The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-20 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

The arrival of the Bombay mail furnishes us with intel-
ligence from that Presidency to the 29th of January. The
following items of news are from the Times of India :
A telegram from Secunderabad states that on the 27th
the life of Salar Jung was attempted while on his way to
a durbar of his Highness the Nizam. The Minister
escaped uninjured, but one of the sowars in attendance on
him was killed.
Sir Robert Napier's first despatch from Abyssinia to the
Bombay Government has been published.
The whole of the Third Brigade of the Abyssinian field
force has sailed for Annesley Bay.
The second batch of elephants for the Abyssinian trans-
port department left Bombay on January 19.
Sir Seymour Fitzgerald presided at the convocation of
the Bombay University on January 14, and its Chan-
cellor delivered an address on education.
The Customs revenue of Bombay during the past year
was over £718,000, showing a decrease in this revenue as
compared with the preceding year of £52,000.
There was a decrease of about £90,000 on the salt
revenue of the Bombay Presidency during the past year
—owing to the depression of trade, and the delivery of
salt by weight instead of by measurement.
In the Bombay Presidency 1,976,000 acres of land are
this season employed in the cultivation of cotton. The
returns shew an increase of 27,000 acres under cultivation
as compared with the preceding year, but the yield is esti-
mated at 2,000 bales less.
On January 25, the Government and public deposits in
the New Bank of Bombay amounted to £1,727,000 ; and
the paid-up capital to £362,500.
The liquidation of the Financial Association of India
and China has been practically completed.
The A.tiet Rahoman, a Bombay ship, was totally lost in
a cyclone near Mauritius in December.
The new lighthouse at Cochin was brought into use on
the 15th January.
Affairs at Muscat are quiet ; the trade is brisk, and the
'marlin has strictly enjoined the inhabitants to respect the
British.
It is stated that a bill for the re-imposition of the income
tax is to be introduced into the Council of the Government
of India by Mr. Maine.
The accounts of the Indian military department are to
be reformed and the system assimilated to that in use in
England.
A British agent is to be sent to Ladakh on the opening
of the trading season each year.
It is proposed to appoint a Financial Commissioner for
the North-Western Provinces.
A census of the inhabitants of the North-Western Pro-
vinces was taken on the night of January 9.
The Akola Industrial Exhibition was opened on the 27th
January, and promises to he very successful.
Dr. Norman Macleod preached his first sermon to a Cal-
cutta congregation on January 19.
Sir Seymour Fitzgerald left Bombay on January 21
for Kurrachee, where he arrived on the 24th, and held a
levee the following day.
The Maharajah of Cashmere has given a lakh of Chilki
rupees (26,300) towards the funds of the Oriental Uni-
versity.
The official report for the past year as to the condition of
Coorg shews that the State is in a very satisfactory con-
dition.

Penalties levied on native States for robberies of mails
within their jurisdiction are to go towards a fund for
increasing the security of mails.
• Warrant officers of the Indian Army are to receive an
increased rate of pay from January 1.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Euphrates arrived in
Bombay on January 16 with Royal Artillery and details
Of different corps.
Her :Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna, with the 94th
Regiment and details, sailed for Suez on January 24.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Euphrates, with the
!2nd Highlanders and details, is to leave Bombay for Suez
on February 1.
The British ship Southern Queen ran ashore at the en-
trance to Bombay harbour on the night of January 26, but
was got off without any serious damage.
OBITUART.—Captain R. Barlow, 45th Regiment.; Cap-
tain Patrick Cowley, Bombay Army.

SAVING LIFE.—At a public meeting held at
Romney, Ilia Rev. O. Cobb, rector of Dymchurcb, Keat,
was presented with a gold medal 'of the first class,
swarded to him by the Emperor of the French, for having
saved the life of a French sailor during a recent storm
at sea.

A MARK-LANE LIFEBOAT. —The members of the
Corn Exchange and of the London Corn Exchange, Mark•
lane, have presented, through Messrs. B. L. Judkin and
EL K. Jackson, to the National Lifeboat Institution £5OO.
In compliment to the subscribers, the institution has
Ice:ded to name the Yarmouth large lifeboat " The Mark
Lane."

