The only intelligence of importance received this week from Afghanistan
comes from Candahar. General Stewart appears to have halted his troops but a few days in that city, during which, however, two attempts at assassination were made by fanatics, one of whom shot at Major St. John, but missed him, while another stabbed Lieutenant Willis, RA., and a serjeant. The town, however, remained tranquil, and on the 15th, General Stewart, dividing his force into two columns, despatched one, under General Biddulph, to Girisk, on the Helmond, and led another himself to Khelat-i-Ghilzai. The latter place is the great fortress on the road to Ghuznee, while the former is the ford across the Helmond on the way to Herat which the correspondents with the force have mentioned from the first as their ultimate destination. The Times' correspondent at Lahore—an experienced man—is anxious as to the provisioning of Candahar ; speaks of the con- sumption of camels as so great that the area of supply is becom- ing small, anticipates a campaign lasting through the summer, and alludes to the floods which in July and August interrupt communication between Sukkur and Dadur, at the mouth of the Bolan. All this, like the advance of General Biddulph, points to designs much more extensive than are as yet acknowledged in this country. Nothing whatever has been received from Cabul, beyond a report, becoming a little tiresome from repetition, that the troops there are disaffected.
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