The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-11 00:00:00

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BELLINI'S NORMA. AND FLOTOW'S MARTHA.

PRINCIPAL ARTISTES,
MISS RUSS-FILL MADAME MARIA
MISS TYIIHEL :MISS WIT,KINSON
Mr. HENRY _HERBERT and Mr. BERNARD.
Conductor Mr. JONCIIM ANS.
The COM ic Department comorises Messrs. A. B. Hollins-
worth, .T. Blanchard, ii. W. 1'el!, Charley Fox, and E. Mar-
shall, in his transformation song, "THE DOMESTIC
DRAMA," personatinx five difil,rent characters.

THE WEATIIER.-SUN OFFICE, DEC. 11, MO,

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38 —lowest this morning and during the night.
44—this thly at noon.

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THE SUN,
LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 11, 1860.

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Another telegram—a little fuller than its prede-
cessor of Saturday—has, within the last few hours,
arrived in anticipation of the mails now en route
from the Chinese seat of war. From this new
fragmentary utterance of that avant courier of the
regular mails—the Electric Telegraph—we now
know that it was as early as the 13th of October
that Pekin surrendered to the Allied Forces, " all
demands" being yielded up, at that last gasp, by the
Pekinese! Observe—" all demands"—even, the
last line of this new telegram informs us, by means
of its few final stereographic flashes, " Indemnity
ready when demanded!" To what amount is not said,
however. Though, whatever the amount now de-
finitively decided upon by the Allied Plenipoten-
tiaries, we may be tolerably certain that Lord
ELGIN and Baron GROS would find but little diffi-
culty now in obtaining it. As to that, however,
We shall see a little later on. The mere ques-
tion of the indemnity is already, virtually,
in the fullest sense of the phrase, un fait
accompli. What we are upon the instant
far more "
ci seatous about, just now, is that dread-
f«l and still inscrutable
mystery still surround-
ing the fate of two of our captured countrymen.
The fate of Azoaz and of BOWLBY yet remains,
indeed, altogether unexplained. • A lamentable
suspicion of a eine being, however, only too
frightfully suggested
by the more explicit record
now furnished to us in regard to the lamented
deaths of Ma.
DE NORMAN and Captain AND"-
soN.. As we concluded immediately
upon reading
vague mention of the way in which those
two unfortunate gentleman had succumbed, they
have now been formally announced as having
died the death by the hand of the torturer.
"DE NORMAN and ANDERSON," says REarrED.'s
Telegram, this morning, have died from the
effects of brutal treatment." The non-appearance
of either BOWLEY or BRABAZON, when the mail
(now coming) left the seat of war, has conse-
quently about it a terrible significance. Par-
ticularly when it is remembered that out of the
whole party originally in the hands of the
Chinese these two were the only two unaccounted
for ! Thirteen private soldiers had been released
when the mail left. PAP.RES and Lout and
L'ESCITA.YR kC had been released upon the Bth of
October. Captain ANDERSON and Mr. DE NOR-
MIN were known for certain to have fallen
victims to brutal treatment. It is only in regard to
the two unfortunate gentlemen still left altogether
unaccounted for that we are left entirely to corjec-
ture—their actual fate being shrouded in hitherto
impenetrable darkness through which gleam out
alone the most sinister surmises. Our contemporary,
the Times, is, perhaps, naturally enough, disturbed
in judgment by its profound anxiety as to the