The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-06 00:00:00

ANTICIPATION

OF THE
OVERLAND MAIL
FROM INDIA.

EXTRA° RD I NARY
EXPRESS FROM PARIS

The following communication from Paris has
just been received :

PARTS, TUESDAY.
TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.
DEFEAT OF THE CHINESE,
EVACUATION OF CANTON.

MARSEILLES, OCT. 3.

The Oriental, which left Malta on the 30th
September, has arrived this morning at ten, hav-
ing on board Captain Brown, charged with de-
spatches to the Queen of England.
The English forced the advanced posts of Can_
ton the 23(1 or 27th of May, and prepared on the
instant to attack Canton itself. But the Chinese
capitulated. They pay 6,000,000 of dollars. The
Tartar garrison evacua:ed the city on the sth
June. The English have again occupied Hong
Kong.

EDINBURGH, OCT. 4.—Early on Saturday
forenoon, the Castle esplanade exhibited an appearance
of unusual stir, in consequence of its being rumoured
that a soldier belonging to the 53d Regiment was to be
drummed out for stealing. About eleven o'clock the 're-
giment marched down to the esplanade, and drew up in
line, in the centre of which the culprit was stationed,
when in presepce of all his comrades, his facings, but-
tons, and every thing which related to the regiment were
cut off by the sergeant-major, who also stamped upon
his knapsack in large letters the word " thief." To com-
plete 01, degrading spectacle, the delinquent was then
marched round the regiment, and after the prescribed
forms were gone through, he was then allowed to depart.
Before quitting the esplanade he took off his jacket and
knapsack, and threw them back in the direction of the
regiment ; they were got hold of by some boys, who
soon tore them in shreds. The offender' had been con-
victed of stealing from an officer's room about three
weeks before, for which he received 150 lashes. He was
an old offender. _ _ _ _ •

BOULOGNE. —An unprincipled scoundrel at
Calais wrote to one of the London papers, and the Cap-
tain of the French mail spread the report at Dover, that
the City of Boulogne had foundered outsile of our har-
bour on Thursday morning, and from 26 to 150 perish-
ed. Now no blame can be attached to the Calasians
when they praise up their port, but every man of common
feeling will, and must be indignant, when, to serve a base
purpose, they cast dismay and terror into the bosoms of
hundred:, who have friends on board a boat, by lying.
wilful, maliciously lying, like the above. How they could
have thought of the City of Boulogne astonishes us, par-
ticularly as- she was leaving the harbour ; had they
spread the report of some crazy boat, it would have been
another.thing. What a deplorable state they must be in,
at Calais for passengers, when they find it necessary to
have recourse to such base means to gain temporary fa-
vour.—Budogne Gazette, Oct. 4.

Arrangements have been completed between
the contractors for the Brighton day mail and the Direc-
tors of the Brighton Railway for the conveyance of the
day mail by railroad. The contract commences this day,
and the mail will start at its usual time—namely, eleven
o'clock. The night mail will still continue to run as
heretofore. We understand it is contemplat..d to have
another delivery of letters in Brighton in the course of
the day (three in all), which will be a great accommoda-
tion to merchants and others resident there. Since the
opening of the railway several of the coaches have been
taken off the road. There arv, however, still eleven, in-
cluding the night mail.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.-
Saturday week, Sir Frederick Smith, Government engi-
neer, made a survey upon the rail with a locomotive
engine and a second class carriage. Sir Frederick ex-
pressed himself satisfied with the progress of the works
in this part of the line, and also his satisfaction with
the works. The double line of rails are now nearly
laid through the • tunnel. The inn, and offices, and
cistern are now built, and the works are rapidly draw-
ing to a close.