The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-06 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The overland mail brings despatches from Bombay
to the 9th of August. The news is of little interest
or importance. The following summary from the
Bombay papers contains the principal items. The
Gazette says :
The Bombay Shipping Company's ship Defiance,
Langlois master, which arrived out on Monday, the
22d July, from Liverpool, made the run in 74 days,
which is the shortest passage this season.
At a recent sale of jewellery belonging to the
estate of Mr. Rustomjee Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, a
necklace formed of a large number of splendid
pearls brought the princely sum of 40,000 rs. ; a set
of emerald beads, the stones being pierced through
and uncut, was sold for no less than 7,300 rs.—the
purchaser intending probably to use it as a kind of
rosary; a single ear-ring, which has a large pendant
diamond, brought 9,800 rs. ; a ruby ring was
knocked down for 13,000 rs. ; and a pair of ruby
bangles for 11,000 rs.
The Shah c.: Persia is reported to have marched
with a considerable force to Meshed, in preparation
for an attack upon Herat.
The Singapore papers state that terrible barbari-
ties have been perpetrated for years by the savages
of the Nicobar Islands on the crews and passengers
of such vessels as have been blown and wrecked
upon their shores.

A Belgian nutsicmaster named Desterberg has
been condemned at the Hooglee sessions to ten
months' imprisonment for the abduction of his pupil,
a young lady under 16 years of age.
An insurrection has broken out anew in Oman,
headed by Synd Toorkee, brother of the late Sultan.
The ship Zoroaster, from London, brought out
another self-rightiug lifeboat, built by the National

Lifeboat Institution, for use at the harbour of
Bombay.

The total amount of money subscribed for the re-
lief of sufferers by the famine now exceeds five lace
of rupees.
Peer Hisbolah Shah, the Mahommedan saint of
Roree, in Scinde, accused of aiding and abetting a
murder, is still under examination at Kurrachee. A
sum of 4,000 rupees was sent by Mohammedans of
Bombay for his defence.

Omid Abe Choota, a Belooch chieftain, has been
arrested by the authorities of Kurrachee, and claims
1,000 rupees for each day of his confinement.

Professor E. B. Cowell has been charged by the
late Bishop Cotton's widow with the editing of the
lamented prelate's memoirs and correspondence.
Like the barbers and tailors, the weavers, the
shoemakers, the carpenters, the bricklayers, and
milkmen have sent deputations to Mr. Dosabhoy
Framjee, the special officer for the collection of the
licence tax, to protest against their paying the same.
At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the
Bank of Bombay, held on Monday, August 5, the
directors' report announced that after paying lia-
bilities there would only remain "a balance of
5,149,000r5. in favour of the shareholders, to repre-
sent a capital estimated in February last at
10,450,000r5." On the same occasion it was pro-
posed by one of the Government directors, and
concurred in by the whole board, to call upon Go-
vernment to institute a full inquiry with reference
to the affairs of the bank.

His Excellency the Governor intends to hold a
Durbar of the Sirdars of the Deccan at the end of
the month.

A shroff in the Poona branch of the Bombay Bank
has been lately taken up on a charge of embezzling
enormous sums belonging to the bank.

The Times of India publishes the following :

At the suggestion of the directors of the Bank of
Bombay, who were convinced that amalgamation
with the Bank of Bengal was hopeless, the directors
of the latter institution have broken off the negocia-
tions. Applications for over 1,500 shares in the new
Bank of Bombay have been registered. The Bom-
bay Presidency Bank is to be wound up voluntarily.
The Governor of Bombay has decided to present
a gold watch, with a suitable inscription, to Mr.
Shuttleworth for his gallant services at the wreck of
the Terzah. The public of Bombay have also sub-
scribed over £4OO to the Shuttleworth Testimonial
Fund.

News from Zanzibar to July has been received
by the Bombay Government, but no mention is
made of Dr. Livingstone.
The doubling of the Great Indian Peninsula
Railway from Egutpoora to Bhosawul is proceeding
rapidly.
The Government of India has determined to cut
off the Nicobar Islands from all communication
with the Burmese coasts until the perpetrators of
the outrage on the ship Fatteh Islam are sur-
rendered.

An accident has occurred on the Delhi Railway,
resulting in the death of Mr. Stone, the district
engineer. The engine and tender were thrown off
the line: through a portion of the embankment hay-
ing been washed away by the heavy rains.
Colonel Nuthall has been appointed to the com-
mand of the eastern frontier of India, and the
Gwalior district has fallen to Brigadier Cham-
berlain.

OBITUARY.—Captain G. S. Dysart, her Majesty's
107th Regiment ; Mr. T. N. Wilson, Civil Service ;
the Rev. Mr. Matthews.

