The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-22 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received Bombay papers to Aug. 27.
The following is from the summary of the Times
of India:—

Sir C. Wood's long looked for despatch on the sub-
ject of our Waste Lands, the Redemption of the

Land Tax, and the Permanent Settlement was made
public yesterday.
The steamer Salsette, with the English mail of
the 4th Aug., arrived on the 25th inst. She left
Euez ou the 13th, and Aden on the 20th instant.
New political difficulties appear to be rising in
Japan.
In the opium swindle at Hongkong, Stanford,
who signed certain fictitious receips, has been sen-

tented to eight years' imprisonment.
Assist.-Surg. M'Cloy, of the Bombay Medical
Establishment, died of cholera at Kussarey, near
Mehidpoor.
Great progress is reported to have been made
with the laying down of the Kurrachee and Per-
sian telegraph wire.

The Government of India has directed that tele.
graphic messages intended for the Chamber of Com-
merce shall have precedence of all others in trans-
mission and press messages over all other messages
after them.

It is stated that Mr. W. U. Arbuthnot will sue.
ceed Mr. Laing as Financial Member of the Gover-
nor-General's Council.

A widespread circulation of " chuppaties" in the
Deccan, around Janina, Aurungabad, in Khandeish
and the Mahratta country, is said to have been
made.

Baboo Ratnpersaad Roy B ahadur, Acting Legal
Remembrancer of the Sudder Court of Calcutta,
First Government Pleader, and a member of the
Bengal Council, died on the Ist inst.
A terrible exposure of the mismanagement of
the Bombay Steam Navigat:on Company 'vas made
at the meeting of the shareholders on the 19th
inst. The affairs of the company will, in all pro.
bability, be wound up at the next meeting.
The sentence of death passed by the Sessions
Judge of Cawnpore on Pandoorung Rao, alias Rao
Sahib, has been confirmed.
The Supreme Court of Madras ceased to exist on
the 15th inst., by announcement in the Gazette of
the establishment of the H gh Court.

Mr. Munguidass Nothoobhoy, an opulent local
banker, has made an offer to Government to fund
20,000 rupees for the purpose of establishing a tra-
velling fellowship in connection with the University
of Bombay, to be held for three years.
The Columbus, of 760 tons, bound to Singapore,
commalided by an Arab, went to pieces near Rut-
nagherry on the 15th inst. She had a crew of 40
men and 230 passengers, principally Malay pil-
grims ; upwards of a hundred lives were lost.

Sir 13. Frere held a durbar of native chiefs and
gentlemen on the 20th inst., at Government House,
DapooreP. The attendance was large.
The Dora, of 850 tons, and Coleroon, of 696 tons,
have been taken up for the conveyance of troops to
China.

Eight hundred men of the 2d Belooch and 29th
Regiment have arrived from Kurrachee and will
proceed to China.
Major A. R. Thornhill has been appointed to
officiate temporarily as Resident at Hyderabad.
The Ameer Dost Mahomed is reported to be at
Farrah completing his arrangements for an advance
on Heerat : it is surmised that Sultan Ahmed Jan
will surrender.

A number of men formerly belonging to the
Bengal Sepoy Army have been taken in the pro-
tected state of Munipore fighting against the Rajah
whom the English Government supported.
The police trial of Captain Similes, of the 6th
Dragoons, is still going on.

Mr. Tonle announces his benefit for the 2d of
October.

Sadler's Wells Theatre opens with a melodrama
by Faucquez for the season, tinder the joint management
of Miss Lucette and Mr. Morton Price, on Saturday next,
the 27th inst.

Mr. Creswick, so long the attraction of the
Surrey Theatre, is about to retire from the management.
He announces his farewell benefit for next Thursday.
SINGULAR DEATH FROM PASSION.-0a Saturday
afternoon, Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the Edinburgh
Castle, Caledonian-road, Islington, on the body of John
Day, a painter, aged 69, residing at4o, Sweeting-street. A
man called at the house and demanded payment of a sum of
money. An altercation took place. The deceased fell into
a violent passion, and as they were preparing to fight, the
unfortunate man fell on the ground insensible, and tefore
Dr. Smith, of Calcdonian-road, who was sent for, could ar-
rive he was dead. A post-mortem examination proved the
cause of death to be the rupture of a blood vessel, and a
Terdict to that effect Wad recorded.