The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

EVENING SUN CHINA. We have from Canton letters and papers up to the 19th of May, so that our present abstract extends over a period of fifty days. At the insti gation, it was said, of ex-Commissioner Lin, Ke shen had been ordered to Pekin in disgrace andin chains—there to be put to death by the most ex cruciating tortures: His filmily and relatives wereto be , exterminated, and the country for many miles round hi's birth-place to be laid de solate. The 'Memorial which this doomed states, Man puts forth to the EMperor is one of the most singular documents ever published; singu larly characteriStic of the idolatry of even the highest men' in the empire -40r their adulation and submission amount to nothing less than worship—to the Celestial Majesty of the Em peror. A ship from England, loaded with pro visions for the expedition had sailed north di rect to Chusan, knowing nothing of recent altera tions; when her Commander (Captain Stead, 11 -N.), being suddenly seized upon, was mur dered by the Mandarins. Trade had. been par tially resumed; but sadly to our disadvantage; everything being sold for hard dollars, about one-third aboVe customary prices, and no goods beir,purcha se d f rom usin return, By the mid dle April many of the merchants had return ed to Canton, where they found everything in and around their fbrmer premises exactly as it had been left. The British flag once more floats over the factories. On the 11th April, Captain Elliott issued a circular, stating that trade was going on well at Canton, and. that nearly one third of the teas of the season had been got out. Early in May the Mandarins bad beun to exhibit a great increase of insolence and auda city. Every obstruction was thrown in the way of mercantile operations, and of the unloading of merchant ships; the immediate surrender of all the strongholds held by the English was de manded ; and the doctrine every where pro claimed, that no peace would ever be established betwixt us so long as we held a foot of Chinese territory in our possession, It was believed that about this time troops were flocking from every quarter of the interior to oppose us, and that thirty thousand were quartered in or near Canton ! the flower and champions of Chinese chivalry; very superior in appearance to any of the forces which h a d pre v i o usly ma d e their appearance. The erection of a fort —meant apparently to annoy our ships and fac tories—was about this time commenced near Canton ; while the authorities were assuming braggart airs of superiority and defiance. The titmost panic now began to spread amongst the Mercantile community. Money-lenders and men of property of all sorts in hundreds commenced retiring from a . scene where the renewal of hos tilities was almoSt hourly - expected by them -Weeping, as they went, to be compelled to leave the home of their fathers. Oa the 18th May se *era' of the lighter ships of war moved up the river; Capt. Elliot preceding them in the Neme sis - steamer, with a view of endeavouring to quiet all.apprehensions. Of the results of these move ments no intelligence has reached us. Meanwhile Hong Kong has been re-occupied,. and our Commissioner has at length got a field of exertion laid out for him exactly suited to his talents. Cities are being planned, spacious streets and squares laid down (on paper), and lands on the most extensive scale allotted off for those who choose to buy them. A code of laws has been drawn up, port and excise regulations published, magistrates appointed, and all the ar rangements made for the peaceful occupation of a century. Such, we think, is a pretty fair out line of Eastern intelligenw since April Ist, in so far as it has reached us from China—less inte resting by much, however, as we conceive at least, than the information on the same subject which India can itself supply. ' In the midst of national bad faith it is pleasing to observe instances of individual honesty. The annual dividend on Hingtae's debt had been duly paid .on the 9d May, and that on Kingqua's was promised on the Ist June. CHINESE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS EIGHT ACCUSATIONS AGAINST KESHEN, PRESENTE]) AT COURT BY E, THE LIEU TENANT-GOVERNOR OF KWANGTUNG. First—He held interviews with, and received docu ments from, Elliot on equal terms. Second—After his arrival at Canton, he did not choose out and depute either literary or military mandarins to go to Elliot, to speak about a ff a i rs , b ut on l y emp l oye d in his office a traitorous Ilan (Chinese) named Paonpang. Third—The Admiral (Kwan) took the troops, and proceeded out to sea to guard and watch the public in terests, but nothing whatever would Keshen communi cate to him, and when he (the Admiral) requested de finite. instructions, he was forthwith met with angry railing, and it became impossible for the Admiral him self to adjust these affairs of More or less importance. Fourth—jje issued orders to each of the forts that it would not be allowed t o th ose w h o m i g h t h e covetous of merit to ruin matters by opening fire with their mus ketry and great guns of their own accord, and conse quently these forts and the military stations were all lost on the same day. Fifth—He constrained Lekeen, the Adjutant-General, to prepare an official despatch for him, acknowledging his (Keshen's) offences, forcing him to affix his (Le keen's) seals to the same, and to present it to Elliot. Sixth—He changed every measure for the worse, made vague and incoherent representations to the Court, and brought disaster upon the Admiral (who fell at the taking of the Bocca Tigris.) Seventh—At the offing of Szetsze (on the river above the Bocca Tigris,) he fired salutes and went to receive Elliot, and also despatched messengers to deliver his commands to each of the forts, that they were to observe the same arrangement, and receive Elliot in like manner. Eighth—His affixed his seals to a document dismem bering a portion of our territory, and delivering it over to these barbarian men for a place of residence. I, E, the Lieut.-Governor (of Kwangtung), lay these accusations before the Court. IMPORTANT MEMORIAL FROM KESHEN TO THE EMPEROR, AND IMPERIAL REPLY. The'slave Keshen, a Minister of State, and acting governor of the two Kwang provinces, kneeling, pre sents before the throne of the Great Emperor a state ment, relating how that the English foreigners have sent a messenger to Chekeang (to restore Tinghae), how that they have already restored us the forts of Shakelt (Chu enpee);and Takok, and the cruising vessels and salt junks which they have previously captured, all of which have been duly received, and how that the ships of war of the said foreigners have already retired to the outer ocean ; the said slave respectfully takes all these circum stances, and along with his most attentive observations on the military position of the people offers them up, legging that a Sacred glance may be bestowed upon the same. Whereas your slave, with a view to th„e defence of the country and protection of the people, previously to the receipt of your Majesty's commands, foolishly and con fusedly begged for a display of Imperial clemency in favour of the English foreigners ;—at the same time (seeing that such was opposed to your Majesty's wishes) your, slave .repeatedly begged that his crime might be visited with the heaviest punishment, as is duly recorded. On the --28th day of the 12th moon of last year (20th January, 1841), I received a despatch from the Privy C ounc il to t h e following effect :—" We have re rhved the follo w i ng I mper i al Ed i ct " — " Whereas Ke enhas reported to us the measures he has taken in re ference to the circumstances of the English foreigners, that as these rebellious foreigners are without reason and refuse. o listen to m t a o n b d e s, th a a te . adful example of severity ought immediately their regard. " Already has a flying despatch -)e'elin:%.,esenrtji(o),the dif ferent provinces of }tummy), Szechuen, , that 4,000 soldiers be immediately got ready and serit with all haste to Canton, there to await orders ;--cause, there fore, that ICeshen in concert with Lie TsihsPn and Tan Tang Tingching take the necessary steps for settling this business. If the rebellious foreigners dare to ap proach our inner shores, let them be immediately exter naimated." And successively on the 4th day of the present moon (26th January, 1841) I received the following Imperial Edict from the Court direct :—" Whereas Keshen has addressed to me a document in reference to present cir • cumstances,of the English foreigners, which, on glanc ing*OVer, we completely understand, cause that our pre vious.edict be put in effect with implicit submission—let • our military force be plentifully assembled together, and a complete display of Heavenly Majesty made (in the utter extirpation of the rebels). As far as regards the expense necessary for these military operations, no mat ter whether it be the duties arising from foreign com merce, or the land tax, you are hereby permitted to consult as to ways and means, and make true account of the expenditure of such revenues. Should these not be sufficient, you can rep )rt the same to me and.wait our further orders, &c. &c. &c. Respect this." Your slave, while kneeling and hearing these commands read, reflected that though he had conditionally granted the several items (of the foreigner's demands), yet he but barely promised to make a representation of them to your Majesty in their behalf. Thus in reference to one article, viz., the opening of the trade, although it appears that they (the foreigners) had requested that this might take. place. during the first decade of the present moon (23t1 January till Ist February) yet up till now I have not, dared to permit it, and they have already sent me in a fUreign letter in which they restore us the forts of Shakok and Takok and every one of the cruizing vessels and salt-junks which they had previously captured ; and still further, they at one and the same time despatch a foreign officer by sea to 'Clic keang to order the with drawal of the foreign troops, and