The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-20 00:00:00

ambuscade. A necessity this all the more urgent,
all the more imperative, bearing in mind that we
haVe but just now reconquered our position in
Bengal, by crushing out one of the most criminal
and formidable revolts upon record—and that, in
another direction, also within ken of the Chinese,
we have opened up, for the first time, amicable
relations with Japan—relations at once social,
political, and commercial. No, again we say
No—and we would fain reiterate it a thou-
sand thousand times to men like Captain
LANGLEY and Sir EDWARD COLEBROOKE--if we
would maintain the ancient glory of our race un-
sullied—if we would preserve our empire in India
—if we would guard ourselves from the risk of any
similar act of treachery on the part of the
Japanese—we must wreak upon the Chinese a
terrible and ever memorable retribution. The
path we have to tread there is plain enough—it is
no other than the shortest road to Pekin. Nothing
less than the triumphal entry of our troops into Pekin
will afford adequate expiation for the crime per-
. petrated.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the
official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Down-
ing-street. -It was attended by Lord J. Russell, the Duke
of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles
Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, Sir G. Grey, Earl of Elgin, and the Right Hon.
C. P. Villiers.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d' Aumale and the Count de Paris have been staying on a
visit to Count and Countess de Jarnac, at Thomastown
Castle, their seat in Ireland.
His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Countess de Bernstorff are expected in town early next
week from Tunbridge Wells.
The Duke of Hamilton is expected in town in a
few days from Scotland, on his way to Paris to join the
Duchess.
The Marchioness (Frances Anne) of London-
derry has arrived at Eglinton Castle on a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Eglinton, from Garren Tower, her lady-
ship's seat in Ireland.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, the
Marquis Conyngham and Lady Cecilia Conyngham, Sir
Thomas and Lady Gresley, and Captain Watt have arrived
at the St. George's Hotel. •
The Earl and Countess Granville are shortly ex-
pected in town from Carlsbad.
The Earl of Annesley and the Hon. Mr. and
Mu. W. Vernon have left the St. George's Hotel.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left London on
Tuesday evening for Holyhead.
Lady Peel and Mr. Arthur Peel left town yester-
day on a visit to the Right Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., and
Mrs. Pad, at Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire.
Sir John and Lady Pollen are receiving company
at Redenham Park, their seat near Andover.
BATTUE AT LYTHAM.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, and several officers of his staff, have
been staying with Colonel Clifton, at Lytham Hall, near
Preston, since the inspection of troops at the Furwood
'Barracks on Tuesday, and on Thursday there was a shoot-
ing party, when 493 hares, 271 pheasants, 60 partridges,
and 19 rabbits, were killed by six guns.
MR. STEPHENSON AND RAILWAYS.—In conversa-
tion with a gentleman in Newcastle (says the _Newcastle
Chronicle), a short time before his death, Mr. Robert
Stephenson said that the cost of the railway lines in whose
construction he had been officially engaged was about
£800,000,000 sterling.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—Messrs. Beardmore and
Robinson, electricians, have visited Valentia this week, and
set on foot a series of experiments on the Atlantic cable.
Encouragement as to the success of the undertaking, both
as regards the resuscitation of the old and the laying of a
new cable, is in the ascendant. These gentlemen found
room, in the state of the cable, to disseminate new courage
among its friends.—Tralee Chronicle.
' AYRSHIRE ELECTION.—The writ for the election
of a member for the county arrived on Tuesday, and the
sheriff has fixed Wednesday the 26th inst. for the nomina-
tion and Friday the 28th as the polling day. Botb candi-
dates have now concluded their canvass, and both from the
terms of new addresses issued to the constituency are con-
fident of success. Time only will reveal who is to be the
"coming man," although numerous bets are being taken
that the young Conservative will be at the top of the poll
on the 28th.—North British, Daily Mail.
THE STRIKE IN THE BUILDING TRADE.—Ac-
cording to an official return issued by the Central Associa-
tion of Master Builders, the total number of men who have
resumed work under the declaration up to Saturday, the
15th inst., was 11,692 ; and the total number of men who
have resumed in establishments adopting a shop-rule con-
taining the spirit of the declaration, is 2,335.
' A 'TRIP TO THE GREAT EASTERN.—Yesterday
Mr. M'lver (of the Cunard Company), gave a holiday to
nearly all his employes, and placed at their service the
steamer Satellite for the purpose of a visit to the Great

Eastern at Holyhead.
THE NEW SUB-DEAN OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL
The Lord Bishop of London, in his capacity of Dean of her
Majesty's Chapels Royal, has conferred the honourable
post of sub-dean, vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles
Wesley, D.D., on the Rev. Francis Garden, M.A., curate
of St. Stephen's, Rochester-row, Westminster.
A LOCOMOTIVE IN THE STRAND.—A novelty in
locomotion was witnessed and wondered at byhundreds yes-
terday. A large boiler was propelled by a single engine
through the Strand without causing any inconvenience to
the traffic.
