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 bunt
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
yards. By another arrangement the instrument can be
made to burst on encountering any obstacle. The.military
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.

(From the Anglo-American 2 Ernes.)
It is remarkable that a portion of the settlement
on the West Coast of the United States will
be due to political cause; 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 ion eastward, and, like the Pacific Railway,
they will meet some idly at Ogden. '1 hret Japa-
nese families arrived at San -Francisco, May 27,
thirty-seven rr.•,re are on their way ; and eighty
other families are preparing for the voyage. This
exodus is in consequence of t he defeat of the North-
ern Princes, but these fugitives will Lot come
empty-handed into the States, for they bring tea
and bamboo • plants and mulberry trees, and will
buy land whereon to establish new and productive
industries.

The Sprintifeld Republican calls its MassachuSetts
Cougressm: n—Banks, Butler, and Butlinton--the
busy B's (bees). The Herald's .correspondent, a
gentleman of gr6t imaginative power, skilful be.
y,md 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 whom are those from .Massachusetts,
and the Republican supposes that this refeis to the
busy We. Attorney-General Hoar is condemned
for the abruptness of his manner towards those
with whom he h*Lusiness to transact, which, be-
ing interpreted into plain English, means offices in
his department to ask for. These Congressmen have
sworn a great oath that he must go. back to Con-
n.)rd. The cause of the storm against the other,
Secretary Boutwell, may easily be guessed by those
who have been "bulling" gold and "bearing" stocks.
Th.e, Tribune considers Mr. Laird's letter to be a
full acknowledgment of the culpability of the Eng-
lith Government in the Alabama affair. He has
laboured hard, it states,to prove both connivance -
and liability,...aud from
.his own stand-point has
eminently. succeeded. The .Nation says :
" There is no Sign 'of war that we kuow of anywhere but
in.;London ; and there it will prol-ably be confined to the
Troops' 'on one side and the correspondent of
the New York Tribune 911 the other. The latter Le 011'