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ENGINEERS' AND AGE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES —DAY-t OF GR Ca—Every Policy issued by those societies bears an endorsement that it wit not become void in case the death of the person on whose life the a-sura nee is effected may have happened during the D.iys of Grace, notwithstanding that the Premium may not have been paid. 345, Strand, London, W.C. W. F. DOBSON, Chairman ENGINEERS' AND AGE ASSURANCE SOCIETIES.—TO AGEN'Tzz.—A , tive and intelligent men, both in town and country, are required to act as Agents. Ihe Commission is most liberal, with an allowance, in ad lition, to the widow of a deceased agent.—Applications by letter only to W. F. DOBSON, Chairman. 345, Strand, London, W.C. METR P 0 LIT AN COUNTIES LIFE ASSUIUNCE SOCIETY. 27, Regent- , reet, tVaterlco place, London, S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, and loans on adTantageous terms. F. FEROTTSON CA MMOIJX, Manager. N.B. 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The following persons are entitled to one vote for each annuitant to be elected : Annual subscribers of one guinea. Life subscribers of 10 guineas. Persons assuring their lives with the Provident Clerks' Mutual Life Association, and becoming members. INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, Landon, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858: estab lished 1837.—Payment of Premium within Days of gram —It al ways has been and stil is the practice of this society to pay claims under policies of assurance notwithstandine the death of the assured oc curring within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be male, or notice of the death be given to the office before the expiration of such days of grace. For the Court of Directors, E. S. SILLS, Chairman. T HE INTERNATIONAL LIF ASSUR SCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London Empoweral by act of Parliament, for LIFE NA;ITIZINCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D_, Chairman. 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The inhabitants, when they go far abroad, often carry a fan with a plan of the city upon it ; and wise mandarins sometimes have a Chinese compass in their chairs. • Even the few main thoroughfares aro not easily to be recognised if you come into them unawares, the streets so much reiemble each other in their narrowness, their pendant signboards, their drifting crowds, and their lines of shops. If you take a Chinese guide frcm the east he does not know the west. We are about to name the principal thoroughfares and to put up boards in English, French, and Chinese, for the benefit of future tourists ; but at present Can ton is Dot a city easy to be learnt by heart. We sleep—that is to say, four of us sleep—in a building very like a cucumber frame without any gla , s. ft is true that the absence of glass has been proposed to be supplied by the presence of gauze paper, but as nearly every pane is torn, the north wind which whistles shrewly at night finds means of bringing us a morning supply of colds. Let me endeavour to tell how some of us who may happen not to be on duty sometimes pass our day:. After comfortable ablutions in the abundant warm waters of this yamun, for the water is positively warm as it comes from the wells, and atter a campaigning breakfast, we sally forth armed with revolvers and stout walking sticks. The Com missioners' Court in the outer quadrangle is already sitting. The three Commis-iouers, in their square open pavilion, are trying a rape case, and hundreds of Chinese, ao orderly crowd, are looking on. The culprit is a fresh-colored Irish boy, of the Marine force, and the complainant is a little weazened old woman, who totters upon her small sheep's feet, and talks voluble Cantonese against the erect young soldier. The English police corroborate her story. lam afraid there can be no doubt abi ut the tact. The boy was drunk and in discriminating. Ho had offered violence to that quaint creature. He is found guilty, and 50 lashes write in red letters upon his back the Cantonese Co nmissioners' version of the axiom 'si non caste, tauten caute." The open space in front of the Governor's ya mun is more than an acre in area, and abuts upon the Great East and \Vest -street. We no longer call it " the street of benevolence and love." Per haps we go westward, and, p us hi ng th ro u g h the crowd, and averting our eyes f rom th e t oo tempting curiosity shops, we arrive at the gates of the Tartar Yamun, with its two colossal marble lions in front. I have already spoken of this place as a scene of desolati on . I t i s ra pidly returning to its former grandeur. In an incredibly short space of time the Chinese workmen, set in motion by barbarian dollars, have repapered all the walls, botched up all the holes, and, mowing ways through the bamboo jungle, have discovered little nooks with terraces and small bridges, and