14 FEBRUARY 1846, Page 11

The Indian overland mail by way of Marseilles was received

in London yesterday. It had been delayed by some accident to the Iberia steamer, on the way from Alexandria to Malta. The accounts are upon the whole _ mere amplifications of those already received by way of Trieste, without any additional facts; and the mail conveys no letters or despatches from the Governor-General; but the Times of this morning publishes, exclu- sively, the following summary, derived from " unquestionable authority "-

" The advanced guard of the British army was attacked, on the evening of the 18th of December, by the Sikh troops. The enemy was repulsed, and driven back for upwards of three miles, with the loss of seventeen pieces of cannon. This affair occurred at Moodkee, a place about twenty-two miles to the North-east of Ferozepore. The next day the British troops advanced towards Ferozepore; and, having opened a communication with Sir John Littler who commanded at that post, and having been joined by the corps under that, attacked the enemy's

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entrenched position, at four o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st. The first line of intrenchments was carried • but the night was so dark that further operations were suspended. At daylight on the 22d, the second line of intrenclunents was attacked, and all the enemy's defences were, in half an hour, taken in-reverse, and the guns captured. On the afternoon of the 22d the enemy advanced with their infantry, and hordes of camels carrying swivels, for the purpose of retaking the guns they had previously lost. All the attacks, however, which they made were repulsed; and after a cannonade which had no result, they withdrew, and retired to a place called Sultankhanwalla, about ten miles from Ferozepore, where they had still some heavy artillery. The British army would be joined by two bat- talions of Native infantry, which were not in the previous actions; and the enemy's position at Sultankhanwalla was to be attacked on the 24th. No accounts have been received of the specific loss on either side, nor is the name of any officer mentioned. The captured guns amounted to sixty-five counted, and there were some more in a village on the British right."

On the authority of private letters, the Morning Herald mentions a fact of considerable importance to merchants trading with. India or China- " Notice had been given that the Company's treasury was shut, and that no exchange would be issued until further orders. This measure, it is concluded, is the consequence of the war in the Pwijaub requiring all the disposable funds; and there is no doubt but it would be followed by an advance in the rates."