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": 2 _<,-_ l "G- -G t. ', , 3 ' 3l -AP E Ft ,- ----____4 _ • = , ... 4 .--,.. 17: - . -- e ; sue ._;= ~-„. ......,,,,.. , e, they came to the large low building 1611Aliel e . .t.: 74 ..,, tree- me : Hen aleoetheedocest gftertes`jil ' - t, ii - ttl na.,h. The surprise was complete. • .The 011tils 'Were, !?t ee,?-; i some sleeping, some cooking, some eamelekny ee , The eii Led,Ce i e military ..Mandarin in command drew hitoreiekeili but ~.pi was tripped up and secured ; a young Tartar tltseitlidead ' Lid matchlock and pointed it at the oapteb, UM * S bee oe.at was at hie breast ari a tricment, - arid leeell. tray e been in it, had not the captei . ii . i twit it, up. All ti• II others were motionless under the iefiaeuce of British bayonets brought to the charge within six inches cf their bodies. For six days the Western-gate had beet open, and exit bad been denied to neitb-r men, nor goods, nor treasure, Surely there could be nothing left to re ward the captor/. How can we strain our minds to comprehend the stolid, stupid confidence of these Chinese officials l The treasury was full of silver, as full probably as it ever was. Fifty-two bores which a man could not singly lift were found, and 63 packets of solid ingots. There was also a storehouse of the most costly Mandarin, fur dresses lined with sables and rare furs, and there was a room full of copper cash, ,N,„ a strange scene occurred. The instructions were to bring away any bullion, but to touch nothing else. Th e ., orders were obeyed with a strange and self-denying fidelity. The soldiers and officers in strict discipline turned their watering eyes away from the rich dresses. Bat how to remove the heavy load of bullior. Crowds had assembled in front, and a happy thought occurred to one of the office rs , " A d o ll ar ' s w ur th of cash to every Csolie who will help to carry the silver to the Enelisk camp." In a moment the crowd dispersed in search of their bamboo-poles, and in another moment there were a thousand volunteer Cantonese contending for the• privi lege of carrying for an enemy their city's treasure. With their stipulated strings of cash around their necks away they trudged with the English soldiers and tke sycee silver. Colonel Graham, who had advanced from the south to the same point, came up in time to direct this operation. When the last British soldier left the treasury the mob poured in like a countless pack of famished wolves. The retiring and self-denying English could hear their yells and shouts as they fought over the fur dresses and other stores that had been left untouched. - Contemporaneously with these operations the French had followed the course of the ramparts to the West-gate and closed it. Leaving a detachment to secure this exit, the main body struck inwards for the lofty poles which mark the site of the Palace of the Tartar General. Here, if anywhere, resistance must be expected. All is hollowness—all is sham ! They had come to force a palatial fortress ; they had found a rank wilderness—colossal courtyards grass-grown and nail dewy ; habitations with space for an Inireihi army, but not safe to the tread of a single soldier; vast empty rotting halls where bats in thousands were clinging to the roofs, and where the floors were inches deep in their ordure. It was not destruction they saw around them, but decay. Upon Peh-kwei's table was found a return zt % !/ - •• • , 7 11i i,„,, , , , , . -, 4. :,... : t . - * A'. , •, , f-f, , re-, - - ___ ..... • • • . - 1-, , „ , , , ,r ; . 4 ' 4 4 ' ; , . .r - . t, - I •S' ' , . e r ) g - - - ....../ , „,,- t, • I, - , ''''''• I."' • - . 4 , 4,, ~ „ "up :. 11 • .- -. d i) , r " Ai r ___ ....—..... _ ... 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JOHN MATHEWSON, Secretary. wall upwards towards the hill, Flelter-skelter, away they went, driving the Tartars do we into the town and before them along the wall, until some hundred yards in front they came upon a new body of the besiegers, who were just accomplishing another escalade. Iprayers for protection. Nothing of the sort occurs. The imperturbable Chinamen go on just as though nothing had happened. We make an imposing military promenade all round their walls, but only crowds of the lowest classes come out and stare at us. The Mandarin soldiers have been driven from the suburb near the landing-place, but have been succeeded by robbers, who despoil the, villagers and resist our officers if they interfere. 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We have received, by Extraordinary Express, papers and correspondence from Canton to Jan. 15, and from Calcutta to Jan. 23. Our Bombay corre spondence has not yet reached us. FROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OP THE " TIMES." CANTON, SATURDAY, JAN. 2. We have now been five days upon the heights and 'walls of the city of Canton, but the plain of chimney-less roofs which lies at our feet is as im pervious as ever. Our lines down this Magazine hill are net very extended, and our quarters are not very luxurious. In the great open joss-house on the top of the hill, colonels, and subalterns, and orderlies, and servants, huddle almost indiscrimi nately. We sleep on the stone floor, wrapeed only in our blankets. We make fires to cook our food in the bronze sacrificial urns ; the servants, who have no blankets, wrap themselves in the dusty altar cloths ; the stores of red votive candles serve to faintly illumine the dingy building, and also to grease our boots ; the table where the offerings were laid is applied to the purposes of the officers' mess ; the Brigade Major has made his office in one corner. The great gilded idol looks down serenely upon his new race of votaries. Fi•rtunately, the roof is unbroken, but the appearance of the neigh bourhood is not one of perfect repair. A 13 inch shell has burst upon the stone-terrace in the imme diate front, and made a crater from which every near-lying thing flew up in fragments. At the back there is a Chinese battery with long guns of curious antiquity, mounds of grape shot, and