The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-27 00:00:00

A BLACK BATTLE.

A. great battle between Oko Jumbo and Ja Ja has ter-
minated the native war at Bonny. The fight lasted
nearly thirty-six hours, and the slaughter on both sides
was immense. It ended in the total defeat of Ja Ja's
troops and the capture by Olw Jumbo of seventy guns of
different calibre. Negotiations were going on between
the rival chiefs, and at one time 1,000 puncheons of
palm oil were demanded from Ja Ja ; subsequently the
quantity was reduced to twenty; but it was generally
believed that by the intervention of the traders and the
presence of one of her Majesty's ships at Bonny that
amicable arrangements would be concluded between the
Manilla Pepple people and the Ja Jas. The destruction of
the town of Bonny was almost complete, one side
of it being entirely swept away, whilst other
parts are in a state of wreck. The guns, which
ranged from 361 b. to 631 b., were fired at the
extraordinary short range of 100 yards, with heavy charges
of grape and canister. The havoc was fearful. The bush
was crowded with fugitives—men, women, and children—
many being wounded in a shocking manner. Hundreds of
dead and wounded were lying about the beach, whilst
numbers of bodies, in clusters of three and four,
were floating about in the creek. It was stated that Ja Ja
had about 500 men killed outright, and about three or four
times as many hors de combat.

AN ODD MISTAKE.—The Reforme announces
that Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the "celebrated English
novelist," has arrived in Paris.

A NICE OALCULATION.—A gentleman one day
indiscreetly asked a lady how old she was. She reflected.
"Let me see. I was 13 when I was married, and my hus-
band was 60 ; now he is twice 30, that is 60. So, of course,
I am twice 18, that is 36."

At the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, the
brothers Webb, who were found guilty of conspiring to ob-
tain money by means of a bubble company, were sentenced
by the Common Sergeant to two years' bard labour—the
highest sentence possible for the offence.

TILE LORD MAYOR ELECT.-011 Tuesday after-
noon a meeting of Devonshire men residing in London was
held at 61, Cheapside, to make arrangements for the pre-
sentation of a congratulatory address to the Lord Mayor
Elect—who was born in Exeter—to be presented to him on
an early day. The chair was occupied by Mr. E. B.
Stephens, and Messrs. T. G. Snell and R. C. Raise were
requested to act as hon. secretaries. The co-operation of
all men of Devon resident in the City or the suburbs is
solicited to the movement.

THE FOOT ANL MorTH DISEASE.—On Tuesday
at the sessions-house, Clerkenwell-green, Mr. John Clarke,
farmer, of Estcot, near Southall, attended before the com-
mittee of magistrates to ask for the restoration of 40 sheep
that were seiz at Southall market. The chairman said
that, as the veterinary surgeons disagreed, the court had
determined to remit the case to the Privy Council, so that
some eminent veterinarians might be sent by the Council
to examine the sheep.
CABINET CouNca,—At the Cabinet Council held
on Tuesday at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street, the Ministers present
were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Earl Pa Croy and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the
Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl
Granville, the Right Hon. E.Cal dwell, the Duke of Argyll,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh
Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J.
Goschen, and the Marquis of Hartington.

A RAILROAD AT JERSEY.—The island of Jersey
will shortly be in possession of a railway between its two
chief towns, St. Helier and St. Aubin. An English com-
pany has resolved to construct a line round St. Aubin's
Bay for passenger and goods traffic. The company, it is
said, have in view the ulterior formation of a deep-water
harbour at Noirmont, from which the mail packets will be
able to enter and leave at any time of the tide. The States
of the island on Friday passed a bill sanctioning the for-
mation of the railway, which is to be completed in twelve
months from the time the bill is agreed to by the Home
Government.

TIIE DITNEELD BRIDGE CASE.—At the recent
sitting of the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, Mr.
Robertson, of Dundonnochie, failed in an attempt to over-
turn a sentence of damages, fine, and alternatively impri-
sonment, pronounced against him by the justices of
Perthshire for a contravention of the Dunkeld Bridge
Act, by breaking down the tollgate and parts of the bridge.
The court held that the summary Procedure Act, under which
the prosecution was brought, did not become inappli-
cable to the circumstances of the case by reason of
the Justices being authorised to award a sum of damages
in addition to, or as part of, the penalty. Neither was
the sentence invalidated by the refusal of the Justices to
adjourn the trial in order that another witness for the
defence, the Duke of Atholl, might be cited. That was a
matter within the discretion of the Justices, and, moreover
had not been stated as a ground of appeal boforo the
Quarter Sessions.

THE LATE EARL OF DERBY.—The Mayor of
Liverpool (Mr. Thomas Dover) on Tuesday received the
following letter from Admiral Hornby :—" Knowsley
Hall, Oct. 25, 1809.—My Dear Mr. Mayor,—l need hardly
say how very gratifying to Lord Stanley and the members
of his family must be the wish you express to shew the
respect in which Lord Derby was held, and the sorrow
entertained at his death ; but Lord Stanley, while desir-
ing me to express his most grateful thanks for the offer
conveyed in your letter, also wishes me to say, that by
the written and often expressed. wish of Lord Derby, he is
bound to carry out his father's funeral `in the most
private manner that is possible,' and having only to-day
been compelled to decline an offer which her Majesty had
been most graciously pleased to make that ' she should be
represented at Lord Derby's funeral,' he trusts that you
will not think him ungrateful, in feeling that, as the
funeral must be a strictly private one, attended only by
relatives, he is compelled to decline your offer of sending
your carriage, but ho does so with many very sincere
thanks.—l remain, my dear Mr. Mayor, yours very sincerely,
W. H. HORNBY, Rear-Admiral."
ON THE PLATFORM OF A WOMAN'S RIGHTS CON-
VENTION.—Soon the hall is well filled; the audience begins
to manifest its impatience at the sight of a vacant stage
by a well-bred clapping of hands ; whereupon two cada-
verous reporters emerge timidly from behind the scenes,
and survey the audience with a half scared look. Next
appears a sober, melancholy man, coat buttoned up to
the chin, who walks sadly across the stage, sits down
suddenly with his hat between his knees, and gazes in-
tently on the ceiling. A jovial, chuckling man follows him,
plumps down near him, and chuckles on with his um-
brella in one hand and his whiskers in the other. Then
comes the principal piece of metaphorical pyrotechnics
of the occasion; for in sweeps the Reverend
Selina Sharpe, stately and spectacled, in black
silk with lace fixings, followed by a dazzling bevy of
disciples, the majority of whom are surprisingly young,
sparkling, and pretty. Here is a bright, vivacious
blunde, with great blue eyes, an irresistible advocate,
what with her smiles and glances ; there a noted
sculptress, tall and graceful, artistic in movement as in
genius ; there again a gentle, slender, spirituelle lady, with
soft curls and kindly brown eyes, a poetess just getting to
be talked about : still again, a Grecian head, a yoting face
festooned with :,ilyery white hair, a quiet, earnest woman's
rights woman of the most genial and persuasive sort. A
most dangerous galaxy, the keen-eyed man of society thinks;
and Materfamilias, despite her snoering,is very prone to fear
so too. It was all well enough, thought our fashionable
friends, to go and laugh, as wo did, at the Bloomers and
the straight-waisted old maids, the venerable women in
spectacles, and the sharp-featured men with long hair and
broad collars; but it was really too bad to 800 ladies,
pretty ones too, decked in the latest fashions, and with
quite the manners of the haub monde, lending their
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