wrote a foreign docu hient Which thi;Y handed up to me and which your slave transmitted to Etepoo by an express of 600 le a day, in order that he might 'receive . back Tinghae, which conduct On their part looked more mild and submissive than had Previously been the case, But' your slave is a man of confused and dull tinder' standing, • What he has done has unhappily not mat file of his Sacred Majesty ; fearing and trembling ail I ara,..how•sluill I find words to give expression to my leelinot,. H u mbly remembering that your slave's 'per son has received marks of Imperial goodness, his con -Beietteis is- not hardened ! How should I dare, while en gaged on the important duty of, curbing these outside foreigners, and struggling amid danger and difficulty, to strive after forbidden repose ! From the moment that I came down to Canton have I been the victim of the craft and wile of these presuming foreigners ; in every instance are they quite ungovernable, until that my head aches and my heart is rent, and my morning meal comes to me without relish ! Thus, for example, on one occa sion we gave the foreigners battle, but our men showed little firmness ; we then requested that a manifestation of Divine Majesty might be made in their annihilation. But alas! the circumstances of the case and the wishes of my heart are sadly opposed ! All these facts have I offered up to vonr Majesty in repeated statements, praying that your Majesty would bestow thereon a Holy glance. Now it ap pearS•that after these said foreigners had sent 'a person to Chekeang to deliver up Tirighae, anti bli'd'reStored all that they had captured in Kwanctung, 'and' Witlicleaw;ii their ships of war to the outer ocean, Elliot requested .a personal interview with me, and as your slave had not yet in person inspected the Bocce Tigris, and as the troops ordered from the several provinces had not yet arrived, it did not seem prudent to show any symptoms (of dislike to his proposal) which would have given rise to suspicion on his part, and thus prematurely brought on a collision ; so your slave took advantage of the op portunity to visit and inspect the Bocca Tigris, and 'on the third day (25th January 1841) left the city. and embarking on ship-board approached Szo yang (Lion's ocean) on the Canton river, whither Elliot soon came in a wheeled fire ship, and begged for an interview. He scarcely brought several tens of persons in his train. and on that day hiS language and den cunor were ex ceedingly respectful. But he handed up to me a rough draught of several regulations which he had planned, the most of which regarded the troublesome minutia of commerce, and at the same time he agreed that after wards, in relation to the bringing of Opium, the leaking out of sycee, or smuggling, he was quite willing that ship and cargo Should be confiscated. But among (the articles he proposed) there were some items quite impos sible to be granted. Your slave at the time pointed them out and rebuked him, when the foreigner immediately begged that they might be discussed and amended. I consented that he might alter them, but (told him) he must wait till they•had been maturely canvassed and handed up to your Majesty for examination' (and ap proval ) Your slave, after having parted with Elliot, found that the Sze t oyang (2d bar) is distant from the Bocca Tigris about 60 le (20 miles), but even there the sea is vast, the billows boiling, and the wind fierce. Suddenly we came on the outer ocean in all its majesty ! No in land river can in any measure be compared to it. Your slave immediately changed his boat for a vessel capable of navigating the high seas, and having arrived at the Bocca Tigris made a most careful inspection of all the forts -round about. They may not be said to be utterly isolated on the four sides, and rising up alone in the midst of the ocean, yet ace they situated beyond the extremity of our hills and quite approachable from the sea. Supposing them to be surrounded and blockaded, even so much as provisions for 'the troops it would be found difficult to introduce. Your slave then proceeded to measure the depth of the water, beginning at the Bocca Tigris and sounding till he came to Canton, and he found it at high tvateri to be from one chang (two fathoms) and upwards to three and four chang, varying continually. Now we all know that the principal cause of these forts being erected, was a barrier to merchant ships which draw more water, and which in time of peace, when they submit to constraint, dare not pass the bounds or to go round-about ; but if they were to bring troops with intention to rebel, they may sneak in clandestinely through every hole and co - nen There is no necessity for their passing before the forts, and thus may they proceed straight up to.the pro vincial city itself. Moreover, after - having passed the Bocca Tigris, though we may add obstruction to ob struction, yet such is the nature of the country that there is no important point by which we may.hold it. In reference to guns mounted on these said forts, their whole number hardly exceeds 200, barely adequate to defend their fronts, while their sides are left quite un protected. Moreover, among their number, those which may be used at a moment's notice are not many, for in point of endurance as well as make they are alike de fective. The bodies of the guns are immensely large, but the bore is very small, and the sea in those parts is extremely wide, so that they scarcely carry to the mid dle ; thus, as regards their number, they are fewer than those mounted on the foreign ships, and if we speak of their power, they are not equal to those which the foreign ships carry. Morever the embrasures. on the forts are as wide as doors, almost large enough to allow people to creep out and in by. If we had to sustain a broadside, they would offer no protection to our people, and may be said, in a word, to be wholly without strength. Just now we are making inquiries, after a cannon-founder, to see if he can cast guns upon an improved model, when we shall have such cast ; but if we can in very deed get them cast according to this plan, that will only do as a preventive against the future, and not at all be in time for the present emergency ; thus there is nothing good in our military weapons that we may place reliance on then). Again, in reference /to the strength of our soldiers, I find that the keeping off the foreigners mugt be done by sea fights, and to fight well at sea we must have good marine troops. I have now to feel grateful to your Majesty for specially sending land troops from the dif ferent provinces ; this shows the great and sacred anxiety your Majesty feels in the matter. But then these troops must go on board our sea going ships before that they can give battle to the foreigners, and if they were not firm, or it' they were not accustomed to the winds and waves, it might entail on us the calamities of a defeat. Now they are not accustomed to go on board_ ships and handle them, so that we cannot but use marine soldiers. The marine trcops of Canton pro vince are drawn by invitation from the sea side, and their quality is irregular and uncertain. I had previously heard a rumour that on the 15th day of the 12th moon (7th January, 1841) after the battle the whole of these soldiers went to their Te tuh or gene ral, and under false pretences extorted money from him, otherwise they threatened to disband. And lately, went to the said Te tuh and asked him face to face con cerning it, when lie said that it was quite true, and that he (the Te tub) having no remedy was obliged to pawn his clothes and things, by which means he was enabled to give a bonus of a couple of dollars to each of his Canton soldiers, and thus got them to remain at their posts until now. If, then, the disposition of these soldiers, as it is, is greatly to be lamented, supposing at the most critical moment, when we had actually joined battle, these marine forces were to be found weak and without energy, it might lead to the most fatal consequences ; and although we might have veteran troops among them, yet there would be no means^of inspiring them with a portion of their skill and steadiness. Moreover our war ships are neither large nor strong ; they are incapable of Sustaining large guns, so that they are unable to repulse the foreigners, and these are the remarks I have to offer on the weakness of our soldiery. I have also found by careful examination that the characteristics of the people of Canton province are false hood, ingratitude, and greediness, putting out of the question those who are already actual traitors and whom there is no occasiosi to speak about. The rest have all been born and dwell in the same place, mixed up with the foreigners; they are constantly accustomed to see them, and for many years have been as intimate with them as very brothers. They are not at all like the peo ple of Tinghae, who, having never been accustomed to hold intercourse with foreigners, immediately discovered them to be a distinct species. But if we suppose that what they did there they had done here—if these said fo reigners had deceitfully- distributed their paltry presents, and set the machinery of their tricks to work, I really fear that the whole people (of the province) would have been seduced by them; they would certainly not have shown the unbending firmness of the Tinghae people, Such are the observations I have got to offer on the flexible disposition of the Canton people, which circum stances give us still more cause for anxiety ! On looking over the records of the past, I find, in re ference to the putting down of the ladrones, that these were but so ninny thieves and robbers ; the ships they were embarked in were native ships, and the guns they made use of were native cast guns, and yet this affair was spun out for many years, and only put an end to by inviting them to surrender under promise of pardon; and under the present circumstances it is to be feared that the wasp's sting is much more deadly ! Your slave has again and again resolved the matter in his anxious mi n d ! In so far as it regards his own person it is unworthy of