curious pavilions—gentle acces-ories to the mighty halls which are to form the quarters of the forces. The French are taking great pains to restore the portions they have chosen. Le Capitaine Martineau has lffiiscpe.rivAatfeewrodoamssh,ehsiosfcltihaepeplaint bru s h d o wonders, his prison, and his o e in a Chinese building. The Tartar yamun will soon look as imposing as it did wheni t w as th e pa l ace o f the Southern King of China. The wilderness in its rear, with its central tempi e and ancient trees+, will be again a pleasant park. It is 60 acres. We flushed a woodcock there during a recent walk. If we retrace our steps and pass again eastwards we shall revisit the other great official yamuns. Twenty times may we go about these great strag gling places before we become aware of all their walls contain. Behind the treasury, the portals whereof seem to be in the centre of an overpeopled neighbourhood, I have counted 30 head of deer, their horns appearing and disappearing in the coarse bamboo jungle. There are not five men• beside myself who know that this miniature deer forest exists in Canton City, or, despite the pro vost-marshal, venison would not be so unknown in our quarters. These little wildernesses will,doubt less, soon be cleared ; and before we leave they will become parade-grounds, or, perhaps, encamp ments ; but it shows how little our English resi dents know of what is just an itch beyond their noses, that they, in their northern newspaper, made pert merrime.t--....c ~,,,,_......,h , ~.,,,,,a mnt there were park-like grounds within the c i rcuit or the Canton walls. Our rambles are, however, more usually among the intricately reticulated. streets. As we make our way towards the south• west, by aid of our Chinese compass, we pass guests proceeding to a marriage, with the wedding pre sents in long procession behind their chairs—whole roasted pigs, cakes, and comfitures, and baskets whose contents we can only guess as. Perhaps— it has happened more than once—there is a terrific sound of rapid wheels. There is an alarm of fire, and the fire brigade, in their uniform caps, are dragging a fire engine along the pavement of black granite at a tremendous pace. These firemen are fine fellows. In the heat of our bombardment we saw them working their engines under fire, and once at last we blew up engine and firemen toge ther by a shell. As we near the southern parts, passing under the wall of the old city, we come upon lower neighbourhoods, ~and the shops are adapted to the want s o f th e wa terside population. Here (if you observe curiously the shops which are filled with the sun-d r i e d comes tibles the Chinese love) you may find dried rats with their tails fully projected, and l eav i ng n o doubt of their class and order in creati on . L oo k carefully into that finely browned roast pig and you will discover it to be a dog. Puppies are also borne by in open wicker baskets, and th e i r f a te and ultimatedssti nation are not ambig uous . But these peculiarities are not common, a n d are no t ostentatiously dis• played. You must have an old habitue of the fac tories with you, or you would not discover them. The rats are field rats, caught and dried after har vest, and the dogs have been carefully fed upon rice and meal. We do the Chinese much wrong in the matter of their fool. Their pork is far more white and delicate in flavour than the pork we see exposed in London, an d it i s f e d w;th a care and cleanliness from whi c h some English dairies might well take pattern. Threading our way, under the guidance of some experienced friend, we come t o a carpenter's shop, fronting the entran ce t o a sma ll pot er's field. It is not a rood in ares, of an irregular shape, re sembling most an oblong. A row of cottages open into it on one side ; there is a wall on the other. The ground is covered with half baked pottery ; there are two wooden crosses formed of unbarked wood, standing in an angle, with a shred of rotting rope hanging from o ne o f th em . Thereis nothing to fix the attention in thi s sma ll enclosure, except that you stumble against a human skull now and then as you walk along it. This is the Aceldama, the field of blood, the execution-ground of Canton. The upper part of that carpenter's shop is the place where nearly all the European residents have, at the price of a dollar each, witnessed the wholesale massacres of which Europe has heard with a hesitating scepticism. It was within this yard that that monster Yeh has within two years destroyed the life of 70,000 fellow-beings. These crosses are the instruments to which those victims were tied who were condemned to the special torture of being sliced to death. Upon one of these the wife of a rebel General was stretched, and by Yeh's order her flesh was cut from her body. After the battle at Whampoa the rebel leader escaped, but his wife fell into th e h an d s o f Yeh— , that was how he treated his pri soner . H er b r