins, M.P.
Great Yarmouth—Presented by the Mayor and Depu-
tation, and Mr. Wilshere, M.P.
Exeter Inhabitants and Corporation—Presented by Mr.
C. IT. Turner, Mayor, Mr. W. Kingdon, High Sheriff,
and Alderman Furlong.
Fishmongers' Company—Mr. B. P. Wilts, Prime
Warden, and Mr. J. Weston, Renter Warden.

Bristol Corporation and inhabitants—Mr. Franklyn,
Mayor, the Duke of Beaufort, Mr. Jones, High Sheriff;
Messrs. George, Haber&ld, and l'hippen.
Ashton•under-Lyne—Mr. N. Earle, Mayor, Messrs.
Sidebotham and Legh Richmond.
Newport, Monmouth—Presented by the Mayor of
Newport.
Lymington—Presented by Mr. Hicks, the Mayor.
Her Royal Highness the Dtichess of Kent was at-
tended by Lady Anna Maria :Dawson, Lady in Waiting,
and Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart., Comptroller of
her Royal Highness's Household.
Sir Thomas Ackland, Batt, and a Deputation con-
nected with the Mining districts, had an interview with
the Earl of Ripon yesterday, at the OUT of the Board
of Trade.

iAtrl de Grey had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

Despalchea from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office.
The Marquis of Anglesey, and Mr Berkeley Paget,
visited the Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo yester-
day.

THE `MONTROSE BURGIIS.—The nomination takes
place on Saturday. Mr. Carrie.), of Craig°, has withdrawn,
andthe candidates are Mr. Hume' the Hon. E. J. Stanley,
and Mr. Jobson. As the latter had never the shadow of a
chance, the contest, if it take place, will lie betwixt Mr.
Stanley and Mr. Hume. No Conso”va.ive has dater! to 91.0 w
himself. The Hon. E. J. Stanley is on a visit to the late
representative for the burghs.
The Marquis of Tweeddale was, on Wednesday,
appointed Governor of Madras.

