The overland Indian mail arrived in London last night, 'with
advices from Calcutta to the 17th, and from Bombay to the 29th July. The sole incident of general interest recorded in the journals is the murder of Mr. Horsley, a young man, first assistant to the Collector at Bellary, in the Madras Presidency. He was found stabbed : a servant, awakened by his cries, reached his room in time to see three men hastening away. It is supposed that the men were robbers, and that, disturbed in their plunder- ing, they killed Mr. Horsley to favour the escape of the party. The intelligence from Hongkong is to the 10th July. "The rebels 'were making head in all directions." They had defeated the Imperial troops in Kwangsi ; and a victory gained by them at Ching Kiang-foo had spread terror to the important commercial city of Soochow.
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