The intelligence from Afghanistan, though slight, is very un-
satisfactory. The Viceroy has deemed it necessary to take the extraordinary step of deporting Yakoob Khan, still nominally our ally and an independent prince, to India, where he will remain as a prisoner of State. He was carried away ou Tuesday in profound secrecy by a body of cavalry to Peshawur. On Monday, the Times' correspondent announced that General Roberts had appointed Mahommed Hussein, a son of the great Ameer Dost Mahommed, Governor of the Maidan, a district thirty miles from Cabul ; and on Thursday, the Daily News' correspon- dent announced that he had been murdered "by the regulars and the hill-men," a vivid illustration of their hostility, as they risk a blood-feud with the Barukzyes. The Standard's cor- respondent also mentions that the garrison of Ghuznee, swollen to 7,000 men, with seven guns, is advancing from that fortress, and trying to join the 3,000 men who have been for some time advancing from Kohistau upon Cabul. General Baker is watching to prevent the junction, and General Roberts will, no doubt, give a good account of 10,000 Afghans ; but they may encourage the hill-men, and even the population of Cabal, to rise. We wish General Roberts, whose sepoys must be half frozen, had 2,000 more Europeans with him, or a clearer road to Peshawur. It is in winter-fighting that a small force taken away from its fires suffers most. Will Lord Cranbrook, who is within six hours of General Roberts, just ask him direct what is the truth about the supply of great-coats, and then pass a night in Hyde Park without one, and then issue any orders and reproofs he deems needful ? The Recording Angel will pardon him if, as is probable, he breaks the Third Commandment,