easts were first cut off, then her forehead was slashed and the skin torn down over the face, then the fleshy parts of the body were sliced away. Th ere are Englishmen yet alive who saw this done, but at what period of the butchery sensation ceased and death came to this poor innocent woman none can tell. The fragment of rope which now hangs to one of the crosses was used to bi n d a woman who was cut up for murdering her husband. The sickening details, of the massacres perpetrated, on this spot have been related to me by those who have seen them, and who take shame to the mse l ves w hil e t h ey confess that after witnessing one execution by cut ting on the cross the rapidity and dexterity with which the mere beheading was done deprived the execution of a hundred men of half its horror. The criminals were broui,ht down in gangs, if they could walk, or brought down in chairs and shot out into the yard. The executioners th en arrange d them in rows, giving them a blow behind which forced out the head and neck and laid them conve nient for the blow. Then came the warrant of death. It is a banner. As soon as it is waved in sight, without verbal order given, the work began. There was a rapid succession of dull crunching sounds—chop, was over dealt, —chop chop, chop, chop. No second blow for the dexterous manslayers are educated to their work. Until they can with their heavy swords slice a great bulbous vegetable as thin as we slice a cucumber they are not eligible for ' their °See. Three seconds A head m ace. In one Leaving the execution-ground, and re-entering the city, we reach, at a distance of about 200 yards, a square space, wherein are the stumps of two man darin 'poles cut short by cannon-shot, and two stone lions, with very peculiarly shaped heads and ridiculous sharp noses. One side of the square is occupied by the paiutel gates and outer buildings of a yamun. This is all that remains standing of the palace of the Governor-General. Inside those gates you find nothing but two acres of brick rubbish. Of the courts and pavillions I looked down upon from the maintop of the Nimrod not a vestige re mains. The cannon of the ships knocked the place down, and even while the firing still continued the populace of this low neighbourhood rushed in and carried away every scrap not only of furniture or ornament, but of wood or stone. Th3y bore off thei beams, the window frames, the wooden columns, , amid storms of round shot and shrapnell shell ; and left nothing but the mounds of brick and mortar and the fragments of wall which we see. There is nothing like a Chinese mob for utter destruction. Repa , sing the southern wall, and pursuing our course westward, we penetrate through devious lanes (not more dirty, perhaps, than some of our own waterside purlieus) to the ruins of those bongs which were knocked down by the English when they were compelled to retreat from Canton. Elowqua.'s house is among the fallen, and so are the bongs of many other "quas," who, while making enormous fortunes from our trade, exulted in being conspicuous as barbarian-haters, earning their pea cocks' tails by sitting on the Committee of War and paying premiums for murdering and kidnap ping our people. When the real danger came all this boasting canaille retired into the western suburb, whither they were well informed by their English and American friends that no fire would be directed. Passing these ruins, and crossing a little creek upon a temporary bridge made of scaling ladders and planks, we come on the site of the dear old factories. It is now an open space, several acres in extent, and covered over by little hillocks of pros ti ate bricks and trampled mortars. Not six inches of wall is left standing, not an inch of wood lies undiscovered. Only as if to show that while bar barian foundations are transitory Chinese institu tions are eternal, the solid pavement of Hog-lane continues. The church which once stopped the path has disappeared, but lines of Coolies are carrying their burdens along Hog-lane and crowds of san pan s ply at the landing-place at which it terminates. In small stalls near at hand you may buy English books and odd articles of European use. A sailor recently bought a Sevres vase, fully believing it to be a Chinese antique ; all this is, of course, loot from the factories. Its exhibition, under present c - rcumstances, is only an ordinary instance of Chinese impudence. If we now turn northwards we shall get into some of the best streets of the western suburb, where every shop is like a little joss-house, and where silks, and embroideries, wad jade stone ornaments, and heavy, ugly, ill-made Chinese furniture, and perfumeries, and other luxuries, are set forth in the highest flight of Chinese taste. You may go for a mile northward in a straight line. If you deviate to the left, you will. probably want your pocket compass to get back again, for you will quickly be involved in the Belgravia of Can ton— nai