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The lamentable intelligence we have to oonvey by this mail lea new difficulty with the Chinese autho rities, which led to an attack on the 26th of Jose from and upon the Take Forte, at the month of the Peiho, resulting in the total defeat of the Britieh force, with the lave of no less than Bee gunboats and between 400 and 600 men, or about one-third of our twee employed. The following letter contains a graphic and moving description of the engagement at Take, and of the heroic valour displayed by ear officers and men : OFF THE PIIIIIO, lux. 28. I feel scarcely equal to the painful teak of attempt ing to describe occurrences which I am altogether iaeoespetent to depict in sufficiently striking and vivid esteem, and yet on the vivid as well as correct representation of which, I feel, depends the honour of all the brave men with whom I am serving, —nay more, of Old England's stainless fig itself. As I did not keep a journal of the previous day'e proceedings, I shall cocaine myself to those of the illedarred 25th. At daylight on the morning of that day the gun- boats weighed and proceeded to make a last attempt to remove the barriers that the Chinese had placed across the entrance of the river, and were evidently determined not to remove of their own aceord. Thews, however, being composed of strong iron bars and chains, ancesssively resisted all the efforts made for their removal, up to 12 o'clock, when the order was given that the men should have their dinners, after which it was generally understood we I should open fire on the forts. Strange to may, daring the six or eight hours in which these preliminary measures were being effected neither was a single gun fired from the forts, nor was there symptom evident that their occupants were pre pared to defend them. Every embrasure was screened with matting, sad not a head was visible over the ramparts; and this, although the gunboats were all only from 500 to 700 yards distant, and were all at sixes and sevens from some getting aground, while others had to haul them off, and the spaoe in which they had to move being too confined to allow of their isanoauvring. Dinner having been finished, about half-peat one o'clock the signal was run up to prepare for action, and the Operetta (Limit• Commander Balfour), with Captain Willer, R.N., and the Plover,with our brave old admiral, pushed in close up to the first barrier. No sooner did they arrive there, than suddenly, and as if by magi*, the mats that sweated the guns in all the curtain hattmies were triesd rap, and the whole of the gnu opened Are. Oar vessels being all well prepared, however, the fire was immediately re turned, and the action became general. It was at once evident, though, that we had no ordinary Chinese artillery to contend against. Their fire, both in weight and precision, was such as few men, and I feel certain no Chinese oarapaignetee seer before experienced. In • very few minutes the Opossum had *emend of her crew killed or wounded. In the Plover the Admiral was severely bit; her gallant commander, Ramon, and Captain McKenna, of the let Royals (doing duty on the Admiral's staff ) were killed, and almost every man of thecrew dis abled ; while the Haughty (Lieut. Commander I Broad), Lee (Lieutenant Commander Jones), Kee -1 trel (Lieutenant Commander Bevan), and Cormorant I (Commander Wodehouse), were so severely crippled that they were in a sinking state. The Lee, in deed, would have gone down at ones but for Limit. Broad, in the Haughty, dashing in to her rescue, sad towing her out under a heavy Are. Neverthe less, the bombardment was kept up with unabated ♦igour, and in about two hours the enemy's the began sensibly to slacken ; and (although they bad got our range so exactly that almost every shot told, while ours, though admirably directed, did compa ratively little damage to their mud walls) shortly after 4 o'clock it became almost silenced. At about five o'clock, the anxiously expected signal wee accordingly made for the troops to land and smelt, which was briskly answered by them; every boat containing them striving to be the first to reach the shore. Not a soul in the sqnsdron at that moment, I believe, doubted our obtaining a speedy victory. Just as the first boat touched the shores however, bang went a gun again from the forts, immediately followed by a perfect hurricane of shot, shell, gingall bath, and rockets from all the southern batteries, which mowed down oar men by tens es they landed. Nevertheless, out of the bate they all leaped with undiminished ardour (many into water so deep that they had to swim to the shore), and dashed forward through the mud, while the ships threw in as heavy a cover ing fire as they possibly could. The enemy's fire, however, continued to be so deadly, and the mud proved so deep (in most places reaching up to the men's knees, at least—often up to their waists) that out of the 1,000 men who landed barely 100 reached the first of the three deep and wide ditcher, which, after some 500 yards of wading through the mud, presented them selves before the gallant few who got so far, and out of that small number scarcely twenty had been able to keep their rifles or their ammunition dry. Nevertheless, they boldly faced those new difficulties, and some fifty of them, with a crowd of officers (among whom were conspicuous the commanding officer of the French contingent, Com manders Commerell and Heath, R.N., Major Parke, and Lieut. Hawkey of the Matinee, Major Fisher and Lieut. Maitland of the Engineers), succeeded in getting as far as the furthest bank of the third ditch, from which they would certainly have made a good attempt to ecale the walls had ladders been forthcoming; but, out of the number that were landed, all bat one had either been broken by shot or had stuck in the mud. With the remaining one, however, ten devoted men sprang forward, three of whom were immediately shot dead, and five wounded severely. A vertical fire of arrows, as well as a constant fusillade, wee kept op on the select band who now crouched in the ditch, waiting, but in vain, for rein forcements ; and that any of them afterwards escaped alive is miraculous. Seeing what in surmountable difficulties presented themselves, the order was at last given to retire; the lion hearted commander of the troops, Colonel Lemon, of the Royal Marines (who was one of the Bret Into the farthest diteh); Captain Vansittart, of the Magi donne; and Captain Shadwell. of the Highftyer, all having been severely wounded. The luta was badly shot through the foot shortly after LAMB', but nevertheless managed to struggle manfully for ward, even to the advanced Mesas. Poor Captain Yeasittart had his leg shot off. Lieutenant Graves of the Assistance, Lieutenant Clutterback of the Otwomandel; young Herbert, of the Chesapeake; and Lieutenants Inglis and Woolridge, of the Royal Marines, were all killed while gallantly cheering Me their men ; and at least three-fourths of the officers who landed were more or less severely bit. In effecting the retreat even more lives were lost, perhaps, than in advancing, as the Chinese, by light ing blue lights, were enabled to discover the exact position of our then reeling and thoroughly exhausted men, and so to shoot them down like birds. Even on arriving at the water's edge, matters were not improved, as so many of the boats had been smashed to pieces by round shot that there were not enough remaining to take off the surviving men. Several were drowned in attempting to get off, while many had to remain for more than an hour up to their necks in water before they could get a place in • boat ; and even then their dangers were not past, as the fire from the forts continued so heavy that Wend boats full of wounded were stria and swamped *nue - palling off to the ships. The Ctficanandel was made the temporary hoe pital ship, and the scene on her upper deck was truly horrible. It was nearly one o'clock before the lut boat load of wounded was brought off to her, and long ere that hoar she was crowded witii the muti lated and the dying. Every exertion, however, was made by the medical staff (to whom, and especially to Dr. Little, of the Marines, great credit is due), and long ere daybreak every sufferer had his wounds tended. Every operation (and their number was sickening) I wee gratified to hear was performed under the influence of chloroform. Oar proportionate loss has, indeed, been frightful —434 killed and wounded. The Ist battalion of Marines alone, which landed barely 400 strong, has lost altogether 172 killed and wounded; the Chesa peake 26 killed or missing, and 34 wounded; and the gunboats, 90 killed and wounded. No expecta tion whatever is entertained of those who are re turned missing being still alive. With such enemies as the Chinese, and under the peculiar circurostanoes of the ease, all such hope is out of the question. The belief is universal throughout the squadron that Europeans manned the batteries ea well as Chinese. Men in grey coats, with closely cropped hair, and with kaolin feature', were distinctly visible in the batteries, and the whole of the fortifi cations were evidently of European designing. Some of those who advanced near to the wall even go so fez u to declare that they heard men calling for " more powder," in Russian ; and this morning it is reported that two dead bodies Boated out of the river, dressed in Chinese clothes, but having incon testably European faces. The damaged forts have already been repaired, and have never ceased to fire upon the boat" that are still engaged under Captain Willes and