The Sun. — London, England, 1842-10-08 00:00:00

•• Hopkins, Captain, killed near Jellalabad. librshurgh, Lieut. sth N. 1., killed at Kimord Caubul. •, Johnson, Captain, P. M., Shah's General Staff, detained as hostage. • .A.lajor, Lightlnfantry, killed at Cundamuck. Ring, Captain, 13th Light Infantry, killed at Tezeen. Kirby, 54th, N. 1., killed on the Hoft Kothul. Laing, Lieut. 27th N. 1., killed on Deymaroo Hill. Lawrence ' Captain, M. S., detained as hostage. Le Geyt, Captain, Shah's 2d Cavalry, killed on the road from Caubul. • Lighton, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Tunjee Tareekee. ,•_ll,utnsden, Lieut. F.;,• 27th • Native Infantry, killed after leaving Ghuznee. Illteitgosh, Captain sth Native Infantry, killed on Dey maroo Mackenzie. Captain, A. P. A., detained as hostage. Mack roll, Lieut.-Colonel, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Reilta Bashi Fort Cantonments. lliteartnev, Lieut , killed on the road from Caubul. Alaeltay, Captain, Assistant-Paymaster, Shah's General • Stuff; killed on the road from Caubul. ll'Crea, Captain of her Majesty's 44th, killed at Bell:a Bashi Fort Cantonments. Ilacn!ghten, Bart., Sir William, murdered while at conference, by the Sirdar AkbaiKlian. liagq - atli, Dr., 37th Native Infantry, taken prisoner near Tezeen (wounded). Marshall, Captain, 61st Native Infantry, killed on the ?cad from Caubul. 1141111 e, Captain, K. R, killed at Kar Darra. Melville, Lieut., 54th Native Infantry, wounded at Ttnijee Tareekee, and taken prisoner, in the hands of • " ' Nahomed Akbar. '', Iletcali'e, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed at ‘ 9undamuck. '''",;,es,- Captain, sth N a ti ve I n f a ntry, killed in Tunjee 1-1 1 reeke e . Morrieson, Lieutenant, 54th Native Infantry, killed at . . Gundamuelc. li d.° l /, Captain, commanding Horse Artillery, killed at Earricr. Oliver, Lieutenant -Colonel, commanding the sth Native Infantry, killed on the Deymaroo Hill.' Palmer, ~„ Captain, sth Native Infantry, killed on the ~ p s " . rroln Caubul. paalt.llntluo;enti;,,no. Colonel T., 27th Nat i ve I n f antr y, kill e d after Ghuznee. , Captain, A. A., Quarter-master, killed at Khoord Canbul P ass . • • P .:, ut engor, Lieutenant, sth Native Infantry, killed on the . ' _ o road f rom C au b u l . -1: :ling er , M a j or P . A. T. detained as hostage. • ' -. °tti nger, Lieutenant, 54th 2 Native Infantry, killed at ~., pl-I`l etinla. 1 -,_ • i t ,., lll rose, Dr., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gundamuck. s:, "n, Lieutenant, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Ma- 1 bc _ Th h ° l ned Shereef's Tort Cantonments. r< n n in ,l , Captain, 37th Native Infantry, killed at Gundamuck. , - - " Ln son, Captain, her Majesty's 44th, killed at Maho ! •,_ 11 tnud Shereeff's Fort Cantonments. ! ‘,- °Se, Lieutenant, Shah's 4th Infantry, killed near Cha ' ~t sltrifs,,,,3kaarr3.., Lieutenant, Shah's 4th Infantry, killed at Cha , reekar ► shat • , Captain, 54th Native Infantry, killed at Tunjee Tareekee. S • he l ton, Brigadier, her Majesty's 44th Regiment, corn ' Sett, 3d Brigade, detained as hostage. ~'"tr, Major, her Majesty's 44th, killed near Tezeen. •' L ' t. ' ll aer, Captain, A. A. C. G., killed at Jugdulluck, '‘‘. bile g o i ng over to a con f e rence. . o er, at, C ap tain, her Majesty's 44th, wounded and taken S t - Pr ' s°ll er, Gundamuck, in the hands of Mahomed Akbar. .eor,, ,Itient., 37th Native Infantry, killed on the road urn Caubtil, . -•,- - '. . • - ''' t. . G eorge, Lieut., 37th . Native Infantry, killed at lilhoord Caubul Pass ,t3,tuart, Lieut., A r till er y, killed at Gundamuck. ' t art, Capt. E. E., mortally wounded at Koord, Caubul, .. ai where he . died. v a3ne Major, sth. Native Infantry, killed near Heft - Ruh u I. i h ,, I - re, Capt., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Mahomed r Sli - , , i , . e.,2eff s Fort Cantonments. r , "winton, Lieut., her Majesty's 44th, killed at Gunda r . • muck. 1 , . .11, • : • n ane, Major; A.D.C., killed near Jugdulluck. l • , -0 . , nibs, Lieut., sth Native Infantry killed on the road I ' • r, f rom Canbul. - r '''-, " Lr ever, Capt., murdered at a conference, whilst in corn ,r,puny with Si r W . M acnag h ten. -1 h "1 1, Capt , 8.11., Shah's General Staff, detained as o- V anrene be' 1 n, Lieut., 37th N a ti ve I n f a ntry, killed on the - - i v ynad from C au b u l. • \ t \,,,tdk de, Capt., h er M a j esty ' s 44th, kill e d at Jugdulluck. , . , er , Capt 4th N. 1., mortally wounded on Deyina r i .- i v . " Hill, died in Cantonments. ! . all n. Lieutenant of Artillery, detained with family as i 1 . whostagcs I - Nz ' r ''' lsh, Captain, Sappers and Miners, detained as hostage. h arhurton, Captain G. C. M., Shah's General Staff, de r w ai!:ed as hostag 11 7 - 4 „ l.r en, Lieut. sth NJ. killed in Tunjee Tareekee. Nt a r` t v er, Lieut. 54th N. i., killed at Gundamuck. I - v. '°°, Lieutenant, detained as hostage. i r "tmacott Capt 37th N. 1., killed at Reika Bttshi Pert ' ' v i , Cantonments.. I Av i ler, Capt. R., killed at Kar Darra. 'l ,l , t , %C .k aptain of her Majesty's 44th; killed at Tunjee . 'Willis, \r. : - iiiii,d - r-, Veterinary Surgeon, sth Light Cavalry, V, dadb u , t,lle road from Canbul. IV ... T. V iidb E I 11 .; c ` - ' 3 Ptain, killed near Ghuznee. ourqi ,i,' aPtain 35th Native Infantry, killed near • - , J u g ` l i: l,' _. uck. o , • INDIA _PAPERS. • e a'ISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS. l ett "aYe been favoured with many extracts from - received - from the captives in Caubul, ono of l to the .sth of July, will be found below. All lie leil letters we have yet seen breathe one feeling of i‘atitude towards Akbar Khan for his treatment of • t he prisoners, and it is but fair that he should have o t'l f e full b enef i t of so honourable a proceed i ng. O ne th e communi ca ti ons con t a i ns th e following p as sage . „ 4' .first t o l ast, most The Sird ar ' s t rea tment of us has been, from kind ; no European Power coruld 11_,1,ve treated pri soners o f war b e tt er ; there is a f eel ' 1_ ' 18" abroad th at we have been i ll-treate d , b ut it i s v er y erroneous, and Akbar has enough to answer for with aa out this being added to his sins." We are very • willing, as w e h ave always been, to allow the full Nh credit f or the actual good treatment of the prisoners,tnd have never d ou b ted the fact, b ut not so t h e nao •ii. s ' v e• The p r i soners are a ll a ll owe d to wa lk i n a q.spacious garden, an d b a th e i n the river or canal, though attended by a guard, and the following is .the bill of fare-10 ladies, 19 children, 15 officers, t t " 11 T - I( f2 soldi ers : —T wo sheep, 72 seers atta, (this is. for t r Y'lnts all), six seers ghee, three seers oil, six so ers ,a 'tee; six seers milk, firewood, and last, not least, tea 1 ; 1. d sugar as required. The conduct of all the ladies spoken of as beyond all praise, and such as to make ;44,.rery Englishman prouder still of his countrywort.en. 4d y Sale and Mrs. Sturt continue to afford ex • nanples of magnanimity and patient suffering to those Of weaker mould. • Since writing the above we have learned that all :at on l e Prisoners are assembled in the Balla Hissar, and the 12th instant the military secretary to '•reneral Pollock gave public intimation that any one to send letters could do so, as an opportunity had occurred of forwarding them. Captain Law :l ranca had returned to Jellalabad, and is expected to l'eraain there some time. We have also seen a letter I ,rom one of the p r i soners , no d ou b t b roug h t to camp `- , ''Y Captain Troup. Although of so old a date :ts to litrord little news, we cannot refuse doing the chiefs 11- = justice they deserve by giving the following ex tract. The letter is dated " Mountains near Temen, 20th May, 1842. We are all excessively kindly treated by the chiefs, and are in a fine climate, where, in the evening, I. am glad to put on a fur cloak. . • T.roup left us at the commencement of this month for /, Caubul, where he now is with Mahomed Al bar z ' ""au• I believe all the folks at Caubul are at logger heads,.and had our army come up a month ago they would have done so without a shot being fired. The city is almost destroyed." EXTRACT OF A LETTER. • " Port of Ali Mahommed Khan, four miles from -c4 • Caubul, July 5, 1842. %a ; " Our situation is the most tantalising• you can irna ; we a re completely in the dark as to the object of o u r • G vernment, and as to whether our troops are coini n g up a • to Caub u l or no t. A short time ago they Would have had nothing to do but to take possession of the Whole country without a shot being fired, and even no w I am convinced they might come up without e . .ng an enemy. Th e whole people, and especially • t he inhabitants of C au b u l, are i n the greatest dread of th e Punishment the which they expect awaits them. If Sirdar delays carrying us off until our troops • 'r arch from Jellalabad, if they are. to march, I think it Passible our rescue will be attempted by the Kuzzil ba,hes and others, but in such case what may be the result ? Probably our release, and probably our jnutder. If, however, the Sirdar should take it into head to send us into Turkistan, which we hear is . .1s int ent i on before our troops march, we may then bid farewell to a release for an indefinite period. It will be some consolation to our friends in India and elsewhere to know that we have always been kindly treated by the Sirdar ; but he has a set of scoundrels sh outi' r 3 ut him, and none greater than his father-in-law, r‘ -41 Thrued Shah Khan (a Ghilzie chief), who, I re ret to say, is his principal adviser. The Sirdar i 3 ,'"w all-powerful at Caubul. The other day he had I';wenty followers, and not a pice of money. In this I le „ tt °ln' party consists of those who were taken pri . i i i -e rs during the retreat, those who went over to $ ,4 with their families, and about twenty European lio- 1 ; 1 „",s• We understand the hostages who were left sa nt ``i When we retreated from Caubul are also to be in here."