notice, but the consequences touching the vital interests of the country'and the lives of the people involved in it, are vast, and extending to poste rity But, alas ! your slave has sinned in giving battle when he could not command destiny to give him the victory, and he has no less sinned in being unable to settle matters in unison with your Sacred Ma jesty's wish es . B ot h o f t h ese are crimes which affect his poor life, b ut what i s theie in this worthy of pity or consideratio n ! Still your slave, though he has sinned in not b e i ng e able to s e ttle ma tt ers i n un i son w i t h your S acred Majesty's wishes , . yet the territory' and people of Canton still exist and look up to your Most his gracious support and pro tection, while your r sl t dr he ou v it ie t t h i l lry live h s as of so h il i e s d pe th e e . glory of o N t vh h e is n mfaatseteslr,enait,ai,iet:orinmubsry: having sinned in giving Tartar pie, and still more left I without a sensible la General of th garrison to put in operation I Therefore it is that after having l3n duly consulted with the nantrGovernor, the Lite -easurer the Intend and his Adjutants, the Lieutenant, rary Chancellor, the Judge and T we have unanimously come Lite ants of Circuit, the Chief Magistrates fl f' V:%r t a s n en d less er districts and the ex-Governors from the dif ferent that object; lt l i o ‘ p a o t n n l g i lea'otiiiindgetlCuhlit;lit'inlign'tti&lhacet"tug of battle our troops will not stand their ground. Moreover, in regard to . the troops fee whichnti provinces, n b e e e e s n , orderedtime is bs still yourl necessary nor can they all arrive at once, and the a a s t se c i a n n blin g of a , large body of troops is not a thingo 11be done' give timely notice in the first instance give of it, and the foreigners would quietly. The native traitors are sure _ loose to their madness and witravagance. Ycur slave is vexed to death thinking of these thin g s even till he loathes his food, and till sle e p has forsaken his eyelids; forasmuch he does not shrink f rom the heav y guilt he is incurring in stating all these facts, the result of his diligent inquiries, and annoying w ith them the . ears of Heaven's son, and at the same time he takes every thing connected with the forei gn ers and all the foreigner's letters, and hands them up for imperial inspec tion. He humbly hopes that the Holy One will look down with pity and compassion on the black-haired race, and - shower upon them an extra measure of clemency, in granting what is therein requested ; so that the people of the land may not be turned to ashes. In times of dif ficulty is seen good Government; victory is but a transient Nei/ 1 m restraining the ruin that is before our eyes, we ought earefally to eredleate the cause of it for after • ages ! In reference to all the circumstances contained in this, whether the result of my conference with the high pro . vincial officers, or of my own diligent investigation, I , Daly hope that your Sacred Majesty will condescend to inquire regarding them, and I- beg that your Majesty will specially appoint a high officer to come here teascer tain their truth. Your slave has been actuated by a de sire to save the country and the people from first to last, and not swayed by the smallest atom of fear, and still more he dare not make use of the least glossing or de ception. Inasmuch, therefore, this respectful memorial is for warded at the rate of 600 le a clay, humbly hoping that the Emperor's Holy glance may be bestowed thereon. A respectful memorial. THE StTN. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1841. north we may exterminate - them: by ck'stroying their nests and dens (in England and Julia), thus. cutting them off both root and branch, and not allowing them one foot of ground, in order to appase my imperial wrath. , keshen haVing; redeh'ecl.. bribes and hired our troops (not to fight), I order that he forth with be cut in sunder at the waist. And let those who officially attended him, whether great or small, his relations, and all with appertain to him, with those who are arranging the affairs with him, be all indiscriminately decapitated. And let Paoutsung, who was traitorously combined with the English in the affair, be put to a- slow and ignominious death by having his flesh -cut from ; his bones by, small bits ; • let his native place be laid waste for a hundredlee-round (27 English miles), and let.his relations be sentenced to the punish ment of transportation. • Let the peacock's feather be plucked from the cap of Yihshan for his imbecility and tardiness in bringing for ward the troops ,• let Lungwan be disgraced two de grees of rank, and let Yangtang be deprived of the truly brave rank of How. And ;et every officer in the pro vince of Canton, whether high or subordinate, be de prived of his official button until they make good their delinquencies by efficiency of effort. Respect this: PROCLAMATION. By 11. E. RE, TILE NEW GOVERNOR OF KWANGTUNO. ICe, Assistant guardian of the Prince, a Director of the Board of War, and Governor of the two Kwang Pro vinces, proclaims his Commands for full information. Whereas I, the Governor, having been invested with the rule of this territory, it becomes matter of first iinport anee td tranquillize the,people. In consequence-.of the Englidt barbarians , having thro wn th e affairs-of the Pro yincial City :into confusion, our mercantile people both within and without th e walls dwell in disquietude. During t 6 past month the said English barbarians earnestly re quested to have commercial intercourse, and in regard to which Yang, the assistant Commissioner and high Mi nister, and B, the Lieutenant-Governor, have already made a true r4resentation to the Court. At present, Yih, the rebel-quelling General, and Yang, the assistant Minister, together with myself, the Governor, all respectfully wait until the day his Majesty Will arrive, when we shall arrange matters in obedience to the Imperial commands. It is specially to be feared that you, mercantile people, upon seeing such great bodies of troops assem bled together, may suppose that there are certainly going to be battle and extermination, and dreading the confusion, you may therefore previously remove your families and goods out of the way. It is on this ac count therefore that we hasten to proclaim to you our commands. It is requisite that each of you remain quiet without fear ; and let those who have' already removed to other places immediately return without delay.- Your persons and families shall be as safe as the person and family of me, the Governor ; and most certainly you shall have the full protection of the laws. Decidedly need you not have the slightest apprehension or surmise of bringing upon yourselves after repentance. A special Proclamation. Taoukwang, 21st year, 3d moon, 25th clay (16th April, 1841). Macao, 21st April, 1841. PORTUGAL. By the Braganza steamer we have received papers from the south of Spain, and from Portugal to the latest dates. The Braganza left Gibraltar on the 26th, Cadiz the 27th, Lisbon the 30th, Oporto the 31st ult., and Vigo the Ist inst. Lisnos, /inc. 30, 4 P.M.—The law for the new sys tem of taxation has been the subject of debate in the House of Deputies during the past week. The 10 per cent. on the civil list passed after a warm discussion from the Opposition, who insisted that if such a tax were ne cessary, it ought to extend to every branch of the public service, beginning with the Royal Household, whence such an example would be well received. The ministerial majority, however, objected, and argued upon the invio lability of the crown. Notwithstanding this feeble reason ing the exemption of the Royal household from partici pating in the new impost was decide] upon. The third law of taxes presented by the Committee filled up the last two sittings of Friday and. Saturday, by which it was enacted that the national inscriptions receiving an nual interests should be also liable to pay 10 per cent. upon the said interests, into the junta do credito pull co. The Opposition opposed this measure upon the plea that as the national debt had been guaranteed by the Consti tution, it would be a breach of faith to exact any impost on the annual interests, besides the danger of such a pre c dent at a moment when Ministers were proposing to the foreign creditor to nationalize or convert their credits; which, of course, after such a determination, would not be convertible. These arguments remained unanswered ; and, upon a division being called for, the point was not carried, from a scarcity of members to vote. The result has been a depreciation of the Inscriptions of nearly 5 per cent. of their actual value, and an augmenta tion of the discount on the pay of the civil emplves, who now lose 51- per cent. per month on their arrears, which being eight months, will produce a loss to them of 42 per cent . instead of 20, their former rate of discount. In the sitting of the 25th the deputies decided they should pay a decima upon their legislative allowances ; and on the same occasion the President of the Council, M. Augiar, declared, in the name of his colleagues, that they would willingly subject themselves to a similar resolu tion. M. Jose Maria de Vasconcellos Mascarennas pre sented a memorial, signed by the greater part of the merchants of the capital, against the project No. 8. Their object is to do away with the differential duties with nations having a commercial treaty with Portugal. This requisition, which has been considered as important, was laid upon the table of the House for consideration. The Minister of Finance, M. Avilla, on Tuesday, in making an expose of the embarrassments of the Trea sury, declared its inability to pay the inactive classes, which include, among others, the widows' and orphans' pensions, superannuated army and navy officers, and the Miguelite officers who came under the amnesty of Evora Monte. Nothing has been transacted in the Senaio, owing to the absence of so many of its members. The revenue of the Lisbon Custom-house and Excise office, and Custom-house of Oporto, for the month of July last, paid in debentures, ex paper money and coin, amounts conjointly to 375,757,906 reis, equal to 86,1111. 