Commanders CommereU, Heath, and Wynniatt, in struggling to rescue the stranded noels. I should have stated that the Plover, Lee, and Kestrel, all sank in.the oonne of the evening of the 26th, and the Haughty and Cor morant (despatch vessel) early next morning. Thanks to the untiring efforts of our gallant tare, however, the Haughty and Kestrel have, under a heavy fire from the forts, been floated again, and are in comparative safety, while all the van able contents cf the Cormorant, Lee, and Plover have been either saved or effectually destroyed. All who have witnessed the operations are loud in their praises of the gunboat officer., who have all done duty like heroes. It has undoubtedly been a most unfortunate affair; but, whatever befell, no one can deny that the men did all that mortal men could do. The point selected for landing certainly appears to have been ill chosen, but yet, as we could not get past even the first barrier, it seems that after all it was as good as any that was accessible; and, as to the expediency of the attack being made at all, I would only ask—what would they have said in England, what would the world have said, had we declined the attack when, as far sa we knew, we bad only rascally Chinese to contend with ? Time, I em confident, will prove that Europeans were our principal opponents, and that to have suc ceeded in our attempt we should have bad at least five times, if not ten times, the force we had. Lieutenant Peard of the Cormorant is partial , laxly worthy of mention for his conduct. Besides 'Ming in action all day with his vowel, he landed, was first in the ditches, took back a message to the boats and returned again to the advanced trench. Lieutenant Peard had served in the trenches during the whole of the siege of Sebastopol. The great majority of the men hit are either dan gerously or severely wounded, but I am happy to say they are almost all doing well. The weather is very favourable for them, being cool, with fresh breezes from the north and north-east. The French, out of their small landing party of 00 meo, had 15 killed or wounded. The Americans assisted as considerably, by means of a small steamer with which they towed up several of our boats into action from the large ship', and also after the action, by taking out to their respective ships a number of our men, to whom they s howed every kindness. They were loud in their praises of the daring our men showed, and have sent large presents of fresh meats and vegetables for the benefit of our wounded. The following remote were actually engaged:—Coro mandel, 2 guns, tender to deg-shit', Clatterbuck, lieutenant commanding; Comment, 4 guns, gun vessel, Wulehouse, conszaudec ; Nimrod, 6 VMS, gun rased, Wynniatt, acting commander; Plover, 2 guns, gumboot, Ration, lieutenant commeading ; OposeLn, 2 guns, gunboat, Balfur, Idiots nent-ccmmanding ; Haughty, 2 goo, gubost, Broad, lieu taunt-commanding; Les, 2 guns, gunboat, Jones, haute mat-commanding; Kestrel, 2 guns, gasket, Bevan, inuenent-commanding ; Janus, 2 guns, gunboat, Lewitt, Bailment" commanding ; Butane, 2 guns, gunboat, Jen hiee, lieutenent-conatunding ; Sterling, 2 guns, gunboat, Whitshed, lieutenant-commanding; Forester, 2 guns, gun boat, limes, lieutenant-commanding. Also a small French gunboat with one bow gun. Casualties before the Psi-ho Forts on the 25th of June, 1659 : KitMd.—Lieut. Graves, R.N., Assistance, killed cc shore ; Lieut. Clutterbuck,R.N., Coromandel, do.; Lieut. Basco, R.N., Plover, killed on board ; Capt. McKenna, Royal Regiment, do. Ploysit ; Mr. Herbert. mid., Chesa peake, Medea short ; Lient.Woolridge, R.M. Brigade, do. do. ; Lint. Inglis, R. K. Ingham, killed in boat. Wounded.—Adralnl Hope, effetely; Captain Vanalteart. Megideame, for of Wt leg below boss ; Captain Birdwell, Higheyer, severe wound of foot; Captain Willes,Chmapeeke, slightly; Colonel LIMO, R.M. Brigade, eeverely ; Lieut. Higher', allght/y; Lieut. Buckle, Magi came, slightly ; Mr. Burdens, Heater, Bante•rer, elightly; Mr. Armitage, noidablpreen, Cruiser, severely; Mr. Paulin; mideihignma, Cambriaa, severely ; Yr. N. B. Smith, sets, Cr'-.lerama severely; Mr. Phillips, mooted UMW, Pll~. allginly; Lieut. Langley, B. Bug., Plover, timely; Rev. H. Hnlse, chaplain, N. M. Brigade, severely; Captain Maeleee, Chesapeake; Captain Slaughter, B. K. Brigade; Lissiumat Wiillame , R. K. 