The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-10 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

By the arrival of the overland mail from Bombay
we have received Calcutta and Bombay papers
dated respectively the Ist and the Bth of September.
The substance of the news was comprised in a tele-
gram .whi-.1 we published last Saturday.
The following additional items of intelligence are
from the Bombay Gazette :

The agent of the G. I. P. Railway Company is about to
propose to the postal authorities to run on express train
through Bombay to Kundwah and Budhaira at the end of
the year, within an hour or two of the arrival of the Eng-
lish mails, provided the Postmaster-General will contri-
bute towards the expenses.

It is understood that Mr. C. Gonne is to act as Under
Secretary to Government in the Legislatira Department,
in room of Mr. Birdwood, on that gentleman's resignation.

An amended scheme for the amalgamation of a number
of the new banks in Bombay has been decided on.
A now bill has been introduced into the Legislative
Council to regulate and restrict the sale of poisons in the
Bombay Presidency, in assimilation of the English Acts.

The official title of the Accountant-General to the -Mili-
tary Department has been charged to that of Controller-
General of Military Expenditure.

A new club has been started at Poona to be called the
Club of Western India.

Her Majesty's steamer Hugh Lindsay was wrecked in the
Persian Gulf on the 18th ult. No lives were lost.

The vessels of the Anglo-Chinese squadron, which have
been lying in Bombay harbour for the last 18 months, aro
to be sold forthwith.

It is again rumoured that Scinde is to bo transferred to
the Punjab Government, but it is not expected to take place
during Sir Bartle Frere's incumbency.
The Ameer of Cabul is reported to have imprisoned
Mahomed Raffeek Khan and another Sirdar on account of
their being suspected of having been concerned in sowing
the late discussions In the family. It is also stated that
Sheik Aloe Khan is dead.

A Persian letter has been received confirming the report
of the occupation of Samarkand by a Russian army, and
that a Russian and Persian envoy have bad a conference
with the Ameer Sher Allee Khan at Candahar, and have
induced him to return to Cabul instead of proceeding to
Herat.

There is a rumour that Colonel D. M. Stewart, deputy-
adjutant-general of the army, is to be appointed to the
command of the force destined to enter Bhootan, with the
rank of brigadier-general.
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It is rumoured that the Governor-General is once more
moving the Home Secretary to allow the head-quarters of
the Government to remain at Simla during the hot season
as a permanent measure.

It has now been officially settled that the Governor-
General's camp will break up about the sth proximo, when
his Excellency will proceed towards Lahore to hold the
annual Durbar of the native chiefs.

The trial of Raja Bligbejee Sing, of Mohana, in Oudh,
commenced at Lucknow on the 17th ult. He is charged
with rebellion, complicity in the murder of Europeans, &c.
The disturbances at Bhawulpoor resulted in a battle be-
tween the insurgents, under Beyram Khan, and the Na-
wab's forces, commanded by Goolam Mahomed, near
Chokea, Abra, which lasted from eight in the morning till
eight at night. There were about 100 men killed and
wounded altogether, all of whom, with the exception of 13,
belonged to the insurgento. The leaders escaped and put
their women to the sword to prevent their falling into the
hands of the victors.

With regard to the Durbar of the chiefs and
Sirdars of the Deccan, held at Poona on the sth of
September, by Sir Bartle Frere, the Bombay Gazette
observes :

His Excellency's text was education, and his pointed,
plainspoken, and nervous remarks, which were delivered in
blarathee, the language of the chiefs, were a scathing rebuke
to the proud and unlettered men who had come up to their
ancient capital to meet the representative of the race which
had conquered them. Thirty years ago, said his Excel-
lency, he knew some of them, but such had been their
stagnant and apathetic life, that they are not better in-
structed now than when his Excellency's acquaintance
with them began. Sir Bartle Frere acknowledges that
his personal and private influence over them has failed to
awaken them to a sense of the magnitude and course of
the events which are transpiring around them, and we
confess we do not expect that his public rebuke will have
much effect upon men who " can neither speak the
language of their government," nor read nor write their
own. It is well that it should be administered ; well that
they should know the length and breadth of their short-
comings. It was never the intention of the English
Government to preserve a native aristocracy of ignorance
and pride ; and if not by legislation or policy, at least by
the inevitable march of events, must they fall from their
power and influence among their countrymen, and the re-
spect of the government which has preserved to awn
their dignities and rights. Every year ought to make it
make apparent to them that it is only by acquiring the
language and some of the learning and knowledge of their
conquerors that they or their descendants can ever retain
their repute in India. Ms Excellency very forcibly pointed
out to them that the old standards of nobility and the old
regime of honour were passing away and that they must
strive now to improve their own estates and the condition
of their ryotsand take an active part in the administration
and improvement of their country.

