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GERMAN REED'S NEW ENTERTAINMENT.—The New Series of Illustrations by Mr. and 'Mrs. REED (late Miss P. DORTON), will be repeated eery evening except Saturday, at 8. Saturday Afternoon at 3. .umission Is., 25., and 3s. ; -tails. secured, without extra charge, at the Royal gallery of Illustration, 14. Regent-street, and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. VHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall. TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOURTH ENTERTAIN MENT.—Change of Programme, introducing Burlesque on the Circa.--- sr cod , Patrons of the Christy's having been unable to gain admission owing to tho limited numbers of Stalls, they have now introduced an extra row, which will afford more comforts to their Ocurierons patrons.—Evening at 8, and on Saturday Morning, C ommencing at 3. Prices—Boxes, 11 . Is.; Stalls, 35.; Area, 2s. ; Hack, IL • DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL AND rit.TnoLoaTcAL MUSEUM, 3, TICHBORNE -STREET (Opposite the Haymarket). LICTUREB daily by DR. 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HOWES and CUSHING, Proprietors.—SlXTH eilt R—Unprecedented Success — First week of the S p rites of the ver Shower—The largest Equestrian Establishment in the World, n umbering over Two Hundred Men and Horses, is NOW OPEN for S▪ hort Season, at the ALHAMBRA PALACE,, Leicester-square, Two Performances each day, commencing at half-past Two, and a quarter to Eight o'Clock. p.m. .fe In consequence of the immen se attendance at the evenin g ' s Performances, the proprietors beg to state their intention of C ontinuing the Grand Morning Entertainments daily until further Retice. The Day Performance is fully equal to that of the Evening. Admission—Private Boxes from 21. 25 to W. 3s each; Stalls, 5s ; Reserved Seats. 3s; Boxes, 2s; Pit, Is ; Gallery, 6d. Private }loxes and Stalls can only be secured at the Alhamb-a Palace, and kr. Mitchell's Library, 33, Old Bond-street. Box-Office open from 10 a.n,, until 5 p.m. No fee for booking places. No Programmes _ere correct but those purchased inside the building, and only One fenny each is allowed to be charged. Carriages must set down with 'lollies' heads towards Charing Cross; taking up to the North. CEORGE HOBSON begs to invite the attention of Gentlemen to his new Stock of Trowserings tor the pre- Sent season, price 21s. to 255. G. 11. submits for inspection his new Overcoats, in all the new ap °Yed and various shades of colour for sir lug wear. Excellence 111th Economy. A suit of clothes made in a few hours' notice. - GEORGE HOBSON, 57. Lombard-street. ESTABLISHED 1796. MMETROPOLITAN COUNTIES LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Recent—treet, Wa London. S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, terloo- and - ins on advantageous terms. F. FERGUSON CAMROTTX, Manager. Policies In force, notwithstanding the Decease of the Life dared provided the Premiums be paid within the thirty days „,. grace. THE INTERNATIONAL LIF L ASSUR kNCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. ZUSpowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS,:ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman. Wm. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson. M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus,Blonde', Esq. IIIDITOIIII. PrAlger Wheatstone, Fat.S., and Professor J. Radford Young. =MC/a REFEREZ GENERAL. Elllotsou, M.D., Cantsb , F.R S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &C. ♦SSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woollsouse, Esq. BANKIRS. ;Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. M ani. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row ill next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared ar .1860. Examples of Bonus np to May, 1855 : Policy Bonus in Permanent ta ken Age. Sum addition Bonus in Reduction 01 %It in ) Assured. to Sum Cash. Annual Pre- Assured. mium. .........___ - - A As. d. £s. d. As. d. 1538 55 3,000 867 17 7 424 1 4 56 3 8 1841 4 g 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4 1845 59 - 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 11111 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2 1 1 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter bational Life Assurance Society : The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are /divided amongst the assured every fi veyears. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted To one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. its commencement the Society has paid in claims upward , of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. 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T IT • —E SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY Just published, price is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps , SELF-PRESERVATION. —A " , -.Y on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System nd On the cure of Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting Itom vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth Manhood, witu practical observations on the Physiology of Mar "age in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added r emarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examination, the cause and effect of every variety of these tOrriplainta, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Ustrictilated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, fic., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con- S equences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, rich have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man "4l, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any Other class of disease known to modern pathologists. 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Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill; Horne, 19, Leicester-square , Gordon, 146, LeadenhalL street or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from II till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37 Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr, Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J. Ilormusjee, Apollo-street; Bombay— Circulator Office ; Madras—Motassilite Office Agra - Dodsworth °lonabs. Ceylon ; and of all Book B , llers throughout the Colonie I CW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent (Mice Seal of Great Britain. Diplome d'Ecole cl? Pharmaclo Pharma - ciena;Paris: Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIESEMAR N*. 1,2, and 3. prepared in the form of a lozenge, devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket. Sold in tin cases, divided into separate doses, as administered by /a l Peltu, Lal'emend, Roux, Ricprd &c , and adapted for both sexes. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXATION. 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ON SPERMATORRFIRE A.. —Translated from the German of Dr Pick ford Just pub ished, the Fourth Edition, price 55., by post ss. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHEA, with a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in:Rela tion to its Nature, Consequences, and Treatment. By Dr. PICKFORD, With Important Introductory Remarks by the Editor. "The editor has conferred a great boon by translating this little book and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers whq profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to tall their own purses. This volume is well cal culated to put an end to the emnyrical system of treating Sperma torrhcea, and to place the treatment upon a more rational and phy siol,,gical basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much good."—Vedical Circular. London, 11. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. TRIESEMAR NO. 111. is the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure tor Scurvy, Ficrofttla, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a n ever-failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Physiciaa treats with Mercury, to the inevitable destruc tion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price I Is.. free by post, Is. Bd. extra to any part of the kingdom ; or four cases in one for 335., by nog, 3s. 2d. extra, which saves I Is., and in 5/. cases, w h er eby there is a saving of 12s. Sold by Daniel7Ch arch, 78, Gracec hurch-street, City; liartlett Hos.per, 43, King William-street. 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ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET-PLACE, Bth May, lasB. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give notice, that on TUESDAY, the 25th instant, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the Admiral Superintendent will put up to Sale, in her Majesty's Dockyard at Devonport, Several' Lots of Old Stores, consisting of Old Rope Shakings, Spun and R , pe Yarn, Hammocks in Oases, Old Canvass. Oakum, Hemp tyers and li,kings. Coal sacks, Leather Articles, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the sal^ Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent 'or notes of admission for that purpose. . . Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had here and at the Tard. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR BERMUDA. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 7th May, 1858. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do Hereby Give Notice. that on TUESDAY, the 25th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such per. sons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's Naval Yard at Bermuda, 3003 TONS OF SOUTH WALES COALS, Fit for the service of her Majesty's Steam-vessels. A form of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received atter Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends or an agent for Mm duly authorised in writing. 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NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Ner vousness, Billousn.ss, Liver Complaints, Hysteria, Neuralgia, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation, Heartbmn, Eruptions, Int. purities, Irrtability, Love Spirits, Diarrhcea, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Kausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at ses), Sinking Fits, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Complaints effectually removed by ) U BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring REVALENTA ALARICA FOOD, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies in illness, and Is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it is the only food which never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor interferes with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from tie Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit rrom Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. Stuart de Decies."—Curt No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomitinz, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Northam Ling, near Dias, Nortolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of N axing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner va.lsness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — C lee No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Ciateacre, near Liverpool: a cure of ten ye'trs' dyspepsia, and all the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,a16. Dr. Andrew Ure, of constipation, dyspep sia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland, of dropsy and •ehility. Once No. 36,212. Captain Allan, of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42,116 Major Edit., of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomiting!, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wnrtzer, of con sumption. Care No. 32,880. William hunt, Esq., barrister, of para lysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, wood merchant, Frimley, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure No. 58.816. Mrs. Heise, aged 107 years, of dyseeps a (indigestion) debility, ir, itability, and nervousness, which had tormented her for seventy years. Cure No. 4 ~ 814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure So. 52,612. 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He undoubtedly dots consult his Ohinese alwansck for the lucky day to shave his ~:but it is not easy to ascertain from him wii., 4 er he does so at taching any belief to such supers os, or whether he merely follows a popular custoo, if he believes in "luck" he certainly has the sense to be ashained of it. He is also evidently aware that it is d rota tory to the dignity of a high literate of the Han lin-Yuan to lean too much on superstitious books, even those of Taouism or Bbuddisni, owning thereby that the philosophy of Confucius and Men cius is not all-sufficient. I asked why, if the philosophy of Confucius was sufficient for all purposes, ineu became followers of Bhudda also. " There is one great universal truth, but it has many truths within it. The Taoli of Confucius is at one with the Taoli of Bhudda." " But Bhuddism was not known in China until long after the time o Confucius ?"—" The Taoli of Bhudda was in China, although men knew not the form." "Confucius knew nothing of the rePgion of Bhnicla ?"—" The men of those days knew not the forms." - "If the Taoli of Bhudda is good and necessary, *why is it not included in toe public exatnine,iions?" —"ln ancient times it was not so." Tins reply is with Yeh the ending of all contro versy. I once tried to drive him out of it by say ing that the custom he spoke of was only of the age of the Han dynasty, and that, even in our eyes, was comparatively modern. He became very sulky and would Lot continue the conversation. Mr. Wade hts found a great many divination schemes among the pagers seized at the time of Yeh's capture. I asked him if be had east any h rose pee with a view to forettll political events. He t.and, "No." I then told him it was under stood that papers of this knit.l were among his docu ments. He empha.irnallv deni , d that this wa+ pos sible. I said it was unfortunate that some mis ake had been made, for that these papers had b 3 n transltted svitl reported to the British authorities, and would be looked upon as hits. He sand,— " I was always busy with official duties ; how could I have time for such things ? " Do people in China generally believe in them ? —Some people among the Chinese believe in such things, and some do not. " What is your Excellency's opinion ?—I can't tell you. Sometimes I believe in them, sometimes Ido not. The English have uo such custom, so I cannot make you comprehend. " On the contrary, we have such customs. With us the learned sometimes have recourse to divina- ( iether it will be much to our advantage to Ietoh ; NEWSPAPE I Yeh the history of British India. Suppose we tell pz - I--1 - 17T-7. him that about a:kupdredatid fifty. years ego t4l : 4=if-- ,-, ..