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The handing le 150 feet long by rather more than 50 feet wide, and the committee were therefore able to appropriate a large portion of the spare to spectator,, Modesto° being fry tilde, which wore very *Fogerty sought after. This smolt was Sled with a gay end setburiestio eweroblege, end outside *Me thoutands of persona were assembled. All the Micas of the regiment were prevent, °Wading Colonel Carmichael and the following, who withstood the siege of Lucknow : Lieutenant-Colonel Lowe, C. 8., Brevet-Major Baamno, Hemet. Major Lawream Brevet-81,qm Foster, Captain Her mar, Dr. Boyd, and Quartermaster Stribling. Mr. C. Lamb, the chairmen, prior to the repast, read an address congratulating this remnant of the regiment on Its refs ..rive) in England, after the dannere It hod souped through, aad acknowlanim with gratitude the gigue! *prelate which the regiment hod rendered to the country. Colonel Car michael rued. • suitable reply, rind on behalf of the mid moat thanked the lababitante of Dover for the reception Om had give thee. The proossdings were brought to a elms with garrison game ow a neighbouring plateau, which were witnereed by several them and spectators. LONDON AND MIDDLESEX RICILEOLOGICAL Bo- CIZT%.—On Thursday, the Bth MM., the annual dieser of the Londoa and Madman Archrological Surlily and Club teak place st the Star sad (laver, Richmond; Thomas 60011,1 Cocks, Eq , aloe preeldent and treasure° of the moiety, the emir. Among done present were W. Dur rett Cooper, Bm., P.S.A,, and H. Watford, Bp., F.S.A., member of tb• council; Henry W. &sr, Erg., honorary 011111/oftry of the enchdy ; H. O. Bob., Esq., Matthew If. Stamm Esq., C. Biddelpb, Esq., W. H. Hardie, Esq., J. Msubew, Esq.„ James 0. thither, Dm., hammy seer-toy Se the id* Is, The mad loyal team mire peoposby ibe slims, sad Arum& time mem egeskEy applylep is Os sillset Ma uselleg. "Tb eseboly of Abliqunal," NM, Larks ad libblbses lisamAeoal Society," and as health M.' H. 0. Bela. Ep ," who bed doe so mach bawds the revival .ad repabilvbfrag the het clam of liters tae. The health t f "The Chairman," sad duelly that of The Wive," ternihrited the proesediers. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SWILLED° DAT,— Trauma, Sart. In.—Admissions ea p jms t , 4,108; 41114 by smosekbpo4, 466; total visitors, 4,6 71, (Stamped ld. Additionl) 18. Y. Artillery; Dustman Coto► , . E. B. Beigede; Lieutenant Carrington, B, Y. Brigade • Lieatenaut Smith, info& ; lieateeent Betrayal, Fury, ellgtuly. Tend MIMI sad weeded 464; Prank Skilled end HO wounisd, facleding Captain Triesalt (Da Cbayls), wounded la lie era. Total of Marino Brigade °eh : Mons, 121001,16 wounded; wrgewsle, 2 kaled,l3 resided; buglers, 3 wottaded ; corporals, 1 killed, $ wounded; nak sad Ills, 34161 ed. 104 wounded; total Mal sad wosaded, 120. From a letter of the 10th July we kern that the troop ship Assistance wee then off Saddle Islands, near Shanghae, having brought down 160 of the worst cases of the wounded. It wee to start early next morning for an anchorage near Ningpe, among the Chtuan Islands, where it was expected there would be a favourable place for lying in until the hot weather should be put. Magicians* and the Coromandel arrived at Shangirae from the Niko on the 10th inst. Poor Captain Vansittart, we regret to say, was scarcely expected to live. His leg had been amputated beneath the knee, and it was thought that another amputation would be neces sary, as affording the only Autos be his life. The last accounts of the admiral were that be was doing well. There had bees only three death, on board lie Ambtereeratter eke left the Pea*, and the gnat majority of the wounded on board were getting on wonderfully well. (From the North CAM. ilirold.) Golf of Peclelll, haly 1. Oa the 26th of Ines, the nagotistioas with the Chinn hayloft creme to nothing bet apt eff to gain time, the Ad miral, with his flag flying in the Plover, followed by the gun-boats Lee, Nimrod, Cormorant, Opossum, Banterer, Starling, Forester, Beare!, Janne, and Haughty, proceeded to take up a pretties off the Pal-ho forts, reedy to attack is owe the Chinon should offer any resistance to clearing away the barriers. At 2p.m. the stations being pretty well ob tained with the exceptions of Starling and Banterer, who were on shore—the former on the ninth and the latter on the north bank—the Finer and Opossum weighed ; the latter proceeded to deer away a wane through the iron stakes which composed the first obstruction. Two of these having been drawn, the Plover followed by Opos sum, passed through them, and also tisseecatd boom which had been destroyed by the flag captain an the previous night. On arriving at the emend she attempted, together with the Opossum, to break through it, but without effect ; almost Immediately a sine' gun wee fired at her, sad directly all the sinks we., rolled up, a treeneudeus fire was opened an the momthron, and the action hams gmenal. The Lee, by signal from the Plover, peened through the stakes to the sup port of the Admiral. 