The Sun. — 1867-12-23 (London, England)

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 captives 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 H. Cayley, the British representative at Ladak, was without foundation, and some very interesting notes by him respecting that remote region have just been published. There have been some disturbances on the Sind frontier between the Khelat forces and the Brahoees. Jodhpore is disturbed by rebellion. The Rohillas have been giving some trouble of late, and some British troops have been sent after them from -'erabad (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 privileges 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 1867 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 Regiment,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, hurst some days ago, causing the death of three persons and injury to others ; and on the 26th instant, some turpentine 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 Tezpall, an enlightened Bhattia merchant, who died in Bombay recently, left more than £lOO,OOO for educational and charitable purposes. Her Majesty's steam transport Malabar arrived at Bombay 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 command of the Bombay and Bengal Steamship Company's steamer Yamuna, wrecked in the Red Sea, has been suspended for three months. Obituary.—Brigadier-General C. Ireland, Madras Staff Corps ; Colonel W. F. Eden, Madras Staff Corps ; Capt. George Gibson, 2-24th Regiment ; Captain H. E. Stanley, 23rd Fusiliers.