The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-06 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the overland mail we have received advices
and journals from Bombay to the 11th of September.
There is little news from India. We take the fol-
lowing from the Bombay Gazette :
" India is perfectly quiet. Whatever misfortune
may be looming in the distance—and there are
many amongst us only too ready to predict for the
empire the worst calamities—the preparations
already made for levying the income tax have, as
yet, produced not even popular excitement, much
less discontent. The firm attitude taken by the
Government has, in truth, completely silenced
opposition. Their resolution—announced in the
Legislative Council by Sir Bartle Frere, who has
throughout been the ablest and most cordial of
Mr. Wilson's supporters—to carry on all the mea-
sures of the late Finance Minister, destroyed the
last hope of the disaffected. Even the consolation
which the opponents of the income tax found in the
Lucknow libel case has now been taken away from
them. The Arms Act still excites a good deal of
attention in the Mofussil, but the attempt to pro-
voke an agitation in the presidency towns has
failed."

The Bombay Times and Standard, which is
strongly opposed to the income tax, says—" If we
are not misinformed, the last mail carried to Eng-
land a despatch from the local government to the
Secretary of State, representing the danger of
persisting in the attempt to levy this income tax,
and the necessity of abandoning it at whatever
cost."

The same journal contains the following local_
intelligence :—" Within the last week it has been
proposed to found two new banks in Bombay. One
of these schemes will probably fall to the ground.
The prospectus of the other company gives suffi-
cient guarantee upon its face of the legitimate and
bona fide nature of the enterprise. Its provisional
committee consists of men of high character in the
native community, and of great wealth. The capital
is sixty lakhs of rupees, and the share list, we under-
stand, was filled up in less than 24 hours. The
bank is to be called The Central Bank of Western
India,' and very stringent provisions are to be
introduced into the deed to prevent the bank fol-
lowing the example of the Oriental and Mercan-
tile banks, by removing the headquarters of the
establishment to London. The projectors wish to
make it distinctly an Indian bank, and propose
opening branch agencies in the Mofussil. It was at
first supposed that the establishment was to be
under exclusively native management, but the sup-
position is erroneous. A more important enter-
prise than this, however, is about to be launched
amongst us. The opprobrium of our port for years
has been its want of wharfage accommodation, and
the delay which takes place in the loading and un-
loading of cargo. A vessel can seldom discharge
and take in cargo in less than two months, and
it is proposed to remedy this by the construction of
a deep water pier in the harbour. The projector of
the work is Mr. D. J. Kennelly, formerLy of the
master attendant's office. The point of departure
from the shore is to be the Carnac Bunder. It is
proposed to make one vast wharf of the Carnac,
Musjid, and Clare Bunders, stretching from the site
of the present slaughter-house to the verge of the
Elphinstone Bunder. There would be ample room
upon such a wharf for the erection of a custom-
house, bonded warehouses, storage, sheds, and cot-
ton ground and screws, and the most careful study
of the locality points it out as in all respects the
fittest for the purpose. The pier will run out from.
Carnac Bunder to Cross Island, a distance of 400
feet. Along this jetty, which will be 100 feet wide
and traversed by a double line of tramway, the
native craft of the harbour will discharge and load.
At the pier-head a transverse section 6,000 feet long
will run parallel with the course of the harbour in
deep water, where it is proposed that square-
rigged vessels shall discharge and take in cargo.
The section will be 60 feet broad, and little more
a mile long. The project has received the careful
consideration of Government, and is warmly re-
recommended by the commodore of the navy, the
collector of customs, and by numerous shipmasters
who are acquainted with the port, and have been
consulted thereon. The pier seems to be the natural

remedy for the evils under which our shipping
trade suffers ; and as the amount of capital required
in the enterprise, £600,000, is not excessive, there
is little doubt of the scheme being carried through.
Mr. Berkeley is to be the consulting engineer."

lIURRICANE ON THE SCOTTISH

NORTIT-EASTERN COAST.

On Wednesday the coast and counties along the
north-east of Scotland were visited with a storm of
wind and wet more terrific and destructive than
has been experienced in the quarter during the last
20 years ; indeed, some of the older people say the
gale was never equalled in the north. Tuesday
evening at Aberdeen was comparatively mild, but
Wednesday morning broke with the wind blowing
a perfect hurricane from the west, and when day-
light struggled fairly in it revealed the destruction
wrought in a few hours in the streets of the city
being actually littered in many places with chimney
cans, patent iron smoke guides, tiles, slates, and
glass. The gale continued blowing fiercely all fore-
noon, the work of destruction still going on through-
out the town in sign-boards being torn down, high
chimneys toppling over, the humbler and older
houses having their coverings carried off, new
buildings in the course of erection partially sharing
the same fate, while whole ranges of paling, as also
lofty attic windows, came dashing to the ground,
to the great terror of the few venturesome and
dutiful individuals who would not be stayed by the
elements from taking their places in church, the day
being the Sacramental Fast. Nor was the gale less
sparing of the forest and floral beauties of Aberdeen.
Trees and shrubs planted in favourite squares and.
other spots have been ruthlessly broken or torn up
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nurseries about town have likewise fared very
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Regardingaui theety,and not without cause. The
istiueeasmdeary eveningßen My from Inverness, sailed again dur-
ing the night for Edinburgh, but had only pro-
ceeded as far south as Bervie when the captain
found it necessary, from the violence of the gale
and the state of the sea, to put back to Aberdeen.
Happily the steamer was able to make the harbour,
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broke their mornings and pitching heavily against
each other considerable damage was done to sterns
and bows, notwithstanding the crews being at their
posts early. A large
,shed under which the Messrs.
Hall build their cerebrated clipper ships was
knocked over, and several workmen injured. Two
bay,ve ssenlsotthdeaentrg
anchoredin a short distance out in the
it prudent to venture taking the
wildly,harbour, but
were seen dragging their anchors about
the wind being fortunately for them off
shore, W. and N.W., they managed to ride out the
gale in safety. In the course of the afternoon tidings
came from the country districts that the storm hhd
been quite as severe there as in town. Great trees,
70 and 80 feet in height, and the growth of as
many years, had snapped under the strength of the
wind, or been uprooted. The farmers, it is feared,
will be heavy sufferers, the stacks in the corn-
yards being much injured, while the sheaves that
happened to be in stook were lifted up and sent
spinning about the fields like feathers. The grain
still uncut has also been fearfully shaken. Fortu-
nately, amid all this, so far as was known on Thurs-
day morning, there had been no cases of fatal per-
sonal injury, the only accidents reported at the
infirmary and police offices consisting of slight
hurts from the falling of tiles and the throwing
over of several aged persons in the streets. The
wind and rain continued strong and heavy till
Thursday morning, but towards forenoon the
weather settled down greatly. Both north and
south of Aberdeen the hurricane has been equally
severe and destructive.

Tho will of Nathaniel Goldsmid, Esq,, barrister-
at-law, of the Inner Temple, late of Upper Berkeley-
street, and of Rue Valois du Rome, Paris, where he
died on the 19th of August last, aged fifty-three,
was proved in London, on the 25th of September,
by two of his
,executors,Y. IL Goldsmid'and James
Young, Esqrs. The will was made in London in
1858, and two codicils in Paris, dated this year.
The personalty was sworn under £9,000, which
together with his real estates, and interest and in-
come from the property under settlements, is for
the enjoyment of his wife during life, and then to
the two sons. His daughter, who has an interest
under a marriage settlement, is a novice in a convent
at Rome ; and the testator has directed the guar -
(haus whom he has appointed over his children to
exercise the greatest care that they are brought up
in the Roman Catholic faith.