4 JANUARY 1868, Page 9

The Victoria Cross has been granted to Major W. S.

Trevor and Lieutenant J. Douglas, for a very gallant deed in Bhootan. The Bhooteas, 180 strong, had barricaded themselves in a block- louse, to enter which " we had to climb up a wall which was 14 feet high, and then to enter a house occupied by some 200 desperate men, head foremost through an opening not more than two feet wide, between the top of the wall and the roof of the blockhouse." The Sikhs did not like it at all, whereupon Major- General Tombs called on these two officers to show them the way, which they did, scaling the wall, creeping through the opening, and driving out the Bhooteas. They were followed, we must add, at once by the Sikhs, who would not lead.