The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

OUR OWN DEL 111 AT 119111 E.

The last accounts from the East report that Dot.
is still in the hands of the insurgents, and likely to
remain so for a considerable time longer ; but the
British Government are making vigorous prepara-
tions to reconquer and re-establish their empire in
India, and no one can doubt their ultimate success.
The sacred city once again in the possss,ion of the
conquerors they will not be-likely to re;) ?at their fo' ly
of strengthening its fortifications, filling-it with the
necessary means of resisting a long siege, and then
intimating it to the keeping of the very people from
whom they had taken it. Over 30,000 troops, with
necessary stores of war, have already been.sent from
England for India, and, before loeg, we shall begin
to hoar of the terrible retribution that must fall
upon the heads of the native robe's: There will be
much done that will never be reported, and many
a terrible massacre that will never thrill the nerves
of the European and American readers • but, there
will be enough told to startle ere, civilised world,
and new Macaulays and Russells will gain renown
by *reciting the horrors of the fall of Delhi. Bo'.
we have a Delhi of our own which has not yet fall n,
and, from present indications, is not likely to fall
until long after the fate of the Eastern capital shall
have beers sealed. We have net, like the British
in India,- conquered a fortress and then given it
to the enemy to -keep for us, but we have permitted
au enemy to build one in the centre of our terri-
tory, where he has gained such power that. he snaps
his fingers at us in defiance, and we encourage him
still further to defy our power by sending se
feeble and inefficient a force to coerce him that
it crumbles to pieces on its way. Our Delhi is the
Mormon city of Salt Lake, where a rebellious fana-
ticiem, both religious and political, : exists, more
malignant and better organised than tleet of India.
It will inspire the Mormons with a fooling -of coo--
tempt for the ceitral Government when they learn
that even the small expedition of 1,5)0 men, which
was sent out to quell their revolutionary and re-
bellious movements, has been unab'e to reach them
on account of imperfect organisation and the lack
of proper administrative talent. The wily and able
leader of the Mormons, who has boasted to his
deluded followers that he will be himself Pre,ident
of the United States within five years, will turn
the failure of the military expedition against Utah
to good account for his own interests, and lie will
doubtless attribute it to his own superhuman
agency. The main cause of the failure of the Ut
military expedition is said to be owing to -iesertions,
more than 1-3 d of the force having deserted since
it commenced its march. There must have been
some wretched mismanagement which reflects dis-
grace upon the War Department, if the reports be
true that s) large a number of desertioes have taken
place. They are said to have been mainly from the
s:h Regiment of infantry, and were, ar, the last
accounts, of daily occurrence. The reports from
Washington are to the effect that it is the intention
of the Government to send forward more re-
cruits, nod that the expedition will not be de-
tained. How this may be we do not know ; but
we should say that the wiser course would be to
order the army for Ut th, whatever there may
be left of it, into winter quarters, and, in
the meantime,. make vigorous preparations
for sending an efficient force ea- ly in the spring.
As almost the entire population of Utah is composed
of the faithful and fanatical followers of Brigham
Young, they may be left to his tendor mercies
awhile longer. However ho may delude them as to
his own power and the inability of the Federal Go-
vernment to molest him, he laboers under no delu-
sion himself. The rascal will not have the audacity
to lay his hand, at least openly, on any official re-
presentative of the United States. He knows too
well what would be the inevitable consequeeces to
himself of such conduct, and we need entertain no
fear for such United States' officers as remain in the
territory. In the meantime, before a new force
can be organised and sent to Utah, Congress will
assemble, and among the firet measures of the Ad-
ministration will doubtless be one for the settlement
of the Utalkdifficulty. Senator D Juglas his already
published his own views of wh tt would be the pro-
per plan for Utah, and it is not unlikely that they
may coincide with those of Mr. Bachanen. Salt
Lake will have to be disposed of in some weer by the
pr: sent Aitninietration, and it may not prove alto-
ge:her unfortunate if the military force which was
sent to awe the Mormons inte good behaviour should
be compelled to stop short of its destina+ ion until
some definite plan of dealing with them has been
determined upon by the Government. But such a
considerittion as this should not exonerate the War
Department from the censure to which it is so justly
entitled. If an army of 1,500 men cannot be sent
in midsummer to the centre of our own territory
without the loss of more than one-third of its num-
ber by desertion, it argues very badly for the pro-
per organization of the chief a'rna of our military
defence.—Nero York Times.

FRENCH INVENTIONS.

