The Sun.
London, England, 1870-11-29 00:00:00

INDIAN NEWS.

We have reeoived the Indian papers to date November
sth. We extract the following from the Times of India
and the Bombay Gazette :

During an early tour of inspection Major-General Tra-
vers, V.C., of the Meerut Division, will pay the fort at
Delhi a visit, to determine the capability of its walls for
carrying the heavy armament in view for all land defences
in India.
There is just now intense commotion in the Regiment
of 60th Rifles stationed at the Bellary, and the
Commander-in-Chief has directed a court-martial to be
held which promises to rival in interest that in the
notorious Crawley case, It is said that the new colonel
of the regiment is a very strict disciplinarian, and that
there has been some bad feeling in the regiment for some
time past. Matters came to a crisis the other day
when one of the ensigns, feeling aggrieved at the
way in which he was treated by the commanding
officer on parade, threw down his sword, and openly
refused to obey orders; in fact, mutinied. The most
extraordinary part of the affair is that all the regiment,
officers and men, take the part of the young officer. It is
said that there was an audible murmur in the ranks at the
treatment he was subjected to, and that the men have got
up a purse to employ counsel for him. A Court of
Inquiry has already been held, at which some rather
strongly-u orded evidence appears to have been given. A
court-martial has now been ordered, and will probably be
held in Madras.

Mr. William George Anderson of the Audit and
Exchequer Department is to be made a C.B.
THE RIGHT HON. G. A. HAMILTON.—WO have
authority to state that the report of the medical atten-
dants of the Right Hon. G. A. Hamilton give a still
more favourable account of his progress towar& recovery.
ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—At Weston-super-
Mare, on the 29th, the bronze medal of the Royal Humane
r Society was presented under circumstances of unusual in-
terest. The recipient was the Rev. L. N. Caulfield, an
old clergyman, who, in spite of his delicate health, saved
a lad from drowning in a deep Wiltshire canal last August.
The chair was taken by Lieutenai!.t-Colonel Rawlins, and
Miss Alice B. Le Geyt, who received, a medal from the
Lifeboat Society about four years since for her gallant
rescue of two boys at Lyme Regis, was deputed to present
the medal, which she did with a most appropriate speech.
HORSEFLESH FOR LONDONERS.—A man named
Robert Taylor was charged before the magistrates at Lan-
caster, on Saturday, with slaughtering six horses in a
building that was not licensed for the purpose. Defendant
had recently, taken some premises at Holton, a village
about four miles from Lancaster. He then hired a pro-
fessional horse-slaughterer from Liverpool, and it was
i
stated ii evidence that from the 2nd to the 11th
instant six old horses were slaughtered and boiled down,
the flesh being sent off to London as " sausage meat.'
Defendant said that tne horseflesh was intended as cat's
meat, but the police stated that they had obtained the
address of the person to whom the flesh had been con-
signed, and they believed it was for sausage meat. De-
, fendant was committed for trial at the sessions.

II HEATRE ROYAL 1)R1 .I'-LA S 15.—Sole
1 Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CIIATraRTON.---This
Theatre having been re-decorated under the direction of Mr.
C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the AUTUM N DRAMATIC
SEASON, THIS EVENING, Nov. 29. Doors open at half-past Six,
commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past
Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from
Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four
Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily.