We mix work and play a good deal at Cabul: for scarcely had the parade ended than the more serious business of sending out a brigade into the Chardeh Valley was begun. In the afternoon the following troops, under the command of Brigadier-General Macpherson, left the cantonment and marched to Aoshahr, five miles due west of Sherpur:— 6 companies 67th Foot; 7 companies 5th Ghoorkas; 550 of the 3rd Sikhs; 4 guns F-A, Royal Horse Artillery; 4 guns No. 1 Mountain Battery; 1 squadron 9th Lancers; 2 squadrons 14th Bengal Lancers. This movement is due to the gatherings in Koh-Daman and Maidan. The efforts of old Mushk-i-Alam, the Ghazni _moollah_, to raise a _jehad_ have been so far successful, that Mahomed Jan has 5,000 men with him between Argandeh and Beni-Badam, on the Ghazni Road. This would not have been of much consequence were it not that pressure had been brought to bear upon the local villagers, who were bringing in grain and _bhoosa_. In the Logar Valley our Governor has been defied and the supplies which were pouring in from that district have almost entirely ceased. We still want about 15,000 maunds of wheat and 50,000 maunds of _bhoosa_, and as we are anxious to get it all in before the snow falls, it has been determined to attack the tribal bands and once more open the road. If our supplies were collected, we should probably have left Mahomed Jan alone until he had got a large force together, and then have gone out to meet him. General Macpherson has halted to-day at Aoshahr, as a plan has been carefully prepared by which it is hoped Mahomed Jan’s “army” will be forced to fight. In the carrying out of this plan, two separate forces will be employed—the second brigade, under General Baker, being now at Charasia with secret orders. This force is made up as follows, and is a “flying column” in the true sense of the word:— 450 of the 92nd Highlanders; 450 of the 5th Punjab Infantry; 5 troops of the 5th Punjab Cavalry; 4 guns of No. 2 Mountain Battery; 7th company Sappers and Miners (detachment with gun-cotton).