The Sun. — 1863-07-06 (London, England)

THE BOMBAY MAIL.  The above mail brings dates from Bombay to the  June.  The Bombay Gazette says—" The past fortnight has not been an eventful period in India, and we are not called to record any events of general interest. The south-west monsoon may be considered to have fairly set in. The whole of the west coast, from Comorin to Bombay, has been visited with rain, and there is every appearance of a heavy fall  soon in Bombay." The same journal contains the following sum mare of news:— " His Excellency the Governor of Bombay is still at the Mahableshwar hills, but will be iu Poona shortly, as the monsoon has set in. " The ship Patterson, 'Amble, comm,lnder, 985 tons register, bound to London, sailed from Bombay on the 4th June with a cargo of cotton, coffee, and seeds, and having sprung a leak when about 20 miles out, rapidly filled and went partially down. All lives saved, and the ship and cargo are expected to he recovered. _ _  " The out-turn of the Bengal opium districts for the present season, to be brought forward for sale ita 1864, will be abut 27,000 chests Patna, and 200,000 Benares. This is the largest crop gathered since 1855. Prices cannot fall so low as 1250 rs. a chest, which the average fixed by Sir C. Trevelyan in his budget for 1863.64. " Sir Robert Montgomery's interview with the Maharajah of Cashmere is said to have led to important results, which will tend to the commercial prosperity of the Punjaub and Cashmere. " Lieut. Haig, adjutant of her Majesty's 90th Regiment, was attacked by a band of decoits in the territory of his Highn,ss the Maharajah of Scindia, 28 miles north of Inoore, and severely wouLded. He was unarmed, but fought manfully, and would probably have been murdered but for the timely arrival of some chokedars.  " The King of Burmah is reported to have been murdered. The report is not confirmed.  "The report of the Kurrachee Chamber of Commerce for the year 1862-63 states that the total value of the trade of that port for the year was £5,500,000 sterling, against about £3,000,000 the previous year—an increase of 861 per cent. ; upwards of £1,300,000 of this increase is due to the export of cotton, of which staple not a single bale was exported two years ago. " By news from Cabool to 13th May it appears that Dost Mehomed had sent a messenger to Shah Nawaz Khan, the present ruler of Heerat, asking him if he would ratify the terms agreed upon by the late Sultan Ahmed Jan. The reply was that he had written to the King of Persia on his father's death, and on the receipt of an answ...T from the Shah would communicate his intentions with regard  to the treaty to the Ameer. The Prince of Meshed was on his way to lieerat, having left his troops at Ghorian, to condole with Shah Nawaz Khan on  ,he occasion of his father's death.  " Major W. L. Merewether, C. 8., of the Bombay Staff Corps, has been appointed political resident at Aden. " Lieut. Jackson, who was tried by court-martial at Mooltan for flogging hiti servant to death at Dera Ismail Khan, has been sentenced to penal servitude for four years, and his name has been struck off the rolls of the Royal Engineers from the 21st of April last. " Orders nave been issued by the Governor General that all former prohibitions as to enlistment in the Punjab are to be cancelled. No enlistments taking place under the commander in chief's orders are to be interfered with by civil authorities. "In the month of August next extensive and numerous changes will take place in almost all the branches of the administration, intended to assimi late it as much as possible to the state machinery as worked in England. The work of abolishing, reconstructing, and economising wilt be carried on under the guiding hand of Sir C. Trevelyan by officials well trained and versed in English financial work."