row, quiet streets, with windowless brick walls and small doorways that give no notice that the best private houses in Canton lie behind. We may now visit the Temple of the 500 Gods without dan ger of being stoned, as Sir J. Bowring once was when he ventured there; and you may even see the Temple of Longevity, with its kitchen gardens and ornamental grounds. Having rambled our full in the western suburb, and lunched on tea and cakes, perhaps at Howqua's (if you have a mer chant likely to buy tea in your party), or if not, then at one of the many tea=houses, you may re turn into the city by the south-western gate, and proceed eastwards to the temple set apart for the adoration of the Emperor—a series of courts and tabernacles—which, although just under the wall, is not much injured by our fire. Thence tend away to the north-west, and' you will cross the Tartar city and look up at the Mahomedan mad ic4x-2ua a sreat:A rah 97E6 a city. Con tinue in the same line and you will at last reach the nine-storied pagoda where the priests will chin-chin you and be very civil. Pass thence backwards in front of the Tartar yamun to the yamun of the Go vernor. You will then have done 12 Louie' hard walking, aad will lie quite ready to join any one of the hospitable messes whereat British and French officers discuss savoury stews in different nooks of that celestial edifice. Another day may well be de voted to the river. You will go up the crowded Fatee Creek and land at the gardens—some two or three acres of nursery-ground—where you will see thousands of rare trees in pots, dwarfed and dis torted into gross imitations of dogs and deer and dragons and vases and birdcages. There are also mandarin orange trees, beautiful camellias, and other flowers whose names I know not, but all in pots and all for sale. You will visit also Puntin qua's house and gardens-60 acres of fishponds, pavilions, bridges, and aviaries, with painted barges pretty flowers, cool stone seats; and every prepara tion for summer indolence—the whole dominated by a white pagoda, whence you have a complete view of the whole. Having seen all this, you will not have seen one tenth part of Canton, but you will have seen all I dare to indicate of a general character, for I must not turn the columns of the Times into a Chinese itinerary, and my only excuse for saying what I have said is that Canton is a virgin city, and some description of it is strictly speaking news. Two days wore occupied in visiting the prisons. A proclamation had been extorted from Peh-kwei, giving general amnesty to all who were amenable to punishment for having held commerce with the foreigners. It was the duty of the three allied Commissioners to ascertain that this amnesty was fully carried out. In the first prison we found a Portuguese boy, a Portuguese man, and the Coolie wbo had acted as verger at the church attached to the factories. At the end of our second day's labour we returned to the yamun with 59 prisoners and two Mandarins, head gaolers, in our custody. I approach with reluctance the task of telling what we saw in these places, and shall dimiss the topic as briefly as I can. It is not, however, suffi cient to say that all the inmates were squalid and half-starved, swarming with vermin and covered with skin diseases. This conditionis common to all the Canton gaols, and to all their inmates. But there are horrors which one mind oannot convey to another, and such we saw again and again during those two days. A Chinese gaol is a group of smallyards enclosed by no general outer wall (except in one instance). Around this yard are dens like thes dens in which we confine wild beasts. The bars are not of iron, but of double rows of very thick bamboo, so close toge tliasaohninnmwtekdoreil ledfa t ars h rot a asomfr t heer t ot we h trfme e tei interior rttahsetiheoonrualurnyeisiitnadnsnaet. ehr,bottedefheousiT i dagetrr s nheliwy t r altdtete l yahrg o er.aioetansdtrrh d toadsTebd a i eiy r yuhner k hrTresa to o neglauatpelv ytersh b rohaetei be el taolr-ryrdlri prisoners low-roofed easgsaoyrdttslfs. prisonersaisetl oondao y Tfkr wdt s eihbl e ere areiea e oenkail n inresr let ily a fteh r t e et outemsroso monkey-house n kl a o t s e the hne foo c We were examining one of the yards of the se cond prison, and Lord Elgin, who is seldom absent when any work is doing, was one of the spectators. As it was broad daylight the dens were supposed to be empty. Some one thought he heard a low I morn in one of them, and advanced to the bars to listen. He recoiled as if a blast from a furnace had rushed out upon him. Never were human senses assailed by a more horrible stream of pestilence. The gaolers were ordered to open that place, and refusing —as a Chinaman al ways at firstrefuses, were given over to the rough handlingiof the soldiers, who were told to make them. No sooner were hands laid upon the gaolers than the stifled moan became a wail, and the wail became a concourse of low