The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-05 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the Bombay • mail we have
received files of papers from Bombay to the 9th of
July, and from Calcutta to the 30th of June.
We take the following summary of news from
the Overlani Bombay Gazette of the Bth July ;
" The latest intelligence received from Cabal is
to the 9th Jane, from which we learn that Sirdar
Mahomed Afzul's army has been signally defeated
by the troops of his brother, the Ameer Shere Ma-
homed Ali .Khan. The engagement took place on the
2d June, near Bameean, the leader of Afzul Khan's
army having attempted to surprise that of the
Ameer, in which he was frustrated, the latter being
fully prepared. The action was long and bloody,
and Afzul Khan's troops eventually fled in wild
disorder, leaving their guns, ammunition, and camp
equipage on the field. The loss on both sides were
very heavy.

"Sir Hugh Rose has issued an order to the army,
in which he directs that the issue of rum from can-
teens is for the future to be restricted to one dram
only per man per day,
"Preparations are being made in the Arsenal o
Fort William, Bengal, for the equipment of a force
to be sent to guard the Bhootanese frontier it the
next cold weather. The 25th and 40th Regiments
Native Infantry, the Eurasian Mountain Train Bat-
tery, and a detachment from her Majesty's 27th
Inniskillings, at Dinapore will, it is expected, form
the force.

Great Indian Peninsula Railway, between Wassind
4c
.A. shocking railway
and Tingellah, on the liussamia Line, in the Ron-
accident occurred on the
kun, about 43 miles from Boeibay, on the morning
of the 27th June, by which 15 persons were killed
on the spot, and about 30 others were more or less
injured; one of whom has since died.

."
The Government of
India has disallowed the
arrangements proposed by the Government, relat..
ing to the Bench of the Siale.li Cause Court at Bom-
bay, and sanctioned a scale of salazies on the Pre•
cedent of the High Court, where every Puisne
First Judge of the Small
Cause
Judge draws one uniform allowance; the Chief
Justice
than the rest. Under
se Court at Bombay will receive £2OO a month,
and the Second, Third,
taiusarr aloneanemg drawing more more
and Fourth Judges only
£lOO each.
"The enlistment of seamen at Calcutta for the
Federal cause in America has
alreadyeto
a attracted the notice
of the authorities there, who are on the watch for
,
the detection of some Federal
agents, who are be.
1 iv
freighted
one ship for the
Northern
L' ytd sailors in direct
"A Banian, named Wadeelal Heerachund, one
contravention
t o
States
of with
th
have
uu
the laws.
iz
of the wealthiest merchants of
Ahmedabad, in the
Presidency of Bombay, has been sentenced to six
Payment of a fine of
imprisonment and the
months'
£lOO for bribing a signaller employed in the
office in
Go-
vernment telegraph that city.
"Another very shocking murder (the sixth within
the last three months) was perpetrated at Bombay
on the 26th June. The victim is the wife of a
Mahomedan, who would appear to have first
strangled her and then dismembered the body, por-
tions of which he threw into an open drain and a
well in the immediate vicinity of the murder. The
alled murderer is in custody.
" The second Criminal Sessions of the present
year commenced in the High Court of Bombay on
the sth July, the Hon. Mr Justice Couch presiding.
The calendar contains 42 cases, of which three are
for murder.
" Cholera is very prevalent in the large stations
of the Central Provinces, at Hoshungabad, Indore,
and Bhopal ; and on the Scones, -, iv
agpore, and Jnb.
bulpore roads; the people are said to be dying 30
and 40 daily.
"It is rumoured that Major i 4
,
—ens. Cunyngham
and Garvock, commanding divisions of the Bengal
Army, are both going home, With hi, Excellency
Sir Hugh Rose ou his retirement from the office of
Commander.in.Chief in India.
" A brigade parade was assembled at Bombay on
the evening of the 6th July, to Witness the presenta-
tion of good conduct and long service medals to seven
non.commissioncd officers and privates of her Ma-
jesty's 28th Regiment of Foot. This regiment is
under orders to return to England in November next.
"From the Ist July the district of British Nimar
ceased to form part of the Central India agency,
having been transferred to the administration of the
Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces.
" A plan for a railway from Agra to join the Bom-
bay line is said to have received his Excellency the
Viceroy's approval. This line Will pass through
Bhurtpore, Ajmeret Indore, and join the Bombay
line near Asseerghur.
.4 Lieutenant Drake, R.N., senior Lieutenant of
H. M. S. Severn, 51, accidentally fell overboard
from that vessel in the Madras roads, and was
drowned on the night of the 20th June.

" 2ir Alexander Lawrence, Bart., is Appoint©d