The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-28 00:00:00

have been but too long strangers. The accounts from
up country continue to report the stocks of cotton
goods as very unusually low, with a rapidly increas-
ing demand ; this has, of course, stimulated activity
here, and at any rate until business closes for the
Doorga Poojah holidays, which commence on the
10th proximo, we may anticipate a continuance of
the present improved state of the market. It may,
however, be as well to state that, though late im-
portations of cotton fabrics have met with pur-
chasers at a profit, old stocks are generally disre-
garded, and are with difficulty got off at a sacrifice.
There can be no doubt but that the reason of this
is partly from the very large stocks on hand in
this city, and in transit from England, and the
necessity which Manchester is known to feel for
a new and largely increasing market for her
cotton goods. We anticipate, therefore, that old
stocks are not likely to be more in favour than
at present, and that they must be either got off
at a sacrifice or some other market found for them.

CHINA.
KONGKONG, SEPT. 12.
The Imperialists have succeeded in recapturing
Ngunking, an important city on the river
Yangtsze, about 50 miles below Kinkiang. The
garrison are reported to have been literally starved
into surrender after the most horrible sufferings,
and to have been slaughtered to a man.
From Japan there is intelligence to the 24th ult.
from Jeddo, and the 29th from Nagasaki. Public
confidence was again restored to a great degree, but
trade was as dull as ever. Her Majesty's Legation
was about to remove to Yokohama, retaining the
residence at Jeddo for occasional visits until replies
can be received to the despatches announcing the
late murderous attack. The Consulate will also re-
move from Kanagawa. There seems to have been
an attempted attack on the American Legation, but
there is some mystery about it, and Mr. Harris re-
mains at the capital. Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope
had gone to Hakodadi, in her Majesty's ship En-
counter, and his fiag•ship Imperieuse was reported
to have been aground ; but whether with or with-
out damage is not stated. Mr. Oliphant goes home
by the present mail, crippled in his left arm by the
sword-cuts of the assassins who attacked the British
Legation. His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson
has returned from his northern tour.

The opening under the treaty of Tien-tsin of the
two ports, Tang-chau and New-chwang, in the
Gulf of Pecheli, is made of no value to foreign trade,
by the 4th clause of the sth rule, appended to the
treaty tariffs, which declares that " the export of
pulse and bean cake from Tang-Chau and New-
Ch wang under the British flag is prohibited. From
any other of the open ports may be shipped on pay-
ment of the tariff duty, either to other parts of
China or to foreign countries." The only returns
from these ports for imports are pulse and bean
cake, and as no man would entrust his property
to uninsurable Chinese junks the ports'are virtually
closed It is difficult to see what valid reason can
be given in favour of this restriction that might not
with equal justice be urged against any other
branch of the carrying trade legalized at the
other treaty ports.

The dulness of trade at Canton is to a great
extent attributed to uncertainty as to the results
on the tranquillity of the province of the with-
drawal of the allied garrison next month. A
better state of things may be hoped for, should
the Chinese authorities prove equal to the main-
tenance of order. A land sale of the Shameen site
for foreign dwellings was held on the 3d instant,
When the greater number of lots were bought at
prices greatly in excess of the upsets for the more
eligible situations. As an instance of the supe-
riority to old prejudices on the part of a Chinese
magnate, it may be mentioned that the Hippo of
Canton, a man of very high rank, who has lately
lost his father and obliged to return to Pekin in
consequence, has chartered an English steamer to
convey him and all his family to Tien-tsin—partly
moved thereto by the dangers of the land journey,
and partly by the wish for rapid transit.

In addition to.their successes on the Yang-tsze,
the Imperialists have recovered the important city
of Tsinschow, in Kwangsi.
The Russians appear to be indefatigable in their
endeavours to occupy every position of importance
in these northern seas, and without much regard to
the rights of others. Under pretence of surveying
they are quietly establishing themselves on the
Island of Tsn-Sima, between Japan and the
Corea, and have built there storehouses and
a hospital. A glance at the map will show the im-
portance of the island as a naval station, possessed
as it is of magnificent harbours, and lying within
two days' run of Shanghai and Nagasaki by steam.
Admiral Hope has lately paid it a visit, and found
a Russian man-of-war there, and the establishment
above-named. The island is the property of one of
the great Daimios of Japan, and it is believed that
some high-handed doings of the Russians, who are
there without the smallest sanction from the Japa-
nese, inflamed the hostility of the Princes against
foreigners generally, and led to the late lamentable
attack on the British. Legation.