inconve nient quantities of loose powder ; but this has received so many attentions from those dis tant ships whose square-yards are only just visible here, that we climb about at the risk of dreaking our shins, or bringing down upon our heads a tottering shed. The spot where I hav«,t , sought shelter is the very point to which all our fte.tvy ordnance was directed • for it was the key of the city defences. Against t hese !fortress temples the monster mortars on the Dutch Folly roar, hitherwards the French Phlegethon thew her great conical shells and the guntioeis pointed their 10- inch guns. Downwards many steep wide flights of granite steps descend. Sometimes they are lost to sieht by the roofs of the joss-houses and villas lower down, sometimes they are hidden by the trunks or foliage of the ancient trees. We know nothing yet of what is below, for a pattering fire salutes any one who ventures a few yards away, and the orders are strict not to provoke this, lest we be obliged in returning it to damage the city. We see enough, however, in the upheaved terraces and perforated roofs to tell us that this must have been an unquiet residence on the day and night of the 28th of Dec., and we are not greatly astonished at knowing that the garrison was found much disheartened on the morning of the 29th. But, although we cannot yet walk about leisurely at the foot of Magazine-hill, we can walk the walls, and in another day or two we shall be able to pass without an escort to our ships. Captain Hall is making a new landing-place at the sowith-east point of the city, and it is already loosing so smart and trim that people call it " Hall's-terrace." But this , is quite a new affair. Order is only beginning to reign in our communications. It was quite a different thing when, on the second day after the assault, forced by hunger and by thirst, and by sore bones aching by contact with those joss-house flag stones, I descended from cur heights era the despe rate enterprise of getting up a certain portmanteau and warm wraps, a two-dozen case of sherry, and another case full of preserved meats, all which I bad deposited for safety on board one of her Majesty's ships. This was a more hopeless quest than any ever made after a golden fleece, and as it was successful only after two days' incessant work and watching, it gave me full opportunity of seeing - everything , that was going on, from the landing-pltace to head quarters. Talk of Balaklava, that interesting village in its palmiest days was not such an entanglement of confusion as the lauding-place which formed the terminus of the communication between the army and the ships. The point is where a shallow stream let or drain falls into the river, about a 'mile to the east of the south-eastern corner of tire city wall. Suburban waterside hovels once covered the area upon which the promiscuous crowd is now raging and shouting and pushing and struesgling ; but those hovels are now only heaps of rubly:sh. 20 or 30 ships' boats have their bows against the hard, the Commissariat lore], the General's chop-boat (which in the confusion was once seized upon by a French ship-of-war and taken down Ithe river), several gunboats, and the Coromandel lies off in the river. Packages innumerable, btggages and bales, barrels and cases, munitions of war and munitions for the stomach, are piled about in mountains. Soon after I first saw this scene the thro raging mul titude were hushed, for a strong escor t appeared bringing down the wounded. Many a wan face passed by which we were glad to recogaise, even theugh distorted by pain or flung bate in lassi tude ; for when a man is hit the rumour always spreads that he is killed, and many of them had been already spoken of as de.ail. No thing could be more promptly or more tenderly done than the removal of our wounded. Large hospital ships'-boats, previously fitted to r even a greater emergency, were near at hand • and in those capacious floating houses they w ere all ly placed as swiftly as could be gently done. Then the Babel recommenced ; everybody wanted an esictort, and everybody wanted a troop of Coolies. Oh those patient, lusty, enduring Coolies! It was a valuable legacy which Colonel Wetherell left us, tlt at Cooly Corps. They carried the ammunition on. the day of the assault close up to the rear of our columns, and when a cannon shot took off the head of one o f them the others only cried" Ey yaw !" an d l aug h e d and worked away as merrily as ever. Their co n d uc t has throughout been admirable, and Capt Temple, "the King of the Coolies," deserves credi 't for the manner in which be has handled theme - Well dressed and well fed, wearing the cotton me ;form of a Chinese soldier—except that the Chinese charac tern on the jacket of the Imperial " ping' are re placed by an English number, and that flee. words " Army Train" are written in conspicuous, charac ters round their conical cape—these stout fellows, with their bamboo poles, are at once the crivy and the terror of the Chinese population. "Twe, Coolies and leave to join an e;cors" form the hi ;;hest im mediate earthly aspirations of many an offis :er of no mean rank who is without a change of raim i ant, and who has worked hard for three days and to sted no porter, Other ()More, numerous clam DI '0 such more interested about their men than about their own creature comforts. They are asking for gun boats and troops of Coolies to get their men's kits over from Henan; they might as well invoke Her cules and Neptune. The French are already passing in strong be lies, carrying up their heavy baggage to the front. Ever and anon some gaping Chinamen is urged by curiosity to approach the crowd. Quick as lightning, Johnny Frenchman seizes him by the ear, peps the end of a bamboo pole upon his shoulder, gives him a kick in the rear, and makes him trot off, a pressed porter, amid the jeers of our Commissariat Coolies. When a long pile of baggage carriers has been formed an escort is given, and away they go through the dangerous debris of wracked houses which intervene between the landing-place and the East-gate. Daring