In looking over extracts from Indian papers, we find contra-
dictory accounts of the condition and prospects of the army marching against Affghanistan. It is said that numbers of men, straggling from the main body in search of food, are cut off by tribes of Belooches, who issue out of caves and jungles, and carry off camels, arms, ammunition, and provisions. One account from Burkkar says—" The Bombay army is a complete rabble, scattered about the country in every direction." The Agra Uhlebar- " The situation of the army is, we regret to say, becoming critical. The ad- vanced columns arc in a very crippled state, from the loss of carriages and want of supplies; and instead of approaching the Bolan Pass in that vigorous efficiency so much required in a difficult country, they enter it with very inadequate means of transport and an exhausted commissariat."
The condition of the army is represented as excellent in other accounts. Difficulties vanished as the defiles were cleared, and news of the occupation of Candahar was daily expected at Madras.
Calcutta papers received in Paris mention the discovery of a conspiracy, fostered by the Shah of Persia among the chiefs of llindostan. It is also said that the Persian Monarch had sent 5,000 men to drive the British from Bushire, and marched at the head of 40,000 men against Herat.
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