There is a German Opera now at Geneva, with
an English pima donna, a Miss Bywater.
The line of railway from Bologna to Ancona is
now terminated. The inauguration will take place on the
3d of November, and the King will preside over the cere-
mony.

Bullier's Correspondence states positively that
the French Government demand " rectification of frontiers"
from Switzerland, at a spot near Martigny and Vouvry I
Lord Llanover has been appointed the Lord
Lieutenant of Monmouthshire.

One of the Maine regiments, lately gone to Wash-
ington, out of 1,000 men had only five married men in it.
THE HULSEAN PROFESSORSHIP OF DIVINITY.—
CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 26.—At a meeting of the electors held
this morning at the Vice-Chancellor's Lodge at Magdalen
College, the Rev. J. B. Lightfoot, M.A., of Trinity College,
and one of her Majesty's chaplains, was elected to this
preferment, vacated by the Dean of Exeter.
A FAMILY INCIDENT;--Atother and nurse putting
their heads together, and having in mind certain indul-
gences in the shape of sweetmeats which young Hopeful
had been permitted to revel in the day previous, come to
the conclusion that it would be prudent to give him, by
way of corrective, a little of time-honoured combination
and chiefest of all domestic remedies—senna and salts. The
nauseous draught is ready, and nurse taking Johnny on
her knee, advances it to his mouth ; but no sooner does the
odour reach his nostrils, than he starts back with a loud
cry. Nurse and mother in vain endeavour to persuade
the child to swallow the sickly stuff. Tossing about, kick-
ing, and shrieking, he sets the best-intentioned efforts
at defiance. Sixpences and shillings tempt not, sweet-
meats he repudiates with scorn, and promises of marvel-
lous toys fall unheeded upon his ears. The nurse begins
to be vexed and imperative, and the mother looks dis-
tressed. The draught must be taken. The necessity is
awful, but absolute. Both nurse and mother recognise the
terrible struggle now involved in the administration. The
nurse would, however, terminate the contention at once by
main force, but the mother still hopes to succeed by gentler
means. " Johnny, you must take the physic," exclaims
the nurse, with a significant shake of the child. " I wont,"
shrieks Johnny. " Don't hurt him, nurse," cries the
mother, the tears forming in her eyes. "ohnny dear,
won't you take it to please ma P" c. No-o-o I" blubbers
Johnny, " You naughty boy," says nurse,
" I must send
for your father," cries the mother. And in the end the
father is called from his dressing-roorn, having been duly
impressed with the gravity of the occasion. With a big
voice, but ajfaint heart, he confronts the recalcitrant child,
cup in hand. " Johnny, you will take this from me."
No," retorts Johnny, with a kick and a sob. " Then
I
shall whip you, Johnny," but the threat makes no impres-
sion. " What must be done ?" then asks the nonplussed
father, now utterly hopeless. " Make him take it," answers
the nurse, in a peremptory tone ; " what's the use of trifling
with him in th s way ?" A housemaid is called up to aid.
The nurse throws Johnny on his back over her knees, he
screaming loudly. The housemaid holds him tightly by
the arms and shoulders, the mother secures the legs, the
father steadies the body. Then the nurse, seizing the nose
of the child between the thumb and finger of the left hand,
compresses his nostrils until he opens his mouth widely,
Whereupon she pours into it the abominable draught. Part
is swallowed, but the greater part is sputtered out, bespat-
tering the housemaid's neat print dress, and the nurse's
face. The nurse is put out of temper for the day, on ac-
count of the naughtiness of the child ; the mother is vexed
that he has had to be dealt with so severely; the house-
maid is annoyed because her clean dress is spoiled ; the
father is
tetchy because his matutinal bloater happening
e
to be ready for him before he was ready for it, has become
warm; ; and the cook is indignant, because he
was cross with her needlessly. And all this turmoil
in
the internal economy of the house is but a faint
reflex of the turmoil of the unfortunate Johnny's internal
ee°ll"l37---" Female Physicians," in the Psychological
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