The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-05 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

We have received by the Overland 1111i1 advices
and papers from Bombay to Sept. 9 and from Cal-
cutta to August 29.

The following from the Bombay Gazette composes
all the news by this arrival :
The Governor-General will leave Simla on Sept. 2,5, His
excellency will first visit the Kangra valley to see the pro-
gress of tea-planting there. ne will then proceed to
Peshawur; from Peshawur ho will return to Lihoro and
open the Punjaub Exhibition. The Rifle Brigade from
Delhi will form his excellency's escort through the Pun-
jaub.

A large military force is to assemble at Lahore ha
December next, It will consist of four troops of Royal
Horse Artillery, four battalions of Field Artillery, two re,.
giments of British Cavalry (Hussars), four regiments Of
Native Cavalry, five regiments of British Infantry, six re-
giments of Native Infantry, head-quarters and four cool-
panics of Sappers and Miners. Probable strength 11,020
men in all, with 3,320 horses and 47 guns ; the largest force
ever assembled in Upper India in time of peace,

It has bean intimated in strong terms to the Rajah of
Cashmere and to the sons of the late Dost Mahomed, that
their presence is desired in Lahore to meet the ViceroYy,
when matters of an important nature will be discussed.
Mahomed Afzul, ruler of Balkh, has despatched 5,000
men to assist his brother, Mahomed Azina, at Zoodraut,
close to the city of Cabul, where Shere Ali has not yet ar-
rived from Herat. Mahomed Afzul is the eldest legitimate
son and true heir of the late Dost Mahomed—Azim is the
second son by the same mother—Shere Ali is by another
wife of the Post, and is much younger than his step
brothers. Afzul is the most popular with the people) and
Shere Ali with the chiefs.

His Exellency the Governor of Bombay laid the founda-
tion stone of St. Paul's Church, at Poonah, on the 29th Aug'
The church is to be a large and elegant structure. Ilis ex-
cellency has since gone on a visit to Ahmednugger. where
he arrived with his staff on the 2d September, and where
he still is.
The reputed Nana Sahib captured at Ajmer° arrived at
Cawnpore on the 22d of August, whither he was sent by
government for examination. The Cawnpore authorities,
after hearing and sifting all the evidence and testimony
that could be obtained at Cawnpore and Bhitoor, have de.
finitively pronounced that the prisoner is not the Nana
Sahib. - .

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The council of regency at Oodevpore having failed to
administer justice, civil and criminal, the Viceroy alia Go-
,
vernor-General, by a proclamation dated Simla,
has conferred on the political agent for the time being the
full powers of a sessions judge in criminal cases, of super-
intendent of police, and of commissioner and civil judge
in revenue and civil suits, Such powers to be exercised
until the Maharajah is pronounced of age and "'liable °f
undertaking the responsibility of the administration of the
Meywar state. The proclamtion calls upon the chiefs of
all the states in Rajpootana to refuse an asylum to Mehta
st 14
Ajoet Sing, executive member of the council of regency,
guilty of great atrocities and cruelties, who has fled from
justice.
The ship Hahneman, of Liverpool, which arrived in Bom-
bay the 30th of August, reports having' been fired into
boarded by a Confederate privateer on the let Jab".
examining the papers of the ahneman the privateer left
her, in let. 25.25 S, long. 36.47 W. Afatnedr
H
By a general order, dated Bombay Cantle, Septl' lASt6:'
the following officers are permitted to retire from aer "--
jesty's service from this date on the pension of their rank,
with the special annuity of £2OO, according to the notifica-
tion in general order, No. 358, of the 7th July lest —Royal
Artillery : Colonel John Maxwell Glasse,
Colon©l Ro
:
Robert
Engineers : Colonel Henry al
W Croft ormald, and Colonel John Pottinger, C:l3' y
Joshua Margery and Colonel
Gore Boland Munbee.
The 42d (Royal Highland) Regiment will march from
Dugshai on the lath of Nov. for Lahore to feria a portion
of the Viceroy's escort to the'capital of the panjeub and to
take a part in the large camp of exercise to be assembled at
Lahore during the meeting of the Imperial Council.
His Highness Meer Jaffar Allee Khan
Bahaeloor, the
Nawab of Surat, died on Friday 1, 1863.
The health of the town and island of Aug.*Bombay has slightly
ever, is still above the average of the last mortality, how-
improved during the past fortnight. The
OBITUNY—Lieut. Bute 3d Light CeivalrY, at Kampteo
Lieut S. Simpson, Commis'eariatbDepo.rtraent, at Madras ;
;
Major C. F. Kelly, 18th Royal Irish, at Secunderabad ;
Ensign Rolfe, her Majesty's tast Regiment, at Jubbulpore ;
Major J. R. Wilson,
Pension Establishment, Ilydrabad
R decade of years.
Contingent, at Burgee, 14 miles from Jubbnipere'

