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NIONT BLA.Ne w TO T - r N TI Ter o TTT AT 8. :,n.? CIFIRTSTY' MINSTRELS, Polygraphic B A IL TWiffITINDRYIn and FnITICT TH ENT • 'TIT T Many Patrons f the Chr sty's havinz been unable to . Ain samigezt on owing to the limited numbers of 3 ale, they have intrcoltred an extra raw, which will dive them an extra number •-f Yeninif at g, and on eatnrday enmmencing at 3. Prices boxed, I/. Is.; Stalk, 3s. ; Area. 25.; Back, Is. PROFESSOR WILJALBA FIVKET.T, . —ST. JAMES'S TREATRE.—wedn , sdav and , aturday Afternoons at 3, and Every Evening (except Saturday) at 8. Stalls, Si.: Balcony Stalls, 45.: Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; (141lery, is ; Private Boxes, two guineas; one guinea and a-half, arid one guinea. —Places to betecured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ADELAIDE GALLERY, Lowth'r Arcade, Strand. GRAND SAT.T,P, nr D.ANc,}l, from the Argyll Rooms, with th. ori?inal Band of Forty Performers. Con ductor, Mons. 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Dr. Kahn's wine T.eetnres and a Programme eat oast free on the receipt of twelve stamps B A -N OF DEPOSIT, Established A.n. 1844. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON. Parties desirous Pf Tpivrsxma Moxay are requested to examine the Plan of the DANK or Drrostr. by which a high rate of interest may be obtained with perfect secu ity. The Interest is payable in January and 'Tilly. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Forms for opening accounts sent free, on application. QOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—The Directors of this Company are now prepared to issue a limitrd atriount of Debenture Stock, to meet Debentures falitnir dal. This stock bears interest in perpetuity at the rate of 4L per cent. per annum, and takes priority over all shares or stock of any description what. ever in the Company. Interest noon it is paid half-yearly. FRED. G. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Offices, South Wales Railway, 10, Eastbourne-terrace, Paddington, Feb. 22d, 1858. EIGIIT PER CENT. OBLIGATIONS. Interest payable half-yearly, IY London, Paris, Frankfort, and Hamburg. THE GALVESTON, HOUSTON, and HEN • DEMON RAILWAY COMPANY is now prepared to re ceive applications for 5,000 Obligations of 201. each, redeemable in nine jlearts,, with a Premium of 21 each. The-annual Drawings to commence on Ist March. 1860. The Obligations are secured on the Revenues of the Railway, and on th. Free Grant of Land, which is at the rate of 10,240 acres for everralle of Railway constapcted. The Interest, at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, is payable in London on the Ist January and the let July on presentation of the Coupons at the Commercial Bank of London, Lothburv• Subscribers for Obligations are entitled to one Free Share for every Obligation subscribed. Full particulars may be obtained on application at the Agency ot the Company , 4, Ski nner ' s-place, Size-lane, City, or o f M e ssrs. P ri ce & Brawn, 4, Change-alley, City. METR OPO LIT AN COUNTIES LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27. Regent- treet. Waterloo place, London. S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, and Limns on adyantageone terms. F. FERGUSON CAMROITX, Manager. N.B. Policies in force, notwithstanding the Decease of the Life Assured, provided the Premiums :be paid within the thirty days of grace. FORGE HOBSON calls the attention of the Public to his Superfine Black Cloth Dress and Frock Coats, 27, lbs. Od. to Three Guineas; also a new and extensive Stock in Trewserings, tor the present season, price 21s. Ttle Inverness Cape, 255. Excellence with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, Fashionable Tailor, 57, Lombard-street. MESSRS. NICOLL'S ESTABLISHMENTS are thus divided:— No. 114, RRGENT-st rRr.F:T is their Depot for Paletots, Uni fOrree, Gentlemen's Evening and Morning Dress. No. 116, for the manufactu e of the tlitinea Trousers. No. 118, for Hslf.Guinea Waistcoats. No. - 120, for Waterproofed fluinea Capes, and Servants' Liveries. • No. 142 is their new Establishment for Ladies' Rid , ng Habits and • Mantles in Fur and Cloth, , N0. , 144 contains their other new Department for Clothing young gentlemen with the taste, excellence, and economy whereby Messrs. VICOLL have secured wide spread confidence. Ihe Wholesale wareronms arc , at the r^ar of toe Regent-street ‘ , .premises. v z, 29, 30, 31, and 4!, WARWICK-STREET. ; # The City Depot is at 21 and 22, CORNHILL. The addresses of the various Agents are duly advertised in the *tumid' of the United Kingdom and the Colonies. i 'ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINTH SALE. . • ' CUS I'OM-HOUSE, London. March, 1858. WOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the _ Commissioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Bale Rooms. Mincing-lane, on WEDNESDAY, 3d, THURSDAY, 4th, FRIDAY, sth. and MONDAY, Bth March, 1858, at twelve e'cleet at noon precisely, the following GOODS for home consump ' tion, viz.:— Arms. Brussels lace, Bags. Boats, Brandy, Bombay Work ; Clock,. brass, black, marble, ormolu, &c. ; Coffee, Cotton Articles, &c.; Embroidery or Needlework, Habits, Sleeves, Collars, &c.; Fur niture, Marqueterie, Cabinets. Tables, Chairs, &c. ; lacquered, Geneva, Gold Jewellery, Hair Guards, ivory Ornaments Brooches, and chessmen; Jewellery. (mock), viz., Bracelets, Brooches, Pins, Chains, &c.; Lace Articles; Mathematical Instruments, Meerschaum Pipes, Paper, Pipe-Stems, and 'apes, Perfumed Spirits, Porte. nionnales, &c.; Plate, Silver, &c.: Porcelain, mounted ; Rum, Blairt.fronts. Snuff Boxes, &mars, Succades, &c.; Shawls, Barege and Chenille ; Spirits, plain and mixed ; Silk Manufactures, viz., Challis Robes (pieces), Barege Shawls. Bread stuffs, Cheni le Scarfs, _Waistcoat - pieces , Trimmings, &c.; Swiss work, sugar, Tallow, T ea . Timber, Trimmings (dressmaker?), Utrecht Velvet ; Watches, gold and silver, &c. • Wine, and various other Goods For Export at ion or for Home * Consumption, on payment of the Dune' :—Marble, Paper, Furniture, Sugar, Spirits, Tea, Wine, and ether Goods. I For Exportation only:—Sweetened Spirits, &c. For the benefit ofthe Crown :—Sugar, Spirits, Wine, &c. The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Cus tOm-house. Thames-street; at the London, St. Katherine, East and West India Docks ; and Victoria Docks ; and Tobacco Ground, Rotberhithe ; Monday, Ist, and Tuesday, the 2d 'of March, 1858, from Ten o'clock in the morning until Three o'clock in the after noon, and on the days of solo from Ten o'clock in the morning until Twelve o'clock at noon. Take Notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver-General after Two ' o'clock In the afternoon, and that on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver-General after eleven o'clock in the fore noon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom louse, Thames-street, on. shilling each. AN ACT OF GRATITUDE.-5,000 Copies of a Medical Book for Gratuitous Circulation.—GEonos THOMAS. Begq having been effectually cured of nervous debility, loss oftnernory, Sad dimness of sight, rmaing from the early errors of youth, by following the instructions given in a Medical Work by a Physician, he considers it his duty, in gratitude to the author, and for the benefit of nervous sufferers, to publish the means used. He will therefore send tree, to any address, in a sealed envelope, on receipt of a direct ed envelope enclosing two stamps, to pre-pay postage, a copy of the "medical work containing every information required. Address, G. Thomas, Esq., Craven House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. TOZEAT7'S COPAHINE or SACCHARA.TED OCAPSULES, approved of by the French College of Physicians, siccessfully administered in the Paris and London Hos pitals, and cknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure of a certain disorder. See " Lancet" of Nov. 6, 1852: a copy of which will be forwarded on appll Istion.—price per 100, 4s. 6d. ; bO, 2e, 9d. To be had of the taventor, 1 /ABItIEL JOZEAIJ, sole French chemist, 49, Haymarket, London, and ill the principal chemists. Tint SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY Just published, nrice is., post free, in an Envelope, for 13 stamps, SELF -PRESERVATION.