The prizes awarded. this year by the Socete
cl'Enceuragement pour Hu d ristrie - Nationale for
inventions and improvements in manufactures
have just been published. Gold me lade were
awarded—To M. J. Dubose, for having executed
the first portable stereoscope, thus rendering the use
of that instrument extremely eaPy. Stereoscopes
are now sold in France to the amount of several
million; of francs. To M. Guerin, the inventor of a
system of self-acting breaks fur rail way trains.
When the stoker has shut off the steam and taken
the usual precautions fur stopping the train, the
effect is, that the nearer the carriages are to the
tender the closer they approach each o her, so that,
while the last and forelast vehicles of the train are
still apart, the buffers of the first and second have
already met, and their shafts are dtivee further in
than those of the third, fourth, &c. This circum-
stance has been turned to account by M. Guerin,
for the buffers act upon the brta'c while they are
being driven in, and the break resumes its former
position as soon as the train has stopped, in conse-
quence of the gradual action of the springs of the
buffers. 'These breaks are now extensively used on
the Orleans Railway. To M. I. Pierre, Professor of
Chem;stry at Caen, for his re •earches into the effi-
cacy of marine manures. To M. Fritz-Soll ier, a ma-
nufacturer of Indiarubber artic'ee for having re-
discovered a method (previously found, but ne-
glected, by MM. Sace and Jonas in 1846) for
transforming linseed oil into a suhstance resembling
caoutehouc, by treating it with ritric acid. This
new compound is now applied for making waterproof
stuffs, saddlery, &c. To MM. Gerard and Aubert,
for a process by which caoutehouc may, without
undergoing a previous di/Mention, be rolled out into
thin leaves, threads, or pipes. They are also the in-
ventors of the alcalisation of that substance, a pro-
cess which renders it less brittle and much stronger
than vulcanised caoutchouc. To MM. Perreaux
and Clair ; to the former for his I tidiest-Libber valves
and other improvements in• instrument making ;
and to the latter for a new kind of dynamometer.
Medals of platinum were given to M. Derrien for
his manufacture of artificial manure of invariable
fertilising power : and to M. E Muller, for a work
on agricultural and workmen's habitations. Silver
medals were awarded to Mr. Stanley, for his manu-
facture of articles in basalt and lava ; to M. Du-
mesnil, for an improved plaster kiln ; to M. Gau-
donnet, for improvements in pianofortes ; to M.
Tripon, for a process of aquatint washing on stone,
imitating Indian ink drawings ; to MM. Carmoy
and Colas, for gilt nails and a machine for making
them ; to Dr. Bonet, for a contrivance ler washing
foul linen by pressure ; to Dr. Guyut, for a loom
for weaving at a very trifling cost straw mats for
gardening purposes ; and to M. Kleid, for a plan
for r Aailing good and nutritious food to the poor in
portions of the value of 5 cents. each. Bronze me-
dals were awarded—to M. de Luca, for an improve-
ment in blow-pipes, producing an uninterrupted
stream of air by means of a borow bill of India-
rubber acting as a reservoir; to M. Tr aeon, fur an
improvement in the lamps called moderators ; to
MM. Lacassagno and Theirs, for a r.gulator appli-
cable to the electric light ; to M. Bruno, for a writ-
ing apparatus for blind people, con,istiree iu a steel
point, producing letters in relief on a kind of paper
need for counterdrawing ; to M. Ma=ze, of Tours, a
blind man, for a curious and ingenious contrivance
by which those who, like him have heel the mis-
fortune to lose their eyesight, may express their
ideas on paper by ureasie of prieting types ;
to M. Colard. Vienot, for an apparatas euabline
the blind to write music ; t 7 M. Devisme, the
well-known gunsmith, fur an improveni. nt in re-
volvers, by applying to them the principle of the
Miuie rifle ; to M. Yitard, a carpenter, for an in-
strument by which the cubic contents of timber or
trees may be ascertained off-hand '•to J. Pouillen,
for a bed of a peculiar contrivance for patients ; 4
M. Heilbronn, for a process by witch zinc mayhyeh
ceive a coating of paint as durahle Ise that w c
may be given to sheet iron ; to M. More, for a
ti
flexib'e globe for the study of geography,
of its beim:, folded up like 'an umbrella ; to MM.
Lenz aneHowlard, for a systen of p•dals and
counter pedals in eianos, by whi:Ai the highest
notes may
be simultaneously combined with the
re
lowest ; - and lastly, to M. Tet, for an economical
process of baking brick% —Gal ignani.