THE AFGHANISTAN WAR.

Evening Post, Volume XVI, Issue 284, 30 November 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE AFGHANISTAN WAR.

The Bombay correspondent of the Standard telegraphs that the following: is the personnel of the stnff for the expeditionary army as at present decided:— The column concentrating at Peshawur, 25,000 strong, will be commanded by General Crawford Trotter Chamberlain, CS 1., at present Commander of the Oude Division. Ho is brother of Sir Neville Chamberlain, and distinguished himself much in the last Afghan war. The garrison of Quettah is being reinforced by 3000 troops, British and native; 4000 troops are assembling at Tullj the reserve of 6000 men will be collected at Mooltan early in October. General Roberts commands the column at Kohat. Colonels Cobbe and Tyler will each command a brigade of Infantry. Colonel Olough will have the cavalry brigade. The Head-Quarter Staff will consist of Major Galbraith, 85th Foot, Assistant AdjutantGoneral; Colonel Perkins, Chief Engineer. Lieutenants Spratt and Childers will be the Field Engineers of the force; Captain Wynnefiold will ba the Telegraph Officer, and Lord William Beresford one of the Aides-de-Cainp. General Biddulph will command the Quettah column, having as his brigadiers Colonel Appleyard and Colonel Nutall, of the Bombay army, with probably Colonel Fane, of the Staff Corps, in command of the cavalry brigade. Major Wolseloy will be Assistant Adjutant-General ; Captain R. G. Stewart, Assistant Quarter-master-General ; Colonel Kitchens, Chief Engineer; and Captain Bisset, Aide-de-Camp. Colonel Stewart commands the reserve column, and Colonel Baxter and Colonol Hughes will be brigadiers of the infantry. Colonel A. HiJls is appointed Assistant Adjutant-Goneral, and Captain E. F. Chapman Assistant Quarter-master-General. The following troops, in addition to those before detailed, have been ordered up to Kohat :— F Battery A Brigade, and 11th Battery 9th Brigade, under Colonel Alfred Lindsay ; and Bth Battery 4th Brigade, and the 3rd Peshawur Mountain Battery, under Colonel Le Mesurier. The sth Company of Sappers and the 82nd Pioneers are ordered to march at once to Quettah. The A Battery B Brigade, G Battery 4th Brigade, and the stb, 9th, and 11th Batteries 11th Brigade, will join the reserve at Mooltan. A garrison battery from Madras and one from Bombay, with a siego train, will probably be despatched to Sukkur.

Mere 'airy Nothings. — Bald heads. "Attontion, soldiers!" exclaimed a militicaptain," and prepare to form a cubic square !" Darwin Notwithstanding.-— Our ancestors the monkeys could not have been ao ignorant, after all; thoy were all educated in tho higher branches. Another Lamont.— They wore having a snarl, and sho asked him if there was anything in the past he would like to recall. He heartlessly answered, " Yes, the day you first refused me."