The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-23 00:00:00

INDIA.

t:.e m:,77 f Tr.Cia just arrived the r..tf0,,,.„ %vs
been brow;ht, dated up to the 2nd of May:—
It is expected that Brigadier-General M^Ter;e4-1-.or will
take up his appointment as Commissioner of Scinde in a
few weeks.

It is repor'..,ll that ColonPl Pliayre, Quartermaster.
General of the romliay '_rrly, succeeds Sii Henry Green
as comtnz;ndant of the Scinde f:•,ntier force.

'fhe system Of sorting ocean mails on the overland mail
steamers east of Suez has been sanctioned by Govern.
ment.

Sir Stafford Nortncote nas sent .21,000 as a personal
contribution to be distributed among. certain charitable
and educational institutions in India.

A man, supposed to be son of Afahomed Ali Shah, one
of the old Dude princes, and who says he has been hi ling
ever since the mutiny, has just been apprehended by the
Simla police.

It is said that on account of the tyranny of Mahomed
Azim Khan, the de facto ruler at Cabul, there has been a
rising of the people there, and that Abdoola Khan,
grandson of the late Dost Mahomed Khan, has fled to
r esb a wur.

Colonel Burroughs, 93rd Highlanders, was visiting the
Jumna Musjid, Lucknow, a few days ago, when he was
mobbed and beaten by the darogah (the man in charge of
the place) and other natives.
The proposed revision of the ex!.rg tur4l cr. cotton
goods has been postponed.
The Bombay Chamber of Commerce have adopted a
scale of rates with reference to ships' commissions ; and
" inward freights," payable at the current rates of ex-
change, are to be paid for at the rate of two shillings in
the rupee.

Colonel Trevor, RE., has been appointed Consulting
Engineer to the Bombay Government, in succession to
Colonel DeLisle, who retires from the service.

The liquidators of the Indian Peninsula, London, and
China Bank, expect to realise from £25,000 to £30,000 be.
fore finally winding up the affairs of the company.

The Maharajah of Kashmir has connected himself with
he turf, by giving a valuable gold cup to be run for at
Sealkote Races.

The Acting Political Agent at Aden, Captain Abbott,
has, pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of State,
sent off recently three trusty messengers (Somalis) into the
Somali country, in the hope that something may be heard
of the survivors of the St. Abb's crew. The great annual
fair at Berbera, where all the newsmongers of Eastern
Africa congregate, will shortly break up, and it is hoped
some information, from its returning visitors, will be ob.
tamed for the guidance of M. Angelo, if that gentleman
qia prosecute his proposed search.
Os. the 22nd April the Ethel, bound for Liverpool, was
2(1 near Hooghly Point, when the Agamemnon,
bound for Dundee, ran into her, and both ships sank.
Several lives were lost. The cargoes were valued At
£100,006 each.

The Ang,,ktry Gazette gives some interesting part:, tdar3
of a conversation between one of its writers and Earn von
Beust. Referring to the foreign policy of Austria, the
Minister said : " It is not animated by any thong:. t hostile
to Prussia, nor by any tendency contrary to its German
policy, inasmuch as it is loyally decided at Berlin not to ex-
ceed the limits of the Treaty of Prague." In other words,
P. ussia having discouraged the Unity Address, Austria has
no ground of complaint against her.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News still believes
that war is at hand. He says, in reference to the article
in the Journal des Debats, already referred to: " The King
of Prussia intends to make himself Emperor of Germany,
and his servants hint his intentions as clearly as the set,
vants of Louis Napoleon did in 18:52 that he meant to be
Emperor of France. There is every reason to suppose
that after much of diplomatic fencing, with a view to
shift responsibility, France means to fight with Prussia
for supremacy. The issue at stake is too vast for any
representation of Lord Loftus to postpone the trial very
long."
The Paris Moniteur de l'Armie attempts to explain away
General Failly's speech to the troops at Chalons, and so
quiet the alarm to which it has given rise. But in another
article the same journal re-excites the public apprehension.
The article says : " Three (Prussian) corps d'arm6e are
massed within a few leagues of the French frontier. These
corps are the most numerous, the best organised, and the
best prepared to take the field. There are certain points
of our frontiers which are more especially menaced. The
Prussian railways seem to have been constructed for the
special purpose of conveying armies to the valleys of the
Sarre and Moselle. The three principal lines of the
German network of railways converge towards the summit
of a triangle formed by the Prussian armies—a triangle
the point of which seems destined to enter the heart of
France as an iron point pierces a hole in an oak."

The Lisc2V declares that the Duke of Saxe•Coburg.
Gotha has personally given a formal denial to the rumour
that he intended to abdicate.

Henry LXVII., Prince of Reuss-Schlelz, one of the
smallest of the German principalities, has just set an
example worthy of being followed by his big royal
brothers. lIL has submitted to his Parliament a bill for
abolishing all the press restrictions which now exist.
The Pope has appointed Count Caserta, brother of the
ex-King Francis 11., a general in the Papal army.
It is believed that the life of Manzi the bri Jan,l will be
si:ared, in spite of the three murders and other mir.,r but
atrocious offences which have been proved agairut him.
Humanity is great in Southern Italy, because the moral
standard is low. Thera are at the preceut time
712 men and P 3 women confined in the prisona of
Solerno, who were eitLer manutengoli or mistresses of the
Drigand3. The almost incredible statement is made that
there are now 44,000 persons employed in the galleys as
origands, and that 60,000 soldiers have been employed
Igainst them. Manzi, in speaking of the rapidity with
which his gains were dissipated, says this was no marvel,
!'or he was asked 20f. for a piece of bread no larger than
."Jan's hand. Clearly, then, it is the peasantry who have
reaped the chief advantage from brigar:;,:z.. 170 wonder
that the 'lnmate), goli are so numerous,