—Delhi Gazette. KIIELAT-I-GIIILZIE. lIEROIC DEFENCE. Although we have been pretty well-informed of all that h as b ecn passing in the western division of Aft . - ghanistan, and been enabled to lay before our readers, ztnd communicate to many of our contemporaries, the earliest intelligence of events in that quarter, we have but very lately learnt the real hardships which the garrison of Khelat-i-Ghilzie have suffered during the period of their investment by the Ghilzies. The heroic va l our w i th which they repulsed an overwhelm ing enemy on the 21st of May is now known to all India Tha following from an officer in the garrison THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1842. feet between the top of the scarp and the parapet, the latter consisting 'of sand-bags. The enemy, by the aid of scaling-ladders, crossed the ditch, ascended the scarp and sloping bank, and endeavoured to get over the parapet. Here they were resolutely met with the musket and bayonet. Thrice they came boldly on the assault, plantin4. one of their standards within a yard of the muzzle of one of our guns, and thrice they were driven back ; only one man suc ceeded in getting into the place, and he was shot with his foot on the axle of this gun. Two guns were in position at this part of the works, and the attempts . of the enemy to get within the works through their embrasures, and over the parapets on either side, were so determined, that the artillerymen for some minutes were obliged to quit their guns and betake themselves to the musket and bayonet, with which they did good service ; the Sepoys too fought well ; one of them was observed by the artillerymen to bayonet four men. The principal annoyance suf fered by the garrison was from showers of heavy stones, these were thrown into the works in great quantity I to cover the escaladers, and several of our men were knocked down and sinartiv bruised by them. During the height of the assault the enemy fired little; they had apparently siting their matchlocks, and came on sword in hand, but they were met by a fire so deadly and well sustained that they had no chance of success. The officers of the garrison were all surprised at the boldness and determination of the attack, but we un derstood afterwards, that, trusting to their numbers, and emboldened no doubt by their previous successes at Caubul and Ghuznee, they reckoned so confidently on taking the place that many of their women were waiting in the ravine close at hand to share in the plunder of the garrison. The assault lasted from 20 minutes to half an hour, and at daybreak they drew at', carrying away all their wounded and many of their dead. A party of them took refuge behind some rocks at the north-west angle of the works, and just under the barracks, popping their heads out occasion ally; tbey , fired a few shots at us, but they fired so seldom that their numbers were supposed to be few: Two companies" of Sepoys sallied out to un earth them, and, to the surprise of all, at least 300 men broke cover and bolted for the neighbour ing: ravines faster than we ever saw Affghans run before. A heavy fire was poured into them, but they ran so fast, .amt cover was so close, that few of them fell. The greater part of the enemy retired into the ravines, into which they had dragged their dead and wounded, and from daylight until half-past two P.M. they were emploved in carrying them off. From their trenches on the north face of the works, which were filled with men, they kept up a pretty constant fire to cover this process. • Had we possessed a few good cavalry, we should have inflicted a heavier loss on them, but they were strong in horse, having about 800 in the field, while we had not a mounted man, and so it was judged prudent, as the ground afforded excellent cover for their mode of fighting, to rest sa tisfied with the threshing we had given them, and to permit them to carry off their wounded, without in curring the loss of our men in moving,on to• attack : them. They left 104 dead bodies at the.foot of the de fence and within a few days..after the assault, the POitical -.Agent: ascertained that the , number of : ancl' 'of Wounded men, .who ,died . within a few, days after the action, considerablycxceeded .06 ;the _dead. hodies . Avere,,found ,quaptities of 01,4 own magazine ' cartridges, supposed - to: have been procured at Ghuznee, and which accounted for their unusual expenditure of ammunition. Computed by themselves the lowest number of assailants was stated at 5,500 men, the highest at 7,000. On the body of the Nezir of Mere Allutn, chief of the Hotuck tribe of Ghilzies, who fell in the asFault, was found the muster-roll of his contingent, linountinfr, to 2,000 and odd men ; he furnished about a third part of the force, so that the number of the assailants must have been about 6,000 men. By sun-set on the day of attack, not an enemy was visible ? and it was a source of honest congratulation to the garrison, that we had driven off our enemies, , nd inflicted .a heavy loss on them by our own efforts. Tae garrison consisted of about 900 men, about 500 of whom were actually engaged. When we took pAssession of the place it consisted of little more than three ranges of barracks for the troops, built on a commanding position. By the assiduous labours of the Sepoys and the constant supervision of the engi neers and officers, it had been converted into a post of such strength, as, if well defended, would have puzzled regular troops, unfurnished with guns, to take, and did defy the Atighans. It must have been a source of honest pride to our excellent Commanding-officer to find that when position of greater strength had sub mitted, he had not only fortified his own post, but maintained it,and signally defeated the enemy before it. Troops in quarters in this country have seldom suffered more from the severity of the climate and the privation of accustomed necessaries than those at Khelati-Ghllzie. During the more severe days in winter, the Hindoo Sepovs did not cook for two days together, and even the Europeans, so bitter was the cold,:were glad ‘to keep their barracks, and even their beds, to keep themselves warm. Our bazaar was tatterly destitute of everything excepting the usual Commissariat rations issued from the godown, and fOr some months these were served to the Sepoys on a reduced, scale. As for the officers, they laughed at their own privations, but they will not soon forget the dreary winter days, their shivering meetings at mess table, their tiffins on bread and water, and their nights at mess to discuss their scanty fare, to which hunger was an excellent sauce, and the only season ing. Two days after the defeat of the enemy we heard of the advance of Colonel Wymer's brigade to relieve us, which arrived on the 25th of May. We moved into camp, the barracks and defences of Khelat i-Ghilzie were destroyed, and the 7th of June saw us safe at Candahar."—Delhi Gazette, Aug. 10. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Bengal Hurkarx, Aug. 12.) STATE OF THE MARKETS. We give our usual notice of the state of commer cial affairs here ; which have not, however, assumed that active condition we had expected to have found when we last wrote.: one reason of which may, we think, be found in the corresponding action produced by the dull state of the home market shown in the last mail that reached us, arising from the delay that has taken place in the final decision on the Tariff, and the next mail is, therefore, looked to with some degree of anxiety by our • merchants here. Freights continue also at a very low ebb, 355. being taken for dead weight, ~and we have even heard of one transaction below that sum. This has given encouragement to shipments, which haVe, however, been chiefly under drafts against the consignments, not above half having been taken up in the Market. MONEY MARKET.