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ENGINEERS' AND AGE ASSURANCE SOCIETIER —DAY.; OF GR CE.—Every Policy issued by these societies bears an endorsement that it wid not bccome void in ease the death of the person on whose life the a , surance is effected may have happened during the Days 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'TA.—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 adittion, to the Widow of a deceased agent.—Applicatinns by letter only to 3*, Strand, London, W.C. W. F. DOBSON, Chairman. METR OP 0 LITAN COUNTIES LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Recent,treet, Waterloo place, London, S.W. Life assurance, annuities, endowments, and loans on advantageous terms. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager, N.B. Policies in force, notwithstanding the Decease of the Life Assured, provided the Premiums be paid within the thirty days of grace. IROVIDENT CLERKS' BENEVOLENT FUND. Established 1840. Treasurer—John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P. TAT:STEES. Thos. Baring, Esq., 51 . P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thom as Han , Key Esq., M.P. I The Baron Ln.deßothschild,M.P. Irotice la hereby given, that pursuant to the resolution of the tnnual General Meeting, held on the 3d of February last , by which hree additional annuities were voted to persons duly qualified, an XLECTION of ANNUITANTS will take lace at the Office, on Thursday, the 27th day of May next. A ll Persons intending to offer themselves as candidates must send .1 their applications, with testimonials, on or before the 2d day of April next, according to a printed form, to be obtained at the office. By order of the Board. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15 , Unorgate-street, March 16, 1858. The following persons are entitledto one vote for each annuitant tel 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. CONTENTS. INTERNATIONAL LIFE A SSUR ANCE SOCIETY, 142. Strand, London, W.C., Feb. 25, 1858: estab , ljahedlB37.—Payment of Premium within Days of Orace,--it always has been and still is the practice of this society to pay claims under Pada!' of assurance notwithstandinz the death of the assured oc ' turrinit 'within the 30 days of grace, and before payment of the annual premium, provided payment thereof be made, 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. SYMES, Chairman. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSUR kNCE SOCIETY, Emr, 142, Strand, London. - -Eovvere4 by Act of Parliament. for LIFE A.SSUPANCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &C. maEcroas. EDMOND SHEPPARD SIPMER, M.D , Chairman. "M. Renworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq Samuel Ring-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elllotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. P.R. 8 Joieph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. .Augustus Blondel, Esq. Edited by W. HARR( - ON AINSWORTH, Esq. AUDITORS. Pr°l44 aor Wheatstone, F. It.S., and Professor 3. Radford Yo MEDICAL REFEREB GENERAL. J. Elllotson, M.D., Cantab , F.ll. S., 37, Conduit-strait. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., tze. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. MeSsrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Vows. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford-row T he next Qui n nennial Division of Profits will be declared in .Lay, 1860. q Chapman and hall, 193, Piccadilly. *.* Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter national Life Assurance Society : :The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every l ive Years. i ts subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds. tilts investments, at the date of the last annal report, amosnted one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounuds. • Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. . About one thousand new policies are added every year. ,Thice its commencement the Soci e ty h a s paid in claims upward= x hree hundred and twenty thousand pounds. _ F or Prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair man, 142, Strand. 142, Strand, London, W.C. By F. B. COURTENAY, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. EDMOND EL SYMES, Chairman, NO MORE PILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE s ' u nES (without Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, LiYsteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitation, neartburn, Headache, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), Sinking Fits, „ s e ,migh, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com irsints ate effected by i U BARRY'S delicious REVALENTA ARA.RICA FOOD, which restores health without purging, ine°l3 venierice, or expense, as it saves fifty times its lost in other re Me dias. It is, moreover, the best food f or i n f an ts and invalids enerally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor fetes__. with a good liberal diet, but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous an d "I,sl.sular energy to the most enfeebled. e extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati tudeti.,.frem invalids:—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from tie Right Hon. Tr , s ` 'ord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable benefit -al nu Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, anti consider It due to Stuart and the public to authorise the publication of these lines. de Decies."—Curs No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable a gony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fla tulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by Dn Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Northam ong, near Digs, Nortolk."—C ure N o . 