—A Medical Treatise •on the Functions and Disorders of the Generative System. and on the care of Nervoas and Physical Debility, resulting from vicious habits acquired during the critical passage from youth to Manhood, With practical observations on the Physiology of Nflr riage in its social, moral, and physical relations. To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life within Life,' and its advantages in detecting, by "r""lrYexana inittion, the cause and erect of every variety of these emplaints, with numerous engravings and esise.j RY SAMUEL LVMERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, • Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital 'Medical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' flail, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful con sequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man b°od. and premature decay at all stages of life, th an , perhaps, any Ot her class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its p erusal is l r ticularly recommended to persons entertaining secret douhts of Physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is it is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are Principles of personal manacement which cannot he violated with out incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret suc eed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how those penalties May lie mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove i. and how the evil and its conaequences maybe av o id e d , and, above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. Published by J. 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(In stamps), 54 pages, THE EASY SELF-CURE, without MEDI CINE, INCONVENIENCE, or EXPENSE, of constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia), diarrhoea, phlegm, dysentery, nervousness. biliousness and liver complaints, flatulence, distension. acidity. heartburn. palpitation of the heart, hysteria, neuralgia, nervous headache, deafuese, noises in the head and oath erysipelas, eruption of the skin, impurities and poverty of the blood, scrofula, cough, asthma, bronchitis, ennsumptien: dropsy, rheuinatism. gout, nausea, and sickness, low spirits, spasms, cramps, epileptic fits, spleen, general debility, fauuletude. sieepiessness, paralysis, tremors, dislike to society, unfitness for study, loss of memory. delusions, vertigo, blood to the head, exhaustion, me'ancholy, groundless fear. indeci sion, wretchedness, by a natural and pleasant means, which saves fifty timer its cost in other remedies. Supported by many respect able persons, whose health has been restored by it, after all otkee means of cure had failed.—Mann. Nephews, 39, Corahill, and through all Booksellers in town and country. (ROYAL XCHANGE HOTEL, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNEy, VI R. RALPH WATKIN (of the White Swan Hotel, Pavement, York), respectfully acquaints his Co ^- mercial Friends and the Paqic in general, that he has entered upon the above Hotel, where he trusts, by assiduity and attention to the comfo t of his Patrons, t • ensure their approbation. An ORDINARY each Day at Three o'Clock precisely. Newcastle, 18th Feb. 1858. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, an Dining-roam, consisting of a new and elegant assortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks. Inkstands, beautiful Inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &c., in Italian klabaster, Marble, Rronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, London. 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De ayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in mastica i(m. 64. Pleet-streat. it ome Prom ten till five. 'O THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. CHAR ES WATSON. M.D., Fellow and Honorary Vice- President of the Imperial African Institute of France, (Physician to the Bedford Dispensary), 27, Alfred-Place. Bedford-square, Lon don, continues to i-sue, on receipt of six stainpe, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE " " The true Guile to those volo dee.re a speedy and private cure." •rTniversity Nfacrazine. " The 'NEW kM F.RIC AN DISCOVERY' showinz 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." NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE 7URF:S(a ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complai its, hysteria, Neuralgia, Dyser.try, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitati on, fleartbnr.,, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, So isms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, Cough. A.,tinna, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Chlldrea's Com plaints are effected by I )IJ AINA B RI A CA RI FVO ' E S ) wh d ic e h l r i e c s i t o o u re s s health E wit A ho L ut E pi j •sn ' In A g inconvenience, or expense, as it saves fifty times its cost in other remedies. It Is, moreover, the best food for infants and invalids generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, tun' inter feres with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish fi )r lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nerv•Oue and muscular energy to the most enfeebled. We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tude from invalids :—Cure N 0.71, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry'? Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of those lines. Stuart de Decies."—Curi. No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, b fl e a e t i u l l r e e rey m i . , s ,e p d am i s vp s, an uu d ar s ry ic , k s n e es .c s e F s ood. ac N h and ir iaJ vomiting ollnw ; r , have tham at t e stomach 1. ig, near Di 94, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, llerts, a cure of extreme ner v ).isness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous *metes.— C ore No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver pool : a cure of ten yeitt's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nermous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,g1G. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation. dyspep sia. erv ous i rritabrity. Cure No. 34,210. Dr. Sherland of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edle of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Or. Harvey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con sumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Bunt, 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. 4;,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two years' diarrhea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess geesastleatn of many ema' nervous irritability, bile, and kidi ion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia 7.eguers, df n- sumption, after her medi ca l advisers had abandon edcure all cope el recovery. Cure No, 180. " Twenty-nee years' nervousness, con stipation. Indigestion and debility, from remove or have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured b 3 Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. It. Reeves, 181. Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. " Eight years' dis pepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any Inquiries. Rev. John Flavell, Ridlington Rec tory, Norfolk." So. 32,836. "Three years' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which ren. dered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen." Care No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's ex ce ll ent Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious itnita tationst tion on the 10th M arc h , The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an inlunc -1851, against Alfred Ilooper Neville for imitating "Da Ba rr y' s Revalenta Arabica Food." , Suitably packed for all climates, and with full instructions. in canisters, lib 2s 9d ; 21b 4s 6d; 51b lis , 121 b 228. The 121 b car riage free, on receipt of Yost-office order. Barry Du Barry ant! Co.. 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co„ veyers to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly; James Wells, 4s, Sloane street ; also at 60, Grace.ihnrch-street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheapside ; 0,4141 60 ,8ig7epsgate street ; 63, 150, and 198, ox fOrcl-ltre4t 0 • 493 ) PUBLICATIONS. 