The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-16 00:00:00

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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Bnckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE.
With THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
After which, OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND.
And ,HALLOWE'EN.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.
After which, A SCHOOL FOR COQUATTES. Misses
Awanborough, Oliver, and Lavine.
Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.
Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.-
EVERY EVENING.—The Music of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
certs), the extraorainary Violin Performances of the cele-
brated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual
Vocal Concert.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. T. Critchfield, and E. W. Mackney.
Several interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
eights of the metropolis.
Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINNORA.

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 16.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
63—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.48.
Wm), North-Easterly ; rather fresh, with heavy clouds,
and slight rain occasionally.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tis DAY.—Morning, 3h. 57m.—Afternoon, 4h. 12m,
To-Moutow-Morning, 4h. 27m.—Afternoon, 4h. 43m,

The dilatory conduct of Government in granting
its concession to telegraphic communication with
India seems now to recoil on ourselves in a two-fold
degree. The late conduct of the Chinese has shown
beyond doubt the vast importance of rapid commu-
nication with India. If the telegraph had been
established, as it might have been two years ago,
we could have sent orders to India at once,
and before another week were past an army could
be almost on its way to China from Kur-
rachee, Bombay, Madras, and Bengal of such
force that no power in China could withstand.
Even now it is not too late to send out orders for
immediate preparation and equipment of the seve-
ral divisions from each of the Presidencies. Some
fifty or sixty thousand men could be transported
readily by the large available resources at hand,
and that, too, of men too willing to volun-
teer their services in so good a cause. It
would take months before a sufficient force
could arrive from Europe, for promptitude
is half the battle, seeing that the most will be made
of our unexpected discomfiture. Indeed our very
pr estige is rather at stake, for it is hard to tell how
the rumours will operate with the natives generally
.to our disadvantage. We have abundance of ship-
ping, naval and commercial, to carry out the enter•
prise in a spirit befitting our character and renown.
Why should not the Government send orders at
once by the route of Panama to our Admiral in the
Pacific, to despatch all the vessels and men he can
spare to the scene of action. These ships would be
almost at the mouth of the Peiho as soon
as those from Calcutta. In any case their
services would be available for immediate
co-operation. There is no time to lose, and
the delay of a week or two may cost ten
times more in carrying out the enterprise, than if
it were done at once in a spirit worthy of our
fame. That our gallant ally is fully awake to
the necessity of prompt measures may be inferred
from the readiness manifested by the Emperor
NAPOLEON to join in the expedition. But England,
having already ample means at her immediate dis-
posal, ought not to wait, but strike while our tern-
per is up and the iron is hot. Reinforcements may
*Bow, and help to secure whatever is attained by
promptitude and valour, directed by sound discrer
trim, and executed by daring skill.

There cannot, fortunately, be any doubt what-
ever as to the course likely to be pursued in regard
to the. Chinese by the two great allied Governments.
It shoiAld rather be said, not the course likely to be
pursued,• but—the course certain to be pursued by
those an Ternments. The atrocity is altogether too
monstrous in its character to be overlooked. The
crime is one so heinous of its kind, that while it
cries to Hem ,en for Vengeance, it resounds through
the Earth in ,tccents that demand instant Retribu-
tion. The occvirrence is one that is characterised
by no extenuL xting circumstances whatever. It
admits, not even by the most tortuous means, of
any momentary valiation. It will stand forth in
history in all its no.ked iifamy as an act of cruelty
and dishonour quite unparalleled.

A proceeding of a .somewhat similar description I
is known to have pros -oked, about sixty years ago,
one of the most dreatiful chastisements ever in-
flicted by the wrath of An inexorable commander-
in-chief—the chastisement, in fact, of absolute ex-
termination. The incident occurred towards the
close of the last century. The scene was Jaffa
The punishment was a Massacre. The Comman-
der-in-Chief was Young General NAPOLEON BONA-
PARTE. Extraordinary misrepresentations long
held up to public detestation this episode in the
Egyptian Campaign of 1798-1799—an episode one
might have imagined sufficiently fearful of its kind
to have rendered any over-colouring of it quite a
matter of supererogation. In reality the facts
were simply these :—the wretched Arab soldiers,
who were destroyed in this great and signal catas-
trophe, were the worthy followers of the warlike
Pacha then opposing the advance of the French
under BONAPARTE, the Pacha, significantly sur-
named DJEZZAR, or the Butcher! During the earlier
Part of the campaign these very soldiers had been
taken prisoners-of-war by General BONAPARTE.
After
being disarmed they were then released by
the young adventurer, upon the usual condition,
that they swore not to take arms again during the
rest of the campaign against the French Chief—
successively their captor and liberator. Scarcely
was the band apparently dispersed upon this custo-
mary understanding than the oath was violated.
.Proceeding upon his march across the desert, NA-
POLEON arrived before Jaffa to find that lying and
recreant horde of the' soldiers of DJEZZAR arrayed
against him behind those formidable forti-
fications. But what capped the climax
of their infamy was his—that immediately
upon the Flag of Truce arriving, before the walls of
Jaffa, the bearer of that sacred white banner was
admitted within a gateway of the fortified city, and
there, in, spite of the symbol he carried, he was
infamously decapitated—his head being thrown in
mock( ry over the battlements. For this reduplica-
tion a f crime—for this iterated and reiterated
atrocit. .yNAPOLEON BONAPARTE doomed to death
every one of those Arab soldiers. The penalty
inflicts d upon them was not der;imation—it was
exterm: ination. They were shot down to the last
man by a pitiless fusillade. They " died the death"
by mnr, Serous discharge after discharge of mus-
ket:T., % Then the French troops had passed through

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THE SUN.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1859.