The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-26 00:00:00

hours' fire from the fleet, completely surrendered !
The crowning success of the British being achieved
by them without one single casualty—the neigh-
bouring island being occupied without the loss to
the captors of ono drop of blood—but the seizure
of the fort unhappily involving in it the death of
four officers, together with about twenty rank
and file A remarkable disproportion, it is ob-
servable--this loss of four officers and of twenty
rank and file—a disproportion as honourable to
the former as, in itself, it is undoubtedly extra-
ordinary. The four gallant officers England has
reason thus to lament being Brigadier STOPFORD,
Colonel MALET, Lieutenant WARREN, and Lieute-
nant UrrEnsoN. One officer alone (Captain-
Wool)) is spoken of, by the way, as wounded.
The names of the as yet " unnamed demigods "
being reserved for publication, a little later on,
in that periodical scroll of CLIP, the London Ga-
zette. Such, then—as far as we have yet
been enabled to obtain the particulars
through the more than stenographic flashes
of electricity along the submarine cable—
are our actual gains and our actual losses,
in the new War in the East which has thus in
genuine earnest commenced. A quarter of a
hundred killed and wounded on our side—as a
" set-off" to which casualties we have won posses-
sion of a Persian fort, and a Persian island, and
the city and harbour of Bushire.
Congratulating England on this ready capture
of Bushire and of Karrak, the organ of Lord PAL-
MERSTON is already encouraging itself in the very
sanguine belief that beelase of the fall of lEarrak
and Bushire, therefore the Sit9.ll will, in all
likelihood, consent immediately to some pacific
arrangement. "It is very probable," says the
Aforaing Past of to-day, " that as Bushire and
Karrak aro now in our possession, the SELA.II will
listen to reason !" Although the great seaport in
the Persian Gulf is not less than five hun-
dred miles from the actual seat of the
Szlni's Government 1 Not merely, however, is
this extravagant hope cherished—not merely is
this sudden and very convenient conclusion
jumped at by the organ of Lord PI.LILERSTON—
but a positive intimation, an intimation still more
extravagant than the hope, comes floating to us
frora Tenna, to the effect that already the Court
of Teheran, on hearing of the fall of Bushire, had
actually consented to accept the conditions offered
to the SNAIL by the British Government. Al-
ready !—The news of the fall of Bushire coming
to us by way of Trieste, and the news of the effect
of that fall at the Court of Teheran coming to us
by way of Vienna—simultanzottsly! With an in-
terval of five hundred miles between Bushire and
Teheran—news coming to England of the fall of
Bushire, and of the influence produced by that
fall at Teheran—sinsidtaneouslyl The thing is
preposterous! Even in our age of electric tele-
graphs the thing, we repeat, is simply preposterous
—particularly remembering that the wires end
long before the Asiatic traveller approaches the
western extremity of the Persian dominions at
Anerbijaun. It is about a companion scrap of
intelligence to that astounding little bit of news
which came bounding across Europe the other
day in a sort of an eccentric ricoeheti, to the effect
that Brigadier CHAMSERLSYNE with his 5,000
men had marched towards Cabul along the
Khyber Pass from the direction of Peshawur,
and had then- ganarched back again ! like the
King of FRANCE going up and down the hill with
his 40,000 1 Intelligence that may after all, of
course, be as " true as gospel"—but still intelli-
gence, coining to us in such a very "questionable
shape," that we may bo reasonably pardoned for
not consenting to swallow it at once, before it has
received some definite and reliable confirmation !
And so with this fresh morsel of news about the
change wrought, in the twinkling of an eye, upon
the policy of his Majesty the SEAN by the
downfall, five hundred miles away from him,
of his great southern seaport of Bushire. A
change of policy that may—no less than the
abrupt retreat of our 5,000 men from Cabul—be
as undeniable as any proposition in " Euclid."
But still, as a piece of news, equally with the
news about that retreat, requiring some simple
and definite confirmation. Until we receive which
confirmation, we must really be pardoned for
remaining incredulous, both in reference to the
miraculously reported submission of the Salm,
and in regard to the mysteriously rumoured re-
treat of Brigadier CUA/ZIEXLITNii.

