The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

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THE BOMBAY MAIL,

By the present mail we have advices and papers
from Bombay to Sept. 9. There is nothing of
striking interest in the news. The principal events
will be found in our extracts from the Bombay
papers.

The 7inzes of India says :
The Viceroy's prospective visit to Lahores4ctober next
is for the purpose of holding a durbar to ieetlive all the
chiefs of the Punjaub province. The 20th is the day ap-
pointed for the durbar. His excellency will return to Cal-
cutta immediately after, and open the legislative session,
which is expected to be an important one. En route Delhi
will, for the first sime since the rebellion, be one of the
stations selected for a durbar.

Sir Alexander Lawrence, son of the late Sir Henry, and
nephew of the Viceroy, met with instantaneous death by a
bridgeover[a precipice in the Thibet road having given way
under his horse.

An embassy has just arrived in Cashmere from Hokand,
an independent sovereignty in Central Asia, en route to his
Excellency the Viceroy, to procure the advice and assistance
of the British in reference to the attempts of the Russians
to make a high road for troops through that kingdom.
The old pretender to the throne of Thibet having raised a
force in Chinch, is threatening Thibet proper. The Bhoota-
nese will thus be disappointed of the assistance upon which
they have been relying from Thibet, the Lama having his
hands full at home.

The Judicial Commissioner of the Punjaub has confirmed
the judgment of the sessions judge at Umbella, Sir H.
Edwardes, In re Mahomed'Shuffee and others, all of whom
are to be transported for life.

A commission is to be appointed to investigate the causes
and origin of the great irregularities in the working of tele-
graphic communication throughout India, and to examine
into the efficiency of all officers and employ es connected
with the department.

The Government estate at Dapoorie (near Poona), con-
sisting of 80 acres of land, with numerous buildings, is to
be sold by public auction, under the orders of Government
on the 22d inst. •

Sir W. Denison, the Governor of Madras, has refused to
carry out Sir C. Wood's instructions relative to the position
of the Indian local officers, on the grounds that they are
opposed to the Royal wishes, and are a flagrant violation of
the guarantee granted by the Imperial Parliament to the
officers of the army of the {late Company. His excellency
is of opinion that the officers of the European regiments
who were transferred to the service of the Crown should
have been allowed to retain Indian pay and allowances,
and that the manner in which those regiments were officered
was unjust, illegal, and contrary to the guarantee given to
the Indian service.

Preparations for the Bhootan expedition are progressing
fast. A large supply of ordnance has been shipped from
Calcutta to Assam.

The Nawab of liotah has been b wilding a strong forti •
ficat ion in his province. The Government has insisted on
demolishing it, and the Nawab finds he must consent,:
Two officers, one selected by the commander in chief in
India, and the other by the lieutenant governor of Bengal,
have been appointed to arrange for the establishment on
the Bhootan frontier of a line of defences as was directed
by the Viceroy in council last June.

An inundation occurred at Mooltan which swept nearly
all the civil station into the Chenab. The water was four
feet deep on the highest roads. Immense destruction of
property, and crops extensively ruined.
A report on the general sanitary condition of the
Bombay army, by Dr A. 11. Leith, president of the sani-
tary commission for Bombay, has just been published,
greatly modifying the conclusions of the Royal commission
on this subject,
A long and valuable paper by Major Martin, her Ma-
jesty's 4th Regiment, containing suggestions for mitigating
the pilgrim nuisance, has been sent to Dr Leith, with a re-
quest that he would favour government with his opinion as
to the best practical means of dealing with the evil.
The Hindoostanee fanatics who found a residence in Ca-
bool have been driven out to the westward beyond Herat,
and completely dispersed.
The inhabitants of the KubhooValley in Munipoor (Bur-
mah), a district which was restored to Ave on the conclu•
sion of the treaty with Burmah, have petitioned the British
Government to be again taken under its care, in conse-
quence of the oppressive character of the Government of
their own people.
A line of railway has been decided on which will connect
Indore, Neemuchi, Nusseerabad, Aj more, and Jeypore with
Delhi.

The contract for the extension of the south-eastern line
of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway to Hyderabad in
the Deccan will be given out at the beginning of next year
in two portions.

Premchund Eoychund, Esq., has contributed the muni•
ficent sum of two lees of rupees for the erection of a univer-
sity library in Bombay. The gift is unfettered by conditions,
and has been accepted by Government.

Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway will be
opened throughout on the Ist Nov. next.
The Wages Bill was read a third time and passed the
Legislative Council of Bombay on the 3d inst., minus the
3d, 4th, 6th, 7th, and Bth sections.

It is stated that Sir C. Trevelyan retires from India in
April next, and that no successor with the title of Finance
Minister will be appointed. The manager of the finances
will be a secretary merely.

Col. Durand is to be appointed Governor General's agent
for the states of Rajpootana. He is to be succeeded in the
foreign secretaryship by Mr W. Muir.
Favourable accounts continue to be received from the die •
tricts of the state of the crops. In a few localities there has
been a scarcity of rain, and the crops have suffered.
In Bombay we have had about 60 inches of rain. We
have therefore considerable leeway to make up, our average
being from 75 to 80 inches.

We find the following in the Bombay Gazette:—
Mr Thos. Weeding, of the Bombay civil serviae, and
acting judge and session judge of Kurrachee, committed
suicide by cutting his throat while in a fit of delirium from
fever, on the 26th August.

