The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-21 00:00:00

learn from general orders, was " the capture of 30
guns and all their material, with severe loss to .the
enemy, and their utter dispersion." Si! WILLIAM
GORDON, at the head of the Cavalry, made a most
dashing charge, which carried all before it.
Another encounter took place bet,- een the troops
under Colonel ROBERTSON with an almost similar
result, the rebels being defeated with the loss of
400 or 500 killed.

In Oude, it is said, there are still some 60,000 or
70,000 armed men. But what can they do when
Lord CLYDE takes the field in full force, which he
has probably done ere this? It is scarcely to be
anticipated that any scattered remnant of the
rebellion will remain at the close of the next cam-
paign. As we have already explained, so soon
as the valiant Highlander is again in action, and the
chiefs who have not irretrievably committed
themselves and the natives will become the most
active assailants of the fsgitives, and strive to
earn amnesty or favour by their vigorous pro-
ceedings. Such steps will most effectually ter-
minate the entire affair, and restore peace through-
out the entire of India before the arrival of another
hot season.

Lancashire and Yorkshire have, during the last
few weeks, been in luck's way, as far as regards
meeting men of science, art, and letters, and listen-
ing,to the oratory of the great Parliament gentle-
men. Birmingham is to have its turn next week
—when one of the most gifted speakers in the
Legislature—beyond all question the most effective
orator in the House of Commons is, as a guest, to
be brought at last face to face with his appreciative
constituency. Everybody will be delighted to read
the speech of JOHN BRIGHT, if denied the gratifi-
cation of actually hearing it. We are not extra-
vagant, we believe, in asserting that not only Bir-
mingham, but that the whole country, is now
looking forward eagerly for this speech of JOHN
BRIGHT'S, certain at least of this, that it will in
one way or another be eminently worthy of atten-
tion. Time was when the same curiosity, or rather
in some respects a livelier curiosity, would have
been evidenced in anticipation of a speech from
RICHARD COBDEN. But if that great ex-Tribune
of the People will run his head against stone walls,
he must expect, as the result of so doing, to find
himself silenced. It is an unfortunate circumstance
with regard to some of the most remarkable men at
different times in the House of Commons, that
in the very pride of their public career they are
suddenly removed from their useful and distin-
guished position before the public and thrust back
into the semblance of obscurity—sometimes through ,
their own fault, sometimes through the mere whim
or misapprehension of their constituency.
It is not so very long ago since Mr. ROEBUCK
was denied access for a while to the House of Cora-
mons by the bigotry of the Bath electors. Neither
is it so many years back since Lord MACAULAY
—then Mr. MACAULAY—Was treated in a similar
way by the electors of Edinburgh. But the libe-
rality of Sheffield compensated at last for the fanati-
cism of Bath in the former instance—while in the
latter, repentant Edinburgh expiated its own ill
conduct by spontaneously re-electing the great
orator, historian, and statesman as its representa-
tive. During many years past, one of the most
industrious and exemplary Members of Parliament
has been the hon. and gallant member for Brad-
ford—yet for a session or two General PEYRONNET
THOMPSON suffered eclipse, had no longer the cus-
tomary M.P. after his name, sauntered no more
down Parliament-street at four of the clock during
session-time, bent upon rivalling Mr. Speaker in
his assiduous attendance upon the Sayings and Do-
ings of the Legislature. Eventually Bradford
repented, in regard to General THOMPSON, precisely
as Edinburgh had done in regard to the Right
Hon. T. B. MACAULAY. Oldham has since done the
same by Mr. Fox. Will Aylesbury, in like man-
ner, recall Mr. LAYARD at the next available oppor-
tunity ? And Stockport—Mr. COBDEN ? And
Bury—the Right Hon. FREDERICK PEEL ? And
one or two other similar little tiffs be made up be-
tween estranged constituencies and ex-representa-
tives? Next year will probably solve these and a few
other equally interesting problems. There will be
a new general election in all human likelihood—if
only by reason of the prospective Reform Bill of
'1859. And then we shall see if a change will come
over the spirit of the dream of Bury, and Stock-
port, and Aylesbury, and a few other tetchy
boroughs, which, at the last General Election, gave
the go-by to their hitherto honoured representa-
tives.

Mr. COBDEN we should be heartily glad to
see back once more in Parliament, if only he shall
have learnt, during the interval of absence from it,

to be a little less irritatingly dogmatical and domi-
neering. Mr. LAYARD, too, we should be sincerely
&lighted to welcome again to his conspicuous
place upon the front bench below the
gangway, if he also prove to have learnt the
lesson obviously designed to be taught to him
by his former constituents—namely, firmness
of purpose and inflexible consistency. Had
Mr. LAYARD been more resolute in following
the dictates of his own judgment, instead
of hesitating and vacillating in very amiable but
extremely weak compliance with the whimsies and
fancies of the less able men about him, he would
still have remained, he would still at this moment
be, M.P. for Aylesbury. If Mr. COBDEN had been
a trifle more conciliatory, just the least morsel in
the world less dictatorial, he also would all this
time have been M.P. for Stockport. The silence
of Mr. COBDEN during the period which has elapsed
since his signal defeat by a new man like Mr.
AKROYD has, it must in justice be allowed, in
every way been eminently befitting the dignity of
1 his high reputation. It would have been better
for Mr. LAYARD, probably, if he likewise could
have held his peace altogether, instead of lecturing
as he did, rather rashly, in St. James's Hall upon
India and the Hindoos—but then Mr. LAYARD is
younger and more impulsive. That, we suppose, is
his reason and excuse for what seemed at the time
beyond excuse and without reason. However this
may be—with all their faults—we shall not be
sorry, we repeat, when (benefited and improved
by their temporary withdrawal from public life)
we again may congratulate men like Mr. COBDEN
and Mr.' LAYARD upon their return to the House
of Commons.

His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and
Prince Vogorides have returned to town from visiting Sir
Fitzroy Kelly, at the Chauntry, near Ipswich. Madame
Musurus and family are still at SL Leonard's-on-Sea.

The Marquis of Donegall and Lord and Lady
Harriet Ashley will shortly leave Grosvenor-square for
Harefield House, near Uxbridge.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and the
Ladies Yorke have left Wimpole Hall, on a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Derby, at Knowsley Hall, Lanca-
shire.

The Earl of Eglinton is entertaining a numerous
party at the Viceregal Lodge, in the Phoenix Park.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, who have
been in town since Tuesday, will leave to-day for their seat,
Broadlands.

Lord and Lady Wodehouse and family are pass,
the season at their seat, Kimberley Hall, Norfolk.

We regret to learn that the Lady Louisa Oswald
is lying very dangerously ill at the family seat in Ayrshire.
The Countess Dowager Cravat and the Earl of Craven
have been summoned to Scotland to be in attendance on
their afflicted relative.