The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-09 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

INDIA AND CHINA.

TRIESTE, SUNDAY E VEMNG, 7

The steamer Neptune arrived here from Alex-
audtia at 4 o'clock p.m. The India and China indils
had reached Alexandria with intelligence from Cal-
cutta to the 4th of July; Madras, 10; Ceylon, 14;
Hong Kong, June 23.
The rebels had returned in force to the jungles
of Jugdespore, headed by Ummer Singh. General
Lugard had resigned, on account of ill health.
Tirowan, in Banda, had been captured by General
Whitlock.

The Gwalior rebels were believed to be making
for Bhurtpore.

Maun Singh was besieged at Shahgurh by the
Begum's army.

The Calcutta import - market continues quiet
Government securities slightly improved. Ex
change, 2s. Old. to d. for first-class credits.

CHINA.

We have dates from the Peiho to the 9th of June.
Our gunboats had advanced to Tien-sin without op-
position; the ambassadors were located near the
city. A mandarin of high rank had arrived from
Pekin as Special Commissioner.

Reinforcements continue to be despatched from
Hon; Kong. Canton is much disturbed. Exchange
at Hong Kong, 4s. 6id. for bank bills.
SHANGHAI, JUNE 14.
Exchange, 6e. ld.

The Colombo, with outward mails and passengers,
had arrived at Alexandria, and was to undergo 36
hours' quarantine, a steamer having arrived from
Malta with a suspected case of plague.

PARIS, MONDAY MORNING.

The following remarks occurred in the speech
delivered by the Emperor upon the occasion of the
naugurat ion of the statue of Napoleon I. at Cher-
bourg. "It seems," he said, "to be a part of my
destiny to accomplish, by peace, the great designs
of the Emperor conceived by him during war.
His principles obtain their triumph at the pre-
sent day, by the force of reason. It is thus,
fr instance, that the question of the freedom
of the seas has in our time been solved. Posterity,
indeed, will always be found to realise the ideas of
a great man. But whilst we refer these great re-
sults to the design of Napoleon 1., we must also do
justice to the efforts which had been made by preced-
ing governments, not only by that of Louis XVI.,
but as far back as Louis XIV. The present Govern-
ment, relying on the support of the will of the great
masses of the nation, does not wage war except when
it is forced to defend the national honour and the
great interests of the people. Let us continue in
this course without distraction; let us continue to
develop in peace the resources of our country ; let
us invite foreigners to visit us, as friends, not as
rivals ; and let us show that France is a nation in
which confidence and unity reign, and that maintain-
ing such internal union as resists all the passionate
impulses of the day, she abides mistress of herself,
obedient only to the dictates of honour and reason."

THE FETES AT CHERBOURG.

(FROM SPECIAL REPORTERS OF THE MORNING POST,
CHERBOURG, AUG. 7.

I concluded my letter of yesterday with stating

that the artillery of the forts and the guns of the
navy were proclaiming, with a triple salvo, that her
Majesty the Queen's land visit to Cherbourg had
terminated.

Other salvoes announced the reception of the
Queen on board the Bretagne, when the Royal visi-
tors were received by the Emperor and Empress.
Covers, I understand, were laid for 72 persons.
The Imperial entertainments of the evening for
the Queen of England was a display of fireworks un-
equalled for their magnificence and their beauty.
These fireworks were not confined to one point, but
seemed to start up from different parts of the bay—
I am now describing them as they appeared to our
view of them from the land. They began on the

point of a small rocky island which lies outside the

batteries of the military fort, and then, as it seemed
to me, they were transferred from one boat to another
—then a ship exhibited the ingenuity of its artists—
then another ship started up and an explosion of ser-
pents, shooting stars, showers of gold, and showers of
silver light to rival its predecessor, until at last
all the ships in the road became illuminated—all
burnt blue-lights, displaying the yards manned and
every particle of the ship visible, and then arose a
shower of light so intense that the Queen could be
seen passing from the Bretagne to her own yacht ;
and so, with her path made brilliant as noon, and
with a discharge of fireworks laud as the guns of the
different batteries, was closed a pyrotechnic exhibi-
tion such as I believe was never before witnessed.
Every ten minutes, at the least, for the course of two
hours, there sprang up amid the discharge of rockets
of various descriptions (never ceasing for an instant),
a grand piece of fire-work—_a cloud, for instance, of
gold and silver arrows shooting into the sky, and, as
they were falling, other gold and silver stars rising
to the encounter, and then, as one would expect this
noble display was coming to a conclusion, up rose in
intensity, strength, and numbers, thousands upon
thousands more fiery arrows, and then a grand con-
cluding outburst, which dazzled the eye with its in-
tensity and brilliancy. Then came a pause—if that
can be called a pause, in which the eye was never
allowed to rest, but was tempted to watch the rockets
as they chased each other in fiery career through the
air—and then up floated from the darkness some
thousands again of flowers or circlets in variegated
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ruscating flames. Each object that on this earth is
admired for the beauty of its colour, or the graceful-
ness of its form, was modelled in file and careering
beneath the clouds. The discharge of all sorts of
fire was incessant, and the loud shout of delight that
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The night was one particularly favourable for
such an exhibition. It was dark and calm, so that
the pyrotechnist's labours were enhanced in beauty
by the gloom around him,
whilst his power in direct-
ing the works of his art was unimpeded.

It was, in fact, a great work of art—as tasteful as
it was gorgeous—it was a compliment worthy of an
Emperor to offer; it wasa compliment not unworthy
of having
a crowned Sovereign as its principal ad-
mirer. Its last scene, when all the war ships in the
bay became a display of fireworks, in which the water
was as bright and as distinctly visible as in the noon-
day, and when a mimic artillery seemed to be pouring
fl.rth its fury, with an Emperor looking on, and a
Queen sailing in the midst of this fiery commotion,
one of those scenes which will retain a fixed place in
the memory of all who have looked upon it.

And so closed the second day of the fetes at Cher-

Bourg.

forts and eq ippi
The first discharge made by the artillery of the
an-
nounce that the Emperor and Empress had quitted
ng yesterday morning was to
their temporary palace at the Prefecture for the pur-
pose of bidding farewell to the Queen of England.

At eleven o'clock her Majesty took her departure
amid three grand salvos of artillery, and, most as-
suredly, bearing with her the love and good wishes
of the people of Normandy. The impression pro-
duced by this visit does show that the Emperor ex-
hibited considerable tact by inviting her Majesty to
Cherbourg; for that visit has aided considerably in
cementing a good feeling between the two countries.
So fur as the French are concerned all the &cum-