27 OCTOBER 1838, Page 7

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The Post this morning, in a second edition, mentions a report re- ceived by way of Malta from Bombay, that the troops of the Shah of Persia had been defeated in a battle before Herat,—the siege of which place was said some time ago to have been abandoned. A Russian

officer was killed in the battle. In all the East Indian Presidencies, warlike preparations were carried on with great activity, and to a very large extent.