this transit of about a mile and a-half the men are fired upon from odd corners, slugs and gingall balls come down from the roofs of those square fortresses, the pawnbrokers' warehouses, and the escort keeps up a constant fusillade in return. The line of march crosses a creek, and tue southern parade-ground, and through a long silent street, and at last reaches Colonel Graham's post at the East-gate, whence forward there is a now safe passage along the city wall, held as this is by constant posts of riflemen, who allow no Chinese head to show itself on the rooftops. In one of these transits, whereof I had occasion to make five in one day, I was near being witness to a bloody battle. As we debouched from the parade-ground a Chinese banner was seen flaunting above the ruins a-head, and a tramp of a large body of men was heard. Quick as lightning, the rifles were at the shoulders of our men, and every revolver was pointed. The officers shouted and struck up the weapons just in time—it turned out to be a body of bluejackets marching down, imprudently demonstrative of their trophies. If I try to paint these SCNISS it is with no idea of imputing blame—for no blame is due. Immedi ately after the taking of a city of a million of inhabi tants we cannot expect the single landing-place to be more orderly than the door of the Opera-house or the Epsom entrance to a railway station. The men had four days' provision in their haversacks, so they did not suffer ; and there were officers of willing energy present trying to gradually mould the chess into order—men who made no difficulties, who app eare d ü bi qu it o us and indefatigable, fertile in expedients, and never out of heart or out of temper. As I sat for hours watching my opportunity to furtively slip my cases among some heap destined for head-quarters, I had full leisure to note how much may be done by indi vidual tact and firmness. During this time Capt. Hall, of the Calcutta, Major Crealock, Deputy- Assistant Quartermaster-General ; Mr. Power, of the Commissariat ; Major Clifford, Assistant Quar termaster-General ; and Captain Temple, " the King of the Coolies," were the presiding genii of order. After I left I doubt not that others of equal vigour succeeded them. But having slipt my last article in among the Government stores I lost my interest in the scene, quietly followed the y by pr t o h p e e c rr o y nlies. Any virtuous convoy till it got to Magazine-frill, and th en inno centlyas having been car riedakem M.P. w h o may hap to be indi gnan t at t hi s ruse off reclaimed by a is must recollect that the Commons of E ng l an d h ave solemnly decided that a Times correspondent shall not draw rations, and shall starve if he cannot forage for himself. My mess that evening had soup an d ph,t e and capital sherry for dinner, while the General was dining on biscuit and tea. There is, however, a lesson to be learnt from this experience. The systeri is still bad. That landing-place scene still proves that a British regi• ment, as now constructed, cannot take the field. The first object and duty of a General is to secure his position. For this he employs in guards or fatigue parties all the men who are returned to him as fit for duty. Every regiment should have attached to it a transport train, not retained for military duty, but under command of the regi mental quarter-master, and confined to the trans port of baggage and provisions. Without this we can never march ten miles inland without renew ing the scenes of the Crimea. Ater the time of which I have been speaking 70 hours cf rain fell. It was an unlooked-for event, but the misery it caused was incalculable. No tents had been brought from the depot on the river, the Coolies were knocked up, and Colonel Lemon's battalion of Marines were in the open nearly all the time. The loss of efficient men by sickness was almost as great as that effected by all the Chinese guns and spears and rockets. MONDAY EVENING. rn a few days we settled down in our new posi tion. "Hall's-terrace" is now complete, and we can walk about in tolerable security and revisit the scenes of Tuesday's struggle. The men are cooking their food upon the walls, and there appears to be great affluence of pork and fowls. Never was an army kept under stricter dis cipline. The eccentricities of the British sailor are held under strong repression by Captain Morrison, the Provost-Marshal, and his assistants ; and if a man is found ten yards in front of the outposts he is flogged incontinently, unless he happen to be a Frenchman. Yet somehow pig is very abundant. " Where did you loot that pig, Jack t" " Loot, Sir, we never loot ; there's an order against looting, and it's pretty strict, as we knows." " But how do you get all these pigs b" " Why, d'ye see, we lights our fires o'nights and I thinks the pigs must all come to the light, and the sentries must take 'em for Chinamen and fire at 'em, for we generally finds two or three with their throats out in the morning." I hope Captain Morrison and the Chinese find this explanation satisfactory. It wa s allg could get. There was also a great quantity of fine carp fry ing and stewing, but these were better accounted for. A Chinese magazine blew up under very sus picious circumstances, dreadfully burning 16 of our men. Another was soon discovered, and the powder was emptied into a tpond adjoining to a joss-house. Many thousands of pounds were thrown into this pond, and a few minutes after many hun dreds of great gasping carp came floundering to the surface. Upon those sacredcarp the irreverent mem bers of the British force are now feasting. About half a mile to the north of the East-gate we come to a part of the wall where the embrasures are knocked down. This was where the men of the 59th and the French, with the English - Engineers and Sappers attached to the French, escaladed. There is a bastion here —a protruding half square tower— and on either side of this the scaling ladders were fixed. The wall rests upon a bank of earth about 20 feet below, and at the foot of this bank runs the wide, shallow ditch. There is 'still a