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4P - • • Now ready in 3 vols., Bvo. THE HISTORY of th e MANNERS, CUS TOMS, &c., of ANCIENT GREECE. By J. A. St. JOHN, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. NEW STORY OF THE SEA, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE PILOT," " THE TWO ADMIRALS," &c. On the 21st Inst., in 3 vol•_. post Svo., THE JACK O'LANTERN (LE FEU FOLLET); OR, THE PRIVATEER, A Story of the Sea. By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 13, Great Marlborough -street. AT 1!" 0 L V. OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, By AGNES STRICKLAND, IS NOW READY, Comprising the LIYES of QUEEN KATHARINE PARR and QUEEN MARY. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. Now real y, in 2 vols., small Svo., 21s. bound, NIMROD ABROAD. By C. J. APPERLEY, Esq. Our sporting readers will welcome with delight this new production of the popular Author of The Chase, The Turf, and The Road. In these Volumes the famous Nimrod,' from whose sporting dicta there is no appeal, carries the reader with him to enjoy every species of sport which the wide world affords—from the Royal Slag Hunt of Chantilly, the Baronial Bear Hunt of the Black Forest, the Bear Tracking of Russia, the Wolf Hunting, and Deer Stalking of Canada, the Tiger Hunting, and Hawking of India—up to the whole of these, and half-a-dozen more united in the Great Russian battue— besides many other sports and places too numerous to mention. The truth is that we have seldom seen Mr. Apperley more at Jaime, or to better purpose, 'than in these volumes, while par taking of the princely hospitalities of the late Duke of Orleans, or the Prince of Moskwa, or of a score of other sporting noble men in all pasts of the civilized world. In fact his sketches, not merely of the sporting pretensions and practices of the French, Bqgian, German, Russian, and other nobles, but of their personal characters, habits, and modes of life, are as novel and entertaining as they are instructive and useful in more than one point of view."—New Monthly. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 8 200 'MONEY DIVIDENDS will be divided 5 on the 30th Instant, amongst EIGHT THOU SAND TWO HUNDRED SELECTED Bonds of the LOAN negotiated in the year 1820, and GUARANTEED by the GO VERNMENT and his Royal Highness the GRAND DUKE of BADEN. 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'Those who remit El 5 BEFORE the 15th instant, will re ceive an order for £2 upon our London Bankers, together with the Bond. To those ordering too late for being attended to, their re mittances will be returned by first post. HEINE BROTHERS. HAMBURGH, November 1, 1842. THEATRE KOVAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING, NOV. 22, Will be repeated Shakspeare's Play of THE TEMPEST. Aloes°, Mr. Cooper; Sebastian, Mr. Diddear ; Prospero, M r . Vasidenhoff ; Antonio, Mr. J. Vining ; Ferdinand, Mr. C. Pitt ; Caliban, Mr. J. Bland ; Trinculo, Mr. Harley ; Ste phan°, Mr. Bartley. Miranda, Miss Vandenhoff ; Ariel, Miss Rainforth. To conclude with the Operatic Play of ROB ROY. Rash leigh Osbaldistone, Mr. C. Pitt; Francis Osbaldistone, Mr. W. Harrison; Rob Roy M.Greor Campbell. Mr. Cooper; Dougal, Mr- W. H. Payne ; Diana Vernon, Miss Rainforth ; Helen M‘Gregor, Mrs. Salzberg. Doors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances com mence at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. jd. ; First and Second Circles os., Second Price 2.5. tid. ; Pit 3s; Second Price ; Gallery Is. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit :. low, at the Box-office, from Tea till Four, where Season 'rckets may be had. Private Boxes to be hail at the Box-office ' • of Messrs. An drews, 167, New Rind - street; M r . Mit c h e ll , Old Bond-street; and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY-MARKET. Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews are engaged, and will appear To-night, and every Evening. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, Nov. 22, Will be performed, Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir Anthony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren; Captain Ab solute, Mr. Vining; Faulkland. Mr. Stuart ; Acres, Mr. IVebster ; Sir Lucius O' Trigger, Mr. Malone Raymond ; Fa; - ,t, Mr. Charles Mathews; David, Mr. Buckstone. Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover; Lydia Languish, Madame Vestris ; Julis, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Lucy, Mrs. F.Matthews. wlfioh wall be added an entirely New Monopolylogue, tailed THE BELLE OF THE HOTEL; or, AMERICAN SKETCHES; in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam will sustain Six Charseters. _ After which, (first time here these four years), the Burletta of THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Captain Amersfort, Mr. Howe ; Peter Spyk, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Swyzel, Mr. Tilbury ; Delve, Mr. T. F. Mathews. Gertrude, Madame Vestris, with the Song of " I'd Marry him To-morrevr." Ernestine, Miss C. Connor. To emselude vsith Mr. Buckstone's last New Farce, called AKI IN THE DIRK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr. Buskstone ; Frank Fathom, Mr. Howe ; Mary, Miss Mattley ; The Unknown Female, Miss Connor ; Mrs. Pettibone, Mrs. 'W. Clifford. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL THIS EVENING, NOV. 22, Will be repeated THE MISER'S DAUGHTER. Prin cipal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Lyon, H. Beverly, Wright, Sterling, Wilkinson, Maynard, Craven, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, Miss Faucit, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Beverly, &c. After which, a New Comic Burletta, called ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony, Mr. Wright ; Cleopatra, Miss Murray. To be followed by a Grand Burletta Spectacle, entitled ALMA. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wieland, Frampton, Mrs. H. P. Grattan, and Madame Proche G iubilei. To conclude with THE SECRET. Thomas, Mr. H. Beverly. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. Doors open at half-past stx, commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Unparalleled success and extraordinary attraction. Mr. T. P. Cooke in two pieces. THIS EVENING, NOV. 22 Will be repeated an entirely New Nautical Drama, en titled TH E E UNION JACK; or , t h e SAILOR and the SETTLER'S DAUGHTER, written expressly for Mr. I'. P. Cooke, who will be supported by Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Smith, Iftslop, Mrs. R. Hormel., and the entire Compa n y . New seentry and splendid nauti ca l e ff ects never before attemp ted, After which, for six nights only, THE MONSTER -; or THD FATE OF FRANKINSTEIN. F rankinstein, H. Hughes ; The Monster, by Mr. T. P. Cooke, as acted by hint upwards of 100 nights in Paris. To conclude with Mr. Barber's new Drama, en- Ftled. THE BLACK LAW OF MARTINIQUE; or, th e UGITIVE SLAVE. Zamba, the Slave, by Mrs. H. Vining. The other Characters by Messrs. Hughes, Hicks, Neville, W. Smith, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Terry , who will sing Miss Eliza Cook's Song of the " Red Indian, " composed by Mr. G. Stansbury. Thousands of Blue Jackets are attracted by the last scene of Union Jack—the destruction of the Pirate's vessel by fire— appalling effects. Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at the - Box-office, from eleven to four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. 