The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-23 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL,

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived files of papers from Bombay to April 28,
and from Calcutta to April 20.
We take the following summary from the Bombay
Gazette of April 28 :

"It is reported in telegrams received at Madras
trots Calcutta that the Hon. Ashley Eden has re-

turned to Darjeeling from his mission to Blaootan,
where he was grossly insulted in public Durbar by
the Chief, and dismissed with great indignity,
after having been compelled to sign a treaty making
over to them the whole of Assam, including the tea
estates held by Europeans, which are to be taken
over at a valuation.

" His Excellency the Viceroy left Calcutta on the
evening of the 15th inst., and expects to reach Simla
on the 30th idem. His Excellency was at Allahabad
on the 17th and 18th, Cawnpore on the 19th, and
Meerut on the 21st. He will arrive at Umballah
on the 27th inst., where he will be the guest of Sir
Herbert Edwardes.

"Brigadier-General Sir Neville Chamberlain,
K.C.8., while in Calcutta on his way home, has
been the guest of the Viceroy at Government-house.
"his Excellency the Viceroy has directed that
the Supreme Council shall, from and after the let
May next, and until further notice, assemble at
Simla.

" The Hon. Mr. Justice Norman has been ap-
pointed to officiate as Chief Justice of the High
Court of Calcutta during the absence of Sir Barnes
Peacock, who has gone home. Sir Charles Wood,
in reply to a telegram from the Viceroy, has decided
that the appointment of Chief Justice can only be
held by a barrister judge.

" Disturbances have broken out in Bhootan, in
the Dhurm Raj territory. The Deb Raja has been
dismissed, and a number of inferior landholders and
officers have sought refuge in British territory.
"The Bill providing for the solemnisation of
marriages in Jadia of persons professing the Chris-
tian religion has been passed, and received the con-
firmation of the Viceroy.
" The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company have determined to reduce their rates of
passage money between Bombay and England, from
£lOO to £B5, from the 9th of June next.
"It is currently reported that Sir Charles
Trevelyon proceeds to England in December next,
and that his successor will re Mr. Forster, one of
her M-jesty's Finance Commissioners.
" Me State prisoners of the Royal house of Delhi,
now languishing in confinement at Rangoon, having,
on the death of the ex-King, applied for leave to
return to Delhi or some part of the North-Westeru
Provinces, Sir Charles Wood has refused to meddle
with what has been ruled respecting this family in
India, and hes:turned a deaf ear to their application.
" Colonel Eden, the Political Agent at Oodeypour.
in Central India, was uwbbed by some 300 or 400
persons on the 31st March last, who rushed into the
Residency, shouting andviolently gesticulating and
throwing stones. Colonel E len has rendered him-
self unpopular with certain evil disposed persons
who feel aggrieved at his cutting in force the law
against certain crimes, more especially
his prohibi-
tion of the custom of Merida (human) sacrifices.
It has been decided to opeu the Bombay, Baroda,
and Central India line of railway from Bombay
through to Ahmedabad on the let of June next for
passenger traffic, and immediately after the won-

" Her Majesty'd ship
soon for goods traffic.
Severn, 51, carrying the
broad pennant of Commodore Montresor, C. 8., took
her final departure from Bombay for Trincomalee
on the 15th inst. Shortly after getting under weigh
one of her men fell overboard from the top and was

drowned.
" One of the persons injured in the late railway
accident near Mahim has since died.
" A dreadful accident has happened at a review
of the artillery at Bellary, four men having been
blown to pieces and eight
disabled by the explosion
of a tumbril.
" A drill-havildar of the
31st Punjaub Native
Infantry has been shot by two recruits of that re-
The assassins are Eusofzye
F'
tlli tabrrived at Bom-
a
giment, who first robbed and then murdered him,
ait
supplementary
" The ship Cospatrick,
wire of the Persian Gulf telegraph, i
Bom-
bay on the 15th iust., and proceeds to Gunder, via
Kurrachee, this day.
"The Bombay share market has again been in a
very excited state, but has latterly become rather
quieter, time-bargains having been prohibited by
an understanding among the brokers for eight days,
in cons( ouence of the failure of some speculators to
meet their losses, and the absconding of several

others.
" The 21st Regiment Royal North British Fusi-
liers have arrived at Madras direct from En gland
and are new located at Fellary, in the barracks
reuntly cecupied Ly the 74th Highlanders.
"The annual exhibition for the distribution of
prizes and scholarships to the successful students of
the Grant Medical College, Bombay, was held cn
the 13th inst., his excellency Sir Bartle Frere pre-
siding on the occasion.
" Cholera has been committing great ravages
during the last fortnight at Bombay, Broach, and
Biroda. Major A. H. Curtis, President of the
Municipal Board and locome•tax Commissioner at
Bombay, is one of the latest victims of this epidemic.
" Mr. George Scott, C S., Collector of Bombay,
has becu appointed by Goyernment President of

the Municipal Boma, in succession to Major A. H.
Curtis, denJased.

" It is expected that Mr. A. B. Warden, C.S.,
will succeed Mr. Erskine as dodge of the High
Court, Bombay.

"The scarcity and dearness of grain is so great
at Neemuch and some other parts of Central India
that a famine is feared to be imminent.

" Lady Frere, wife of the Governor of Bombay
arrived here from England in the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's mail steamer Benares, on the
26th inst.

" The ship Shannon (Dunbar), from Liverpool,
arrived at Bombay on the 21st inst., after a passage
of six months. The cbi.-Jf mate and four of the
crew are in custody, charged with having conspired
to deprive Captain Danbar of the command of the
ship and to cast her away.
" We have no news of importance from Cabal, or
from any other part of Central Asia."