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vernment. Captain Cunningham remains still in Upper
Kenawur, near Shealkur, where he is employed in observing
the acts of both parties, and in sending reports to the
supreme Government.

CAPTURE OF GHUZNEE AND CABUL

The proceedings of General Nott, of which we had but a
meagre account by the mail of the lst of October, appear to
have been highly successful. Shumsooden, the Affghan
Governor of Ghuznee, having attempted to annoy the British
force on its march, was repulsed on the 23d of August, and
totally routed on the 30th. The loss of the British amounted
to 36 killed and 68 wounded. Among the former was Cap-
tains Bury and Reeves, of the 3d Bombay Cavalry. On the
sth of September Ghuznee was invested, and preparations
were made to attack it on the following day, but during the

he enemy evacuated it. General Nott immediately
entered it, and having planted the British flag in the fortress,
his arrangements, and within four or five days the
ations were destroyed, both of the city and of the
A number of the 27th Bengal Native Infantry, who
had been prisoners since March last were released.
General Pollock, who had on the 3d of September reached
Gundamuck, 26 miles to the westward of Jellalabad, left that
place on the 7th, and reached Soorkab, a distance of nearly
10 miles. On the 13th, on approaching the Tazeen Pass,
about 16,000 Affgbans attempted to oppose the British from
a position of great strength. That position was soon turned,
and they xere forced to retire. Again they sought to make
resistance from another height, but they were equally unsuc-
cessful. Their loss was considerable : twelve Ghilzie Chiefs
are said to have fallen, two guns, three standards, and a large
quantity of ammunition and stores were taken by the British.
The loss of the latter was 32 killed and 130 wounded.
Among the former was Hyder Allee, the Commander of the
Jezailchees, and among the latter, Captains Lushington and
Geils, and Lieutenants Norton and Montgomery. On the
14th General Pollock advanced to Boodkhah ; on the 15th he
encamped on the race-ground of Cabul, and on the 16th the
British colours were planted in the Balla Hissar.
The Delhi Gazette of Oct. 3 states that Mrs. Trevor with
eight children, Captain and Mrs. Anderson with three chil-
dren, and Captain Troass and Dr. Campbell, had come into
the British camp; that Cabul was quiet, and supplies plenti-
ful; that General Pollock had expectations to recover the re-
mainder of the prisoners within eight or ten days, with the
esl3ption of Captain Bygrave. who was carried off by Ak hbar
Khan, and that Sir Richmond Shakespeare, with 700 Kuz-
zilbashes, had proceeded to Bameean in search of the other
prisoners.

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The Governor-General issued the subjoined general order
on the receipt of the intelligence of the capture of Cabul:—

" SECRET DEPARTMENT

" BOMBAY CASTLE, OCT. 12.

"The Hon. the Governor in Council has' unbounded
gratification in re-publishing for general information the
following general orders, dated Simla, the 30th of September,
published by the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India,
announcing the occupation of Ghuznee, by the Candahar
division of the army under the command of Major-General
Nott, on the 6th of Septen-ilier, and its entire destruction,
and likewise the defeat of lb ehomed Akhbar Khan, at the
head of 16,000 men at Tezeen, on the 30th of September, by
the forces under the command of Major-General Pollock,
and the occupation of Cabul on the 12th of the same mouth.
" The Hon. the Governor in Council is pleased to direct
that these brilliant successes, by which British supremacy
has been completely re-established throughout Affghanistan,
be fully explained to all the troops at all the, stations and
garrisons of this Presidency, and that a salute of 21 guns be
fired for the capture of Ghuznee, and a similar salute for the
capture of Cabul, at each station.

" By order of 'the Hon. the Governor in Council,
"J. P. WILLOUGHBY,
" Secretary to Government."