- _r .3 7 ,.(4.:yy3:4 , head of the Mognlrace ruled over the great penin- P:_- . , :tJ-- „ ,. , ,,. --,,.;z_'\:-1.(, '',, sula of Hindostan, disturbed in his dominion only :., t, - .,: 7 :r:,,,:,15 t tL.., by occasional rebfdlions and by dsobedient'eatrapa,\xt7 : ___:).,..,.. - that some humble English merchants had obtained' 4. .Ifr_, : (_ , .... z., i',..: leave to build' a few factories on the seaboard, ands------ :( 1 -11 1 4 i i ' --- ' s ' s a few French troops had oconpied some islands ta the coast and one station on did Inainlana; shat - the , ' t , a z English had at tit's time nOidea• of any territorial ", • coLquest, and w ,u;d 1 / 4 VB treated-any such sugges- -- tion as the most absurd of cOnmuies ; thatjn,s;llo ye Ira ago the French opened their.eyes to a career of _ conquest, while the English were still, wing for pri 7 . . vilelzes as humble traders ; that 13 year.sia4r saw the French driven out of all their conquests lolthe poor traders, who, without auy ambition on *JO , tb p ra 7 ; t yiets w oi e nt r i e ,see f ii:f r_ o c d e wet cl neTw, c t ie o ll a ,e)v p p: at fu h oruc o ne f nd c ibn o yg nq kc u jirn e e s sru t ino i suntem i s t ee in ns ! against which they vainly struegled and cPaaelessly c anplained, to supplant the G, eat Mogul and be coomneottisletraSTle uzer f a . l e n ts of in al i l ,h lndi a . t suggest T hissa p r, quick paralleljud c t 9 da sthe as mind of Yeh. .He might even be o to imagine some coincidence between the present 11 • o,ition of the English and Russians in china and that of the English and French in early days in India. Yeh, however, is a practiser of what I am so evil minded to think is the real great Taoli of China " Procrastinaton is the soul of business." h e • puts off India and the four books from day to day, and Mr. Alabaster importums in vain. He was for several succeeding d Sys engaged_in deep conside ration whether he should allow Mr. Cotton to cut off a wart which disfigures his very well-shaped hand, . I mentioned to him the fact that the Shanghai C ustom-house pays annually two and a half minions of taels to the Imp:.•rial Treasury. Careful not to commit himself he merely observed, "It is good." I i‘dded that this must be a great benefit to the Emperor. He said the Imperial Treasury wasnot wantinginmoney. I produced some Pekin Gazettes, from which it appeared that the Emperor was of a different opinion. He grun'ed. I mentioned that the Imperial troops, who had just obtained posses sion of Chekiang Foo. had teen maintained entirely by the Shanghai Customs. He had not heard of it, it was not in his provinces. I drew an inference teat a greater facility of access would increase com merce and be beneficial to the.lmperiat Treasury., and the Chinese people. He did n,t agree. Ircr • once h, condescended to argue. He said the open ing of the four ports had increased competition, and comi,eti!ion disa. range.; all things. Iu fo.nter sno r bute said h good o sin ce ci w t t c competition foreigners d e, h a beend a in b:e r n r t t e e d d. allow ed g 6o iHe e Liinself had a very good witch before the ports wore open. He lost it, and was obliged to buy ano her ; it was always out of repair. I innocently attempted to etplain that it depended upon' the consumer whether competition produced cheapness or quality., but wasmet only by an incredulous grin. S nnetimes I ventured to talk about the opium matters, but there is very little to be got by leading him to talk upon affairs of public policy. Heil' not only very naturally determined to say nothing that may be remembered against him, but ho lies with an aplomb and only placidity whichl make one's face burn, remembering that it is a man of high office and great learning who is emitting the ridiculous falsehood. _ _ tion as an amusement ; but the ignorant and it ite rate only really believe that events can be foretold by such schemes. Perhaps that may be the case also in China ?—To some extent that is the case in China." As I was confident as to the fact of the horo scopes having b-en found, I returned to this point. He grew rather angry, and repeata-d:— " My hours wet e coupied with official business ; how on earth could I find tone to cas - hoc. scopes? It is true that fortune tellsra have been sent to we on various occasions ; such •hings have been, but :hey never influenced public affairs. " The finding of these horoscopes has led some persona to the opinion that they influenced you to neglect the defence of Canton " The answer very emphatically given was " No." I ventured one other question, for I felt that I should never get him on the topic again. The an swer was, " Such things were never cmsidered in public business." The Bishop of Victoria, after his visit to Yeb, sent off a Chinese Bible and some tracts wrapped in a newspaper, begging Capt. Booker to present them. The captain did so. I eb. said he bad long ago read the Bible ; it was a good book—all books of that kind were good—they tend to purify the heart, as do the Buddhist and the Taouist books. He begged of Capt. Brooker to put the parcel by for bin until some convenient season. This time never cane, but on the fifth day of our voyage Mr. Alabaster reproduced the package, and b•'gged to have hisopluion upon sumo of the tracts, Yeh opened one of them with an evident effort of politeness, but soon closed it with a slight grimace. He had apparently been shocked by some solecsin of style. Mr. Alab aster proposed to put the Bible and tracts among some Buddhist books which Yeh's father had scnt on board for him ; but Yeh, affecting to misunderstand this proposition, replied, " Yea, I think it will be convenient that you replace them in the captain's drawer." Mr. Alabaster continuing to turn them over, Yeh got up from h s chair and said, " If you will not put them up in the packet as I received them, I will do so myself." Thera was no more to be done. The books were returned to their envelope and con•igned to the oblivion of one of the lockers, and the Mandarin looked pleased at being relieved ft °in an unpleasant impoitunity. This was the only time we attempted to force the attention of the old dignitary to this matter. Upon one other occasion we invited him towards the subject by asking him why, since Buddhism was introduced into Onion in the Han dynasty, Chtisti anity should not be intr,duced in the reign of tue sixth Emperor •f the M•tmtchou Tartar dynasty. " Ltlai tneiyu cbeko yangtsu" ("Hitherto this has nut been so"). It is the same answer as you cou rt anily get from Chinamen of Hong Kong in Can ton-English—" Bet Ire time no catchee." We must ever recollect in dealing with the Chi nese that the shibboleth of Western chivalry—the scorn of a lie, as a cowardly and dishonouring thing—is to them unknown. _ Y.