The Sun. — London, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LO N DON,_ SATURDAY EVENING , AU GUST 1, 18W,* 4th instant at Jallundur. Zhere have been 'several fires here of late. R. MONTGOMERY, Judicial Commissioner. guns, and all concentrating four cross fires upon this very scot. Happily the danger has ceased. These are, or rather were, the Bogue Forts. John Chinaman complains that we don't fight fair when we from time to time take these forts. Instead of going up to them like brave men, we send a few small ships in for all the guns to fire at, and when the guns are all at work some marines and blue ja?kets leap over the wall in the rear and drive the gunners out. The Chinese are of a practical and reasoning turn of mind. When asked why they ran away from a storming party, one of them answered, in ray hearing, " No can. Two piecy man no can stand all same place. S'pose you must come in, I go out." These Wantong islands are, I am told, to be occupied by a force of Marines expected to arrive by the Sanspareil about the end of July. After passing this celebrated spot we come to a larger island, called Tiger Island. It is a green hill and valley, but with no trees upon it. Here are Commissariat officers g it a depot for their bulloc ks . laying plans for makin Major Kearney, who as A s sistant-Quartermaster - General , has been associated with them in this service, comes on board and tells me he here joins the expedition on duty, having it in command to report to his General the military character of the country through which it may proceed, and its capabilities for purposes connected with his de- INDORE. ( Prom the Alofuesilite, June 6.) Copy of electric telegraph message, received from Colo. nal Durand, at Indore : "An express front Captain Lloyd, dated sth, Chota Jadree, reporting rise of Neemuch troops on the night of ld inst. All joined. The Artillery commenced. Fort ga t e o p ene d by a native officer. Officers known to be sa ved —Captain Lloyd, Lieutenant Ritchie, Dr. Cotes, Ist Cavalry, Captain Sir J. Hill, Lientenant , Ellice, Lieu tenant Stapleton, Quartermaster-serjeant and family. " Artillery.—Lieutenant Walker and child, Dr. Clark, Lieutenant Barnes.' Sergeant., fate of family unknown. " 7th Qwalior Infantry.— Captain M'Donald, Lieutenant Bose, Lieutenant Gurdon, Lieutenant Davenport. The 72d officers safe with families. " Dr. and Mrs. Hockin at Jewnd, Mrs. Buston and family at Jewnd, Sergeant Brahyon, wife, and family, and Mr. Williams at Jadree. " H. A. PRINSEP, Aide-de-Camp. " June 8, 1857." CHINA. HONG KONG, Jong 5. The Chinese fleet has been destroyed in two decisive engagements, but the sentiment of our navy has under gone an entire change in respect of the-n " timid" barba rians. More Englishmen have been killed and wounded in these two conflicts than were disabled before the walls of Acre. The first expedition was under Commodore Elliott, and the operations lasted during the 25th, 26th, and 27th of May. The second was under Commodores Keppell and Elliott, commanded by the Admiral in person. The first I can only relate from hearsay. If you will refer to the small chart of the Canton river, recently published by the Admiralty, and which, so far as it goes, is very correct, yen will see four creeks marked as running from the Canton river eastward. The northern most of these is Escape Creek ; next, to the south, is Tazokee Creek, which is, in fact, but part of Escape Creek ; about four miles further to the south is an en trance called Second Ber Creek, and four miles still south wards is a larger inlet called Sawshee Channel. Only OA mouths of these four inlets are marked in the chart. T hd j i were supposed to communicate with, each other further inland, but nothing certain was knoll& upon the subject. About five miles up Esaape Creak a large fleet of Man darin junks hed lain for some time, and here it was that the operations counnencede ' On the morning of Moodily, the 25th of May, Commo dore Elliott, in the Hong Kong gunboat, followed by the Bustard, the Staunch, the e Starling, and the Forbes, and 'towing the boats and boats' crews of the Inflexible, the Hornet, and the Tribune, steamed into the creek, and came upon 41 Mandarin junks, moored across the stream. Each was army with a long 24 or 32 pound gun forward, and also with from four to six nine-pounders. The first shot Brad after she got within range struck the Hong Kong, and for some minutes the shot came thick aboard of her. The other gunboats now came up, and forming in as loose order as possible immediately opened fire. The junks stood for from° time, and returned the fire with spirit. It requites no small amount of steadiness and courage to wo k that large exposed gun, rising in the bows of the junk and without a scrap of protection to the man who fires it. After some little time confusion seemed to increase. They are all swift vessels, impelled by oars or sails. Several of them got under way and turned for flight up the creek. Immediately they did so they wore comparatively powerless, for their stern guns were of small calibre and were not well served. The steamers pressed on in pursuit; but the waters shoaled. The gunboets draw from 7ft. to 7t. 6in. ; these flat bottomed junks can float in three feet. One by one the steam gunboats grounded, but the Commodore's cry was, " Never mind, push on." They had towed behind them the boats of the larger ships. Quickly as a steamer gcit fast into the mud the men swarme-d into the boats, manned the gun in her bows, as l rowed off in pursuit. At last there was not a steamer afloat, the junks were in full up the creek, the rowboats were in hot pursuit. It was hard work, for these are swift vessels, and with 40 Chinese pulling for dear life, they pass deftly through the shallow and treacherous channels. The guns, however,. in thy haws of the pursuers, told henvily, and when a boat did get alongside the crews always fired a broadside of grape, jumped out on the other side, swam ashore, and were lost in the paddy-fields. Sixteen junks ware thus taken and destroyed in the main creek. Thirteen escaped by dint of swift rowing. The sun was tremendous, and cases of sunstroke were occurring among the men. One junk in its terror turned up a little inlet to the right, and being followed was politely led out. A