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Beteen the 17th Nov. and the 25th Dec., at Cabul

Killed.—Col. Oliver, sth B. N. I.; Captain Mackintosh,
ditto ; Capt. Laing, 37th ditto; Capt. Walker, ditto; Col.
Mackerell, her Majesty's 44th foot; Capt. Westmacott, 36th
B. N.I.
On the 25th Dec., atCahul!—
Killed.—Sir William Hay M'NFghten, envoy ; Capt. Tre-
vor, 3d Bengal cavalry.

Lieut. Ha ' milton sth cavalry; Capt. C. Troup, 48th B.
N. 1., and H. Johnson, 26th B. N. 1., reported killed, un-
certain, though they are missing.

Major Eldred Pottinger and Lieut, Haughton, 31st B. N
1., wounded.

In the hands of the enemy.—Capt. Drummond; Lieut. J.
B. Conolly, 20th B. N. I. ; Lieut. Lawrence, Bengal ca-
valry, officiating military secretary to envoy ; Capt. Sir A.
Mackenzie, filth B. N. I.; Ensign Rose, 57th B. N. I.
Capt. Golding, commanding Jabuaz corps, murdered by
his men,- at Candahar; and Lieut. Patterson, severely
wounded.
CHINA:
(From the Bombay Courier.)

Our intelligence from China is to the 13th December. The
latest accounts from the expedition which hod reached Macao
up to that date state that no event of importancehad occurred
subsequent to the occupation of Ningpo. It was, however,
reported that a portion of the expedition had proceeded
against Hong-choo-foo. Sir. W. Parker and Sir Henry Pot-
tinger, when last heard of were at Chusan. The latter had
expressed an intention of returning to Hongkong, and his ar-
rival at that place was daily looked for. When the Falcon
.left Macao on the 13th Dec., a vessel was in sight, supposed
to be her Majesty's ship Cruiser, with the plenipotentiary. It
was generally understood that immediately on Sir Henry's
arrival instructions would be issued for an advance against
Canton. The Chinese have committed repeated infringe-
ments of the truce by repairing the old and erecting new for-
tifications, as also by obstructing the navigation of the river
above Whampoa. Major-General Burrell aud Captain Nias,
R.N., who have for some time been in command of her Ma-
jesty's forces at Hongkong, have been passive spectators of
these breaches of treaty, and have hereby incurred the most
serious displeasure of the plenipotentiary, who is known to
have publicly expressed his sense of their misconduct.
The arrival of Sir Henry would, therefore, be the prelude
to the immediate resumption of hostilities. There can be
little doubt that active operations against Canton have taken
place long ere this, and that an entire stop has been put to
the export trade. It will, therefore, be many months before
another opportunity will offer to ship teas in any quantity for
England. The greatest activity has been displayed by the
commanders, of her majesty's ships of war, in carrying out
the orders of the admiral, for putting a stop to the Chinese
coasting trade, as also to that with Japan, Java, and Manilla,
by seizing their junks, and bringing them into Kongkong
and Chusan. Many hundreds of all sizes, from twenty tons
and upwards, have already been captured. No molestation
is offered to junks bona fide proceeding to the British settle
meats in the Straits. - •

At Canton, on the 16th of November, everything remained
quiet, and teas were being shipped off without interruption.
But the high prices which we mentioned a fortnight since as
being paid for 'congcn have not been maintained, and those
then valued at 35 taels may now he had for 31 taels.
Trade was proceeding as usual in Canton on the 4th of De-
cember, although upon unfavourable terms. By forcing
sales of manufactures upon an unwilling market, their prices
are even lower now than before, and cotton also shows a ten-
dency co decline. Teas are about the same as last week, but
it is observed that this year's crop is generally of an inferior
quality. Large quantities of green- teas are now being pre-
pared at Macao for the American market, a considerable por-
tion of these sorts of teas, as indeed of many others, being
now shipped from here instead of from Canton. The scar-
city of the circulating medium daily increases, and syce
silver is at par,, whilst Mexican dollars are of extremely diffi-
cult sale at 4 or 5 per cent. discount. .

We were, we learn, misinformed last week, when partially
attributing the present scarcity of pillar dollars to the ship-
ment of the ransom money of Canton to Calcutta. The dol-
lars then received were mostly kept here for the use of the
expedition, and a considerable portion of them must have
again been circulated. The chief reason for this sudden
diminution of these dollars may prObably be sought in the
present troubled state of the country, when Spanish dollars,
as generally more current than sycee, and, besides, easily
concealed, are eagerly sought after in the provinces of Canton,
Fokien, and Chekeang, by the people. Another reason,
which would, however, not act with quite so sudden effect,
is the nearly total cessation of supply of this sort of dollars,
and their rapid destruction in the hands of the Chinese, from
their habit of-stamping them ; a measure resorted to by them,
as bills of exchange are endorsed by us, holding those whose
stamp is upon them responsible for the goodness of the metal.

