17 SEPTEMBER 1870, Page 3

The Times of Tuesday states that information has been received

at the India Office that the telegrams from India reporting that a native regiment at Allahabad threw down its arms in a spirit of insubordination were utterly untrue. "The India Office has ascertained that there is no cause for fearing a disturbance at that station, and the apprehension felt by European residents appears to have been groundless." This is hardly a satisfactory kind of denial; it certainly does not assert that the discipline of the troops is all that it has formerly been ; and we should fear that the true explanation of the rumour is that it grew out of indications of an insubordinate spirit which had been exaggerated indeed, but still had their significance.