The career of this ill-fated Monarch has been one of vicissitudes unparalleled in the modern history of Asiatic Princes. Defeated in his first attempts to mount the throne of his ancestors and forced to seek refuge among the Khyber tribes, he there collected troops, which enabled him to drive his rival from Cabul, and secure the object of his ambition. After a precarious tenure of a few years, during which time the mission of the Honourable M. Elphinstone visited his Court, he was again overpowered and necessitated to seek the doubtful aid of the Sikh Chieftain Runjeet Sing. Subjected to many indignities by that wily potentate, he only escaped from confinement at Lahore, by creeping through the public drain of the city. Obtaining an asylum and a pension for himself and relatives in the British station of Loodiana, he not long afterwards filed in an attempt to take Peshawur. The interval of fifteen years, subsequent to this disaster, he passed in repose in the bosom of his family, but in 1833, he was once more in arms. Ill fortune still attended him, and he fled from Candahar before the victorious troops of Dost Mahomed, to seek protection, after an eventful campaign of two years at his former quarters in India. In 1838, the policy of the British Government inducing it to espouse his cause, opened once more the prospect of sovereignty to him, or, as he emphatically expressed it, “enabled him, before he died, again to see Cabul”. Although conscious of the unpopularity of the means employed to recover his kingdom, he was unable to remedy his position. His endeavors to conciliate his subjects, and, conduct during the late insurrection has been much commented on, but what ever may have been his errors, his fate is deserving of sympathy. Early this year he was induced, by the representations of the Chiefs, to quit the protection of the fortress of the Bala Hissar, and pitch his tents outside Cabul. When proceeding to the camp at Seeah Sung, he was waylaid and shot by a party of matchlock men under Shjau Dowla, eldest son of Nuwab Zuman Khan, in revenge, it is said, for having instigated one of his followers to attempt to assassinate Ukbar Khan at the time he was besieging Jellalabad. It is worthy of remark, that the King was present at the birth of his murderer, on whom, in compliment to the parents, he conferred his own name. He often received his European visitors in a standing posture, and at such times used a staff of antelope’s horn to lean on as a support. His “Choga,” or outer garment, hanging loose over his shoulders, is ornamented with jewels at the loops-a slit is made on one side for the end of his dagger to pass through. From the corners of his cap of black velvet hang emerald pendants. The expression of his countenance is grave and care-worn, and frequent exposure to the weather had given a dark hue to his complexion. SHAHZADU TIMOOR-Prince Timoor, the eldest son and heir-apparent of Shah Shoojau was, when his father accompanied the Head Quarters of Lord Keane's army via Guznee, escorted by Sir Claude Wade through the Khyber pass and joined the King after his entry into Kabul. The following year he went to Candahar, but his presence was of no avail in quieting the turbulent Dooranees in that neighbourhood. During the late insurrection, he remained under British protection in that city, and preferring a life of repose to the doubtful allegiance of such unruly subjects as the Afghans have shown themselves to be, he has accompanied General England’s force to Sinde on his way back to India. Over his upper garment the Prince wears a “Neemchu” or short jacket lined with fur and worked over with striped silk. His gloves are of the manufacture of Cashmere. SHAHZADU SUFTER JUNG-This Prince is the Shah’s youngest and favourite son. It is rumoured that his mother is a Hindoosstanee dancing girl, and his features warrant the supposition. His dissolute and faithless conduct has lost him the respect of both the British and his father’s subjects. Sent to Candahar, he remained with our troops until he saw them encompassed by enemies on every side, when, joining the insurgents, he marched with them to attack the city. Driven back at all points by General Sir William Nott, he again advanced but only to experience a more severe defeat. On the 29th of May last he made a final and desperate effort, equally unsuccessful with his former ones, for so signal was the victory gained by the British on that occasion, that he and several of his adherents believing their cause to be hopeless, surrendered themselves the General. Candahar, for six months the object of his futile attempts to secure by force of arms, has, on its being evacuated by our troops, been given over to his charge, and he is now left to dispute for supremacy with his Barukzye rival, Mahomed Kolee Khan. His costume differs from that of his brother, in his wearing a Persian cap, a head dress not at all in favour with the Afghans. The person without his shoes in attendance on him, is his “Pesh Khidmut” or confidential servant.