The Press. — London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

AUGUST 6, 1853 When Tsin obtained the empire He was infatuated with the genii; And the nation has been deluded by the devil, For the last two thousand years. Ming (3), of the Han dynasty, Welcomed the institutions of Buddha, AM set up tables and monasteries, To the great injury of the country. But Hwuy, of the Sung dynasty, Was still more mad and infatuated, For he changed the name of Shang to (God) Into that of Yuli hwang ( the pearly emperor ). (4) But the great God Is the supreme Lord Over all the world, The great Father in heaven. His name is moat honourable, To be handed down through distant ages. Who was this Hwny, That he dared to alter it' It was meet that this same Hwuy Should be taken by the Tartars ; And together with his son Perish in the northern desert. From Hwuy, of the Sung dynasty, Up to the present day, For these seven hundredl years. Men have sunk deeper and deeper in error. With the doctrine of God They have not been acquainted; While the King of Hades Has deluded them to the utmost. The great God displays Liberality deep as the sea ; But the devil has injured man In a most outrageous manner. God is therefore displeased, And has sent his son (S) With orders to come down into the world, Having first studied the classics. In the Ting-yew year (1837 ) He was received up into heaven, Where the affairs of heaven Were clearly pointed out to nim. The great God Personally instructed him, Gave him odes and documents, And communicated to him the true doctrine. God also gave him a seal, And conferred upon him a sword, Connected with authority, And majesty irresistible. He bade him, together with the elder brother, Namely, Jesus, To drive away impish fiends, With the co-operation of angels. • • r The power, acts, and attributes of the new deliverer under the name of the Son are then described, the details being mixed up with some traces of Popish saintly legends.] God bas set up his Son To endure for ever, To defeat corrupt machinations, judge And to dis p lay majesty and authority. Also to the world, To divide t he righteous from the wicked ; And consign them to the misery of hell, Or bestow on them the joys of heaven. Heaven manages everything, Heaven sustains the whole: Let all beneath the sky Come and acknowledge the new monarch. Little children, Worship God, Keep his commandments, And do not disobey. Let your minds be refined, And be not depraved ; The great God Constantly surveys you. You must refine yourselves well, And not be depraved. Vice willingly practised Is the find step to misery. To ensure a good end, You must make a good beginning; An error of a hair's breadth May lead to a discrepancy of 1,000 le. Be careful about little things, And watch the minute springs of action ; The great God Is not to be deceived. Little children, Arouse your energies : The laws of high Heaven Admit not of infraction. Upon the good blessings descend, And miserieson the wicked : Those who obey Heaven are preserved, And those who disobey perish. • • • The great God Is the Father of our spirits : Those who devoutly serve him Will obtain blessings. Those who obey the fathers of their flesh Will enjoy longevity ; Those who requite their parents Will certainly obtain happiness. Do not practise lewdness, Nor any uncleanness ; Do not tell lies ; Do not kill and slay; Do not steal ; (31 a.n. ss. (4 A.D. 1107. (5 By God's Soo is meant Hustemtsetite, the leader of the Insurrection. THE PRESS. Do not covet ; The great God Will strictly carry out his laws. Those who obey Heaven's commands Will enjoy celestial happiness ; Those who are grateffil for Divine favours Will receive Divine support. Heaven blesses the good, And curses the bad ; Little children, Maintain correct conduct. The correct are men. The corrupt are inn's. Little children, Seek to avoid disgrace. God loves the upright, And he hates the vicious : Little children, De careful to avoid error. 