The Sun. — 1870-12-21 (London, England)

NEWS FROM INDIA.  The Bombay mail has brought news from Calcutta to the 23rd, and from Bombay to the 26th of November, We take the following items from the overland summaries of the Bombay papers :  Mr. J. F. D. Inglis, of the Bengal Civil Service has been appointed an additional member of the Viceregal Legislative Council. Mr. Inglis is senior member of the revenue board in the North West Provinces.  Surgeon-Major F. J. Mouat, Inspector-General of gaols, Lower Provinces, Bengal, has been permitted to retire from the service on a pension of £550 per annum. Dr. Mouat is to be succeeded by Dr. Fawcus, the Deputy Inspector-General. A memorial praying for a Royal Commission upon the system of Government in India is now in course of circulation in Calcutta, with a view to eventual transmission to England.  The sum of over £1,420 sterling has been remitted from the Bombay public to Colonel Lloyd Lindsay for the wounded in the Franco-German war. This is independently of £7OO raised among the Masonic bodies, and nearly £l,OOO collected by the German Consul. The Bishop of Calcutta is at present in Bombay. A Church conference will be held shortly. A memorial of the late Sir Herbert Edwardes is to he constructed at Peshawur, in the shape of an ornamental fountain.  The women of Calcutta who have joined the Brahmo religious movement have presented to Baboo Keshub Chtmder Sen an address welcoming him back, thanking him heartily for the perils he had encountered in behalf of their religion, and assuring him of their kind affection and reverence.  Cholera has broken out in the camp of his Majesty the, Shah of Persia, who had set out on his pilgrimage to Ker• beta. The Turkish quarantine authorities were in doubts as to how they could turn his Majesty aside for a time from Turkish territory. The expedient of a grand hunt had been thought of. At the meeting of the Viceregal Council, which was to be held on the 25th of November, Mr. Fitzjames Stephen was expected to deliver an elaborate speech on the Wahabees and other dangerous tribes in the hills. Respecting Mr. Stephen's proposed amendments to the Penal Code, which were laid before the Council on the 18th of November, the Calcutta corres, pondent of the Times, who was present on the occasion, says : —" I came away with the impression that it must be hard work to a man like Mr. Stephen to bear up against the dead weight of a Council that is itself overweighted with dignified form. I should say that when a man intends to do anything in the Council of India he must find the inspiration from within, for the chances are that he will have none from without." A European broker in Bombay named Henry Robert Reel, who was in pecuniary difficulties, has committed suicide by taking opium. The Pioneer's Calcfitta correspondent alludes to the cold reception the Viceroy got from the Calcutta public, and mentions a rumour that the names of certain persons who have in a marked manner absented themselves from Government House since his Excellency's return are about to be struck off the Visitors' List. The erection of a floating bridge for the Hooghly is said to have been sanctioned by the Government of India. Mr. Leslie, the etigineer, will proceed to England shortly, and it is expected that the bridge will be actively commenced about December of next year.  We understand that Captain Poynter, late a the 16th Regiment, has commenced legal proceedings in the Irish Court of Common Pleas to recover damages, laid at £5,000, from Mr. J. G. V. Porter, of Belleisle, for a mult and battery in connection with the recent singular transactions near Enniskillen.— Saunders's Newsletter.  BRi GHTON SUITS, 18s. to 48s.