11 ortung lO minutes after 4 I Evening 31 minutes after 4. L OXD ON : TUESDAY Al ORNINGI NOVEKBER 22, 1842. A dispute has lately taken place whether far mers should or should not have leases. It is contended on the one hand that the farmers are as sure of continuing in possession of their land, if they cultivate it well, without a lease as with a lease. They are told that the 'custom of the country and the honour of landlords are better guarantees than any parchments which the law will enforce for the safe possession o f f arms. It is replied, that the land may change hands; that stewards, when their employers press for money, are not much troubled with feelings of honour; that the necessities of spendthrifts will make them forget family maxims as well as sell the family pictures; and that a fiirmer can only be .sere of recovering the capital he may vest in improving a farm, by having a lease for a consi ti,erable number of years. It appears, however, fr,lm the fellowing statement, which we borrow fro.la the Aylesbury News, and which appears qu ite decisive of the question, that without any urgent pecuniary necessity, andwithout an estate c hanging bands, a farme r may be driven from his holding by the caprice or ill temper of the j ar „ . downer, and may lose all the capital he has e sted in experiments, the value of which time on ly can prove In the early p art of last sho o ti ng season, it seems ;that the Duke of Buckingham gave a Capt. Lowndes rmission to shoot over the farm of a Mr. Sibthorpe m oun tain, at ThornbGrough grounds, near Bucking ha The Captains sport was very succ ess f u l, and I w, he t0, , ,k away an i mme nse quantity of game, princi. pally hares although Mr.-Fountain kept greyhounds, and had his Graces permission to course. The gal lant Captain carried away all he shot without so much as thanking Mr. Fountain for his hospitality, or asking him to accept of a brace. A few days after, Mr. Fountain meeting a few friends at Whacldon, and, getting a little "mellow," became more com municative than cautious, commented freely on what he called the ungentlemanly conduct of the Captain, and spoke his mind on the probable motives which induced the brave soldier to leave his regi ment just at the time it was ordered abroad on active service. These remarks were conveyed to the gal lant gentleman, of course losing nothing of their I pungency in the carriage. The Captain imme diately posted off to the Duke in a great rage, and insisted upon Fountain being turned out of his farm, engaging to find another tenant at an increased rent. The Duke of Buckingham immediately gave Foun tain notice to quit, and, in spite of the prayers and entreaties of a numerous body of friends and fellow tenants, Fountain has been compelled to sell his stock, hay, and corn, and take himself off to a more friendly neighbourhood, and to a less tyrannical landlord. The farm on which he and his family hoped to live and thrive for many months to come, and on which he had done his duty as tenant and master to the sa tisfaction of every one, is already let to another. Mr. Fountain has a numerous family of young children thus thrown upon the world, and is a man much re spected in his parish, always employing more than his proportion of labourers. All Mr. Fountain's neigh bours express their sorrow at his leaving them, their sympathy with his present condition, and their disgust at the conduct of his persecutors. Such is the story of the Duke of Buckingham's conduct towards those farmers who dare comment on any conduct of his or of his friends. How is it possible that men can employ their property in cultivating farms from which they may be thus summarily ejected ? Admitting that the story may not be strictly true, still the belief in the possibility of such an ejectment, which must generally exist, or such stories would never be coined, will operate as powerfully as an actual dismissal, and will prevent the farmers from cultivating their land. Without that se curity no agricultural societies, no scientific dis coveries, no knowledge, whether hoarded or dif fused by the landowners, who are very rarely land cultivators, will much imprOve our agri culture. What is wanted, as Mr. COBDEN ob served at Liverpool, is more labour on the ground skilfully applied. The following passage from that gentleman's speech has our hearty approba tion, and we quote it with the better grace, as it forms part of the close of his speech, which our report did not contain : Every intelligent agriculturist would tell them what was wanted was a vast improvement in every direction in the soil—more draining, better hedging, better fencing, better ploughing better sowing better everything than it was ; and if they had that done, they must have more labour to do it.—(Hear, hear). Let them look at the land between Liverpool and Manchester. Was it not most humiliating to every man engaged in manufactures, and who was obliged to force every invention, that no sooner did he leave Manchester to come on the railroad to Liverpool than right and left he witnessed a sterile proof of sluggard indolence, and waste, and extravagance in the cultiva tion of the soil ? Half the land was covered with rushes ! There stood the pools on the surface, poison ing the atmosphere by their exhalations ! There was no necessity for these if the land were drained. The rushes might be removed, and the soil which was now fit for herbage, might be covered with rich clover, and would give increased employment to the people, and double the wealth produced from the surface of Lan cashire. And how was this to be accomplished ? There were two ways of governing the world; the one was by the competitive principle and the other by the co-operative principle. Well ! but he and others were forced in their manufactures. The ship builders were forced in their ship-building. The ship builders were forced to improve by the force of com petition. Why not apply the same force to the farmer ?—(Cheers.) What other means had they to do it by ? By what other means did they attempt to accomplish it ? Was it by the drivelling exhor tations they heard at the agricultural dinners ? (Laughter)—the mere bleatings and gruntings of men who told them that the sheep in America afforded sustenance for the pigs ?--(Hear, hear, and great laughter.) Was it by the drivelling exhortations of such men as these, at agricultural dinners, got up like the meetings of their poor deluded friends the ship-carpenters.—(llear, hear)—mixing politics with farming ; was it by such means as these they would, have farming improved in this country ? Yes, it is by competition that agriculture must be improved, and to enable the farmers to com pete with one another, and with foreigners, they must be secured in the possession of their land, against all probable contingencies, fora consider able number of years. If the landowners obsti nately refuse to make over the use of the land to the cultivators for some certain and fixed period, or grant leases, it will become the com munity, the subsistence of which depends on the due employment and improvement of the soil, to inquire into the landlords' claims, and to teach them that they hold the soil for the public benefit, and depend on the public will. The poor Scotsman seems much mortified that we did not trouble ourselves to answer its puerile arguments in favour of a statesman amusing himself with turning legends into doggerel verses when the country has been brought into a perilous condition by his policy. The example it quotes of Mr. CANNING does not bear on the question, fbr the country was not then in an alarming condition, nor did Mr. CANNING ever pretend, like the Whigs, to rely on popular favour. Those who quote Mr. CANNING as an example, would probably act on Mr. CANNING'S princi ples ; but the people of England are not now to be fascinated by the mere brilliancy of any un principled adventurer. They have not, we be lieve, forgotten the taunt " the revered and rup tured OGDEN, 9 ' with which that gentleman mocked at a severe calamity, and replied to ear nest complaints by a heartless sneer. If Mr. MACAULAY has taken Mr. CANNING for his model, he will make a less valuable toady than that departed gentleman to the aristocracy, and a much less formidable opponent of the people. They can spare him; let him try if the CLEVELANDS and