village not greatly damaged on the oilier side. On the mor • f the 'lug e 29th this village was occu pied by the Fre nc h and by some companies of the 59th, which, although forming the covering party, had crept up to the front. Capt. Rotton's guns, ces and four F renc h field-pie under Lieut. de ees se ru Ver lllniot, f rom be • a the village, were bat tering away at the walls, and had knocks f over the parapet for a distance of thirty feet, and the shells and rockets from th e D utch Folly and the ships in the river were from an unseen distance bursting along the whole lino of fortifications. The orders (agreed to by all the chiefs, both Preuch and English) were that the assault should be made at nine o'clock, but the men had been all night in the open ; they were drawn up at daybreak in position and the emula tion between the French and English added to their impatience. However we may despise the Chinese, it required no small amount of courage to continue to crowd those walls, and ply their hidden assailants with guns and gingals and spear rockets, while those shells were bursting over their heads, and those guns were crumbling heir embrasures, and the riflemen were dinging th eir deadly bullets through the loop-holes. Twenty minutes before the appointed time the French advanced, and of course the English could not be kept back. They bad crossed the ditch, and were clustered under the wall before the scaling ladders could be brought up. A dare-devil young Frenchman had taken off his shoes and gaiters, and was trying to work himself ' up the southern angle of the bastion aided by Major Luard, who was , propping him up with the muzzle of the Frenchman s own fitelOCk, when a ladder was placed, and Luard leaping 11 1 3 011 it stood first upon the wall. He was followed by a Frenchman, the bandmaster of the 59th, and Col. Hope Graham. At the same instant of time Stuart, of the Engineers, was balancing in air upon a breaking ladder at the north side of the bastion ; but, although he sprang to another and got upon that, I believe that two or three Frenchmen springing to the wall from the breaking ladder got up before him. Let me men tion, also, Corporal Perkins and Daniel Donovan, both volunteer Sappers, who held their place well among the French assailants, and were among the first over the wall. Meanwhile, the Chinese had been tumbiing down all sorts of but when the allies were once upon the wall the great body of them retired. They poured down into the city and fired from the streets, they dodged behind the build ings on the rampart', and aimed their cumbrous matchlocks from behind them. A few single en counters took place, and a Lu rd's revolver disposed the general m o ve was to fire of one lingerer, but eight itud left, Awl li t urY to the right to sweeP the We have followed their path thus far. Here let us pause and contemplate. At a broken embrasure about 200 yards south of the North-east gate, close by a battered shed, where Commodore Elliot now finds scanty shelter, a scaling ladder yet stands. You can reckon the height of the wall by the rounds of the ladder—it is 20 feet. The legs of the ladder rest upon a bank of earth at the wall. At the base of this bank lies the wide ditch, perhaps 40 yards in breadth. The bottom is covered with patches of water-loving vegetables, except in the middle, through which a muddy streamlet ripples. Look up the broken and shelving bank of red earth on the other side, and you see an enormous tree, which almost hides a village behind its branches. Further to the left, and separated from the village and the tree by a wide footway, is a white mud built cottage, its blank gable-end turned towards us. Pei hips it is distant 100 yards from this em brasure. It stands in a patch of vegetables, and 12 yards distant from the ditch. There is a low earthen fence and bunches of high reeds, which must prevent your seeing from this cottage down into the ditch. That bunch of reeds is the scene of poor Bate's death. This broken embrasure is where the bluejackets and the Marines scaled the wail. In that cottage in early morning of the 29th the chiefs of the British force were assembled—the Admiral, the General, and the member' of their staff. On the overhanging hill just beyond, by no means out of fire, but out of the fury of the fire, were some troops and divers lookers-on. Among others might be noticed Mr. Oliphant, Lord Elgin's private secretary, who with other amateurs was sometimes intrusted with messages from the Gene ral, which brought him into dangerous proximity with round shot and rockets. As to the white cottage, where the chiefs found refuge, five large holes made by round shot still show the attention it received. A storm of balls and rockets from the wall hurtled all round this spot, and no one could cross the footway to the tree and the village without imminent danger. It was neces sary, however, that some one should cross that open patch of vegetables, and look down into the ditch to see where the beat point for placing the ladders would be. Captain Bate at once volun teered to go, and Captain Mann, of the Engineers, accompanied him. Bate was one of the most scientific of our naval surveying service, a right good officer, and a popular commander. He was, moreover, an eminently religions man. "My pluck," as I heard a (very gallant officer say some weeks before this event, " is quite a different thing from Bate's. Igo ahead because I never think of danger; Bate is always ready for a desperate service because he is always prepared for death." Bate had run across the open patch, and was look ing down into the ditch, when a shot traversed his body. Dr. Andersen, who saw him fall, rushed out through a fire from which some who saw it feared he would not return, and a seaman, I think Bate's own coxswain, accompanied him, but the striken man never spake. Meanwhile a gun had been brought to bear from behind a house in the village, and it was worked by Major Crealoch, and Major Clifford, and Cohn Campbell, of the Opossum, and the other members of the Staff. Captains Blake and Cooke had brought up their