An intermediate arrival from India, overland, brings intelligence calculated to
exasperate the alarms excited by the last accounts. Nothing certain, indeed, is known. Sir ROBERT PEEL said in the House of Commons, on Wednesday night, that no official intelli- gence had been received ; but that the private accounts were trust- worthy, and that they were such as to produce "anxiety." The most contradictory reports are current,-that the British troops at Cabot were starving, that they had offered to surrender, and that they had made a successful rally ; that General SALE, at Jellalabad, was short of provisions, and that he had plenty. This much only is known, that the troops at Cabul had not been relieved, and that they had not obtained any position so improved as to be at once recognized as such ; that an attempt to relieve them had failed, troops being repulsed by the severity of the moun- tain-climate; and that General SALE was still shut up at Jellalabad, whether well or ill victualled.
The capture of one more town in China is a poor set-off against these thickening alarms.
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