The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-04
AFFAIRS ABROAD.


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The Gear and Dost Mahommed.
PROBABLE EFFEcrs OF THEIR ALLIANCE.
The BOMBAY correspondent OF the London Times,
writing October IA, gives some further details of
the above omiDous alliance He says: Both by the
Boan and passes reports have been recei red
Of the conclusion VI an alliance between Dost Ma
hemed and Russia. The Dost and his subjects are
firmly persuaded that our occupation Of Peshawur
b with no other view than that OF getting con-
yeniently located to seize his kingdom on tne
Wit to his capital we have eaten up the
PuIjsub, and our frontier, our magazines, anc Inc
bulk of our armies are now only quarter oi tne
distance from Cabul that they were ~ne aab oro
istan. Under such circumstance u u put natural
that an Oriental shOyld conclude that the cn chance
which Cabul has of independence 10 IN close ALL
ance With Russia. In forming such an alliance R1s-
sia NAV have other immediate objects besides tho
sDucysnce il would cause to the government Of
Birth India. Some five or six mails ago forward
ed m extract from the Benares Recorder, in which
The editor OF that paper stated that he had seen q
copy OF letter from q Russian officer on the Cas-
plan. stating that force was being organized for
The invasion Of Khiva and Bokhara grand scale,
and reports have been lately resolved from Cabul to
che effect that Russian force had actually adj
vanced into the heart Of the Khan of Khivas coun
Il will be remembered that about two years ago
Dcst NahOmed invaded and annexed the portion Of
independent Tartary round Balkh, lying on the
other side Of the HindOo Koosh, Immediately north
Of Cabul, and which was tributary to the Khan Of
Bokhara, and that he has maintained his conquest,
though not without difficulty, ever since. He is
therefore in position to assist very materially any
views which Russia may have on Bokhara.
The report that Russian emissares had appeared
# Keha together with the assassination Of Colonel
Iackeson, and a false alarm Of combined afghan
attack on Peshawur, and the forced march
Of additional troops towards that part, had
occasioned great deal of excitement on the
frontier, and not q little Russophobia. It is
stated that the presence Of she Governor-G General
on the frontier has become State necessity, and
that he has consequently postponed his trip to
Burmah. The presence Of Russian emissaIies in
in India that Russian officer of rank was living
disguised 1t Cabul throughout our campaign in
Afghanistan. No sensible person can consider .
Russian invasion Of British India practicable until
either Persia or Independent Tartary have become
Russian provinces, and lorg before that can take
place it is hoped that the construction Of lines Of
railway communicate from all the pre- Adencies to
the frontier will enable US 70 concentrate our military
resources the assailabe points to extent which
would crush at once any force that an invader celd
drag, through the difficult and rocky deserts Of
Afghanstsn and the Hndoo Koosh but the hostile
ncuYsions of the frontier tribes already causes us
great annoyance, and it is considered that this an.
noyance would assume much more formidable
shape if prompted by Russian money and directed
by Russian officers.
1t is certain that in the event Of . war Russia
would not neglect so facile means Of annoyance.
Yet the result of such interference might be condu
GIVE to our prestige for, if the Afghans could once
ffom their hills, they would receive lesson that
would Last them for dozen years at least
The Arctic Search.
SPEECHES OF CAPTAIN INGLEFIELD AND LIEUTENANT
CREsswELL.
