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r. Az AAPAcSS oiouSut Official accounts oil some
successes Of General Motifs army i'm Candahar.
The Ghilzies, 5000 strong, attempted to storm,
the tort OF khelati-Ghizics on tho morning of the
2lst May, but were galantly repu,sed, alter an
hour: hard fighting, by the small garrison of 600
men. leaving upwards of 100 dead on the field,
besides carving off many severely wounded,
without the loss Of a man on our side. On the
18th OF May, 1000 Angans, under Suffer Jung,
came towards Candahar, with the intention of at
lacking 1t, and when they were abou, four miles
on, party went out and drove them away, kill
ing abou, 300.
Inc accounts state that the followers of Suftur
Jung have dispersed, and that chief is now in our
hands.
CniNA.-IFrom the Bombay Correspondence
OF the London Morning Post. The intelligence
from China, which comes down TO the 9th Of
May, is wholly unmporan,.-Seveai of the
transports, with reiniorcements, have arrived at
Hong Kong, the re nander were expected TO reach
in few days afterwards, when Sir Henry Pot
finger would proceed to the northward, and. as it
rs supposed, advance at oucc to Pekin. 1t was
currently reported that the Emperor, alarmed at
the preparations which tie English were making
to attack him, had given his subjects pa,ernal
exhortaton TO resist the barSarans to the utmost,
and retired into Tartary. His departure from
fekin, before we reach il, though highly probable,
will be unfortunate. II hc should have removed
himself and his family beyond the great wall,
with whom are we to conclude IL treaty The
new settlement at Hong Kong was rapidly pro-
crossing. The intelligence of the Emperor
light derived from tho French missionaries at
Pekin, who are supposed TO have access TO some
good sources CT information.
SPAIN.
The Madrid adviccs ara to tho 25th ult., a,
which date there are vague rumors Of dissolu-
ton OF the Cortcs, and ola war between Spain and
Portugal, because the troops of the former coun-
Try were approaching the Portuguese frontier.
II - scarcely necessary to add that the reports
merit no attention.
FRAN CE.
- Tho Paris papers OF the LIST inst. are barren OF
news. The Chambers were prorogued the
Both ult. till the 9th January next. On the pre.
ceding day the debate on the Regency Law began
and ended in the Chamber of Peers. NJ NJ dc
brozc, Viilcmain, Gabriae, and the Prince de la
Hlowska spoke, when the law was put TO the vote,
and passed by l63 votes againstIi.
Buichsry in CAina.-We find the following
paragraph in the London Sun of the Sd instant,
relative 10 the last battle ia China:
". l. Herald.
arrangements were made for an attack in three
columns, two Of which were eailan,ly led by Sir
IL. Cough and Sir w. Parker in person. \ 9TH
ang could exceed the bravery of the troops. They
contrived to surround the Chinese, and quite be-
wildercd them. The carnage was dreadful, being
more butchery than a battle. Ignorant of the
laws OF civilized warfare, the poor creatu es knew
not how to surrender, and were massacred Not
less than a thousand OF them, including great
number OF Mandarins, were killed or drowned in
the canals; whereas of the British troops only
threc we're killed and twenty-five oundcd. The
encampments, and such of the buildings as had
sAeen occupied by the enemy, were burned, and
ahe grain magazines throws open 10 the popuace,
who speedily emptied them"