weakly muttered groans. So soon as the double doors could be opened several of us went into theplace. The thick stench could only be endured for a mo ment, but the spectacle was not one to look long at. A corpse lay at the bottom of the den, the breasts, the only fleshy parts, gnawed and s eaten away by rats. Around it and upon it Man a festering mass of humanity still alive. what all the datiu gaoler, who seemed to wonder excitement was about, saw that sight will ever forgot it• y ' The what y u w po e n re b th o e rne pa o v u e t . tons, not men. You c . the poor creatures drawn could only believe there ' bodies by seeing it clotted upon ' was blood in their wasfort forth, compelled aodno: m t s o n have who , ds 'and As l t a h id e d more horrible t mo k ne e en ir ta un fotef d r re t hstsheeedyviaortodinr cash some than the last. They were too far gone to shriek, although the agony must have been great; the heavy irons pressing upon their raw, lank shins as the gaolers lugged them not too tenderly along. They had been beaten into this state, per haps long ago, by the heavy bamboo, and had been thrown into this den to rot. Their crime was that they had attempted to escape. Hideous and loath some, however, as was the sight of their foul wounds, their filthy rags, and their emaciate .1 bodies, it was not so distreesing as the indescribable expression of their eyes. The horror of that look of fierce agony fixed us like a fascination.' As the dislocated wretches writhed upon the ground tears rolled down the cheeks of the soldiers of the escort, who stood in rank near them. A gigantic French sergeant, who had the little Mandarin in custody, gesticulated with his bayonet so fiercely that we were afraid he would kill him. We did not then know that the single word which the poor creatures were trying to utter was ' hunger,' or that that dreadful starting of the eyeball was the look of famine. Some of them had been without fool for four days. Water they had, for there is a well in the yard, and their fellow-prisoners had supplied them, but cries for food were answered only by the bamboo. Alas ! it was not till the next morning that we found this out ; for although we took some away, we left others there that night. Since the commencement of this year 15 men have died iu that cell. Some of those who were stand ing by me asked, " How will you ever be able to tell this to the English people ?" I believe that no description could lead the imagination to a full conception of what we saw in that Canton prison. I have not attempted to do more than dot a faint outline of the truth, and when I have read what I have written T feel how feeble and forceless is the. image upon paper when compared with 'the scene upon my memory. This was the worst of the dens we opened, but there were many others which fell but few degrees below it in their horrors. There was not one of the 6,000 prisoners we saw whose appear we before any assemblage of Englishmen would not have aroused cries of indignation. "Quelle societe," ex claimed Captain Martineau, as in the first yard we visited he saw a little boy confined here because he was the son of a rebel, "(belle societe pour un en fant de quatorze ans !" Alas we saw many, many such cases in our after experience. In one of the dens of the Poon-yu, the door of which was open, some one pointed attention to a very child—rather an intelligent-looking child—who was squat upon a board and laughing at the novel scene taking place before him. We beckoned to him, but he did not come. We went up to him, and found he could not move. His little legs were ironed together ; they had been so for several months, and were now paralysed and useless. This child of 10 years of age had been placed here, charged with stealing from other children. We took him away. It was not until our second day's search that we were able to discover the prison in which Europeans had been confined. Threats and a night in the guard-house at last forced the discovery from the Mandarin, or gaol inspector, in our custody. It is called the Koon Khan, is in the eastern part of the city, and is distinguishable from the others only that it is surrounded by a high brick wall. Nearly the whole of our second day was passed in this place. It has only one yard, and in this the prisoners are not allowed to come. There is a joss house at one end of the court ; for, of course, the Chinese mix up their religion with their tyranny. The finest sentiments, such as " The misery of to-day may be the happiness of to-mor row ; " "Confess your crimes, and thank the magistrate who purges you of them ; " " May we share in the mercy of the Emperor," are carved in faded golden characters over every den of every prison. Opening from this yard are four rooms, each containing four dens. The hardest and mcst malignant face I ever saw is that of the chiei gaoler of this prison. The prisoners could not be brought to look upon him, and when he was present