A
THE DISASTERS IN AFFGLI
ISTAN.
The Dublin Evening Mail of Monday contains theef
following interesting communication from the seen the
war, written by an officer high in the confidence of
late Sir W. Me.Naghten, who wes with him at the
view with Akhbar Khan, and was an eye-witness cf
the scenes which he describes : fe°
" I take the first leisure moment to give yo" a os,
lines, which will, I trust, some day or other, reach
and convey the assurance of my being up tO the Pre,-,bst
date well, and, I trust, safe from personal danger. 1' be
we have gone through since my last to you can 0111Y,oet
related, should we ever meet, which the merciful Ytiis,
who has hitherto protected me, and in whom I tr.,
will, I doubt not, if he sees fit, enable me to do so. s)t
" On the 2d of November the insurrection broke is
in the city. I was sent by the Envoy to the liinglife,
the Bala Hisser, and narrowly escaped with inv. 0,
having to run the' gauntlet of a heavy fire and the Its
tempts of swordsmen. The result of my mission
that Shelton, with nearly two regiments, and Niclitiij
troops, took possession of the Bala Hissar. I roomy
to Sir W. M•Naghten in the cantonments. The ;s•
folloWing the commissariat fort, in which all onr
sions were, was taken by the enemy, through the 0
countable conduct of the military authorities. Th,
you may suppose, completely paralysed us in cant`.
ments ; we had but two days' tatta. Now became evt
dent the madness of keeping our supplies out of r 3.0
tonments, as also the folly of having made theulte%
large as to require the whole of the troops to Pere, d.
them. On the 2d Sir A. Burnes, brother, and Pr 3„,
foot were killed—his house plundered and burn
Johnson's treasury plundered .and burnt—dle,4
luckily slept in cantonments. Anquetil and .-Liose
were out riding, and.so escaped. Mackenzie, in 11;1 ntis
which was also a commissariat depot, most gal, 01
defended it for three days with a handful of men, off 10,
his ammunition was expended, when he brought °, soh
party into cantonments at night. Trevor remained tithe
his wife and children for two days, protected 11,iser
Huzerbash, who escorted them all safely to us. Skinis.
and Drummond were concealed by friends in the e,„'Se',
The successes on both sides were various. We took.
,ie
forts which were close by, and in which we got Fie
grain. These were taken at the earnest entreaty o`„6t,
poor Envoy, for our unfortunate general was quite 110 lo
from sickness and age, to do anything ; and I grie'cb
say his *staff proved utterly incompetent to meet 910sse
crisis, . they being entirely for defensive Ine!eer
whereas our only hopes of safety were in the most l'lss;l3
ous offensive ones. The Envoy is dead, so I inass'eel
safety, and free from the supposition of inters;;
motives, say that he was the life and soul °thee;
that whatever was
.done of good was done by
and that, from his death, cruelly and barbs7o4
murdered as he was, by the Ghuznees, wevol
date the commencement of our misfortunes. ..-0•91
officers were killed at different times.
sent for, and one regiment withdrawn from the set
Hissar. The arrival of the troops, however, 11'8 11
attended with the success we anticipated. Though of
as a lion, the Commander bad from the commence,seil
despaired of success, and thought of nothing but :11 si
at all risks. This was peculiarly unfortunate, as•
ebid
councils were imbueu with the unhealthy hue wille'serl
taken possession of his mind. To make a Jong ei.
short, we were once more reduced to six days' s°l4,-01
Up to this -we had contrived, through pronli'F
bribes, to get enough for the men, but little or nothl7se.
the horses. I had, and so had others, suggested 31,101)
tiring into the Bala Hissar, which Cenolly, who o",rpr
the King, strongly advocated, and to which the or
voy was willing, till told by the General it was qiiitT".l)o
impossible, as he dreaded a panic amongthe trooe%ille
44th had disgracefully abandoned, so had the o 7 a, ,
out firing a shot, a fort close by ; and in an aelliels
a hill, which Shelton fought well at first, but in 400
he kept the troops Under a galling fire for several hO,
they at length broke, and foot and horse ran in issel
tonments, pressed by the enemy, who were un,'Yainlil
from annihilating them by Osman Khan withlosel
the soldiers of his tribe under some pretence. she re
then in treaty with the Envoy about the —. isithe
s'
maining regiment, the 54th, was withdrawn ir°,„ters'
Bala Hissar, and the King left to his own 111)- the
For days all the military authorities had pressea. en°
Envoy the absolute necessity of entering in of
thi
with the enemy, based on the evacuation hat
country by our troops. As long as it thst
sible for man, the Envoy resisted, but hearinh:a re'
the troops be had written for from Candahar hold
turned to that city, and that there was ~rof getting , Sale's brigade back from Jellalah3iial.
any aid from Peshawur, he most reluctantly' ect,'!i!'ett'l
and two deputies with myself and Trevor were .%`' se(
to open communications outside cantonment& tait•l'e
days after, the Envoy, myself and Trevor, Illetrasii°
chiefs on the same spot, when he produced teesti'j
paper contains nineteen or twenty articles for
which he read, and which were all approved. Maliscri;
Akhbar Khan seemed to be the chief spokesman. csil&
other meetings took glace, and some of the chiefs
cafe
on the Envoy to settle matters.
" On the
.22d of December I dined out.
of tklibn"
.into cantonments at night, with a cousin e ies,
bearer, it seems, of certain propositions front
which I only heard of the following morning, and
before Sir William told me to be ready with Tee3.!-:eir.
Mackenzie, to accompany him to iNlahomed Ale its
Skinner c-ite
We went, and had hardly been seated five Inks Oil
when, at a signal, we were all seized ; self, slack
and Trevor, hurried to horse, and mounted ov
