The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-14 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY.--Morning, r 4h. Om.—Afternoon, 4h. 18m.
To-MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 54m.
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'FHB WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, JAN. 13, /861.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
39—highest since noon yesterday.
33—lowest this morning and during the night.
33—this day at noon.
BAROMETER--29.77 ; a fall of half an inch since yesterday.
WIND--Southerly and Easterly—moderate; with a
heavy fall of snow about noon and up till late.
JAN. 14.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
34—highest since noon yesterday.
26—lowest this morning and during the night.
30—this day at noon.
BAROMETER-29.75.
WIND South-Easterly— fresh ; with sharp frosty
weather.

THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, JAN. 14, 1861.

Nothing could well be more satisfactory under
the circumstances than the intelligence just
received from China, in the shape of despatches
addressed to her MAJESTY'S secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, by her MAJESTY'S Envoy Extra-
ordinary to the Court of Pekin and Minister Pleni-
potentiary. These the latest communications from
Lord ELGlN—dated from the Chinese Capital (the
briefest of them) on the 4th of November, and from
Tien-tsin (at greatar length), subsequently on the
13th and 15th of November, duly appeared in
a Supplement 'to the London Gazette of Friday, .
the 11th of January, published as such at a late
hour the day before yesterday. They may be
examined by onr readers at pleasure in another
part of our impression of this evening;
those there deeply interesting despatches
with their enclosures, the latter comprising among
them communications from important English offi-
cials, such as Mr. ADKINs, our agent leftin Pekin,
and Mr.WADE, our Chinese Secretary, and Colonel
FOLEY, our Commissioner at the French head-
quarters; together with missives addressed by the ,
Tartar Government to its own people as to the
scattered provincial authorities, to men high in
power, such as LAO, the Governor-General of the
Two Kwang. Looking through these papers, it is
impossible not to recognise at once the complete
manner in which the Allied Expedition has inspired
the Tartar rulers with a conviction, that it would
savour somewhat of madness to trifle henceforth,
as they have done so often hitherto, with the inte-
rests of the terrible " outer .barbarians" from the
opposite extremity of the world. The armaments
themselves have effected this good, in the first in-
stance—those small but sufficient armaments, led
on respectively by General GRANT and General
MONTAUBAN, carrying with them devilish little
brass cannon and diabolical Armstrong guns, that
rendered the old-fashioned artillery as much lumber
of the past, by comparison, as the crossbow and the
catarpult ! Scattering the disproportioned smarms
of Tartar horsemen, time after time, with the utmost
facility, between Tien-tsin and the capital of the
Chinese Empire! And at'length when the EMPEtOR
was scared away in ignominious flight into the
wilds of Manchouria, and his legions under the
Prince SAN-KO_LIN.SIN routed irretrievably—at
length, we say, as the coup de grace in retalia-
tion for the atrocious massacre of a cluster of
Englishmen and their attendant Hindoo compa-
nions in arms and brothers in misfortune—at length
firing their almost fabulous palace of splendours,
leaving in lieu of all that accumulation of mag-
nificonce nothing more than a vast heap of
smouldering ruins where once had stood "„the
resplendent structure of Yuen-min-Yuen ! All
this having been acc9mplished by the English And

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