squadron of 10 went up a passage to the left, which is supposed to have a shallow channel up to Ceuta). They were now, however, so utterly panic strickeu that upon being approached by four boats they • were all abandoned and burnt upon the spot. Thus ended the first day's work. Commodore Elliott, however, was not satisfied about those 13 junks. He had suspicions also that there were a great many more in therm creeks. The next day was employed in stopping the four holes of this rabbit warren. *Captain Forsyth of, the Hornet was now left t) guar l Escepo Creak. The Inflexible had her broadsides bearing upon the entrance to the Second Bar Creek. Captain Edgell in the Tribune took charge of the Sawehee Channel. Alt the points of escape into Canton river being thus closed, Commodore Elliott and his gun beats, with all the ships' boats of his squadron in tow, on Wednesday morning set forth to explore the Sa,wshee Oharene). For twelve miles his gunboats found water — but found nothing else ; but the Commodore saw a very remarkable pagoda, which he had seen before when run ning up the Escape Creek, and he felt convinced that these creeks were all in communication, lie also met a China man who told him that four of his friends who escaped on Monday had got away to a town whereof thispagoda is the principal building, and which we now know to be Tung koon. Abandoning his steamers, therefore, he took to his boats, and after rowing for 12 miles between paddy fields rounded a point of the creek and found himself close in with the town of Tung-koon, and also with a fleet of junks (one of them of great size and splendour) and under a bat tery. The Chinese were utterly unprepared for this sudden meeting. The English boats fired all their guns, gave a cheer, and made a rush; the Chinese jumped overheard without firing a shot. Now, however,'eame the worst part of the affair. It was necessary to destroy these junks, and it was desirable to take away the chief junk. Bat the boats were in the midst of a city. The crows of thoj auks established them selves in houses and fired upon the s dlors with jingalls. The Marines were obliged to form and charge in the streets. Toe Mandarin junk was found to have powder upon ber deck put trains communicuting between her and the stree Then a house close to her was set on fire, an 1 up she went nearly carrying an English pion-ace up with her. Twelve large junks were here destroyed. The sailors, who had so sails in their row boats having now done their work, bar lly cared to pull back again. Sails, therefore, were improvised out of the mats and other spoil of the junks, awl they came sailing down Sewshee channel in guise which might have puzzled the master of each ship to re cognise his own boat. In,this affair one man oat of every 10 engaged was hit —a large average even in European warfare. Such was the result of the expedition of the Escape Creek. I shall describe the battle of Fatahan in all its details, not only because it was the most desperate cutting-out affair that has happened in these waters, but also because it enables me to describe at the same time the theatre of our operations and the present posiaon of the British force in China. " I have sent home by this mail a plan of the operations, and if Mr. liryld will publish it in a cheap form, and if people will refer to it while reading may nar rative, I believe I can make the incidents clear to them. If I do not it mast be my °An fault, for no one had a bet ter opportunity of seeing them. On friday, the 29th of May, at 9 o'clock is the morning Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Commanding in Chief, left the Calcutta line-of-b ittle-ship and hoisted his flag on board the Coromandel, a small paddle-wheel steamer which had been a passenger boat, and was very weak both in scantling and armament. She bad been brought when our force here was too small for its work; and her recommendations were that her draught of water is not groat and hor ma chinery tolerably trustworthy. The latter cannot be sail for the gunboats, which break down constantly. Their boilers are worn out, but others are on their way, and all will then be riekt. The Coromandel, however, is a lucky boat. The Admiral uses her as a tender to the Calcutta, - and takes his littie eggshell into a hot fire as confidently as if she were a shotproof battery. She has been five times in the thick of it, has been hulled over and over again, but her vital part, her machinery, has never yet been hit. The Admiral was accompanied by Commodore Heppe], Commander Rolland, of the Calcutta; Mr. Fowler, flag lieutenant; Mr. Somerset, acting signal-lieutenant; and Dr. Anderson, staff-surgeon. Lieutenant Douglas, of the Calcutta, commanded the Coromandel. With the excep tion of Mr. Janes, the Admiral's Secretary, and of one in . divkluel who was there as the Admiral's guest, these were the only occupants of the quarter-deck. Ban g goes the signal gun and the Coromandel is unde r way. Four low, black, vixen looking screws immediately show signs of movement and they are soon follewine in the wake of the Admiral. These are the Haughty, the Opos sum, the Forester, and the Plover gunboats. Two of these are armed with two long 36's and one 68-pounder; the other two have not their large gun on board. • Away we go, the Haughty holding her own well with the flagship, and the others coming on some distance astern. We pass through the archipelago of islands which lie in the great estuary called the Mouth of. the Canton River. We coast by the Castle Peak Bay, a large inlet where 17 jun' s sere destroyed some weeks since, and where those papers were taken which have t tld us something of the proceediegs of our enemies. We pass the pyramidal islet of Lintin—the great feature of the entrance of this river ; and as we lose it behind us we begin to see main line, or wh a t i s i mag i ne d t o b e ma i n l an d, on each side. Thera are clouds upon the mountain tops, and I am told that - within . that mainland there are creeks and channels n th ic a a t Jeu ft n ga in ii in w e i n th itely reticulated convolutions and commu way far up lute the large rivers which keep open the water trated 80 mites country. Captain Keith Stewart pens • population, a but noes g them and found a civil and friendly rinth. There is