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been sent down from Oxford after less than a semester, and
At Oxford, they're called "terms".
The rest of our conversation revolved around the wretched life of the writer—an endlessly popular topic among members of this caste—and
a cobbler turning a shoe on the lathe.
Possibly the last, rather than the lathe?
sputtering and frizzing in the light rain
Fizzing?
insignia as head of the police force was proudly emblazoned
The word "insignia" is plural, as RLS would have been aware.
half-blind and -deaf from the gunshot,
Expert use of the hyphen. Bravo!
clerks in black toting up bales of tobacco
They were probably totting them up, rather than toting them up.
loose white shirt and dungarees common to most travellers in these regions,
"Dungarees" are overalls in British English, not sturdy trousers are they are in AmE.
