The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-21 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the above mail we have advices
from Bombay to the 28th October, and from Cal.
cutta to the 20th.

The Viceroy of India errived at the capital of the
Punjab on the 14th October, and met with an en.
thusiastic reception from all classes of the European
and native communities. On the 15th his Excellency
the Viceroy, after a public levee, gave private durbar
to his Highness the Maharajah of Cashmere and
thirteen other native chiefs. On the 17th his ex•
cellency paid vice-regal return visits to the maha.
rajahs, and conducted the ceremony of the Rajah
of Kuppoortula's investiture with the Star of India.
On the 18th the grand viceregal durbar was held ;
the Viceroy opened it with an effective speech from
the throne in Hindoostanee. Six hundreds rajahs
and chiefs were present, and the durbar is considered
by the Indian press to have been the most splendid
and imposing ever held in India by an English
governor general.

According to the Delhi Gazette the Khan of
Kokan, having learned that 12,000 Russian troops
had marched against Tashkund, started from Kokan
with 8,000 troops, and gave them battle at Tull-
kand. The Russians, it is reported, were victorious,
and the Khan of Kokan was compelled to retreat.
The Russians, after taking Tashkund, marched
against Kokan and occupied it.
Sirdar Mahomed Ameer Khan of Candahar is
making preparations for war, and is resolved to
fight the Ameer of Cabool. He is fortifying Kelat,
and has put all his officers on oath to fight to the
last.

The Ameer of Cabool has received a threatening
letter from the King of Bokhara regarding the
treatment of Ufzul Khan and his son. The King
has entered upon active measures in support of the
latter against the Ameer.

A body of 12,000 Persians have reached Karaiz,
on route to Herat.

Afghanistan is in an unsettled state ; the Ameer
of Cabool's treatment of his brother Ufzul Khan
has excited against him the indignation of all the
chiefs.

It is rumoured that the Bhootanese have sub.
mated, and offered reparation for the insu't to the
British auhorities. The rumour requires confirms•
tion.

The Bhooteas despatched troops to a auln diffe.
rent points for the defence of the Dooars. They are
able to bring twentyfive thousand troops into the
field.

The Waghnrs have again risen in rebellion in
Kattiawar, and defeated the Guicowar's troops sent
against them. A small British force, under Major
Dannis, accompanied by Major Keatinge, V.C., the
political agent, has left R3jkote to quell the insur-
rection.

It is reported from Simla that Sir Robert Napier
will succeed Sir H, Rose in the command of the
Indian army.
Sir C. Trevelyan is said to have been suddenly
attacked with severe illness.

The report on the external commerce of Bombay
for 1863.4 has just been circulated. It shows that
the value of the whole of the external trade, during
the period under report, amounts to £77,608,330,
being an increase of £18,450,000 over the previous
year and of X 35,578,000 over the value of the pre-
ceding five years; showing that it has more than
doubled itself in value since the commencement of
the American war.

Speculation is still rife in Bombay (says the
Gazette of the 28th of October). New banks, finan-
cial and joint-stock companies are daily projected.
The Rajah of Sillinglant, in Chota Nsgpore, has
been accused of sacrificing a human being at the
shrine of Remkunee, and has been arrested by the
police. He declares it is a conspiracy of his enemies,
and that the man said to have been sacrificed died
from'a snake bite.

The deficiency of the rainfall during the past
monsoon is seriously felt in several districts of the
country, and it is feared that much suffering Will
ensue.

Mr David Sassoon, the well-known Jewish mer-
chant of Bombay, has applied to the Secretary of
State for the permik,sion to erect a statue of the late
Prince • Consort in the gardens of the Victoria
Museum at Bombay.

The Sheriff of Bombay,in compliance with a requi-
sition, had convened a public meeting of the intim!,
bitants, to be held in the Town halt on the 2d of
November, for the purpose of devising means for
alleviating the distress of the numerous sufferers
by the late hurricane at Calcutta and surrounding
districts. Meanwhile, at the instance of his Excel-
lency the Governor, the opulent native community
of Bombay subscribed' £lO,OOO in one day for the
cyclone relief fund in Calcutta.

The Englishman of October 20 contrasts this
conduct with that of the native community of
Calcutta in the following terms :—Bombay need
not fear that we shall grudge her her commercial
prosperity while she shows so conspicuously how
well she deserves it. She has far eclipsed Calcutta
in munificence, as she is fast outstripping her in
material progress. No appeal to the feelings of the
Parsees and Hindoos there was necessary ; no one
had to stand up and exhort them to give. No sooner
were the details of the calamity which has befallen
Calcutta and its neighbourhood known to Sir Ram-
setjee Jeejebhoy and his Parsee and Hindoo friends,
who happened to be assembled at the time at Poona
for another purpose., than they subscribed upwards
of 75,000 rupees for the relief of the distressed ;
while the Hon. Rastomjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy
had already sent 25,000 rupees through his agent;
and a further sum of 10,000 rupees has since been I,
subscribed by Torabjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. In a
few hours, without advertisements, without discus-
sions and exhortations, Bombay hss given double the
amount that Calcutta has laboriously collected in
as many days. If native Calcutta s not ashamed,
it is because she is not proud enough to be ashamed
of anything. From Dapooree to Calcutta—From
Sir B. Frere to the Secretary, Government of Ben•
gal—On hearing details of hurricane at Calcutta,
Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and some Parsee and
Hindoc friends, assembled to witness the foundation
of D eccan' College, Poona, subscribed upwards of
75,000 rupees (three. quarters of a lac) for the re-
lief of the distressed. His brother the Honourable
Itastomjee Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, has already sent
through his agents, on the 11th inst., 25,000 rupees
—total, one lac, Particulars sent by post. This
telegram is sera because distress is urgent, and
relieving bodies will be glad to know the amount
of subscription available. Please inform the sheriff
or whoever may be the chairman of any general
relief committee."

The relief committees were actively engaged in
their humane work. Their reports show that the
cyclone had almost everywhere caused vast damage
to property and deplorable loss of life. The ways
at Diamond Harbour was 11 feet high, and three
miles inland it exceeded a man's height. About 90
per cent. of the Slugor population perished.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Bombay Gazate, Oct. 28.)
MONEY.—In the early part of the fortnight there
was a considerable drain from the ban k,which caused
the directors to raise the rate 1 per cent. at their
meeting on the 20th, Latterly money has again
been flowing into the bank, till the last week's re.
turn compared with that of the preceding week,
showing an increase in the cash balance of nearly 20
lac 3. No reduction has however taken place, and
even at their present quotations the bank authorities
evince little inclination for business.
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.—These have been in
somewhat better inquiry
during the fortnight con-
sequent on an advance at Calcutta, caused by an
easier state of the money morket there.
EXCITANGE.—A limited business was transacted
in the early part of the fortnight, but although rates
continued without much perceptible change, sellers
were able to place paper more readily on perhaps a
shade easier terms. Quotations hardened slightly
after the bank meeting, and as the bulk of the mail
business was postponed till arrival of the telegram,
rates since theii have been firmer, and a consider-
able amount of paper of the older banks has been
placed at 2s lid.
IMPORTS.—Our market has continued very quiet
and inactive since our last report. The approach of
the Dewallc holidays and the indefinite character
of the up country intelligence, have kept buyers