a maps of any termination to the laby • one of thejnaks ; but it n " map of them recently taken in of a handful of rm,nin is like a picture by a pre-Raphaelite - I,o it may be an aide mentoire to a man who knows them, r titisof no use to a stranger. Among them these pi rates prowl and bid e , an d h ere , w h en close pressed, the Man larin l a nky lie and t of war t a k e refuge. r a st eamer, as t h ey Here, also, they wat ch the ir opp or t un it y, coming down in case of opportunity mobtooei mobbed the Coromandel on the 4th o e e ch . rrar crockery, t wil r c' y k a a e c h d sh ot, Cornus not lone since, sending through which took off a seaman's legs, went rimers, and destroyed ail the captain's cheat the • we call e i e land," therefore, is only the banks of hat channel which leads to Canton through this raze of shal low and narrcw waters ' Now we bug the right hand shore of this sickly pale green river, and we pass a group of mamelons that mark the entrance to a bay. This is Anson's Bay, and low down, nearly level with the water, is a line of stone embrasures, at which 12 large guns show their muzzles. These are hostile guns. This is the fort of Chuenpee. There is a sensible old Mandarin there who writes to Pekin that no barbarian dares to look upon Chuenpee; but, be also gives strict orders that no gun in Chuenpee shall ever be fired on a barbarian ;so we have hitherto let him alum Wo were in close range some time, bat no Chinaman showed his eye over his gun, The channel contracts. Away to the left there is an un limited. extent of rocks, shoals, and shallows; but the channel runs between two hills. M high shores interpose t wo green islet i s dwa it btv thes $ n e b e ot t o tes m h o e f the hill which forms the ri g ht hand ba . nk ra j a two separate lines of embrasures, built o f very lar ge stoics, are now knocked about in strang e coe e ion, similar lines of fortification, which circle their summits like coronets. As we steam up between the islets and the shore I look with horror on the place. Hera are four bat teries, each having embrasures for a hundred monstrous , smoke, and before the booming sound reached us the bi g shot struck the waters about 200 yards a-head, driving the spray high up in the air. It was a beautiful line, straight from the vessel's bows, and the spot was carefully noted, for it showed the range for which the lower tier of guns was laid. Yon/. Chinaman does not aim his guns at the moment according to his judgment of thndistance of the object. He practises at certain points which an assailant must pass and notches the elevation on the carriage of the gun. Scarcely had the splash shown the gunner that his range was short when another flash came from the higher tier. The shot, with a rushing sound, passed over the ship a little to the left, and dashing into a paddy field on our port quarter sent a column of black mud up 30 feet. All this time the Coromandel was advancing, and the dawn was becoming day. It being certain that she was within range, the fort opened in earnest at the steadily advancing mark. First came a general salvo, then flash after flash in rapid succession. Then the battery on the other side of the island opened; rushing sounds came strangely near and the waters sometimes splashed the deck. Fortunately the ricochetting shot which a China man best loves IN as out of the question, for his guns were high up upon the bill, end a small steamer, moving stem on at a distance of 900 yards, is a little object and hard to hit. The shot came near us and around us, but did not partment: Poor Kearney ! he was every inch a soldier, full of zeal and hope ; after a career of honour at Sandhurst, a youth passed in India, and many years lost in office duties at the Horse Guards, the desire of his life was now about to be accomplished. He was to see active service in this Chinese war, and to acquire personal distinction, as he certainly would have done, in military operations. We came out together, and euriug the voyage acquaintance had aug mented into intimacy. When I congratulated him that he was about to receive his baptism of fire it never occur red to me to imagine that such a man would be knocked to pieces by a 32-pound shot from a Chinese junk, yet so it happened. Half an hour's steamin g brings us to the entrance of th e Sawshee Channel—a broa d water which runs away east ward into a plain covered with little round trees and well covered patches, having that peculiar air of greenness so well imitated in Chinese landscapes—the tender green of the young rice. This is the Sawshee Channel mentioned in my account of Commodore Elliott's expedition. It is supposed to lead to a large river to the eastward, but no one knows. There are mamelon-shaped hills in the back ground—here all hills are of that shape—and Commodore Elliott's pagoda is just visible; but beyond the scene of his operations we know nothing. At 4 o'clock we reach a wide reach of the river, called the " second bar anchorage." and are in the middle of a Eritish fleet. Hera we find. the Tribune, the Fnry, the Hornet, the Bittern, the Sybille, and also the gunboats Staunch, Hongkong, and Forbes. Seven of Commodore Elliott's captured junks are also here. We bad an opportunity of inspecting all these junks. IVitli'one exception, the large gun had upon some former occasion been captured and had one of the trunnions knocked off. The manner in which this had been repaired by the Chinese excited great admiration. They had pass ed a strong iron band round the gun, fitted a false trun nion to it, and kept it in its place by a firm iron breech ing. The prizes were full of cordage, mats, Chinese cloth ing, powder, loose balls, and shot holey. On the next day (Saturday, 30th May) we steamed up the river to Macao Fort, pass'ng many picturesque horse shoe-form tombs, and some villages that had been destroy ed by the rebels. Out gu ns look out formidable and stern, but the hundreds of stripa.ns aed junks which we meet manifest no fear. The bamboats attach themselves to the ships of war immediately they anchor. Thera is an air of fearless confidence about the people which shows that the industrious classes know that we have no intention to hurt them. A few weeks since a Chinese who supplied our ships with beef was behoaded—he and his wife and