'The great God Sees everything. If you wish to enjoy happiness, Refine and correct yourselves. THE AZTECS. TO THE EDITOR OE " THE PREPS." Hanover-scram Rooms, Aug. 4, 1859. Sir,—We (the guardians of the Aztec Illiputians) are anxious to correct some mistatements which occur in the letter of " A Traveller " in your impres sion of last week. "A Traveller," in his critique as to the Aztec chil dren, characterises them as a "got-up trick," and infers that they are therefore unworthy of public patronage, in reply to which we would quote from a published letter of Professor Owen, who examined the little beings most minutely at their private residence. Mr. Owen says—" They are objects of peculiar in terest to the physiologist and naturalist," and that they have " a character of peculiar singularity which cannot fail to surprise and gratify all beholders." It has been our object from the first to satisfy the public mind that they are no impostures, by submit ting them to the examination of all t he scientific men of the metropolis, and by taking them before the Ethnological and other learned societies, by whom they have been regarded with the gravest attention. Your correspondent declares it to be im possible to guess either their sex or age ; but while the sex of each is easily discernible when the spec tator surmounts the difficulty of their peculiar dress, their age has been determined with comparative ease by every physiologist who has examined them. "A Traveller" next asserts that the head of either is "smaller than that of a new-born baby." Now, the smaller head of the two is as large as that of a Euro pean child one month old. And, as to the statement which lie makes of the face protruding " like that of a negro or a monkey," and it being difficult to con jecture " whether they belong to human beings, or to some new species of baboon," it is one of their most remarkable anatomical peculiarities that the lower jaw does not project like that of the negro, but recedes most markedly so as to form a second facial angle at the lower part of the face. And, with reference to their being suggestive of a new species of baboon, Professor Owen, in the letter above referred to, dis tinctly says—" These children manifest no charac teristics which ally them more closely than other human beings to the brute creation." Your corre spondent declares their appearance to be disgusting. This we can assure you is not the opinion of the majority of visitors, as you may convince yourself by visiting the room. On the contrary, it is one of our greatest difficulties to keep them from being mal treated in the vigorous efforts of our visitors to obtain the favour of an Aztec kiss. We would also submit that when taken to the Palace her Majesty remained an hour with them, and that they obtained special approbation from Prince Albert, whose artistic taste did not appear to be offended by their presence. With regard to the story of their discovery by Velasquez, to which " A Traveller" refuses his cre dence, it is given as we received it. From Velasquez we obtained both the children and the story. Throw aside the story and we have nothing to tell you about the children. Nor, indeed, does anybody else seem able to assist us in such a dilemma, or to tell us whence the children came or what their history. When we are provided with such information wo shall he very happy to impart it. As it is, Velasquez is our only "guide, philosopher, and friend." Your correspondent calls in question that part of his story which can be most easily substantiated. We mean the existence of the mysterious city. He can believe in a village, but will not accept a whole city, while he finds the fact of its existence corroborated, not by Stephens only, but by Bernal Diaz, by Gage, by Judge Kennedy in the Literary Gazette of July 16, and by any one who has been to Belize and talked with the Indians there. We are disposed to believe that your correspondent would not willingly have made a mihtatement to our injury, and that he will not consider our reply to him criticism to be impertinent, while we rely upon your murtesy for its insertion.—We are, air, your obedient servants, Josarn Moms. Jogs HUM ANDZIIO2I. THE CAMP AT CHOBITAM. THE past has been a busy week at the camp. Wed nesday was the only day of rest, if such it could be called when the troops, released from active ma nteuvrings, were busily occupied in preparing for the operations which her Majesty was to witness on the following morning. Saturday and Monday were devoted to held evolutions, the particular hypothesis on which they were conducted being that of a re treat, accomplished in the presence of a superior and advancing foe, whose numbers and success, however, did not prevent the army from retiring in a most orderly manner, with frequent brilliant onslaughts upon their antagonists as occasions offered, and ulti mately gaining the entrenchments, where the enemy knew better than to attack them. On Tuesday there was a fierce and prolonged assault upon the cantonments, whence, at. the end, the enemy were repulsed with great slaughter. Thursday witnessed the restoration of its early glories to the heath by the presence of the Queen, and some thousand visitors. Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Crown Prince of Wurtem berg also accompanied her Majesty to the camp. The ma n oeuvres appointed for the day, moreover, presented some novelties in the char of attacks upon entrenchments, field works, de., in which the British army, as represented at Chobham, had not hitherto been exercised. A number of men had been employed during the precious afternoon in throwing up an entrenchment on • hill opposite the royal pavilion. Upon this a grand series of attacks were directed, and it was generally supposed that the in tention was to storm it and blow it up—(the electric wires for this latter operat . being on the field) — but the works not being quite completed this part of the performance did not take place, the whole of the manoeuvres of the day resolving themselves into a series of very brilliant advances under cover of artil. lery, and as rapid retreats under protection of cavalry, the latter force making a most gallant display, thanks to the indefatigable energy of the Duke of Cambridge, who, on one occasion, led the whole body of horse, thundering in full charge, up the opposite hill, as if, like another Murat, lie would have taken the battery at a gallop. The conibination of the Royal Horse Guards Blue and the Scots Greys in one charge had a remarkably fine effect. The manieuvres of a short and brilliant field-day— a kind of pike de eireonidance invented for the occa sion, to show the points of strategy in a little time and within a small space—being concluded, the troops defiled before her Majesty. The Queen exhibited great interest, anti replied with much ani mation to numerous questions put to her by the young Princes. At half-past two her Majesty remounted her charger and proceeded along the lines of the Guards' encampment to the royal tent on Magnet-hill, where luncheon was prepared. After due refreshment the Royal party walked to the spot where the bands of the several regiments in camp were all assembled together, a group of Highland pipers standing at a short distance. lly her Majesty's suggestion the collected bands now performed in concert a selection of favourite pieces. Her Majesty then quitted the camp amidst reiterated cheers from the soldiers and spectators. Previous to leaving the ground Prince Albert shook hands with Lord Seaton, and expressed the high satisfaction of her Majesty and himself at the appearance of the troops, and the skilful manner in which the various man o euvres of the day had been conducted. It is stated that the encampment will be broken up finally on the 25th inst.; and it is also rumoured that on the pith Lord Seaton will resign the command of the troops to the I►uke of Cambridge. FROM THE LONDON UAZETTE. Toads'', .4uriat 2. BANKRUPTCIES ANNUl.l.Ell—Wil.i.ttr Eannantrit Do. viovtn,Oxford•street, poult..rer—WlLLlAN LOWCOCK, IJY.YIIOOI, bUtellor, BANKRUPTS—Tnorsa Il . Bedford. earpentar—Tuo• IlAn I . tn e1e.1.1., I‘YeAIIe.OOKOPPA, (Ur, CoMlllirmion Agent—ELIJAH MAY, Edltwere•road, straw hat warrhoneetnan—KArt Ilvaaa, St. Thomas the Apositls. Devonshire, dealer ht marine atorevr-• Jamas SCOTT, niirtlield, Yorkshire, innkeeper—Tnorta JAR. MN?, Liverpool, stone marI—ICANPRON JOIIII ETToN, and MANTA J sAI Y. 1.114 COOKS, Newenstle•upon•Tyne, merchants. SCOTCII SEQUESTRATIONS—Titoism; lizahanolow. of Glasgow, tailor—WM. PATERPON, of (1111110 W, On•plate worker. Friday, August 5. DANKRUPTCII O .I4 ANNUI.I J C nanum PA RKINSON BENJAMIN Lam, London, muster mariner—WiLuks and. Manchenter, fustian msnufneturer. HA SK RUPTI4-11srtur JAMPA Wittra, Waterloo•road, straw bonnet dealer—F. J. ',sons id. and .1. W. FAtact.ovoM, 11.1verpoo). comb mantitarturen4 ERA NCI% lIIAVIC and 011:011011 Wittman, Bury, milk dyers—Wturam ?Lyn:welt Coasarr Worcester, linen and woollen draper—Wit.t.tras TELLatio, Kale. ford, m o w : ewe, baker..-Treowss DARK, BliSlid, contractor and builder. (We are omnpelled to postpone the War-office notice' from last night's Gaunt.) A .S