The state of affairs in Cabul is thus glanced at
by the Bombay Gazette :
The rival Ameers of Afghanistan go about the
settlement of their quarrels in a leisurely way, but
the symptoms are stronger that the final struggle
as at hand. The contending foes occupy the three
sides, as it were, of a triangle, of which Cabul is the
apex, and they have pushed their lines in some places
to within nine miles of each other. That side of
the triangle which runs due north from Cabul to
Chareekar is held by the Ameer Azful Khan, while
the base and a portion of the third side are held by
the forces of the Ameer Shere Ali. This has been
the main feature of the position for many weeks,
during which both sides have been collecting and
concentrating their forces. The gist of the news in
our Afghan letter is that the Atneer Afzul Khan has
left Cabul for the head-quarters of his army at Cha-
reekar, in obedience to an appeal of his general, who
had written him that the batteries of the enemy were
ready to open upon him, and that he should lose the
battle unless the Ameer pushed on his war stores and
went to the camp in person. A n attempt was made
by the Ameer before leaving to undermine the fidelity
of Fyz Mahomed, the commander in chief of his
rival, who indeed was formerly one of his own
supporters. Fyz Mahomed's brother is a prisoner
in Candahar, and the Ameer has issued instruc-
tions to Azim Khan, the Governor of Candahar, or
we presume his representative (for Azim Khan is
on his way to join the Ameer at Cabul) to set the
prisoner at large. It is anticipated that the request
will not be complied with, and Sirdar Fyz Mahomed
is probably shrewd enough to see that the game, to
all appearances, is now in his own hands. He has
reserved for himself, in the present division of his
troops, that position where the brunt of the battle
will take place, leaving the Atneer for whom he
fights to line the Ghorebund Valley, and the Ameer's
son, who, however, is not a particularly brilliant
gentleman, to hold the Bamian passes, and (were
he brilliant) to spring upon Cabul when the engage-
ment takes place.

A curious account of the marriage of a Hindoo
girl to an idol is given by the Oude Gazette:—

Some time ago a vernacular paper of the North
Western Provinces announced the arrival of an
old Deccan Brahmin with his family in the town
of Muthra, where Rungacharee, the high priest of
the Ramanoojee sect, greatly patronised him.
The old Brahmin has two daughters, one a grown
up girl, and the other only nine years old. Whilst
residing at Muthra the younger girl gave out that
K►ishnajee (one of the incarnations of Vishnu, the
Hindoo god) appeared to her in a dream, and pro -
posed a nuptial alliance with her. Next day the
girl was with great pomp married to an idol wor-
shipped in a Hindoo temple.. The ignorant and
superstitious people rejoiced at this absurd marriage,
and began to venerate the girl as an inspired being.
Both the girls have learned by heart 18,000 couplets
of the " Bhagwut," a work in the Sanscrit language.
They have now arrived in this city, and put up at a
house in the vicinity of the " Gole Durwaza."
Every morning Hindoos of all ages and sexes con-
gregate there to hear the melodious recitations of
the two girls. Both the girls consider themselves
as dedicated to the service of the god Krishna ; and
after their daily recitations are concluded they make
no hesitation in accepting such presents of money
and sweetmeats as their hearers may choose to give
them. We have little doubt that they have already
reaped a rich harvest from their deluded votaries.

THE COURT OF CHANCERY.—Mr. Edwards, the
Chancery Chief Clerk, had more than 100 applications on
Tuesday before him as vacation business. The summonses
were principally for time to answer, and tholondon, Chat-
ham, and Dover Railway figured iu the list in several in-
stances.

EXTRAORDINARY ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning
a most extraordinary and alarming accident occurred in-
Cow-cross-street. It appears that for some time past a
large block of buildings has Leen in course of orecdou at
tho cud of Cow-cross-street, near Smithfield, and that
lately the large coping-stones on the roof have been added.
Yest•rday morn at half-past 10 o'clock, I lie whole works
were progressing as usual, and the customary string of
vehicles was passing through the street, when just as one
of the London General Omnibus Company's vehicles, pre-
ceded or followed by a cab, passed by, one portion of the
coping gave way, and came with great violence upon the
roof of the cab, crushing it in, and lacerating the foot of a
gentleman named Jacobs, the cabman escaping. At the
same time stones and mortar, and other portions of the
roof, came down in a shower on those who were upon the
roof of the omnibus, injuring most of them more or less.
A workman was injured and removed to St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, whither also the omnibus, with its injured occu-
p.ints, drove. On arriving every attention was paid to
thorn by the house-surgeon and other medical gentlemen.
The whole of the sufferers were enabled to return home.

Staff Assist.-Sorg. F. Aladdin, attached to the
3d Depot Battalion at Chatham garrison, has been
placed under orders to proceed to Ceylon. Staff-
Surg. C. M. M. Miller, has joined at Chatham, for
service at that station.

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 4.
The Queen drove to Abergeldie yesterday morn-
ing, accompanied by Princess Christian.

In the afternoon her Majesty drove out, accom-
panied by Princess Louisa and PI incess Beatrice.

Prince Christian went out deer stalking, attcned
by Lit.:utenant-Colonel Gordon.

Princess Christian rode out, attended by Lady
Churchill.

TIIE PRINCESS OF WALES.—The reports of the
herlth of herßoyal Highness arc reassuring ; she continuos
at Wiesbaden under the care of Mr. Paget. The Medical
Times states that she is beginning to walk and is regaining
flesh.

Lord Londesborough will receive a select party
at Grimston Park, near Tadcastcr, next week for the Don-
easter races.

The Earl and Countess of Sandwich and the
Ladies Montagu aro visiting Viscount and Viscountess
Sydney at their seat, Frognal, in Kent.
Viscount liolmesdale and Sir Edmund Filiner
have had excellent sport in deer-stalking in the Old Mar
Forest, since the commencement of the shooting season.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and
Lady Cornelia Churchill and the Earl and Countess
Craven have been among the latest guests at Invercauld
House, N.B.
The Earl and Countess of Seafield and Viscount
Reidhaven have arrived at Balmacaan House, lnvernesS-
shire, from Castle Grant.