of that general, and
fresh levies were said to be descending the passes from Peshawur and
from Candehar towards Scinde. Reports had arrived in England that all
the Affghan chieftains were in arms, and that the war of the prophet
was proclaimed. The Affghan infantry were without discipline, and out
of their own fastnesses it was presumed that they would not display
courage; but some supposed that, subjected to the Sikh discipline, and
led by Sikh officers, as well as by their own chiefs, they would prove
formidable, being physically a fine race, and naturally brave. The
reinforcements sent by them, however, were chiefly composed of cavalry,
and their efforts as auxiliary to our enemies were too tardy to
influence materially the fortunes of the war; by degrees these facts
became known at home, and the absence, in Lord Gough's despatches,
of any alarm, and the entire confidence breathed through them and the
official tidings from the Indian government, at last wholly reassured
the English public.

The following is the list of ordnance and ordnance stores captured from,
the enemy in the action of the 13th of January:--

Six of these guns had carriages and limbers, and six were without
limbers; all of the pattern nearly in use with our field-pieces.

Two ammunition carriages (one partly destroyed by explosion), one
platform-cart, one hundred and forty-four cartridge-liners fixed to
shot, sixteen cartridges unfixed, and eighteen port-fires, were also
taken.

_Assault of Dullah by General Wheeler_.--Lord Gough was unable
to undertake any active operations after the severe losses at
Chillianwallah, until he should receive reinforcements. These he
expected from Mooltan, under Whish, and also a brigade of Wheeler's
force, which had been actively engaged in another direction, where he
had been detained by the obstinacy of a rebel chief named Earn Singh.
This redoubtable chieftain was ascendant in the Baree Doab, and he
occupied a strong fortified position on the heights of Dullah. In the
middle of January Wheeler attacked this position, but so inaccessible
was the fastness that the most he could, do, and that with considerable
loss, was to drive out Ram Singh and his followers, whereas the gallant
general hoped to accomplish either his capture or destruction. On the
11th, Wheeler ordered the 4th native infantry to take up a position to
the northward of the enemy's post, so as to intercept him in case he
should be obliged to ev