—The demand mad 6 by the Court of Directors of 2s. id. for their bills having had, as was to be expected, its full effect on remittances to :his place, prevented our markets from being much affected by the arrival of the mail, and it must be Some time yet before the arrival of the specie which had been shipped can give its due effect of liveliness to our market, which, however, continues in a healthy state. The rates of exchange have, for some little time past, been rather favourable to the buyer; and as it is well known that a considerable amount of bills s now in the market, the prices nuw quoted of ls. :o ls. 111 d. may be expected to exceed 2s. by the time the Express leaves. Imports of European goods have experienced rather more activity than when the last overland left us ; but they have been considerable during the month, And much exceeding those of the same period in last year. There still Qxists; however, among the mer chants in the upper provinces, a want of confidence in bills on Calcutta houses, and this has a considerable effect on the market for such goods as are usually taken by them in large quantities at this time of year. COUNTRY. PRODUCE.—Indigo having arrived at that period of the season when an esti mate ma y be formed with some degree of accuracy excites much interest, and we regret that the close of the season at most of the Bengal factories, which has, by this time, taken place, shows a very bad prospect for the planters, most of whom will think themselves fortunate if they cover their outlay. We last month de tailed the bad state of many districts, and in these we have to note that the continuance of a heavy fall of rain has put an end to the small hopes that then remained of a recovery of the later sown plant. Poorneah, which we then noticed as less reduced from the season than most other districts, has since suffered severely to the north and west. Some parts of Shahabad still promise well, as does also what plant there is in Bhagulpore. In the upper provinces they have commenced manufacturing, but their dependence is confined even there, where a long continuance of fine weather raised good hope ~(A. the out-turn, to the koontee, as the very .heavy falls of rain that have visited them in the latter end of July must have done much injury to fil,e Calcutta inches, whilstts neighbourhoodih some of t he Ushulah sowings. The quantity of' rain fallen in the has last exceeded twomontthhis in r Bengal districts full ten inches more has appeared by the rain-gueges to be the quantity; it will, therefore, be readily believed that but little colour can remain in the plant under such a drenching. We have seen a memorandum of estimate made by a gentleman of several factories which he has lately visited, some of them holding marks that secure good prices in the market ; this shows that at certain concerns that last year turned out 26,500 maunds, there will not this year be more than 8,500 maunds. Information too, from all quarters, on which we can place reliance, induces our estimating the probable crop at less than 85,000 maunds, which will doubtless have its due influence ,on the home market to the benefit of those who have been able to hold. Little now remains of our last year's crop in Calcutta, the past month's de parture having taken away 4,050 maunds to Great Britain, and 18 maunds elsewhere, 140,289 maunds being the quantity that has left Calcutta up to the present period. SUGAR. 7 --The last mcnth began with an extensive demand for Benares sugars of first and second qua lities, at exorbitantly high rates, which only 'lasted until the arrival of the_ overland:brought us accounts of the decline (:)' price for this species of sugar in the London market, which, though only small, yet . brought the article below a remunerative rate, and satisfactorily proved that the prices holding in our market would barely yield a remittance, set aside all profit. A stagnation took place in the market, consequent on this news, and when it re-opened it was at a decline of from 4 to 6 annas, since when but feW lots have been taken up, even on the-reductions, and no business done in this article to any extent. As was before statei, we still con sider that middling descriptions continue to offer the best prospect to the speculator, to whom the extraor dinary low rates of freight offer yet stronger induce ments. The shipments of July were 208,893 mds. against 117,435 rods, in the same month of last year, the prices ranging even higher than at that time, and the average rates of good Merchantable and fine sugars of all descriptions being about 10 per cent. in all July more than when our last mail left this; though at the present time rates are at about the same standard. SALTPETRE at the commencement of last month was in free request, but the arrival of the mail threw a temporary damp on the market, and combining with failure in supply of the best descriptions created great dullness; this, however, is now somewhat allayed, and a steady demand is gOing on at from 5 rupees.to 6-3 rupees. The shipments to Great Britain have been in all July 52,037 maunds, and being chiefly of good quality, the average price has stood at 5-15-9 rupee.:. RAW SILK finds no sale, except for fine descriptions, which are, and have been for sometime past, very scarce indeed. We still continue under the impres sion that we before expressed, that this trade is fast slipping away from us, and, that unless some enter prising Europeans he found to take an active interest in its production we shall lose the market altogether, notwithstanding that the country is capable of pro ducing, both in quantity and quality, silk that might successfully compete with that of any part of the world, the exports of July have been Mds. 1,080, nearly 33 per cent. less than those of the same month in last year, when Mds. J;472 left this port, the whole of which was shipped for Great Britain, whilst of that leaving in the past month only Mds. 890 went to that country. SILK PIECE GOODS.—The market for coral's has been more active even than when we made our last report. The exports of July have doubled those in the same mouth in 1841, the prices ranging from Rs. 120 to R.s. 142 per corge; the small portion, how ever, that has been parted with in the market at the lower rate, makes the average of all sales of the month nearly Rs. 140. Coloured goods have little . demand, although during the month 4,790 pieces have been taken for the home market, and above 20,000 for Bombay and Rangoon at low prices. LAC AND Lac DYE continue in little demand, as must be expected for many months ; the sales since our last have been extremely limited, the latter chang ing hands at Rs. 712 in a late sale of inferior quality, and the fornier going at from Rs. 6-4 to Rs. 9-4; the shipments to Great Britain in July were 3,775 rn.ds., and a- feW ,chests were .taken, for 13ornhay and - the American . trade. _ . RICE still CtiEtlEgeSP be, shipped to Great Britain; notwithstanding the threatening appearance of the market there, from the certain effect that must be produced' by the new tariff; 38,928 mds. have gone to the Mauritius, some vessels having made that trip rather than remain idle in this port, waiting for cargO; 13,194 mds. have - gone to Bombay, and some 17,810 maunds to China; in all 98,600 mds. of all descriptions have left this port, at rates ranging from Its. 1-4 to 1-6 for Moonghy rice, and from its. 2 to 2-8 for fine table kinds. The market is just now very dull. COTTON.—Some little excitement was expected from the public sales of some of the cotton grown at .Bundlekund under the American growers, and sent down as a sample. There were altogether 64 bales, two of which were native cotton, submitted to the process of giving, which sold at from Rs. 11-12 to 12-4, the lest ping Off at from Rs. 13-8 to 14-4. Our market otherwise is free, though prices are rather, looking. down. The exports to China, in July, were bales 7,290, amounting to 26,481 mds. • Rum is m no demand. limEs nave been taken . freely on the low rates of freights, and the fair promise of the lateSt reports from home. HORNS AND ;I'll's are in request at present prices. lENIP AND JUTE continue at the saine price as noted our last, but are in good demand at market rates. LINSEED has lately been in request, but chiefly for the American trade, which has taken from 13,000 to 14,000 maunds last month, and still seeks more at favourable dates from Rs. 3-4 to Rs. 3-8 per maund for clean seed. Our trade, since last has been favourable in its ex tent, and prices have'been generally improved since last year; nevertheless, it is clear to every one, that the delay in the tariff has had its effect here, and that there is an evident holding off until the result of this question, so important to the mercantile interest, is decisively known. INDIGO PROSPECTS (LATEST NEWS). —The latest accounts we have received from the factories make us doubt if even 90,000 maunds of the dye will be ob tained this season. Many factories that were relied upon for a supply of indigo, in consequence of their exerting themselves to get the plant into the vats as fast as possible, have had their labours frustrated by the sudden rise and pouring in of the river, and others have so very little plant left as not to think it worth their while to work it up into dye. COMMERCIAL REMARKS. _ ImPORTS. Cochineal.