8 MARCH 1879, Page 3

A rumour has been circulated, widely enough to induce Lord

Hartington to ask a question, that Lord Lytton is sending an expedition against Burmah, where the King has recently made himself secure by murdering all his relatives, eighty in number. The India Office, said Sir Stafford Northcote, knows nothing of the rumour, which is, therefore, incorrect. Possibly,—but we never knew anything happen in India yet without a rumour going before it. The decisions of the Viceroy in Council get out.