The last newspapers from Tasmania (Van Die-
men's Land) contain several further paragraphs respecting
the gold discoveries in that island. At a public meeting at
Circular Head an expedition had been arranged to explore
the reefs of quartz ascertained to exist in the neighbour-
hood. It was said that specimens had been tested giving an
average yield of eight ounces of gold to the ton, 15 ounces
having been in some cases obtained. Half a ton had been
sent to Melbourne to be crushed. Gold had also been dis-
covered on the Wilmot, a river finning into the Forth on
its western side, and on the Forth itself, above the junction
of the Wilmot, and some distance below the ford at Middle-
sex plains. It was therefore inferred that the' gold produc-
ing area in that region is extensive. There was still, how-
ever, no certainty that it exists in quantities to yield an ave-
rage remuneration for labour, such as may be obtained at
any of the ordinary mining districts either of Victoria or
New South Wales.
IRONWORKS IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—The iron-
works recently established at W ellingborough, Northamp-
tonshire, are turning out 80 tons per week. Derbyshire coal
is used, mixed with a small proportion of Yorkshire coke.
Upwards of 100 men are employed at the works, which
were established by Messrs. Butlin and Co., and have com-
municated a considerable impetus to the town of Welling-
borough.
Mr. Prendergast, the Accountant- General of
Madras, has been dismissed in consequence of his dealing
in Tanjore Bonds ; and Mr. R. P. Harrison, the Accoun-
tant-General to the government of Bengal, will succeed
him. The changes consequent on the transfer will give
promotion to several of the uncovenanted officers of the Cal-
-1 cutta Treasury, and allow of the reduction of the ac-
countant's salary to 2,500 rupees a month.
There are eight or ten thousand labourers, we
learn from a correspondent of the Bombay Gazette, em-
ployed on the Bhore Ghat. Those who do the blasting busi-
ness (natives) are thus noticed :—" Day and night they
work continually, without one atom of ventilation to cool
them, or a greater movement in the air than enables
them to breathe. They take from ten to twelve hours
at a spell, punching a heavy steel bar against rock
which they can scarcely penetrate at a greater rate than
an inch an hour. These men found it wholly im-
possible to sustain themselves on vegetable food, and, left at
liberty by their caste, they eat and drink, as they work,
very much like English navvies. From ten to twelve oxen
are killed daily for their use at Khandalla, where beef for-
merly was a thing unknown, and they can wash down a
comfortable beefsteak with a glass of grog without the dan-
ger of drunkenness. They are the only class of people who
stick to their work all the year round, and have scarcely
visited their villages since the tunneling began."
CLEVER CAPTURE OF A HORSE STEALER.--On
Sunday morning, abouthalf-past oneo'clock,police-constable
Thorpe was on duty at the top of St. Peter's street, Derby,
when he met a man on horseback going in the direction of
Melbourne. Thorpe went up to him and asked him where
he had been so early on horseback, and he replied that he
had been to the Wheel Inn, Friargate, Derby, on an errand
for Mr. Mayers, horse-dealer. The constable said he thought
Mr. Mayerswould not send him out at half-past one o'clock
on Sunday morning. The man said it was "all right," and
then attempted to put the horse on, but the constable had a
scuffle with him, and another constable coming up he was
taken into custody. The constable then conveyed the man
and horse to Mr. Mayers, horse dealer, Siddals-road, Derby,
and it was found that the prisoner had broken open the gates
of the yard and stable of Mr. Mayers, and had taken the
animal away. Prisoner gave the name of William Walker-
dine, and it appears that ho was formerly in the employ of
Mr. Mayers, but had been turned away for misconduct.
EXPLOSION OF A BALLOON.—The Utica (N.Y.)
Herald furnishes the particulars concerning the bursting of
the balloon in which Messrs. Coe and Coltman ascended
from tho fair grounds at Rome, on Thursday last, and of
the involuntary descent of the aeronauts. The voyagers
started at four o'clock, and rapidly attained an altitude of
two miles, their balloon constantly expanding from the heat
of the sun. They struck the easterly current, and were pro-
ceeding ai the rate of 30 miles an hour, and were in fine
spirits, when, about 20 minutes before five o'clock, Mr. Coe
discovered that the apparatus connected with the safety-
valve was deranged, and beyond remedy. He at once at-
tempted to discharge the gas from the upper valve, in order
to descend. The valve worked well, but the pressure on the
safety valve from the lower part of the balloon was so great
that an explosion ensued, causing a rent 40 feet in length. In
about a minute after the descent was so rapid as to increase
the rent to 50 feet, thus leaving almost the entire upper
portion of the air-vessel open. In half a minute after the
second rent was discovered there was not a foot of gas in the
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balloon. For nearly half a mile the voyagers came down at a
violently,
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and the basket and passengers were raised to an even height
with the valve of the vessel itself. This motion was expe-
rienced several times, and as often was broken by the self-
possession of the aeronauts in changing their position in the
car. Finally, this swaying motion was increased by the
voyagers until they succeeded in forming a parachute of the
remnants of the balloon, when the rapid rate of speed in
their *descent was measurably impeded. During the last
half mile before reaching the earth, their rate of speed was
but a trifle more rapid than that of the ordinary descent of
a well ordered balloon. On nearing the earth some ballast
was thrown out, and the aeronauts landed in a forest with-
out the least bodily harm.