The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-05-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RETREAT ON JELLALABAD.—SINGULAR RIVER.-It was the general's original intention to halt at Begramee, close to the Loghur river, and about five miles from Cabool (reiterated was the advice of our Affghan friends—alas, bow little heeded—to push on at all risks through the Khoord Cabool the first day) ; but the whole country being a swamp encrusted with ice, we went on about a mile further, and halted at about four p.m. There were no tents save two or three small palls that arrived. All scraped away the snow as best they might, to make a place to lie down on. The evening and night were intensely cold ; no food for man or beast procurable, except a few handfuls of bhoosa, for which we paid from five to ten rupees. Captain Johnson, in our great distress, kindly pitched a small pall over us, but it was dark and we had few pegs; the wind blew in under; the sides, and I felt myself gradually stiffening. I left the bedding, which was occupied by Mrs. Sturt and her husband, and doubled up my legs in a straw chair of Johnson's,. covering myself with my poshteen. Mr. Mien and the ayah fully occupied the remainder of the space. We only went in all six miles, and had to abandon two H.A. guns on the road; we were also much delayed by the bullocks that dragged the planks in case the Loghur bridge should have been destroyed. We had, however, positive information that it was all right, and so it proved. Previous to leaving cantonments, as we must  abandon most of our property, Stud was anxious to save-z; few of his most valuable hooks, and to try the experiment of sending them to a friend in he city. Whilst he selected these, I found, amongst the ones thrown- aside, Campbell's poems, which opened at Hohenlinden, and, strange to day, one verse actually haunted me day and night : " Few, few shall part wher many meet, The snow shall be their winding sheet; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre." I am far from being a believer in presentiments, but this verse is never absent from my thoughts. Heaven forbid that our  our Await .used ; but we have commenced . retreat so badly, that we may reasonably have our doubts re ly Sale's  FITGIIANS  he celerity with whit  h troops are  raised is quit,  astonishing to us, who are accustomed-to see  recruits drilled for a length of time. Here every man is born a soldier; every child has his knife,—that weapon which has proved so destructive in the hands of a hostile peasantry, incited against us by the moollahs, who"threaten eternal perdition to all who do not join in the cause of the Ghazeeas ;  1, filled with honris, is the recompence for ever; man who falls in a religious war. With them, the only expense attending the soldier consists in his pay, which is scanty ; his horse, if he have one, is his own ; and every AfFghan is armed completely with some three or four of these knives, of different sizes—from that as long as a sword to a small dagger—pistols, and a juzail ; which latter predomi Tins Ov6rlaua NIAII, which would 'cave :Bombay o'4 010 la Ult., will be due in London at the end of the week. The India Mail, via Marseilles, will be detained till Satur, day next.  In the Excise Court a few days ago a man was fined in a considerable penalty for selling pepper without a license.  The Chester Chronicle of Friday says that a respite has been received for the convict Ford, who was sentenced to death for murder and rape at the late Chester Assizes.  STATE or