7lte Plover and Opossum were, how ever, moos obliged to slip, the firs being too heavy for then, sad, Mowed by the Lee, dropped clear of the stakes at 8.16. The gunboat Plover suffered very numb In tailed and wouoded. An officer was went to the mauve to order up re inforcements, but the tide wee too *mg for the boats to attempt to pull up. The American flag onions very kindly offered to tow the boats up toe position to noble them to reach the gunboats. At 4.80 the enemy's fire was alackened considerably, orders wets sent down to the reserve for the marines sad naval brigades to prepare to lend, sad the Forester and Opossum, together with the Ti try wan, proceeded and towed them to the Nimrod, the pine of randeavous. At an early period of the action the admiral had been wounded en board the Plover by a splinter in the thigh, and that nisei wee almost entirely disabled. He shifted his Gag to the Oporto ; when them he took hie station on the caboose and from thence issued his orders until a round shot cut the mainstay on which he wee leasing at d canoed him to fall I. the deck, • height of some eight fret, bnakieg • rib and severely shaking him. After a shorktime he left the Opossum in the Do Chsyla's gig and proceeded to the Cormorant where he remained. At 5.45, the boats having assembled alongside, Nimrod pushed for the shore as new to the stakes es passible and opposite to the left bastim, about 600 yards distance from it. The landing tun woo composed aimed shoat inn deep end the greaten difficulty was expert/need in getting up the eating ladders and bridges. The marines and naval brigade, a small Fete& of which had only jut l,ndtd, pushed to the front, under a heavy fire from six guns in flank and in Soot. The fire from the wall., of gingalls, rifles, and arrows was ale, very Dewey. No check bad hitherto taken glum but here a ditch five feet deep and ten broad occurred, and the men, having no choice, plunged *crow and thereby wetted their wrisnualifon. A party of some fifty (Score and men again probed on and mused another wet ditch, which tmk them within twenty yards of the wall. In the meantime, Captains Shadwall sad Vaneittart, as also Colonel Lemon, having been woods% the amanita develved upon Commaoder Comme nt! and Major Parks. It was now about nine o'clock, sad darkness bed set in. The position of the landing party wee most precarious, fifty tillers' and men alone terealeed In the first ditch, and about 150 In the second. Many had been billed and wonniltd, and with the ox. caption of a small body one hundred and fifty yards farther tack, no reinforeementa appeared to be offering, and the men already at the front were perfectly *clanked and without dry ammunition or rifles fit to use. The officers in vain en marsged their men to charge to the wall, but it was ineffectual; the men were few and done up, and even if they had, they never could have au tried them against the thousands that lined the walla. Under Is.. drown/fences, the commanding offi cers despatched an officer to the rear to ask !tor instructions, and the senior officer sent him back immediately with orders f.•r the force to withdraw, as no reinforcements could be sent. Directly this order was received the wounded were despatched to the rear by twee and threes, and two hours having been given them to get to the boats the mall advanced party retreated in good order from ditch to ditch, examining the ground in their retreat for soy wounded that might have been overt oohed. Many poor fellows, alas, in the retreat fell to rire no more, but the wounded were saved and brought off. In the meantime the boats of the squadron under Captain Willis employed themselves in embarking the wounded and lendleg party, and et 1 o'clock or a little after they were all off. The gunboats did their duty ably, and covered the land ing party up to the latest moment it waa prudent to fire, mod shortly after, u • testimony of their hard-fought day, the Lee and Kestrel sunk, and the Haughty fast managed to keep herself afloat till the morning, when she went down, but fortunately out of range. At 3 a.m. the Cormo rant, with the admiral on hosed, and fall of wounded, wee so feat aground that it was considered necessary to leave her, as she was right under the batteries, and at daylight the enemy would doubtless concentrate their fire in her, whereas, if she were temporarily abandoned, it was hoped that the enemy would cum firing on her and the next night we should be able to get her off. For the same reasons the Plover and Starling, both immoveably aground, were cleared of their crews. The morning of the Roth showed our squadron in sad condition—hardly • gunboat was =disabled. How ever, during the day the carpenters of the squadron were employed latching them up temporarily, and the Starling having floated, her second master pro ceeded In • dingy and cut her cable, when abe drifted out of ramp with the ebb. That night attempts were made ,by Captain Willa" to recover the Cormorant and Plover, but without