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Herts, a cure of extreme ner vo4i3neas, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. — C ire No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liver Do : a cure of ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita bility. Cure No. 18,g16. Dr. Andrew ITre of constipation, dYsPeP ervons irritability. Cure No. 3t,210. Dr. Shorland of dropsy a n d debility. Core No. 35,212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42.116 Major Edie of enlargement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Dr. Minster of Cramps, spasms, and daily vomiting's, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey of diarrhoea and debility. Care No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer of con sumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Runt, 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 deafhesS. Cure No. 4',814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, Of two years' diarrhrea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Countess of Castleatuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and indi gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con aeMption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of .recovery. Cure No, 1 80 . • "Twenty-five years' nervousness, con stipation, indigestion, and debility, from which I have suffered great al herY, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been e llectually cured b 3 Du Barry's Food in a very short time. W. R. Reeves, isi, Fleet-street, London." No. 4,208. "Eight yeare-dis ',engirt, 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 i nqu iri es.)- Rev. John Flavell , Ridlington Rec wrY. Norfolk." No. 32,836. " Three years' excessive nervousness, d.„, th P sins in my neck and left arm , and general deb ilit y , which ren tt'"", mY life very mis era bl e, h a s been radically removed by Du - 'Mrs health restori ng F ood. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Reps, okibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, acrd general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent _ R evalenta Arabica Food. James Porter Athol - street, Perth. ._ l MPertant Caution Latiou g ,.... against the fearful , dangerS The yi of spurious imita , n co - Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an in',unc fte on the 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for bslitating "Du Barry's .Revalenta Arabica Food." (4,,,„ Blll , ta rn b lY Packed for all climat es , and with ull instruc tions. In lib 2s 9d; 21b 4s 6d; slb lis , 121 b 225. The 12Ib car 71.re _on receipt of Post-office order. Barry Do B a rry and 1 . 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The prayers which our countrymen: mgt heavenwards from those dungeons, that their trymen might some day avenge them, will probably be unanswered ; but so long as we are in posses sion of Canton the Chinese themselves will benefit - by what we have seen. When we retire things will, of c purse, resume their ordinary routine, for ' it is only by the present System that these prisons can be supported. A Chinese magistrate obtains only a nominal salary, and he has-to employ 1,300 sub-officials and to make a large fortune in three years. This can _only be done by extortion and , starvation. Nothing can be more orderly than the books Of these prisons, nothing can be more just and benefi-` cent than the rules laid down for their goyernance. 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. Hown.us, andSingqua, andlmqua, andall the other 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 was well within our reach—poor old Cooper would be ite 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 eviden.ce 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. Hullatt's soup kitchen goes on well, and that he has already funds -to supply a daily meal for three months to 1,500 Chiwse, I have said all that I dare=ventlus balmy about this city. A score of letters , would A na exhaust the subject. but the patience of the British public has its limits. The 70th Sepoy Regiment has arrived. They are doubtless very flue high caste gentlemen. It is said that they have existed for 16 days upon bran and water, because they had scruples of conscience about cooking, at sea. Two hundred coolies were assigned to sweep out their quarters; because,. as General Straubenzee remarks, these men do nothing of that sort, but only do soldiers' work. I believe I am not more cruel than my neighbours, but 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 own camp 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 the 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 bricklats 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 af . er the ar rival of this 70th Regiment they were erecting two funeral pyres Letfore the eyes of the wondering Chinamen just outside the north-east gate, and burning two of their comrades. Cremation is a cleanly mode of s 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, whose 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 b ick 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 bad their origin. Soon after it was despatched, I had an opportunity of seeing Howqua at his own house. ,The principal Chinese merchants were present, and I was surprised at the fluency with which they all speak English. Howqua 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 hand. After a long time spent in ques tioning and answering, in discussing sponge-cakes and sweetmeats, and parfait amour, a list was pro duced of the tees in stock, and, making allowance for the somewhat elastic quantity of a Chinese "chop," we estimated 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 ready to come down. The Chinese, as sellers, are not likely to overes-imate 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 lam 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 eith er s id e . 