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4 ow tanti 
: Ecy jee The H 
j ag of the Sultan. | 
ES 7 Greeks and Catholics had organised a strong 
for the pu J oped of enen the three principalities of ‘the 
Danube int en eke o be placed u 
tection oF the g 
ong the eign 1 ie 
already turned their attention yh =! Austrian i aye 
uke of Leuchtenb 
was saison at pani? 
ople. 
ance. s from i Mlexatars state that Sam 
received instructions from 
Marriage between Said Pac 
Betier al Nott, (vith Diehl fof my fo 
_- ¥anced in the Nan 
cheering as they c 
with great regularity 
were effec tually cl red. Prep 
e for an attack on the f fortress bat one our nasty 
4 y had been reduced by t 
E a desolate heap of by aye < ie ere ten and other 
Saas 
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‘amount to 1 50,00 00, ind t 
four care to procure fresh supplies for the tt poada $ of 
ee a ntermediate Overlahd Mail from India 
ot news from Batata f 
in town on Tuesday, bri i 
; of the capture of Gh 
jieces of intelligence of suc 
before bee 
ia. ile 
ritish mpir e, 
to consolidate its w relfare fo 
tails relate to the successés 0 
proceedings we had buta Ser ace 
st of October. It appears tl 
Governor of Ghuzne 
a hill of some ledatio 
y il thei 
but robberies are pie nt in the n ry 
Khyber Pass. The followiig extract from a Jellalabad 
Oth inst. will be pérused wi 
| tol forward to pp us is ety eng by Gen. Pollock 
as from 4,000 to 5,000 m ur loss was rather heavy ; 
onwards, and does t appear to have encountered any 
arth opposition until his arrival, on the 13th September 
n the Tezeen valley, where an army of 16,000 men, com- 
sembled to meet him. A desperate fight ensued: we have 
no particulars of the “details, but the result was, that the 
é€ 
s 
Ive Ghilzie chiefs are said » two guns, 
three standards, and a large q ypf ammunition and 
stores were taken by our troops. Our loss was 32 killed and 
130 wounded. e names of Captain Lushington of her 
Majesty’s 9th, Captain Geils and Lieut. Montgomery 
of the 60th Native Infantry, and Lieut. Norton, 35th 
Light Infantry, are among the list of ae wounded. 
Akhbar Kha an fied in the diréction of Bam On the 
Boodkhak ; oti the next-he encamped on the tace-course 
rod Yann PB ae the 16th witnessed his triumphant entry 
tot alls. 
€ city was a prod ser The Larter who had beet 
there on the removal of their companio Bameean 
were restored by the Kuzzilbashes. Gen. ollock had sen 
iffidencé in mentioning the n e of Major-General Sir 
R. Sale, whose heroic conduct in A tha field standé so aoe 
in need of my commendation. On'this occasion 
eye-witness to the peraanal intrepidity aa this highly “Bie: 
a uished igs as he led up the heig s in advance of | an 
iment i He said es 
a esp atch as follows :—* It ratifies me to be enabled to 
t up ave ot 
that we have thus signally defeated, with one divifiok 
of e 
inveterate of our Seems, the original ‘instigators. and 
principal actors in t which entailed foe 
disasters on our troops last winter.” The Governor- 
of the Government and of all the people of India, 
Major-General Pollock and ae ik oe ache Nott, 
d all the officers and troops under respective 
a ps 
commands, his grateful and hear fale "aehaowlede 
i : 
ents of the im e 
He’ also directed that the successes rhanistan be 
fully made eget to all the troops, at all the stations of 
thie army, a at at those stations a salute of twenty- 
their a’ 
dly effect amongst t t A 
ery rries 
went as far as the e bil, three miles on the other side of 
Gundamuck, where it is said our soldiers of the 44th, and 
f Artillery and 5th Cavalry, made their last 
stand, for the purpose o ing the bo xposed to 
public gaze. They buried (within a square made of stones) 
162 bodies, and covered them over with San- 
day mortiing another party was d 
buri n, 80 that 232 skeletons have at en 
ed in their earthly tenement.” st subject tob 
noticed is the report that Henborough has deter- 
td E 0 
mined on hanging Akhbar Khan, on bri —— ome to him 
the murder of Sir William M‘Naghte 
of fatetfigetice fet the expedition 
in China comes down to the Ist September from Nan- 
king, and the 10th from Hong-kong and Macao. The 
us 
operations against that city. 
Woosung on the 6th Tay, and on the 14th arrived or 
= amg which a fire opened on the lesing 
were instantly silenced, and the *hole 
f the defences yed. On the 20th the ~vesels 
t of the city of Chin-Keang-foo, which com- 
m he + e of the Grand Canal ; th t morning 
the troops were disembarked, and marched to : 
The Chinese, after firing a few distant volleys, fled from 
e with precipitation, an 
country. The city itself, however, vas manfully de ded 
e Tartar soldiers, who pr d the contest fo 
everal resisting with desperate valour the com- 
bined efforts of the th brigades, 
for f marine seamen. At length opposition 
d 
ceased, and ere nightfall we were complete master 3 of t 
place, Chin-Keang-foo, like Amoy, was most strongly 
Se 
posed the per consisted of not less tha 00 men, 
and of these t 1,000, and 40 snrveriagg were killed 
a Th 
casualties was heavy: three officers of d fo 
viz., Col. Driver, Capt. Collinson, and Lie te pees 
and one of the Naval, Major Uniacke, R.M., were 
ceeded up the river Yang-tze, , having anchored off 
pe avy i repttations for "bolibardia ing that part of 
pra ying for a rp reer of hostilities, which was granted, as 
arnived ey were three, viz :—I. 
natives. Of this treaty the following are the most im- 
portant ep berg :—1. Lasting vig and tiendip be- 
tween the empires. 2. ag to pay 21,000,000 
ed 
ptblished. 4, The island of Hong Kong to be ceded in 
perpetuity to Her Britannic Majesty, her Le and suc- 
cessors. 5. All subjects of her Britannic ty (whe- 
ther natives of Europe or India) who may be ebottiied | in 
an 
lease 
lished by the yn tet under his oo gol sign manual 
Beal t6 all Chinese subjects, on unt of their 
atts 2 held Service at he courte wich, or resided 
under, he the British Government its —— 
u 
equality ithotgit t the officers of both Governments, 
On the Emperor’s assent being received to this treaty, 
Best 
n rt cou a  atae hea 
but that he afterwards yielded that point. 
sioners are described as anxious ice roe of ade Belish 
‘ rg tee oS Ae own tiene 
pe gee BN at ee ae nh ar ii don the’ 
i t a 
sof ie festy betore be would oith rat e es a. ‘ef the 
opium claims will, itis si ted, be adjusted acco 
ig | oe aaisuat t fixed nths ago "the British Govern 
| ment. It was s the edit Co 