-h most usually expresses his disbelief by a grunt or a grin, but he has n. - ) hesitation in giving you the lie direct. Once or twice he did this in a very coarse way after asking a question about some matter of fact occurring on deck. The Eng lishmen about him, with every feeling for his posi t:on as a prisoner, were not inclined to endure this, and he was told that it was considered by our nation as the gravest discourtesy to use such language. He couldn't understand this. "I don't intend to offend you," he said, "but you say it is, and I sly it is not ; that is all." It was evident that he hiupelf cared no more for being discovered in a fals hood than for being beaten at a game of chess. • Thus, when I told him that proclamations had been issued levying duties upon opium, he said, "That is not so. ' I produced copies of the pro clamations. He simply remarked that this was out of his provinces', and he bad never beard of it. He believed that the Emperor knew nothing about it. regretted to hear that high Chinese officials put forth proclamations and received duties without the sanction of the Emperor. He said that th:s was impos-Ne. I aske 1 whether these duties ever reached the Emperor's Treasury, or whether they ware embezzled? He said that embezzlement by a public officer was an impossibility in China. I produced half a-dozen Pekin Gazettes, which re counted suet embezzlements and ieferred the crime to the proper board. He said that these Instances were not within his Viceroyalty. I asked how it happened that public offict-rs re ceiving almost nominal salaries made large for tunes. He said that no man in office ever did m tke a large fortune. I read to him from Wil- liains's " Middle Kingdom" the Emperor's rescript and the estimate of the wealth of Duke Ho (one hundred and five million of dollars). He said this was before his time. He was never in the smallest degree disconcerted by being directly contradicted by a public document, and I ventured upon no sub. jest upon which I was not well fortified by Pekin Gazettes. It is true he never disputed the authority of a public document. That would have been to dstuage the official infallibility. It was a curious spectacle to see this Chinese Mandarin, versed for 25 years in all the iniquity of official corruption, enjoying at this moment its proceeds in the shape of an unlimited credit upon Howqua's house for any moneys he may think fit to spend, yet gravely as-erting the incorruptibility of all Chinese magis trates, and even reasoning upon this most notorious falsehood as an axiom so thoroughly true that no fact inconsistent with it could be true, and every proposition contradictory to it must be absurd. To talk with Yeh upon such subjects was of no possible use for the purpose of information, although it was psychologically interesting to see a great Chinese gentleman shlf!ing and shuffling, and not at all conscious that it was disgraceful to abandon as a rfscovered faloshood propositions which be had just before asserted as undoubted truths. We traversed the Bay of Bengal upon an un ruffisd sea, and Yeh was comfortable in hisstomacb, and during some portion of each day ready for con versation. One subject upon which it was never difficult to draw him out was that of his own career. He tolls us that he is 52 years old, that he is the son of a public officer now 80 years old, who was Secretary of the Thar,' of War (of which Yeh is now President) for 14 years, and who has now for some years retired. He r ec nit& d the different high offices he has held. The, list is too numerous for insertion, but it includes every kind of judicial and political duty. He declares that he owed his first appointment as Prefect en'irely to his success in the public exami nations. This gave me an opportunity of inquiring into the nature of these examinations, about which so much has been written and so little known. Yeh has taken four degrees. Ho has passed seven examinations. In three he was unsuccessful, in the other four he was successful. In his last his distinction was so great that he was named the second wrangler of the Empire—he was No. 2 on the list of all the candidates who passed at that Im perial examination. He says that the first examination is held in the departmental city, and consists of one day's wor k upon essays on the true doctrine of the four ancientlro books. The second examination is held cial city, and lasts three days. hoTojkies,fithe second to propriated to the four sacred the history of China. nrsstthdeaypriosvaipte: the five classics, the third to I asked whether This is all that ever is re q uired. oe Thibet, or Japan was the history of Alantcr! .Noia?the history of China." I included. He ssid, told him we had heard that the examivation com prised We are onl y wit a t% science e t i h r e chan nels.n neces sary matters,sat i, ri expected to speak T ao li—t o s P a r r i y Sed to practicalres traill talk true doctrine. rs w r, N o thing about natural history, or t ra d e , or th e foreign r elariens of China natural are only expected to sp eak Taoli. Th e o n ly thing required is to ex plain right principles, which existed at the begin- Ling o f all things. The examination for the third degree is held at Pekin. It last nine days and the requirements are the same as for the second degree, only the profi cier,cy must be greater. The four,h examination is held at Pekin, and general .y in the palace before the Emperor himself, assisted by the members of the College of the Forest of Pencils (Ran-lin-Yuan). This examina also cow inues for slims days. I t em b races a ll t h e ancient books— mean i ng thereby only the Confu cian books, for the Bliuddist and Taouist books are excluded —and also correct writing and official style. It was probably proficiency in official paper writing which gained Yeti Lis high degree. He practised this talent with great effect upon Parkes and Bowling, but was not in a happy vein when be wrote his replies to Mr. Reed and Lord Elgin and Baron Gros. I asked, " Your Excellency was judge of Y,9 11 7 nan for four years. Did you pass any examinao in the Ta Tsing Loo Lee (the Chinese Code) before Tois is the answer with wh ch he always tenni nwes a discus ion, when he finds it taking the for in of an argument. We then always leave him undis turbed to his own occupations. These are to smoke his pipe, to choose out the rot - en oranges from his large store, and distribit,e them among his domes tics, carefully replacing the sound fruit ; to give directions about his dinner, to expostulate with the captain that if he and his officers will not eat some p , ri ion of his Chinese cak,s, they will only be spoiled. Ho never reads, and he very sel :em in quires. He has condescend-•d to inqtere c.ncernieg the French, whether they ate net a nation who drink a good deal of colftfe and make a great deal of wine, and he seems quite attistied with this amount of information concerning the most polite people of the world. He is fond, also, of exhibit ing his stock of quack medicines to Mr. Cotton, the ship's surgeon. Report says, although we have been nimble to get Yeh to tell us this, that the Viceroy's father was an apothe cary. The sou manifests great interest in European surgery. The most liberal admission I ever heard him make was upon this subject. Mr. Cotton asked him whether the Chinese surgeons study anatomy. Ho answered "No; it would be impolitic to do so iu Chins." Mr. Cotton replied that in former times it was so with our people. Their objection to dissection was so great that snr geons were obliged to study by stealth, but now people wore so alarmed at having to be attended . by surgeons who had not studied the human body that the practice is rendered legal. Yell answered, that he could only say the people would nut endure such a thing in China. " But do you think it objectionable ? My in dividual opinion is, that dissection for knowledge sake is not wrong." Ho has asked also from time to time questions about the distances from point to point, the situa tion of Calcuna, and the distance to England. He remarked also when he saw me writing with a gold pen, " What extravagance 1" He generally, how ever, declines all argument and believes no expla nation. When I explained that we use gold pens, not because that metal is more valuable, but ba c,usa it is more flexible, and therefore better adapted to the purpose than any other metal, this reply only elicited an unpleasant laugh, which in its different modifications sounds sometimes like an angry sneer, sometimes like an exclamation of " Fudge 1" " Humbug 1" When Mr. Alabaster to.d him that at Calcutta he would find among the State captive s the last of the aucieet Emperors of India, and a king of a great ledian kingdom Yell laugeted his bitterest and most incredulous sneer. Wltrai I tell him that if we were g ing to Eliglind instead of Calcutta his voyage would extend ov- r 45,000 lei, and that at every spot where the s_ r hp cast anchor he would find a British governor, ali. a tish soldiers, and the British flag, he unnitst g ably laughed " Fudge !" We asked him one day and Chinese the diferenee between the Euglish: .e what his estimate was of ' Ning-kau i character ; lie said The Chinese " The Englishio, — r eady and able to do Y ; a : i t l u in cliiao')." This he must have teaching C.Y.t.is o " they just have precedent. explained to mean that th with him the four sacred books of China. Here is a The first, lie said was not a bad one. He once manifested thing ot the his curiosity was awakened sons he did not t e to make a „was a good:quality, but the latter • tifested some degree to know some ot. British , India. Whether his by religious or poltiieal rea lain • but Mr. Alabaster offered compa t with him to read together a short history ot India if Yeh would agree to read chance which all the sinologues of Europe and China may envy this young man. I doubt, however, ~~ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1858. 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By direction of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, the Judge to whose Court this matter is attached, Notice is Hereby Given That the said Judge will proceed en Thursday, the 27th da, of May, 1858, at Two o'clOck in the Afte•noon, at his Chambers, N 0.3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, London, to settle the list of Contributories of this Company, and that after such List shall have been settled no party affected thereby will be allowed to dispute the same without leave of the High Court of Chancery first obtained. Dated this Thirtieth day of April, 1858. CHAS. 'UGH, Chief Clerk. FREDERICK WHINNEY, 5. Serie-street, Lincoln's-inn, Official Manager. CF. HANCOCK, of Bruton-street and New • Bond-street, Jeweller and Silversmith to the Principal Sovereigns and Courts of Europe, begs leave to remove an erroneous impression which exists amongst some of his customers, that he has retired, or is about to retire, from business. This impression (which is entirely unfounded) has probably arisen in consequence of the re tirement and selling off f a Jeweller of the sane name, also of New Rood-street, but with whom C. F. Hancock is not, and never has been, in any way connected, either in business or by relationship. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHARLES WATSON, M.D., Fellow and Honorary Vice- President of the Imperial African Institute of France, and Physician to the Bedford Dis,,ensary, 27, Alfred-Place, Bedford-square, Lon don, continues to issue, on receipt of six stamps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." " The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private cure.' —University Magazine. " The NEW AMERICAN DISCOVERY' shows the absurdity of the English mode of treating such complaints, will prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely and easily regain pristine health by adopting the means presented."—Evening Star. For Qualification, vide Diplomas and Medical Directory." YETI'S PORTRAIT. (Front the Times' Correspondent.) CALCUTTA RIVER, MARCH 17. I told you in my last letter from Hongkong that I intended to accompanyYeh to his place of captivity. I cannot tell whether the public mind of Eng land will take such interest in this man Yeh as I have taken. I have caught at the opportunity of accompanying him in this voyage as a chance of studying Chinese character which has never before happened, and which may not soon recur. Hitherto we have been told, and truly told, that we cannot judge the ruling class of Chinese from the Coolies, the compradors, and the traders with whom we are brought into contact, nor from the half educated " theachers" who are retained upon a scanty pittance by our sinologues, nor from the occasional interviews we have had with high Mandarins. I have been shut up for many days with the great Chinaman of the present day. Yeh must be hereafter one of the men of Chinese, history. a exercisedlle s the highsecond offices man o ofr more the than Empire.a He h 8 quarter of a century. He has ruled with an abso lute despotism 30,000,000 of souls. His sentences have been tortures, his lightest words have been death. He has been to China what Wentworth was to Ireland, and wished to be to England. His policy has been "thorough," and he has been able to work it out in a reign of terror unrestrained. He tells with a coarse laugh that he has himself sen tenced to death 100,000 of his countrymen and countrywomen, and he boasts that that estimate must be quadrupled if we take into account the towns and villages destroyed by his orders. Yet after this successful career of ruthless energy he suddenly adopted towards us a conduct which ap pears in our eyes to have had no other qualities than sloth and insolence. He fell, earning from no Englishman the re:pect due to a gallant enemy, and he lives execrated by every Chinaman as a traitor to the ancient suicide-enjoining traditions of his country. He rose to his great position under a system of competitive examination, and in a State where exf cutive ability alone is supposed to lead to high office, and he is acknowledged to be of the very first excellence in all the learning of China. Such a man must be a great problem. If I fail to soave it, I may, at any rate, supply to others the materials for a solution. I hope thi s is sufficient excuse for having constituted myself the Boswell of this terrible Johnson. an l d n ra h th is er p t e a rs ll o m na a l n appearance fi ran ve ce te Y e e t e h l i e s ve a n v , a long thin Chinese moustache and beard, remark ably receding forehead, a skull in which what the phrenologists call " veneration" is much developed with s tout I t tli u e a a certain degree of rotundity behind the ear, and a moderate development of the back head. Shorn nearly to the crown, and very thinly covere d with hair in that part where the Chinese mostly culti vate their hair, our Mandarin offers every facility for craniological examination. His tail is very paltry, very short and very thin. The smallest porker in China has a better tail than her highest Mandarin. His face is heavy. There is more chin than you usually see in a Chinaman—more jowl and jaw, indicative of will and obstinacy. The nose