3s. Bd. sterling,, showing an increase on the preceding month of June of 10,7021. ls. sterling. The diplomatic :.gent from Morocco, Taleb Abodesa lem Aberode, has sent in an official ultimatum to the Foreign-office for the immediate payment of 30,000,000 dollars, which he claims as part of the sum due to the Emperor. His Excellency waits for two vessels of war, a corvette and brigantine (which, it is understood, have already left Morocco, and have been seen cruising off the coast of Algarve). On th e i r arr i va l , i t i s sa id, he has intimated that he will delay no longer for the promised paytnen t. - General M'Donald, who, it may be remembered, was Commander-in-Chief of Don Miguel's army, and some time since a prisoner at Oporto, was on Thursday last arrested in this city, and is now in confinement in the Cast!e of St. George. During an interpellation of Minis ters on Friday respecting the guerillas in the Algarve, the Foreign Secretary, after boasting of the energetic measures adopted by the Government, gave as a proof the imprisonment of General M'Donald. The guerillas continue in the same march, augmenting their numbers, and making payments every 15 days to their followers, who are now formed intif regular and well-equipped todics. The Commandant of the Bth military district communicates, under date of the 24th inst., that the self-styled Colonel Casimiro, one of the most daring of these marauders, was on the 18th shot by his own party, from suspicion of his fidelity to their cause. The 22d anniversary of his Royal Ilighness Prince Albert's birth-day was feted here on Thursday last by the British, Portuguese, and French ships of war in the Tagus being dressed in their variegated colours, and firing a Royal salute at mid-day. A Gibraltar vessel, the Bernardo, was taken at Ma deira on the 3d instant, while endeavouring V:, smuggle on shore brandy with which she was laden ; on being surrounded by the Preventive Service boats some distance from the island, she was fired into, and, unfortunately, one of the Custom -house officers was shot by his own party. The British brig of war Savage, which was sent there to ascertain the facts of the case, took back the crew to Gibraltar, whence sh e a rri ve d iere on Friday last, with despatches relative to this affair to the British Envoy, Lord Howard de Walden. She sails again to morrow for the latter place. Exchange upon London at 30 days' sight, 54d. per milrei. THE DEERSLAYEI3.—In this new work of fiction by Cooper (the celebrated transatlantic novelist) the principal character is Leather-Stockine', the renowned hero of " The Last of the Mohican s ," "The Pioneers," and " The Prairie." The story is connected with the fortunes and strange adventures of a recluse family, liv ing in an ark on one of the romantic lakes of America ; and the scene is of course confined to the waters and the adjacent wild forests. Midnight surprises— desperate encounters—scenes of torture and breathless escapes, form the staple of the interest inherent in the fable. How these elements are worked by the genius of Cooper the public will readily imagine. CAUTION TO 4outiGEßs.--The frequenters of the parks, &c., should be careful where they bestow themselves when tired, in their daily promenades. Since the extension and vigilance of the police force in the me tropolis, the pickpockets, whose trade has been on the wane, have substituted, for their ordinary " pickers and stealers," certain instruments with whi c h they are enabled silently and surely to abstract whatever the pockets of the lieges may chance to contain. This is effected, how ever, at an increased disadvantage to the sufferer, for, to obtain the prize, the garments are hacked in a most cruel manner. An instance of this kind, which came within our knowledge, occurred only a few evenings since, when a gentleman, fatigued with his walk, sat down on a bench in the inclosure in St. James's Park, where two other persons were also sitting. Their appearance 'was suffi ciently respectable, but their acts were scarcely se, for, very shortly after they had taken their departure frOm the tench, he found that the bottom of his coat pocket had been entirely cut away, the contents stolen, and the coat itself completely disfigured by large circular inci sions, and the loss of several shreds from the skirts. The rubbery and mutilation were effected, no doubt, while the skirts were hanging over the bench.—Sunday Paper. TENACITY OF LIFE.—It is a common saying, that a cat has nine lives, whether true or not ; but a case occurred in Kirkby Lonsdale which proves that et least they have one long one. During the last month, two cats, belonging to John Pearson, Esq., were missing, and it could not be conjectured where they had gone. During Tuesday in last week, one of them was heard mewing in the hayloft, when the hay was immediately remoced, and there they were found betwixt the boards p.nd the ceiling both alive. TheSr were, of course, in a poor weak state, - having been thus confined for twenty-tw o d a y s w ithout any food, and a mow of hay two yards thick above them. —Kendal Mercury. !UOINEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (FROM 'THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) . CifItONICLE.—The news from China, brought by the Overland Mail, has produced a farther fall in teas of per lb.' The details received by this conveyance show that the Emperor had received the accounts of the fall of the Bogue Forts in great wrath, and had ordered Keshan, who seems to have been the organ of communi cation, to be cut through the middle:; but there are no grounds for supposing that the tea crops had been de stroyed. On the contrary, it appears, beyond all quest , tion, that the judicious diplomacy of Captain Elliot, her Majesty's much abused plenipotentiary, had been attend ed with success in keeping open the trade, and that no less than about 20,000,000 lbs. of tea have, in all proba bility 4 he'en despatched from Canton. 11,000,000 pounds had actually been .despatched before the 18th of May, and it was supposed that nearly as much more would be obtained by the end of that month. Captain Elliot has thus succeeded in one of the great objects of his negotiations, and accom p:ished a benefit of the most important character to the English merchants and to the British public ; not only so, but he has also been the means - Of supporting a most important branch of the public revenue, nearly 4,000,0001. sterling, which was placed in imminent peril, and which -nothing but great caution and knoWledge of the Chinese character could have preserved from destruction. The barbarous order for the death of Keshen proves that Captain Elliot was not mistaken in placing reliance upon the sincerity of that high officer of the empire. The treaty of the 20th of March has been maintained, by which the tea trade has been kept open, by_accom ?fishing which Captain Elliot has placed the British public under -a heavy debt of- gratitude to him. The humane and generous course of, forbearance he has puVsned in dealing with the Chinese cannot fail to have weight With the natives, and must tend to im press thern with respect for the British 'name, and a wish to extend commercial intercOurse with this country. By the Arab, just arrived from Van Lieman's Land, very satisfactory accounts have been received of the extensive property belonging to the Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company. The improved breeds of sheep and cattle the Company possess have been of the utmost consequence to the settlers, and high prices have been given for such stock as the Company's agents occasion ally dispose of. There has been a great increase of their flocks, and a considerable extent of acres is now arable, and competition is going on for leases of portions of their property in farms. The forests of timber on the .Com pany's estate are becoming valuable, and it is expected that much and rich mineral property will speedily be evolved. TIMES.—The 4th of the month falling on Saturday, the discount houses have been more than ordinarily oc cupied, since beSides the double amount of business which occurs every Saturday, the great mass.of mercan tile paper became due to-day, and was met, under all circumstances, with becoming promptitude. The rate of discount is about 4a to 5 per cent. The accounts from Liverpool to-day state that the sus pended firm of Messrs. Anderson, Garrow, and Co., re sumed payments yesterday. A comparison of the prices of foreign grain with the English market having been requested, the following is subjoined : " The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality at Hamburg is 154 rix dollars the last, which answers to 50s. sd. the quarter, The highest quo:ation of wheat of the first qualitywin London is 82s. the quar ter. It appears therefore that wheat is 62i per cent. dearer in London than at Hamburg, and that with the sum of 4/. 2s. a man may buy 13 bushels of wheat at Hamburg,. whereas with the same sum he can only buy 8 bushels in London. The highest quotation of Zealand white wheat of the first quality at Amsterdam is 340 florins the last, which is equal to 545. 10d. the quarter ; and the price of white wheat of the first quality in London being 82s. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 491 per cent. dearer in London than at Amsterdam. " The highest quotation of wheat of the first quality at Stettin is 79 dollars current the wispel of 24 scheffels, which is equal to 535. 9d. the quarter ; and the highest quotation of wheat in London being 82s. the quarter, it follows that wheat is 524- per cent. dearer in London that at Stettin. " The mean or average of the prices of wheat of the first quality at Hamburgh, Amsterdam, and Stettin, is 535. the quarter ; and the price of wheat of the first quality in London being 82s. the quarter, it follows that the price in London is 54i. per cent. higher than the average price of the three above-mentioned places." It is understood in the City that a contract has been entered into in this country for the supply of 3,000 good cavalry horses to the French Government, part of which will be shipped for Calais in the course of the present week. The price paid is about 30:each. POST.