Marines and kept up a fire at the embra sures. How hot the fire was may be judged from this, that Captain Blake out of his half-company, firing from under cover, had one man killed and six wounded in a few minutes. When the fire was a little quelled the scaling ladders were advanced, and of the blue jackets Commander Fellowea stood first upon the wall—just in time to meet the party which was advancing after their success ful escalade to the south. Others came tumbling up, and we may be sure that the Admiral and the General were not far behind. Commodore Elliot was well in front. The hurrah was now along the wall to the height, as I described it in my former letter, and the pace was tremen dous. There were several hand-to-hand encounters, and it is said that even the General had to use his revolver to disembarrass himself of a pertinacious Tartar. However, they ran, and rallied only at distant points and for short conflicts, until they were obliged to form and attack the Magazine-bill with more deliberation. Lieut. Davison, of the Furious, had the satisfaction of firing the first Chi nese gun from the battery on Magazine hill. It was about this time that the flank fire from the streets grew hottest, and that Lord Gifford and, I think, poor Bowen and several others were hit. This escalade was accomplished under the fire of our own ships. Some men were wounded by our shell, one Frenchman was killed, and Captain Bush was twice obliged to halt his company because the line of our own fire was across their path. The loss would have been greater had not Major Sohom berg, from his crow's-nest on the Dutch Folly, seen our men on the walls and discontinued the mortar and rocket firing. It was, however, not the fault of the ships, but the impatience of the assault ing party, which caused this untoward mistake. The ships ceased firing at the appointed hour. General Straubenzee was hardly upon the wall before he was obliged to leave it. An army of Chinese, just about the time of the assault, had issued from the north of the city, and came forth int o the open country—bare, undulating moors, like the come try between Buxton and Sheffield—waving their banners and beating their tom-toms and brandish ing their shields, and, drilled to advance or halt or wheel according to signals made by flags, they ad vanced threatenin g t h e fl an k an d rear o f assail ants. But C o l one l H o ll oway , w ith hi s b r i ga d e o f Marines, h a d b een s t a ti one d t o th e nor th- wes t o f Lin's Fo r t expressly to meet this very probable emergency. Covered by the inequalities of the ground and by the graves, the Tartars came on in excellent skirmishing order, and many of them exhibited great individual bravery. The fire was so hot that Col. Holloway's adjutant was shot by his side, and a few minutes after the colonel him self was shot in the knee. The wound did not, however, drive him from the field. His presence and energy were required to prevent his men from rushing in upon the scattered foe, who were firing from under cover. The Tartars had already been driven o u t o f a li t tl e v ill age an d a sma ll woo d w hi c h they had occup i e d i n f orce, an d the M ar i nes were pressing f orwar d t o convert t h e i r retreat i n t o a flight, when successive messages came from the general to recall his men. This command has been much criticised. It was difficult to obey, and had it had dot been given the defeat of this body of the enemy would have been more disastrous to them, but not, perhaps, without some loss to ourselves. Straubenzee's acknowledged tactics have been throughout not to expend men against such a foe. The general was acting up to his system, but the Marines grumbled furiously and growl still. The men had thrown off their knapsacks in the heat of the fire, and when they were recalled Col. Hollo way and his Aide-de-Camp (Capt. Ellis), assisted by a few others, were obliged to remain in front and bring them in, while the men were almost frantic at being withdrawn. There are many episodes of this siege which I should like to tell, were I sure that the English public would care to road them. I must, however, rectify one error I made in my hasty sketch written while the conflict was still going on. Although it was upon the testimony of my own eyes that I stated that at the same moment the English and French colours were waved from different embrasures of Lie's Fort, I now find that the French were in first. It is not of much consequence, for the Chi nese were out before either party entered. How ever, let our brave and agile allies have honour due. Our loss in killed and wounded during this short siege does not amount to more than 96 English and 34 French, and of these the wounds are under the average severity. The surgeons say that this is to be accounted for by the want of propulsive power in the Chinese weapons. When the Minie ball would have crushed the bone, the Chinese bullet glanced, and lost its energy among the surface tissues. When we consider the mass of missiles flying about for so many hours, and when we hearof the narrow escap es which almos ' t every individual of the force employed had, the number of men hit seems miraculously small. Let us not, however, undervalue the courage of our Chinese enemy. They have no knowledge of the military art. The commonplaces of attack and about defence, which every tyro subaltern knows, are astonishing pieces of strategy which surprise and confound them—their weapons, terrible as they are among themselves, and field pieces, and mortar batteries, with shells such odds of t againstt e t u s nighto s u k r w, rifles he ow 1 on S d e a P y °s7 twoul d hat fall ll an Europeand troops are k i e s n t e m a ffi n i mines. againstinefficient discipline, and strategy, and weapons ? Depend upon it the Chinese have the stuff in them whereof good soldiers may be made, and this is a fact which should not be neglected when we are casting u i t e n s t d e a fory nightour vanished until army. for F a ro B m ub T re mained in position upon the hei 1 g its and walls, waiting, apparently,that the