13, great Marlborough street. i t NEW NOVEL, BY LADY SCOTT, entitled '• THE ONLY CHILD," in 2 vols., will be shortly published, by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, successors to Mr. Colburn. 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For six days the Wester n-gate_ hal heels open, and exit had bean derded to neith e r ewes, nor geode, nor tieasnre. Surely there osinle he ent4 s ne fiefs to re ward the captors. How can we attain our re to comprehend the stolid, stupid cer.Edence of these Chinese, officials ? The treasury was full of silver as full probably as it ever was. Fifty-tw o boxes which a man coull not singly lift were found, and G 8 packets o f solid ingots. There was also a storehouse of the most costly Mandarin, fur dresses lined with sables and rare furs, and there was a room full of copper cash. N ow a strange scene occurred. The instructions were to bring array any bullion, but to touch nothing else. Thews) orders wore obeyed with a stren,ge and self-denying fidelity. The soldiers and officers in strict disciplin e turned their watering eyes away from the rich dresses. But how to remove the heavy lead of bullion. Crowds had assembled in front, and a happy thought occurred to one of the officers, " A dollar's worth of cash to every Cootie who will help to carry the silver to the English camp." In a moment the crowd dispersed in search of their bamboo-poles, and in another moment there were a thousand volunteer Cantonese contending for the privi lege of carrying for an enemy their city's treasure. With their stipulated strings of cash around their necks away they trudged with the English soldiers and the gyms silver. Colonel Graham, who had advanced from the s :nth to the same point, came up in time to direct this operation. Wtien the last British soldier left the treasury the mob poured in like a countless pack of famished wolves. The retiring and self-denying English could hear their yells and shouts as they fought over the fur dresses and other stores that had been left untouched. Contemporaneously with these operations the French bad followed the course of the ramparts to the West-gate and closed it. Leaving a detachment to secure this exit, the main body struck inwards for the lofty poles which mark the site of the Palace of the Tartar General. Here, if anywhere, resistance must be expected. All is hollowness—all is sham ! They had come to foice a palatial fortress ; they had found a rank wilderness—colossal courtyards grass-grown and mil dewy ; habitations with seacs for an Imperial army, but not safe to the tread of a single soldier; vast empty rotting balls where bats in thousands were clinging to the roofs, and where the floors were inches deep in their ordure. It was not destruction they saw around them, but decay. Upon Pslaktvei's table was found a return from the Tartar General, saying that he had 7,000 Tartar troops under his command. Where were they Certainly they were not, and had not for many years been, in this yaniun. It is the cu.tona to let Chinese soldiers live at their own homes, but surely they might be expected to be called in and posted in guard when an enemy had occupied all the fortifications. Yet the evidence afforded by the place itself is indisputable. The Tartar General must have lived here almost alone. A hundred men would have trodden down this rank grass, and dispossessed these horrible clustering bats. A few days after this event I passed two hours in this yamun in the company of several English and French officers, who came to allot it for quarters. After close inspection they came to the conclusion that there were only two rooms fit for the dwelling of a civilized man. From one of these the French chased the Tartar General, and they took him in a closet close by. We must now go back to the general starting point, and accompany the chase after Yeh. Mr. Consul Parkes, who was attached as interpreter to Colonel Hohoway'e party, arrived too late, awl was without an escort. While he was deploring his ill-luck he met with Commodore Elliot, who, fired by Mr. Parkes telling that him that he had some information as to Yea's lurking-glace, agreed, upon his own respoasi. bility, to accompany him with 100 blae-jackets. Mr. Parkes expected to find Yell at the Imperial library, but upon arriving at that high-tilted edifice he found only a great empty house. Having ransacked every corner, they were coming away disgusted when Mr. Parkes put his foot against a closed door. It gave way, and a Ceicainan was seen inside the closet diligently ' studying one of the sacred books. Where was Yell I How should the Chinaman know He knew nothing of Yeh—he was only a poor student. Drawn from his hiding-place and submitted to a sharp interrogatory, he confessed, bit by bit, that Yeh had been there, but bad left some days before. At last he even thought he knew where he was—nearly three miles off, somewhere at the south-west corner of the city, in a small yamun of one of the Lieutenant-Governors, raking this "student" along with them, the party now proceeded to the Go vernor's yamun. The Governor was by this time in custody of Colonel Holloway, and the Admiral and the General had arrived there. An examination took place, and the Governor, after some admonition, admitted that he also knew Yeti's retreat, and named the same place which the student had named. He was made to send a second guide, and the two Chinamen were placed in front of the bluejackets. These unwilling guides, as they were urged along at a gallop through the narrow streets of the Tartar city, did not cease to shout to the crowds which ran together, " Good people, go about your affairs. These gentlemen have just had an interview ssith Peh-kwei, and they are now going to have another interview Yeh." " Very well," said the crowd, habitually deferential to the cap of the Mandarin. As they got deeper and deeper into the maze of streets some of the officers seemed to think they were doing an imprudent thing. "If the worst comes to the worst," said Captain Key, "we know the direc tion of these walls by this compass and can find our way to them so on they went. The longest chase must have at. end. At last the guides called a bolt at the door of a third-rate yamun, which appeared closed and deserted . Toe doors were forced open and the blue-jackets were all over the place in a moment. It was evident that they were now on the right scent. The place was full of hastily-packed baggage. Mandarins were running about yea running about; and at last one came forward and delivered himself up as Yeh. But he was not fat enough. Parkes pushed him aside, and hurrying on, they at last spied a very fat man contemplating the achievement of getting over the wall sit the extreme rear of the yamun. Captaia Key and Commodore Ell.ot'is coxswain rushed forward. Key took the fat gentleman round the waist, and the coxswain twisted the august tail of the Imperial commissioner round his fist. There was no mistake now,—this was the veritable Yeh. In stinctively the blue-jackets felt it must be Yeh, and they tossed up their hats and gave three rattling cheers. Yeh is by no means the hero people thought him. He trembled violently when he was taken : he strenuously denied his identity ; and it was not till Mr. Parkes had several times had the satisfaction and triumph of assuring his old enemy of hie personal safety that he grew composed. As soon, however, as he felt himself safe all his arrogance returned. He posed himself 'nags nificently in his chair. He laughed at the idea of giving up his seals, and also at the idea of his being led away. He would wait there to receive the men Elgin and Gros, They searched all his packages for papers, and otherth England, gla things nd the, France, c a a t cations ntsh they the b f e o e u r s n e e t d , r n e t a aa s t r o i e h os p e nwg e i k n n i m . ate T d h , s t s o e o a r cunimportantlastedthree documents Theo news of the capture had been sent to head-quarters ; Colonel Hecker was despatched with a strong body of Marines, and Yeh again trembled as he entered his chair as a captive. At the foot of the terrace, before the great joss -house on Magazine hill, off-setting from the broad steps, is a collegiate quadrangle. Here the dons of the ecclesias tical institution clustered. Some small cellular apart meets, opening inwards towards the bill, were doubtless the private abodes of the bonzes ; two large