—The, English Stocks have presented a very heavy appearance to-day, owing to the continued scar city of money, which has been obtainable at not less than the rate of six per cent. The late announcement of failures in the manufacturing districts has contributed greatly to increase tightness of the market, combined with the preparations necessarily made to meet engage ments coming due on this day (the 4th of the month), which has passed off extremely well, and without any addition to the late commercial embarrassments. A rise of two or three per cent. has within the last few days taken place in the value of Spanish Active Stock. The quotation; at one moment, was within a fraction of 23, no great price it will be allowed for a five per cent. security, with six years' interest due upon it ; but, low as was that quotation, it has not been sustained, for the simple, the very intelli gible reason, that, although a conversion of the overdue Coupons has been greatly talked of, and may possibly be carried into effect, the Treasury department at Madrid is notoriously in confusion, and that, whatever measure may have been determined upon for the relief of the foreign creditor, there is no confidence in the continuous payment of dividends even on dividends that have accrued. We are glad to see by some letters which have recently appeared in the papers, that the different classes of Spanish creditors are be ginning to look with a just discrimination to their own peculiar grievances. The Committee, led by Mr. Thorn. ton, are bound to uphold a legitimate principle, and to exert themselves for each and every portion of them, not losing sight of the laws and decrees appertaining to the respective contracts. It is gratifying to perceive, that two years' dividends, out of the four years accrued, are at last about to be paid to the indemnity bondholders. This approach to something like a fair appreciation of what is due, has given an increased value to the Bonds. which are quoted 55 to 60 per cent, Portuguese Stock is heavy. People are shy of in vesting their moneys in it, while the schemes and con trivances of the Government at Lisbon are so imper fectly understood, and the promised lists of the can celled Bonds remain unpublished. ADVERTlSEB.—Notwithstanding the failures at Liverpool, Manchester, and elsewhere, within the last few days, and we are happy to observe, by-the-by, that Messrs. Anderson, Garrow, and Co., have resumed again, there has certainly been an improvement in busineis generally since the fine weather set in. A private, but high practical authority in the City, has handed to us a sketch of their views op. ;the:present state of matters,. drawn up in the quaint but honest style of merchants of theold - School, who detest speculations and bubbles, while they advocate free trade on sound principles, and in which they take occasion to remark :—" We have to record a further improvement in the demand for almost all articles necessary for manufacturing pur poses ; yet the accounts from the woollen districts re present the trade as unprofitable, for which, if true, the manufacturers have only themselves to blame, in unne cessarily continuing that ruinous system of competition; in proof of which, the colonial wool sales now in pro gress, comprising upwards of 20,000 bales, are going off with great animation, at full prices; and not only that, but paid for in cash, and hurried down to the country by railroads, steam-boats, and other quick conveyances, as soon as they can be weighed off and delivered. We see no reason why a general improvement should not take place, as those who depended upon banking ac commodation are nearly all ruined, and the system itself got (almost) a death-blow ; in addition to which there is every appearance of an abundant harvest, more .than half already well-secured, and as the home trade is well known to be ten times greater than the export trade, as far as regards manufactures, we re peat that it is reasonable to expect a progressive improve ment. The accounts from the United States of Ame rica represent a growing distaste for Shares, Scrip, Bonds, and bubbles, and that the people are sobering down to legitimate commerce, consequently trade was beginning to ijnprove all through the Union, the good effects of which will soon be felt by:cour manufacturers." In the whole of this excellent resume there is but one point upon which we feel disposed to throw a lance with our informant, and that is respecting the harvest, which, though possitly an average, will not be abundant. • THE ART OF TERRIFYING ; OR, AN AGREE ABLE FELLow.—Prince Belloselsky possessed to an emi nent degree the talent of telling a ghost-story. At a large party one evening the ladies drew their chairs around him, and exclaimed, " Do, Prince, terrify us a little." Upon this the Prince ordered the lights to be extinguished, with the exception of one, which was left burning in an adjoining apartment, the door of which remained ajar. The narrator commenced his tale, which turned upon the apparition of a horrid phantom, ad vancing slowly, in the midst of darkness visible, towards a person in bed. For the last ten minutes the Prince had kept his hand extended on a marble table, his voice as suming a sepulchral tone. All at once he applied his icy hand upon the bare arm of his hostess, who uttered a piercing scream. The terrified auditors rushed into the other room, and, in their confusion, extinguished the solitary light. The sudden darkness redotibled their panic. At last the servants made their appearance with flambeaux ; and the Prince, who began to be alarmed at the success of his experiment, succeeded with some dif ficulty in calming the apprehensions of his fair audience. Ladies," said he, " 'tis all your own fault ; you re quested me to terrify you a little, and I like to make myself agreeable.". A few days since four sisters dined together at Deal, whose united ages amounted to 313 years. The re miniscences of youthful and bye-gone days formed the pleasing topic of their conversation ; even the songs learned when - the bloom of youth was on their cheeks were not forgotten, but each in succession sang a song, to the surprise and gratification of all present. W e heartily wish them many such anniversary meetings.— Dover Cht:onicle. CROPS IN SOUTH WALES.—Wheat is not only very thin on most lands, but exceedingly short in the ear, so that the yield cannot but fall below the usual average. The barley crops look beautiful, and require only a sunny day or two to bring them to perfection; the ear promises an ample return.' Oats also look remark ably well, and although laid flat in many places by the late heavy rains, they have recovered, and present a healthy appearance. The potatoes are in general abun dant and good.— I Velshman. TORY REASONS FOR CHANGE . OF GOVERNMENT. (From the Tablet.) We last week ventured to express our opinion that, ittpposing the TOries to be justified in organizing and maintaining a regular opposition to the Whig Govern ment, they were= quite right in declining to pledge them selves on the recent measures of finance, and to make use - of their 'majority acquired by those measures, for the puiptise'of carrying into effect their former plans of eject;. ing their opponent& ,But the question still remains behind, how, and on what principle we re th ey j ust ifi e d i n f orm i ng suc h an op position, in banding themselves together to impede and paralyse every act of the Government, and finally throwing into confusion for the best part of a twelve month the public business of the country, for the pur pose of possessing themselves of the Ministerial benches in both Houses of Parliament. This question has two answers—as it concerns Eng• land, and as it concerns Ireland. So far as it concerns Ire land, we have touched upon the subject elsewhere. But what answer must we give as regard s E ng l an d? W e con fess that we have lo o k e d through all the great measures of the Whig policy without discerning any tangible objection to them, which the Tories—that is, those of them who are to assume the responsibilities of office—dare to impeach ; on principle. Their utmost stretch of animosity carries them no further than to condemn certain measures of Administration, the ability or prudence displayed in cer tain individual acts, without expressing any opposition, vehement or moderate, to their general course of policy. Did Lord Palmerston send out, in the first instance, sufficiently detailed instructions to our agent in China ? Was he (or was Mr. Bulwer) sufficiently courteous to wards the baffled M. Thiers ? Were all the clauses in the Cinada Union Act free from all possible objection ? Was it right in Lord Melbourne to present Mr. Owen at Court, in ignorance of the particular tenets of his so cial philosophy ? Was Lord John Russell justified 'in appointing a Socialist to the office of Registrar of Mar riages at Birmingham ? Was Sir John—now Lord — Campbell in the right , --considered in his prophetical character of Attorney-General—publicly to boast of the entire suppression of Chartism two days before the out break of a rebellion, at which wounds were given and blood shed ? These are the mighty articles of impeach ment which have formed the groundwork of the late opposition. _ _ _ _ • • bther points, indeed, have been insisted on in the Tory journals, but with little sympathy from the Tory politicians. Among these. the Poor-law stands most prominent ; a law, we readily admit, most unjust and condemnable in principle, and too often in practice ; but yet a law as to which, whatever praise there may be due for it belongs? to the Whigs, and foi all the blame the Tories are entitled to a full and undiminished moiety. The merit of the Poor-law—a great and overwhelming merit—was this, that it cleansed out an Augean stable of filthy abuse, injurious alike to the rate-payer and the receiver of relief, and beneficial only to rogues and swindlers ; that it introduced order where there had