city,-n ow at our mercy, should C 04443 to 41,Xitil 9ii . CTI Of Flublaisaion ancV On Friday Lord Elgin and Baron Gros came up to camp, and sat upon the roof of the Chinese bat tery on Magazine-hill to see the forts bloW up. . let was worth the trouble of getting up the hill to see that sight. When the spectators took their seats both the forts were full of men. The French, who, having no Engineers of their own, were directed by Captain Stuart, took Bluejacket Fort, and Gough Fort was mined by the senior Engineer officer, Captain Mann. When the app Intel time had come and passed—for nothing is done here at the appointed hour—a rocket went up, the men hurried out, and the old solid stone buildings stood intact in their loneliness. They never looked R o interesting as during the ton minutes which suc ceeded the rockets. Seated at only 500 yards' dis tance you could just see a small glimmering slow match burning down. Thou came a succession of loud, sharp, cracking, shivering explosions, throw ing fragments high in air and frightening, but not killing, a kite at the moment hovering over Fort Gough. There wore at least 20 successive explo sions at the larger fort. When the smoke cleared a thousand years seemed to have passed in a few seconds. The square substantial fortification was a picturesque ruin such as we see at Caernarvon or Drachenfells. It was intended that the two forts should go up together, but the French were ready first, and the spectators were tired of waiting, so the drama was divided into two parts. People still ask, not what Ice are going to do next, but what the Chinese are going to do These curious, stolid, imperturbable people seem deter mined simply to ignore our presence here, and to wait till we aro pleased to go away. Yeh lives much as usual. He cut off 400 Chinese heads the other mornin and stuck them up in the south of the city. Our leaders seem to be puzzled by the tenacious, childlike, helpless obstinacy—the passive resistance of their enemy. When petitioners come up to complain of some plundering straggler there is a buzz of expectation in the camp. Mr. Parkes and Mr. Wade, the iutercre'ers, who by reason of the general ignorance of the language, are become masters of the position, are looked to with ludi craus anxiety. There is an evident hope that the gentleman with the tail is a mandarin with an offer of submission. I sometimes think that these oracles deliver rather apocryphal responses as to the manners and customs of modern Chinamen, but they certainly work like horses ; and, as our leaders must lean upon external aid, it is well they have men of so much pluck and energy at hand. It is, however, an evil--one of the many evils unavoidable in China, that the responsible men cannot form their own judgments and directly superintend their own mea sures. TMCSDAY, JAN. 5. At length, after a week's pause, we have made a move—and a decisive move. At half-past 7 o'clock the troops entered the city, and before 10 we had captured the Lieutenant-Governor, the Tartar General, the Treasury, 52 boxes of dollars, and 68 packages of syce, and, lastly, the great Yeh himself. It will take me longer to recount how all this happened than it took the troops to accomplish it. Last among the tiers of temples which cover the Magazine-hill stands the only house in Canton city which an English gentleman would think inhabitable. All the rest are huge, dusty, ruinous, dilapidated shams. It is called Yeh's House, and was yet un finished when the city was taken. The lattice work is new, the paper which does duty for glass is unbroken, the grotesque decorations are fresh, and the whole place is clean. From the tarace of this house you have the best and nearest view of the city. You look up one narrow street running southwards, and you catch glimpses of two others passing in the same direction ; and can for a short distance trace the walls to the right and to the left, and you can see far out in the body of the city a line of high Mandarin vies. These poles denote the residences of the great public officers, and, as our maps tell us, they open upon the " Street of Benevolence and Love "—a principal street of Canton, which crosses at right angles the three streets we look up from this terrace. At half-past 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning, while the rain was still falling, we could see from the terrace three columns of English redcoats penetrating into the city down these three narrow streets, while a detachment of 400 French blue-jackets, with two guns, were advancing along the wall to our right. They are all soon lost to sight, and we must descend and follow if we would see more. There is heavy firing on our left, and, of course, we hurry there first. It is only Col. Lemon's men discharging their rifiee. Let ua speed away to see what the General's party are doing. They meet with no resistance, except from the intricacy of the streets. But they have lost their way, overshot their mark, and in the labyrinth of narrow ways cannot find the yamun they are in quest of. Colonel Holloway's detachment of four compaures are more successful. They have marched rapidly down the street in which we saw them, and they have paused for a few moments before a closed gateway. It is only a passive resistance. The pioneers with a few blows of their axes open a way through this obstruction, as they do through a barricade which is erected a little beyond, bat is not manned. The people look on from their doors and the Coolies carry water buckets to and fro iu the rear of the troops, justas though nothing uncommon were pass ng. Now the troops arrive at the cross-road where one street strikes the Street of Benevolence and Love—a fine broad avenue in the map a hovel-crowded alley ten feet wide in reality. Here Colonel Holloway detaches Captain Parke with two companies to the left, with instructions to advance and seize the treasury, while he leads the rest of his men round to the right. A hundred paces bring him in front of the yamun of Peh-kwei, the Governor of the city and province. Like the front of all Chinese yamene, it is a