The qaeen has intimated her intention not to open
parliament in person. The Speech from the Throne
upon the re-assembling of parliament will, therefore, be
delivered by Lords Commissioners o❑ Tuesday, 3d Feb.
Tne Address, in answer to the Speech from the Throne,
will be moved in the Lords by the Earl of Cork, and
we believe will be seconded by Earl Cowper. The
Address of the Commons will be moved by Sir Jobe
Ramsden, Bart., member for the borough of Taunton,
and seconded by Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., member
for Wigtonshire.
Summonses have been issued by direction of the noble
Premier for meetings of the members of the Cabinet on
Monday and Tuesday next, at the official residence of
the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street.
The Duke of Argyll has returned to town from Scot-
land for the season. Toe Duchess and family have also
arrived at the family villa, at Carnpden-hill, Kensington.
The Earl of Harrowby is expected to arrive in town
early in the week.
On Friday Mr. Lowe left Manchester to pay a short
visit to the Right
.Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., at
Ellerbeck, near Wigan. Mr. Cardwell is still suffering
from injury to his arm, the result of a fall from his horse.
J. L. Ricardo, Esq., M.P., and the Hon. F. L.
Gower, M.P., the two hon. members for the borough of
Stoke.upon-Trent, are announced to meet and address
their constituents and friends in Hanley Town-hall,
to-morrow evening.
Lord Panmure, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Lord Chancellor,
the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. M.
T. Baines, and Lord Stanley of Alderley, have come to
town for the approaching session of Parliament.
A Privy Council will be held by the Queen on Mon-
day the 2,1 proximo, at Windsr.rCastle, when the royal
speech will be determined upon.
Lord Monteagle and the commissioners on decimal
coinage have resumed their meetings at their residence
in Manchester-buildings.
Lord John Russell, M.P., is expected i❑ town early
in the present week from Italy, in order to be present at
the opening of Parliament.
On the proposition of M. Auber, the Minister of State
has appointed M. George Kastner member of the Com-
mittee of Musical Studies at the Conservatoire de Musique.
The Earl and Countess Stanhope left the Grove, near
Watford, where they have been staying with the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, on Saturday last, for Burgh-
ley House, near Stamford, on a visit to the Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter.

The Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers,
who have been on a visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at
Deane-park, left on Saturday last, to join the circle
visi,,ing the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at
Burghley House.
Lord and Lady Londesberough, though passing the
winter at their chateau on the shores of the Mediterra-
nean, have not been unmindful of their home duties.
The Yorkshire papers announce that the liberal dona-
tions and subscriptions contributed by the family in the
localities of the noble lord's extensive estates in the
East, West, and North Ridings, have been paid as
usual this season, and that none of the poorer depend.
ents of hie lordship have suffered by their absence
from England.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have, during the
last few days, entertained a select circle at the Grove,
near Watford. Trio guests of the noble Earl and Coun-
tess have included his Excellency the Austrian Minister
and the Countess d'Appony, his Excellency the Russian
Minister and the Countess Creptowitch, the Earl and
Countess Granville, the Earl of Verulam, the Earl and
Countess Stanhope, Count Pahlen, the Right Hon. C.
P. Villiers, &e.
The Earl of Cardigan has had a select circle staying at
Deane Park, Northamptonshire, during the past week.
The Earl of Westmorland, the Countess of Jersey and
Lady Clementica Villiers, Lady Ernest Bruce, Lord
Cave ,dish, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Colonel the Hon. Jas.
Macdonald, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Cost, Sir Thos. and
Lady Gresly, and Mr. Curzon, have been among his
lordship's guests.
The mortal remains of the late Duke of Rutland are
to lie in state at Belvoir Castle, to-morrow and on
Wednesday. On the following day the interment will
take place in the family mausoleum, within a short dis-
tance from the Castle.