The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-09 00:00:00

INDIA.

By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re-
ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 12th of
August, and from Calcutta to the 30th of July.
We take the following from the Bombay Gazette
of the 12th of August :
"The English mail of the 18th of July arrived
in Bombay on the Bth of August.
" The season continues most propitious, and the
weather most favourable for agricultural labourers
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
" The Committee of the Punjaub Famine Fund
have announced to the subscribers to that fund
that there is no longer any need for the continuance
of their subscriptions.
" We give the following cheering description by
a traveller through the Doab a conspicuous place in
our heads of intelligence :
" The aspect of the country is wonderfully
changed. From Allighur to Delhi, from Delhi to
Meerut, and from Meerut to Mooradabad, the coun-
try is one glorious mass of green, variegated here
and there, where the land is low and flat, by patches
of water. Population seems called into existence
as by a wizard's wand, and every acre of ground,
however distant from a station or remote from a vil-
lage, is brought under the influence of the plough.
From early dawn to dewy eve, as the carriage con-
veys you from one station to another, look where
rveeratrhee hpulasbinanhdumsyenwiwthiththtehireiprleohxgehn.,
syluusdtarwaendilglaeltrlhteoravelling through this part of the coun-
try would scarcely credit that famine had so recently
visited the land. His entrance into a station, how-
ever, would tell him a sad tale. The sufferers of the
famine, though not numerous, are yet sufficient to
draw attention, to excite his pity, and to call for
sympathy. The poor-houses bear their testimony to
this. Better times, however, are at hand ; and
when one reflects on the barren state of the Doab
but a month back, and sees the country as it now is,
he may without exaggeration say it is a land flow-
ing with milk and honey.
" The Paper Currency Act, to provide for a Go-
vernment paper currency, received the assent of the
Viceroy on the 16th of July. This Act provides
for the establishment by the Governor-General in
Council of a department of the public service, to be
called the Department of Issue, for the issue of
promissory notes of the Government of India, pay-
able to the bearer on demand, for such sums, not
less than 10 rupees, as the Governor-General of
India in Council shall from time to time direct.
Circles of issue are to be established in British In-
dia. The whole amount of bullion and coin received
for notes is to be kept as a reserve to pay such notes,
excepting an amount not exceeding four crores of
rupees to be fixed as the minimum limit of circula-
tion.
" The indigo question has been further embittered

by a public trial—' The Queen v. James Long,' for
publishing a libel upon the indigo planters and the
Englishman newspaper, which took place on the 19th
and 20th of July in the Supreme Court, Calcutta,
before Sir Mordaunt Wells. The jury brought in a
verdict of guilty, and on the 24th idon the judge
sentenced the Rev. Mr. Long to one month's im-
prisonment, and a fine of I,ooor. The Hon. Seton
Karr, implicated in the circulation of the libel, has
averted a probably similar punishment by a public
apology.
"The Government of Bombay has finally de-
cided upon Warree Bunder as the terminus of the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and Colaha as the
terminus of the Bombay and Baroda Railway.
"The European and native residents of Bombay
are memorializing Government for the abolition of
the ramparts of the fort, and the dedication of the
space thus obtained to the use of the public. The
ground now occupied by the ramparts would realize
a sum of GO or 70 lacs of rupees ; and the commer-
cial interests of Bombay are suff.ring greatly for
want of room. The ramparts are of no practical
utility in a military point of view.
"There is now a decided break in the weather—
we have had open weather for eight days. The
fall of rain up to this day, the 12th of August, has
been GS inches.
" The health of the city and neighbourhood is
generally good."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
REPORT ON THE BOMBAY MARKET.
(From the Bombay Gazette of August 12.)
The reports from the interior continue favourable
as to the progress and prospects of the monsoon
and the crops.
The import-market has relapsed into a languid