dismal square, with a wall on one side, whereon a gigan tic beast is painted. The vast doors of theyamun, whereon two great figures like Gog and Magog are daubed, freat this monstrous effigy. This is the place indicated in the Colonel's instructions. " Quick" is the word. A rush from the pioneers and the unbarred doors move open with unexpected ease. "Front form," cries the Colonel, and in a moment the redcoats are four abreast and ad vanotng at the dote le up a broad granite paved causeway in the middle of an immense courtyard—trees and shrubs on either side the causeway, low buildings forming the right and left sides, and a huge barn-shaped pavilion closing the square in front. In obedience to a few words and a few gestures sentries are thrown out, and while the main body is yet hurrying on every spot is guarded. A few Chinese guards, with pikes and matchlocks, are disarmed and huddled together in the front guardhouse, and the pavilion is gained, hastily searched, and passed through. Another courtyard like the former now ap pears—more granite terraces and causeways, moro trees and shrubs—more lateral low buildings, and another big dingy pavilion in front. This is treated just as the forerer was, but nothing is seen but miserable g uards stupefied by surprise and swarming domestics. A vast 0 . TO habitable ; the paint dilapidated hall, and still another pavilion beyond. The lateral houses appear a little 60 is not so entirely rubbed off , tixhoepear.ppeortasaashneds faurrennitontrse: broken—there are porcelain a p n av d il a in r n tic ia les a b ef all Ch inese of au d e / n u: e a , lying rude but This thin d . annbodutdirty, . which an English rocket had nd left, leading evidently posing. There is a fracturedinforthneedtilietad w ro a o y f . , through e are curtained portieres rigbt a t, the " stone ed floor withs " and the muskets to private apartmdenest Lind anon a ring which makes the old shed echo. At this mo ment one of the portiere." is raised, and an old man, dressed in the ordinary blue Chinese dress, but we aring a Mandarin's cap with a red b u tt on , a ppears in the doorwry. He has a black moustache, a quick eye, and more intelligence in his face than you usaally see in China, and he seems is say, as plainly as gestures can speak, " What can all this dis quietude be about I" Every one felt that this could be no other than Peh-kwei. Col. Holloway put his hand upon his shoulder, led him gently back into his apart ment, seated him in a chair, and put &guard round him. The old gentleman was quietly at breakfast when the English Marines burst ias. A. few moments' delay occurred while a Chinese interpreter was got up, and the Governor, seeirg be was in no immediate danger, recovered a composure which he had never lost the power of assuming. He was asked for his seals of °Eta and his papers. It was very unfortunate, lyit he had that morning mi!laid his eyes. " Tell him," said Col. Holloway, " not to trouble self, fcr I have a master key;";and at a sign a tall pioneer with his axe made his appearance. The Governor took up a napkin, and the lost keys were accidentally found to have been underneath it. E s Meanwhile, C a pt a i n Pa r k e an d hi s d e t ac h men t ha . been equally fortunate. Turning to the left, and ceotiirg down the" Street of J3enevolenoe mud . . from the Tsrtar General, saying that he bad 7,000 Tartar troops under his command. Where were they ! Certainly they were not, and had not for many years been, in this yamun. It is the custom to let Chinese soldiers live at their own homes, but surely they might be expected to be called in and posted in guard when an enemy had occupied all the fortifications. Yet the evidence afforded by the place itself is indisputable. The Tartar General must have lived here almost alone. A hundred men would have trodden down this rank grass, and dispossessed these horrible clustering bats. A few days after this event I pa,sed two hours in this yamun in the company of several English and French officers, who came to allot it for quarters. After close inspection they came to the conclusion that there were only two rooms fit for the dwelling of a civilized man. From one of these the French chased the Tartar General, and they took him in a closet close by. We must now go back to the general starting point, and accompany the chase after Yeh. Mr. Consul Parkes, who was attached as interpreter to Colonel Holloway's patty, arrived too late, and was without an escort. While he was deploring his ill-luck he met with Commodore Elliot, who, fired by Mr. Parkes telling that him that be had some information as to Yeh's lurking-place, agreed, Noon his own responsi bility, to accompany him with 100 blue-jackets. Mr. Parkes expected to find Yeh at the Imperial library, but upon arriving at that high-tilted edifice he found only a great empty house. Having ransacked every corner, they were coming away disgusted when Mr. Parkes put his foot against a closed door. It gave way, and a Chinaman was seen inside the closet diligently studying one of the sacred books. Where was Yeh ? How should the Chinaman know ? He knew nothing of Yeh—he was only a poor student. Drawn from his hiding-placa and submitted to a sharp interrogatory, he confessed, bit by bit, tbat Yeh had been there, but had left some days before. At last he even thought he knew where ho was—nearly three miles off, somewhere at the south-west corner of the city, in a small yamun of one of the Lieutenant-Governors, Taking this "student" along with them, the party now proceeded to the Go vernor's yamun. The Governor was by this time in custody of Colonel Holloway, and the Admiral and the General had arrived there. An examination took place, and the Governor, after some admonition, admitted that he also knew Yeh's retreat, and named the same place which the student had named. He was made to send a second guide, and the two Chinamen were placed in front of the bluejackets. These unwilling guides, as they were urged along at a gallop through the narrow streets of the Tartar city, did not cease to shout to the crowds which ran together, " Good