_ -
SIR ALEX. BunNEs.,---Although the-most intense anxiety
has been manifested on the subject, we have not been able
during the month to obtain any minute particulars of the fate
of the late Sir Alexander Burnes and his brother; no com-
munications containing details of any sort having, so far as
we can ascertain, reached India from our ill-fated countrymen
at Cabool. The melancholy fact, however, is confirmed by
a manifesto in the Persian language, an extract of which we
have seen, and which had been addressed by the khans of
Cabool to some of the subordinate chiefs. In this document
they proclaim that early in the morning of the third Tuesday
of the blessed month Ramazan (corresponding with the 2d
November last) they with other brave heroes, •` striving like
lions," carried by storm the house of Sikunder Burnes,
rushing from an ambush right and left, and put him to the
sword, together with some other Feringees of consideration,
and nearly 500 battalion men. The destruction of Sir Alex.
Burnes thus boasted of was evidently, therefore, the first re-
sult of a deliberative determination to exterminate the Ferin-
gees, by removing him who had at the same time the strong-
est hold of the Affghan people, as well as the highest and
most prominent qualities amongst his own countrymen for
checking the designs of the chiefs. How well they calculated
has been proved by the event.

TRANQUILLITY RESTORED.—We may now fairly con-
gratulate the people of Ireland on the accession of the con-
servatives to office, and the consequent restoration of peace
to the most disturbed districts of the country. Tipperary—
which, twelve monts ago, was a literal aceldama, a field of
blood—has now become as tranquil and as orderly as any
portion of Ulster ever was previous to the unhappy outburst
of party spirit which, we trust, the on-going circuit of assize
will effectually quell. At the opening of the court for the
south-riding of this county on Friday last, the Right Hon.
Justice Ball addressed the grand jury in the following terms :
" Gentlemen of the grand jury of the county of Tipperary,
1 have the pleasing task of being able to discharge my duty
almost in a single sentence, and that is one of congratulation
on the surprising decrease of crime, in this county. Gentle-
men, it is truly gratifyin to find. the criminal calendar sO,
light ; and having hartlrecaiendaa for the last three years
before me, I do say that the decrease of crime in this county
78 one of the most extraordinary facts in the statistics of
Ireland. In the'spring assizes for 1810, there were 125;f0r
trial, in 1841, there were 92, and now we have but nearly
one-half, namely, 56. When such is the improving condi-
tion, gentlemen, of your division of the county, I have only
one topic to address you upon, and that, I am happy to say,
ione of congratulation. I find from your calendar that the
crimes bave.diminished in atrocity as well as in number, and
from the'few, comparatively speaking, you have for trial, I
think the assizes will be over in a few days. Gentlemen, the
bills will now be sent up to you, and probably you will be
able to get through the greater number this day." The value
of this attestation to the government of the Earl De Grey,
is enhanced by the circumstances that Mr. Justice Ball is a
Roman Catholic—a whig—and was elevated to the judicial
.bench by the late administration.—Dublin Evening Mail.

- VICISSITUDES or FORTUNE.—A grey-haired blind old
man appeared on Friday before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlbo-
rough-street, London, who stated that his name was Robert
Matthew Annesley, and that he had been a solicitor, and was
an admitted member of the Inner Temple. He had at one
time a most lucrative business as a solicitor, and had also
been engaged in literary pursuits ; amongst other works, he
had been sub-editor of " Tomlyn's Digest of the Laws," had
assisted in compiling the " Statutes at Large," and had also
contributed various articles to " Dr. Lardner's Cabinet
Cyclopmdia." His intense application to business had in-
jured his sight, and " it had at length pleased the Almighty
Disposer of all things to deprive him altogether of his vision ;"
and he was now with a wife and four children absolutely
starving, hot having tasted food for twenty-four hours. He
was well known, he said, to the lste Mr. Dyer, whose death
- great loss-to him, and who had frequently, since his
affliction, relieved him. He had expected to be received as
one of the recipients of the late Mr. Day's bounty for the
blind, but, unfortunately, the will was thrown into Chancery,
and how long it might remain there it was impossible to say.
In 1839 the benchers of the Temple had subscribed £3O for
his relief, and he had also received a subscription from the
Literary Fund; but these sums being.exhausted, and he and
his family starving, he not liking to trespass upon the bounty
of former friends, had caused himself to be led to this office
to state his case.ir.
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COMEERPONDTINT

A Pussenger" calla the' attention of:the 'authotilleF to a
very dangerous but common practice of boys throwing
stones in some of the leading. thorouubfarei of the town,
(Great Homer-street in particular,) and is desirotis of
seeing the police using a little more energy in suppressing
the nuisance. _ . . .

We can afford to disregard the paltry spleen exhibited by
" Fai'r Play."
" Q in a Corner" on Tuesday.

Had not "J. W." better let the subject alone ? At all
events, we cannot find room for his letter to-clay.

7.tibtrpool &tantarb.