On Nov The Royal geographical Society held Its nrs
meeting for tie session OF 1884 at the rooms Of tbs
Horticultural Society. The announcement that Captain
aleae would upon this occasion lay before the
ths results Of the late Arctic expeditions includ.g the
discovery OF the NORTH west passage by Captain Mcclure
drew rg, the, unusually large audience
Sir Roderek ). Murchson presided in the absence OF
N. Earl Of Eh smere, who was unable to attend
After the usual preliminary business OF elscting
member of whom he Chairman raid larger number
10 be baoted or at that then at any previous meet
ing Sir Roderick remarked tht it pleasing coinci
derce that in having TO introduce TO them the disn-
guihed Arctic navigator, Captain Ingedeld, he did no
while occupying chair which had once been the proper
H Of Of the sar'ie Of the Arctic voyagsrs-vx Sir
Frobsher who had attempted the discovery Of the
Northwest passage in the time .f Queen Elizabeth The
Weld Of Somerset HoWe a. bore the name Of Sir Mar
I'm Frobsh~r, and he date 1880 The President having
read the letter of Mr. Weld In preeer ting the chair called
upen
CAPT 1NG1nnKID, R. N who read the following paper
absence .ardng tie Victoria gold medal for my d,s
severes in the Polar Seas has made eager to be the
nrst n dunn which that ociety shall receive the
ntSgence pr the disco very Of the Northwest passage
the Of which it has bsen my lot to bring England
h her Msea.ys steam vessel Phnix Tho thsusands that
hand for the tt two centuries ar ha to solve this
great gee GRAPHICAL problem, destined 10 be of little
sv. TO That nm, date emo though large has doubt
that would otherwise have remained unk The last
and it 10 too much tn DO feared fatal eff 1T of this
Try, which has been the subject Of al interest and
may say national aaxsty has called forth, in behalf OF
the safety of that edition quad Of hps res
sue, me privately employed and whilst all have proved
equally unsuccessOl in hrowpg light upon the great sub
set OF the fate Of our missing countrymen still it has
had aon
from the westward to spot thin hundred
y miles Of the winter quarters ars that
Investigator Capt Mcclure reached that position in the
spring OF 1867 and afr hoE efully waiting years
complete the remainder Of that distance luckily deposit
found at Winter aarbor by Captain Kelet people, last
year Early in the season hardy few despatched
IN m the Refolute with the Thermometer at thirty to
give TO the Ice bound mariners hope If rescue and
sir, viii easily understand how words must fail 70 convey
On schooling srsngsr their fellow osunrvmsn
preaobng them ths desert taste OF ice which sur
sosnded u ship Captain Clure describes it
ment 10 be fe but once mans life. The sick crawl
cd om their hammocks deck to behold the stranger
and looks, Dot words, sou alone convey welcome
at hand few day. later, and the Of the Invest
gator would have been dispersed to seek rstrext by the
bly, have reached their destination va I'd and
suacated as they wsre 1t vas soon determined to send
party Of invads: uuder Lieut. Cresswe to the Reso-
nts, tain Kellett) and that officer lost time in
forwarding the hsu.enant to Beecby Island with
the de- patches of Captain Mcclure. On my arrival
thsre ! appointed him to the Phoenix, and he
has been the bearer to this country of those
dispatches, with the journals charts &C., of the
eaptsin of the Investigator Lieutenant Crssswel and
Lieutenant Wypiatt being the frat individuals who have
ever passed round the great continent Of America Tue
Journal Of Captain lure, which, senior officer at
Beechy isis nd mad the privilege OF perusng before it
was despatched 10 the Admiralty is deeply Interesting
and contains such full and minute of their
ventures ard discoveries, that feel have little right
interfere with what has already appeared ia the public
print, description that carries with It truthulness
and GRANDEUR Illustrating it does the pes and hard
SHIPS OF This lsngh ned voyage cannst be entirely
appreciated than 1t is by all those whose experience
the Arctic Seas has given them the ability TO judse Of
me hair hrtsdth escapes Captain Mcclure and his
comrades ave gone gh. so much has been ten
and charts in thousands u. trstug TIN marvellous voy
age Of the lnvestgaor) have been widely circulated
that 1t souo be presum pous in TO do at this
late period than briefly 70 show upon tia large chart
hangs before you and which has been ably prepsred
BY Nr Arrow mitb,) tbs route by which the Northwest
passsge may ct be pished and the rack BY which
lients, ant Cetsxen and Leutensnt Wyniart