The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-18 00:00:00

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

The Indian papers of the 21st of June reached England
on Saturday morning by way of Brindisi. The following
are among the facts not previously made known by tele-
graph, which we find in the "heads of intelligence" pub-
lished by the Bombay Gazette :
It is said that an important despatch has recently been
forwarded to the Secretary of State advocating an im-
provement in the Civil Service pensions, based on recent
service memorials.

In the divorce crse of "Colonel Gordon v. Mrs. Gordon
and Lord William Hay," the Chief Court of the Punjab
has confirmed the decree for dissolution of marriage, with
costs against the co-respondent.
The last girder of the Sutlej bridge was hoisted on
the 13th instant, completing the communication between
Lahore and Calcutta. A locomotive may cross the bridge
by August.
A rumour has reached Bombay that the Prince and
Princess of Wales have determined on paying a visit. to
India next winter.' Probably it is not true. It is thought
the visit would hardly be well timed after the lavish
expenditure of money and enthusiasm on the Duke of
Edinburgh.
Mr. E. Tyrrell Leith, barrister-at-law, has been ap-
pointed to act as Government Professor of Law at Bambay,
Mr. Ferran having resigned. Dr. Reid, barrister, now
in Europe, holds the substantive appointment.
A court-martial, says a Poona paper, was to assemble
at Morar, on Wednesday last, to inquire into certain
charges against Captain Trotter, of her Majesty's 11th
Regiment. The court was to consist of officers assembled
from other stations. _ _ _

An Italian opera is announced for the next Bombay
season ; the impresario is Signor Pompei, already known
here.

Lieutenant E. L. Durand, of the Staff Corps, has been
appointed Private Secretary to his Honour the Lieutenant-
Governor of the Punjab, and Captain F. B. Prinsep, 21st
Hussars, Aide-de-Camp.
At a court-martial at Umballa, on the 3rd of May,
Riding Master J. E. Willis, of the 20th Regiment of
Hussars, was charged with conduct to the prejudice of
good order and military discipline in having at Umballa,
on'the evening of the 27th of March, 1870, been drunk at
the mess dinner table. He was found guilty, and
sentenced to be severely reprimanded. The Commander-
in-Chief (Lord Napier of Magdala) approved and con-
firmed these proceedings, with the following remarks :
" The reprimand is to be administered by the officer com-
manding at Umballa, in the presence of the officers of his
staff and of the officers of the 20th Hussars. Riding-
Master Willis is to be released from arrest and to return
to his duty."
A correspondent tells us that he has received by the
mail, from a very authentic source, information that the
Duke of Argyll has positively and speremptorily declined
to offer an inducement to the senior members of the Medi-
cal Department of India to retire, and that he intends to
carry out compulsory retirement at fifty years of age on
the promulgation of the Medical Warrant, which is shortly
expected, authorising an amalgamation of the Indian with
the British Medical Service.

A sad accident has happened to Colonel Fitzwygram,
C. 8., 15th Hussars. He was riding from Mhow to a
place called Mandew, to join a shooting party who had
been out among the tigers, and when about sixteen miles
from Mhow his horse fell with him, and he broke his
thigh. A village doctor set the fractured bone as best he
could, but in such a way as to cause the injured leg to be
shorter than the other. The first intimation received at
Mhow of the accident was by a pencilled note sent in by
the colonel, from the village. Colonel Fitzwygram was
carried into Mhow on the 10th instant, when the bone
was reset. He was considered out of danger on the 11th
instant, and was making as satisfactory progress as could
be expected.
Captain Dalrymple Clark, of the Madras Cavalry, and
aide-de-camp to H.E. Lord Napier of Magdala, died at
Simla on the 13th instant, from sunstroke. Assistant-
Surgeon M'Crevey, of the 64th Regiment, died at Kur-
rachee of heat apoplexy on the 11th instant. Captain
Heywood Thompson, the Master Attendant at Coconada,
died on the 13th instant.

MADAME TIJSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.— A portrait
model of Walter Millar, the Chelsea murderer, has been
added to the Chamber of Horrors.