is long and flat, the nostrils forming one side of a very ob tuse angle. Seen in profile the nose is very re • markable and very ugly ; in the front face this, the most simial expression of the man's countenance is mitigated. The e 3 e—that round slit Mongolian eye—is the most expressive feature of the man who is sitting opposite to me, and looking rather auspiciously at me as lam now WI iting. In his ordinary mood there is only a look of shrewd ness and quick cunning in this, the only mobile feature of his face ; but I have seen him in the turning moments of his life, when those eyeballs glared with terror and with fury. He has a large protruding mouth, thick lips, and very black teeth, for, as he remarks, " it never has been the custom of his family to use a toothbrush." It is, however, a very common custom in some Chinese families, as any one may see who walks the streets of Canton aid notioes the Coolies and small traders at their ablutions. He does not wear long nails. He says he has been too busy all his life to do so. His hands, as is almost universally the case in China, are small and well shaped. The same occupations which have pre vented him from growing his pails seem to have kept him from washing his bands. I think I can remem ber, however, that when first taken the nails wore of Chinese growth, No habit of looking at Yeh deadens the feeling of s hi c s i ieoafinrye ofby through thisoisu h g u ht g i e ma f e a p c tr e aomfi i n ii ls r ti p rr i l s s . io with n T w i he hisi Englishthe e e pxs features, r he e l e sketched by Major Crealock at the moment when he was brought in a prisoner. This has been copied and recopied and lithographed by the Chinaman of Hongkong, and sent home to England in hundreds of letters. It has been sometimes thought to be a caricature, and in the lithograph there is some ex aggerition. But the original sketch is the most striking likeness I ever saw. I stood at the Major's side while he was pencilling, and we compared the portrait with the man. It is tine it was taken in a moment of mental terror, while the prisoner's eyes were ranging round a large room in quest of a headsman and his sword ; but in his quiet moments the expression, although mitigated iu degree, is the same in character—a face of dull, heavy, stolid, im pas - able ci uelty. There is strong will, there is dogmatic persever ance, there is immovable inert resistance, but there is no active courage in that face, uor in that heart When Captain Key seiz- d his vast carcase shook with terrer, and he completely lost all presence of mind. Perhaps this is not to be much wondered at. Fifty blue-jackets, with drawn swords and re volvere, were dancing round him like madmen, flourishing their cutlasses, throwing up their hats, and cheeritg at the top of their voices. He might well believe that his last moment was come. But a man who had sent so many thousands to their great account might be expected to meet ilia own , . . fate with dignity. Yeh was not equal to this. He Inflexible. Yeh's retinue consists of a cook, a bar shook, ho made gestures of submission, he denied her, two waiting servants, and a military attendant. his identity, ho would have fallen had not Captain This last person was with our usual absurd practice Key held him up. In the presence of the Admirals of dignifying Chinamen with European titles called his fright was ill-concealed by an assump• ion of im- an aide-de-camp. He is a military Mandarin of the prudence. When Captain Hall took him on board sixth degree. He is also a dirty fellow, doing me the Inflexible he trembled violently as he went up vial offices about the person of his chief, and mess the ladder, and when on board he eagerly inquired ing with the other servants upon the meats that go whether he was to be put to death. As soon as he from his master's table. If he were an Englishman had ascetteined that it was not our custom to kill we should call him at best a soldier servant, or an our prisoners he seemed quite contented. As he orderly. had previously considered his death certain, so he After Yeh had manifested his acquaintance with now became c mvinced of his absolute security. entomology, the "aide-de-camp" and the domestics During all these early scenes, however much he were compelled to wash, and some strong hints were suffered from the infirmity of bodily fear, his arro- thrown out to their master. The washing was gance never, after the first moment, forsook him. grumbled at asa tyranny, and the hints were thrown I have in a former letter related his behaviour to away.; so nothing was left but to hope almost the Admiral when interrogated by him as to the against hope that the Mandarin himself is free from fate of Cooper and other European captives: This, vermin, and to continue to scrub the attendants. however, was the impudence o f despair. When The southern Chinese are for the most part of Capt. Hall took him off in his boat he refused to cleanly habits; but the northerns are dirty. Yell is sit by his side in the stern sheets, but squatted on from Hupeh, which is one of the five northern pro the thwart opposite, thereby rendering it necessary vinces. to lay in the No. 8 oar, but still not avoiding fre- ! Yeh sleeps in a recess in the captain'scabin, which quent digs in the back from the knuckles of the he prefers to a separate sleeping berth. He goes No. 7 oarsman. to bed about 8 o'clock, and while we are reading or As soon as he became composed on board the In- writing, or playing chess, he sleeps the sleep of in flexible he took up those childish tricks which have fancy—an unbriiken slumber, apparently undis sometimes embarrassed our diplomatists by their turbed by visions of widow ed women or wailing simple impudence. He had c ome to the ship sidely orphans. This man-killer, after slaying his hun to see Lord Elgin, and wondered he had not kept ' dred thousand human beinga; - enjoys sweeter sleep his appointment. He had determined not to wait thau au innocent Landon alderman after a turtle for him much longer. He refused his autograph dinner. So false are traditions ;so false are the when Sir Jehn Bowring, with doubtful taste, remorseful scenes of Greek and Roman and English asked him for it, because he said it was impossib!e tragedies. toe rite an iudifferent sentence in Chinese—every But, although our great Mandarin is at peace word can be distorted to some hidden meaning. ' with his own Chinese conscience, he has an evident The Chinese Minister evidently believed that w e horror of his living countrymen. He has "lost considered him still as a person from whom a treaty face" with them, and the greatest fear he has is the might be obtaieed, and he was prepared to make a being made an exhibition to a Chinese rabble. We good diplomatic tight. ..e, were malicious enough to ask whether he would At first he treated Mr. Alabaster, the interpre- like to go to Hongkong : He answered, just as ter appointed to attend him, with infinite rudeness • the father of a serious family might answer, that it and contempt. He was magnificent and th e atrical • never had been the custom of his family to go to in his answer to Lord Elgin's messaze conimuni- ' races• eating to him that he was to go to Calcutta. He 1 The day before we stlrted many curious people refused all conversation, telling Mr. Alabaster that I came off to see him, and Yeh became very sulky. he knew he was a