About three miles from the fortress of Guznee, in a garden on the Cabul road, walled round and full of mulberry trees, is situated the sepulchre and shrine of the renowned iconoclast Sultan Mahmood. It has been suffered to fall to ruin, and broken fragments alone attest the former beauty of its courts and fountains. A pathway of flat stones leads from the gate to the building, which contains the tomb. Fronting is a pointed archway, covering a narrow vestibule, with flat stone seats on either side. Above it are three lozenge shaped ornaments, painted red with white lines. Several pieces of Hindoo sculpture in white marble, some of them said to be fragments of the idol of Somnath, lie scattered in the portico. Strings of ostrich eggs, interwoven with peacock’s feathers embellish the upper part of the arch. the vignette at the top of the plate is a representation of the door-way in attested records of this being a portion of the identical relic carried off from India by Mahmood, its peculiar shape and decorations, so essentially different from that of any modern structure, may be considered as worthy of attention. The mace of the conqueror was supposed to have been secreted by the priests under the apprehension that it might be carried off by the British army. It was described to the officers who visited the spot, as an iron bar with a globe at the end, studded with angular points and of great height. Abdool Rusheed Khan, a nephew of Dost Mahomed, fled from Guznee on the advance of the British army, and joined Shah Shoojau, when tow marches from that fortress. The information he was able to afford relative to the preparations of the garrison was of much importance. He afterwards resided at Cabul and was on terms of intimacy with many of the officers but his name does not appear in the records of late events in that quarter. It is probable that like most of the other minor Chieftains, he was obliged to side with the strongest party. In the year 1840, the Khan of Khiva, sent this Toorkumun, by name Yacoob Beg, as an ambassador to the British authorities in Cabul, to request their assistance to enable him to repel the expected attack of the Russians on his capital. His pelisse of dark colour and high sheep-skin cap, called a "Tilpack," mark him as a Toorkumun of the desert. After the battle of Bameean Captain Arthur Conolly, Sixth Bengal Cavalry was deputed to return with him and passing through the Huzzareh districts they reached Khivain safety. It appears that unaware of the calamities which had befallen the British arms in Afghanistan, that confinement, together with the unfortunate Colonel Stoddart, so long a captive in the hands of the merciless Umeer, Buhadoor Khan. The Bnokhare ruler is said to have been instigated to maltreat these British officers by reproaches addressed to him by the Affghan insurgents, tainting him with dreading the consequences should he rid himself of his unhappy prisoners, and contrasting their won bold conduct in having so fearlessly driven the intruding Europeans from their capital. Thus stimulated, the Umeer no longer hesitated to put the final stroke to his cruelty, and the offer of life on the degrading terms of becoming converts to Mahomedanism, having been indignantly rejected, these lamented gentlemen were beheaded by his orders in the yard adjoining their prison.