—ln consequence of the late extensive Auports from Bombay, the price has declined con siderably. Cotton.—Bombay, 7 to 9.2 ; Bengal, 8 to 9.6; Madras, 10 to 10.5 nominal, as none is in first hands. Cotton Goods.—The late imports per Ackbar, &c., have caused a 'still further decline. Grays are now worth dr. 2.30 a 2.50--Whi tes, 2.10 a 2.40. Sales have been made at $2.75 a 2.80, but the price of the teas bought has been in proportion. Cotton Yarn -18 a. 40, ,$.97 a 29 per pecul, stock nearly 7,000 bales, and, price declining. Long Ells.—sq fur assorted colours. Scarlet, $9 a 9 1 . Lead.—s6.2s. A nati ve m i ne h as lately been worked, which has caused the decline in this article ; it must, however, be only temporary, as the Chinese cannot pro duce native lead at less that 37 per pecul. EXPOItTE. Teas are rather deareriicconsequence of the anxiety lately shown to sell Bombay cotton, and for which parties are compelled to take teas ; as the teamen are fully aware of the quantity of cotton on its way here, they will doubtless nold out for higher rates for teas, which, in the present scarcity of cash, parties will be compelled to take for their cotton. RATES OF EXCHANGE AND PRICES OF BULLION. On London, six months' sight, 4s. Bd. Government, 30 days, 4s. 9d. On Calcutta, 30 days, 224 to 226 Company's rupees May 28 ; ii ga Chusan,ur CALCUTTA per 100 Mexican dollars. East India Directors' Bills, at 60 days' sight, 224 rupees per $ lOO . On Bombay private bills, at 30 days' sight, 225 ru pees ditto. On Madras private bills, at 30 days' sight, 227 ru pees ditto. Sycee silver, large 1 pe r cen t. p rem ium, small 2 per cent, discount. Old Head dollars in canton 7 to 8 per cent. premium. ' Ferdinand dollars , in. Canton a t 717 weight. Republican dollars, .'6 to 7 p er cen t. discount, for cut money. Freight to London from Macao 51., from Whampoa 31., very scarce and diff i cult to be procured. LATEST D A TEs.—England, M arc h 4 ; United States, Jan. 9 2 ; Calcutta, Apri l2o ; Bombay, April 14 ; Java, MONEY-MARKET. April 2 ; Sinpore, MaY 12 ; Manila --; Amoy, M a y 26. aru-office, Calcutta, Aug. 12, 1842. Bank shares are stationary at our quotations, and some speculation in. them at those rates. DANK SHARES. Rupees. Rupees. Bengal Bank (Compoly:8 rs., 4,000) 2 , 4 00 to 2,430 pm. Union Bank (Company a rs., 1,00 0 ) 1,130 to 1 ,140 pm. Agra Bank (CompanYS rs., 500 ) ••• 190 to 2 00 pm. Bonded warehouse ..................... 30 to 5 dis. Bombay Bank ........................... 120 to 170 p m. Discount onRATER OF INTEREST AN D DISCOUNT. BA NK OF BEN GAL. 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Six months after sight 2 Oi Four months after sight Three months after sight 2 0 Two months after sight Tim Bank grants no bills at longer date than six months after. sight. The Right Hon. the Lord C ow l ey , A m b assa d or Extraordinary, )linister Plenip o t en ti ary t o the Court of Paris, arrived in Lo ndon yesterday by the General Steam Navigation.. Company's steam-ship, Magnet, Captain B. Stock, from Boulogne. CHINA. ' The latest China date is the 7th of June. The intelligence of most importance is the capture of Chapoo, the mart of the China trade with Japan. It appears from the following accounts that the place was taken without the loss of a single man, but untbrtunately a rencontre occurred between 300 Tartars and a small British force, in which one officer and ten men were killed, and several wounded. A great many transports, steamers, and several ships of war, had arrived at Hong-Kong. The first division of the reinforcements, consisting of the Endymiou frigate, three steamers, and seven transports, had sailed fbr the northward, and the others would be dispatched with as little loss of time as possible. Sir Henry Pottinger was still at Hong-Kong, and was to proceed to the northward in a few days in the steamer Auckland. Nothing authentic has transpired as to the plan of the approaching cam paign. Some are of opinion that the Yang tse•Keang and the Great Canal are to be the points of attack, and not Pekin. Others, with perhaps greater probability, think that Pekin is the object at which the efforts of our troops are to be directed, where they will either frighten the Emperor beyond the great wall, or drive him into any compact we may dictate. Be that as it may, the northern capital is now more than ever before an object of attention, attract ing alike all eyes, foreign as well as native, far and near. At Tientsen, and all along the Peiho, from the sea to the capital, the Chinese have made great preparations for defence. The forts are reported to be more than a hundred in num ber, and the troops almost innumerable. No thing of this, however, appears in the Peking Gazettes, which, down to about the middle of April, are filled with the usual memorials, edicts, notifications of new appointments, &c. The rumour that the Emperor had fled from Pekin into Tartary is not confirmed. The monarchs of the reigning dynasty have been accustomed generally to spend the hot season at Moukden, in Mantchourie, the ancient residence of their family ; a practice for some years discontinued by the present Em peror. Whether the advent of the British ar mament may induce him to resume the practice remains to be seen. The oritzinal sentence passed upon Lin, namely, banishment to Ele, " the cold country," has been carried into exe cution. Keshen has been banished to Mant chouria, and old Elepu sent again to Chekeang-. In the south the British authorities, probably averse to commit themselves to measures that might require the retention ofa large force, have permitted the Chinese to rebuild their defences; and from a little above Whampoa, upwards, Canton and its approaches are more strongly for tified than ever before. Chusan has - been virtually abandoned to the Chinese Government, and it must be recaptured. Her Majesty's present Government, it is painful to I:poiv,'4ave not 'reetified . "tire blunder corn priqed by their predecessors in dividing the re ,sponsibility of the difierent beads of the expe dition.. Sir:Henry Pottinger, it seems, can only adViSe with Sir Hugh Gough and Sir W. Parker, not control them. As it is, there is every pro bability that the present season will not witness the conclusion of the enterprise, and that it may be spun out to a. fourth year, and thus entail on England the expense of the vast armament now in China during another twelvemonths. The settlement on the island of Hong-Kong appears to progress rapidly, so far as the erection of private buildings is concerned ; it has, however, been ordered by the higher authorities to be held only as a military post. All the public works which were in progress have been sud denly stopped. This seems strange and unac coon table. Shipments of bullion and specie are in pro gress from England to China. The steatnex Memnon, has left Singapore with 150,000 Spanishdollars on board tier the public service—a prac tical commentary on the wisdom of Captain Elliot in sending the Canton ransom money out of China. The expenses incurred both ways, in sending the treasure away, and bringing it back again, must be very great. FALL OF CHAPOO. (Letter of an officer in the Fleet.) Orr CuAPoo, MAY 23.—We moved from Chusan on the Bth, and on the 16th we reconnoitred in the Phlegethon and Nemesis without interruption, and satisfied ourselves of the ChineSe means cf defence. The line of land from east to west, for three miles, ending at the 'suburb of the city, comprised separate hills ; the slopes between were fortified by field works, and on the last of these hills next the town were tw3 batteries, about one-third up, consisting of seven and five guns. In front of the town facing the water was a circular battery, mounting, I suppose, fourteen or fifteen guns, and further to the westward another, al together about forty-five guns on the sea face. The hills and works appeared to be covered with soldiers. On the 17th we moved in ; and on the 18th the Corn wallis, Blonde, and Modeste, being anchored abreast and as close to the battery as possible, opened their fire, which was very faintly returned: To our right (eastward) the troops disembarked on a fine sandy bay without accident, and headed by the gallant Sir Hugh, pushed on over the heights, and soon came upon a causeway leading to the city. The Chinese fled before them in every direction. As soon as possible after the troops moved from the east, the naval brigade landed at the west end of the heights, and joined the troops between the heights and the suburbs. 