The Sun. — 1861-05-07 (London, England)

STTN, LONDON, TUESDAY' EVENING, MAY I, 1861,  MAIL.  These papers have reached us from Bombay to April 12, but their contents, of which eve subjoin the summary of the Bombay Gazette, are singularly unimportant : The English Mail of the 4th March arrived in Bombay 28th ult. The intelligence received from England of the charges which had been made affecting the character of the Financial Secretary of India in connection with the Great Western Canada Railway Company, has produced a painful impression on the public mind. The result of the inquiry into the circumstances, promised by the Secretary of State for India, is looked for with much anxiety. India is quiet, and the best interests of the Empire are in a state of progress. The great evil, with which the material welfare of a large portion of the people of the land has so long been pressed, remains unabated. The Famine still prevails and extends. The distress has not yet come to the worst. The European resources have been nearly exhausted, while th!: wealthy natives, as a class, have as yet lamentably failed in their natural duty towards their famishing fellow countrymen. There has been a pretty general fall of rain in the North-West. _  The system, which has bean tried and proved a success in the Punjaub and Oudh, of admitting native chiefs and gentlemen of rank and influence to a share in the administration of the Government, by entrusting such of them as may be deemed qualified by their general character and their intelligence with magisterial and revenue powers, has been introduced into the North Western Provinces by the Lieu enant Governor. It will have the effect of restoring the aristocracy of the country to their true position. The Indian Penal Code, which was to have come into operation next month, has been postponed till next January. This postponement is in consequence of the present stage of the criminal Procedure Bill, which has to pass its third reading, and which contains several sections that are not likely to pass without much discussion. Everything is settled in Sikkim, and the troops were expected back by the end of last month. The country is still kept in ignorance of the details of the amalgamation scheme, except as these are revealed in the radical changes which are very gradually and cautiously being made in the military service. The committee's report went home by the last Calcutta Mail. The branch of the public service which is trembling most in view of its apprehended fate, is the India Navy. The service is considered doomed, and as suspicions are like bats which fly in the dark, all sorts of rumours are afloat as to its probable fate. One of the Mysore family of State Pensioners, Prince Kootoobudeen, was most barbarously and brutally murdered on Sunday evening the 31st ult., at his house in Garden Reach, Calcutta. Our celebrities are at Mahableshwur : His Excellency the Governor, the Commander-in-Chief, and the Lord Bishop. The weather is certainly hot, and every one is justified in leaving Bombay whose duties admit of it. Our community has been considerably agitated by the summary dismissal by Government of Mr. F. Hutchinson from the office of Collector of Bombay, and from the public service. He has been 42 years in the uncovenanted service of Government, and was the fist of his class to hold so high an office as that of Collector of Bombay. There has been some misunderstanding about remissions of valuation in cases of encroachment where the land has been occupied for more than 20 years, remissions which have been going on under a number of collectors before Mr. Hutchinson bec tme chief of the  office ; Government think they have lost revenue in consequence, and Mr. Hutchinson's explanations have not been deemed satisfactory. He has, therefore, been summarily dismissed. This treatment of the head of the uncovenanted service is regarded as a severe blow to the service. There has been a disruption in the Bombay Chamber of Commerce. Thirteen of the oldest firms have seceded. The secession, in point of numbers, is a small minority ; but in point of respectability and influence, is very powerful. As they are considered to have acted unwisely, it is believed that they will reconsider the step they have taken and return. It seems very unjustifiable at the present time to weaken the influence and diminish the strength of such an important body without very valid reasons for doing so.