his children -- yet the Admiral has found no difficulty in making ano ther contract for beef at about Gd. per lb. The boats come round us with bananas and lemon syrup, and sweet pota +o3E4 and tho Chinamen are taking Jack's shillings and English coppers at a most usurious rate of exchange. The husbanclmen upon the banks pursue their labours in their paddyfielde, not only as though no enemy were near, but under the protection of his guns, for they know that while we are here the Mandarin sailors and soldiers cannot come down and do them spoil and violence, as is their wont. We have a Chinese pilot, who, having got his wife and children out of the clutches of the Mandarins and located them at Hong Kong, wishes it to be understood that he is not a traitor, but an English subject. He wears a glazed hat and a regulation jacket. I thought at first that he had cut off the last link which bound him to Whampoa—his tail. But no, he has gone no farther than d compromise in this respect—he wears it coiled round his head, inside his hat. When it blows bard he ties it round his hat outside. Oar branch of the river (the Blenheim Passage) now con tracts to the dimensions of the Thames at Richmond, and but fur the banana and lychee trees one might expect to see a punt and a chair, an elderly gentleman and a land ing-net. Ever and anon we come up to a British ship, whose captain goes off to hold converse with the Admiral. Thus we pass the leiflexible paddle steamer and the Niger screw ; also the Cruiser and the Elk. Farther on we find the Acorn, 12 gun brie-, and the Bustard gunboat. Now we arrive at :bar made by the Chinese by sinking junks filed with stoves. One narrow passage has been partially cleared, and it is•said . that there aro 16 feet of water over that part at high water. The Coromandel was obliged to go at it at full speed, and some rotten timber came floating up where the had got through. This bar is not marked in the Adreiralty chart. It is astonishing, not that this bar exists, but that a hundred of them do not occur. At one time we had only two ships here, and junks were accustomed to come out and mob them. Some way above this there is a boom half way across, placed by the English to prevent the descent of tireships at night. and, having passed this, the Blenheim Passage, alone which we have come, debonches into the full river, 'aanti we have a channel to the left, which is called Fatshan Branch. Tins channel leads up to the city of Fatshan, a city reported to be rich in dockyards and arsenals, and. about 12 miles distant. Thither it is said the moat timor ous of the magnates of C.).nton have retired in anticipation I of oar attack upon that city. This Fatshan Branch is oar ultimate destination. Up that channel is the fort and the fleet we are going to attack. We see our battle-field as we cross the mouth, and proceed directly up to Macao Fort, which is placed at the top of a reach running down directly to Canton. The fort is only two miles and a half from the city. In this entrenchment are 250 marines, a strong embra sured wall, surrounding a pagoda of three stories. The whole is in capital order, armed with largo ships' guni, and commanding the channel. The time is gone by when the junks could come down and throw shot into the forts and retire unmolested. From the top, of the patio la we see the city of Canton on the one side, and the fort and the junks on the other. Admiral Seymour and Commodore Keppel are recon noitring the fort. Let 113 join the Marine officers and look towards Canton. The chief part of the city is hidden from us by the rising ground on Hunan's Island at our feet ; but we look down the reach on a large suburb not very unlike what we see on the banks of the Medway a couple Of miles below Rochester-bridge. There are two rained lines of forts, which I am told are the Shatneen forts, blown up by the English when they retired from the city. We can see also Gough Fort, which at this distance looks not unlike Chester Cathedral, and stands on an eminence far back. .We also see the celebrated five-storied pagoda, which has an ancient and re spectable appearance, and suggests the idea that these structures wre originally suggested as imitations of the bamboo, just as the Corinthian capital was suggested, by the Acaathus, the Gothic aisle by avenues of forest . trees, and the Saxon arch by twisted willows. The Chinese aro us busy as bees round Gough Fort. There is a great encampment there. They are throwing up e•eleanktnents, connectin g the works with the city walls, and evidently expecting the tactics of the last attack will be re peated in the next. They are immen4ely mistaken The Admiral ani Commodore having completed their survey we can now occupy the opposite aperture in this pagoda. We see the fort we are 'to attack on Monday and a portion of the junk fleet. All who would underatand the operations must bear with me while I describe the locality of them. Just two miles from the month of the Fatshan Branch, is a long low islend called Hyacinth island. There is a steep hill on the left bank opposite to that island ; and beyond it, and higher up the "Branch," two smaller tri butaries which go off right and left. These features map our field of battle. Stand on the Thames below Twicken ham Eyot, bring the Star and Garter hill close up to it, make two creeks branch right and left from the river a'love the eyot, and you would have something like it. It is tolerably well shown in the Admiralty chart, but the two creeks are not quite correct, and the distance between the island and the transverse creeeks is too great. This is our fighting-ground. That hill has been con verted into a fort. Nineteen large guns are there inotna' ed. Along the two creeks and across the channel above the island 72 junks are moored, with their large bow guns so placed as to command the channels on either side of the island. A 6-gun battery is erected on the shore opposite the fort. The fire of the 70 junks will sweep the narrow channels on either side of the island. The fire of the fort and battery will plunge upon them from either shore. This is the position we have to attack. The Chinese believe they are here impregnable. They know you cannot get at the junks without first taking the fort, and they believe that no man can go up that