'Up to this time every defence had been carried with scarcely any loss ; but about 300 Tartar troops, finding escape impossible, and being inspired with the idea that the English would give no quarter, took possession of a joss-house on the spot, defending themselves most desperately ; and it was not until the house fell upon them that about forty were taken— the rest perished. in this affair we have met with a very severe loss. Colonel Tomlinson, of the 18th, and eight men of the army, killed. Colonel Mountain, the Adjutant-Ge neral; Campbell, 55th; and Jodell, 49th, wounded severely ; and 45 men. The Navy—Two killed and four wounded. The Chinese had about 10,000 men, one-third Tartar troops. We captured an immense quantity of arms of all sorts.----Bombay Times, Aug. 17. POSITIONS of the BRITISH and CHINESE FORCE S.—CHAPOO and HANG-CHOW. Hangchan lies on the north bank of the river Tsientang, at a point where that river, after a rapid course from the southward and westward, through the western districts of the province, begins to open out and form a wide embouchure towards the sea. " The tide when full," says Sir G. Staunton, in his account of Macartney's .embassy, " increases the width of this river to about four miles opposite the city. At low water there is a fine level of strand near two miles broad, which extends towards the sea as far as the eye can reach." On its southern shore, as we proceed eastward from Hangchan, this swift-flowing river has deposited, during the lapse of ages, upon the slope of a ridge of hills that skirt it to the southward, bank upon bank of sand and earth, brought down by its rapid stream from the high mountain range (one of the outmost of the off-branches of the Himalayas) wherein it has its source. Under the triple distinction of hardened ground, firm sands, and quick sands, these deposits of centuries have so narrowed the stream in its progress onward, that the deep channel that has been left on on its northern edge has been found to flow with a rapidity, which even the steam-vEssels, when sent out to survey, were unable during the spring-tides to stem. A stone causeway, built and kept in repair with much labour and the utmost exertions of Chinese en gineering skill, serves, on the northern bank, to keep out the encroachments of river and sea from the gene rally flat country that lies between this place and the Yangstz' Kiang—a country everywhere intersected with streams, rendering it rich and fertile in the highest degree, and, at the same time, sufficiently diversified with hills to add beauty to the scene, and to make it in all respects one of the most lovely and interesting parts in the whole empire of China. The sand-banks on the southern shore reach nearly to Chinhai, not many miles to the westward of which the unfortunate ship Kite was lost in 1840, and her crew conveyed to TsZki and Yuyan, and thence to Ningpo. The river Tsaungo, rising in the centre of the Chekiang province, flows northward, almost in a straight line, into the embouchure of the Tsientang or Hangchan river : and thus makes a slight break in the line of these sand-banks, to examine which Com mander Collinson has recently been sent out, but with what success he has met we have yet to learn. Communicating, too, with the river of Ningpo by means of a canal, that ex tends likewise from the Tsaungo, westward past the city of Shanhing, and ends at a place directly .oppo site to Hangchan a line of communication by in land waters is thus afforded between the British position of Chinghai and Ningpo, and the head• quarters of the Chinese force at that provincial capital—a line which has been twice described to us—first by the PP. Bouvet, Fontenay, and others, o n their route from Ningpo by way of Hangchan to Pekin in 1687 — and then, by a portion of Lord Macartney's embassy, proceeding in an opposite direction, from Hangchan to rejoin their ship at Chusan, in 1793. The em bankment and causeway, on the northern shore of the Tsientang river and embouchure, extend from Hang chan, with little interruption, to the knot of hills that encircles the bay and town g-fk.Chapoo, passing by the ancient Canfu (Kanpu) of:iLohammedan travellers, before it reaches this the modern seat of the rick trade with Japan ; and nearly parallel with this road runs . a canal, its banks adorned at short distances with pret tily wooded villages. . We have thus three modes of approaching Hang chan—first, by the sea and the river of Tsientang, a route which sand banks and rapid tides render most difficult, if not impracticable ; secondly, by inland water, from Chinghai and Ningpo to the shore opposite the capital, carrying us past Shanhing ararsevertd other fortified towns, and meeting 'interruptions some places of locks that must be ascended`; and thirdly, by land route from Chapoo, upon.a carefully preserved causeway, whereof we possess rather well drawn native maps, and which we have reaSo ( n to be lieve good, and of sufficient width fora'tillerya these routes a question can scarcely arise as to „which' will be found the best to advance upon. A distance of about fifty miles of sea a measured on a line drawn northward and westward, separates ' Chinghai from Chapoo ; and a somewhat greater dis tance of causeway has to be travelled Over be fore reaching Hangchan from this latter place.. But the town of Chapoo once taken (and it can be come at by the guns of the British ships, as the Algerine proved in 1840), and its hills once , crossed, there is little other than a large tract of plain ground, with perhaps only small streams intersecting it, to be passed over in the march thence upon Hang-, chan. The city of Kiahing Fu lies, however, not far from this route, nor many miles distant from Chapoo, and here the main force of the Chinese left wing will have to be encountered. Its centre rests upon Hang chan, and " the rich and beautiful country about ninety miles in length," that lies between it and Suchan, on either side of the grand canal, The chief position of its right wing is Shanhing, a large city, situated, as already mentioned, on a branch of the river Tsaungo, and about midway between Ningpo and Hangchan— from which advanced parties have been frequently pushed out to Yuvau and Tsz'ki, chief towns of dis tricts on the north bank of the Ningpo river, situated between that river and the sand banks of the embou chure of the Tsientang. With the centre of this extended Chinese force we find; surrounding himself with every sensual indul gence, the Imperial High Commissioner, Viking-, " awe-inspiring General, a Minister of the Cabinet of Six, a President of the Tribunal of Civil Office," and a nephew or cousin of the Emperor, attended by a galaxy of high provincial officers, the Tartar General, the Governor, Sze. Scc., and by two. joint Commis sioners, by name Teishun and Wan Wei, to whom a third has lately been added, and a multitude of " cour tiers," or officers sent immediately to the presence of the Emperor. Kishen, too, would have been of the number (for he is among the friends of Viking), but for the strongly urged remonstrances, as we are 'led to believe, o f the Governor, Liu Vunko. With the left wing, at iiiaking-fu is Huchau, another joint commissioner, who, having gained rank and nobility by the war of 1831 against Jenanguir' and his Turks, at Cashgar and Yarkand in the farthest west, hopes now to adorn himself with honours' wrested by his own right hand from „the English on the sea coasts of the,east. At Shaulling, with the right wing, is Chin Kiaiping, an aged 'nap, lately retired from the chief,command in. Fukien, put now again called forth' ass joint Commissioner prid Commander. in-Chief-in Chekiang; with whom tare associated the active and, intelligent old General, Yu Puyun, late Commander-in-Chief of the• proYincial force, and all 'those .who; with him, retired defeated from Chinghai ; and Ningpo, :after the death of chat savage self,eorifident,,gerieralissime, Ytikien. Vrider these numerous - officers are assembled ninny thousands of select troops, from almost every province of the empire, foremost among whom stands a detachment of the Imperial Guards—a body of the men of Kansu, tall and athletic inheritors of the blood of Mohamme dan Turks and Tartars—and a band of aborigines froth the mountain fastnesses of Hukwang or of Sz'chuen, called forth now to meet the new invaders of the country, from whose plains they themselves have by former invaders been long since expelled. Against this who'.e force we find marshalled, under the Gallant Lieutenant-General and Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Gough and Sir William Parker, besides the necessary detachment s of R o y a l an d Madras Ar tillery and Engineers, only four regiments of Foot, the 18th, 26th, 49th, and 55th (none of them com p!ete), and two battalions from the Navy, consisting of Royal Marines" and seamen. And of so small an array portions must yet be left to rest upon Chinghai and Tinghai, while the main body is moving forward to meet the left and centre of the Chinese army. That army 'met and worsted, its right will alone remain, hemmed in, resourceless, between the division of the British force at Chinghai and at Hangchan—and quickly as the dew it must dissolve away. But so dispelled it will become yet more formidable than in its entirety, if, instead of withdrawing from one field of battle to seek elsewhere another, the British forces should repose from their toils amid the scattered but not subjected multitudes of the enemy. Blow must succeed rapidly to blow, if final success is to be hoped for. It was by the windmills in active motion that the redoubtable Don Quixote was worsted ; he might have come off scatheless in the collision with them, in the calm and idle rest of a breathless summer's day.