people, go about your affairs. These gentlemen have just had an interview with Peh-kwei, and they are now going to have another interview Yeh." " Very well," said the crowd, habitually deferential to the cap of the • Mandarin. As they got deeper and deeper into the maze of streets some of the officers seemed to think they were doing an imprudent thing. "If the worst comes to the worst," said Captain Key, "we know the direc tion cf these walls by this compass and can find our way to them so on they went. The longest chase must have an end. At last the guides called a holt at the door of a third-rate yamun, which appeared closed and deserted . The doors were forced open and the blue jackets were all over the place in a moment. It was evident that they were now cn the right scent. The place was full of hastily-packed baggage. Mandarins were running about yes, running about; and at last one came forward and delivered himself up as Yeh. But he was not fat enough. Parkes pushed him aside, and hurrying on, they at last spied a very fat man contemplating the achievement of getting over the wall at the extreme rear of the yamun. Captain Key and Commodore Eli ot's coxswain rushed forward. Key took the fat gentleman round the waist, and the coxswain twisted the august tail of the Imperial commissioner round his fi=t. There was no mistake now,—this was the veritable Yeh. In stinctively the blue-jackets felt it must be Yeh, and they tossed up their hats and gave three rattling cheers. Yeh is by no means the hero people thought him. He trembled violently when he was taken : he strenuously denied his identity ; and it was not till Mr. Parkes had several times had the satisfaction and triumph of assuring his old enemy of his personal safety that he grew composed. As soon, however, as ha felt himself safe all his arrogance returned. He posed himself mag nificently in Lis chair. He laughed at the idea of giving up his seals, and also at the idea of his being led away. He would wait there to receive the men Elgin and Gros. They searched all his packages for papers, and th rs e tc o e r , ig a in n a d l A ra m ti e fi r c ic a a tt ; on t s he o y were, of unimportant three documents hours. be The thefu found t m i withe7g other things England, F intimated, This toosearchlasted Inews of the capture bad been sent to head-quarters ; w sent e as to h Pekin. e Colonel Rocker was despatched with a strong body of Marines, and Yeh again trembled as he entered his chair as a captive. At the foot of the terrace, before the great joss -house on Magazine hill, off-setting from the broad steps, is a collegiate quadrangle. Here the dons of the ecclesias tical institution clustered. Some small cellular apart mute, opening inwards towards the hill, were doubtless the private abodes of the bonzes ; two large rooms, whose windows look over the city, were the hall and senior common room. This quadrangle is a little changed in its uses. It is become the British head-quarters. The Admiral and General have appropriated the hall and common room, and the Staff are contriving possibilities of residence in the cells. The servants have utilised the small area—a dozen Crimean shirts are there hanging to dry A . bout twelve o'clock on Tuesday the colonnade of this small quadrangle was loosely thronged by post captains and colonels and smaller barbarian mandarins. The news that the city bad been dragged and all the big fish taken had spread. Every one was anxious to see the prisoners brought in. First marched Peh-kwei, whom I have alre a dy do irnollbinuglk, came step, the Tartar almost gigantic F in Cri s b General. As he passed c:oso by me I mea sure d hi m by stature, ur e and , after and immense him, with myself; he must be quite six feet four high. They were ushered into a small room at the end of the colonnade, where the General and the two Admirals were assembled. The two mandarins took their seats as though they bad come of their free will to pay an ordinary visit. The Tartar General, with his head thrown back so that you saw only the inside of the brim of his Tartar cap, looked not unlike our own Eighth Harry as Holbein shows him. There is great show of dignity and courage that martial Tartar, but he is only a type and specimen of the great Imperial sham of which he forms part. He is an empty imposture. During th e fi g h t he never appeared upon the wall, After the fight he did nothing to gather his 7,000 men around him. When the French came he made no defence, but ran from room to room, and was dragged from a filthy closet. If he had been taken by Tai-pings instead of Europeans he would be howling at their feet. Knowing himself personally safe, he swells himself and tries to look majestic. He believes ho haft.° do with men more superstitiously obsequious to Qhinese rank than the Coolies of Canton are, so he tries to awe them by his presence. Perhaps he is right. There is too much of this nonsense. The interpreters catch this mania of Mandarin -worship from their teachers and their Chinese books, and our leaders—predisposed by the truly English deference for high-sounding titles—catch the infectious folly from the interpreters. What shall be done with these men I " Send them both aboard ship," advises one interpreter; "Send them back to resume their functions and to save the city from pillage," advises the other. Lord Elgin is consulted, and has the boldness to believe that the general principlesb y p ofsper human nature are not to be extinguished, Let them lanterns and peacocks feathers. He advises i re. establish both return under conditions. Let Peh-kwe operation. with his court under the authority of and in co return under an European tribunal. Let Tseaerkau" • • troopS and delivering up conditions of disbanding his they couldn't do it ; con• their arms." "Impossible; &c. Try." The trial trary to all Chinese prece dent, nt Mandarins laugh loudly at and the iDdlgna Left together for a night to is made, t egeetion. the iraPudeu- 6"- consider the matter, they are found in the morning like " pricked wind b a g s , ready to surrender their ihiatioi -~a;;~