hill in the face of their guns. Several vessels have from time to time gone in and exchanged shots with the fort and come ' back again. This confirms their confidence. We now return to our anchorage down the river, and the captains receive their instructi o ns for the attack on Monday morning at 4 o'clock. The Coromandel is to go in first, towing the Marines, and manoeuvring to take off the firs while they arc landed; then she is to dash in among the junks, the gunboats and the rowboats following. Hard work for the little Coromandel. On Sunday there was a large congregation on board the flagship. The solemn words of the prayer before battle fell heavy upon every ear. It was scarcely 3 o'clock on the morning of Monday, the Ist of June, when those who slept on the deck of the Coromandel wrapped in their cloaks were aroused from their sleep. A hushed movement among the sailors had already begun. The steam was up. The vigilant young commander, Douglas, was already at his post, and looking through the darkness for tho arrival of the boats contain ing the Marines. They soon came, and in a long string of crowded rowboats attached themselves to the stern of the steamer. Then the Ad viral took his place upon the bridge, the wheels slowly revolted, and the Coromandel moved forth from the surrounding fleet. Those dark hulls, seen dimly by their own lights, would appear to be soundly at rest but for a hushed murmur which ever and anon comes from the darkness, the hum of mon mus tering in secret. The Admiral's last orders were, " Let no one up anchor till lam well in with the fort. Respect private property ; and do no violence to unarmed people." It was in obedi ence to the first of these that the Coromandel was allowed to steam nut alone. It t The passage through the bar was buoyed- with lights. half- an-hour , still black night as the steamer cleared it, and for pi ,a, a i n ie, - b h ,3 oir t. f, waswithth at a nh steamere r freight of 300 red-coats in tow, she a .. on at slow speed up to the mouth of the Fatshan steamed the enemy's co anxious as th sh in e g s t te o a l d oo d k y fao,rivthaefereodm into dawn soon rand u er n e tly t ---alone. An almost imperceptible, up when, from the right r4e se l became indistinetl rocket shot up in the .ir i bank, and a minute after the fleet of junks. bank a little a-heal of her, a the re it was answered b -' John Chinaman is determined to to ho caught napping " was darkness less opaque, and objects visible. She had gone about a mile ; then ano t al li e a r rk f , ro a m ytuai the opposite howeperp from woseintet show that he is not thick by for another five min utes. There is little twilight here ; the division between, darkn3fe and broad daylight is almost to be measured u oments. . Now we could see the higher bills that form the, back. ground to the for: ; , an 1 tho Coromandel was abreast of a village which is about 1,500 yards from the fort it , elf. Suddenly, in the gray distance, a_ flash and a curl or strike, We reached the island--Hyacinth Island —and were steaming up the left hand channel, directly to the fort. Suddenly there was a concussion and a grating sound. " Back your paddles, we aro aground." We were aground upen a line of junks sunk across the channel. As soon as the Chinese saw this they redoubled their fire. The boats were cast off and told to row quietly under the land, while the fort was occupied with firing at us. Lieutenant Douglas took a dingy and a boat-hook and sounded the obstacle. The Chinamen had left a narrow channel as an eecape hole for themselves, close under the bank beside us ; all the rest was blocked. The Coromandel was too firmly fixed to benefit by this information. It was dead low water, and she must float in a few minutes. Meanwhile she was fulfilling her pre scribed duty, which was to take the shot of the fort. The crew ran up and down the deck to try to start her, but in vain. The Coromandel did not fire a shot ; in fact, she had only one gun loaded. She could not afford to make a smoke at this critical part of the river. But now Keppel thought he had restrained himself long enough to fulfil the Admiral's orders. He came upon the paddlebox of the Hong-Kong gunboat, which bore his pennant ; and, having with his quick glance noted the soundings and the result, stood in between the Coroman del and the bank. There he was like a man enjoying him self. His blue trousers tucked up to the .top of his Rus sian boots, his white pith hat, his small, active, springy figure, his constitutional good-humoured, devil-may-care laugh—there was a ,man who, without the least ostenta tion, was ready to go into any fire that gunpowder and iron could get up, and around him were men who were quite ready to follow him. " May I pass, Sir ?" " Yes, pass; we are aground." Immediately behind the Hong-Kong comes the Haughty, admirably handled. She is towing the boats of the Fury, Inflexible, and Cruiser, lane steamers which can only send their captains and their crews into these shallow channels. Lieutenant Hamilton takes his little ship through the narrow, steams directly for the fort, and diverts the fire from the poor Coromandel, who, however, is making violent !efforts to get free. Next come the Bustard and the Tribune. They are waved to pass where the Hong-Kong and the Haughty passed, but they do not see, or they think they know better, end they get hopelessly aground. It is a pity, for the Hong-Kong has met with some stakes of the other side of the channel, and those junks whose painted ports we have been so long looking at at, and which remained so steadily inactive while the range was uncertain, have now opened fire, and are plump ing round shot into her with an uncomfortable precision. I saw her struck three times while I looked at her. The Plover gets up beside the Hong Kong, but cannot break the barrier. It is here that Sergeant Christian had his head taken off by a round shot. And 'hew the Opossum having cast off her boats goes up the right hand channel at full speed, and dashes into the fire. Several of the other gunboats are aground astern ' . but the ships' boats have taken to their oars. Crowded with men, and cheering lastily, galley and gig, pinnace, launch, and barge come racing up. The scene is like a regatta, but Death picks his victims es they pass. But now