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

TOE SUF, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1859.

ambuscade. Aof essity this all the more urgent,
all the more imperative, bearing in mind that we
have but just now reconquered our position in
Bengal, by crashing out one of the mo&t 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 ray
No—and we would fain reiterate it a thou-
sand thoutland times to men like Captain
LANGLEY and Sir EDWARD COLEBROOICE—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 Garran 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
Mis. 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 [tight Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., and
Mrs. Pea, 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. Both candi-
d.ttes 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 blaster 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 TUB GREAT EASTERN.—Yesterday
Mr. Mclver (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 novelly in
locomotion was witnessed and wondered at by hundreds 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 running 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
Now South Wales.

IRONWORKS IN NORTIIAMPTONSIIIRE.—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 dealhig
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-
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
ate 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 beqfsleak with a glass of grog without the dan-
ger of drunkenness. They aro 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.-otl
S unday morning, about half-past one o'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 ho replied that ho
had been to the Wheel Inn, Friargate, Derby, on an errand
for Mr. Mayers, horse-dealer. The constable said he thought
Mr. Mayers would 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 he 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. Coo and Coltman ascended
from the 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. Coo
discovered that the apparatus connected with the safety-
valve was deranged, and beyond remedy. He ones 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 53 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
balloon. For nearly half a mile the voyagers came down at a
most terrific speed, feeling the same sensation that ono ex-
periences in a swing in rapid motion. After falling half a
mile the main portion of the balloon was thrown on one '
side of the netting, causing the cir vessel to sway violently,
and the basket and pasaengors 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,

LATEST NEWS.

TREATY OF PEACE.

The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Renter's office :

ZURICH, OCT. 18.

The following is an analysis of the treaty of peace
concluded between France and Austria, as signed
by the Plenipotentiaries, but which has not yet re-
ceivel the ratification of the two governments.
The treaty commences with the usual preamble :
Desirous of putting an end to the calamities of
war, and forming into a definite treaty the pre-
liminaries made at Villafranca, the two Emperors
have named their Plenipotentiaries, and communi-
cated to them full powers; and the said Plenipo-
tentiaries have agreed to the following :
That peace shall be concluded, &c.

France returns to Austria the Austrian steamers
seized during the war, but on which judgment has
not been pissed, &c.

Austria gives up Lombardy, with the exception
of Mantua, Peschiera, and as far as the frontier
line fixed by a special commission (the limit of
which is already known).
The Emperor of the French declares that he
transfers these portions of Lombardy to the King
of Sardinia.

Then follow the articles concerning the jurisdic-
tion, namely :
The option for the employes of Piedmont and
Austria to remain in the service of the two Govern-
ments, and to have the option of transferring
within a year their goods to Piedmont, and vice
versa. They would, however, retain their right to
any property left behind them when they move
their domicile from Austria to Sardinia, or from
Sardinia to Austria.

The pensions acquired by persons in Lombardy
will be respected and paid by the new Government
to those entitled to them; and in those cases, where
it is so stipulated, to the widows and children of
those pensioned.
Then follows the settlement of the debt, which
is the subject of two articles, one of which is an
additional agreement for the mode of payment.
According to these articles Piedmont is to pay to
Austria 40 millions of florins.

(Conventions—Munze)—And besides is respon-
sible for three-fifths of the debt of the Monte-
Lombardo-Venetian. (Altogether the debt trans-
ferred to Sardinia amounts to 250 millions of
francs).
Then follows Article 18, which tuns thus :
Desiring that the tranquillity of the Church, and
the power of the Holy Father should be insured,
and being convinced that this end could not be ob-
tained in a more effective manner than by a
system suited to the wants of the populations and
by reforms, the necessity of which has been
already recognised by the Sovereign Pon-
tiff, the two contracting parties will unite
their efforts in order that a reform in
the administration of the States of the Church
should be carried out by his Holiness.

Art. 19 states that the territorial limits of the
independent States of Italy which did not take
part in the last war could be changed only with
the assent of the other Powers of Europe which
took part in forming, and guaranteed the existence
of these States. The rights of the Grand Duke of
Tuscany, the Duke of Modena, and the Duke of
Parma are expressly reserved- i)y the higher cod.:'
tracting Powers.
Art. 20. The two Emperors will assist with all
their power in the formation of a confederation of
all the States of Italy, the object of which, will
be the preservation of the independence and inte-
grity of Italy, which will insure the development
of their moral and material interests, and will watch
over the defence of the interior and exterior of
Italy.- by means of a federal army.
Venetia, which will remain under the rule of the
Emperor of Austria, will form a part of this confe-
deration, and will participate in the rights and in
the obligations of the federal treaty, the clauses of
which will be established by the representatives of
all the states of Italy.

Art. 21 stipulates that persons having taken
part in the late events will not be attacked either
in their person or their property, and can remain
unmolested in the two countries.

Art. 22. The present treaty shall be signed and
ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at
Zurich within 15
.days.
Other articles stipulate that Austria shall be
obliged to free from military service the soldiers
belonging to the territory which she gives up.

Austria undertakes, likewise, to restore the secu-
rities and deposits of private persons placed in the
public establishments be elonging to Austria.
Art. 6 grants
religious
establishments in
Lombardy the liberty to dispose freely of their
private and landed property, if the possession of
such property is incompatible with the laws of the
new Government.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 19.

Intelligence from Paris, received to-day, states
that the Emperor Napoleon has refused to grant an
audience to the deputation from Bologna, now in
Paris ; likewise that the China expedition has been
discussed in the Council of Ministers. It was pro-
posed to despatch a force of 18,000 men, but no
definite decision was arrived at. These troops will
not leave before the end of the year.

MADRID,,OcT. 19.

The Cortes has resumed the discussion of the
budget. Government expects very shortly to receive
an answer from Morocco to the demand for guaran-
rees for the future preservation of peace; the war
preparations continue nevertheless.

PARMA, OcT. 19.

Justice continues to be energetically carried out;
some new arrests have taken place. The munici-
pality has determined on the destruction of the
column on which the head of Colonel Anviti was
placed.

MARSEILLES, OCT. 19.
News from Constantinople has been received to
the 12th inst.

The ambassadors have continued during the week
to hold conferences at the residence of M. do Thou-
venel, and were perfectly agreed.
A haughty answer was given by Hussein Pacha
when he was brought before and questioned by his
judges; this has given rise to the supposition that
a fresh outbreak of the conspiracy may take place.
Agitation•prevails in Bosnia and some other pro-
vinces.

he is now on the most courteous terms, to have the
Congress held in Paris. I am, however, assured
positively that the Emperor Napoleon 111. wishes
to yield to the susceptibilities of the Cabinet of St.
James's, and to give to King Leopold a proof of
deference, by having Brussels made the place of
meeting."
BOURSE, Oct. 19.—The market has been steady,
with few variations. Threes have been done at
69f. 65c., and at 69f. 80c. ; Mobilier varied from
7801. to 792 f. 50c. ; Austrian, 517 f. 50c. to 5501.;
Lombard, 5561. 25c. to 5571. 50c. ; Lyons, 9121.
50c. to 915 f.; Orleans, 1,365 f. to 1,370 f. ; Sou-
thern, 507 f. 50c. to 512 f. 50c. ; Eastern, 5751. to
5771. 50e. The following were the last quota-
tions :

41 per Cents. 95 50 Credit Foncier.... 690
Do. end month — Belgian 4t . —
3 per Cents 69 75 Piedmonteso (5) .. 85 75
Do. end month 69 70 Roman B4
Bank Shares 2835 Austrian
Credit Mobilier .. 790 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 783 75 Home Debt 43 50