LATEST AFGHAN INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 3315, 4 February 1879, Page 3

LATEST AFGHAN INTELLIGENCE.

..-.■: . V ; ; W BOMBAY, -Dec. 29. - ; News received from' Cabul states that there • are .eight' regimeritsf ; of infantry there, but that the 'troops are not inclined ;to fight. The Mirakhn, or Masfcerof the HPrse (the officijil whp met Major at AH Musjid)V has -been attempting to induce the ; . hill tribes ! to exert themselves actively against ■' our troops J '■ l Anatteinptwas made to canture him, 'buti hfe fled : to the ' more lofty parts of Safed Koh range. . ; ; The tribes; about the Khyber Pass having given" serious annoyance by harrassing camp followers and stragglers, and attacking bag- ' gage convoys, an expedition was sent against them,- which destroyed some of the : offenders; ;yillages. , .;- r ; -J> , , r -Authentia iiews , arrayed on , the ; 21st Jnst. that the Ameer,' accompanied by the remaining officers v pf the Russian ,. mission, had fled to Turkestah^ T VTakub. !Khan 'had been released ahoL hajd been : r ieft a^ ■ Cabul in command. ' • The ; Ameer seems to haye : lost all anthonty ■before .his departure, large numbers, of his ■ . soldiers having deserted. ; ; : \ r ..-, Sir S.Brovme.has inarched into Jellalabad, tiie puftwidar'_of ; which place .invited; his '"' 'i^sistanpe ;.to_ ''. ppt^^ down ;' theV anarchy, which reigned, "there... On arriving; at'; Jellalabad, whichVw'as'-^enter^d '■ on the '22iid," all the notables came to^ineet General Browne and his fooops outside'the town. All was quiet, ~ and:"the. inhabitants showed^ a friendl^dis- .-.:;■ position.'" The;,site^f or ! a cantoriment .-? was chosen" between" flic town and the river. " At Jumrppd large. numberSjOf our prisoners are employed making' roads: : . A new frontier ' .brigade, under, .Colonel Jenkins, has been f6nned.'; J - :^' :^'i ' ; • ! " The European ;; tTopps 'continue in* ; good - health,, but the "cold is very trying to the iiativesi' ' Comparatively few men] however, •■/'iure'la.^tlie'no^pitali"'' ■'•'■"' ' " . r. ; : -\ ;; is strongly held by the .combined' r tr6ops of Generals Stewart and > J^>3dulpii, and supplies are coming in freely. ■ ■ ; BtiTnor" states' that the: A^eer tas;,in-; '-.; 'struct^d'' the' ixibes in this : direction ndt to, , oppose out advance as 'far as Kandahar,- but afterwards to at;ta6k>nd molest .the . convoys •^|(pi the"rearl' r ' v:''u :'' : .;' '^, ,'::.-'' ' '" ; " X •^^lt is stated 'that the Ameer has sent his family and treasure to Maimiana in the i north ;.| fof'^Afghan'istanl^' 1 -. '■■'■■i ■■■ f '< .'M '••.■■>'• : / f, v ;■' It has' been ascertained that the Mirakhor, has been poisoner 'by a follower. -