the tide is making and the Coromandel is free. As she steams up tothe foot of the fort the fire slackens-- only now and then an obstinate gun gives out. The hill is now comparatively free frets smoke, and the scene is as plain from the paddlebox of the Coromandel as if it were enacted upon the stage for our amusement. The boats' crews and Marines have lauded and are mounting that steep hill. They have taken the precipitous side, where the fat Chinamen, who had prepared to receive them by the zig zag path, never thought they would come. The Chinese gunners are trying in vain to depress their guns so as to sweep them with grape. Failing that, they aro rolling down 32-pound shot upon them, and throwing stink-pots which do not explode, and three-pronged spears. They have have not much time for this amusement. Commodore Elliott, with a middy by his side; is running a race with Captain Boyle, who commands the Marines, and is nearly up to the embrasures. Captain Boyle fires his revolver at a Chinaman who is trying to fire his matchlock at him. He misses him, for the gallant captain is too much blown with his race to shoot with accuracy. The Chinaman in return roils a couple of huge shot down at the captain and then takes up a spear of prodigious length and hurls it at the middy. A shot from Commodore Elliott's revolver settles this brave man's career. I saw him afterwards near where he fell, grim and fierce in death. Mired with the marines, and but little behind the fore rank, climbed the post - captains and commanders. We can recognise Corbett, and Forsyth, and Leckie (and by his side Major Kearney, conspicuous by his helmet-shaped pith Ufsiand Fellowee contending vigorously with the laws oiargravitation. Edgell is hit ; no, he has only slip ped, w hile dodging a ronnt , shot, and has rolled halfway down the. hill. Fie gets up and shakes himself. and re commences. Mounting the same precipitous ascent with quick elastic step, his flag-lieutenant, Fowler, by his side, goes the Admiral himself. He went off from the Coroman del in his own boat, unobserved by many on board. He has no weapon, not even a walking-stick, to help him up; , yet he outstrides many of the marines. He goes to see what next is to be doneand we will make haste to join him. This part of the affair is soon over. The gunners sulkily retire as the storming party arrive, lent they lire their guns within N yards of their assailants. They walk away down the back of the hill, and it requires many shots from the Nlarines to make them run. The Marines fire very badly; running up hill is not a good preparation for rifle-shooting at moving objects. From the top of the bill I have a most magnificent pa noramic vie vof the operations below. Lieut. Fowler has brought one of the Chinese guns to bear upon the junks, and the junks fire up at us, but neither do much damage. Now Elliot and his captains run down to their boats and follow the Haughty, which is already clear of the island and up with the junks beyond. The marines descend into the psddyfields at the foot of that side of the hill fort which faces the junks, and, up to the waist in water, they , take pot shots at the Chinamen. The Haughty drives right stem on into one of the two large junks that have been sweeping the channel, and cracks her like a nutshell. For syth jumps first on board, and the crew jump overboard. It is the old story, " 'Spo-e you come, I must go." The shots must be flying furiously down there, for thirty junks ,are blazing away their twelve gnus each at the intruders, who rush into their creek from our side of the island, and forty are equally rapid in their discharges upon the boats that have gone up on the other side. How any mortal thing tan live in that hell of flying ii on it seems impossible to conceive. The secret, I believe, lies in the resolution of our men. They pull directly , up alongside, and from the elevation of the guns the inevi t aide broadside of grape passes over their heads. I saw this hsppen in the case of Commodore Elliot's bout, which emerged unharmed from a discharge I thought had annihi lated it. The junk had coolly waited till the boat was alongside, and then poured in its shot. It all passed high, and when the smoke cleared away the crew were running across the paddyfields, and the Marines were shooting them. The game was soon up. First came a rash of fire and a loud explosion. A pillar of white smoke rises high into the air and swells at the top like a Doric column. Then another and.another, and the guns cease, and the cannon smoke blows away, and the beat's crews are rowing from junk to junk, and in two long lines, almost as far as the eye can reach, lie the junks —some kindling, some in full blaze, but all stranded and abandoned. In one of these the sailors rescued an old man and a boy, chained to a gun, and left to burn. In another, a woman and child were tied with whisps of bamboo to a 33 pounder. There were many which the sailors could not enter, and perhaps these also had their victims. We have been looking down upon the junks which Slay across the Fatshan Branch, and also along the winding creek that stretches away at right angles to the left. Our view of those which lay along the creek that bears to the right was not quite so near. Bat here the contest ceased about the same time. Right and left, covering an immense extent of narrow water, the junks lie, prizes either to us or the flames. Wo have leisure now to count them—they are 72. ' For the first time I appreciate the far-sighted wisdom of the admiral's plan of attack. By leading up his ships at dead low water be not only obtained the advantage of a rising tide when his steamers grounded upon the shoals and unknown impediments, but he also made sure of finding the junks all aground, knowing, as he did, that they wore moored along each shore, to leave the channel clear for ordinary traffic. Thus the crews were obliged either to fight or run. Had he taken them at even quarter flood they bad been afloat. Some of the hindermost would have been destroyed, and by fire or by sinking would have choked the channel, while the rest would have escaped up the numberless creeks, which the Chinamen only know. While some are plundering and some are thinking of breakfast there is heavy firing in the distance. People ask where