BUCKINGHAMS want him. The Scotsman, which, when it was most serviceable to the cause of the people, stood almost alone, should not, for its own honour, have reproached The Sun that the voice we have raised against Mr. MACAULAY'S amuse ments was not echoed by the Press. The Scotsman does not require to learn that a newspaper may not find support, and yet may be perfectly correct. At the same time our Contemporary is either not a diligent reader of newspapers, or he suppresses the truth. Our observations on Mr. MACAULAY have been quoted by more than one journal, which proves that they are more echoed than the Scotsman allows its readers to suppose. Of Mr. MACA ULAY we will only add that if he wish to be held in public remembrance, and obtain public support, he must do something better for the public cause than amuse himself with old and doubtful tales. If we were to criticise the Right Hon. Gentleman's perform ance we should be as worthlessly employed as he is, otherwise it would be easy to prove that his ballads are full of very silly applications of perfectly modern ideas and modern knowledge to ancient events, and that his notion of poetical truth as something ,opposite to and distinct from historical truth, is far more worthy of a rhymster than a statesman or a philosopher. The Irish papers state that a considerable op position is threatened in Ireland, to the levying of the Poor-rates. The Dublin Evening Mail says : It cannot be denied that the Poor-laws, or rather let us say, the Poor-rates,, are in this country most unpopular—and threaten to become the source of disturbance and opposition to the laws. From what ever cause this arises, whether from the severe or the unequal pressure of the rates—from discrepancy be tween the enormous amount of taxation and the in finitessimal quantity of relief to the poor—or from the blundering mismanagement of the Commissioners and their overpaid staff—from whatever cause, we say, this popular discontent arises, it behoves the Govern ment to take the thing into their most serious consi deration." It then quotes accounts of the police having been driven out of th e par i sh of C reagli, when an attempt was made to levy the rate by force —of outrages at Desertserges in the Bandon Union, of bitter complaint s i n the Ennis Union, and of the guardians of the Itatlikeale Union having resolved to appeal from the authority of the Commissioners to the Parliament. The fol- 4, " ..4 1 44 e Aficogi v 4, r„zr*lociA - • =ay. ..Asit"t•- Ztt, A ♦ ` ~`~! THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING; NOVEMBER 22, 1842. lowing somewhat doubtful tale appears in the Cork Examiner : RESISTANCE TO POOR-RATES-ONE MAN KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED. Through Mr. Hurley, driver of the Skibbereen coach, we learn the particulars of a melancholy trans action, accompanied with loss of life, which took place at Skibbereen : It appears that a party of police, under the command of Captain Gore Jones, R.M., proceeded about three miles from the town to afford protection to the col lectors of rates for that district ; but having met with some resistance from the people, who were labouring under great excitement, they returned to town to aug ment their force, which having done, they proceeded I once more to the scene of action. e people were now pressing on them, and one of them unfortunately threw a stone at the police, when they immediately ( turned round and fired on them, when one man, whose name we were not able to learn, was shot dead, and three others wounded. We give the above hur ried particulars as they have been just communicated to us. The Irish have never been very remarkable for alacrity in submitting to the fleecing process of the rate and the tax gatherer. We are not much surprised at their aversion to these functionaries. As all power, rights, and privileges, came to be commuted for money, tax-gatherers of various kinds became the principal instruments for exer cising the power of the ruling classes over the Irish. The whole system of government was founded on oppression, which gradually took, in the process of commutation, the aspect of sordid extortion. The Irish have battled successfully against Church cess and tithes; they have some times successfully withheld rent, and may there fore be considered as accustomed and privileged to resist any new rates they may dislike. These features in the history of Ireland, and in the Irish character, should have been taken into con sideration when the Legislature passed a Poor law for that country, and before it listened to the promptings of humanity, it should have con sideredwhether, in attempting to carry them into execution, more mischief than good might not ensue. If it took so much care, it appears that the proneness of the Irish to resist taxation was overlooked ; and hence a law, kindly intended, seems very likely to associate charity with homi cide, and make a feasible municipal regulation an object of general hatred. That a law have a humane object is not suffi cient to recommend it to adoption. It ought to be agreeable to a people, and to comport with their habits and manners. The Poor-law for Ireland sinned against the last principle. The Irish had never been accustomed to feed the poor by parish rates, and they hated rates, cesses, and taxes. It is now a question, therefore, whether the I:tw can be carried into execution, or whether it must be altered, amended, or repealed, to the discredit and disgrace of the Legislature. All those who make or propose laws seem to us to suppose that the operation of a law is li mited to the particular object to which, it is di rected ; when every law, in truth, affects a great many interests beyond its intent and meaning. The Poor-law for Ireland is a case in point. Those who made it thought only of providing for the relief of the poor; but it is now plain that it affects the habits, manners, and morals of the bulk of the rate-payers. It tends to exasperate them, to make them savage, as it were , to make them hate the law and those who administer its and to produce the very evils which the Legisla ture wished to prevent—disorder, riot, and bloodshed. So, in making the Corn-laws their authors thought only of increasing rent and increasing agricultural produce; but those laws, though called Corn-laws, and therefore supposed to be limited in their effects to corn, really and truly influence most injuriously all the mutual relations of the different classes of our own country, and the relations of England with all the trading countries of the globe. They disturb amazingly the regular diffusion and supply of the precious metals throughout the trading world, and so af fect everywhere prices and property. They make employers and capitalists the agents for collect ing the landlords' tax; and so theyset strife, divi sion, and hatred, betwixt members of the com munity, who are as necessary to one another's mutual success and mutual happiness, as are the separate parts of a steam-engine to its perfect motion. But we must have written a great many articles in vain, and a great many speeches at the rooms of the Anti-Corn-law League and other places will have been made in vain, if our readers are not well aware of the fact that these laws, though nomi nally confined to corn, extend their pernicious effects through every class of the community, and to many other communities. All laws, whatever may be their name, and however limited their supposed operation, affect the whole community, and hence when factory girls, bakers' apprentices, meddlers with colliers, cork-cutters, paper-stainers, &c., &c., procure enactments for the regulation of some special trade, they, without dreaming, poor innocents, of the vast extent of their meddling, make laws for the whole empire, the full and complete effects of which no man can calculate. All our op ponents recognise this very important principle when we ask to have trade set free. " You can not tell (they reply) what will be the effects of abolishing a restrictive law ? You know not how much land you will put out of cultivation, how much you will lower rent, how completely you will paralyse the home trade, or to what extent you will deprive the labourer of employment, and discourage society ?" True, we do not know these points exactly, but the misfortune is, that, no such misgiving, no such modesty, ever comes over those who propose to make new laws, as the crowded statute-book and the present ham pered state of the country testify. