All this while, another little noticed British force is doing.
something either very magnificent or outrageously foolhardy, we do not quite know which. General Hughes, who was sent with a weak division from Candahar to Khelat-i-Ghilzai, has occupied that town and fortress, has disbanded the Glvilzai militia, has left a garrison there, and is creeping along towards Ghuzni, with a. force which, according to the military writer of the Times, must be beneath 800 men. He is almost under the shadow of the hills, his communications must be unguarded, and he is advancing on a town of which the Afghans are proud, and which the Ghilzais, who destroyed us in 1842, are almost bound in honour to defend. If General Hughes succeeds in occupying it, and contrives to touch General Roberts, even with a few mounted messengers, he will have performed a marvellous feat,—made a march into space, as it were, which might, for all he knew, have been filled with ogres. He may come to grief yet, and if General Roberts is checked, he certainly will ; but he deserves to succeed.
