By a decree published yesterday in the Moniteur, a sixth
company of the third battalion is to be immediately added to one hundred regiments of the Lino.
We understand that contracts were accepted yesterday by the War Office for wooden houses for the army in the Crimea. The houses are to be of a size sufficient to accommodate twenty men in each house, and on the whole are to provide lodging for twenty thousand men. So press- ing arc the authorities in enforcing expedition on the contractors, that the latter have undertaken to have two hundred ready for shipment on Monday nezt.—.Daily Hews.
The overland mail brings advices from Bombay to the 14th October. Intelligence from the North-western Provinces, supposed to be authentic, reports that the Russians Lad captured Kokan, known in history as the birthplace and patrimony of the Emperor Saber ; that the object of the invasion is a commercial one, and that it will pay. The Shahzada of Bekaa is reported to have applied for assistance to the British Govern.. ment, through Major Edwardes, the Peshawur Commisaioner. From Persia we learn that the Shah is disposed to side with England in the present contest, on condition that the Western Powers, or England alone, include him in the alliance, and undertake not to make a separate peace.
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