success. The Cormorant's ship's com pany having remained till 11 p.m. to endeavour to float her, a most teed& fire was opened upon her from batteries both north and south, and it moon became evident that abe was sicking. Orders were therefore sent down to Com mends, Wodeloorme, ordering him to abandon her if he had no hopes. Her ship's company and officers were embarked accordingly, but not before the water eras up to the lower deck; and half en-beer afterward' she went down head foremost. The same night huh attempts were made on the Plover, but it was found Impracticable, as ohe was full of water, and her shot holes between wind and:water gave no hope of her being able to float. At daylight, the Kestrel, sunk on the Roth under the batteries, was observed drifting out, and having been towed by the Janus Into shoal water, was even tually 'wavered. During that day the enemy got on board the Plover, over the mud, and saved us the trayble of de straying her by settleg her on fire themselves, but not before a vest portion of stores had been recovered. The seat two or three days the buts of the Chesapeake [TWOPENCE. wars employed destroyise the sb ladened rams% is musk as Petlle• Ism so tine to acid more, as I hest s vessel is going to ISbasstisL The Admiral was wormied In the enly pert of the action, het ratmed to leave the desk ; his ganboaM were 'Mend, a mark for the enemy, math he shifted to the Cormorant. The tide felling smell of the vent& grounded, and the masesy's fire wee now Gutting them to *eel below the water Um ; the southern batteries, how ever, hid begun to slickest their fire, sad, it being thought that a lending might be Wasted with a good prospect of sumen, an officer wee sent to tweet the proposed spot for the lending, sod reported it practicable—the signal was im mediately made for the landing partite, and the two brigades approached in tow of womb for some distance and they pulled towards the shore. Directly they commenced landing they were walled bye tremendom fire from all the batteries end a dreadful carnage matted ; the mud wan so heavy that the men could mealy struggle through it, and they were mowed down by dogma, many who were wounded fell and were smothered in the mud, others were intmliy drowned la Mb dreadful zooms from pure fatigue. Keay marecontrivid to push on towards the batteries, but aereely omen had a dry cartridge. The two ditches were emend, but the otter im possibility of bringing up waling ladders or bridges through each a see of mud balled all attempt it storming. The Chisels threw out fireballs, which, in the darkness that bid any come cm, showed very distinctly the position of our people. Caplets ehadwell,who commended the naval teigade, having been severely wounded, and many oter ofiloers and men killed and wounded, It wee but too evident that any further attempt would only mull a still greeter sawlike of life, and, therefore, the "retreat" was reluctantly ordered. The Chimes gave a yell of triumph when they saw this movement, and, if pone* redoubled their it., whilst our poor fellows retraced their steps ea beet they could, many having to crawl on their hands and knees to prevent staking into the mud altogether. By 1 a.m. the wounded and the remains of the landlog party were embarked. To return to the gunboats,--the duel between them and the forte recom menced with great fury, ant continued until long after dark, when at length all the ammunition being expended, and the vessels all being in a sinking condition, the firing gradually ceased, and by ten o'clock the action may be said to have ended,—the Lee and Kestrel had already sunk, end the Cormorant wee following their example, and they, with two or three other gunboats, had to be deserted during the night. Thus ended this most &estrous affair; the only redeeming point in ft is, that our men, though beaten, fought every where with the meet desperate resolution, and had them been firm footing for the merles and naval brigades there can be no doubt that the forte would have been carried; aa it was, their part of the fighting wee a struggle against mud and not ageing Chinamen. Br teem the 26th June and this day we have managed In rescue all the vesotla from under the guns of the batteries adopt the Cormorant, Lee, sod Plover ; they or. utterly destroyed, but the reursiader have been patched up suffi ciently to make them feat. The Heir rel Boated ,out in the most extraordinary manner, end managed to steam out and join the rest of the squadron tut evening, and the Chinese, who kept up a desultory are on our vowels ever sktos the 25th, ere now left in the quiet enjoyment of their vletory. The Atualearia, though they took no part in tpe melon, have beers extremely kind la ablating our wounded, and to various other ways have eterned the good wishes of the whole