is Keppel ? We must follow his fortunes ; for all is not over yet, and there is much to tell. When Commodore Keppel passed us at dawn he steamed a way up the channel to the right of Hyacinth Island, until lie came under the six-gun battery, and within fire of the junks. Here his vessel ran aground, and, the Plover cow i n g up, the Commodore transferred himself to her ; • but as she could not get up, he got into his own galley, and, followed by the rowboats of the Calcutta, the Bittern, and the Niger, pulled straight away throughsthe fire. The big junk that lay across the channel was boarded in her own smoke. As usual, when the assailants grew very near the Chinamen fired a broadside and also a train, and slipped into the water on the other aide. The boats were scarcely free of her when she blew up. Right in among the 35 junks dashed Keppel and his cheering dare-devil, receiving their firs and driving the crews away as they approached. Vain were the Chinamen's stinkpots, their three-pronged spears, and their ingenious nets, so contrived as to fall over a boat's crew and catch them like herrings, while they spear them through the meshes. To utilise such ingenious inventions John China man must wait till the boats come alongside, and this he has not yet tutored his nerves to accomplish. Through this wilderness of junks they palled, driving out their crews by sheer audacity, and leaving little to be be does by those who should come after. They shot through the lines up in to the vacant channel. Some of his boats had been hulled by the junks ; perhaps some lingered to pay a visit to a deserted Chinaman, or to stop his mouth ; bat Keppel still pressed onward, and where he goes he always gets some to follow. Where could he be going ? Was it information or was it intuition ?or was he resolved to attack with his seven boats the city of Fatshan and its population of 200,000 people? I have not asked him and he has not said, but I suspect the city was his object. With four gallops and three boomboats, carrying a gun each in their bows, they speed away from the con i quoted junks and hold on for nearly four miles ; but now t',,ero are jui, masts in sight, an'l every one knows that a fight is coming. A little further on, and they corno, upon their prey, and also upon one of those strong positions which the Chinese have now learnt to take. At the part of the Fatshan Branch—which they had- now reached there is an isand shaped like a leg of mutton placed lengthway in the river. The Woad part is towards the British boats, and across the knuckle end 20 large junks lie moored to the shore and aground. The conse quence of this position is, that to attack them the British boats must pass through one of two passages, both of which narrow to a funnel ; and upon that narrow neck of water the whole fire of the twenty junks will be concentrated, One of these funnel passages has been staked and is impassable. Two other bas not water to carry two boats abreast. At this perilous pas sage Keppel and his crew now dashed. The three boomboats took the gronnd in attempting to follow. The base of this triangular island consists of high land which the grounded boomboats could not fire over, so their guns were useless; the apex, or to use my more familiar illus tration, the knuckle part, was low paddy fields, which the junks' guns could not sweep across. It was a position worthy of a C t rthaginian—locue insidiis natus. Na sooner did the boats appear in the narrow passage than 20 32-pounders sent 20 round shot, and a hundred smaller guns sent their full charges of grape and canister at a range of 500 yards right among them. The effect was terrible. Koppel was sounding with the boathook for water for the heoutho its and went back amid the storm to get them up. They start afresh, and make another effort to get through. The Commodore pushes on a-heal. There was Captain Leckie in his galley, with Major Kearney by his side. Thera was Captain Rolland in the launch of the Calcutta, and Lieutenant Seymonrin thebarge of thesame ship. The Tribune's cutter was in among them. The Hong Kong, who had worked herself up through the mud to within 500 yards of the scene of action, had sent her gig. Perhaps there were others, bat amid so much smoke and fire even those who were in it cannot agree as to minute details. If the gunners of the Excellent had been in those Chinesejunks, and had worked these 32-pounder guns, they could hardly have thrown the round shot straighter. Kep pel's galley, not a large mark, is hit three times in two mi nutes ; a 32-peunder shot strikes Major Kearney in the breast, tearing him to piec v3s. He must have died without a sensation. Young Barker, a midshipman of the Tri bune, who wore upon his finger a ring bequeathed to him by his brother, who was killed at Inkerman, is down, mor tally wounded. The Commodore's coxswain is killed, and every man of his craw is wounded. But the miracle is not that the men are falling, but that any escape. The God of Battles is there, and wonderful are the instances of His merciful protection. Captain Cochrane has the sleeve of his coat torn away by a shot, which leaves him unharmed. A. round shot enters the Tribune's boat and passes along her lino of keel, from stem to stern, without touching a man. " That was close, Victor," said Keppel to.hia flag lieutenant, as a cannon shot passed between their heads. Fortunately for himself, Victor (Prince Victor of Bohen lohe, as thorough and as unpretending a British seaman as if his name were Drake or Jervis} was leaning forwards, and using his handkerchief as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding of a seaman whose hand.had just been shot off, otherwiae that ball must have taken Victor's head off. At this time the galley was disabled, `end she was drifting down under the guns of the junks. Even Keppel saw that it would not do. The' matter was, however, settled for him, for the next shot tore away the stern sheets of his galley while he was fortunately stand ing up with the tiller ropes in his hand, " Seymour, you must take me in," and he stepped from his sinking galley into the barge of the Calcutta. Aid the other occupants of the galley were also removed into the barge ; all except tho mangled corpse of the coxswain and the favourite dog of the Commodore, who