The Indian mail arrived at Marseilles on Tuesday, and the
news comes over by degrees. It appears to be gloomy enough. The troops at Jellalabad are said to be " decimated " by sickness, extreme heat, the want of food, and the simooms ; and it is reported that the Governor-General had ordered the Com- mander of the troops, General POLLOCK, to act on his own discretion. The permission looks ominous of baffled counsels, if it is true. There are those who assume that it is, with an eagerness which betrays their wish for further disaster, however dreadful to the nation and to the sufferers, merely in order that some disgrace may be brought upon Lord ELLENBOROUGH, the Governor-General appointed by Sir ROBERT PEEL. It is the very party whose organs evince this revolting wish that our troops may be turned to carrion to be a reproach to Lord ELLENBOROUGH, who originated the war and these successive calamities ; a war in its nature barren of all useful result, and already signalized by disaster not to be excelled— the slaughter in the Cabul retreat, during Lord AucaLamp's ad- ministration. We have not yet the facts before us for a judgment on Lord ELLENBOROUGH : the case of the Whigs and their Gover- nor is before us sufficiently to show that they should rather sit in sackcloth and ashes for the consequences of their acts, than hunt for further national misfortunes to make a gibe against their suc- cessors, and to evade disgrace by making others share it.
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