could not be induced to say that he was a gaoler at all, or that they had ever s:en him before. But when he was removed they always reiterated their first story, "The other gaolers only starve and ill-treat us, but that man eats our flesh." How, step by step we followed up our inquiries, and how we cast about hither and thither for a clue and at last found one, which was often lost and re found, would be too long to tell. Mr. Parkes con ducted this business with a vigour and intelligence that cannot be over-estimated. At first they had never heard of a foreigner, then a heavy box onthe ears administered by one of the orderlies, in punish ment for a enroat to a- prisoner, produced A reeed lection of one European prisoner. Then the gaolers were roughly handled in sight of the prisoners, and together with the mandarin were taken out in cus tody of the soldiers. Gradually the prisoners began to give credence to what we said, that we were now the Mandarins of Canton, and could protect them if they spoke out. One produced a monkey-jacket from his sleeping-place at the back of the den ; another had an old jersey; all of them soon had stories to tell. Many of the prisoners had been in mates of the place for many years, and upon refer ence to the books we found that they were all ori ginally placed here for very trifling crimes. Old stories get mixed up with new ; the difficulties of Chinese dialects come into plAy, and we often fancied we were unravelling some sanguinary ini quity of yesterday, when we found at last that it was two or three, or even ten years old. It is only by small degrees that the collated evidence of these vermin-bitten witnesses are made to assume form and consistency. It appears at last almost certain that six Chinese were beheaded last night, their fate being in all probability precipitated by our visit to the other prisons. It also appears quite certain that, within a period dating from the commencement of the present troubles, six Euro pean, two Frenchmen, and four Englishmen have found their death in these dreadful dens. Many different prisoners examined separately deposed to this fact, and almost to the same details: The European victims were kept here for several months, herding with the Chinese, eating of that same black mess of rice which looks and smells like a bucket of grains cast forth from a brewery. When their time came—probably kite gaolerthe time held necessar y a f d o s r a ha r e e k ply from p e while and they were strangled. We asked how theyknew it was poison. There was no doubt on this score. It is a curious circumstance, illustrative of the pros trate state of terror that exists here, that the gaoler's fowls scratch about untouched among all the famishing men within the Canton prisons, and feed upon the vermin. It was remarked that the fowls fed upon the vomit of these two Europeans, and died. Only two of these prisoners had excited much sympathy among the Chinese. One of them was a sailor, who spoke the language, adapted himself to their habits, and told them stories. He was cheer ful, or pretended to be cheerful, at first ; but in a short time he grew sick and cried and spoke of his friends far away. Even the Chinese were sorry when his time came, and whom the gaolers poisoned bins. There was another, an old white-bearded man, who was there some months. He spoke only a few words of Chinese, but the Chinese veneration for age came to his aid, and they pitied him also. Some of us thought that this must have been poor. Cooper, the owner of the docks at Whampoa, who, probably mistaken[fOr Cooper, the engineer officer, was kidnapped from his chop boat, lying within 100 yards of the Sybille. His wife and daughter were on board with him. A sanpan came alongside with a letter. While he leant forward to take it he was drawn into the sanpan, and he was away up a creek G g the a o v v e : krh prisonsnwi m o ri . . . ..., a farwu hinthn f d a r t e o or m f before the alarm could ' be given and a boat lowered from the man-of-war. The others, we were told, were not favourites. f They could not speak, they held themselves al wi le If two of them happened to be in prison at the same with the gaolers alone covering his face with his hands.. ci les and It is, I suppose, contrary toournaptriionns , P when a policy, and the custom of civilised lto one, he h th e e e y ith e e o r nv fo e u rsed together. If theroer wsaats unish these acts, and the secretary, two terrible principal gaoler hand of this iniquity Indians, the head and the We p carried away the and we also carried away the prisoners who had so c am i n t l y ye has been taken by assau but we information,stit:hstwedorathypoint. given us in our but we only took them as witnesses, and lodged them guard-house. On the night of the second day the three : hisby p th ri i s s on sp s sp ectacle, t w ac h le at Com missioners sought an interview with Peli-kwei, fiperow d , u o c r ed aff th e e cte fe a tt t e o