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 Mandarin pigeon all one fashion." The only diffi culty they bad was upon the subject of duties. They thought that if the allies collected duties Peh kwei s only incentive to open the trade would be taken away, and that trade could not 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 I described it to be at the time— possibly when Lord Elgin might have been quite ignorant of its existence or purport—that the Ame rican approached the Mandarin almost with ser vility, offering him the protection of his ship and of that flag which eltc., and that the Mandarin met his off- rs with a curt snubbing and most mortify. ing contempt. However, the attitude of the Anae iicans and the necessities of the Chinese Govern ment are the evident considerations which induced the allied Powers to restore the trade upon its old footing, leaving all money matt era to be considered Imperial a sinmy question. On heorenaftthere as lO a tl n i, letter I informed you would happen, the blockade was raised. Astonish ing numbers of groat junks had two or three days previously emerged from unnoticed creeks and were fitted for sea with laudable activity. On the morn ing of the 10th the river seemed suddenly crowded with huge matted sails, the deserted packLousea 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 l ong way on cowards England. To protect this trade a t wa er police has been established. Captain Ed 11 1 ge has this difficult task. Fifteen snake boats and three gun boats form shat we here call the " piratical squadr on. " " can be more r idi cu l ous than to see " ron.No th ing half -a-dozen of these bolts, crowded 'tl dirty rascals and laden with useless guns, towed away by Lieutenant Gra ham or Lieut enan t R osen in the Lee or the Kestrel. If I. lared de scribe employ the space necessary to which some of the ridiculous embarrassments with h i s chineso Captain Edgell has to deal in managing to tell laughable things. . squadron I should have and untiring industry however, if tact, end temper, a honest and effective can succeed in makingi Edgell will do it. - Chinese water-polie s The 14th of Febru aeay r i s arrived, and it is the day - e Lanterns are hung out of the Chines © ne w byusiness is closed, and the dark before every door, h a ired race are emp loying all their energies in ex ploding c rackers and eating pork. .T hee is nothing picturesque or pleasant in this feast of lanterns. Your Chinaman is a monotonous animal evenin his saturnalia. The women crowd the temples, or light - [PR WE 4D. S TAMPED 5D .] than the lash - 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 tags, and their emaciated bodies, it was not so distressing 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 food for four days. Water they had, for there is a well in the yard, and their fellow-prisoners had supplied them, but ories 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 in 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 mere than dot a faint outline of the truth, and when I have read what I have written I 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 appearance before any assemblage of Englishmen would not have aroused cries of indignation. "Quelle societe," ex chimed Captain Martineau, as iu the first yard we visited he saw a little bey confined here because he was the son of a rebel, " Quelle societo pour un en fant de quatorze ass !" Alas ! we saw many, many such cases in our after experience. Iu 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 ho 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, ig in the eastern part of the city, and ia 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 atone end of the court ; for, of course, the Chinese mix up their religion with their tyranny. The finest sentitnent , , such as " The misery of to-day may be the happiness of to-mor row ; " " anifess your crimes, and thank the magistrate who purges you of them ; " " May we share in the mercy of the Emperor," are carrel in faded golden characters over every den of every prison. Opening from this yard are four rooms, each containing four dens. The hardest and ink s , , malignant face I ever saw is that of the chief 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 uP, but that man eats our flesh." How, step by step we followed up our inquiries, and 11 ,- )w 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 b 3 over-estimated. At first they had never heard of a foreigner, then a heavy I) Ar on the ears administered by one of the orderlies, in punish natmt for a threat to a prisoner, produced a recol lection of one European prisoner. Then the gaolers were roughly bandied 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 01(1 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 ly)oks we found that they were all ori ginally placed here for very trifling crimes. Old s.ories get mixed up with new ; the difficulties of Chinese dialects come into play, and we often fancitd 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 peans, two Frenchmen, arid 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 the time necessary for a reply from Pekin—the gaoler held their heads back while poison was poured down their throats. The pri soners recollected two who threw up the poison, 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. Ho 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 when the gaolers poisoned him. 