Affghan ; the last, we afterwards heard, fell off, 3;li.ft''
cut to piecbs by the Ghazces, as was also the P41:,e01::
voy, who, it seems, resisted mounting a horse. Y.°"011"1,
and I were wonderfully preserved, though the
,
host of Ghazees cut at us as we rode by theft
on the same horse with two chiefs, they were affseV
fire on us. We were put into a house in the ,see'e re
ur
fort, where we were kept till midnight, whe°•,4 c'e/
taken through the city to Akhbar, first
watches, &e., taken from us. At Akhbar''
Skinner, and heard for the first time of the En/,°,)e Vs,
Trevor's death., as up to that we had been told stir.
tee
were well. I remained there till the morning 0 ti
when I was sent for by Naib Ameer Oollah, one °PA
rebels, and he told me that' General had reqll`;ser!,
the cantonment to settle the Envoy's papers,andt,.o
quired me to take some Hindoo Shroff in, to nePfri
,di
Hoondee, &c. Well, I remained till the 28th eios,
was sent under a strong escort, much against t„ ; ;
of some of the chiefs, to cantonmeets. The
most kind and attentive to me during my stils''."•
1,- ',l
On the 6th we marched from cantonments lvi`
of snow on the ground. I was after the ?,
guard, with the escort, in charge of the iliaL`s4el`e
reached Bagramee unmolested ; but our rear"geiel 9,11.
attacked, and Hardyman, of the sth cavalry' !cis Poet
men killed. The next morning we made towal fse",se.
hall, our rear-guard attacked the whole waitoor7,„J.
three mountain guns carried off. It now be ocaor
that we should have to. fight our wayollev 41;ir
lowing morning, the 7th, we found Ise csisse
nearly surrounded. Skinner had gone in bill si'kets
ing to Mahommed Akhbar, who was on a
to us, and who told us it was all our cs'opalsd
for leaving cantonments before the troops Oise,' ;
to escort us were ready, and that the cop° si'‘
not, save himself, power to prevent his being tie uP till
that he was willing still to do this on our giv;e7seelloi
hostages that we should not move beyond .0•11001•10
Sale's brigade had left Jellalabad. Potting"n 0;4,,
still lame from his wounds, said he would 6-0, ire°Uld ,1
instead of me, who had been partioularlY
Akhbar—so he went. On his arrival lie sosb;set.l'orl
must go also, and, with Mackenzie, he weld°, Or
—sO we went, and the troops marched for,.i.jsri
Caubul pass ; but, notwithstanding all the whirlys'
deavours, he could not restrain the Ghal in 1',4111'
tacked the column at all points. We followe fen brl
hours after, and the scene of slaughter,. "AinYliso,
One gun was left. Mrs. Anderson and 311.3: riener
each a child carried off. Mrs. Mannering "11-„e W°
but was saved. Mrs. Boyd's child, a EuroPecl,
and a wounded soldier, were all bought b3his
hummed Akhbar. filly r
eon P
•• The next day the Sirdar said, after lal ofeelrsitier
inability to restrain his people, that the onlYeisos
the ladies would be in their putting then Mrs' el,
n'
Ts oahinel tr:r se
cs:e
of the'
01)4
his charge. This they did. So Captain as,o• t.frto
Berson and child, Boyd, Eyre, Waller, -Lisle sail
Ladies Sale and M‘Nagliten, Mrs. Start see,
shot), Mr. and Mrs. Ryley, Mrs. Alainvvanricii essfe
and Mrs. Wade, and Troup, wounded, joi
and were received with every attention by tl'arsts Jar
fit
halted a day or two, and then proceeded
tc'el'ir cle-
le he
luk, the whole road being crowded with foie tioethe
dying of the army. More seem to have fallethe hood en-
'and then been cut to pieces than fon' trollist after 1
enemy. At Jugduliuk we' earned that till fort; lseed per
deavoured to make a stand in an old riiinue rea3al" •ete•
Ihm:olarprinhm,
ntelsidteoyAntekr, ihesbdhn
doing so till only 30 rounds of atmuuniti°ohilziesoeeek°l
ertlotaonsiiiesgateondtdiatth
jeeolhliwith the ised for hoe
e vest. cit/ie% I
This was done towards the evening Of t,.°5 of thc---
troops, from want of water and the 1-" s 1.04 Onsisse
chief's, got impatient, and at night made have each
road to Jellalabad. The only accounts, lived tO 1;401
Jellalabad—dreadful
learnedellaiab
aadreidthraeatdofnullytoonreelmataen. , officer: -liar her:;os
gone over to the enemy in a body, and miro,it:r"
had thrown away their arms. 'The S'oere, I faile,}o
here with Elphinstone, Shelton, 84e., A back, he' e'
shall remain till Dost Mahommed is seen_ssinie he ic,
other arrangement made. In the
_rile "I"_'', comforri„ et
everything in his power to mal'i
know not
and we feel perfectly at our eas
tesa
my epinioa, !1
steps Government will take, hu
have only two before them,
•t probably 'tiot
' • wrath., most , but
crush the country ; the latter
~,es at Callol.ll,
Mahommed quickly, or send an "vetr("visleeinmdinb;c6l)l":
promise us, and the sick an I hos e
ds, I fancy, lo
case they would make up their inin
no inan who. Vir,
would be a very secondary consi
all•
I hear, then, is
the country. From
the • country as -"," se
.sr.
so well or so quickly settle , ,be me ,iet
subjects for higher powers than_Jtl'avlabad.
hummed, should peace be theireltheeoirukiltsvuesillere. sale a
Macgregor will not give up -•
t at ell al
td'e:ration. In the tr..op
and liattraYkil;gt
t.Toas!a;artyht.o.,
was attacked—Codrington, Salisbury,
on 1842•
the 3d, the P°s
1 t inmite
to CaTlbw''
they held out till they had bee, ti with°llt ;
e
INDIA. •
days
—That
,Tail from ludia
'The remainder of the Overland ,iave
of col";
greergai !nor
It,
obuegothattoni,i
rs
been received, and a mass of private le
disor77„lio
credited and have means of information, h
letter, IP°
tbheeenevreeenetsivind'AsZlem°nfis‘t'aillii,ch:othilarnit:ltte(t'le,/rl.nteo7Swilflaljp.gUib:.:
viously has transpired. According to one _
sees_ tee,
hhhar Khan has been frmiltly misrepre.
quarter entitled to consideration,
tne viitt,:,e, blot
the most sacred of international obligations, jer,
Sir W. M'lslaghteu, the British Envoy in Cativo
it woisilit..tnted u
freely imputed to him, on account of the nig'', 00