The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-06 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The above mail brings dates from Bombay to the

June.

The Bombay Gazette says—" The past fortnight
has not been an eventful period in India, and we
are not called to record any events of general in-
terest. The south-west monsoon may be considered
to have fairly set in. The whole of the west coast,
from Comorin to Bombay, has been visited with
rain, and there is every appearance of a heavy fall

soon in Bombay."
The same journal contains the following sum-

mare of news:—
" His Excellency the Governor of Bombay is still
at the Mahableshwar hills, but will be iu Poona
shortly, as the monsoon has set in.
" The ship Patterson, 'Amble, comm,lnder, 985
tons register, bound to London, sailed from Bom-
bay on the 4th June with a cargo of cotton, coffee,
and seeds, and having sprung a leak when about 20
miles out, rapidly filled and went partially down.
All lives saved, and the ship and cargo are expected
to he recovered. _ _

" The out-turn of the Bengal opium districts for
the present season, to be brought forward for sale
ita 1864, will be abut 27,000 chests Patna, and
200,000 Benares. This is the largest crop gathered
since 1855. Prices cannot fall so low as 1250 rs. a
chest, which the average fixed by Sir C. Trevelyan
in his budget for 1863.64.
" Sir Robert Montgomery's interview with the
Maharajah of Cashmere is said to have led to im-
portant results, which will tend to the commercial
prosperity of the Punjaub and Cashmere.
" Lieut. Haig, adjutant of her Majesty's 90th
Regiment, was attacked by a band of decoits in the
territory of his Highn,ss the Maharajah of Scindia,
28 miles north of Inoore, and severely wouLded.
He was unarmed, but fought manfully, and would
probably have been murdered but for the timely
arrival of some chokedars.

" The King of Burmah is reported to have been
murdered. The report is not confirmed.

"The report of the Kurrachee Chamber of Com-
merce for the year 1862-63 states that the total
value of the trade of that port for the year was
£5,500,000 sterling, against about £3,000,000 the
previous year—an increase of 861 per cent. ; up-
wards of £1,300,000 of this increase is due to the
export of cotton, of which staple not a single bale
was exported two years ago.
" By news from Cabool to 13th May it appears
that Dost Mehomed had sent a messenger to Shah
Nawaz Khan, the present ruler of Heerat, asking
him if he would ratify the terms agreed upon by
the late Sultan Ahmed Jan. The reply was that
he had written to the King of Persia on his father's
death, and on the receipt of an answ...T from the
Shah would communicate his intentions with regard

to the treaty to the Ameer. The Prince of Meshed
was on his way to lieerat, having left his troops
at Ghorian, to condole with Shah Nawaz Khan on

,he occasion of his father's death.

" Major W. L. Merewether, C. 8., of the Bombay
Staff Corps, has been appointed political resident
at Aden.
" Lieut. Jackson, who was tried by court-martial
at Mooltan for flogging hiti servant to death at
Dera Ismail Khan, has been sentenced to penal
servitude for four years, and his name has been
struck off the rolls of the Royal Engineers from
the 21st of April last.
" Orders nave been issued by the Governor Gene-
ral that all former prohibitions as to enlistment in
the Punjab are to be cancelled. No enlistments
taking place under the commander in chief's orders
are to be interfered with by civil authorities.
"In the month of August next extensive and
numerous changes will take place in almost all the
branches of the administration, intended to assimi
late it as much as possible to the state machinery
as worked in England. The work of abolishing,
reconstructing, and economising wilt be carried on
under the guiding hand of Sir C. Trevelyan by
officials well trained and versed in English financial
work."