rooms, whose windows lo . ok over the city, were the hall and senior common room. This quadrangleis a little changed in its uses. It is become the British head-quarters. The Admiral and General have appropriated the hall and common room, and the Staff are contriving possibilities of residence in the cells. The servants have utilised the small area—a dozen Crimean shirts are there banging to dry. About twelve o'clock on Tuesday the colonnade of this small quadrangle was loosely thronged by post captains and colonels and smaller barbarian mandarins. The news that the city had been dragged and all the big fish taken had spread. Every one was anxious to see the prisoners brought in. First marched Peh-kwei, whom I have already de scribed, and after him, with rolling step, almost gigantic in stature, and immense in bulk, came the Tartar General. As he passed close by me I measured him by myself; he must be quite six feet four high. They were ushered into a small room at the end of the colonnade, where the General and the two Admirals were assembled. The two mandarins took their seats as though they had come of their free will to pay an ordinary visit, The Tartar General, with his head thrown back so that you saw only the inside of the brim of his Tartar cap, looked not unlike our own Eighth Harry as Holbein shows him. There is great show of dignity and courage that martial Tartar, but he is only a type and specimen of the great Imperial sham of which he forms part. He is an empty imposture. During the fight he never appeared upon the wall. After the fight he did nothing to gather his 7,000 men around him. When the French cams he made no defence, but ran from room to room, and was dragged from a filthy closet. If he had been taken by Tai-pings instead of Europeans he would be howling at their feet. Knowing himself personally safe, he swells himself and tries to look majestic. He believes he hasito do with men more superstitiously obsequious to Chinese rank than the Coolies of Canton are, so be tries to awe them by his presence. Perhaps be is right. There is too much of this nonsense. The interpreters catch this mania of Mandarin -worship from their teachers and their Chinese books, and our leaders—predisposed by the truly English deference for high-sounding titles—catch the infectious folly from the interpreters. 'What shall be done with these men ? "Send them both aboard ship," advises one interpreter; "Send them back to resume their functions and to save the city from pillage," advises the other. Lord Elgin is consulted, an 4, has the boldness to believe that the general principles ‘,). " human nature are not to be extinguished by paper em lanterns and peacocks' feathers. He advises 14 t t a b n ot E h u r r e o tu p r e n an un t d ri e b r u c n o a n h diti L o e n t s. TB L e e a t ng Peb his court under the authority of an d s. i naen o:o s w - d e pe s i l r ra iv e- e t e i r o l : a n n g up return rint under; wc! t their conditionsarm s arms." " disband in glrn po ss i "Impo ss ible; h t l r t e:y . ° , P c, "k„ldn t r y " The trial likaet pricked isr 13ecrim pudent made,tpou all d a e and Chinese n sr P t d ei, * g , e d. c n . e a an oret eto fefound tuurdoMandarinseguientithetrehrl the fora h h e g ihr me-ruingloudly inatt ot no the dmw si .g tt s e , r, they y conskiedder k .. 4,-. birAha.-ED prayers for protection. Nothing of the sort OICIII'A. The imperturbable Chinamen go on just as though nothing had happened. We make an imposing military promenade all round their walls, but only crowds of the lowest classes come out and stare at us. The Mandarin soldiers have been driven from the suburb near the landing-place, but have been succeeded by robbers, rho despoil the villagers and resist our officers if they interfere. Captain Hall had to cut one of these fellows down as he was aiming a furtive blow with his short sword at Lieutenant Forbes, and there are few of us who have not a pike or a sword to show as a memorial of some encounter with these ruffians. The tartar soldiers are found at night creeping up to our sen tries, especially in the neighbourhood of the maga zines. The general belief is that they come to blow us up. I think they come to steal the powder. Gough Fort and Bluejacket Fort were mined by our Sappers, for we have not force enough to h.ld them. The Chinese actually, came at night and ►tole the powder laid ready to charge the mines, and a Chinaman was found in a magazine from which our men had been withdrawn because the roof had caught fire, and smouldered for two days before it went out. On Friday Lord Elgin and Baron .Gros came up to camp, and sat upon the roof of the Chines© bat tery on Magazine-hill to see the forts blow up. It was worth the trouble of getting up the hill to see that sight. When the spectators took their seats both the forts were fullof men. The French, who, having no Engineers of their own, were directed by Captain Stuart, took Bluejacket Fort, and Gough Fort was mined by the. senior Engineer officer, Captain Mann. When the appointed time had come and passed—for nothing is done here at the appointed hour—a rocket went up, the men hurried out, and the old solid stone buildings stood intact in toeir louelirvss. They never looked so interesting as during, i the ten.minutes which suc ceeded the rockets. Seated at only 500 yards' dis tance you could just see a small glimmering slow match burning down. Thea came a succession o! loud, sharp, cracking, shivering explosions, throw ing fragments high in air and frightening, hut not killing, a kite at the moment hovering over Fort Gough. There were at least 20 successive explo sions at the larger fort. When the smoke cleared a thousand years seemed to have passed in a few seconds. The square substantial fortification was a picturesque ruin such as we see at Caernarvon or Drachenfells. It was intended that the two forts should go up together, but the French were ready first, and the spectators were tired of waiting, so the drama was divided into two parts. People still ask, not what we are going to do next, but what the Chinese are going to do Theso curious, stolid, imperturbable people seem deter mined simply to ignore our presence here, and to wait till we are pleased to go away. Yell livim much as usual. He cut off 400 Chinese heads the • other mornin _;• and stuck them up in the south of • the city. Our leaders seem to be puzzled by the tenacious, childlike, helpless obstinacy—the passive rEsistance of their enemy. When petitioners come up to complain of some plundering straggler there :s a buzz of expectation in the camp. Mr. Parkes and Mr. Wade, the interrreers, who by reason of the general ignorance of the language, are become masters of the position, are looked to with ludi onus anxiety. There is an evident hope that the gentleman with the tail is a mandarin with an offer of submission. I sonntinies think that these oracles deliver rather apocryphal responses as to the manners and cuitoms of modern Chinamen, but they certainly work like horses ; and, as our leaders must lean upon external aid, it is well they have men of so much pluck and energy at band. It is, however, an evil—one of the many evils unavoidable in China, that the responsible men cannot form their own judgments and directly superintend their own mea sures. TUESDAY, Jan. 5. At length, after a week's pause, we have made a move—and a decisive move. At half-past 7 o'clock the troops ent.Ted the city, and before 10 we had captured the Lieutenant-Governor, the Tartar Gentral, the Treasury, 52 boxes of dollars, and 68 packages of syce, and, lastly, the great Yeh himself. It will take me longer to recount how all this happened than it took the troops to acoomplish it. Last among the tiers of temples which cover the Magazine-hill stands the only house in Canton city which an English gentleman would think inhabitable. All the rest are huge, dusty, ruinous, dilapidated shams. It is called Yea's House, and was yet un finished when the city was taken. The lattice work is new, the paper which does duty for glass is unbroken, the grotesque decorations are fresh, and the whole place is clean. From the ttantice of this house you have the best and nearest view of the city. You look up one narrow street running southwards, and you catch glimpses of two others passing in the same direction ; and cams for a short