— Canton Press, June 4. Columbine, 18, Commander Morshead. Clio, 16, Commander E. Troubridge. Algerine, 10, Lieutenant Maitland. Lady Bentinck, surveying vessel, ConLB. • Troop-ship Jupiter, Mas. , .Com.• K. Futn. AO'n.Coinpany s steamer Nemesis,LieuqV liOn. COmpany's steamer Queen, Alas.' Warden. Hon. Comp4ny's steamer Phlegethon, Lieut. 111'Cle verty. iloli.Comici4y's steam ers ostris, C,om. Ortnab_vil.N. lion. Company's steamerTenasserim,Cont.W44LN. AT AMOY. Herald, 26, Captain J.*Nias, C.B. Pylades, 18, Commander Tindal (absent). Cameleon, 10, Lieutenant Hunter. Starling, 6, Commander H....Kellett. SQUADRON AT TIM MOUTH OF CANTON UPPER. Blenheim, Captain Sir Thos. Herbert, senior commanding officer.'' Druid, 44, Captain H. Snai), C.B. Nimrod, 18, Commander alasse. L Hyacinth, 18, Commander G. Goldsmith. , Royalist, 10, Lieutenant Chetwood. _ Young llebe, 4, Lieutenant Wood. , Her Alajesty' s s t eam vesse l Vi xen,. Commoder H.Boyes. 11. C. S. Hooghly, Mas. Corn. Rosa. H. G. S. Ariadne, Alas. Corn. Roberts, I.N. H. C. S. Auckland, Alas. Com. Ethersey, LN: H. C. S. Medusa, - IL C. S. Pluto, Lieut. Tudor, R.N. • - "%t • -Trf;- W.H.IIall. 74.1141N4216) will lessen the wonder at their having done so, for, like the illustrious band at Jellitlabad, men who could patiently bear such privations as they have undergone, and remain true to discipline, are equal to any service, however, formidable it may appear. The garrison con sisted of Captain Craigie's Regiment of the Shah's force, about 600 strong ; three companies of the 43d Regiment of Native Infantry, about 250 men, under Captain Webster and Lieutenant Trotter; forty European Artillerymen, and about sixty Sappers and Miners—in all 950 men. During the whole of the six months they were completely cut off from all communication: The snow was during two months very deep on the ground, and more than once the thermo meter was 8 degrees below zero. As for doors or windows to the cells inhabited by the officers, they were out of the question. For three weeks in the depth of winter the European artillerymen had no meat—nothing but bread end water, and•the same for six weeks preceding the relief ; while the Sepoys, for nearly four months, had only three-quarter rations, and could purchase nothing. The officers were li mited to half a sheep a day amongst eleven, and that only an apology for a sheep, for they had neither bhoosah, barley, nor grass to feed their small flock on. For 12 days preceding the 21st of May not a man could-go outside of the gates, so strictly were they watched. The strength of the fort, or, as the writer says, " the hill called Khelat-i-Ghilzie, for it does not deserve the name of a fort," seems to have been much overrated, as not more than one-half was surrounded by a wall, the remainder resting for its defence on the steepness of the ascent. The only artillery were three old rattletrap brass guns that formerly belonged to Dost Mohamed, mounted on condemned carriages. Not above half the garrison were engaged on the morning of the assault, which took place just as the moon went down. The Ghilzies confessed to 410 ' killed on the spot, the greater number of whom they were enabled to carry off. We now submit to our readers ,the narrative al hided to :—" We marched into quarters at Khelat-i- Ghilzie in November, 1841. Our barracks were ex cellent, but the fortifications of the place were little more than commenced on, and along some hundred yards of the works there was neither wall nor ditch. Directly we got news of the insurrection at Caubul, the sepoys were set to work to strengthen the de fences of the post ; scarps, palisades, parapets, and a ditch at the most accessible part of the works were commenced on, and both officers and men continued to work at them until the winter set well in, and the frost rendered the ground so hard that there was no longer any working it. On the 9th of December about 1,500._ Ghilzies made their appearance, with the intention, as, they said, of besieging us. They took up their ground about two and a half miles off, but their warlike efforts were confined to firing a few shots into the place at night, and an at tempt made by a party of their horse to cut off some of our men, who were cutting bhoottah for fuel, in which they were foiled by the sepoys of the guard. A fall of snow compelled them to decamp after nine days, and the only damage they did us was to make all the chiefs in our neighbourhood ' yagee:* Of all the chiefs whom we had paid and supported, only one man adhered to us, and he a person of no great influence. The winter now set in with seve rity, and the cold soon became excessive. We had no doors fOr the barracks, and neither doors nor glass for the windows of our quarters, which were large and lofty rooms, some thirty-six feet long, and our supply of firewood we were obliged to husband, so that we never could keep our rooms warm. You must recollect Khelat-i-Ghilzie, its situation is a very ex-• posed one, situated in the throat of a tunnel ; high winds prevail throughout the year, and in winter the lower the temperature sunk the higher blew the north wind. Snow lay for two months on the ground, and the theienorneter - fell as low as 40 degrees below the freezing point. With no doors to the - barracks, and only such rough purdahs as grain bags, which, were all we could get, you may conceive how much our men suffered; a gale of wind always blowing e when the temperature was below zero, and ,usually, too, blowing most• strongly at night. I have never experienced a winter so continuously cold. When we entered the garrison, we had provision in flour for the trOoPs for upwards of six months, but as we got an increase of 300 Men to the post, when Colonel Maclaren's brigade 'passed us on its return to Canda hare we had many additional mouths to feed, and we knew not how long we might be tequired to hold the post. We had a quantity of wheat in store, but with the country all round ' yagee' we had not the means of grinding it. We got possession of some mill stones, and tried to get up mills, but after getting all the machinery in order, we found that all the water. we could command was not sufficient to keep the machinery in motion. We then tried a bullock mill, which also failed, from our not being able to fabri cate the ircn wore of sufficient solidity, and we should have been utterly nonplussed had not an - officer in the garrison possessed a book on mechanics, in which was eontained a description of a vertical hand-mill capable of grinding sixteen maunds daily. This we succeeded in constructing after two months and a-half's labour _ upon mills, and no little anxiety as to the result. We were now easy in our minds, for this, with some small hand-mills, gaVe us the means of supporting our garrison for some two or three addi tional months, and we knew our men would fight and hold the post Against all the Affghans in the country as long .as, our provisionS lasted. We had occasional communication With Candahar by means of highly paid cossids, and we thus learned the di sas t r ous fate of our Caubul comrades. The tedium of the winter was excessive, but it passed at last. With the spring our labours on the defences re-com menced, and as soon as the weather became mild, the hostile chiefs of the two great Ghilzie tribes in our neighbourhood made their appearance. These gen tlemen had spent the winter in a more sheltered loca lity, and, as long as they were not near us, the vil lagers brought in commodities for sale, but, with their appearance, all supplies ceased. On two occasions we were obliged to chappow sheep—the first was a peaceable affair; we secured a whole flock without let or hindrance ; but, on the second occasion, we had to fight for them, and had a few men wounded. We had forty-three European Artillerymen in the garri son, and it was chiefly for them that the animal food was required. The supply of all the necessaries ran out in winter, and on two different occasion's they were for some days on bread and water, yet they never grumbled, worked as well as if they had been highly fed, and bore all their privations with the most admirable good humour. The hostile Ghilzie chiefs at first brought only a few hundred men with them, and took up their quarters at a safe distance of soiree miles from us ; but during all April they were receiving accessions to their force, and with these accessions their boldness increased, until they diminished their distance to less than a mile from the place. As they approached, our range necessarily became more