The Sun. — 1864-08-05 (London, England)

CONSUL MURRAY TO LORD LYONS. Portland, June 23, 1864.  My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's despatch dated the 11th inst., authorising me to employ a lawyer on behalf of Thomas 'pulley and the other Irishmen who were enlisted into the 20th Maine Regiment, if I deemed it advisable to do so.  Thomas Talley presented himself at this office yesterday on his arrival from Philadelphia. He rid not appear in uniform, as he stated that he bad been deprived of it by two men who induced him to go and lodge with them at Boston, and who the next morning endeavoured to entice him to re-enlist and accept the bounty money over again. This he refused to do, and came on in the clothes lent him by the master of the house, who he believes was in the plot. I went with Tetley to the provost marshal, who has sent him to Camp Berry, in this immediate neighbourhood, so as to be near at hand when required. Tuley knew nothing about his companions. Michael Bryne returned from the hospital at Augusta a few days ago, and told me that ho had obtained a ten days' furlough. He seemed to have recovered from the wound in the head, but told me he was suffering from other bodily ailments.  " Sir Hugh Rose has issued an order to the army, in which he directs that the issue of ram from can• teens is for the future to be restricted to one dram only per man per day.  " Preparations are being made in the Arsenal o Fort William, Bengal, for the equipment of a force to be sent to guard the Bhootanese frontier it he next cold weather. The 25th and 40th Regimenta Native Infantry, the Eurasian Mountain Train Battery, and a detachment from her Majesty's 27th at Dinapore will, it is expected, form thei nn ifsokriciel g 8  " A shocking railway accident occurred on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, between Wassind and Titwallah, on the Kussarah Line, in the Ronkun, about 43 miles from Bombay, on the morning of the 27th June, by which 15 persons were killed on the spot, and about 30 others were more or less injured; one of whom has since died. d‘ Toe Government of India has disallowed the arrangements proposed by the Government, relat% ing to the Bench of the Small Cause Court at Bornbay, and sanctioned a scale of salaries on the Precedentu dge o draws f the High Court, where every Puisne one uniform allowance; the Chief Justice drawing more than the rest. Under this arrangement the First Judge of the Small Cause Court at Bombay will receive £2OO a month, Judge and the Second, Third, and Fourth Judges only alone £lOO each. _ . _  hei --e The enlistment Of seamen at Calcutta for the has attracted the notice oFitihfeeevtdheedetectionderalat ohave alreadyte agents, who are be. reerit ii n es A there,merie who 4 ted one ship for the States Northern with unemployed sailors in direct has of Ahmedabad, in the Presidency of Bombay, been sentenced to six .cc A Banian, named Wadeelal Heerachund, one of the wealthiest merchants contravention of laws. freighted months' imprisonment and the payment of a fine of £lOO for bribing a signaller employed in the Government telegraph office in that city. "Another very shocking murder (the sixth within the last three months) was perpetrated at. Bombay on the 26th June. The victim is the wife of a Mahomedan, who would appear to have first strangled her and then dismembered the body, portions of which he threw into en open drain and a well in the immediate vicinity of the murder. The ailed murderer is in custody. " The second Criminal Sessions of the present year commenced in the High Court of Bombay on the sth July, the Hon. Mr Justice Conch presiding. The calendar contains 42 cases, of which three are for murder. "Cholera is very prevalent in the large stations of the Central Provinces, at Roshun..a. a .d. b Indore, arid Bhopal; and on the Seonee, NAg--p ore, and Job. bulpore roads; the people are Said to be dying 30 and 40 daily. " It is rumoured that Major •Gens. Cunyngbam and Garvock, commanding divisions of the Bengal Army, are both going home, with his Excellency Sir Hugh Rose ou his retirement from the office of Commander.in-Chief in India.