distance trace the walls to the right and to the left, and you can see far nut in the body of the city a line of high Mandarin p. lee. These pales denote the residences of the great public officers, and, as our maps tell us, they open upon the "Street of Benevolence and Live "—a principal street of Canton, which crosses at right angles the three streets we look up from this terrace. At half-past 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning, while the ram was still falling, we could see from the terrace three columns of English redcoats penetrating into the city down these three narrow streets, while a dktAchtnent of 400 French blue-jackets, with two gone, were advancing along the wail to our right. They are all soon lost to sight, and we must descend and follow if we would see more. There is heavy firing on our left, and, of course, we hurry there first. It is only Col. Lemon's men discharging their r;fle.. Let us speed away t ) see what the General's party are doing. They meet with no resi-talice, except from the intricacy of the streets. But they have lost their way, overshot their mark, and in the labyrinth of narrow ways cannot find the yatnun they are in quest of. Colonel Holloway's detachment of four companies are more successful. They have marched rapidly down the street in which we saw them, and they have paused for a few moments before a closed gateway. It is only a passive resistance. The pioneers with a few blows of their axes open a way through this obstruction, as they do through a barricade which is erec'ed a little beyond, but is not manned. The people look on from their doors and the Coolies carry water bucketsto and fro in the rear of the troops, juntas though nothing uncointeo i wsro passing. Now the troops arrive at the cross-road where one street strikes the Street of Benevolence and Love—a fine broad avenue in the map a hovel-crowded alley ten feet wide in reality. Here Colonel Holloway detaches Captain Parke with two companies to the left, with instructions to advance and seize the treasury, while he leads the rest of his men round to the right. A hundred paces bring him in front of the yatnun of Polak wei, the Governor of the city and province. Like the front of all Chinese yamune, it is a dismalsquare, with a wall on one side, whereon a gigan tic beast is palatal. The vast doors of the yamun, whereon two great figures like Gog and Magog are daubed, fr fret this monstrous effigy. This is the place indicated in the Colonel's instructions. " Quick" is the word. A rush from the pioneers and the unbarred doors move open with unexpected ease. "Front form," cries the Colonel, and in a moment the redcoats are four abreast and ad venoing at the doll' is up a broad granite paved causeway in the middle of an immense courtyard—trees and shrubs on either side the causeway, low buildings forming the right and left sides, and a huge barn-shaped pavilion cloideg the square in front. In obedience to a few words and a few gestures sentries are thrown out, and while the main body is yet hurrying on every spot is guarded. A few Chinese guards, with pikes and matchlock., aro disarmed and huddled together in the front guardhouse, I and the pavilion is gained, hastily searched, and passed through. Another courtyard like the former now ap pears—more granite terraces and causeways, more trees and shrubs—more lateral low buildings, and another big dingy pavilion in front. This is treated just as the former was, but nothing is seen but miserable guards stupefied by surprise and swarming domestics. A vast The dilapidated hall, and still another pavilion beyond. The paint is houses appear a little more habit es als h le e: : is not so entirely rubbed off, the paper s a b n r( d )ke a n rt — ic t le h s ere of ar c e h p in o e r s c e ela lu i about. This third a r b e n p ot i e e t I d roof, through nreilloywinegr-pots andfurniture, There pavilion is a hall . of f a r u e d e i t e n n r c e e, in r uthdee tiled dirty, but im posing.are"Halt," " Stand at ease," which an English rocket had forced its way. There . At this to portieres . right and left, leading evidently apartments.de end I.qt:in the stone floor with private c urtained and the muskets one of the portieres is raised, and an old man, meet a ring which makes descend old . shed echo Mandarin's cap with a red butto n , d resse d in the ordinary blue Chinese dress, but wearing a a ppears In the doorwry. He has a black mou s t ac h e, a quick eye, and more intelligence in his face than you usually see in China, aced he seems i s sa y , as painly as gestures can speak, " What can all this dis quietude be about 1' Every one felt that this could be no other than Peh-kwei. Col. Holloway put his hand upon his shoulder, led him gently back into his apart ment, seated him in a chair, and pat a'guard round him. The old gentleman was quietly at breakfast when th 9 English Marines burst in. A few moments' delay occurred while a Chinese interpreter was got up, and the Governor, seeirg he was in no immediate danger, recovered a composure which he had never lost the power of assuming. He was asked for his seals of office and his pipers. It was very unfortunate, bit he had that morning rahliid his eyes. " Tell him," said Col. Holloway, " not to trouble him- self, fcr I have a master key;"tand at a sign a tall pioneer with his axe made his appearance. The Governor took up a napkin, and the lost keys ware accidentally found to have been underneath it. Meanwhile, Captain Parke and his detachment has `been equally fortunate. Turning to the left, and pro ceeding down the " Street of .Benevolence and Love,' CAPTURE OF CANTON. We have received, by Extraordinary Express, papers and correspondence from Canton to Jan. 15, and from Calcutta to Jan. 23. Our Bombay corre spondence has not yet reached us. FROM THE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE " TIMES." CANTON, SATURDAY, JAN. 2. We have now been five days upon the heights and walls of the city of Canton, but the plain of chimney-less roofs which lies at our feet is as im pervious as ever. Our lines down this Magazine hill are net very extended, and our quarters are not very luxurious. In the great open joss -house on the top of the hill, colonels, and subalterns, and orderlies, and servants, huddle almost indiscrimi nately. We sleep on the stone floor, wrap t Jed only in our blankets. We make fires to cook our food in the bronze sacrificial urns ; the servants, who have no blankets, wrap themselves in the dusty altar cloths ; the stores of red votive candles serve to faintly illumine the dingy building, and also to grfase our boots ; the table where the offerings were laid is applied to the purposes of the officers' mass ; the Brigade Major, has made his office in on e corner. The great gilded idol looks down serenely upon his new race of votaries. Ftrtuuately, the roof is unbroken, but the appearance of the neigh bourhood is not one of perfect repair. Al 3 inch shell has burst upon the stone-terrace in the imme diate front, and made a crater from which every mar-lying thing flew up in fragments. At the back there is a Chinese battery with long guns of curious antiquity, mounds of grape shot, and inconve nient quantities of loose powder ; but this has received so many attentions from those dis tant ships whose square-yards are only just visible here, that we climb about at the risk of dreaking our shins, or bringing down upon our heads a tottering shed. The spot where I have sought shelter is the very point to which all our heavy ordnance was directed ; for it was the key of the city defences. Against these fortress temples the monster mortars on the Dutch Folly roar, hisherwards the French Phlegethon thew her great conical shells and the gunboats pointed their 10- ineh guns. Downwards many steep wide flights of granite steps descend. Sometimes they are lost to sis4;ht by the roofs of the joss -houses and villas lower down, sometimes they are hidden by the trunks or foliage of the ancient trees. We know nothing yet of what is below, for a pattering fire salutes any one who ventures a few yards away, and the orders are strict not to provoke this, lest we be obliged in returning it to damage the city. We see enough, however, in the upheaved terraces and perforated roofs to tell us that this must have been an unquiet residence on the day and