text:  The painful interest with which the arrival of every Indian mail was looked for in England during the continuance of the Affghan war with its alternations of delusive triumphs and bloody reverses has now almost wholly died away: the public mind long accustomed to sup full of the horrors of the Khoord-Cabul pass and the atrocities of the "arch-fiend" Akhbar Khan has subsided into apathy and hears with indifference of the occasional defeat and dethronement of rajahs and nawabs with unpronounceable names--an employment which seem to be popularly considered in this country the ordinary duty of the servants of the Company