The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-14 00:00:00

A NEW PROJECTILE.

That mysterious place—the Camp of Chalons—is once
more the scene of experiments with a new and, we ara
told, deadly invention. The last hobby was the mitrail-
leuse, now it is the Mancourant projectile. This novelty
is of the form of an ordinary cylindro-conical ball, and
its chief advantages are that it can be made to burst
at a given distance, or directly it touches 'the ground
or any other object. The shell appears to be
ready fitted with fuses of various lengths, and the operator
has only to remove a cap, apply a match, and fire, and the
shell bursts either at a thousand, or two, or three thousand
countering any obstacle. The military
t, the instrument can be
ymaardde to s . By
uyias
tn ootnh
ee ry arrangement,
men of Chalons are much pleased with this plaything.
They believe it will prove too delicate for campaigning,
but it may do great things in siege operations.

k Front tk Anglo-American limes.)

It is remarkable that a portio►► of the settlement
on the West Coast of the United States will
be due to political...causes, as were the, early
settlements on the East Coast. The Europeans
fled from persecution westward, the Japanese
and Chinese are beginning to fly from perse-
cu io❑ eastward, and, like the Pacific Railway,
they will meet some, day at Ogden. l'hree Japa-
nese families arrived at San Francisco, May 27,
thirty-seven 111',f0 are on their way ; and eighty
other families are prepari❑g for the voyage. This
exodus is in consequence of the defeat of the North-
ern Princes, but these fugitiveS will not come
emry-handed into the States, for they bring tea
and bamboo plants and mulberry trees, and will
buy- lard whereon to establish new and- productive
industries.

The Springfield, Republican calls its Massachusetts
Congressmen—Banks, Butler, and Buffinton—the
busy B's (bees). The Herald's correspondent, a
gentleman of. great imaginative power, skilful be-
yond everything in " interviewing," and whose pen
is as facile in romancing as that of any lady novelist,
says that the two Massachusetts' Cabinet Ministers
will be driven out of office by furious Congressmen,
chief among whoua are those from Massachusetts,
and the Republican supposes that this refers to the
busy B's. Attorney-General Hoar is condemned
for the abruptness of his manner towards those
with whom he has tusii,es to transact, which, be-
ing interpreted into plain English, means offices in
his department to Ilsk fur. These Congressmen have
sworn a great oath that he must go back to Coli-
c ard. The cause of the storm against the other,
Secretary Boutwell, may easily be guersed by those
who have Leen " bulling" gold and "bearing" stocks.
The Tribune considers Mr. Laird's letter to be a
full acknowledgment of the culpability oUhe Eng-
hal Government in the Alabama affair:- Ile has
laboured hard, it states,to prove. both connivance
thsce
and liability, and from his own stand-point has
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ofed
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sign ed
anywhere but
in London; and there it will prnlobly b 3 conkied to the
`Household Troops' on one side and the correspondent of
the New Yea Tribune Qn the other. The latter ia