The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-07 00:00:00

Davis giving orders forward, and immediately after
that I heard the ship strike. I instantly rushed to
the side of the ship, and on looking over saw that

we were on a reef

About half an hour after the

boats, with the ladies, suddenly disappeared. I
cannot say at what distance the boats disappeared,
but could hear the oars. It seemed to me that there
was a haze over them. The boats landed about 150
yards off.

[A sketch of the reef taken by a witness on board
her Majesty's ship Cyclops was here produced.]
Mr. Cumberland here stated that it was not his
intention to put any other witnesses under exami-
nation that day, and the inquiry was therefore
further adjourned.

JONATHAN'S RIDE TO PEKIN.

(From Punch.
TUNE—" Yankee Doodle."
Our nation always goes ahead,
By methods noways sneakin';

Hear how our minister got
In triumph into Pekin :
I calculate that he warn't barred
By planks athwart a river ;
Too 'cute a coon was Mr. War
Whose storyol'll deliver.

Firstways he steamed to Ning-Hou-Fou,
Along with his Legation,
And there our vessel was brought to
A posture of fixation.
The Chinamen a box packed in
Our diplomatic corpus,
Conducted by a Mandarin,
A-blowin' like a porpus.

This box was made without a lid,
But hadn't got no winder,
That breathin' it might not forbid,
But observation hinder.
With necessaries it was stored,
Though sight it held a check on,
Had food and liquor both aboard,
And baOty, toe, I reckon.

Upon a raft 't was sot to go,
Considerable pretty,
All up the Ki-Tcheou-Yun-ho,
To Chany's lust-chop city,
And right slick through the Great Canal,
Our minister to render
Unto the Chinese capital,
In dignity and splendour.
At Pekin Gate upon a truck,
Drawn by a team of oxen,
Our citizens were proudly stuck,
Still shut their grand state box in.
Thus into Pekin town did drive,
(Such honour seldom waits men I)
Our nation's representative,
And all our other statesmen.

The truck was wheeled into the Court-
Yard of a certain mansion,
Whose walls cut all excursion short
By space of narrer 'spansion.
Our envoys there was kep select,
To whittle at their leisure,
Some time a hearin' to expect,
And wait the Emperor's pleasure.
Their mission ended, from their cage
Politely liberated,
They were, in that same equipage
They came in, re-located,
And brought, with care particular,
To where they first intruded,
Like blacks inside a nigger-car,

As snug, and more secluded.
I reckon that's the way to treat
Our great and glorious nation,
And oil'er humble pie to cat
To them as flogs creation !
But we must swaller down our pride,
When dollars we are seekin',
And be content, old hose, to ride
In a boss-box up to Pekin.

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Cape colony. The new see becomes a suffragan to Cape-
town, and thus makes that province to consist of four
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Helena. It has been admitted by the Colonial Secretary,
after consultation with the law officers of the Crown and
the Archbishop of Canterbury, that there is nothing to pre-
vent the bishops of the church in South Africa from con-
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