Dr, Leith's report on the general sanitary condition of the
European troops of the Bombay army has been published
by Government. The ratio per 1,000 deaths to strength in
1863 was only 12.06, and in the last 15 years it has de-
clined from 29.0 per 1,000 to this rate.
There are bad accounts of the new crop of cotton in the
Bombay Presidency, Which,
it is understood, will at all
events not exceed in quantity that of the previous year.
It is reported that the cotton crop will, in all probability,
be much leas this year in the Bengal provinces than it was
last year.

It is rumoured that his Excellency Sir Wm. Rose Mans-
field expects to proceed home shortly to undertake the
duties of Secretary of State for War, in succession to Lord
De Grey— and that Sir Hope Grant will succeed Sir Hugh
Rose as commander in chief in India.

_ His Excellency Sir Hugh Rose will be at Lucknow in
the end of November, from whence he will proceed to Cal-
cutta, which is in future to be the headquarters of the Ben-
gal army, and not Simla.
IT disturbed state
The first portion of our troops intended to be sent against
the Bhootanese will push towards the Bhootan passes by
the end of October next, but byinwishtartv.eroute it has not yet
beenNoT rht
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North-West
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of
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which
the minister.
is destined to connect the
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Bombay, it has finally been
settled shall run via Indore, Neemuch, Nusseerabad, Aj-
mere, Jeypore, and Delhi; and a branch line will be con-
structed to meet it from Agra through
ugh Muttra and Ulwar.
Acu sad case
oo of
partook of some
arsenic which was picked up by one of them in their play-
ground, one of whom died from the effects of the poison.
sad
ls i n wholesaleßombay. poirsoinftien en boys has occurred at the
By
All the others have recovered. Mr Cassels has introduced
a bill into the Legislative Council for restricting the sale of
i
poisons, which are now procurable n any quantity without

Fowler, paymaster of her Majesty's 72d High-
landers
who was reported to have absconded as a
licence,
Captain
at
m h o
w
defaulter, has been entirely absolved from any imputations
on his character; his accounts, which were at one time
thought to be in an unsatisfactory state, having turned out
to be all right.
There has been a great inundation at Mooltan, and fears
are entertained in regard to the overflowing of the Chenab,
which is expected to burst its banks and produce a catas-
trophe like that at Sheffield. The river has been obstructed
—it is supposed by a glacier—near its source.
A commission has been appointed by the Viceroy to inves-
tigate certain charges brought by Col. Walter, C,8., com-
manding the 35th Regiment, against the Rev, W. Simpson,
of alleged neglect of duty on the part of that gentleman in
not attending himself to the burial of those who died at
Agra during the latter part of 1857, when the cholera was
raging there, and the deaths were very numerous.
The Court which tried Major C. Murray, of the Bengal
Staff corps, for circulating an offensive letter reflecting on
the character
corps, o
hashis
d
fboruont her in-law, Major W. Binney, of
the
same him
guilty of unmilitary, but not
of ungentlemanly, conduct, and has sentenced him to be re-
primanded, which sentence Sir Hugh Rose confirmed.
Col. Eden, the political agent in Meywar, has again been
mobbed by a number of rioters, who attacked his house and
tried to seize him with the intention of killing him. He
was saved by the young Rajah, who fortunately came to
his assistance in time to prevent his being torn to pieces by
the mob.

A notorious Thug has been captured in the Sealkote dis-
trict of the Punjab who is accused of having been impli-
cated in 57 cases of poisoning, and has five times made his
escape from prison.

Wile Aide Association of Western India are now 11oid•

ing their annual meeting at Poona. The shooting has been
good. The Challenge Cup was won this year by Mr D.
Beynon, and the same gentleman has also carried off the
silver medal presented by the National Rifle Association of
England.

Lieut. Clarke, of the F battery 14th brigade Royal Ar■

tillery, whilst out shooting near Deese, on the borders of
Rajpootana, on the 23d August, vfas sadly mauled by a
lioness, and has had to suffer amputation of the left arm.
Terms of peace have been finally ratified between the
Ameer of Cabool and his brothers, Sirdar Mahomed Ufzul
Khan and Sirdar Mahomed Auzim Khan ; and the Ameer
was expected to return to his capital about the end of
August.
Another seditious proclamation has been going the rounds
among the Mahomedans on the North-West frontier, to the
effect that Prince Feroze Shah is still alive in Arabia, and is
engaged in collecting forces to re-conquer India from the
British.

A smart shock of earthquake was felt at Guadur, on the
Mekran coast, on the 25th August, at a quarter to one o'clock
a.m., but it did not do any serious mischief. The wave
passed from north to south. Portions of the ledges of the
Mekran and Guadur mountains were thrown down with a
tremendous crash.

The following important official changes are about to be
made :—Colonel Durand gets Rajpootana, to Le succeeded
in the foreign secretaryship by Mr W. Muir; Mr C. B.
Thornhill obtains a seat on the Sadder bench of the North
West Provinces.

OBITUARY.—Thomas Weeding, Efq., Bombay Civil
Service ; Mr George Woodhall, of the firm of Chesson and
Woodhall; Lieut. J. S. Humphrey, Royal Artillery; and
Captain Clermont Hugh Costobadie, 3d Dragoon Guards.