been the foulest chaos ; that it placed the administration of the law under a system of ma nagement, the details of which it is at any time easy to correct and amend. It was a gigantic effort to cure a deadly distemper, which no Tory physician dare approach to lay his finger on. It was a task for Hercules to do what the Whigs have done in this matter. To reform what they have done amiss in the matter is a task for a child in comparison. To act with a little less severity ; to employ the existing labour a little more exten sively ; to use the workhouses a little more like alms houses for the decrepit and infirm • to introduce gra dually the best and most e conom i ca l mode of labour ; these are changes of great. and mighty importance indeed, but yet order, arrangement, method, having been sub stituted by the Whigs for the last degree of disorder, they are changes which req u i re ra the r bowels of mercy, and a reasonable amount of firmness to bring them about, but no great reach of intellect, or display of offi cial courage. The entire merit of the law, then, belongs to the Whigs. The blame, whatever there is evil in the Jaw, belongs to the Tories equally with the Whigs, They have supported it throughout. They have ever welcomed itin their own House of Lords: And their leader in the House of Commons has • declared himself unable to find a substitute for it. Indeed a far larger share of blame belongs to them for the detestable hypocrisy with which they have used the unpopularity of the law to serve their ends, while they have done nothing to miti gate its most revolting features.. A second question — of principle on which they have been attacked out of doors is the principle of what is called " governing by Commissions," introducing central management, tampering with local institutions. In answer to the charge, we might say that the ac cused Ministers have established the principle of inuni pal government in all the great towns of England and Scotland, and have, against the unbroken strength of the Tory Opposition, replaced, as far as they could, the principle of local representation for that virtual Parlia mentary franchise which was the glory of the olden times. But we go further ; we say that the first step in this principle of centralization was taken by the author of the Metropolitan !'elite Bill, who, by that successful experi ment, established the principle upon which the Whigs have since endeavoured to act in one or two instances. The author of that Bill was Sir Robert Peel, the present TOry Prime Minister. Xs to their Commissions for obtaining information on the condition of the people there is little need to speak. They have done honestly aid Wisely in appointing these Commissions.- There will be little difference, we sus pect, between the two parties". on this score, except, per-' haps, that the Tories will do their utmost to turn to account the information which Whig Commissions have scraped together, and having this fund of information in hand, they will have less need to incur the imaginary odium of new Commissions hereafter. On the question of free trade, for which the Whigs have been so vehemently assaulted, the very Tory Pre mier is himself a free trader—an enthusiastic disciple of Mr. Huskisson—an unrelenting though cautious enemy of all prohibitions upon commerce and all restrictive monopolies. In other departments of the Government we find the most happy unanimity among the more respectable of the Tory party as to the merits of the Whigs. Just as the Whigs are leaving office, it is discovered that Lord Melbourne, whose name has been the butt of the foulest abuse, whose personal proceedings have fur nished an inexhaustible theme for malignant though clumsy ridicule, and whose vigilant attendance at Wind sor Castle and Buckingham Palace has given rise to the most rending shrieks from Tory prudery, has all along —on the testimony of the Dyke of Wellington--been rendering the most essential service to the country in the most delicate and important of his functions by his sound political education of her Majesty. Just as the Whigs are leaving o f fice, the merits of Lord Palmerston's foreign policy, which has steered this country amidst unexampled difficulties and complication; without violating the peace of Europe on the one han, and, without surrenderi ng one j ot o f t h e dign:tl and honour of the empire on the oth er , are suddenly Lrought to light. Just as the Whigs are leaving offict, the extraordinary merits of Lord Cottenham burst in full blaze upon the dazzled eyesight of his ry,:',ltical opponents (as may be seen in an extraordmp:Ly article in the Times of yester day), who are b►lrning with impatience to bestow upon him some token of nationel recognition. There is no pretence that the Whigs, the strenuous opponents of the Anti-Church-rate agitation, and the authors of that parson-fattening Act which goes by the name of the Tithe Commutation Act, are in any degree hostile to the best interests of the Anglican Church in England. There is no pretence that the temporizing policy of Lord Melbourne is a whit mo re d angerous to the Church of Scotland than the intrusive policy of Lord Aberdeen. There is no pretence that the great Whig landlords, with their eight-shilling duty, are one iota more adverse to the interests of agriculture than the manufacturing free-trader who is now the Tory Prime Minister ; whu will pledge himself as to the mode of protection to be given to agriculture, but not to the amount • and who, we entertain no d ou bt w h atever , if h e does substantially reduce the present sliding scale, will, in fact, diminish the protection to agriculture far more than the Whigs are now proposing to do. So far as ,Great Britain is concerned, there is not the shadow of a pretence for a change of Ministers on any one point of principle. The open opposition of Parlia mentary Toryism has 'not been an opposition of principle but of detail. The.Whiggish unpopularity which has re ference to principle, is au unpopularity which the Tories must inherit when they, assume the reins of Government, unless they are . '"prepared in the basest manner to re nounce the principles which their leaders have hitherto professed and acted on. OBJECTIONS TO COUNTY VOTERS. The number of objections to county voters whose qualifies.- dons are situate in the township of Leeds, served by the Tories upon the Liberal party, is 397, and the number of objections served by the latter upon the Tories is 812. The last mentioned number is much larger than as com pared with that of the last three years ; but we believe it arises from the fact that the Reformers have hitherto acted too liberally towards their opponents, by neglect ing to make objections to p art i es where the circumstances were such as fully to justify them in doing so.—Leeds Mercury; THE HARVEST.--A week of brilliant harvest weather, uninterrupted only by a few hours' rain on Tuesday, has enabled the farmers to make good progress in clearing their fields. Another such a week and the greater part of the wheat will be secured.— Wiltshire Independent. THUNDER STORM-Yesterday afternoon (Fri day) between four and five o'clock, we were visited by a terrific storm of thunder and lightning, accompanied by torrents of rain. During the day the weather had been uncommonly hot and sultry, and the troubled state of the atmosphere portended a storm. Up to four o'clock, however, the sky was comparatively clear ; but a little past that hour big drops of rain began to fall ; and soon after brilliant flashes of lightning darted forth in exten sive volume. These were speedily followed by loud and long peals of thunder, which burst, as it were, imme diately overhead, and shook many buildings to their foundations. The storm raged with much violence ; but about six o'clock the rain and thunder ceased, though the lightning continued to flash nearly all the evening.— Dover Chronicle. DEAL.—On Saturday week Mr. Bush and a party went by steam to the Goodwin Sands, to fix upon the spot where the light-house is to be erected, and to lay down the buoy. A little to the northward of the Swatchway was chosen, where there a re seven or eight feet 'at low water. The party afterwards went to look at the beacon, erected last autumn, which has stood t h e buffetings of the wind and tide since, not having sunk more than two feet. This affords every hope for the .suc cess of Mr. Bush's gigantic undertaking, and which, when completed, will no doubt be b the mean s o f sav i ne , more lives and property than any similar undert a ki ng i n the world.--Dover Chronicle. EMPEROR'S REPLY. On the 25th day of the first moon of the 21st year of Taoukwang (16th February, 1841), the following re marks, written with the Vermillion pencil, were.receival in reply :- We can on no account calmly put up with the insults and befooling of these rebellious foreigners as you have done. Blinded and unwilling to see as you are, dare you still have. the hardihood to turn your back on our com mands ; to continue to receive the foreigners' docu ments, and even to beg favour on their behalf ! Such proceedings pass the bounds of reason. Impotent and worthless that you are, what sort of heart is contained within your breast ? Not only do you contentedly take in their threats and insults, but you even dare to hold up certain passages with intent to frighten us ! But know that we have to coward . fears ! Besides this, we shall again announce our pleasure. Respect this. THE EMPEROR ISSUES KESHEN'S DEATH WARRANT, RESTORES LIN TO FAVOUR, AND APPOINTS KEKUNG GOVERNOR 01? THE TWO KWANG PROVINCES. On the 4th of the 3d moon (26th March 1841), the imperial commands were received as follows : It is represented in Keshen's official report that Chin leen Shing, the officer of the three Keang divisions; (who defended Chuenpec) having erred in his manoeuvres, the troops were slain and he himself committed suicide. But it has also been represented ' by Ho, the General, and B, the Lieut.