The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-06 00:00:00

LATESr FROM INDIA,

The Overland Express mail has brought letters
and papers from Bombay to the 14th ult. inclusive.
The following is the summary of the Bombay
Gazette of that date :
'roe Secretary of State for India, in confirming
the arrangement for the removal of the Council with
the Governor-General from Calcutta to Simla, as
proposed by the late Lord Elgin, directs that the
Council must not be absent more than six months
at one t►me from the presidency town.
It is rumoured that the Viceroy has determined
apon sending a military force against the Blaootiss
to chastise them for the outrage they recently comi
witted upon the mission under the Hon. Ashley
Eden.

Sir Hugh Rose has published a general order to
the army on the favourable results of the system
of regimental workshops established in 1861. The
system has been established in five regiments of
European cavalry and 32 battalione of European
infantry.
The Thull Ghaut Incline, another important
work of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway,
situated between Kassarah snd Egutpoora, on the
North-Eastern line, will be opened for public
traffic by the month of January next.
It has been ascertained that there is a great deal
of slave-dealing going on at Meywar, it having
been proved that one man alone had within a very
short period sold no fewer than 53 young girls for
purposes of prostitution. A searching inquiry is
being made into this matter.
In consequence of the frequent occurrence of fires
at Calcutta of late it has been determined to or.
ganise a fire brigade in that city o❑ the London
model.

As a set-off to the unfounded charges of parsi-
mony and niggardliness which have been brought
against Sir John Lawrence by a portion of the
Calcutta Press, a list of his benefactions since he
assumed the cfLe of Viceroy and Governor- Gene-
ral has been published, which places the benevo-
lence of his disposition in its true light. From the
facts now stated it is clearly established that no
meritorious claim for assistance has been sent in to
Government House without receiving a boost liberal
response; although it is quite true that for reasons
which his Excellency did nut hesitate to make
fully known at the time, he refused to patronise
the Calcutta Turk Club when requested to do so.
Mr. Edward I. Howard, the Director of Public
Instruction at Bombay, has filed an action of libel
against the proprietors of the Times of India, for a
series of scandalous and defamatory libels upon him
in his official character, which have recently been
published in that journal.

Mr. James Scott, of the Bengal Civil Service, has
been appointed to officiate as a judge of the High
Court at Calcutta.

The contract of the Great Indian Peninsular Rail.
way extension from Sholapore to Hyderabad in the
Decd has been let to Mr. Clowser, one of the
agents of Mrs. Solomon Tredwell, who was engaged
on the covatruction of the Bhore Ghaut
Sir Bartle Frere, accompanied by Lady Frere
and suite, left Bombay for Mahabuleshwur on the
2d inst., and will thence proceed to Poona early in
next month, where he will reside during the
ensuing rainy season.

The Bombay Legislative Council will assemble at
Poona, for the despatch of business about the middle
of July next.

The Bombay Government has called for a report
from the Judges of the High Court on the late
extraordinary proceedings of Mr. A. St. John
Richardson, the Judge of Ahmednuggur, in the
matter of the persecution of his Brahmin
Sheristedar.

A special meeting of the Bombay Chamber of
Commerce wa3 held on the 3d instaat, to take into
consideration the present unsatisfactory state of the
railway arrangements in relation to traffic require-
ments in this presidency, when it was determined
to address Government, through the chairman of
the Chamber, on the subject of the inefficient
working of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway,
which, in the opinion of the Chamber, calls for the
immediate and energetic influence and interposition
of Government.

A petition has been prepared in Bombay, which,
after being circulated for signature, will be for-
warded to the Local, the Supreme, and the Home
Governments, protesting against the present ag-
gressive attitude of the missionarie3 in India in the
matter of secular education.

A severe shcck of earthquake, which appeared to
conic from the north-west, was felt at Ahmedabad,
and in other parts of Guzeret, on the 29th of April-
It is rumoured that the Government of India has
for some time past entertained the project of obtain-
ing a footing in Lhassa, for the purpose of facilitat..
ing communication with and through Thibet. The
Nepaulese Durbar, however, strongly protest against
the measure.

Sir Hugh Rose is now on a hunting tour through
the snowy tracts of Cashmere. Ho was received
with great pomp and much apparent kindness by
the Maharajih on his arrival within his territory.
Sir Matthew R. Salim, Kt., Chief Justice of
Bombay, proceeds to England on six months' leave
of absence on urgent private affairs by the mail
steamer which leaves to-morrow morning. Sir
Joseph Arnold will officiate as Chief Justice during
Sir Matthew's absence.
Thei4 has been a battle between the rebellions
subjects and the troops of the Nawab of Bnawnl-
pore, on the frontier of Scinde, in which the Nawab,
troops were defeated. A proclamation has been
issued warning all British subjects against joining
the ingtargents.