The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-06 00:00:00

INDIA,

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re.
ceived intelligence from Bombay to October 14.
The limes of India of that date contains the fol.
lowing :

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Orissa, with
the English mails of September 10 and 18, arrived
in Bombay harbour on the morning of the 11th inst
The Act for taking a census of the Bombay Pre-
sidency has received the assent of the Governor-
General.

Mr. Ayrton, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, and a
director of the G. I. P. Railway Company, is here,
overhauling the working of the railway.
Dr. Duff, the well-known Presbyterian mission-
ary, has arrived in Bombay, and leaves by this mail
for Scotland.

An atrocious murder of a native female has been
committed in Bombay. The perpetrator is still at

large.
The foundation stone of the David Sassoon Hos-
pital to be erected at Poona was laid on the Bth inst.
by Sir Bartle Frere.
The Governor of 13ombay is at present in the
Deccan.

The success of the Bengalee native in the civil
service examination has created great sensation in

native circles.

Her Majesty's 43d Light Infantry have left Cal-
cutta for New Zealand, per Lady Jocelyn ; in all
about 700, officers, non-commissioned, and rank and
file.

It is authoritatively stated that Sir Robert
Montgomery retains the Government of the Pun-
jaub till 24th February, 1865.
Sir R. Montgomery leaves Murree for Lahore on
the 19th October.

The Viceroy is on his way to Peshawur.
It is stated that the expedition against the
Sitanees on the Punjab frontiers occupies the whole
attention of Sir Hugh Rcse. The expedition will
be 5,000 strong, and consist of the 51st, 71st, and
101st Regiments, a mountain train and some Pun-
jab corps, and will be commanded by Brigadier-
General Chamberlain.

The 71st Highlanders, at Nowshera, have been
ordered up to the frontier, where the enemy is
stated to be making a threatening demonstration.
Locusts have been causing much damage to
the crops in the Punjaub and the North-West;
latest advices show that they were taking a south-
westerly direction through the Central Provinces
and were likely to visit the Bombay presidency.
The Hamburg ship Elise Rebeke has been de-
stroyed by fire off Ceylon. The captain and the
crew were picked up by the Sydney Eggers, and
landed at Calcutta.

The Alabama is cruising in the Bay of Bengal.
The French ship Nuovel Alfred has run ashore at
Calingapatam, and become a total wreck.
The health of the island is improving and the
weather has become warm.

The fall of rain during the season has exceeded
eighty inches at Bombay.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, NOP. 5.

The Irish North-Western Railway, passing from
Dundalk, in the county of Louth, to Enniskillen,
had not been doing well, and a committee of share-
holders was recently appointed to examine the
affairs of the company, and to put everything
relating to its concerns honestly and fairly before
the shareholders. The Earl of Erne, chairman of
the board of directors, became the creditor of the
company to a very large amount. He held £43,500
of the debentures of the company, and he had lent
money to it amounting to £81,145, making together
the sum of £124,645. Lord Erne wrote to the com-
pany, on the 3d of this month, that, in order to
assist in relieving the shareholders, as far as was in
his power, from the present embarrassment, he was
willing to place £28,500 of debentures in the com-
pany's hands, on condition that the amountrealised
by them should be applied, as far as it would go, in
payment of the debts due to the Bank of Ireland
and the Belfast Banking Company) amounting to
£30,000 and £1,700, the company providing the
balance. He agreed to accept shares in the com-
pany of the same class as the existing A preference
shares. In order to issue such shares new powers
must be obtained from Parliament, but if the com-
pany were unable to obtain those powers, he agreed
not to call is the sums above-mentioned for the next
10 years, and during that time to receive interest on
the money at the same rate as may be payable by
way of dividend on the existing A preference shares.
At the meeting of the shareholders in the North-
umberland Hotel yesterday the report of the com-
mittee was submitted, and the proposal of the
chairman unanimously adopted. Mr. Edward
Litton said that in thus changing his relation to the
company from that of a creditor to a shareholder,
Lord Erne might be said to have made a present
to the company of one-fourth of the money due to
bin], or close upon £30,000. By the committee's
report it appeared that the total liabilities
.ef the
company amounted to £198,000 ; Lord Erdilei against
pro-
posal would reduce them to £BB,OOO,
that the company had assets to the amount of
£22,000. The balance
Was further reduced to
£41,000, and this is to be provided
pointed 'tied for in various
e
ways which were out. The chair-
man said he could not help expressingt the sense he
h
felt of the valuable service eom
forwardhadmittee such
ren
dered to the shareholders by bringinge
a creditable and honourable
taken th report. Lord Castle-
maine having
4,
the second chair, Sir George
Preston moved that e shareholders avail them-
selves of this opporrtunity to record their deep sense
of gratitude to theand for
of. Erne for his valuable and
zealous services,
to promote the interoersthiss greatth personal sa,e,rifiTcr
resolution. was seconded by Mr. Le 'ctotmpaannycl passed
with acclamation, The Earl of Erne thanked the
meeting for their great kindness. It was right to
state that none of the directors ever asked him to
advance money. They looked at him queerly now
and then, but, he repeated, never asked him to ad-
vance money, and the money he lent the company
was altogether on his own reeponsibility. He
always had great confidence in the line. He
proved that confidence, for he had that day by
security and personal risk taken £200,000 in shares
in the line. He had great pleasure in tellicg them
that he had jnat heard that the company would de-
rive £BOO of profit for at least two years by.workin6,
an arrangement with the Northern Ceunties Rail-
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