night of the 28th of Dec., and we are not greatly astonished at knowing that the garrison was found much disheartened on the morning of the 29th. :But, although wo cannot yet walk about leisurely at the foot of Magazine-hill, we can walk the walls, and in another day or two we shall be able to pass without an escort to our ships. Captain Hall is making a new landing-place at the south-eqt point of the city, and it is already looming so smart and trim that people call it " Hall's-terrace." But this is quite a new affair. Order is only beginning to reign in our communications. It was quits a different thing when, on the second clay after the ass suit, forced by hunger and by thirst, and by sore bones aching by contact with those joss -house flag stones, I descended from our heights on the despe rate enterprise of getting up a certain portmanteau and warm wraps, a two-dozen case of she rry, and • another case full of preserved meats, all which I had deposited for safety on board one of her Majesty's ships. This was a more hopeless quest than any ever made after a golden fleece, and as it was successful only after two days' incessant week and watching, it gave me full opportunity of seeing everything that was going on, from the landing-place to head quarters.. Talk of Balakleva, that interesting village in its palmiest days was not such an entanglement of confusion as the landing-place which formed the terminus of the communication between the army and the ships. The point is where a shallow stream lot or drain falls into the river, about a mile to the east of the south-eastern corner of the city wall. Suburban waterside hovels once covered the area upon which the promiscuous crowd is now raging and shouting and pushing and struegling ; but those hovels are now only heaps of rubbish. 2() or 30 ships' boats have their bows against the hard, the Commissariat lorch, the General's chop-boat (which in the confusion was once seized upon by a French ship-of-war and taken down the river), several gunboats, and the Coromandel lie off in the river. Packages innumerable, baggages and bales, barrels and cases, munitions of war and munitions for the stomach, are piled about in mountains. Soon after I first saw this scene the thronging mul titude were hushed, for a strong escort aKeared bringing down the wounded. Many a wan face passed by which we were glad to recognise, even though distorted by pain or flung back in lassi tude ; for when a man is hit the rumour always spreads that lie is killed, and many of them had been already spoken of as dead. No thing could be more promptly or more tenderly doue than the removal of our wounded. Large hospital ships'-boats, previously fitted for even a greater emergency, were near at hand ; and in those capacious floating houses they were all safely placed as swiftly as could be gently done. Then the Babel recommenced ; everybody wanted an escort, and everybody wanted a troop of Coolies. Oh those patient, lusty, enduring Coolies! It was a valuable legacy which Colonel Wetherall left us, that Cooly )rps. They carried the ammunition on the day of the assault close up to the rear of our columns, at id when a cannon shot took off the head of one of th ern the others only cried " Ey yaw !" and laughed an worked away as met rily as ever. Their eooduct het throughout been admirable, and Capt Temple, "t he King of the Coolies," deserves credit for the ma ,nner in which he has handled them. Well dr( used and well fed, wearing the cotton uniform of a t: niinese soldier--except that the Chinese charac tea a on the jacket of the Imperial " ping" are re plowed by an English number, and that the words " Army Train" are writt n in conspicuous charac ters round their conical caps—these stout fellows, with their bamboo poles, are at once the envy and the terror of the Chinese population. "Two Coolies and. leave to join an escort" form the highest im mediate earthly aspirations of many an officer of no meal rank who is without a change of raiment, and who has worked hard fur three days arc' tasted no P 94( Ir. Other alicerS ) a numerous class, aro much LONDON FRIDAY LITEMNG FEBRUARY 20, 18 - 8 . ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY (Limited). 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The HUNDRED and FORTY-TRIED ANNIVERSARY FESTI VAL, in Aid of the Funds of the Charity, will be celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern, on MONDAY, March 1. Dinner on table at 6 o'clock precisely. President of the Day—The Lord DYNEVOR. Vicn. eItESIDENTS. Thomas Ram:Ler, Esq. David Pugh, Esq., M.P. Lieut.-Colonel Stuart. M.P. H. B. W. Williams Wynn, Esq. Major-General Wood. _ The Lord Raglan. W. J. Alexander, Esq., Attorney- General to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. J. Ralph Ormsby Gore, Esq. STIWARDS. Tborcias Jones, Esq. William Merry May, I William Williams,Esq. I Robert Lewis, Esq. Esq. William Watkins. Esq. Dinner tickets, 2 Is.; ladies' tickets, 4s. Gd.; to be had of the Secre• tary, 43, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, and at the bar of the Tavern ; also of Mr. Charles Everett, Old Broad-street, city. The governor and friends of the charity will assemble at the School h use, sshford. Middlesex, at 11.45. Divine service will commence at 12: The children will dine at 1.30. • Trains, stopping this day at Ashford, will leave Waterloo-road Station at 10 50 and 12 45, and Windsor at 11 25 and 2 30. 43, Lincoln's-inn-fields. CHARLES SHAW, Secy. INDIA. AND CHINA. more interested about their men than about their own creature comforts. They are asking for gun boats and troops of Coolies to get their men's kits over from Honao ; they might as well invoke Her cules and Neptune. The French are already passing in strong belies, carrying up their heavy baggage to the f ron t. E ver an d anon some ga pi ng Chinamen is u rge d b y cur i os i ty to approac h t h e crowd. Quick a s li g ht n i ng, Johnny Frenchman seizes him by th e ear, peps the end of a bamboo pole upon his shonlder, gives him a kick in the rear, and makes him trot off, a pressed porter, amid the jeers of our Commissariat Coolies. When a long pile of baggage carriers has been formed an escort is given, and away they go through the dangerous debris of wracked houses which intervene between the landing-place and the East-gate. During this transit of about a mile and a-half the men are fired upon from odd corners, slugs and gingall balls come down from the roofs of those square fortresses, the pawnbrokers' warehouses; and the escort keeps up a constant fusillade in return. The line of 'march crosses a creek, and the southern parade-ground, and through a long silent street, and at last reaches Colonel Graham's post at the East-gate, whence forward there is a now safe passage along the city wall, held as this is by constant posts of riflemen, who allow no Chinese head to show itself on the rooftops. Inone of these transits, whereof I had occasion to make five in one day, I was near being witness to a bloody battle. As we debouched from the parade-ground a Chinese banner was seen flaunting above the ruins a-head, and a tramp of a large body of men was heard. .Quick as lightning, the rifles were at the shoulders - of - our men, and every.revolver was pointed. - The officers shouted and struck up the weapons just in time—it turned out to be a body of bluejackets - marching down, imprudently demonstrative of their trophies: - If I try to paint these scenes it is with no idea of imputing blame—for no blame . is due. Immedi ately aftetthe taking of a city of a million of inhabi tants we cannot expect the single landing-plaae to be more ord,rly than the door of the Opera-house or the Epsom entrance to a railway station. The men had four days' provision in their haversacks, so they did not suffer ; and there were officers of willing energy present trying to gradually mould the chsos into order—men who made no difficulties, who appeared übiquitous and indefatigable, fertile in expedients, and never out of heart or out of temper. As I sat for hours watching my opportunity to furtively slip my cases among some heap destined for head-quarters, I had full leisure to note bow much may be done by indi vidual tact and firmness. During this time Capt. Hall, of the Calcutta, Major Crealock, Deputy- Assistant Quartermaster-General ; Mr. Power, of