The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-04 00:00:00

INDIA.

Intelligence from Bombay up to the 11th April supplies
the following, taken from the Times of India
The date of the latest message from Great Britain by the
Indo-European Telegraph is the 30th March. The com-
munication between Gwadur and Mussendore still has to
be carried on by steam vessels.

Major Alexander Carnegie, Bombay Staff Corps, has
been appointed Assistant Adjutant-General of the Bombay
Arury%
The Rajah-of Mysore is dead, and his adopted son has
been proclaimed his successor.

Mr. Mackintosh Balfour, of the Agra Bank, has been
appointed secretary and treasurer of the new Bank of
Bombay.

A petition to Parliament praying that the order for the
enhanced rates of Indian postage may be rescinded, is
to be presented on behalf of the Madras Chamber of Com-
merce.

At a meeting of the Commercial, Financial, and Stock
Exchange Corporation, held in Bombay on the 4th April,
the report presented by the liquidators showed that the
liquidation was proceeding satisfactorily.

It is proposed by the Governor and the leading gentle-
men of Bombay to hold an Exhibition in Bombay, in
January 1869, on a large scale.

An accident happened to a goods train on the Great'
Indian Peninsula Railway, at Tanna, near Bombay, on
the sth instant. The train ran off the metals, and for a
day or two the traffic had to be carried over a single line.
The damage done amounted to over £lO,OOO.

Mr. Cowasjee Jehangirjce Readymoney, of Bombay, has
offered the Government £5,000 towards the expense of
erecting a lunatic asylum at Hydrabad, in Sind.

Mr. G. Turnbull, late chief engineer of the East India
Railway, is to inspect the Great Indian Peninsula line,
and report on its defects.

Mohed-ood-deen Khan, of the Loharoo Chief's family,
has been arrested in Delhi for complicity in the rebellion
of 1857.

Mr. Mark Fryar, a practical mining engineer, has been
appointed to the newly-created office of mining geologist
in India.

The application to the Bombay High Court made by
the liquidators of the Alliance Bank, for an order requiring
all contributories to the company to send in their claims
for dividend before a certain day, has been refused by Mr.
Justice Westropp, who had a doubt whether the court had
any power to say that a shareholder should be so debarred.
The unclaimed dividends could be deposited by the liqui-
dators with the Accountant-General.

THE BISHOPRIC OF NEW ZEALAND.—TIIO Bishop
of Lichfield intends leaving England for the distant
diocese of New Zealand, of which he still holds the epic•
copal supervision, on the 2nd of July.

CONSERVATISM IN ESSEX.—A great meeting of
the friends and supporters of the Conservative cause is to
be held in the theatre, Colchester, on the 13th inst. Mr.
E. K. Kanlake, Q.C., one of the sitting members ; Colonel
Learmonth, who will be a candidate at the next election ;
Mr. R. N. Fowler, and Mr. W. T. Charley, will address
the meeting.

A letter from Rome says :—" Lady Herbert has
recovered from a severe attack of Roman fever, which for
some weeks so prostrated her that on Easter Sunday her
life was despaired of. Although still very weak, her lady-
ship is up and convalescent. The illness is attributed to
Lady Herbert's too assiduous attendance at the bedside of
a friend who succumbed to the Caine malady,"

DEATH OF DOWAGER LADY IVENLOCK.—WE havo
to announce the death of the Dowager Lady Wetlock,
who expired at an early hour on Saturday morning at the
family residence in Berkeley-square. The lamented lady
was the youngest daughter of Richard, second Lord Bray.
brooke, by his wife Catherine, youngest daughter of the
Right Hon. George Grenville, and was born October 6,
179'2, and married, May 10,1817, the late Paul Beilby, first
Lord Wenlock, by whom she leaves issue the present Lord
Wenlock and three other sons, and a daughter, the Hon.
Jane, married to the Right Hon. James Archibald Stuart
Wortley.

Contradictory as are the reports from the seat of war in
Central South America, there can be no doubt that it is
rapidly drawing to a close. This final stage reminds us
very forcibly of the close of the civil war in the United
States three years ago. There is the same heroic and
desperate tenacity on the part of the losing side,
the same slow but steady advance on the part
of the winners. Wonderful feats of valour performed
by forlorn hopes sliew how brave the Paraguayans are,
and how dauntless a leader they have in Lopez. But
even invincible courage will not avail against overwhelm-
ing numbers, and the Paraguayans have long been making
10,000 men do the, work of 100,000. One by one their
strong places have fallen. They are still fighting; deter-
mined, it would seem, to " die in the last ditch." Cura-
Paity has been captured ; by this time Humaita—the
Vicksburg of the Paraguay, has no doubt fallen, and we
may expect to hear in a mail or two that Lopez has either
surrendered, or has been captured, or is dead.