-Governor, that Chinleen Shing of the three Keang divisions was patriotic, brave, and skilled in stratagem, and that he had besought the Governor Ke shen to block up the river, and also to issue out five thousand catties of powder, but Keshen would not allow the river to be blocked up, and only issued out 1,000 catties of powder, and with which moreover was mixed up a vast deal o 4: sand and dirt which rendered it per fectly inefficient. Therefore perished in the ranks both father (Chinleen Shing) and son, which is cause of pro foundest sorrow. It has been previously verified by the report of E, that on the 6th of the 2d moon (26th February, 1841), our position of FootnoOn was lost inevitably (Shih been), which has caused our Imperial heart to be riven with direct grief ! It was not for a moment supposed that Keshen possessed such low capacity as to part with his country for money--a crime for which he is unworthy to live. Let the Imperial body guard therefore forthwith seal up Keshen's temple, and also rigorously put the whole of his family in irons ; and let Wokih proceed to Canton, arrest Keshen, and bring him to th e ca pit a l, an d upon the very day that this rebel Minister arrives, let him and his family at the same time be put to death together. - And since the fall of the Bocca Tigris the Provincial City must certainly occupy a dangerous position, you, Eleang, with the Imperial Commissioner (Kinchae) Yangfang and others, should, with desperate energies, protect and guard the city. In relation to Lin Tsih Sen, who was formerly Go vernor of the two Kwang provinces, and of whom the re bellious barbarians stood in awe, the Emperor, being de ceived by the false representations of the rebel minister Keshen, thereupon deprived him of his offices. At pre sent various high officers have handed up a document re questing that Lin be reinstated in his original official position' (as Governor, &c.); but as a Governor has al ready been fixed upon, Kehung, by imperial command (who was Lieut.-Governor of K•vangtung seven years ago), there need be no occasion of further change. And we also allow Lin to become chief of the second degree of official rank, and let him too advise together with Eleang and others in relation to the affairs of the army.—Res pect this. Macao, 16th April, 1841. PROCLAMATION BY YIHSAN AND HIS COL LEAGUES, EVINCING THEIR HOSTILE DE- TERMINATION. Yih, by imperial command, the rebel quelling general, and great Minister governing the inner Council; Lungh, imperial assistant Commissioner, and high Minister, a Director of the Board of Revenue, and Manager of the affairs of encampments and military weapons; and Yang, by imperial command Assistant Commissioner and High Minister and member of the truly brave How rank of nobility. It appears that of the province of Canton, Foomun was a formidable and important position, placing entire dependence upon its forts, but the rebel barbarians seek ing occasion for war, attacked and captured it. His im perial Majesty summoning the troops from every depart ment has commanded us to combine and lead forth the grand army and to attack and to exterminate the enemy; and we have now come forward with all possible despatch. It may be that these rebel barbarians may, with de ceptive aspect, either show desires of submission, or through dread and alarm covertly run away—both of which; however, remains yet undetermined. These rebel barbarians are vacillating to the last de gree, and his Imperial 'Majesty, aroused to highest anger, and quaking with wrath, has commanded the Generals to advance with the troops, and most decidedly not again to allow any reasoning whatever with them on subjects of making peace. If there he those connected with the encampment and military stations who may wish to shift their duties upon their superior officers, and do not forthwith attend to the necessary preparations, only such parties shall be held responsible for any evils that may arise through remissness. And, moreover, the Imperial will has been previously received that the Chief of the said rebel barbarians should be seized, encaged, and presented up at Pekin, there to undergo the extreme penalty of the law. If the impor tant position be not invested and strictly guarded, and the English be thus allowed to escape far out, for this also will the various encampments and military stations be held responsible. The martial laws still all exist, and most decidedly will there be no leniency shown. We issue this general proclamation in accordance with the late arrangements, and it is als6 proper to summon the sailors, who are brave and resolute, forthwith to as semble. Those who distinguish themselves shall receive favours. Important rewards and rigorous punishments are, therefore, within your individual reach.—Tremble and attend; Oppose not ! Special Proclamation. Thi r d moon, 15th day (6th April, 1841). Macao, 16th April, 1841. IMPERIAL EDICT. On the 2d of the 3d moon (March 24, 1841), the Im perial commands were received as follows: - On a former occasion, the English rebels having' at tacked and destroyed our fortresses of Shakuk and Ta kuk, I, the Emperor, had therefore already repeatedly transmitted my imperial will, clearly commanding Ke shen and Eleang t o exerc i se a r i gorous increase of de termined opposition, an& to advance, attack, and exter minate the enemy. But at present the Bocca Tigris has fallen, and the English barbarians, taking occasion to enter far into the river with large forces, have advanced upon and attacked Woochung (near to Whampoa), wounding our great ge nerals, and slaying our troops. Such wickedness and guilt as this wonld be most difficult indeed for all the waves of the eastern ocean to wash out. Keshen and Eleang were charged personally to defend this said re gion, but in what manner have they managed affairs.? and what kind of hearts must they really possess, that not an iota of defensive care has been taken ? Keshen having received bribes (from the English) an Imperial messenger was sent to arrest him and bring him to condign punishment ; and General Ho, together with the Judge, Intendant of Circiiit, Literary Chancellor, and the Foo, and Heen Magistrates, had all already been deprived of their rank, but still retained in office. It is decidedly requisite that Yihsan, Lungwan, and Yangf, should, with vengeful efforts, visit death upon the English in order to redeem their former errors. I, the Emperor, have especially summoned my Im perial younger brother, Meenfang, together with the high Minister Hoo, to lead forth a grand army, fifty thousand strong, and by journeying day and night to repair to Canton with all haste ; and let the vengeance of heaven be exhibited by not allowing a single English sail to return, but sweeping them clean from the face of the seas (Van Tromp !) in order to fill my imperial mind with gratification. Respect this. The Imperial commands are again received as follow : •The English rebels, having entered the river with their troops, daring to seize upon the confines of the city, creating confusion and disturbance, contemptu ously regarding our Celestial dynasty, and wounding our high Generals and troops, have aroused our deep est indignation. The origin of the above proceedings is found in the fact of the whole of our officers being affrighted, and not daring to attack them, and thus matters have come to this. I, the Emperor, now order Meenfang and the great Minister Hoo to lead forth the army of fifty thousand, and most decidedly make a thorough extermination of the English rebels, in order to tranquillize the hearts of our people. But if you dare to be cowardly, and privately of your own accord proceed to make peace, most certainly will you be put to death. Let th e t wo wor d s " ma k e peace" for ever after this find no place in your hearts, nor ever give them form by writing them out. If you both (Meenfang and Hoo) do not tremblingly carry out*my Imperial design, then are you not the Son and Minister of our realm. And should you dare to become tardy in your duties and listen to their pretensions to " make peace," I, the Emperor, will place myself at the head of a mighty force, and most uncompromisingly make an end of English guilt. All the troops of Keelin, Woo lung, and Solunovill also hasten to assemble at the capital that we may altogether advance and exterminate, not allowing f:n so much h be as waibll be laid aside my Imperialitofbrokenplankofthe glish to resentment. Respect this. IMPERIAL EDICT RESPECTING THE EXECUTION OF KESHEN. On the Bth of the third moon (30th March 1841), the imperial commands were received as follows : It appears that the English barbarians, being per versely rebellious, have hostilely approached near to the confines of the city (of Canton), and so supremely out raging all laws that the indignation of both gods and nip are aroused, and with which imperial heaven will not bear. An official document has been pre sented to the Court in which they (the English) are represented as submissively seeking peace, but it is most difficult to regard them with, leniency ; and as they have become so ext ravagant l y disobedent, we no w swear that both shall not stand (uncompromising extermination of one or the other of the contending parties !) Let Yihshin, therefore, and Lung, Yang, Ho, E, Lin, and Tang put in r ea di ness our troops, and- most peremptorily make an entire en d o f the whole, not allow i*ng one bar arian to escape back t o hi s country. And I, lthe E m peivr, will summon a great army that from the EVENING SUN RAILWAY RETURNS, We extract from the Railway Magazine the 'sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed - to each. The return applies and includes the money re ceil ed for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and merchandize : " £ s. d. Aug.. 28 7 Birmingliiun and Derby Junction 1,414 0 4 27. Birmingham and Gloucester 2,016 2 2 29. Dundee and Arbroath 393 5 91 29. Eastern Counties .. Glasgow and Ayr 28. Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 1;133 1- 11 21. Grand Janet. & Chester & Crewe 10,311 9 6•. 30. Great North of England 1,586 7 6 29. Great Western 28. Hull and Selby ' 1,012. 