The month since the departure of the April mail witnessed
a total change in the shifting scene to the North-west of ladle. Ghuznee has surrendered to the enemy : Colonel PALMER and his single battalion of Hindoo troops had evacuated the place; and, what is worse—for it was only a matter of wonder that he had held out so long—they have not since been heard of. The story of Ghuznee appears to be a modified version of the story of Cabul. This anticipated evil is more than compensated by the improved position of affairs at Jellalabad. General SALE, the veteran of Dearly half a century's service, had crowned his gallant defence of the beleaguered fortress by beating off the enemy with an utter tout ; and after that he was relieved by General Poesoca, who had forced the formidable Khyber Pass, for the first time in history ; having penetrated with a small army the defile which gave pause to NADIR Shah and a huge host, and which has hitherto been opened alone by golden tribute to the denizens of its rocks. The strength- ened force, thus far on the road to Cabul, was met by reports of a new revolution in the place, and the poisoning of Shah SOOJAII, our doubtful ally. If true, the great difficulty has been removed with the imbecile tyrant.
The future is a blank. What course the new Governor-General intended to take has not been indicated. There are to be, indeed, all sorts of inquiries into the conduct of military and political officers ; which, end as they may, in censures or compliments to in- dividual officers, can hardly throw much light on the real source of all the disasters—the policy, of which those individuals were the instruments, in some very few cases possibly the instigators, but in no case the directors.
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