limited, and we had neither cavalry nor the means of moving a gun, and the country round lihelat-i-Ghil zie is full of ravines, and exceedingly favourable to the skulking mode of fighting which these gentry most approve of, We were latterly, as the invest ment became more close, obliged to confine ourselves to the narrow space within our defences ; these by the continued labour of our men had become very respect able, and such as we deemed no Afghan without the aid of guns would have attempted. In this, however, we were agreeably disappointed. Towards the middle of May de enemy commenced to dig trenches round the place, working at them all night. By the 26th they had completely surrounded us with them, the nearest being within 250 yards of our defences. These were all loopholed, and afforded the enemy perfect cover ; they were constructed, too, with some skillas to position, as the advanced .trenches were in variably protected by two or three trenches in their rear, and they were uniformly placed, so as to have i the advantage of any natural cover afforded by the ground. From these trenches the hottest fire any of us had ever seen Affghans keep up, was poured upon any one who exposed himself; obviously picked marksmen were selected for the duty, for they fired exceedingly well for Affghans, and at ranges ce from 600 to 700 yards their long jezails threw.balls with great accuracy. They were so completely shel tered in these trenches that we seldom hail an oppor tunity of firing at them excepting when parties were relieving each other, and then the double barrels and rifles of the officers came into play. Such had been the monotony of our previous existence, that it was a matter of great amusement firing at these gentry, and it was seldom that any fellow got into the nearer trenches in day-light without running the gauntlet of a few double barrels. On the evening of the 20th of May the enemy were unusually quiet, and so few of them.visible that it was a matter of doubt whether the greater number of them had not decamped. A. few of them were observed, by . means of our teles copes, at a distant fort practising escalading with scaling•ladders, and th is was the rstintimation we had of their having constructed these articles. Offi cers and men had, for several nights previously, kept at their posts; there was bright moonlight and the night passed with unusual quietness until, towardsmorning, the moon went down. The attention of the officer on duty was then suddenly arrested by the clatter of horses' feet, indicating the close presence of a large body of horse, and the word was passed round to get ready. Shortly afterwards the whole northern face of the works was assaulted by dense masses of the enemy. The morning was so dark that they were within 100 yards before they were observed, though we were on the look out for them, and they came on with greet boldness, shouting " Allah! Allah !" They were received with discharges of grape, and a hot fire of musketry, which must have done heavy execution •among their dense masses; still they pressed on, pushing their attack with the greatest vehemence et the north-east and north-west angles of the works, where the ascent was most easy, and the defence ap parently* most accessible. At the north-east angle the defences consisted of a ditch, scalp of some seven or eight feet in height, a slope of some eight * Mutinous, riotous. CH USAN. The city of Tinghae has again reverted to Chinese government (the whole British force left does not ex ceed 300 men). Chinese troops are fast collecting, and it is expected that before long an attack will be made on this small force, which is already obliged to keep closely within the encampment, as any one mov ing beyond it is immediately attacked. Wat er i ng parties from the camp have been fired at by the Chi nese, who indeed do all in their power to annoy the garrison. Fireships have on several occasions, since the force left for Chapoo, been sent upon the ship ping, but fortunately got rid of without damage. We have not heard whether the still smaller garrison at Chinghai is exposed to the same. annoyances ; this is, however very likely, although their post i 3 more easily defended. he garrison left at Amoy, or rather on Kolungsoo, is equally small. That Tinghae should thus be again in possession of the Chinese is contrary to the promise given by Sir henry Pottinger. On the 2d day of October, 1841, her Majesty Plenipotentiary informed her Britannic Majesty's subjects, " that under no circum stance will Tinghae and its dependencies be restored to the Chinese Government, until the whole of the demands of England are not only complied with, but carried into effect." Yet although, as has been seen, the harbour of Tinghae has been declared a free port, the town is again in the possession of the Chinese, and whatever hopes merchants may have had of extending their trade to the northward, they are, for the present at least, crushed ; for it may well be supposed that, unpro tected by the military, no merchant or trader could"' possibly venture into the city of Tinghae or any part of the island. We much regret that Sir Gough , should have again left Tinghae in possession of the Chinese Government, but hope that as the force new is arriving daily, that city will again be takenfullpos session of; and never relinquished until all differ ences with the Chinese Government are at an end, and that means will be taken to organise the British Government all over the island. The CoMmander-in- Chief must have coiisidered the' whole of 'the force under his command as absolutely necessary foli the military operation he had in view, or he would Bever have acted so directly contrary 'to the pledge given to the public by her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, who, we know on good authority, i s muc h vex , A l at the de fection of Tinghae ; and it must be a matter of regret that his Excellency was not on the spot, , to prevent by his advice a step which savours too much of vacil lation.—Canton Press , June 4. The French frigate Erigone. Captain Cecille, has arrived at Chusan ; an d lately destroyed a fire-vessel which the Chinese had sent against the shipping. We are sorry to learn that another officer, whose name our informant did not know, has lately, when out riding alone beyond the lines, been seized by the Chinese, and probably strangled, this fate- at least met an unfortunate private of the 49th, who by a woman was allured beyond the lines of the encampment, instantly seized by the Chinese, and strangled on the spot. A detach ment was immediately sent by Sir Hugh Gough in pursuit of the perpetrators of this cruel and, cowar dly act, and a mandarin with a blue butt on and 24 soldiers were made prisoners, and we u nderstand_ there is no doubt they are the same par t y who had committed the murder. We cannot but regret that summary justice was not inflicted where the outragd had been committed, so as by saluta ry wh d i rea ch havep, w d to re vent the repetition of these murder s,e are sorry to say, been but too numerus already, nish e a n n t d . been allowed to pass over without punishment. During the occupation of Ningpo a number of soldiers have been enticed away, and there can be little doubt of their fate. The last intended victim was luckily detected bound hand and foot in a boat, when just about to be carried away. Had the first of these outrages been followed ty a severe but just retaliation, it is to be supposed many of the • others would not have been committed. Instead, however, of striking awe into the Chinese by the im mediate execution of some of the 25 prisoners, they h ave by Sir Hugh Gough beteon riseonntainKthmelgtranws,hpoerert and where, 'we tCatharine arrived S t a e w fe a w r t, d l a 'o y r s b e s s i , n a f punishment which sup pose, punishment awaits an t d he n m o --- t a e v j e u r justice, and example, and will be one of revenge principal object, that of setting thereby protecting for the future the lives of our people, su bo N i v:i t l e l d n i o s t abset:ttetnali statement taken from the Canton Press .o—f iez of OU stations fleet, : NEIL MAJESTY'CUUSAN, CHINGIIAE AND NINGPO. S SQUADRON TO TILE NORTHWARD, AT Cornwallis, 72, bearing the flag of hear-Admiral Sir W. Parker, Y ‘-e..13., Commander- Capt. in-Chief ; Richards. Cambrian, 36, Blonde, 42, Calliope, Captain T. Bouchier, C.B. miral 28, C.B. Captain 11. D. Chads, Cruizer, 18, Commander J. Purse. Pelican, 1.8 C d Napier. on man 1•r • Modeste, 18, Commander Watson. NEW TARIFF OF THE GERMAN LEAGUE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) We announced in the greater part of our impression last week, that the Congress of the German Commercial League, recently assembled at Stuttgardt, load resolved to raise the dates on Mixed Worsted and Cotton goods from 30 dollars per cwt. to 50 dollars per cwt. This in formation so Tar anticipated all the ordinary constneereial and political advices, that some of our readers traveituo -posed we must have been