The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-29 00:00:00

A\ ME RICA.

HALIFAX, July 28.
The lutnau Royal Mail steamer City of New
York arrived here at 4 p.m. to-day. All well.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, July 7 (via Brindisi).

The railway over the Bhoore Ghaut was re-
opened on the Ist inst. The strength of the line
was tested by seven locomotives with satisfactory

results.

Authentic news has been received from Affghan•
istan, but is unimportant. Shere Ali is still al
Herat.

The Madras and Bengal Banks have declared a
dividend for the half-year at the rate of 51 and 4i
per cent. respectively.
General Merewether has left to assume his ap-
pointment as Commissioner of Scinde, and General
the Hon. Alexander Gordon has been appointed
provisional Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay
army.
The Bombay Bank Commission is sitting daily,
and a searching examination of the former director
has commenced.
Colonel Herbert has left for Bagdad as Consul-
General in Turkish Arabia. _

CALCUTTA, July 2.

The subject of the construction of a bridge over
the Hooghly at Calcutta is engaging much atten-
tion, and the municipality recommend the recon-
struction of the floating-bridge.
It is stated that the King of Burmah desires to
extend the system of Indian telegraphs to his

capital.
In the case of the Port Canning directors v.
Schiller, after four days preliminary- investigation,
Justice :NI wkly decided on the most important
issues in favour of Mr. Schiller, viz., that the deed
of the 13th February was not fraudulent. The
ease stands over till November, to await the return
of the Commission ss-mt to England.

The steamer bringing the above despatches has
made the passage from Alexandria to Brindisi in

75 hours.

LISBON, July 28

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Seine arrived here at 1 p.m. to-day from the Brazils,
and will leave for Southampton at 6 p.m.
with 54 passengers, £3,665 in specie, 1,000 bales of
cotton, 2,006 bags of coffee, and 200 rolls of to-
bacco.
The La Plata, with the outward mails of the 9th
inst., was at St. Vincent (Cape Verds) on the 20th
inst.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, July 28.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
1! per Cent. - Bank Shares 3]45
Eud of mouth— -- It&Faa Loan
3 per Cent
End of mouth 69 95 Mexican Loan ... 23 50
Credit Alobilier
End of month... 263 -- Spanish Threes
Credit Foncier ...1432 Home Debt —
End of month... ____. Deferred
RAILWAYS. Cash
Orleans ................................ BB2
N orthern 1153
Lyons and Mediterranean ......... . 933
Southern..... 370
Western ....................................... 573
Eastern ............ ..
Sardinian .................... .
Austrian
Lombard ..... :
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

(Limited),"
A joint-stock undertaking of a somewhat nove:
character has just been brought out in Scotland
It is entitled the " Money Order Company of Great
Britaina
with a proposed
p
20,000 shares of £lO each.
capital
ta lof an di2 Irelandoo,oo oin
, The prospectus states that the company has been
troafnsmitting small sums
establishing a cheap
formed
secureed fr
of money, and a tariff of charges is given which,
mtheediupmurpfoorse
it is stated, will prove highly remunerative. This
scale is much lower than the Post-office
rates, the average difference being about one-
half. From the nature of the business to be trans-
acted respectability of direction and management is
obviously an essential preliminary to the acquiring
of public confidence. This requisite is attained by
the list of the names presented as constituting the
provisional committee, which includes many of the
leading citizens of Edinburgh, Leith, and Dundee.
It is to be presumed that the scheme will receive
its chief support in Scotland, but, should it succeed
a peculiar result will follow.. Whether extended to
England or not, the Post-office, which has no legal
monopoly of money-order remittances, must either
at once reduce its scale of charges or lose part of its
most profitable source of revenue.
A swift and terrible doom, says the Daily e 7 le-
graph, has overtaken the murderers of Prince
Michael. Fourteen of them have been condemned
to death ; two, Prince Alexander Karageorgievich
and his secretary, are to suffer twenty years' penal
servitude ; twenty years' hard labour in a fortress
has been awarded to another ; and the least guilty
of the conspirators is to be imprisoned for five years.
The severity of the sentences, coupled with the atti-
tude of the foreign Powers and the resolute bearing
of Turkey, may read an opportune lesson to those
restless Pansclavists who are still troubling the
Danube and neighbouring provinces with their
abortive intrigues. Continental agitators would
do well to ask themselves, also, whether, on the
whole, political assassination pays. We do not ask
whether political assassination is just, for that
question brings up ideas which we cannot expect
them to understand, far less to share. We put the
matter on no higher ground than that of profit
and loss. Abraham Lincoln is dead, but his
death only lent strength to Abolitionism. Prince
Michael is dead, but the objects of his murderers
have not been brought a whit nearer. The Em-
peror of the French is not dead, though select
committees of assassins have again and again met
to see how they might best send him to a world
in which coups d'e"tat and press laws would be be-
yond his reach ; but, somehow, their hostility has
missed its mark, and the effort to shoot him down
without giving him a chance of defence has done
more than a host of Persignys could have accom-
plished to make his hold on the French throne

secure.
THE HARVEST AND TILE LABOUR MARKET.—
At ;Talton, on Saturday, the attendance of harvesters was
large. There was an entire absence of the Irish harvester
the time of his appearance being fully a fortnight distant,
when the harvest will be nearly over. Tho bulk of the men
were from the mining di,,tr;cts, where little is doing. Ex-
cellent wages were obtained, but mostly for three weeks
only instead of the customary month. Bright suns and
continued droughts have made harvest general, and all
promises to be not only one of the earliest but also the
shortest on record.—Leeds Mercury.
EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE
are the properties of Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, curing the
worst headaches, sickness, skin, or binary affections Pleasant,
palatable, and invigorating. Sold by all Chemists.—[Advt.]