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness the' Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz has returned to the resi dence of the Duke of Cambridge at Kew from a visit. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an inter view with the Earl of Ripon yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Committee of Customs' Inquiry had a meeting yesterday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The meeting was held at twelve o'clock. There were present— Lord Granville Somerset, Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr. Pringle, & c . Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General, had an inter view yesterday with the Earl of Ripon at the Board of Trade. 'Dispatches from , the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday from the seat of Lord Haddo at St. Leonard's-hill, near Windsor. erg.roladenlat a dh TANDEM DRIVING AjndCAMDRIDGE.--A serious ac ccoidinenptanoicocnusr r fr e o d m t o on Wednesday evening, s t undergraduate return rthe with some Univer sity n p e a a rt r y s c i o r ns c is h te a d rle o s f commenced home, near two tandems, and a race of those difficult I S v h a e l l e fo , sr,d. one Striving ? h i e % fortlps upset the at one e turns in the road which go by the name of " aFresh e with a was taken k co en rn t e o r, ;h p e it i c n h n ing at thedriver on his he had lay in He Shelford, where state of insensibility throughout the nigh t, very little hope of his recovery, notwithstanding that every possible medical assistance was rendered to him. The accounts which reached Cambridge on Thursday and Friday stated that he was going on rather favour ably, but there was a rumour in the University on Saturday afternoon that he had died that morning. AMERICAN DISTRESS.—It is stated that upwards of fifty thousand dollars have been expended in Nor folk within the last twelve months, in new build ings, and most of them are intended for family re sidences. They are built out of the honest gains of business and labour, which, having no longer the more available, but less reliable, medium of bank stock for investment, seeks that of bricks and mortar, as more solid and durable. We may add, that where 5,000 dollars have been expended in Norfolk in new buildings, twice that sum has been expended in Bos ton for the same purpose in much less time. Several new and expensive blocks are now being erected in different parts of this city.—Boston Paper. FLYING POST.—On the morning of the 6th inst. a carrier pigeon, quite exhausted, fell down in the yard of the Boar's Head public-house, High-street, Lynn. An unsealed letter was fastened by a silken string to one of its legs. The letter was written in the Ger man language, was dated Dresden, Nov. 4, mid ad dressed ei to the Earl of Haddington, London ; and Is closed in a nen to London. disengaged veiee from re. d i t r h e e e te d, pigeon'san d leg, sent w b y a s posten- The lighthouse, which was in progress of erection upon the Kish-bank at the mouth of the bay of Dub lin, was completely destroyed by the storms of the last week. e vslk aTtonbrVbrition SUN OFFICE Three o' Clock. AFFGHANISTAN AND CHINA. The news forwarded by an extraordinary mail from Bombay, containing ample details of the operations of the British forces on the east and west of our Indian possessions, is the most im portant ever brought to this country from the East. The skill of the Generals, the bravery of the troops, and the determination of the British Plenipotentiary to obtain full redress, have all been crowned with complete success. The Gal lant Commanders of the two divisions in Aff ghanistan left their respective quarters nearly about the same time, marched with well-equipped armies on Caubul, and after defeating the enemy in every battle, and clearing every dangerous pass with little loss, planted the British standard a second time on the Bala Hissar of Caubul. Thanks to the energy, the spirit, and the noble feelings of British and Indian soldiers, the ,wrongs of our countrymen and countrywomen have been avenged, and the temporary disgrace cast on the English name has been completely effaced. Let us hope that this success will be followed up by the Governor-General, and a treaty be formed with some Affghan Chief, who can command the affections and support of his countrymen. The success of our arms will bring many over to British interests, and if affairs are properly managed complete security may be obtained in that quarter against all invaders. From China the intelligence is still more satis factory, as we have not only gained every object for which war was made on three hundred mil lions of people, but have also concluded an honourable peace, and opened up an intercourse with the most fertile provinces of the empire. In place of one port for carrying on trade, British ships are to be allowed free access to five, namely—Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo, and Chinghae. The position and advan tages of Canton and Arnoy are well known. .Ningpo and Chinghae are equally advantageous, and will afford a short communication with the great tea district in that quarter, and also secure intercourse with Nankin and other large cities along the Grand Canal, and the noble river Yang-tze-kiang, where a British fleet, many miles up the country, now for the first time in the history of the world, lies safely at anchor. Foo-chow-foo is to the west of these places, and is situated on a fine river called Min, which takes its rise in the black tea district, and flows past Chaou, Yen-ping, and other cities of great importance. The selec tion of these ports has evidently been made with due consideration, both as regards our communi cation with the inhabitants, and security against any infraction of the treaty. Let us hope that this glorious termination of the war will be favourable to the interests of both nations, and that it may be the means of spreading civilization and useful knowledge among three millions of heathens. We therefore cordially concur with Sir 11 ENRY POTTINGER'S devout wish at the conclusion of his address, when he congratulates her MAJESTY'S subjects on the occasion of a peace, which " he trusts and believes will in due time be equally beneficial to the subjects and interests of both England and China." We quote the following strange paragraph from a Worcester journal :—" A servant girl, Magistrates for run n i ng had been hir e d at ab n l a evf m aoyi e .e d frto M lline A se n e v irlveil l: teei o .lll l a o sin A h rr e was recently bro ug ht Ci rencester for a y ear certain on the lith of Octo ber, and went awa y two days after. Her ex cuse was, that she did not like the ways of t h e h ouse. Why ?' .said the. Magistrate's clerk. After some coyness, s h e sa id, because I had to go through the man's bed-room to my room!' The M ag i s t rate replied, 'this i s a comm on thi ng in Th; ; : farm houses,' and the girl 'was s en t t o N ort hl eac h d ays bat we can scarcely is so unjust, so gaol for fourteen preposterous a decision, be lieve it possible that any Magistrate could have dared to make it. Surely our Contemporary must have exaggerated matters! What, impri son a young girl for fourteen days in a common gaol, where she will, of course, be compelled to herd with thieves, and prostitutes, and the very scum and refuse of society, and where her sense o f delicacy and morality will be liable to outrage every ;hour of the day and night !