the Commissariat ; Major Cliff or d, A ss i s t ant Quar termaster-General ; and Captain Temple, " the King of the Coolies," were the presiding genii of order. After I left I doubt not that others of equal vigour succeeded them. But having slipt my last article in among the Government stores I lost my interest in the scene, quietly followed the convoy till it got to Magazine-hill, and then inno cently reclaimed my property as having been car ried off by mis ake by the Coolies. Any virtuous M.P. who may bap to be indignant at this ruse must recollect that the Commons of England have solemnly decided that a Times correspondent shall not draw rations, and shall . starve if he cannot forage for himself. My mess that evening had soup and capital sherry for di nner, w hil e th e was dining on bissuit and t ea . There is, however, a lesson to b e l earn t f rom this experience. e eP x ra'a p lt° erience. The system is still bad. That landing-place scene still proves that a British regi. ment, as now constructed, cannot take the field. The first object and duty of a General is to secure his position. For this he employs in guards or fatigue parties all the men who are returned to him as fit for duty. Every regiment should have attached to it a transport train, not retained for military duty, but under command of the regi mental quarter-master, and confined to the trans port of baggage and provisions. Without this we Can never march ten - miles iuland without renew- ing the sePnes of the Crimea. .taf, or the time of which I have been Apeakin3 70 hours of rain fell. It was an unlook , d-tor event, but the misery it calmed was incalculable. No tents had been brought from the depot on the river, the Coolies were knocked up, and Colonel Lemon's battalion of Marines were in the open nearly all the time. The loss of efficient men by sickness was almost as great as that effected by all the Chinese guns and spears and rockets. _ _ - _ MONDAY EVENING. I n a few days we settled down in our now posi tion. "Hall's-terrace" is now complete, and we can walk about in tolerable security and revisit the scenes of Tuesday's struggle. The men are cooking their food upon the walls, and there appears to bo great affluence of pork and fowls. Never was an army kept under stricter dis cipline. The eccentricities of the British sailor are held under strong repression by Captain Morrison, he Provost-Marshal, and his assistants ; and if a man is found ten yards in front of the outposts he is flogged incontinently, unless he happen to be a Frenchman. Yet somehow pig is very abundant. " Where did you loot that pig, Jack I" " Loot, Sir, we nev er loot ; there's an order against looting, and it's pretty strict, as we knows." ?" " But how do y ou ge t a ll these pigs • " Why, d'ye see, we lights our fires o'nights and I thinks the pigs must all come to the light, and the sentries must take 'em for Chinamen and fire at 'em, for we generally finds two or three with their throats cut in the morning." I hope Captain Morrison and the Chinese find this explanation satisfactory. It was alll could get. There was also a great quantity of fine carp fry ing and stewing, but these were b e tter accounted for. A Chinese m agaz i ne blew up un d e r very sus picious circutnat ancte, dreadfully b urn ing 16 o f our mesa Another was F oo u discovered, and the powder was empti e d into a pon d adjoining to a joss-house. Many thousands of pounds were thrown into this pond, and a few minutes after many hun dreds of great gaspi ng carp came fl oun d e ring to th e surface. Upon tho se sacred carp the i rreveren t mem bers of the Briti s h f orce are now feasting. About half a mile to the north of the East-gate we come to a part of the wall where the embrasures are knocked down. This was where the men of the 59th and the Fren c h, W i th the English Engineers and Sappers attach e d to the French, escala d e d . Th ere is a bastion h ere — a protruding half square tower—. and on eithe r s id e of this the sc aling ladders were fixed. The wall rests upon a bank of earth about 20 feet below, and a t t he foot of this b an k runs the wide, shall ow di tch. There is still a village not greatly dam age d on the other side. On the moriling of the 29th this village was occu pied by th e F rench and. by svoinillelgeemwpearne ba companies of 59th, which, a l though forming the covering party, p had crept up t o the front. CA t. Retton's guns, and four French field-piec es un d e r Lieut. de Vais so to V er i o t, f rom behind the ; ter t ii i i i g e away at the walls, and had knocks I over the parapet for a distanc e o f thirty feet., and the ships in the and the shells and rockets from the Dut'll F o ll y river were from an unseen , distance bursting along the whole line of f or tifi cations. The orders (agreed to by all the chiefs, bath French and English) were that the assault should be made at nine o'clock, but the men had been all night in the open ; they were drawn up at daybreak in position, and the emula tion between the French and English added to their nag, c d o e u sp ra is g e e t t h o e c C o h n i t n i e n s u e e , their hidd en assa il a nts o n s o e s walls, ma Howeverl l a amnwodiet plyat I I t o l with guns and gingals and sp ear rockets, wh il e i t alt o required c p r a o t i w e crowd c t e h . those shells were bursting over their heads, and those guns were crumbling 'heir embrasures, and the riflemen were dinging th e i r deadly bulletsi through the loop-holes. Twenty minutes before the appointed time the French advanced, and of course the English could not be kept back. They had crossed the ditch, and were clustered under the wall before the scaling ladders could be brought up. I A dare-devil young Frenchman laid taken off his shoes and gaiters, and was trying to work himself up the southern angle of the bastio n aided by Major Luard, who was propping him up with the muzzle of the Frenchman's own firelock, when a ladder was and Luard leaping upon i t placed, stood first upon the wall. He was followed by a Frenchman, the bandmaster of the 59th, and Col. Hope Graham. At the same instant of time Stuart, of the Enginec. , rs, was balancing in air upon a breaking ladder at the north side of the bastion ; but, although he sprang to another and got upon that, I believe that two or three Frenchmen springing to the wall from the breaking ladder got up before him. Let me men tion, also, Corpo: al Perkins and Daniel Donovan, both volunteer Sappers, who held their place well among the French assailants, and were among the first over the wall. Meanwhile, the Chinese had been tuwbiing down all sorts of missiles, but when the allies were once upon the wall the great body of them retired. They poured down into the city and fired from the streets, they dodged behind the build ings on the ramparts, and aimed their cumbrous matchlocks from behind there. A few single en counters took place, and Luard's revolver disposed of one lingerer, but the general move was to fire right and left, and hurry to the right to sweep tiro wall upwards towards the Lill. Helter-skelter, away they went, driving the Tartar:; down into the town and before them along the wall, until some hundred yards in front they came upon a new body of the besiegers, who were - just accomplishing another escalade. We have followed their path thus far. Here let us pause and contemplate. At a broken embrasure about 200 yards south of the North-east gate ' close by a battered shed, where Commodo re Elli o t now finds scanty shelter, a scaling ladder yet stands. You can reckon the height of the wall by the rounds of the ladder—it is 20 feet. The legs of the ladder rest upon a bank of earth at the wall. At the base of this bank lies the wide ditch, perhaps 40 yards in breadth. The bottom is covered with patches of water-loving vegetables, except in the middle, through which a muddy streamlet ripples. Look up the broken and shelving bank of red earth on the other side, and you see an enormous tree, which almost hides a village behind its branches. Further to the left, and separated from the village and the tree by a wide footway, is a white mud built cottage, its blank gable-end turned towards us. Po haps it is distant 100 yards from this em brasure. It stands in a patch of vegetables, and 12 yards distant from the ditob. There is a low earthen fence