3 4 28. Lancaster and Preston Junction 593' 3 7 27. Liverpool and Manchester 28. London and Birmingham 18,214 ' 4 9 Sept. 2 London and Blackwall 1,268 10 6 2. London and Brighton 1. Ditto Shoreham Branch 230 11 5i 31. London and Croydon 2. London and Greenwich 1,003 11 10 , 23. London and South-Western 7,442 8 6 .... .Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 30. Manchester and Birmingham 23. Manchester and Leeds ....... 28. Midland Counties 28. Newcastle and Carlisle l,BOl 17 2 29. Northern and Eastern 28. North Mid!and - • 27. North Union 1,428 11 4 28. Preston and Wyre 635 1 3 22. Ulster 179 8 10 30. York and North Midland 2,006 6 7 LIST GF NEW PATENTS. AUGUST, 1841. John Thomas Carr, of the town and county of New-, castle•upon-Tyne, for improvements in steam-engines— being a communication. Sealed 21st Augast—six months for inrolment. George Hickes, of Manchester, agent for an improved machine for cleaning or freeing wool and other fibrous materials of burs and other extraneous substances. Sealed 21st . August—six months for inrolment. Charles De Bergue, of Broad-street, London, mer chant, for improvements in axletrees and axletree boxes —being a communication. Sealed 21st August—six months fur inrolment. Frederick . Moleyns, of Cheltenham, Gloucester, gentleman, for certain improvements in the production or development of electricity, and the application of electricity for the obtainment of illumination and mo tion. Sealed August 21st—six months for inrolment. - William Walker Jenkins, of Greet, in the parish. of Yardley, in the county of Worcester, manufacturer, f or certain improvements i n mac hi nes for the makir.g of pins, and sticking the same into paper. Sealed 27th Au gust—six months fbr inrolment. The following youn g gentleme n h ave l ate l y b een appointed to ships from Dr. Burney's Royal. Academy, Gosport:—W. B. Elphinstone to the Illustrious; H. W. R. Hepburn to ditto; W. B. Urmston to the Howe; C. M. Buckle to the Cambrian; L. G. Temple to the Se ringapatam ; John Ward to the Warspite; V, S. Lukin to the Endymion; C. H. Simpson to the 'Malabar. R. BLEWITT, ESQ.—By a recent judgment of the Lord Chancellor, Reginald Blewitt, Esq., the Mem ber for the Monmouthshire Boroughs, has been decreed entitled to the sum of 40,000/. Three per Cent. Consols, subject to certain life annuities. THE WEATHER AND CROPS.—Nothing could be more cheering than the favourable state of the wea ther for field labour at the present time. We stated last week that the crops in this district were turning out in many instances comparatively much better than was an ticipated ; and we have not since heard anything to alter this opinion. —Dover Chrimicle. LIE NEW ELECTIONS.—Nest week most probably the members of, the new Administration will have to re-appear before their constituents to receive the fiat of their approval before they can resume their seats. in the House of , Commons. There are some of them it is true, such as, as some one styled him the other day - , the Honourable Member the Baronet for Tamwortli, whom tliere is no possible chance of displacing. All,of them, however, are not in the same happy security, and where any chance does exist., no means should be left un tried by the friends of truth, justice, and the -Queen to deprive them of that which already they have gained, and diminish that majority by means of which they have, stormed the palace andforced themselves into the eouncris of their sovereign. A few examples 'of this kind tr:ight have' a very salutary effect, and in some of the following places, for instance, the attempt might not unrecifitably be made. Lord Stanley for North Lancashire . ; the case is certainly a doubtful one, the mouopolist,s having no small power in that district, but yet the attempt would be 'worth making. his co-mate e:nd compa n i on i n ter giversation and backsliding, S'.r James Graham, for Dorchester ; here, too, an o - z ipositioa might not be inef fectual. Sir W. 'Follett, for Exeter ; this is a place in which a Liberal . have every chance of success ; such is tile sleud - cr hold which Sir William has upon the suffrages of the electors that his o wn f r i en d s are be ginning te be quite apprehensive upon the point. Cambridge University, that , has always leaned to the Liberal side, ought, at all events i to ' return some more efficient Member than the twaddling Old Goulburn, who is to be the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer. Then there is Mr. Gladstone, for Newark—but it is useless to enumerate further. In every case where there is the slightest probability of success, the attempt should be made. Nor should the fact of the Tories having been successful at the late election, deter a Liberal candidate from coming forward. The Tories must now necessarily offer them selves under different circumstances. Before, they had merely to a tt ac k an d arraign the conduct of the Whigs, and there,are few plans or propositions so blameless that an industidous ingenuity cannot pick holes in them. But now they will either have to explain the course which they intend to take themselves (which, all things con sidered, is not likely), or they must go poking on like a "pig in a bag," a thing which few people at any time are willing to purchase. This, it must be obvious, will be the most likely result, as their plans will hardly be arranged and digested till the elections are 'all over. But the electors who voted for them the last time before they came in, should, now that they have come in, re quire something more than a mysterious nod and wink and shake of the head as to what they will do. Defeat, then, in the late instance should have no effect in deter ring a Liberal from coming forward now. And if even a. few of the were unseated, the effect would tell.—Sua day Paper. ri :HE LATE COLONEL BOOTH.—The officers of the 43d Light Infantry regiment have intimated to the widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Booth, K.H., of that regiment (in which he had served nearly-thirty six years), their wish to erect a tablet to the memory of their highly distinguished and much lamented command ing officer ; and have requested her to signify her wishes as to where such monument should be erected.—Shef field Mercury. EDITORIAL FISHING.—We beg to acknow ledge the receipt of a beautiful dish of soles sent us from a friend in Tenby . this week—they were most acceptable. He, as well as other friends, need not fear offending us by sending us anything he may consider worth accepting.—Carmarthen Journal. LIVERPOOL FISH COMPANY.—This Company was dissolved last week, at a special meeting of the Pro prietors, held at the Clarendon-rooms, the vho]e of the surplus and two-thirds of the capital having been ex hausted. It appears, that in the course of five years, the concern has incurred a loss of between 16,000/, and 18,0001. The boats of the Company are advertised for sale.—Limpotl ehiurnal. , -- CREDIT.--T h e most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. Sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six nights longer ; but if he sees you at a billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when he should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. FAILURES IN LIVERPOOL.—The depression ., in every branch of trade which has unhappily so 10t, , t. prevailed, and which has been most severely felt in the manufacturing districts, and by those immediately ral con nected with them, is beginning to produce its " consequences. Failures and commercial embarrassments:_of are on the increase, and we regret to state that. some the houses which have stopped during the present d their both hero and in Manchester, are large firms, Foremost stoppage must produce serious conseqnenees. " establishment amongst these is the large and respectable f e t % this town, ex of Messrs. Molyneux,Witherby, and Co., of liabilities we tensively engaged in the cotton trade, whose3oo,ooa. and have heard variously estimated at between ears o r Six Y 400,0001. The house is only of five a hi g h character. stand ing, and, until recently, has maintained a princely fortune. The principal entered business with _oweek„ also engag e d id exceed 60,0004, inability to meet 'their iTnh the e liabilities cotton trade, r o a f d ll e l , e w s s i rl will . not,J. hose united liabilitief Four or five Manchestex t to between 300,0e m i houses one-third of moreo f u - h o i r c which less is repute,secured dor } u . : n , our correspondent informs .., 00 1 ironicle of Saturday. engagements.—V"Zy WI FE. —A couple having and 400,000/., have declar c e u d i MY DOG V. being about to leave the 'altar, the got married, an d A s tand and inqtured fit,. —fur what, bridegroom madethnk ? His wife ! No. I .Vhat then ? 3liatuis) and Son, reader, do someyou think of the party to invite them to dine ? _perhaps Hinquired for what was uppermost in his mind-- he inquired for what was far dearer to him than wife or friends —he inquired for " his dog I" • THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS:--SOllla progl - -s has been made with th e h arvest, i n this e'neigh bourhood, but very little is yet hous e d, a lth oug h a few b et t e r days would enable i t to be so. Rain has not fallen till the last two or three days in any quantity,• but there is not such weather as is well fitted for the grain at this season. We are glad to hear many who did com plain more hopeful of the average yield in this neigh bourhood, and we trust that a bountiful Providence win yet grant us such seasonable weather as will enable the fauits of tae earth to be matured and got in. The crops, now generally look well and promising. —.Kendal Mercury- COURTING SCENE.—" Jonathan, did you react that ere story about the man as was hugged to death by the bear?" " Guess I did, Sewke, and it did make me • feel so bad." " Why, how did you feel, Jonathan ?" ' Kind'er sort'er as if I'd like to hug you eenamost to death tew, you tarsal, nice, pl ump, elegant little critter you, Sewke." "0, la ! Go away, you—Jonathan."-- American paper. BROADHEMSTON.--Th e belief in which'zraft has received a severe blow in this parish. A lady's maid, who'attributed an increase 'of size to the effects (Jf witch craft, and spread the report all over the village s has been brought to bed of a daughter.