The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-29 00:00:00

EAST INDIA COMPANY.

Colonel SYKIB called the attention of the House to the
petitions presented to the House in the last and present
sessions from officers of the late Indian armies of the East
India Company for redress, and moved that an address be
presented to her Majesty, to direct a further consideration
subject with a view to the redress of the unsatisfied claims.
—Colonel North seconded the motion,lwhich gave rise to a
very languid discussion.—Mr. Grant Duff, the Under
Secretary for India, said he could not give any hope that
the Government would in the slightest degree yield to the
demands which had been made. He asked for a similar
instance in which an army melted away in a time of
peace in the territory which they were set to guard.
—Colonel Sykes, interrupting the Under Secre-
tary, said it was not the officers who melted away.—Capt.
Jervis indignantly alluded to the aspersion upon the
officers of the Indian army.—Mr. Gladstone supported
the Secretary for India.—A division took place at five
minutes past one, and the result was—

Ayes ...
Noes...

. 113
.. 92

The Government, therefore, suffered a defeat. Loud
were the cheers from the Opposition benches. Mr. Glad-
stone looked anything but amiable.
Major Anson moved for a select committee to inquire
into the hardships inflicted on the colonels of the British
army in consequence of their supersession by the colonels
of the Indian army. General Herbert seconded the
motion.

Both the mover and the seconder were listened to with
impatience. General Herbert, who had voluminous
notes before him, disregarded the feeling of the House,
until at last an unmistakeable evidence was given that
they had had enough of the subject.

At twenty minutes to two Mr. Cardwell intimated that
he should not oppose the motion, which was ultimately
agreed to.

DUBLIN CITY VOTERS,

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for Ireland obtained leave to
bring in a bill to disfranchise certain voters of the city of
Dublin.

CATTLE DISEASES (IRELAND) BILL.

This bill was read a third time and passed.
Several other orders were disposed of, and the House
adjourned at ten minutes to two.

ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT-SIXTEEN
PERSONS INJURED.

A telegram from Belfast announces that a serious
accident occurred yesterday on the Holywood and Bangor
Railway. An express train from Bangor, a fashionable
watering-place, was on its way to Belfast, when a luggage
train ran into it. Ninety-four persons were in the train,
sixteen of whom were injured, but none fatally.

DESTRUCTION OF A THEATRE BY FIRE.
The theatre of Brunn, in Austria, has been en-
tirely destroyed by fire. The library and the wardrobe
alone were saved. The flames broke out half au hour
before the time for opening the doors. We are informed
that the storehouse of the Zarzuela Theatre at Madrid has
also been destroyed by fire, with a loss of 300,000 fr,
which will fall entirely on the proprietor, M. Salas, as the
dresses, scenery, &c., burnt had been removed there
from the house itself without due notice having been given
to the insurance company.

Messrs. Longman are about to issue the eighth
thousand of " Lothair."

Over 8,000 persons have petitioned the House of
Commons to repeal all the acts of Parliament which make
vaccination compulsory.
The Select Committee on Conventual and Monastic
Institutions met again on Tuesday, but the evidence was
not of general interest. It related to the case against the
Oratorians.

Five young children, while gathering mussels on
Friday evening on a bank in the bed of the Clyde near
Dumbarton Castle, were overtaken by the tide. Four of
them had a narrow escape, but the fifth and youngest was
carried away by the current and drowned.
ATTACK ON A BAILIFF IN IRELAND.—A
named Leonard, in securing some property under a decree,
near Pettigo, was brutally beaten by five men on Mon-
day. He lies in a dangerous state. The men have been
arrested. .

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THE POTATO CROP.—The Cornish potato crop
turning out remarkably well this year, and the end of
June has been reached without any symptoms of disease.
A larger quantity of early potatoes has been forwarded to
London than for many years past.
THE LATE EARL HONE.--At a largo and influ-
ential meeting of the clergy and laity, held at Leicester,
on Monday, it was decided to raise a memorial to the
memory of the late Earl Howe, who died on the 30th of
May. The memorial will take the form of a church, to
be erected in the south-eastern part of the town, where
such an edifice is much needed.