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

THE 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 Kobat•
A second edition of the Bombay Gazette of the 18th
ult. gives the subjoined as the latest intelligence
received :—" The present Governor of Herat, son
of the Ameer Shere Ali Khan, has defeated the
Ameer Azim Khan (the present ruler of Cabal)
near Girisk, on the north bank of the Helmand,
with severe loss, and taken Candahar. He Hs
also taken several Sirdars of note prisoners. gi:
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 th°
Bazootee tribe had received a severe defeat at Oil
hands, in the affair in which Captain Buxton we'll
killed, near Kohat, is not correct, and the unfortty
nate fact is, that the Government troops were se:
verely defeated, and left their dead in the hands of
the enemy. Nothing is to be done against tb:
tribe, there being some fear that any further atterclP
to chastise it would rouse.the whole border tribeo*
Our ignominious defeat and our apathy e°11;
bined will bring us into contempt along the 013°
frontier." the
Calcutta advices of the 13th ult. state that at '
first opium sales of the new financial year the
prices realised were 133 rupees above Mr. Masse,'
estimate.

SEAMEN'S MONEY URDERS.—A. return issued 11,,
the Board of Trade for the year 1867 shows the extent
which seamen avail themselves of the arrangement under
which they can transmit money through the British n°11;8
subs at Continental ports. In the course of the year I,' r
money orders were issued to seamen at. European ports for
sums amounting together to £23,640, at Hamburg for
£2,954, at Havre for £3,691, at Rotterdam for .1,4,866L8,0
Antwerp for £5,702. At ports of the United Ji-inP°t
46,956 money-orders were issued to seamen in 1867 h
sums amounting to £271 982. Lard
MANSION-Ho usE.---O n Saturday evening the
a Di
Mayor of Dublin and the Lady Mayoress, accompar"e-;t to
their daughter, arrived at the Mansion-house on a vi6,,-00
the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress, whose gll'apj
they now are. On the recent visit of the Dine° of
Princess of Wales to the Irish capital the Lord galci-00
London and the Lady Mayoress were entertained therev of
a special invitation from the chief magistrate of the eiit'loo
Dublin, and in consideration of that courtesy they ;,0-
returned the compliment by an invitation to the fan
house. , , $l3
BOARD OF TRADE INQUIRY.—On SAturoa.TA
official inquiry instituted by direction of the Bnarn-ort,
Trade was concluded at the Greenwich Police.
before Mr. Maude, magistrate, and Captains nalcerg
Hight, nautical assessors, into the cireurestahn6o3
tending the loss of the ship Ranee, on the )Ir.
ultimo, on the south end of the Goodwin Sandsi. 030
O'Dowd conducted the inquiry. It appear°`:,n gr.
the Ranee was a sailing vessel belonging b-oleo
Dawbarn, of the Temple, Dale-street, Liverpeol• P uncler
London, in ballast, for Quebec, on the 4th of APril', oer
the command of Captain John Hennessy, holding IT, theetificata of competency. At 2.30 p.m. of the 6t O
weather being rather thick, the vessel strucl;.s.‘l.
south end of al,
the Goodwin, about 2i miles OO
of the South Sandhead lightship, and about loter's
W.N.W. of the South Calliper buoy. The
statement was that he mistook the South Sandhe°' total
° 3
ship for the \Tarns. Tho ship ultimately becara 0
wreck. The Court, having examined the first WI t the
received a written statement from the master, bold
loss of the ship was attributable to careless navies " to 00
the part of Captain John Hennessy, whose cortificcaAiettag
"ordered to be suspended for a period of nih°
eirl
months.
The Constitutionnel publishes an article i3:ll:teers of
it defends the expenditure proposed in the est_.,og ths
the Ministry of War. The article, after sooty of th°
the effective of 400,000 men is inferior to ti'oifcrivs f'to
North German Confederation, concludes as la to ore
efLof
" the new military law the Emperor desi_refittoces
an institution which, while economising th°
taxation, sq°ll.o,
to her
the St it° and lightening the burden of
enable France to play the part appertaining 'C
Theilo
Eu rope." ehtafte' ' • .ts '
Ilurninzan's Pure Teas arc Bd. per polo— - ebeinP of
2,500 agents—confectioners in London, anl supplies
the country—are constantly receiving frn
1 these Bony-approred teas. Sold only Pars'