The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

air to the Fn pp osed height of 200 yart
joining field, nearly 100 yards from i

and slates, bricks and st(,
covered the yard, orchard
of 250 yards. The w.
cottages, and counting• hot,
and, what is more remarkable, a shower of brie
,as. were thrown through one of the cottaL
house in a slanting direction, where the

nd doors of the workshops,
blown in and shattered

to pieces

re seated in an opp

mates wen

and the cupboard, wi

clock-cast
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ry done tc

most dreadful part of the affa

e serious
ird (if tE

two of the colliers who were in th
occurred a quarter of an hour soot

destroyed as they were leaving their work). One old man
of the name of Firth had his thigh broken by some of the
missiles from the boiler, and was conveyed to his house, and
immediately attended by the surgeon, but it is feared he will
be unable to work any more. Another man had his skull
dreadfully fractured, and was otherwise mangled in a shock-
ing manner, but it is hoped he will recover, and be able again
to attend to his work. He has a family of six children. The
negligent engineman had a narrow escap

being nearly
onderfill to relate, he

rushed by the falling r
; uninjured.' Althoug

(-work

in cons,

appears to have lost his influence in that country, for the
murder of the envoy, and his treachery practised towards the
British troops in January last year having deprived him of all
chance of being recognised as the chief, he had retired to
Balk, 'as if in disgrace. The principal leaders of the tribes
around Cabal have acknowledged as their sovereign Schah
Poora, a son of Schah Soojah, for whose sake, it is stated,
that the British generals agreed to leave the Balai Hissar in-
tact, in order to allow him that citadel as a place of refuge
in case of danger. Schah Poora is described as a youth, 16
years old, whose appearance and manners had gained him
friends among the tribes. His brother Futteh Jung, who
seemed at first inclined to try his chance of remaining
sovereign of Cabul, has withdrawn at the same time as the
British troops to the protection of.the company's dominions.
It may appear singular that two sons of Schah Soojah should
now hold the government of the two chief places in Aff-
ghanistan, viz., Sufter Jung at Candahar, and Schah Poora
at Cabul. The great problem is, how long they, without any
aid from abroad, will be able to maintain their unenvied
position among the restless tribes.

Jellalabad, Ali Musjid, and the other forts through the
Khyber, have been demolished, in order to prove to the
Kbyberrees that the British forces are fully able, not only
to force their passes, but to destroy their strongholds, and to
retire at their own option back to India. Trophies of various
kinds had been brought from Cabul ; among them were more
than twenty cannons ; one of the latter, a large brass gun,
having been found too unwieldy, was left on the road by
General M'Caskill, but it was afterwards burnt by Captain
Thomas and the Irregulars, who formed the rear guard. The
destruction of this gun, which, it was feared, would be re-
placed in triumph in Cabul, was considered as a great ser-
vice, particularly as it was said that Lord Ellenborough bad,
at one time, expressed a desire to have it in India.

The destruction of the Bazaar at Cabul, and of a mosque
built this year in it, as a special monument of the triumph of
the Affghans over the " Infidels" of India, bad produced a
Series of lugubrious homilies from certain journals there, the
sympathies of which have been long enlisted in favour of
Akbbar Khan and the Affghans. Those homilies, mixed up
with the most outrageous exaggerations of what took place
at Ista a►Td during the retreat, are likely to produce echoes
in places where the exact nature of the facts is unknown. In
India they are looked upon as the produce of those " extra-
ordinary patriots" who love to find every fault in the acts of
their own countrymen, and to praise the enemy as alone
possessing honour or honesty. The true cause of the homi-
lies and exaggerations is stated to be the injury done to the
markets : hint dice lachrymce.
The British troops were under orders to march through
the Sikh dominions in six brigades; the first was to move on
the 10th
.of December. Rumours were current of the proba-
bility of certain arrangements being formed between the Sikh

sovereign Shere Singh and the Governor-General, whereby
the former was to agree to accept the protection of the British
Government, in order to preserve hereafter his throne and
his life. The Governor-General, with his body-guard, had
reached Mumehmajra on the 14th of November, in his pro-
gress to Ferozepore, wherefetes were to be given on the ar-
rival of the troops from Cabal, and near which place it was
expected that interviews would take place between his Lord-
ship and the Maharajah, as Shere Singh is commonly called.
The Commander-in-Chief was also on his way from Simlato

various comments continued to be made respecting the
order published by Lord Ellenborough declaring that all the
Affghan chiefs detained in India should be liberated, but re-
quiring that prior to their obtaining permission to return to
their own country they should attend his Lordship's levee at
Ferozepore. 'This order contains the remarkable statement
that Akhbar Khan, prior to the late :advance of the British
armies, had refused to exchange the British prisoners in his
custody even for his father and his own family.

Id clamour, although much deadened, still existed for
ailed " the restoration of Dost Mahommed to the
I to proceed from

throne
peculil
Dost J
Prince

motives,

s founded upon a false viesi, of furs:: ; for

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