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 t hat this must have been poor Cooper, the owner of the docks at Whampoa, who, probably mistakenifor 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 san pan came alongside with a letter. While he leant forward to take it ho was drawn into the sanpan, and he was away up a creek before the alaral could be given and a boat lowered from the man-of-war. The others, we were told, were not favourites. They could not speak, they held themselves aloof. If two of them happened to be in prison at the same time they conversed together. If there was only one, he either fought with the gaolers or sat alone covering his face with his hands. It is, I suppose, contrary to our principles and policy, and the custom of civilised nations, when a city has been taken by assault to punish these acts, but we stretched a point. We carried away the principal gaoler and the secretary, two terrible uffians, the head and the hand of this iniquity ; and we also carried away the prisoners who had given us trustworthy information, but we only took them as witnesses, and lodged them in our guard-house. On the night of the second day the three Com missioners sought an interview with Peh-kwei, gave him a hint of what they had discovered, and produced the fettered and paralysed child to show that there were instances of unnecessary severity in the prisons under his control. The Lieutenant- Governor, far from being moved by this spectacle, flew, or affected to fly, into a towering Pas Mr, Parkes was bent upon persecuting Liar—Poor Pelt-kwei—what right had we in his pr o is p o ie 7 Were was ir, how he dealt with his pwn we prepared to open all was breach of faith to out notice to Lim . the prisons in . , into those ee Canton ? It prism' d. iioonor; s with inime iately Hge°would write LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1858. CHINA. (From the Times' Correspondent ) CANTON, FEB. 15. I am weary of walking the slippery alleys of Canton. Six weeks hero have rendered "us all familiar with every object of interest. Not that we know our way about The inhabitants, when they go far abroad, often :tarry 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 are not easily to be recognised if you come into • them unawares, th streets so muck resemble each o th er i n their irarrowness, their pendant signboards, their drifting crowds, and their lines of Shops. If you take a Chinese guide from 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 not a city easy :o be learnt by heart. We sleep—that is t) say, four of us sleep—in a building very like a cucumber frame without any gla.s. It 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 mormog supply of colds. Let me endeavour to tell howsome of us who may happen not to be on duty sometimes pass our day , . After comfortable ahliitiiani in the abundant Ivarrir waters of this yteititti, - for the water is positively warm as it comes from the wells, and atter a campaigning breaktast, we sally forth armed with revolvers and stout walking sticks. The Com missioners' Court in the (mitt r quadrangle is already sitting, The three Commis=ioners, in their square open pavilion, are trying a rape ease, and hundreds of Ch inese, an order:y crowd, are looking on. Tete culprit is a fresh-coloured Irish boy, of the Marine force, and the complainant is a little weazened old woman, who totters upou 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 ab , ut the fact. The boy was drunk and in discriminating. He had offered violence to that quaint creature. He is found guilty, and 50 lashes write in red letters upon his back the Cantonese Cou.nissiouers' version of the axiom • ' si, non caste, tamen mute." The open space in front of the GJvernot's ya mun is more than an acre in area, and abuts upon the Great East and West -street. We no longer call it " the street of benevolence and love." Per haps we go westward, and, pushing through the crowd, and averting our eyes from the too 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 desolation. It is rapidly returning to its former grandeur. In an incredibly short space of time the Chinese workmen, set in motion by barbarian dollars, have r e p a peredell the walls, botchd up all the holes, and, mowing ways through the bamboo jungle, have discovered little nooks mith terraces and small bridges, and curious pavilions—gentle accts ores to the mighty halls which are to form the quarters of the forces. The Freuch are taking great pains to restore the portions they have chosen. Le Capitaine Martineau has his private rooms, his chapel, his prison, and his office. A few dashes of the paint brush do wonders in a Chinese building. The Tartar yamun soon look ,as imposing as it did wheni t was the palace of the Southern King of China. The wilderness in its rear, with its central tempi.° arid 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 bead 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 iu Canton City, or, despite the pre vost-marshal, venison would not be so unknown in our cparter4. These wilderne:ses w ill,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 inch beyond their noses, that they, in their northern newspaper, made pea merriment of my early statement that there were park-like grounds within the circuit of 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 at. Perhaps— it has happened more than once—there is a terrific sound of rapid wheels. There is an alarm of fire, and the fite brigade, i n th e i r un if or m caps, ar e dragging a fire engin e a l ong t h e pavement of black granite at a tremend.)u s pace. Th ese fi r emen 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, the shops are passing under the wall o f th e o ld c ity, we come upon lower neighbourh oo d s, .an d adapted to the wants of th e waters id e population. Here (if you observe curiously the shops which are filled with the sun-dried comestibles the Chinese love) you may find dried rata with their tails fully projected, and leaving no doubt of their class and order in creation. Look carefully into that finely browned roast pig and you will discover it to be a dog. Puppies are a l so b or ne by in open wicker baskets, and thei r f ate an d u ltimate &Asti nation are not ambiguo us . B u t th e se peculiarities are not common, and are not 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 rico and meal. We do the Chinese much wrong in the matter of their food. Tneir pork is far more white and delicate in flavour than the pork we see exposed in London, and it i s f e d w;th a care and cleanliness from which some English dairies might well take pattern. Threading our way, under the guidance of some experienced friend, we come to a carpenter's shop, fronting the entrance to a small potter's field. It is not a rood in area, 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 shted of rotting rope hanging from one of