[From the Colonial Observer, January 7.]

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 48, 4 February 1843, Page 191

[From the Colonial Observer, January 7.]

The Duchess of Kent has brought news from. India to the 15th October. At that date Generals Pollock and Nott were rapidly advancing towards Cauool. The prisoners had been removed a considerable distance into the interior. It was rumoured that a chief, who was independent of Akhbar Khan, bad siezed them, and that they would be given up when the British arrived at Cabool. Authentic intelligence had been received in the camp at Jellalabad of the doings of the forces in their advance towards Cabool. General Nott achieved a most splendid victory over the Affghau force under Shumshoodeen Khan, Governor pf Ghuznie, on the 30th August, killing Shumshoadeen, taking his guns, two iv number, routing his arm}', and burning his camp. Ghuznie is now a heap of ruins, and it is supposed that General Nott would leave that place for Cabool on or before the 10th September. Pollock was expected to be there before the 14th or 15th. Shumshoodeen's followers fled in every direction. Tavo Bombay cavalry officers were killed and two wounded on the 30th. Nott and his army are in the highest spirits, and they do not expect to meet with any resistance at Cabool. A skirmish had taken place at Jugdulluck on the Bth instant, in .which Capatin Nugent, Deputy Assistant Commissary General, was killed by a ball in the head, General Sale struck by a spent ball, and about thirty soldiers wounded. Mahomed • Shah Khan, satisfied with the superiority of our arms and strength, had retired to his fort at Lugman. It is expected, however, that the English will pay Lugman a visit, oust the wily old villain who -so long had possession of the prisoners, and raze this fort, with all the other forts, to the ground. 64 men were killed and wounded. It is with feelings of horror we hear that some Afigban fiends burnt a man of H.M. 44th, whom they had possession of, in presence of the column as it was advancing on the heights ; and fearing the flames might not prove fatal before our men reached hiiu, they cut his throat as they fled ! Several other atrocities have been perpetrated. As Monsieur Peyschier, the French merchant, was proceeding from Jellalabad to Pc jscher with a Sikh guard, he was met by a party oT Affghan freebooters opposite Alee Baghan. After a short scuffle the Sikhs ran off, leaving poor Peyschier to protect bis little boy, about eight years old. It is said the villains killed the child, and the poor father had to carry the corpse before him oa horseback to Dhakka, where it was interre^^ ' A letter from -Pe jhawur says that Coniq&vibtrt, of the sth L.O, left that place (ou .nick-certifi-cate) for the Provinces on the 7th instant "ssfc> 40,000 rounds' of British ammunition* were, found on the field on which Shumshoodeen h*Jl. ventured to encounter General Nott. '.-'/„