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGE
SCE.
(Front the Times of India.)
Bomnxy, Sept. 8.
Money.—The Bank's rates are unchanged. In the bazaar
there is more demand, however, than there was last fort-
night,
, first-class credits at 2s. Old.,
Exchange has again been more in favour of sellers. We
quote Bank bills at 2s. 03i*
Government Paper.—The excitement which has again
set in in the stocks of local joint-stock companies has di-
verted attention from Government securities,which we quote
at the following prices :—Fours, Es.
091 ; Fives, Rs.loBl ;
and documents at 2s. o,§,d.
and Fives and-a-llalf, Rs. 118 to 118 i •
IMPORTS.--During the fortnight our market for piece
goods has been firmer, and although
the transactions re-
ported are still small, they are on :somewhat larger scale
than they were during
the period preceding the dispatch of
last mail. There has within the last day or two been (loci..
dedly more inquiry by Indore dealers, and from Guzerat
also some demand has been experienced ; and although im-
porters have hardly as yet felt the benefit of this, it has re-
duced stocks in dealers' hands. Grey goads, as a rule, aro
firmer, and in certain descriptions, as domestics, a consider •
able rise has taken place. In white goods little has been
done, and the same remark ap lies to most kinds of coloured
goods. The lower numbers both of mule and water twist
are firmer. Metals have continued to improve. Manufac-
tured copper has been again in
braziers have been sold as high as ra. 66 per cwt. Bar iron
is likewise firmer. speculative inquiry, and

ExPoRTs.--Our cotton
market has been decidedly more
animated ; and although the sales of the fortnight are still
comparatively small, not exceeding 9,000 bales in all, they
still are much larger than any we have recently had to
notice. Dhollera has been the description most in favour;
but prices of all kinds at closing are about Its. 10 par candy
higher than our last quotations, Verawul commanding an
advance of RS. 15 to 16 per candy. Some few coasting
craft have already come in with cotton from the north,
and in the course of another fortnight we expect to see con-
siderable arrivals.
FREIGILTS—The demand for vessels to load at outports
has been quite checked by the rise in rates procurable for
loading to Liverpool direct, and with the exception of char-
ters from Calcutta to London nothing offering any induce-
ment to change ports is in the market. We quote rates as
firm at—For London : cotton at £2 2s Gd to £2 I7s Gd ;
seeds, £2 lOs : for Liverpool cotton, £3; seeds; £2 2s Gd
to £2 is Gd.

CALCUTTA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAITIO
Sept. 4, 4 13 p.m.

Government paper, 4 per Cent, 10 to 14 annas dis ; 5 per
Cent, rs S 12 to rs 9 pm ; 51 per Cent, rs 18 2 to rs 18 6 pm.
Exchange on London—First-class credits, 2s 5-16 d to ,cl.
Freights to London—Dead weight, £2 ; jute, £3 17s 6d ;
seeds, Li 10s; gray shirtings, 14 by 13, 71b, 10 in, rs 8 12
to 14 annas per piece ; Madapollams, 13 by 11, 31b, 32 in,
rs 4 5 to 6 arenas per piece ; mule twist, No, 40, good secouds,
10 annas 6 pie per morah.
Market for piece goods quiet.
Market for twist little doing.

SHIPPING IN VELLIGENCE.
CALCUTTA.

Arrivals—August 23—The ship Evangeline,Wolfe, from
Liverpool, May 19. 24—The ship Caspian, Evant, Cardiff,
April 29. 25—The ship Alnwick Castle, Taylor, London,
May 25. 27—The ship Talavera, Brown, Liverpool, May 18.