Her Majesty has been pleased, on the recom-
mendation of the Government, to appoint the following
Royal Commissioners to examine and report upon the pro-
3cedings and recommendations of the International Con-
ierenee held in Paris last year, under the auspices of the
Fr,lich Government, relative to the establishment of a
universal system of international coinage : —Viscount
Halifax (chairman), Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P.,
Right Hon. Stephen Ca v(,, M.P., Right Hon. J. Wilson
Patten, M.P., Right Hon. M. Longfield, Sir John Lub-
bock, Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P., the Governor of the
Bank, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Thomson Hankey,
Mr. Hubbard, M.P., Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., the
Astronomer-Royal, and the Master of the Mint. Mr.
-Rivers Wilson, of the Treasury, who was deputed, with
the Master of the Mint, to attend the Paris Conference,
will act as secretary of the commission.

THE LAND TRANS PORT TRAIN FOR ABYSSINIA.—
The Commander-in-Chief of the Abyssinian expedition
:Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier) has expressed to
the Governor of Bombay his great dissatisfaction
with the working of the Bombay Commissariat
in connection with the provisioning and supply of
the Land Transport Train en route for Abyssinia.
Nruch delay and obstruction have, it is said, ham-
pered the movement of the corps at Bombay, and the
Commissary-General was accused of actually refusing the
supplies required by Captain Blakeney, the director of
the Army Works Corps. All this had to be settled by
appeal to the Commander-in-Chief, and a communica-
tion from him to the Governor of Bombay has had the
effect of quickening the movements of the Bombay Com-
missariat.

The death of Mr. Justice Shee causes another vacancy
,n the judicial bench. In the ordinary run of things,
Mr. Brett, the newly-appointed Solicitor-General, would
have the refusal of this post. As a rule, when a lawyer
has become an officer of the Crown, he prefers to remain
in practice, and run the chance of some day getting a chief-
ship to accepting a puisne judgship. By the latter he
places himself upon a permanent shelf with a salary of
£5,000 a year, with a contingent pension of £3,500 when
he is no longer able to discharge his duty. It is not always
that " Mr. Solicitor" prefers the chances of his public life
to a permanent post upon the Bench. For instance,
in December 1850, on the death of Mr. Justice
Crowder, Sir H. S. Keating, then Solicitor-General,
succeeded to the vacant place in the Court of
Common Pleas. During the Solicitor-Generalship of Sir
E. P. Collier three judgeships fell in—two in the Queen's
E..,'nch and one in the Common Pleas, neither of which was
considered worthy of the hon. and learned gentleman's
acceptance. It may be mentioned that after a law officer
of the Crown has been sworn in he is excluded by pro-
fessional eti,inette from going on circuit. Should he have
the misfortune to go out of office with -his party he thus
loses a most lucrative practice.

The debate in the Upper House of Convocation on the
.11itual question was resumed on Wednesday, when the
Bishop of Lla,ndaff renewed the discussion and spoke in
favour of the Bishop of London's resolutions. The Bishop
of Salisbury moved " the previous question." He opposed
the resolutions as feeble and calculated to irritate well-
disposed people and aggravate the mischief they so much
deplored. The Bishop of Rochester held that so long as
the Ritual Commission was sitting they were not called
upon to move in the matter. The Bishop of Ely questioned
the policy of bringing forward the resolutions, but felt
bound to give them—now they were brought forward—his
support. The Bishop of Lichfield wished to know what
they were wanted to do. He really could not understand
the resolutions. The Irchbishop of Canterbury believed
the resolutions would have the effect of bringing about
harmonious action between Convocation and Parliament,
as they invited Parliament to legislate. The previous
question, on being put, was lost, only four bishops—Oxford,
Salisbury, Rochester, and Lichfield—voting- for it. After
a long discussion, in the course of which the Bishop of
Oxford moved an amendment, the original resolutions
were withdrawn, and an amendment by the Bishop of
Winchester was passed with only one dissentient
(Salisbury). The amendment carried contained an addi-
tion to the original resolution, to the effect that " means
should be provided for enforcing the due observance of the
rule laid down at the end of the Rubric concerning the
services of the Church."

In the Lower House, Archdeacon Wordsworth moved
that the House acknowledged with thankfulness the
act of his Grace the President in writing to the Eastern
Patriarchs, and communicating to them the address of
the Lambeth conference. The Dean of Westminster
having expressed his opinion that there was some awkward-
ness in sending the letter to the Eastern, and not to the
Roman or Western Protestant Churches, the resolutior
was carried unanimously. • ,••

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 19.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise.
Her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied
by Princess Louise.

LATEST INTELL LUNGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 20.
The Crown Prince is about to leave in a few
days upon a visit to England.
The Copenhagen papers state that H.R.H. the
Princess of Wales has been invited to be present at
the inauguration of a monument at Nice in memory
of the late Czar ewitch, but has been unable to accept
the invitation.