and bunches of high reeds, which must prevent your seeing from this cottage down into the ditch. That bunch of reeds is the scene of poor Bate's death. This broken embrasure is - where the bluejackets and the Marines scaled the wail. In that cottage in earl) morning of the 29th the chiefs of the British force were assembled—the Admiral, the General, and the members of their staff. On the overhanging hill just beyond, by no means out of fire, but out of the fury of the fire, were some troops and divers lookers : on. Among others might be noticed Mr. Oliphant, Lord Elgin's private secretary, who with other amateurs was E °mai nie3 -intrusted with-messages. from ,the-Gena 7 , ral, which brought him into dangerous proximity with round shot and rockets. As to the white cottage, where the chiefs round refuge, five large holes made by round shot still show the attention it received. A storm of balls and rockets from the wall hurtled all round this spot, and no one could cross the footway to the tree and the village without imminent danger. It was neces sary, however, that some ono should cross that open patch of vegetables, and look down into the ditch to see where the best point for placing the ladders would be. Captain Bate as once volun teered to go, and Captain Mann, of the Engineers, accompanied him. Bate was one of the most scientific of our naval surveying service, a right good officer, and a popular commander. He was, moreover, an eminently religious man. "My pluck," as I heard a eery gallant officer say some weeks before this event, "is quite a different tiling from Bate's. Igo ahead because I never think of danger; Bate is always ready for a desperate service because he is always prepared for death." Bate had run across the open patch, and was lock ing down into the ditch, when a shot traversed his body. Dr. Andersen, who saw him fall, rushed out through a fire from which some who saw it feared he would not return, and a seaman, I think Bate's own coxswain, accompanied him, but the striken man never spake. Meanwhile a gun had been brought to bear from behinda house in the village, and it was worked by Major Csealoch, and Major Clifford, and Colin Campbell, of the Opossum, and the other members of the Staff Captains Blake and Cooke had brought up their Marines and kept up a fire at the embra sures. How hot the fire was may be judged from this, that Captain Blake out of his half-company, firing from under cover, had ono man killed and six wounded in a few minutes. When the fire was a little quelled the scaling ladders were advanced, and of the blae jaekers Commander Fellowes stood first upon the wall—just in time to meet the party which was advancing after their success ful escalade to the south. Others came tumbling up, and we may be sure that th e Admiral and the General were not far behind. Commodore Elliot was well iu front. The hurrah was now along the wall to the height, as I described it in my former letter, and the pace was tremen dous. There wereseveral hand-to-hand encounters, and it is said that oven the General had to use his revolver to disembarrass himself of a pertinacious Tartar. However, they ran, and rallied only at distant points and for short conflicts, until they were obliged to form a n d a tt ac k th e 111:agazine-hill with more deliberation. Lieut. Davison, of the Furious, had the satisfectiost of firing the first Chi nese) gun from the battery on Magazine hill. It was about this time that the flank fire from the streets grow hottest, and that Lord Gifford and, 1 think, poor Bowen and several others were hit. This oscalado was accomplished under the fire of our own ships. Some men were wounded by our shell, one Frenchman was killed, and Captain Bush was twice obliged to halt his company because the line of our own fire was across their path. The loss would have been greater had not Major Schom berg, from his crow's-nest on the Dutch Folly, seen our men on the walls and discontinued the mortar and rocket firing. It was, however, not the fault of the ships, but the impatience of the assault ing party, which caused this untoward mistake. The ships ceased firing at the appointed hour. General Straubenzeo was hardly upon the wall before he was obliged to leave it. An army of Chinese, just about the time of the assault, had issued from the north of the city, and came forth into the open country—bare, undulating moors, like the come trybetween Buxton and Sheffield—waving their banners and beating their tom-toms and brandish ing their shields, and, drilled to advance or halt or wheel according to signals made by flags, they ad vanced thr e at en i ng the flank and rear of assail ants. But Colonel Holloway, with his brigade of Marines, had been stationed to the north-west of Lin's Fort expressly to meet this very probable emergency. Covered by the inequalities of the ground and by the graves, the Tartars came on in excellent skirmishing order, and many of them exhibited grad individual bravery. The fire was so hot that Col. Holloway's adjutant was shot by his side, and a few minutes after the colonel him self was shot in the knee. The wound did not, however, drive him from the field. His presence and energy were required to prevent his men from rushing in upon the scattered foe, who were firing from under cover. The Tartars had already been driven out of a little village and a small wood which they had occupied in force, and the Marines were pressing forward to convert their retreat into a flight, when successive messages came from the general to recall his men. This command has been much criticised. It was difficult to obey, and had it bad dot been given the defeat of this body of the enemy would have been more disastrous to them, but not, perhaps, without some loss to ourselves. Straubenzeo's acknowledged tactics have been throughout not to expend men against such a foe. The general was acting up to his system, but the Marines grumbled furiously and growl still. The men had thrown off their knapsacks iu the heat of the fire, and when they wore recalled Col. Hollo way and his Aide-de-Camp (Capt. Ellis), assisted by a few others, were obliged to remain in front and bring them in, while the men wore almost frantic at being withdrawn. There are many episodes of this siege which I should like to tell, were I sure that the English public would care to read them. I must, however, rectify one error I made in my hasty sketch written while the conflict was still going on. Although it was upon the testimony of my own eyes that I stated that at the same moment the English and French colours were waved from different embrasures of Lin's Fort, I now find that the French were in first. It is not of much consequence, for the Chi nese were out before either party entered. How ever, let our brave and agile allies have honour due. Our lose in killed and wounded during this short siege does not amount to more than 96 English and 34 French, and of these the wounds are under the average severity. The surgeons say that this is to be accounted for by the want of propulsive power in the Chinese weapons. When the Minie ball would have crushed the bone, the Chinese bullet glanced, and lost its energy among the surface tissues. When we consider the mass of missiles flying about for so many hours, and when we h ear of the narrow escapes which almost every individual of the force employed had, the number of men hit seems miraculously small. Let us not, however, undervalue the courage_ of our Chinese enemy. They have no knowledge f the military art. The commonplaces of attack an r ( c i , defence, which every tyro subaltern knows, are astonishing pieces of strategy which surprise aresearid confound them—their weapons, terrible a among themselves, are inefficient against with shells s our rifles b and field pieces, and mortar ate that fall and explode like mines. .Let us _ask,_ _hoN\f would European troops stand and weapons ? Depend discipline, and strategy', upon it the Chinese have the stuff in them whereof good soldiers may be m ade, and this is a fact which should not be neglected when we are casting about for a substitute for our vanished Sepoy army. From Tuesday night until Monday night we re mained in position upon the heights and walls, waiting, apparently that the city, now at our mercy, should come to us,jvith offal of nibnaißipn ana z - -~~.._-~-~ '-..-.,