The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-21 00:00:00

Majesty the Queen a paAr of beautifully jewelled
fans, valued at £2,000.
" The Parsee community had a day of general
mourning on the 9th instant as a tribute to the
memory of the late wife of Mr. Rustoinjee Jamset-
jee Jeejeebhoy.
" Within the last two years five captains, three
lieutenants, and three ensigns have exchanged from
or sold out of the SBth Connaught Rangers, a regi-
ment which the court-martial of its paymaster,
Cunningham, has brought prominently before the
Indian public of late.
" The committee appointed at the instance of his
lordship the Bishop of Bombay to consider the
question of the best mode of dealing with the Euro-
pean poor of Bombay has concluded its labours,
and incidentally recommends to the Government
the adoption of a vagrancy act, to meet the case of
loaferism' so prevalent in this city.
" The arrest of a peer,' or Mahomedan saint, at
Roree, on a charge of aiding and abetting in a
murder committed in January last, is causing much
excitement in Scinde amongst the Mahomedan
population, who hold him in the greatest venera-
tion.

" On the morning of Friday, the 19th instant, a
viaduct on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway fell
without any accident to life or limb occurring. The
viaduct in question was on the More Ghaut,
and was known as the ' Mhow-Kee-Mulla,' being
about six miles beyond Kurjut and three miles
on this side of Thakoorwadee ; £60,000 is set down
as the estimated cost of replacing it according to
one plan proposed, viz., raising a solid embankment
between the abutments of the fallen viaduct—a
work which would require half a million of cubic
1 yards of earth and stone.
"The Terzah, 1,446 tons, Capt. Anderson, com-
mander, bound from Newcastle, New South Wales,
with a cargo of coals for this port, was wrecked on
the 17th inst., about nine miles from Bombay, at
Alibaugh, and eight of her crew drowned. On the
following morning a lifeboat in tow of the steamer
Sind, which had been despatched to render assist-
ance to the wreck, was upset, and seven of her crew,
which consisted of twelve Chinamen, were consigned
to a watery grave."
The gimes of India says :—" The situation of
affairs in Cabul and Affghanistan continues much the
same as it has been for some time past—less pro-
lific of wars than of rumours of wars. The advance
of the ex-Ameer Shere Ali Khan, who was said a
couple of months ago to be marching straight on to
easy and complete victory, owing to the disaffection
of the people in Cabul to the recognised ruler
Ameer Afzul Khan, has been delayed in conse-
quence of dissensions in his own camp. The Sir-
dar Fyz Mahomed, his most trusty and able general,
refuses to do more than defend the approaches to
his own province of Balkh, except on conditions
which Shere Ali seems unwilling at present to enter-
tain. Arrangements had therefore been made by the
ex-Ameer to advance without his general, though
it is scarcely to be bJle,ved that he can be so blind
to his own interests as to let the disagreement
become serious, as this would inevitably secure the
success of his rival, the present Ameer. Between
Afzul Khan, too, and his able son Abdool Rahman
Khan there is at least a grave difference of opinion.
Afzul Khan would fain summon his brother Azim
Khan to his aid from Candahar ; but his son is very
averse to this, being jealous of his uncle, who
claims the sovereignty before him. Meanwhile the
Ameer Afzul Khan's troops are shut up in Jellala-
bad, Candahar, Ghuznee, and Cabul, and sur-
rounded, too, by hordes of hostile clansmen. It is
said that about the middle of June the first
division of Afzul Khan's force set out to
oppose Shere Ali's advance, and it is ex-
pected that the engagement, which appears
inevitable between them, will be the signal for
a general attack on the Ameer's other positions.
To complicate matters still more, the Shah of Persia
has lately been introduced as one who may yet seek
to profit by these intestine struggles. Though there
is no proof that his Majesty has in any way aided
Shere Ali in his attempts to oust Afzul Khan, there
are good grounds for suspecting that he has long
been a close and observant watcher of all that is
taking place in Affghanistan. The Shah has long
been desirous of reuniting to his dominions the pro-
vince of Siestan, which lies to the south-west of
Herat, and which, though now Heratic, was for-
merly a province of Persia. He has recently under-
taken a royal pilgrimage to Meshed for the osten-
sible purpose of worshipping at the holy places
there; but Meshed is in a favourable position for
acquiring early information of the events of the
present struggle in northern Affghanistan."
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