The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

INDIA.

The Times of India of 29th November supplies the
following items of intelligence :
Major H. A. Leveson, who represents himself to be
Military Commissioner in Abyssinia to the War Office,
and whose chief object is to obtain the release of the cap-
tives by diplomacy, has arrived at Massowah.
Intelligence has been received of the loss of H.M.S.
Perseus in the China Seas.

The reported assassination of Assistant-Surgeon
Cayley, the British representative at Ladak, was without
foundation, and some very interesting notes by him re-
specting that remote region have just been published.
There have been some disturbances on the Sind frontier
between the Khelat forces and the Brahoecs. Jodhpore
is disturbed by rebellion.
The Rohillas have been giving some trouble of late,
and some British troops have been sent after them from
F -'era Lad (Deccan).

The national debt of India amounts to about
£100,000,000, or less. than two years' income.
The treaty between the British and the Burmese has
been duly signed.
The Government of India have promptly set aside a rule
which had been attempted to be made, by which the
families of Indian officers were debarred from the privi-
leges accorded to the families of officers of line regiments,
in regard to passages by the new Indian transport
ships.

A coroner's jury in Calcutta have sent in a statement
to the Government of Bengal, charging the Calcutta
police with incompetency and inertness.
_ _

- Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, after having spent a few days
in the hills, has returned to Bombay.

It is proposed to wind up the Bombay and Bengal
Steamship Company.
In October 1307 nearly 9,900,0001 b. of cotton were
shipped from Bombay.
Dr. Norman Macleod has arrived in Bombay, having
been appointed by the General Assembly of Scotland to
visit all their missions in India.

Private Cassidy, of the 45th Itegiment,has been convicted
at the Bombay Sessions of attempting to murder Drum-
major Griffiths of the same regiment.
A steam boiler at the Patent Ice Factory, Bombay,
nurst some days ago, causing the death of three persons
and injury to others ; and on the 20th instant, some tur-
pentine caught light at the Government Dockyard, and
some shedding became on fire. The fire was at once got
under, but one man was killed and several were dreadfully
injured through the accident, of whom four died at the
hospital.
Goculdass 'rural', an enlightened Bhattia, merchant,
who died in Bombay recently, left snore than £lOO,OOO for
educational and charitable purposes.

Her Majesty's steam transport Malabar arrived at Bom-
bay from Suez on the 24th November, having on board 56
officers, 1,272 soldiers, 13 ladies, and about 150 wives and
children of soldiers. _ .

The steamship Krishna, on her last voyage from
Suez to Bombay, burnt coals (600 tons) which had been
brought from Europe by way of Port Said and the Suez
Canal.
The certificate of Captain Morison, who was in com-
mand of the Bombay and Bengal Steamship Company's
steamer Yamuna, wrecked in the Red Sea, has been sus-
pended for three months.

Obituary.—Brigadier-G-eneral C. Ireland, Madras Staff
Corps ; Colonel W. F. Eden, Madras Staff Corps ; Capt.
George Gibson, 2-24th Regiment ; Captain IT. E. Stanley,
23rd Fusiliers.

SHOCKING MURDERS IN IRELAND. —A correspon-
dent of the Daily Express gives an account of a shocking
murder perpetrated on the road from Castledermot to
Athy. The victim was a man named William Dunne,
who had been attending the fair at Castledermot, and was
murdered on his way home. His body was so dreadfully
disfigured that it was difficult to identify him. Robbery
was the motive. He was stripped of his clothes, and the
clothes of the murderer were found near, saturated with
blood. An inquest was held, and a verdict of " Wilful
murder" was returned against a man named Coffey, who
was seen with the deceased.—A fanner named Poynton,
residing between Ballymahon and Keenagh, county Long-
ford, was shot on Friday while ploughing, by a man dis-
guised. The outrage is believed to be agrarian. Hopes
are entertained of Ilia recovery.

(i
tt
(fli)Utt ifmthx

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Dec. 22.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Louise, and attended by the
Hon. Emily Cathcart.

TILE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.- —Their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess cf Wales will
visit the Lord and Lady Leicester, at Holkam-hall, Nor-
folk, early in January. It is not improbable that Prince
and Princess Christian will also join the party. The,
Prince of Wales shot over the estate of Mr. Villebois, o'
Marham, in the course of last week. The following gen-
tlemen were invited to meet his Royal Highness:
Dudley, the Hon. A. T. Pitzinaurice, the Hon. C. Vivian'
Captain Bagge, Captain Bathurst, Captain Sumner, M.
-Dyke, and Mr. Thellusson. The West Norfolk hounds
will meet at Sandringham to-day, and the hospitalities of
Sandringham House will be extended to the field. The
usual Christmas gifts of the Prince and Princess of Wales
to the poor of Sandringham and one or two of the adja-
cent villages will be distributed this week. —Lord