INDIA.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 24, 20 August 1842, Page 95

INDIA.

*i [From the Sydney Herald."] \ We have received news from Calcutta to trie 1 5th March, being three weeks later tljian that which had previously come to hsnd. kThe only important extracts we giVe bdliw, from which it will be seen that Gei^eral Sale still held his ground, and no don bt would continue to do so until he was reinforced.' • JELLELLABAD. fhe following is an extract' from a letter dated (General Pollock's) Camp, Showulser, J?—>ruary 25 : — " Expresses were received in camp last night from Jellellabad, mentioning that Sale had another engagement with Ackbar Khan's men, and gave them a thrashing, killing, it is said, 500. However this may be (for the Politicals are devilish close now), something is in the wind, for orders have been issued last night for «U to hold themselves in readiness for a sudden move, and to pack their traps into the smallest possible compass, expressly with the intention of relieving Jellellabad at the shortest notice. It is even rumoured that we may have to make Odoar of it, and not be allowed to take anyflCng beyond a few days' sqpply of food. However, this is not, I think, very likely. About the Pass various reports are current; but one thing is certain, that the arrangements for ite purchase are not yet completed, and it is

Still a matter of doubt whether we shall march through quietly or have to force it." We do not credit the report above given of an engagement, because, though our letter is among the latest that the regular dawk could "bring, the Government must have news two or three days subsequent to the 25th, and no such accounts have reached it by express. — Englishman, March 15.