squadron. LATEST FROM SHANGHAI. The North China Norald of the 16th instant fur nishes the subjoined latest news, conveyed to Hong Kong by the Yang-tze, whiohleft after the Aden : The 11on. P. W. litre sod M. de Bourbonlen, the minis ters of England sod Franca, wit° their suites, have arrived ba likaaghaL The termer la the Coranandal, the latter in the Bachria. The Magicinnes and Ansistanee are gene to an anchorage off Nlzimo, mu Binning Island, where the British squadron will renderer, to recruit the sick and wounded. The Beare arrived yesterday, from the Gulf on the Bth. The radial, in the Chesapeake, was welt ing until the disabled gunboats were ready to accompany Dim to the rendezvous. The Ilfgberr was to Isar on the Bth for Shanghai under sail, where she will take her station again r guardship. The Cruiser sad two gunboats will remain in the Galt. We learn that arrangements had hese toads fee a muting of the American minister, Ur. Ward, and the Governor- General of Chihli, Hang. The meeting was to take place u the Bth inst., at Peb-tang, the northers entrasce to the Psi-ho, about tea mike distant from Taku. _The question of Z2to Pekin, it wee expeoted, would be de..Medon at thu A supply of positions bad blue seat off to the American ships, and it was odd that blatant:lions had been issued by the Empire, to his high Alone, to receive and escort the minister and his suite to the capital, for the exchange of the ratified copies of the treaty. 'I he Russian treaty had already beau exchanged. Horace Rumbold, Esq., and Hone. Le CointeKleczkowskl, secretaries of the British and French legations, proceed by this mail with despatches for their respective govenunente. CAUSES OF THE WAR. On the first arrival of the news at Shanghai the North China Herald, which is referred to by the Hong Kong press as the organ of our diplomacy in China, published the following statement: The Mandarins said that Mr. Bruce would be received at Pekin by going tome roundabout way, but that the river was blocked up by barriers,and no man of war would be allowed to pass. Mr. Bruer, on the other,hand was determined that he would go by the river, and force the passage if neoewry. Of counts the matter now fell into the Admiral's hands, and warlike operations were immediately commenced. An officer with an interpreter was sent to the Chinese, with a message stating that the British plenipotentiary had arrived with the treaty, and u he was proceeding to Pekin to exchange the rati fications, as was customary, he desired that the ob structions in the river might be removed. The Man darin, one of low grade, was insolent in his demea nonr, and said they would not be removed, that indeed he had no force with him. He was told that unless a passage for the expedition was opened in three days, it would be done by our own forces. The officer was not allowed to land, the parley taking plain in a boat. There was no demonstration or ap pearance of any force within the forts. No flags fly ing, as on the former occasion, and all was still, as if they were occupied only by a small force. The gnu were all masked. Subsequently, however, the same journal pub lished the following correction It seems that no mandarins appeared at the months of the river at all. Some of the common people, calling themselves braves, under a leader, and a contractor engaged in fixing the piles and booms which crossed the river, presented themselves, but maintained positively that there were no man darins near the place, and that the works in pro ' puss were undertaken at the expence of the people, I and without any authority fram the government ; also, that their object was the defence of the coast against rebels or pirates, and not hostile hindmost* to us. Indeed the contractor promised to have the way clear for us in two days. We are also glad to be assured that Admiral Hope's appearance at Takes in the first instance was so un mistakeably pacific in character. A solitary mar of-war"s boat carried in his first message. The Fury and two gunboats were left outside the bar; the rest of the squadron was lying thirty miles off at Stably teen, and when the admiral did come in he is stated to have handed a letter requesting that $ market might be opened at the fort, as his ships would remain there until Mr. Braced return from Pekin. There is another error io our last issue; that several letters and messengers passed between Mr. Bruce and the mandarins, who said Mr. Brace would be received at Pekin by some roundabout way, but that the river was blocked tip and no man-of-war would be allowed to pußruce, g. Mr. it appear', received but one communication from the shore, the enntents of which have not transpired. It WWI brought from , the mouth of another stream, not, se far as we can ascertain, a branch of or connected with the river we