_subject an innocent girl to an outrageous punishment like this, for no worse crime than that of leaving a situation rendered abhorrent to her ideas of propriety, from the circumstance of her being compelled to pass alone, at night, through a man's bed-room ! never was there anything so monstrous! The decision is a perfect burlesque on justice. Pos sibly because the delinquent was poor and lowly born, the Magistrate took for granted that her disinclination to see liove a man looked in his night-cap, was mere mock-modesty, such as did not become her station; but we can tell this righteous Solon that an innate sense of delicacy is by no means confined to the upper classes of society; the humble, untutored peasant-girl may have as virtuous and sensitive a feminine instinct as the most refined patrician beauty. Had the servant-maid in question sacrificed her notions of propriety to her worldly interests, she would then—in the Cheltenham Magistrate's opinion_ have acted with sense and prudence; but because she was unable to play the hypocrite, and treat as a thing of no account what she deemed highly indelicate, she has been convicted of a gross offence, and punished accordingly. We have often heard of women being committed to gaol for loose behaviour; but this is the first time, we believe, "within the memor y of the oldest.inha bitant," that a servant-maid was ever imprisoned for the crime of modesty ! Were she to be found guilty of qualifying for the Magdalen, she could not be worse treated! We have no further news respecting the in surrection at Barcelona, as no details had reached Paris beyond those contained in the telegraphic dispatch. According to the intelligence from Madrid on the 13th, a large part of the troops c omposing the re main, and a stron g f orce was c oncentrating round So the capital. garrison had been ordered to me reports said that Don FRAN CISCO DE PAULA had been proclaimed Regent at Saragossa, and others that Government feared a republican movement. The good news from China has not a little sur prised our Paris Contemporaries, who, like some of our countrym en, h a ve been foreboding only disaster and di sgrace to our b r ave troops in that part of the w or ld . Some o f t h e m give the tele graphic dispat c h without a word of comment. Others, howe ver, have b ro k en silence to attack our policy i n t h e East, an d claim for the French the right of t ra di ng - be opened t o the English. Th e N a tion a l th us announces the to t h os e ports which are to good news :—" Foreign intelli gence communicates this day important events. Great Britai n h as just g conc l u ded with Chi na a treaty of pea ce , b y w hi c h this last Power engages to pay 21,000,000 o f d o ll ars . The English are to remain in possession of two positions on the Chi nese territory until the entire sum is paid off. A general amnesty is to be published, and the of ficers of both nations are to be placed on a foot ing of equality. "Sir R. PEEL was anxious to terminate this war, of which all Europe condemned the ini quity. li e had given orders to treat on reason able terms, and those which Great Bri lain has just obtained are larbetter than common justice would permit one to expect. It is true that a treaty with China is not precisely a very solid bond. The Em- PEROR, who in a recent edict execrated himself for not havin g yet exterm i na ted the barba rians, will no doubt have given permission to some Mandarin to sign this convention ; but this is not the first time since the commencement of the war that treaties and those who signed them have been disavowed, and even punishedby the Celestial Empire. The Chinese feel Alit few scruples when they enter into an engagement with Christians, and, should the expectation of victory give them courage, there is but little probability that they would remain faithful to those stipulations which force alone could' extort from them. " We do not, however, wish to see renewed the horrible carnage of which we have read 'the ac counts. The sight of violence is always a melan choly spectacle, but it becomes revolting when violence is employed to prepare a triumph for in justice. The Chinese saw themselves attacked, invaded, and delivered up to all the horrors of war, and finally compelled to pay ransom for having refused to allow themselves to be poisoned by the English. Whatever may be the duration of the treaty, and whatever may be the definitive issue of the contest, public opinion throughout Europe will rank this enterprise of the British amongst the most odious facts which figure in her history, and this history, every one knows, is not unstained with odious precedents." "This treaty," says the Univers, "does the greatest honour to the English Cabinet, as it will put an end to one of those immoral wars which-the last Ministry bequeathed to its suc cessors; but it imposes at the same time great duties on the European Powers, and on France in particular. Let England keep possession of the island of Hong-kong, which has been ceded to her for ever ; but the temporary occupation of the islands of Chusan and Golong-Soo must necessarily awaken the most active vigilance of the European Powers. If it be permitted to the English to trade in five harbours of China, let us hope that France and the other Catholic Powers will exert themselves to obtain the same privileges for their national industry, and that if the Methodist minister be authorised to dis tribute the Protestant Bible through the Celes tial empire, the Catholic priest will now find some protection against the fury of a despot and the fanaticism of his Mandarins." The Courrier Francais takes the same view of the subject. "The evening paper," it remarks, "publishes news from China, which the last letters from Macao did not lead us to anticipate. If this news be true, Great Britain is extricated from a serious embarrassment with honour; but we can not accept this news without observing consider able caution. If the English be permitted to trade with China, it is impossible that other nations should be excluded from the commerce of that empire. It will become the duty of our Government to make the rights of France avail able. Our Government did not, we apprehend, send two French ships-of-war into the Chinese seas for the mere purpose of countersigning by their presence a concession in the advantages of which our future commerce could not participate." BELGI AN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, Nov. 19. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , 53% Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent. lO3 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ... . — Three per Cent.... --.. Thirty-seven Milli , ns, ditto (1840) lO4 Loan of City, 1832 Four per Cent 9B - _ ._ Society of COMmeice, Foiir and a Half per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 7BX National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, Nov. 10. A USTRI AN FUNDS. — VIENNA, Nov. 11. Five per Cents. Metalliques. 1(13 15-16 Four per Cents. Three per Cents Bank Shares •• •••••• Aligemeine Zeilung, Nov. 15. HAMBURGH BORSEN HALLE, Nov. 18, Bills. Money. 110 Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares 1635 Anglo-Russian Loan lOB% 10834 Russian 5 per Cent., Ist series, Certificate.-- 1034 Inscriptie», Ist series lO3 Russian 3 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series — Ditto in Certificates 96 -- New 4 per Cent. (1840) 874 87 Dutch Actual Debt, 236 per Cent. ......... 51 51 Ditto 5 per Cent. I'ollsh Bonds New Tickets. — Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. Spanish, New 5 per Cents. . EXCHANGES ON LONDON. EIAMBURGH, Nov. I'.-13 9%, Two months 13 7%• STOCKHOLM, Nov. 11.—Seventy-five days, 12 '<O. Prraassuao, Nov. S.—Three months, 37% pence. RIGA, Nov 10. —Three Months, 311%. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, NOT. Bills. Money St. Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. Prussian English Bonds, 1630, t per cent. 102% 1..1% Exchange on London - 6 24% Prussian State Gazette. Nov. 18. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Nov. 22.—Wind this day at noon E. to N.E., light, with snow and rain. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Eve retta, London for Sydney; Zenobia, London for Cal cutta ; Mary Hartley, Webb, Berbice. Sld. Mediator, ' New York. COWES, Nov. 21.—Arrd. Maria, Odelmark, Buenos Ayres ; Columbus, Egerton, Monte Video. GORING, Nov. 21.—Part of the head of a vessel, marked in large gilt letters " James Gibson," has been picked up near here. SHOREHAM, Nov. 21.—The Mary Agnes, Smith, has been got into dock, and will be surveyed. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 21.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrd. Thos. Mellor, Palethorp, Pernambuco, left 21st ult.; Evergreen, Quebec. Sld. Lady Rowena, Batavia; Woodstock, Calcutta ; Laurel, Savannah; South America, New York ; Neptune, Newfoundland ; Kellermont, Africa. OFF DOVER, Nov. 21.—Palestine, Sidney, New South Wales. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Arrd. Bernhard Hertog Van Saxe, Weimar ; Dordrecht, Batavia. Orr THE GALLOPER, Nov. 11.—Emelie, Ancher son, New York. DEAL, Nov. 21.—Wind N. to N.E., moderate.— Arrd. Denmark, Frost, James River; Medora, Walker, Halifax ; Caledonia, India. Sld. Eliza, Grenada. THE . MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKETS. SUGAR.—The market for B. Plantation has been dull, and the sales are not above 250 hhds at previous rates. The quantity of B. Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 409 hhds, 49 tierces, and 2 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 1,413 hhds, 113 tierces, and 212 barrels. The stock in the same place is 15,448 hhds, 1,945 tierces, and 1,565 barrels. COFFEE.-951 bags Ceylon have been brought to auction, all the sound of which were taken in 63s 6d to 64s for good ord quality, being above the value ; a small portion of damaged sold comparatively cheap. RUM.—There were no landings last week. There were taken for home consumption 271 puns 52 hhds, and exported 17 puns 8 hhds. The stock in the East and West India Docks is 14,404 puns 2,622 hhds. TEA.—The important news from China has caused the market to become very uncertain, and few parties are disposed to do business, although the quotations are nominally ld to Lid per lb. lower than before the accounts reached. The heavy public sales amounting to above 60,000 packages have been postponed till Monday next, and some anxiety is felt for the receipt of the letters which may have been brought by the Over land Express. There seems every prospect now of increased extension on the part of the Chinese in cul tivating and supplying us with the leaf. The delive ries are moderate. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is steadier at 48s 3d to 48s 6d per cwt on the spot. Town is 51s 6d per cwt. This is likely to be a dull week in the Colonial Markets, but few public sales of importance being being declared, except those of Wool. A little Cot ton is to be offered on Thursday. HAY MARKET. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3110 s; useful ditto, 3/ 15s to 4/ ; fine Upland ditto, 415 s to 4/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ 5s to 5110 s; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw: 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. Supply good, and trade excessively dull, at barely the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3l 5s to 3/ 15s ; useful do., 4l to 41 4s ' • fine Upland do., 4l 5 s to 4/ 12s ; Clover H a y, 4158 to 518 s • Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ; Wh ea t St raw , 2l to 2i2s per load. Both Hay and Straw were amending, at the above currency. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to Si 10s ; useful ditto, 3l 15s to 4/ ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 5s to 4/ lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ to 51 15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. A full average supply, and a heavy inquiry. We have inserted in another part of the Paper a letter, in which the writer states that he recovered from what appeared to be a hopeless case of consump tion. We know nothing either of the individual or of the means by which the cure was affected; but if a remedy for this fatal disease has been found, it may be regarded as one of the greatest medical discoveries. TILE GUARDS FROM CANADA.-LAt a late hour last night the band of the Coldstream Guards received orders to be in readiness at Nine Elms, by three o'clock this day, for the purpose of welcoming their old comrades from Canada, who will arrive, per train, from Southampton at that hour. THE INCENDIARY FIRE AT TEDDINGTON.—John Morris, who has been in custody since the 6th inst. on suspicion of having set fire to the barn and premises of Mr. Gunner, farmer, at Teddington, was yester day committed for trial by the sitting Magistrates at the Staines Petty Sessions. The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle mentina Villiers, returned to Middleton Park, Oxon, yesterday. OVERLAND MAIL EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH FROM CHINA. RECAPTURE OF CAUBUL. TREATY of PEACE WITH CHINA. The following important intelligence was brought to Malta on the 13th instant, from Alexandria, and forwarded to Marseilles by the Locust steamer. Caubul has been again taken, and General Pollock and General Nott have, with their victorious troops, met in the capital of Affghanistan. Some severe fighting took place on both routes, •but the British forces main tained their high character, and defeated the enemy with comparatively little loss in every encounter. A number of the prisoners detained by Akbar Khan were found in safety at Caubul, and strong hopes existed that Lady Sale and the rest would spee dily be set at liberty. Akbar Khan had fled to the mountains. In China the success has been equally com plete. The city of Nankin has been captured, and the treaty of peace between Great Britain and China vas signed on the 29th of August on board the Cornwallis, a ship of the line, anchored in the river Yang-zse-kiang, under the walls of this great emporium of trade and commerce in China. The Tartar troops made great resistance. Their leader fought to the last, and on finding every hope of success or retreat vain, he shut himself up in his chamber, ordered his servant to set fire to the house, and perished in the flames. CHINA. On the 11th October, the Honourable Company's steam frigate Sesostris, Commander Ormsby, arrived at Bombay, bringing news from Nankin to the 31st August, and Hong-Kong to the 10th September. The last mail informed you of the capture of Woo sung and Shanghae, in the Yang-tze-Keang, and of the destruction of numerous batteries and defences on the banks of the Woosung river ; and it was stated that the fleet , had proceeded towards Nankin for the purpose of commencing operations against that city. The squadron set sail from Woosung on the 6th July, and on the 14th arrived opposite some batteries built on a range of hills commanding the river, from which a fire was opened on the leading ships. The guns were instantly silenced, and the whole of the defences destroyed. On the 20th the vessels an chored abreast of the city of Chin-Keang-foo, which commands the entrance of the Grand Canal, and the next morning the troops were disembarked, and marched to the attack of the Chinese forces. One brigade was directed to move against the enemy's camp, situated about three miles distant, where from 1,500 to 3,000 men, it was reported, were as sembled ; another was ordered to co-operate with this division in cutting off the expected retreat of the Chinese from the camp of the city; while