The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

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OVERLAND MAIL

We have received, by Extraordinary Express, our
dispatches from Bombay of May 1, and from Cal-
cutta, of April 20, with private letters from the latter
place of April 22, in advance of the Overland Mail.
The intelligence they supply is not of particular inte-
rest. The Atfred.l'a who have lately caused much
trouble upon the Peshawur frontier, have been so-
Hefting terma from Colonel Lawrence, who refused
to acceed to their request, until an answer should
be received to their communication from the
Governor-General. It was suspected that this was
but a scheme of the rebels to obtain time to gather
in their crops, which, being accomplished, thy
would renew their hostilities with increased energy.
The last mail brought accounts from Ouda which
r.-presented the successful resistance of a refractory
Z-Inindar to the British troops, and in which contest
Lieutenant E'derton, of the 10th Bengal Native In-
fantry, and several men under his command, lost their
Ilives. On the let April, a further supply of men
and an additionl gun were sent out against the
enemy : and their enterprise was crowned, we are told,
with complete success; but we have no details of this
affair.
Moolrajh, the Moultan chief, and Maharajah Singh,
arrived prisoners at Calcutta on the 18th of April.
The former is to be confined to the fort, where every
accommodation is to be afforded him ; but the latter
is to be transported to the Straits of Malacca. Sir
Charles Napier complains of ill-health, and intends to
return to England in October.
Commercial advices from Bombay and Calcutta
still continue unfavourable. Manchester goods were
in trifling demand in the former market, but all
other kinds of commodities seemed to be almost
unsaleable. At Calcutta there was little or nothing
doing.

(From the Bombay Times of May 1.)
SUMMARY.—The approach of the monsoon now
begins to break in on the usual days of mail dispatch
on the present occasion the Ist has been substituted
for the 3d—on the next and the following we shall
have the 11th and the 25th instead of the 17th May
and 3d of June ; and thenceforth till September we
shall have only one Bombay dispatch monthly. The
past fortnight has been in a great measure newsless,
the local press having been chiefly occupied by the
discussion of the question of the most eligible line for
a railway. Public opinion, both at home and here,
seems to be coming round to the views of Col. Grant,
that the Poona line is the best. So far from the Court
of Directors having, as is averred, neglected their
duty in the matter, so far back as 1842, before the
public thought of railways here at all, they desired
the services of Mr. Vignoles as commissioner to in-
quire into the railway capabilities and prospects of
India. The Supreme Government have at length
passed an Act enabling the managers of charity
schools to apprentice the children under their charge,
and magistrates of police to bind those who fall into
their hands, to learn trades and professions; the latter

clause has been introduced by suggestion from
Bom-
bay, where schools of industry have long been in pre-
paration for the reception of the destitute, and for the
instruction in the improved practice of the arts and
handicrafts of all who care to resort to them. Go-
vernment, for the past eight years, have been

spending thousands of rupees monthly in en-
deavouring to instruct cotton cultivators in clean-
ing and picking cotton, by
.sending teachers to the
districts; the Bombay plan is to open a school for all
comers, and hundreds on hundreds are expected to
resort to it, some having been here already, and many
having applied. The proposed plan bears the same
relation to the existing one as parochial schools at
home would do to the plan of sending teachers to
every hamlet and glen—incurring a thousand times
the coast, and offering not one hundredth part of the
returns. In January the Court of Directors granted
a superintendent for the schools—all they have for a
long time past been waiting for; the moment the
Board of Control gives their saction, the schools will
be opened, money, material, ground, tools, and work
having already been secured. The Affreedie chiefs,
lately annoying us on the Peshavvur frontier, have,
of their own accord, gone in to Colonel Lawrence
to seek for terms. They disowned all knowledge of
the murders lately committed, but so little doubt
was entertained of their complicity, that they were
told that they must wait for an answer till the
wishes of the Governor-General were known. Sir
Charles Napier is said to be desirous of sending
the new 66th or Goorkahs (Nepaul highlanders) to
Peshawur, where they are likely to do good service.
Dost Mahomed is said to be doing every thing in his
power to provoke and annoy us—his latest act being
the interruption of some rafts of wood floating down
the Caboul river to Peshawar for building purposes.
The Commissioner in Sinde reached Sukkur on the

15th of April; his stay would, it was expected, be
but short. Dr. Don had reached Kurrachee and re-

lieved Dr. Scott of the duties of Superintending Sur-
geon, and the latter gentleman has returned to the
presidency and resumed his former berth as Secretary
to the Medical Board. On the let of April another
gun was sent out against the refractory Zemindar at
Oude, and success seems at length to have crowned
our etihrts, though no details are given. The Governor-
General left Calcutta on the 14. h, and was expected
at Bewares on the 231 ult., on his way to Simla.
Sir C. Napier has reached the latter place. Lord
Falkland left Bombay fur liahabuleshwar on the
18th ; and Sir E. Perry, Chief Justice, returned to
the presidency on the 23d. Storms of thunder,
lightning, and hail, are beginning to make their ap-
pearance all over the country, and at Bombay the
weather has been hot and damp, which predicts rain
be near at hand.