red fly an , d in p to ara a ly t s o ed we c r h in il g d p t a o s s ii h .o o n w ,; m ai r a . t there Parkesw were s be n t instancesup upon n f p u e n r n s e e c c e u s t s i a n r g y severityhim— poionr ? w e a h s it how he dealt with his own people ? Were right whatiibiesi being goa t na h mt e wro y o:l ei. had The discovered, Lieut : we prepared to open all the prisons in Canton I It . was breach of faith to go into those prisons ' w t itil 1 1 out notice to him. He would write immedia sly Nothing can be more orderly than the books of these I..risons nothing can be more just and benefi cent than the rules laid down for their governance. In some countries words represent facts, but this is never the case in China. The practice is as I have faintly sketched it. In dealing with this nation of fair words and foul deeds we are under great disadvantage. Howqua, and Singqua, and Imqua, and. all theother merchant " quas" were in the Committee 'of War, and cogni- . sant of all that was doing in these prisons. " Com mitted by the Committee of War" was the usual', entry in the prison books. If we had seized' Howqua and held him for 24 hours—and he wail well within our reach —poor old Cooper would be in the bosom of his family. But this would have been, according to our notions, unjust to Howqua, for the Chinese would not afford, us legal evidence of his complicity. So poor Cooper languished in that loathsome prison, and we are a righteous nation, who respect the dicta of learned Dutch jurists. When I have said that Mr. H ullatt's soup kitchen goes on well, and that he has- already 'funds to supply a daily meal for three months to 1,500 Chinese, I have said all that I dare venture to say about this city. A score of letters would not exhaust the subject. but the patience of the Briti6n public has its limits. The 70th Sepoy Regiment has arrived. They are doubtless very fine high caste gentlemen. It is said that they have existed for 16 days upon bean and water, beciuse they had scruples - - *.:tonscience' about cooking at sea. Two hAdred' coolies were asAigned to sweep out their queltertf;;,boe4nse, es , General Straubenzee remarks, these menAto — liiing , of that sort, 'but only do soltrrevicworlrlfelieVir I am-not more cruel than -my neighbours, Vett I should certainly like to see all this nonsense . flogged out of these scoundrels. In these latter days, when it has been possible to substitute other pun ishments, there has been too much flogging in this army for slight offences, and I • would willingly spare some of our drummers and boatswains - mates for service in the Sepoy quarters. They landed, I must admit, in very soldierlike order, and, by the aid of our Coolies and their ownnanap followers, they were lodged or tented in a mar vellously short time. The next day they addicted themselves to looting, and three of them were shot by the -French police. The evidence, upon the court of inquiry which followed was very contradictory ; but that they were looting and that they resisted the police were two uncontested facts. Perhaps the French were hasty ; but a Sepoy in his undress is undressed in the literal sense of tho term, and it is not quite to be wondered at that the Frenchmen had recourse to their arms to rid themselves of the blows and brickbats of a crowd of half-naked black ruffians. No two human creatures can be more different than a Sepoy dressed in his red coat and faultlessly clean belt, and the same animal stalk ing about on his long, lank shanks with a white girdle round his loins. It is ominous of sub sequent events that on the third day after the ar rival of this 70th Regiment they were erecting two funeral pyres before the eyes of the wondering Chinamen just outside the north-east gate, and burning two of their comrades. Cremation is a cleanly mode of a' pulture ; but it would be well to preserve entire the classical custom, and to per form the rite with sweetly scented weeds. I am afraid that General Straubenzee, whoa* popularity has been waning since the capture of the city—such is the fate of sudden favourites—will not recover his ground by bringing his old Indian prejudices into Canton. He has most unfortunately commenced his treatment of the sepoys by an act which both English and French regard as an insult. When an Englishman or a Frenchman - is caught plundering he is tried by the three Commissioners. The first four sepoys who were caught looting were withdraWn from the jurisdiction of the Commis sioners, and handed back to their own colonel. Passing from the men of war to the men of peace, we approach the question of the re-opening of the trade of this city. In my last letter I mentioned the contradictory opinions existing upon this sub ject, and the interests wherein these ,opinions had their origin. Soon after it was despatched, I had an opportunity of seeing Howqrta at his own house. The principal Chinese merchants were present, and I was surprised a t th e - fitIOD