the third received instructions to escalade the northern wall of the town. The Chinese, after firing a few distant volleys, fled from the camp with precipation, and dis persed over the country. The city itself, however, was manfully defended by the Tartar soldiers, who prolonged the contest for several hours, resisting with desperate valour the combined efforts of the three bri gades, aided by a reinforcement of marines and sea men. At length opposition ceased, and ere nightfal we were complete masters of the place. Chin-Keang foo, like Amoy, was most strongly fortified, and the works in excellent repair. It is supposed the garri son consisted of not less than 3,000 men, and of these about 1,000 and 40 mandarins were killed and wounded. " The Tartar General," says Sir H. Pot tinger, " retired to his house when he saw that all was lost, made his servants set it on fire, and sat in his chair till he was burned to death ! His private secretary was found, the day after the assault, hidden in a garden ; and on his being carried to the spot, re cognised the half-consumed remains of his master, who was worthy of such a death." Our list of casualties was heavy : three officers of the land-force, and one of the navy, being killed, and nine of the former, and two of the latter, were wounded.* One hundred and fifty-four men of both services were killed and wounded. Leaving a strong garrison for the retention of Chin-Keang-foo, the fleet proceeded towards Nan kin, which was about forty miles distant, and arrived on the 6th of August, when preparations were imme diately made for an attack on the city. A strong force under the command of Major-General Lord Saltoun, was landed, and took up their position to the west of the town ; and operations were about to be commenced, when a letter was sent off to the Ple nipotentiary, requesting a truce, as certain High Commissioners, specially delegated by the Emperor, and possessed of full powers to negotiate, were on their way to treat with us. The attack was consequently deferred, but the Commissioners did not arrive till the 15th. Their names and rank are thus given :- 1. Kee Ying, of the Royal Family, and Comman der-in-Chief of the Tartar troops in Kuang Sung. 2. Eleepoo, Lieut.-General of Shapoo, formerly Governor of Chekeang, but degraded for liberating the prisoners last year. 3. Gnu, General of the two provinces, Keeang-soo and Keeang-see. After several visits, and a good deal of discussion between the contracting Powers, matters were ar ranged to their mutual satisfaction ; and on the 29th of August the treaty was publicly signed on board her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, by Sir H. Pottinger and the three Commissioners. Of this convention, the following are the most important articles : " 1. Lasting peace and friendship between the two empires. " 2. China to pay twenty-one millions of dollars in the course of the present and three succeeding years. " 3. The ports of Canton, Amoy, Foo-chow-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghai, to be thrown open to British merchants; consular officers to be appointed to reside at them, and regular and just tariffs of import and ex port (as well as inland transit) duties to be established and published. " 4. The island of Hong-Kong to be ceded in per petuity •to her Britannic Majesty, her heirs, and successors. 5. All subjects of h er B r it ann i c M a j es t y (whe ther natives of Europe or India) who may be con fined in any part of the Chinese empire, to be uncon ditionally released. " 6. An act of full and entire amnesty to be pub lished by the Emperor under his Imperial sign ma nual and seal to all Chinese subjects, on account of their having field service or intercourse with, or re sided under the British Government or its officers. " 7. Correspondence to be conducted on terms of perfect equality amongst the officers of both Govern ments. " 8. On the Emperor's assent being received to this treaty, and the payment of the first instalment, 56,000,000, her Britannic Majesty's forces to retire from Nankin and Grand Canal, and the military posts at Chinhai to be also withdrawn, but the islands of Chusan and Kolengsoo are to be held until the money payments and the arrangements for opening the ports be completed. It appears the Emperor at first objected to throw open the port of Foo-chow-foo, on the ground that as this place was within 70 miles of the tract of coun try where the black teas are grown, the English would take their cargoes in here, instead of at Canton, (which is 400 miles off), and consequently the trade of the latter place would be ruined. The Plenipoten tiary, however, refused to yield the point, and his Majesty was obliged ultimately to give way. At the time the Sesostris left Nankin, the Manda rins appeared most anxious for our departure from from this neighbourhood, and the 6,000,000 do re quired to be paid ere the expedition would be with drawn was in the course of collection. Four millions indeed had been already tendered, as an instalment, but Sir H. Pottinger refused to receive any thing less than the whole gum. * LAND FORCE. Killed.—Col. Driver, 6th M. N. I. ; Capt. Collin son, 89th R.I. ; Lieut. Gibbons, H. M. 49th. Wounded.—Lieut. Bernard, 18th R. I. (slight) ; Lieut. Badeley, IL M. 49th (danger ous l y ) ; Li eut. Grant, same regiment (slight) ; Major Warren, 55th regiment (severely) ; Lieut. Cuddy, same regiment (severely) ; Capt. Simson, Rifles (severely) ; Ensign Travers, 2d M. N. I. (slight); Waddle, Madras Artil lery (severely) ; Jamedar, 2d M. N. I. (severely). NUTT. Killed.—Major Uniacke, Royal Marines. Wounded.—Lieut. Crouch, Midshipman Lyons. It will be observed that in no one provision of the treaty is there the slightest allusion to the opium trade—the actual cause of the war—and it is said that although the Commissioners were very desirous of in troducing some article on this point, Sir H. Pottin ger refused to admit it, stating that the Chinese must impose .restrictions on their own subjects, if they wished to prohibit the traffic. Thus, recognised by neither power, the opium trade will henceforth be a system of dangerous but lucrative smuggling; and doubtless soon prove the source of fresh jealousies and misun derstandings with the Chinese. We can but regret that the question as to its lawfulness has not been finally set at rest. Immediately after the signature of the treaty, it was dispatched to the Emperor for ratification, and on its return, which was expected in about ten days, Major Malcolm was to convey it to England, yin Suez, by the Hon. Company's steamer Auckland. At the time of the settlement of differences, sick ness had begun to appear extensively among the men both of the land and sea forces. Upwards of 100 be longing to the 98th Regiment had died. When the first instalment of the 21 millions of dol -1 ars is paid, the troops return to Chusan. There are at present off Nankin, her Majesty's ships Cornwallis, Blonde, Modeste, Childers, Clio, and Algerine ; her Majesty's steamers Vixen and Driver, and the East India Company's steamers Auckland, Queen, Phlegethon, and Medusa, w hi c h vessels retain th eir position until p aymen t o f t h e i ns t a l men t. The Tenna sser i m s t eamer was di s p a t c hed to Cal cutta with the tidi ngs o f peace, an d arr ived safely " the 4th instant. Pluto, Her Majesty's ships Endymion, Calliope, and Dido, and the East India Company's steamer Proserpine, are stationed off the great canal. The steamer Ne mesis was to proceed to Formosa, to obtain the release of the captured crews of the Anne and Nerbudda. At Hong-Kong there remain her Majesty's ship Blenheim, W o l ver i ne , an d W arsp i te, an d the E 35 ' ., India Company's steamers Memnon and Hooghly. OFFICIAL DISPATCHES' (From the Friend of China, Sept. 10.) CIRCULAR. TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN s Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c. in Chin, has extreme gratific a ti on i n announc i ng to her Maj es ty subjects i n Chi na , th at h e h as th i s d ay co ncluded am : signed with the Chinese High Commissioners, dep uted to negotiate with hi m , a treaty, o f w hi c h the fofollowingare the most import an t p rov i s i ons . 