misinformed; and a Bradford Contemporary of Thursday takes upon himself to lecture us ,for disturbing the mercantile community by inaccurate statements. Unhappily our information was but too correct —as correct as it was early: it proceeded from a ssrsiree which could not be mistaken; and which was likely to an ticipate other sources of information. Our merceartile friends at Bradford have not yet received advices of the intended chaiige from their Continental correspondents; and we assure them it is with mosesincere pain that we perform the task of communicating to them such nnfa vourable news. It was, however, our duty to • Faddish what we knew to be the fact on this very important 'sub ject; and it is now our disagreeable duty to follow 5t up with the following particulars: The decisions of the Congress have been excecssngly hostile to English interests—hostile to a degree rhieh ought to engage the serious attention of the Ereglish Government; especially as ,th e contemplated elvenges har e been kept so secret that e Pen the Prussian Minister in London told Sir Robert Peel he knew nothing of them, end hoped that no such designs were entertained,:even after they were known to our merchants, and had been fully published in the eolumns.of this paper. The resolutions of the Congress of the "Zaire:rein" have not yet been officially published, nor were ' they signed by the delegates at Stuttgardt until the 29th of SePternber. We are; however,. enabled to state the fol lowing particulars , lat. There will be a small increase of duty on Cotton wanes (though the proposal for a great increase of duty ou Cotton YARNS has for the present been defeated.) ; 2d. English and French Qutncaillerie goods, that is, the Hardware goods of Birmingham, &c., will be placed under a considerably higher daty,—probably an ad lition of not less than 50 dollars per ewt. 3d. and most important. Manufactured goo is of Worsted, Worsted and Cotton mired, fancy woven and printed, dyed and grey. are in future to pay a, duty of 50 dollars per cwt. The only exceptions under this 'head are all plain worsted fabrics, such as merinos, saxlniee, and lastings, which, together with woollen cloths - and plain kerseymeres, will remain at the former rate of clut,y, namely 30 dollars per cwt. These arc the principal changes. The tariff will be published officially in a short time, when the Exact terms of it will appear. It is not known how soon the increased duties will come into effect. The articles which will be principally affected are ma nufsctured in Yorkshire and some parts of Lancashire • they may be enumerated as follows— Figured Merinos. Printed Merinos. Dyed and printed Muslins de laine. Printed Saxonies. Dyed, printed, and figured Orleans. Figured Alpacas. Figured Parisians and Chusans. Crapes of all kinds, fancy and printed Lastings, Stoekinetts, fancy Pantaloon Stuffs. Simmer Cloths. Fancy Buckskins, Cassinetts. Fancy Worsted and Cotton Valentias, &c. It is too well known to persons interested te th woollen manufacture that the articles on which - nu in crease of duty has now taken place, have within a very few years been subjected to duties so heavy as al most or entirely to exclude them from the German markets. Cloths and kerseymercs have ceased to be exported to Germany, and the place of those goods had been taken by the above fancy articles, of vitriotts kinds and texture. The object of the League, evi dently is to dispense with English manufacture,e as fast us they can. The duties are, therefore, now raised enormously on all the fabrics we have specified 3 - and even printed or figured worsted goods, though unuaised with cotton or any other substance, are subjected to the increased duty ; which is a step beyond what r. as ex pected to have been proposed to the Congress. The duty on a piece of 6-quarter figured merino, costarg at present in the dyed state about 305., will be very nearly I 55., i.e. 50 per cent. ad valorem. It is feared by persons engaged in the trade, tha many of the articles we have named, and which eceisti tute the great bulk of our woollen and worsted exports to Germany, will be quite excluded by the increased duties. The object of the League is to - force the manu factures of Prussia and Saxony. In Saxony, plain and figured worsted goods of various kinds are already made, and, with the additional protection nosy given, they will soon come into extensive use, to the csciusion of the English stuffs. But a more formidable Power than Saxony is it the bottom of this hostile measure. Prussia, notwit Ireland ing all the liberal professions of her Government, has been the main-spring of the movement ; and it may help to explain the conduct of, .this. Government, when we state that the King. of ,Prussia himself is the real head (our informant calls him " the owner") of a trading-com pany formed at Berlin neder, the firm of " die Beelaind lung," which has erected a fiery large manufactory for plain and fancy worsted' gdods on the principle Of our power-loom concerns in Yorkshire. Of course this com pany hopes to supply Germany with a great part of the goods heretofore imported from England ; and i t is pro bable that the smaller manufacturers in Gerniany will soon feel the pr oximity of their mighty rival. The Prussian Ambassador in London will, no doubt, exert his utmost skill to persuade Sir Robert Peel that the augmentation of the German Tariff is a measure of small importance ; he will take credit for the duty on Yarns not having been raised. The fact is, that it is at present the obvious iuterest.of Prussia to admit E'nglish yarns at the lowest,rate of duty, or even duty-free ; they constitute the raw material of her rising ma nufacture; ; and if it were not for the strenuous opp osit i on ofbt re smaller States in the League, especially of Wirtera erg and Baden, she would wish to remo ve all duty from yarns, both cotton and worsted. But when thesp , r; 3 r e ru tte ng r mills -of Ger Many become more numeroiuns and the League eStablislied, then there will be a struggle ful one. duty which havetaken The augmentations of by Prussia ; and such Is her to lay heavy duties on yarns, and prob ably a success place have been proposed slight oppost a. We must been carried with verybd return for our own liberalised commanding influence in say that this is a very a theCongress,.t9iiat they have Tariff, which has It is too apparent a nd other kinds of Baltic giv en great encouragement to timber produce. I establishment of all kinds of mat.ufactures approaching when and unless some unforeseen check - should Itnheattiltighe the of the German League are bent on pro in Germany ; Germans rather as our time is rapidly d the shatteres o a u t r of G a m,erna sen k t i a f a r t a g new , b ‘ e „. avid powt'rf tanufactu rivals than our customers. ntry from every shackle and and oar own restrictive continue to give the shall principles, which, we now and.latel have experienced, t i e r . : e t other i t n e s l e e 4r fe r oor e u l p b ( u a r i ‘ e l ) e ' n7lB U en n t l i e r s :b trhisisdone ab a ndoned, w e and example to those ate]. effect upon o sanction of our authority upon our mannfactu es. res, and i t ' o n 13°'Zu rtarti ficial rivalry Toanti commercialburdensseai ourselves, lyy our Corn-law, , at need every possible of time,f ign Governments, as we do .are advantage w a h n e d n re t l l i r e o f ese , a i n u d an a u re. fa s e u tu ff r v e r s . lug blow after blow, is an act of the utmost injustice and folly. IMP ORTATIONS,OF FOREIGN CATTLE. We learn from a Danish gentle Men well aeqttainted with the trade and statistics of Denmark, that there is every probability of an extensive trade inr cattle between that - country and. England. The cattle 'hitherto sent to Hamburgh are likely to be,sent to this country, as the better market. Arrangements are -making, since the passing of the new English tariff, to run steamers next spring direct from Tonder, in the province of Sleswick, and also from a port in the more northernly ' province of Jutland, to Hull or London. This will raise the price of cattle in Den mark, Hamburgh, and the Baltic, and reduce it in, England. Within the last few years great improve ments have been made in the agriculture of Denmark. A trade in cattle to England . would still further acce lerate improvement. • It is' of importance to knpw that the "exportations of oats and - other kinds of grain from Denmark to England, within the last four years, have led 'to the iMportation ofEnglish woollens and cottons in return, and that the pea san try of Denmark are a - better clothed in c on seque n ce . IN e thus - see a prac tical proof of the reciprocal . advantages of cottimerce. The ships 'which bring'grain to England seek freig hts of maichaiidise back t o D en mark. This is the natural course of things ; and w herever Niv , rive foreigners , . , sure, in one way or another; directly or indirectly, to access to our lima:els for their product; there we_ are obtain markets for our own' manufactures in return. Leeds Mercury.