spy put over him to rep o rt all h e Sir John Bowring got very little out of his inter might say. Mr. Alabaster, of course, replied that view. He did no t even reuipt mate Sir John's coin he was not a spy, but a public servant ; and that I phment of asking him his age, and whe n Sir John Yeh, himself a great officer, must know that it was asked whether he could do anything for him, Yeh his duty to report to his superiors. In one of the only remarked that Mr. Alabaster was there, and earliest interviews I had with him I was care ful t o he would tell him. The Admiral was present at make him understand the functions which I was the same time. Yeh is very fond of the Admiral and discharging. Mr. Alabaster exhibited to him a copy spoke to him with more cordieli , y. The Bishop of of the Times, at the size whereof he seemed greatly Victoria also sought an interview, not wishing how - astonished. I told him that the learned men of the ever, to be introduced to him by his official title, Western world were much perplexed upon ques- lest he should be thought to be paying too much tions of Chinese government and philosophy, and respect to such a man. The fear was ungrounded, that I should consider myself fortunate if he thought for the Chinaman knows nothing of epi copal rank, fit through me to inform them upon these subjects. and if there is any profession for which a proud At this time his reply was usually either a grunt or Chinese literate entertains a supreme contempt, it a grin ; he answered my appeal with a grunt. is for that of the priesthood of all faiths, Bhuddist This uncomfortable state of suspicion gave way emphatically included. under the judicious treatment of the high authori- On Monday, the 23d of February, tke Inflexible ties. When he found that Lord Elgin took nts notice steamed out of Hong 'icing harbour, and Yeh might of him, unless to send curt messages inquiring after his personal comfort—when he saw that, while if he had pleased, have taken his last look for some treating him with all respect, and doing all be time of the shores of his native land. If he felt any could of the bitterness of exile he was successful in con for his conv e nience, Captain Brooker paid no attention to where he s it, or what ho wore, or how sealing it, for lie was entirely occupied in smoking he demeaned himself—when he discovered that no one wished to make him sign any treaty, or to his pipe and settling himself comfortably. A few minutes after and we had rounded the green island thatthe treatment he received sad his true position, and ques- and the steamer danced tothe piping of the strong tion him upon topics which he declined to enter upon, north-west monsoon. [ was on deck watching the he gradually relaxed. I think tjaat before we left familiar objects of the harbour as they receded, and Hong Kong he had recceen P thinking regretfully that some frieudships which I hadconvinced himself was only the respect accorded to a pr i soner of high most valued there had been dimmed by the strong line I had felt it my duty to take upon some public rank, whose power for good or for evil had passed questions, when sounds cams through the c dein away. He gave up playing the high Mandari n , skylight like the strains and groans of Etna. The conversed with affability upon indifferent subjects, pipe and the little cakes, flavoured potently with preferred a request for a daily ration of six pou n d s pork fat, even the frequent thimbli-fuls of saunshu of fresh pork, presented a p ortion o f his stock of had b een unavailing to fortify t h e g reat stomach Of oranges to the Ward-room mess, and begged to be the great Mandarin. The " aide-de-camp" was in allowed to send for a full supply of Chinese tobacco. capable of aid ; the servants and the cook had crept Up io this time the only occasions upon which h e into corners to die. Poor Captain Brooker's cabin manifested any vivacity were upon discussions as to was in an awful state. his food. His Chinese cook was sent for, and ar- For three days this condition of things continued. rived at the last moment with great stores of Judging from the sounds the Viceroy might be Chinese comestibles, to his immense satisfaction. throwing up his two -provinces of Quangsi and Visitors annoyed him. He was, or pretended to be, Quaugtung. It must be admitted, however, that much shocked at the dress of an English lady. H e he struggled manfully with his m lady. To use kept his eyes studiously turned from her, and re- his own expressio n, his stomach was excruciated marked afterwards that her throat was not covered. M and his bowels required nursing ; but he mani r. Alabaster showed him some portraits in an fe,te , i all a Chinaman's courage of endurance. On Illustrated News of ladies in balroom d re ss. Y,h the fourth day he even returned to his pipe, and re was scandalised; that women should wear bedgowns quired his slowly recovering cook to prepare him was proper, but that they should be painted in their breakfast. He does not love mutt •n—it is Tatter bedeowns was atrocious. food; he does not eat beef, fur it is written by Gin- When left alone he wou'd climb up to the stern- fucius, " Thou shalt not slaughter the labouring ports and look out upeu Hongkong, but he never ox." This is n , t a superstition, but an ethical and could be prevailed u pon to say any more of the city and economical obeervance. It is ungrateful to of Victoria than that it was " Hu)," " Good." If slaughter the animal that produces rice, and it is any one came down while be was looking out he re- contrary to Chinese notions of good policy to kill turned gravely to his seat, rather anuoyed at being creatures that till the earth. Yell does not drink detected in so undignified a curiosity. milk, nor will he eat biscuits prepared with milk ; Yeh is in his private lif e a ver y respectable China, but he explains that this is not because lie is a man. He is entirely free from all suspicion of those Bhuddist, for that many who are not Bhuddists detestable habits common to his countrymen, and do not drink milk. while the Bhuddists of Mary notorious. for which even the virtuous K.ying was but too chouria are fond 'of it, If—which I very much He smoke s no opi um ; his ordinary doubt—he is of any religion, he belongs to that drink is only warm tea ; he uses samshu only as a higher sect of Bhuddists who are above all forms of medicine. He has sent his only wife, under the abstinence or idol worship, and place their devotion sity on this topic, protection of his father, to his native village. He in iffteusis inner aspirations for perfections. spoke of his concubines, but, as I could not tell As lie recovered from. his sea sickness he grew how far it might be wrong in his eyes to show curio- more communicative and conversational than he I did not learn their number or had ever been before. As w e left Sin g a p ore bar destination. H e h as no son, but has adopted a hour he looked like a man wh o had ha•l a load re nephew, w ho is now 24 years old, and is pursuing moved from his mind. I believe hi s feelin g was his studies a t P e ki n. that he bad got away for a time from big own He eats twice a-day of four or five succulent county mite and was no longer in danger of meet dishes, anti lie has the good sense to eat rice with ing the people in whose eyes he had "lo st face." each dish, no t reserving it for the end of the dinner, He