The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

7IIE OVERLAND MAIL.

By the Overland Mail, which reached London on
Saturday afternoon, we have advices from Bombay
to the 18th, Calcutta to the 13th, and Madras to
the 13th April. The only news of interest relates
to the war raging in Afghanistan, and a defeat
sustained by the Government troops near Kohat•
A second edition of the Bombay Gazette of the 18th
ult. gives the subjoined as the latest intelligence
received :—" The present Governor of Herat, sou
of the Ameer Shere Ali. Khan, has defeated the
Ameer Azim Khan (the present ruler of Cabu/)
near Girisk, on the north bank of the Helinunclf
with severe loss, and taken Candahar. He has
also taken several Sirdars of note prisoners. 10,
father, Shere Ali Khan, has been proclaimed
Ruler of Afghanistan, so that we have again
two rulers in that unhappy country, both acknoW"
ledged by the Indian Government, viz., Ameer.
-Azim Khan and Ameer Shere Ali Khan. The state-
ment made in some of the Indian papers that the
Bazootee tribe had received a severe defeat at out
hands, in the affair in which Captain Buxton was
killed, near Kohat, is not correct, and the unfortu-
nate fact is, that the Government troops were se:
verely defeated, and left their dead in the hands ei
the enemy. Nothing is to be done against the
b
tribe, there being some fear that any further attetre
to chastise it would rouse the whole border tribes'
Our ignominious defeat and our apathy COS"
hined will bring us into contempt along the viola
frontier."
Calcutta advices of the 13th ult. state that at tbffi
first opium sales of the new financial year th,°
prices realised were 133 rupees above Mr. MasseY °
estimate.

SEAMEN'S MONEY ORDERS.—A return issued by
the Board of Trade for the year 1867 shows the extent W
which seamen avail themselves of the arrangement under
which they can transmit money through the British 0";
suls at Continental ports. In the course of the year Li r
money orders were issued to seamen at European ports Or
sums amounting together to £23,640, at Hamburg fc't
£2,954, at Havre for £3,691, at Rotterdam for .£4,866,
Antwerp for £5,702. At ports of the United Kioga°,4
46,956 money-orders were issued to seamen in 1861 '"
sums amounting to £271,982.
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MANSION-HOUSE. —On Saturday evening the-
Mayor of Dublin and the Lady Mayoress, accompanied to
their daughter, arrived at the Mansion-house on a Visit.;
the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, whose gue::
they now are. On the recent visit of the Prince e"f
Princess of Wales to the Irish capital the Lord Mal° n 0
London and the Lady Mayoress were entertained there ":1(
a special invitation from the chief magistrate of the
Dublin, and in consideration of that courtesy they ill:
returned the compliment by an invitation to the 313°8°
house.
BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY.-011 Saturday of
official inquiry instituted by direction of the Bc'erci„r-t,
Trade was concluded at the Greenwich Police-eed;4
before Mr. Maude, magistrate, and Captains Baker
Hight, nautical assessors, into the circumstance.,
10th
tending the loss of the ship Ranee, on the If r•
ultimo, on the south end of the Goodwin Sands. t
d tilt'
O'Dowd conducted the inquiry. It appears
31r,
was a Nailing vessel belonging
the Ranee to left
Dawbarn, of the Temple, Dale-street, Liverpool. She
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London, in ballast, for Quebec, on the 4th of April,
the command of Captain John Hennessy, holding °'
the
tificats of competency. At 2.30 p.m. of the 6tl3' tbe
weather being rather thick, the vessel struck cti
south end of the Goodwin, about 2ir miles
of the South Sandhead lightship, and about 11 :"0,..0
W.N.W. of the South Calliper buoy. The ree!'iit.-
statement was that he mistook the South Sandhead fool
ship for the Varna. The ship ultimately became 6 -01
wreck. The Court, having examined the first toeblt
received a written statement front the master, held °au 00
loss of the ship was attributable to careless navigatio
the part of Captain John Hennessy, whose certificatele"do
ordered to be suspended for a period of nine ea
months.wherein
The Constitutionnel publishes an article oi
estimiltetliAt
it defends the expenditure proposed in the
the Ministry of War. The article, after sholvingc the
the effective of 400,000 men is inferior to that els:,
North German Confederation, concludes as
o By the new 'military law the Emperor desired to
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of
an institution which, while economising the would
the State and lightening the burden of taxatioot
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enable France to play the part appertaining t
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Europe."
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