The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-27 00:00:00

THE CHINESE INDEMNITY.

It will be remembered that one of the conditions
on which peace was concluded with China at the
close of the last war was, that a sum of money
equivalent to £200,000 sterling, should be paid by
the Chinese Government to the families of the men
who were treacherously seized by the Chinese under
an armistice, and either barbarously murdered or
else shockingly ill treated. The names of Anderson,
Be Norman, Bowlby, and others, will at once occur
to our readers.

The French papers lately announced that the
amount of this " blood money " allocated to their
countrymen who, along with our own, fell into the
Chinese trap, had been duly apportioned. We
are happy to learn that the English portion has also
been paid to the amount of about £93,000, and that
it is now being distributed in the following propor-
tions:—To the legal represen tat' ve of Capt. Brabazon,
of the Royal Artillery, £15,000. This officer was
specially selected by Brigadier Crofton for the
post of deputy assistant quartermaster-general. He
was the author of an excellent work, " Soldiers and
their Service," and up to the day upon which he
gallantly volunteered to accompany Mr. Loch to
the Chinese lines he was regarded by the heads of
the expedition, both English and French, as one of
the most valuable officers of a staff in itself singu-
larly efficient. He was decapitated, but his body,
long sought for by his father, who has lately re-
turned from China, has never been discovered. To
the legal representatives of Messrs. be Norman and
Anderson the sum of £15,000 each.. To the legal
representative of Mr. Bowlby, the Imes correspon-
dent, the sum of £15,000. To the legal represen-
tatives of Private Phipps, Ist Dragoon. Guards,
thefo r
many grossest
d a yindignities
their
fao
e;
£2,400. To the families of the eight Sikhs who
o
were murdered, £12,000. To Messrs. Parkes and
Loch, £lB,OOO each. Both these gentlemen were
they were
rub-
bed in the dust, they were kicked, beaten, and
otherwise brutally maltreated • and
they were,
a were
while imprisoned at Pekin, continually' visited by
Hang-ki, who invariably told' them that the first
gun from the allied forces would b
their death. The Sikhs who were
subjected to tightly subjected boundt
ill-
treatment,. but who were returned alive, will also
receive u handsonie portion of the indemnity.

THE SCREW STEAMER VICTORIA.—The Queens-
town correspondent of Saunders' s News, in reference to the
return of the vessel, says :—" The troops which left this
country for Canada in the early part of the month have boon
unfortunate in their voyages, for of the four steamships
which put to sea two have already returned after much suf-
fering. The screw steamer Mauritius left on the 2d inst.,
with the Ist battalion of the 15th Regiment and the sth
battery of the Bth Brigade of the Royal Artillery. The
screw steamer Adelaide sailed in two days after with an-
other portion of the 15th Regiment. The screw steamer
Victoria followed on the Ist inst., with the right wing of
the 96th Regiment and a number of horses; and in two days
after the screw steamer Calcutta steamed out of the harbour
with 44 officers and 6:30 men of the Nth Regiment, Royal
Artillery, and Hospital Corps. The Adelaide, as is already
known, put into Plymouth on the 15th inst., having been
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11 days at sea ; and on Tuesday, at 10 o'vloek, the Victoria
the return o
returned into Cork harbour alter an absence of 15 days,
during which time the troops stifle
they met with, the vessel having had her decks swept, by
wl,ich she lost her boats, and the horses belonging to the
troops having been killed in the tossing of the ship, On
the —here
n was in great peril of foundering
red severely in the storra
several occasions the ship
kept under so as to prevent the fires from being extin-
guished,f the ship has been
forwarded to the Horse Guards, and an order to land the
troops, who suffer severely from the storm and cold, is ex-
pected in the course of this (Tuesday) evening."
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Lessee, Mr. J. B. duakstto,,.
THIS EVENING, to commence with OUR AMERICAN
COUSIN. Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern ; Asa Trenchard,
Mr. Buckstone.
After which, ft Comic Christmas Pantomime, LITTLE
MISS MU FEET AND LITTLE BOY BLUE ; or, Harle-
quin and Old Daddy Longlegs. Louise Leclercq, Chart s Le-
clercq, Herr Cole, 0. Becket, and Miss Rosine.
C,<Anmence a 7.

LOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
/ilanager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, Jan. 97, the new and original Drama,
entitled PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. Messrs.
Walter Lacy, Hermann Vezin, Charles Selby, Edmund Fal-
coner ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston.
Atter which, a new and original Burlesque Extravaganza,
eentitledßoLlTTLE RED RIDING HOOD; or, Thy Fairies of
tens by Ni tlO Thistle, and the Shamrcar. Principal charac-
ters hag. Selby, Mr. Warlow, Miss Cicely Nott, and
Aliss Lydia Thompson.

Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chniterton.
Prices as usual. Doors open at hall-past 6, to OninlenCe t
Box-office open daily from it Ull5.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1862.

Lord CLARENCE PAGET, the noble and gallant
Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, and M.P. for
the united boroughs of Sandwich, Deal, and
Walmer, has (in conjunction with his col-
league, Mr. KNATCHBULL HUGESSEN, one
of the junior Lords of the Treasury) just
" had it out " with his constituents. A
numerously attended meeting in the Guildhall at
Deal on Saturday evening listened with hushed
attention for two or three hours to the remarks
uttered by Lord CLARENCE—upon almost every
topic now within the range of the political horizon.
Without any pretensions whatever to eloquence, the
distinguished tar, whose last harangue we are here
alluding to, never fails—when he fairly puts hie
tongue to the task with a will—to deliver as telling
a speech as any man within the walls of Parliament.
And without any question his last speech is, in
some respects, about the very best he has delivered
within our remembrance. So !tar from the diversity
of subjects touched upon by the noble and gallant
member for Sandwich tending to deteriorate in any
appreciable manner either the force or interest of
his observations, that variety, ma the contrary, may
ibe said to have enhanced both their force and their
interest. As a matter of course, whenever we
turn to these comprehensive surveys of the
events of the past few months, addressed now to
this constituency, now to that constituency, we
find, by necessity, the same ground traversed
all over again, and topics that we have discussed
repeatedly, first of all, at the time of their earliest
ventilation, and then repeatedly afterwards, again
revived for the benefit of a particular and local
reconsideration. These themes, tempting though
many of them are to dilate rpon, particularly when
viewed by a new and sympathetic commentator,
as in the instance now immediately before us, we
are constrained nevertheless to glance at merely
askance, almost, it may be at times, to pass by un- .
noticed. For example, it was hardly befitting that
Lord CLARENCE PAGET should enter upon any re-
view, however superficial, of the general situa-
tion, without some impressive and loyal allusions
being uttered by him, first of all, in regard to
the calamity which has still, be it said, so very
recently befallen both the QUEEN and the country
in the premature demise of his late Royal High-
ness. Even a casual allusion to the late fright-
ful catastrophe at Hartley Colliery was all but
inevitable under the circumstances, enabling the
noble and gallant speaker, as it did, to refer to
her MAJESTY as one " who, from the day when she
ascended the Throne until no re, and even at this very
moment of her own grief and sorrow, has always
shown a sincere sympathy for the misfortunes of
others"—meaning here obviously the relicts and
orphans of the poor pitmen down in Northumber-
land. Apropos,
again to the position in which
Lord PALMERSTON'S Government now stands im-
mediately before the commence
of 1862, Lord CLARENCE, as commencement of the Session
of that Government, may one of the members
be borne with a while, if
ho finds it impossible to resist the opportunity of
exulting among other things over the result of the
Anglo-French Commercial Treaty, Bo far as that
Treaty has yet been enabled really to come into
operation. Still more, as a matter of course, Lord ,
CLARENCE, while talking to his Deal constituents, i
comments at length, and quite frankly, and in de, 1