now talked fluently upon every sub j ect to which as the Chinese do at their feasts. He drinks no- we led him, and I shall best convey his opinions thing while eating by transcribing these conversations discursively as . • His devotions consist of sitting in the posture of I noted them. Let me remark here, once for all, a Chinese idol, his legs c r ossed, and his face to the that Mr. Alabaster is so far as my experience goes , east. He remains in an abstracted state for about a unique instance of a youth who has learnt to con ten minutes, andthe act of devotion is accom pli s h e d, verse fluently in Manda rin after onl y two years' When he first came on b oar d h e retired into this study. In terms of philo so p h y and art difficulties of contemplative state severa l ti mes a -d ay . H e a ft er - translation must of necessity occur, but apart wards became much more remiss an d once a _d a y f ro m these I never bear t he inter p reter obli g ed to appeared to su ffi ce hi m. He uses no idol and when ask Yeh to repeat what he has said, and ver y asked whether h e w i s h e d f or an y facilities for per- rarely find that Yeh requires the interpreter to forming his devotions privately, replied that he repeat. I consider myself verb fortunate in my wanted nothing of the sort. I imagined that this medium of conversation with this great Confucian. was an act of d evo ti on accor di ng t o t h e custom o f Th e topic upon which Yeh talks moat freely is the higher sect o f th e B u ddhi s t s ; b ut one d ay , hi s success iu putting down the rebellion in Quang when be was in speci a l good humour, he con- tung. He insis t s t hat there was no one chief of descended to expl a i n wh he turned himself to the these rebels, and that their onl y ob j ects were ra p e eas t, instead of t o thew at, which is the birthplace and robbery. He says that the persons execrated of Buddha. He said if he were praying he should by his order were over 100,000, and he reluctantly turn to the w ; but he is not p ra yi ng . He turns admits that he w a s unable to ex tr i pa t e t he whole totheeast becauseest the east is the :' sang chi" class. He is able to estimate the numbers he sent ....the principle_ of life, as the west is the ptinciple to execution, because he was obliged to make of death . He He says the four cardinal points agree periodical reports to Pekin of the progress of the the thisfour seasons —the north is the winter, the work of extermination. The ordinary rule of -'s summer , the east is the spring, and Chinese law is that no criminal can be put to death the west . is the autumn. We. asked him what without the special warrant of the Emperor ; but Taoli this " was , s ~" Confucian 7" "Yes." "Bud - this was an extraordinary case. He was armed with dhist ?" , xe • " Taouist 7" " Yes. It i 3 a general warrant to destroy rebels, and he reported more ancient even_. than Confucius. It is the ancient his proceedings under ite He declares that no indi cereraonial of () tuna." " Are the Taoli of Coufu- vidual was put to death without being previously cius and Buddha and Laotzn all subordinate to examined by bina. The course was this :—They swoiuthtla i the ancient Taoli of China ?" " Yes ; they are all were first examined by the local authorities, then included in it. Front the time there was an east they were tried before the judge, then they went there was this Taoli." before the Lieutenant-Governor, and lastly they In the practice of that virtue which we Westerns were brought before Yeh himself, He says that he are glad to rank next to godliness Yeh is certainly acquitted a small proportion. Notwithstanding my c onspicuous. A m or e undesirable messmate repeated questions he would not c ommit himself to com mander of a ship of war can scarce l y b e any specific proportion,—" They were not m an y , ' Hespits, he . s . inpkee, h e egds his nose with com hi foit of pock e t h an dk er - I as k e d whether be ever spared any one on ac ., a s fing ers . C apt. Brooker deuce." has eructates, and for they were generally accused upon good evi nfio mohertabt taught hai o oneu blows hits the chief, but not t o use it for this purpos e , Hi s da il y coun t o f you th, or b e c a u s e she was a woman, or by a bl ut i ons consist of a slight rubbing of the face reason of station or good character, or whether it with a towel moistened hotinn i water. He has a was a mere question with him of innocence or horror of fresh air, and deck.wltie in Chinese waters guilt. The answer was—" I never spared the we nt on He never willingly loved to have guilty." I asked what the nature of the evidence the skylights d the ports closed and He wears thickly padded Stockings, the long, "We had our spies among them and their neigh blue-sleeved, quilted cape, and blue pantaloons tied hours informed." the ankle, comm on to all Chinam en . He boasts " Was not this liable t ) abuse, and might not that he has worn his outer coat for 10 years, and such testimony be adduced for purposes of extor its appearance justifies his assertion ;it is stiff with non or revenge ?"—"lmpossible. They would have grease. lit hen we drew nsar to Si ngapore, w i th i n b een a f ra id. H a d I f o u n d such a case I should one degree of the line, the . , heat became frightful. have punished the witnesses and his wife and His practice thenlwas, while B tealning with libations children." of hot tea, to strip off his coat and sit in his long " Would you have put the wife and children of yellow grass cloth shirt, wet and discoloured—a a perjured witness to death 7"—" No." most disgusting object. Did you. ever discover such cases?"—Occasion - Once, after six weeks' confinement, he gravely ally, but very seldom. If they perjured themselves intimated his intention of taking a bath : deeply I cut their heads off, and inflicted minor and he was eagerly reminded of what he penalties on their families." bad been more than once informed, that The treatment of European prisoners was a to p ic there was a most comfortab le bathroom on that required to be approached with great caution, the deck, quite at h is daily service. That or he would grunt or grin, and retire into silence. was not at all Yeh's idea of a bath. The cabin was When he does talk upon this matter he insists that given up to him and his domestics, and a small pan no European was ever brought before him. They of boiling water. We all ho p ed th at he had cleansed were buried , h e sa y s, in the malefactors cemetery, himself, but when we saw him again he was still outside the Eastern gate, and marks were placed wearing his old greasy, unwashed jacket. by which the local authorities can still point out Considerable alarm was at one time entertained the graves. I have sent a note of this statement as to whether the great man did not encourage a to Mr. Parkes, and hope it may lead to an investi class of parasites not usually tolerated by great gation that may clear up the mystery as to the men. Mr. Alabaster saw to his horror an unknown, identity of these persons, and may satisfy us as to but most suspicious insect, crawling within the the truth or falsehood of the story of the poison sacred precincts of the ca p tain's cab in. It was not inns. To the latter I never dared allude. It would by the Mandarin's agen c y that the action of Peter have been of no use. 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