INDIA.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 31, 8 October 1842, Page 123

INDIA.

- [From the Port Phillip Patriot .] TOTAL DEFEAT OF THE AFFGHANS. Through the polite attention of Skene Craig, Esq., of the firm of -Craig and Broadfoot, we have received Singapore papers to the 2d June, received by the Guiana, arrived late last night, from which we obtain the glorious intelligence from the* seat of war in India, of the entire defeat of the Affghan troops under Mahomed Akhbar Khan by the garrison of Jellellabad. The following is the official notification of this important event, the details we must reserve to our next : — " Notification. — Secret Department, Benares, 2lßt April. — The Governor-General feels assured that every subject of the British Government will peruse with the deepest interest and satisfaction the report he now communicates of the entire defeat of the Affghan troops under Mahomed Akhbar Khan, by the garrison of Jellellabad. " That illustrious garrison which, by its constancy in enduring privation, and by its valour in action, has already obtained for itself the sympathy and respect of every true soldier, has now, sallying forth from its walls, under the command of its gallant leader, Major-General Sir Robert Sale, thoroughly beaten in open field an enemy of more than three times its numbers, taken the standards of their boasted cavalry, destroyed their camp, and recaptured four guns, which, under circumstances which can never again occur, had during the last winter fallen into their hands. " The Governor-General cordially congratulates the army upon the return of victory to its ranks. He is convinced that there, as in all former times, it will be found, while, as at Jellellabad, the Europeans and native troops mutually supporting each other, and evincing equal discipline and valour, are led into action .by officers in whom they justly confide. " The Governor-General directs that the substance of this notification, and of Major-General Sir Robert Sale's report, be carefully made known to all the troops, and that a ealute of twenty-one guns be fired at every principal station of the army. — By order of the Right Honorable the Governor-General of India. "T. H. Maddock, Sec. to the Government of India." Lieutenant-Colonel Dennie, C.8., 13th Light Infantry, was the only officer killed in the victory at Jellellabad. Shah Soojah, the King of the Affghans, has, it is said, been murdered by his own subjects. We were right in our last number in construing " the latest news" of our contemporary the Times, to mean that General Pollock had forced the Khybur Pass, and was on his way to the assistance of General Sale; that gallant officer, however, had managed to vanquish the enemy without assistance.