CABUL.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 5, 16 August 1842, Page 4

CABUL.

We have the following items in a letter from the Lodianah quarter, and they are likely enough to be correct. After mentioning the return of M'Larcn’s brigade, and stating that there is good reason to suppose that at least thirty-eight officers have fallen at Cabul, and expressing fears that the Kliyber Pass will be closed on Colonel Wild, our correspondent says ; —“ You have no idea of the excitement that prevails in this quarter about Cabul. The dispatches are written in French, and can led in a quill, and so strict is the search made by the insurgents after letter carriers, that any man caught going in the direction of Peshwur is stripped and examined from head to foot, even his shoes being cut in pieces, for fear they might contain intelligence. Dost Mahomed is detained at Saharunpore for the present. His eldest son Ackbar Khan, chief promoter of the rebellion. A new king proclaimed at Cabul, and the murderer of Sir A. Burnes made commander-in-chief of the rebel forces.”— Englishman, Jan. 5.

Steam. —The great drawback to the successful carrying on of steam navigation between Sydney and Port Phillip, Hobart Town, Morcton Bay, Auckland, Wellington, the Bay of Islands, and other distant places, is the great expense of fuel, all of which has to be sent from this end of the trip. In England, a recent discovery known as “Grant’s Patent Fuel,” a preparation of coal dust and tar made into the shape of bricks, is coming fast into use, and is understood to be the cause of immense saving in expense; the government patronize it extensively. In this colony we have ample materials for manufacturing this aiticle; there are thousands of tons of coal-dust at Newcastle, and the Gas Company arc daily making tar; under these circumstances we think it would be a good speculation to start a manufactory of this description. The process is stated to be simple, and we have no doubt that persons could be found who understand it, and as the demand would be extensive, there would be a fair prospect of good profit.— Sydney Herald. Murder at Guam. —The melancholy intelligence of the murder of Captain Nichols, of the Brig Martha, belonging to this port, and also of the supercargo, second mate, and two of the seameu, has been brought in Sydney by the Exporter and Tyrian, two vessels which have been engaged in the sandal-wood trade, and came into port, from the Isle of Pines yesterday. This melancholy affair does not appear to have been at all premeditated, but arose from a blow inflicted by Captain Nichols on a young chief, on discovering that his pocket had been picked by some one of the natives, while walking on the island of Murrce. Two natives were shot. Captain Nichols was murdered and then eaten, and the snpcrcargo and others lost their lives by drowning, having taken to the water to save themselves, the natives having previously taken possession of their boats. The Marthais coming on to Sydney immediately. Necromancy. —ln a very old copy of a work on necromancy, is the following quaint passage : —“ Question —How to raise the devil ? Answer —Contradict your wife.” A New York journal states that a boy having got his father’s snuff-box, indulged so immodei-ately in the titallallng dust, that he sneezed himself to jricccs. Ilis remains having been gathered up, a coroner’s inquest was held over them, when the cn’ightened jury returned a verdict of “ Snuffed out.”