The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-10 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL:

(From the Times of India of Aug. 12.)
The Benares, with the English mail of July 18,
arrived in the afternoon of the 7th inst. Like the
Behar the Benares made a remarkably quick pas-
sage, landing her mail in 19 days 18 hours from
London.
The English divers sent to Ceylon report the pos-
sibility of recovering, within a few weeks, every
article of value sunk in the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamer Ava, near Trincomalee.
The native who was so severely flogged by Lieut.
Jackson (Bengal Engineers) at Dhera Ishmael
Khan, has since died, and that officer will be tried
by court-martial for murder.
Cholera has again broken out at Meerut, and the
troops have been moved into camp. It has disap-
peared from the troops at Peshawur, but has broken
out in the city.
The French treaty with the Anamese provides
against the formation by the latter of further trea-
ties with any European powers without the know-
ledge and consent of the French.
Meer Afzul Khan, Governor of Furrah, treache-
rously surrendered:that fortress to S here Allee Khan,
the leader of the Ameer Dost Mahomed of Cabool's
army, on the 29th June, while the Ameer himself
was yet one day's march from that place.
The Dinapore military scandals have resulted in
the resignation of the Brigadier of that station,
Colonel Burney, and the loss of his commission by
Lieutenant Crohan, of her Majesty's 35th Regi-
ment.

Nepaulese
A breach has taken place between the
and Thibetan Governments, ceased by the murder
of a subject of the former at Lassa. The Dhurma..
raj of Thibet has, in revenge, sent to the British
authorities a letter written to him by Sir Jung Ba-
hadoor in December last, declaring his intention to
wage war again the British !

The Rao Sahib has been found guilty on the ge-
neral charge of rebellion, and sentenced to be
hanged.

The total fall of rain for the present monsoon, it
is feared, will be much below the average.
A bronze statue of the late Sir Jamsetjee Jee-
jeebhoy, Baronet, has been placed in front of
the western gate of the Grant Medical College at
Bombay.

Private letters from Persia state that the eldest
son of the Shah of Persia has been appointed Go-
vernor of Ispahan and its dependencies.
Kurrachee has been declared a warehousing port
from the Ist September.

The patent for the establishment of the new High
Court at Bombay arrived by the last overland mail,
and will be promulgated shortly.
The salaries of the native judges of the small
Cause Courts in Bengal have been raised to 1,000
rupees a month.

Colonel Cuthbert Davidson, C. 8., Resident at
Hyderabad, died at the Residency on the 2d of
August.

The rumour that additional troops would be
sent from India to China is said to be unfounded.
Only the ordinary reliefs have been ordered.
A reduction in the native cavalry is officially
ordered to take place from the October next. The
2d Poona Horse, 4th Sind, and the 2d and 3d.
Mahratta will be disbanded.

The disturbances amongst the Khonds of the
Boodh district of the Orissa Tributary Mahais, have
been suppressed.

Captain Smales, late paymaster of the Ennis-
killen Dragoons, has been charged at the police
court with criminal breach of trust on the prosecu-
tion of Government. The inquiry is still proceed-
ing.

The Star of the South, Captain Renner, which
was spoken off Cape Comorin leaky, has put into
Trincomalee, and had to discharge the greater part
of her cargo. The Meteor, bound hence to Liver-
pool with cotton, has also put into the Mauritius
leaky, and will have to discharge nearly all her
cargo.

Compton, Judge of Poona, was accidentally
drowned at the Sungum on the 12th of August
whilst bathing. The body had not been found.