The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-22 00:00:00

Overland India Mail•

Bombay papers to Oct. 29 have come to hand ;
they contain little in addition to the telegrams
already received via Trieste. What further news
they supply we give below from the 7 inzes of lizdia :
The latest date from Great Britain by the Indo-
European Telegraph is Oct. 26. Communication
with England during the fortnight has been very
regular and satisfactory.
The Rev. C. H. Blumhardt, of the Church Mis-
sionary Society, who has just compiled a handbook
of the Amharic language, containing a vocabulary
in English, Oordoo, and Amharic, has accepted the
invitation of Sir R. Napier to join the expeditionary
force to Abyssinia.
Special correspondents for Abyssinia from four of
the London daily papers are now in Bombay await-
ing the despatch of the main body of the force.
The Secretary for India has expressed himself
satisfied with a paid-up capital of £500,000 for
starting the new Bank of Bombay. Government
is to hold no shares, but will appoint an official
auditor as security for transferring its cash balance
to the new bank. A meeting of the shareln3lder3 of
the old Bank of Bombay is called for Nov. 20, to
consider the winding-up of the bank, and the transfer
of its business to the new bank. In reply to a
memorial from the Bombay shareholders, Govern-
ment refuses to admit any liability on account of
the past losses of the bank.
Under instructions from home, the Bombay
agents for the Comptoir d'Escompte and the Delhi
and London Banks have returned to the six months,
uance for bills drawn on England.
A call of £lO per share on the shareholders of
the National Financial Banking Company has been
sanctioned by the Bombay High Court.
The Government Returns show an expected
decrease in the area of land cultivated for cotton in
the Bombay Presidency (exclusive of native States)
in 1867-68 of 86,401 acres, as compared with that
of 1866-67.
. private of the 45th Regiment, named Cassidy,
has been committed for trial for culpable homicide
and attempted murder, having shot a Mahratta at
Poona, and then, while under the influence of drink,
tried to shoot Drum Major N. Griffiths.
From statistics published in Bombay it appears
that infant marriages among the Parsees of Bombay
are decreasing in number.
It is hoped that through railway communication
between Bombay and Madras will be complete by
the end of .1870.

A collision occurred between two passenger trains
on the B. B. and C. I. Railway recently, through a
native pointsman wrongly working the points. For-
tunately one train was stationary, and the other's
speed had been greatly reduced.
A marriage is announced to take place in January
between Captain Lowndes Randall, A.D.C. to the
Governor-General of India, and Miss Lawrence
his Excellency's eldest daughter.
A bill has been introduced into the Viceregal
Council for the appointment of a commissioner to

investigate the debts of the ex-King of Oude, who
now owes £750,000, notwithstanding his pension of
£120,000 per annum.
Col. Sir 11. Green has telegraph2l from Jacoba
bad that the account of the raid on the British
frontier by the Alurees is without foundation. The
tribe had not approached within 30 miles of the
frontier, and there was no probability of their doing
so.

Fourteen prisoners recently attacked the sepoy
guard at the gates of Itajkote Gaol, and after kill-
ing one and wounding another escaped. They were
pursued, and, with one exception, all were speedily
captured.
A Silladar troop of cavalry is to be organised for
service at Aden.

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Colonel Wilson succeeds Brigadier General

Stewart as Deputy Adjutant General of the Bengal
Army. Colonel G. G. Holmes, it is said, returns
to army headquarters as First Assistant Adjutant

'general.
The enieute of the Bhawulpore soldiery at Ahmed-
pore on the 25th September seems to have been