them. There is nothing to fix the attention in this small 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 'hop 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. Ti,ese crosses are the instrumeuts 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 the hands of Yeh— that was how he treated his pr!soner. Her breasts 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. There 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 bind 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 themselves while they confess that after witnessing one execution by Gut 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 brout,ht down in gangs, if they could walk, .or brought down in chairs and shot out into the yard. The executioners then arranged 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, chop, chop, chop. No second blow was ever dealt, for the dexterous manalayers are educated to their work. 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A form of the tender may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received atter Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly autho rised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and !war in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Lignum "Witte," and moat be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter, signed by a responsible Person, engaging to become bound with the person -tendering, in the sum of £lOO, for the due per formance of the contract. or 4, OCKS'S CELEBRATED READING SAUCE, which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game, Steaks, :Amps, Grills, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene ral use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in fish and sauces. J. and C. Cocks, Reading, sole Manufacturers. 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It takes rather longer for the assistants to cram the bodies into rough coffins, especially as you might see them cramming two into one shell, that they might embezzle the spare wooden box. The heads were carried off in boxes ; the saturated earth was of value as manure. 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 painted gates and outer buildings of a yamun. This is all that remains standing of the palace of the Governor-General. Inside those gatesyou 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. They bora off the baaros, 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. Howqu:e'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 cooks' 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 int.) 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 of factories. It is 71 , w an open space, several acres in extent, and covered over by little hillocks of pros trate 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 continue's. The church which once stopped the path has disappeared, but lines of Coolies are carrying their burdens along Hog-lane and crowds of san pans 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 he a Chinese antique ; all this is, of course, loot from the fact zies. Its exhibition, under present nreumstances, is only an ordinary instance of Chinese impurli nee. 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, and 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 fora mile northwail 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 Canton— narrow, quiet streets, with windowless brick walls land 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 parry, or if not, then at one of the many tea-houses, you may re turn into the city by the south•westeru gate, and pro - :eed eastwards to the te:nple 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 pagoda, claimed to be a great Arab antiquity. 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 yainun of the G.,- vernor. You will then have done 12 Lours' hard walking, and will be 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. Acother 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 were 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 who 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 thatall 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 cannot 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 thel dens in which we confine wild beasts. The bars are not of iron, but of double rows of very thick bamboo, so close toge ther that the interior is too dark to be readily seen into from without. The ordinary prisoners are al lowed to remain in the yard during the day. Their ankles are fettered together by heavy rings of iron and a short chain, and they generally also wear similar fetters on their wrists. The low-roofed dens are so easily climbed that when the prisoners are let out into the yard thegaolers must trust to their fetters alone for security. The place all stank like the monkey-house of a menagerie. We were examining one of the yards of the se cond prison, and Lot d 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 ba empty. Some one thought he heard a low morn in one of them, and advanced to the bars to list-n. He recoiled as if a blast from a furnace had rushed out upon him. Never were human sens , s assailed by a more horrible stream of pestilence. The gaolers were ordered to open that place, and refusing —as a Chinaman al ways at first refuses, were given over to the rough handlingjof 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 wad became a coucourse 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, th:breasts, the only fleshy parts, gnawed and eaten away by rats. Around it and upon it was a festering mass of humanity still alive. The Man darin gaoler, who seemed to wonder what all the excitement was about, was compelled to have the poor creatures drawn forth, and no:man who saw that sight will ever forget it. They were skele tons, not men. You could on l y b e li eve that there was blood in their bodies by seeing it clotted upon their undressed woun d s . A s they were borne out ono after the other, and laid upon the went of the yard pave , each seemed more horrible v*