1. Lasting Peac e an d F r i en d s hi p b e t we en the two en • pires. 2. China to pay T wen ty- one Millions of dollars in the course of the present and three succeeding years.. . 3. The ports of Canton, .Amoy, Foo-chop-foo , N'a6r— and Shanghai, to be thrown open to British mercholi Consular officers to b e appointed to reside at them, and regular and j us t tariffs of import and export (as well as inland transit) duties to be established and published. 4. The island of Hong-Kong to be ceded in perpetuity to her Britannic Majesty, her heirs and successors. 5. All subjects of her Britannic Majesty (whether nit' fives of Europe or India), who may ba confined in °I part of the Chinese empire to be unconditionally miens"' 6. An act of full and entire amnesty to be published by the Emperor under his Imperial sign manual and seal to all Chinese subjects, on account of their having hel d service or intercourse with, or resided under the British Government, or its officers. 7. Correspondence to be conducted on terms of per fect equality amongst the officers of both Governments. 8. On the Emperor's assent being received to this treaty, and the payment of the first 6,000,000, dollars, her Britannic Majesty's Forces to retire from Nankin . ; and the Grand Canal, and the military posts at Chinhal to be also withdrawn, but the islands of Chusan and Kulangsoo are to be held until the money payments an d the arrangements for opening the ports be completed. In promulgating this highly satisfactory intelligence? her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., purposely refrains from any detailed expression of his own se ntiments g 5 to the surpassing skill, energy, devotion, and valour, which have distinguished the various grades, from the h i g hest to the lowest of all arms of her Majesty's com bined forces, during the contest that has led to these moment ous results.. The claims which have been thus established, will bedoubtless acknowledged by the highest authorities. In the meantime, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary congra tulates her Majesty's subjects in China on the occasion of a peace, which he trusts and believes will, in clue Slo e ' be equally beneficial to the subjects and interests England and China.—God save the Queen. • Dated on beard the steam frigate Qu een , i n the Yang tze Keang river, off Nanking, this 29th d a y o f _Augus t ' 1842. (Signed) o f both HENRY POTTINGER, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiarf (True Copy) G. A. MALCOLM, Secretary or Legation. _ . CIRCULAR. TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CUINA. Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c. &c., in China has high satisfaction in promulgating for the information of her Majesty's subjects in China, the important progres4 and success of the expedition, since the date of the ho t circular on the 24th of June. The expedition was detained by bad weather and other circumstances at Woosung until the 6th July, en which day it advanced up the river Yangtse-kiang, and onri is 14th reached a military position, built on a range of commanding the stream, where two small recently ereete batteries, mounting thi r t een guns , opene d the first r j . c e since leaving Woos ung , on t h e l ea di ng s hip s , hu t ,„ - of instantly silenced, an d th e guns, b atter i es , an d rai i ' p 'n buildings connected w ith th em d estroye d as so on 1111— could be put on shore. s b o y m a e d v o e f rs t h e e winds ships nearly o fo f r war, a ssi a st w ed ee b k ; At this point the main body of the fleet was retarded to " Kinshan" or " Golden Island," where the whole , ar mament, amounting to seventy sail of vessels, assemble on the 20th instant and anchored abreast of the city e` the steamers, go tuP during Which perre' Chin-keang-foo. eil A reconraisance having been obtained the same ei l b ; ing, the troops were disembarked as early to P ss t h a l the next morning. It w a s a t thi s t i me believe"' v the majority of the Chi nese t roops, w hi c h had bee n 11 ,: riously reported at from fiftee n h un d re d t o three 0°- sand men, were in a camp, which was visible from hills overhanging the river, at a distance of about three miles; Against this camp th e r i g h t b r i ga d e moved and Major-General Lord Saltoun. The centre briga de ' by Major-General Bartley, was directed in the firs; stance to co-operat e w ith th e r i g h t one, i n cu tting 011 the anticipated retreat o f t h e f ug i t i ves f rom the eateP,hl direction of the city, an d t h e l e f t b r i ga d e , befo e '' A- Major-General Scheodde, landed on she river fac e thecity opposite the fleet, where it was instructed to ess calade the northern wall, which the centre brigad e 2 1 ,1 likewise appointed to do on the south ern s id e , after 4 performed the other duty assigned to it. The Chinese troops in the camp did no t veato re t° stand the near approach of our men, but three or four distant volleys from their „ tr T matchlocks, broke and dispersed all over the C , C)B , - ii ' which was hilly and covered with the jungle. By ri 4 time the left brigade had got on sb ore, when it b eea tii : obvious that the Tartar garrison intended to defend city, from the walls of which they opened a heavy an incessant fire of cannon, jinjalls, rockets, and matchleetnbe As the left .brigade moved from the landing Pla ce ' no Auckland (steam frigate), which had been place d irl , r th ; sition for the purpose, threw some shells a mongst _ s after firing, enemy on the works with admirable precision, but- vo h a e obliged to cease firing, owing to the rapid a dvance of t brigade to the bottom of the wall which was most lantly escaladed under a heavy fire from the Tartar'a troops, who behaved with great spirit, and d is P u t e ,, every inch of the ramparts, availing themselves vi` great tact, of their knowledge of the localities, to gal our, and screen their own troops. The centre brigade got into the city (after some delay in finding a bridge to cross the Grand Canal, which runs along the western side of Chin-keang-foo, and separa tes the walled city from very extensive suburbs) by blowing open one of the gates ; b u t even a ft er the left brigade, had received this large reinforcement, besides parties of marines and seamen who were landed the moment the opposition promised to be so stubborn, the Tartars man fully prolonged the contest for some 'hours, and it W late in the afternoon before they entirely disappeared, which it is surmised the survivors did, by throwingasv a i their arms and uniform, and either hiding themselves till night enabled them to escape, or' else mingling wit h the other inhabitants. The city of Cbin-keang-foo is rather more than foar miles in circumference, the works .are in excell ent re - pair, and the parapet, which is so thick and solid that nothing but cannon shot could have - made any impres sion on it, is pierced with narrow embrasures, and loopholes, and flanked at a variety of spots with trans- verse walls. It has hitherto been impossible to obtain anything liire a precise return of the strength -of the garrison. but from calculations made with reference to the extent of the works, and the Tartar troops :seen on them at the same moment, it is thought there, could not hale been less than three thousand men. Of these it is said, that forty Mandarin's .officers and one thousand men, were. killed and wounded. The Tartar-General Command ing-in-chief, retired to his house when be saw that all was lost, made his servants set it on fire, and sat in biz chair till he was burned to death. I/ is private see"' _ '~ ~r;( If ( ~'