PY vs ,, itit - wtilefi They all speak English. Islowqua stands upon his dignity— or upon the advantage it gives him—and replies only through his linguist ; but it is evident that he quite understands all that passes. It was a point with the English merchants to know—first, whether the Canton merchants were prepared to trade, and if so, secondly, what stock they had on band. After & long time spent in ques tioning and answering, in discussing sponge-cakes and sweetmeats, and parfait-amour, a list was pro- duced of the teas in stock, and,-making allowance for the somewhat elastic. quantity of a Chinese "chop," we eAimated the amount at 21 millions of pounds, all, as we were assured, good sound teas, ready for immediate delivery. There is a still larger quantity re idy to come down. The Chinese, as sellers, are not likely to overestimate the extent of their stock in hand ; but, upon talking this matter over with the English merchants, they appear inclined to disbelieve both the amount and the quantity of the stock in hand ; they say that what teas the Chinese have are chiefly those of pre vious seasons. lam at all times unwilling to state facts which may influence present markets for these are subjects on which I a m peculiarly liable to be misinformed, and am without that knowledge of the details of Chinese commerce which would enable me to feel confidence in deciding between conflicting statements. I confine myself, there fore, to reporting the assertions on either side. Upon the general question of trading the Chinese merchants assembled at Howqua's seemed to think that, upon the authority of. Peh-kwei's proclama tion, they might recommence their business. "More better make that trade pigeon all one fashion—that Maudatin pigeon all one fashion.". The only diffi culty they had was upon the subject of duties. They thought that if the allies collected duties Peh kviei's only incentive to open the trade would be taken away, and that trade couldnot go on. Lord Elgin decided this matter as they wished. It was found upon consideration that the difficulties in the way of collecting the duties ourselves were insuperable. Multitudes of international questions would arise, and as the correspondence between Mr. Reed and Yeh had never been a great secret to any body, it was known that a very small infraction would be eagerly laid hold of. Whenever this cor respondence shall be made public you will find that it is precisely what' described it to be at the time— possibly when Lord Elgin might have been quite ignorant of its existence or purport—that the Amts.; rican approached the Mandarin almost with . Ber -1 vilibr, !dui ta.tu utzAtuu. yr. ilia .tire aset of that flag which Jrc., and that the Mandarin met his off rs with a curt snubbing and most mortify. ing contempt. However , the atti tud e of t he Ame ricans and the necessities of the Chinese Govern ment are the evident considerations which induced the allied Powers to restore the trade upon its old leaving all money matters to be considered On the 10th, as in my last letter I informed you wo uld happen, the blockade was raised. Astonish ing numbers of great junks had tw o or t h ree d ays pre viously emerged from unnoticed creeks and were r footing,hereafte as an Imperial question. fitted for sea with laudable activity. O n th e morn ing of the 10th the river seem e d su dd en l y crowded with huge matted sails, the deserted packhorses on Ronan had been rented and refitted by European merchants, and in an hour, as though by enchant ment, Canton seemed to be in full swing of com merce. Verily this commercial promptitude is a wonderful thing. Probably some portion of those 21,000,000 lbs. of tea is by this time a long way on towards England. To protect this trade a water police has been established. Captain Edgell has this difficult task. Fifteen snake boats and three gun boats form what e nyu , tl piratical onu oa. sn thanin d s to - te u s a Le d reea s r e o h n coaa: -a - eZ e h n ll f' s and laden the spa with useless guns, towed away c d o i ar e l l e e u m t r e ti v d n h l of Captain Edell has to d e al i then© eom e of boats,the ridiculouswd e d with ebe by LieuttehnealintesGtrreaL squAdron I should have em laughable h c i w a fa e n ml h b d e o e a r r e r m Le e however, if tact, and temper , necessary to describe ae a ur r g, r ha a na s b s d m lue e n n tthi t ir s inn w ggs it in h od w ast hi etiryi ch ; in managing his Chinese can succeed in making h rtkh o .e ne Tt s e t hem an pteie d io eff noor ec tiinhi ti gin l ig e ; Chinese water-police Edgell will do it. The 14th of February is arrived, audit is the day of the Chinese new year. Lanterns are hung out before every door, business is closed, and the dark haired race are employing all their energies in ex :. i t b u d r i n n a g i crackers e w a o n ra d en eating or o crowd picturesque or pleasant_ in this feast of lanterns Your Cibinaman is a monotonous animal even in h*.