The same journal contains the following respect-
ing the loss of the ship Eagle Speed at themouth of
the Mutlah :

The Eagle Speed left Port Canning on the morning of
Sunday, 20th August, having on board 497 coolies who
were being conveyed to Demerara. On Monday
afternoon, while still in charge of a tug steamer,
Lady Elgin, she struck in the western channel
of the Mutlah, but was dragged off by the steamer,
and anchored in the channel for the night. She
continued to make so much water that signals of distress
were made to tho tug. Shortly after midnight and by
Tuesday afternoon, after unaccountable delay and mis-
management in the efforts to save the unfortunate creatures
the tug steamed back to Port Canning, with, forsooth, the
captain and crew of the Eagle Speed and with 207 of the
coolies, leaving 290 coolies helpless and without any ono
in supervision or authority over them on the sinking ves-
sel. Of these about 30 were subsequently saved, the rest,
numbering 265, have perished. The catalogue of blunders
seems to have numbered legion. 1. The crew of the Eagle
Speed, numbering 25 men, is said, with the exception of
five or six, to have been unfit for duty although shipped
only a few days before sailing. 2. The tug did not ap-
proach the Eagle Speed till after dawn on Tuesday morn-
ing notwithstanding that signals of distress were shown
after midnight. 3. Although it was known that the vessel
was sinking, all her boats were not used, and those that
were used were either wantonly and intentionally smashed
by the lazy, cowardly crew who were sure of saving their
own lives, or so carelessly handled that they very soon
became unfit for further use. 4. The brutal European
crew finally totally refused to exert themselves further,
telling Captain Hoskins, the port-master of Port Canning,
who happened to be on board the tug, and who appears
to have been the only one that laboured zealously in
saving those who were taken from the wreck, that " they
would be -- if they would make another trip." 5.
From the. first moment of the catastrophe till the tug
left, everything like seamanship and order ceased on
board the one vessel, and nothing like ingenuity or ear-
nestness, or even a comprehension of the magnitude of the
disaster prevailed in the other. 6. The tug was not a first
class steamer, and first class steamers are only allowed by
the port regulations to tow coolie ships ; and 7, the pilot
was not a master pilot, although the regulations require
that master pilots only shall have charge of such vessels.
To the list of blunders, of which the above are but a
few, must be added several accidental circumstances
which did not help to diminish the misfortune, such
as rough weather in the channel, the bursting of a steam
pipe on board the tug, the imperfect way in which the
Mutlah is buoyed, &c. The several versions of the wreck
do not conflict with each other in any main particular, but
the inquiry which is ordered will bring to light the authen-
tic particulars, and show on whose shoulders the responsi-
bility rests.
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With respect to the trial of Mr. Fraser the Bom-
bay Gazette says :
Not the least among the striking results of that hasten-
ing to be rich which was the moving spirit of the late spe-
culative mania is the terrible illustration which it has been
left to Calcutta to furnish within the last few days. Mr. A.
B. Fraser, the agent for the Calcutta branch of the Indian
Peninsula, London, and China Bank, has been found guilty,
after a trial of three days' duration, of criminally misappro-
priating to his own uses a sum of over £16,000 belonging
to the bank, and vitiating his account by the entry of a pre-
tended cheque which was devised to make his superiors at
Bombay, to whom he had periodically to report the state
of the funds, believe that there was a balance in his favour,
instead of £16,000 at his debit. Fraser has lived in Calcutta
for a period of 10 or. 12 years, but came from England to
take the charge of the Calcutta branch of the bank about
three months ago; and shortly after his arrival his brief
course of speculation began. Ile was in supremo charge at
Calcutta of the funds of the bank's branch there, and, pro-
bably, in the best faith, imagined that a loan to himself was
as legitimate an operation as to another. Facilis decensus
Arend, and Mr. Fraser no sooner trusted himself to the
slippery gradient than his course downward into indis-
putable criminality vas rapid. It was strongly urged that
it was his intention to restore the money, but the jury took
the only view of the case that was properly open to them,
and found him guilty. He was sentenced to four years'
penal servitude.
The Times of India contains the following :
Affairs in Bliootan still remain in uncertainty, with in-
distinct offers of peace from the Bhotaueso, and indefinite
preparations for war on the part of the Supremo Govern-
ment. It is now said that Colonel D. M. Stewart, the De-
puty Adjutant-General, will take tho command should
General Tytler's ill health forbid his directing the cam-
paign. The plan at present spoken of is to divide four of
the seven thousand troops into two columns, ono for Eas-
tern end the other for Western Bhootan. The former, it