had been accustomed to be tended by that man, and would not leave his body's With this freight the wreck of the galley drifted with the rising tide up towards the janks. Now the boats retired amid a sounding of gongs, strange shouts of triumph, and a redoubled fire. They retired to the Ming Kong, whi c h was aground astern ; but, sup ported by the Starling, threw shot and shell up among the Junks, and received hem them a full equivalent for theirfire. The Commodore was waiting for reinforcements and for more water in the river ; and meanwhile be piped to dinner. The men were getting their `rations, and were devouring them when the fire 'from the junks slackened. " Three cheers for the Blue," cried a Raleigh boat that that now came up. " Man the boats, lads ; those rascals aro getting afloat." Off they go again dinnerless, but in high spirits, and under a fire so hot that the Calcutta's launch is sunk, and Captain Rolland has to scramble into another boat. This time they find water enough in the narrow pas sage, and, dashing through the shot, find the enemy afl )at and in movement. It has now becomes a chase. These junks, manned by from 60 to 400 rowers, go faster ' than our heavy boomboats can follow. But shrapnell shell go faster than even a snake junk ; there are twistings in the creek that are not shown in the chart, and in following those windings pursuers and pursued often find themselves side by side with an interval of land between them. They fire at each other across these peninsulas, and the guns are so well served, and the shells are so terrifying, that every now and then the crews leap out and the junk is deserted. Spike the guns and push on. Six miles this hot chase lasts, and there are now but eight junks uncaptured ; when rounding a sharp point pursued and pursuers rash almost together into the city of Fatshan. A. Chinese town is not seen afar off ; the pagoda and the pawnbrokers' warehouses are the only high buildings. Three of the junks escape, the other five are headed and are abandoned. But the braves of Fatshau would think it a shame that ' their five junks should be taken from under their oyes. They turn out in martial array ; they ring bells and beat gongs, they come filing down a fosse, so covered from view that only their waving banners and their brandished swords and shields are visible. "We are terrible; flee before us !" they are supposed to sing or cry. Koppel has his own s way of nettling these matters. He turned his marines out of his boats, drew them up on the margin of the suburb and poured into the Fatshan militia such a volley of Minis balls that the Chinese army went quickly back up its fosse again. Havproposed to land his howit zers and pass the night in the city---a daring scheme, which might have produced a ransom of half a million of dollars or utter destruction, as the fortune of war might incline. A. message from the Admiral, however, recalled him- He had his five junks towed out before him, and as he left. the city he stood up in the stern-sheets of his boat and sb.ookhis flat good-humouredly, saying, " You rascals, I'll come back again to you soon ;" and those extraordi nary Chinese, they, too, laughed —a broad, good-humoured grin—and so they parted. It was 3 o'clock when' Comtriodore Keppel returned to the flag-ship, which was now anchored where the Chinese Admiral's junks had been moored at the commencement of the engagement, As be came down his lost dog recog nised the yellow Raleigh boat, and swam off to his master. Not a junk was preserved. Their materials are so in flammable that they readily ignite one another, and as we can make no use of them they were not worth saving at the price of danger to the men. As it was, the shot from their heated guns rushed about in a most unpleasant manner. At sundown the view from the deck of the flagship was a mixture of the grotesque and the sublime. The boats. were all adorned with bar baric spoils; banners of every amplitude, some of them adorned with colossal pictures of the fat god Fo, flaunted upon the breeze. Mandarins' coats and mandarins' breeches were freely worn. Commodore Elliott's crew were equipped each with a Mandarin's hat and foxes' tails. They had dutifully reserved one for the Commodore, but I must confess I did not see him put it on. Around, far as the eye could reach, following the windings of this maze of creeks 89 war junks were smouldering or blazing, and every fivo minutes an explosion shook the sir. The Can .nk, ore greater th an yeh, gained dh e a en i tonese had said th at Commodore E l liott's expedition in Escape-ateek on l y ca p tured a few deserted fishi ng boats. From their own verandahs the y could s ee a nd hear what h tain Fatshan branch. It was bruited in m andarin of high rank, Hongkongaaiifrom Pekin to Canton. If fso, h e h as now g e xperience. Then came Dr. Ande r s on ' s nhd s comefirst done rhsat sad labour of WI arshalling the wounded for transport and collecting the reports of the assistant-surgeons. But the public despatches will tell all this; enough for me to state that in these two battles of Tang-kooft and Fats'oan SI men have been killed and wounded. That night th e t wo Commodores slept, side by side, the sleep of the wear y on the deck of the C oromandel, and so ended the l e t of June . Nex a t p m petere morning, dngth a s we passed dow n th e r i ver , t wo war junkse miles astern, and fired a gen. They were chasing tho barbarian fleet. JUNE 10, 12 O'CLOCK. After we have closed oxr despatches, and while the Aden is getting her, steam up for departure, the mail-boat Singa pore, Captain Grainger, is announced to be entering the harbour. She brings General Ashbnrnham and his staff, who all appear to be in good health. They left Bombay on the same day that the news of the disasters in India reachei that city by telegraph. Lord Elgin left at Singa pore. • RETURN OF CASUALTIES IN THE FORCE ENGAGED IN THE CAPTURE AND DESTRUCTION OF CHINESE WAR BOATS IN ESCAPE CREEK, ON THE 25TH OF MAY. The Hornet's Pinnace.—Richard Warren, 8.8., severely; Edward Roche, A. 8., slightly. CASUALTIES ON THE 2TII OF MAY AT TOUNG-KOUAN. The Sybille's Boats. —Henry Matthews, private, R.M., seriously; Thomas M`Donald, A. 8., severely; Richard Han naford, private, R.M., Raleigh's Boats. —Mr. A. Dup les, midshipman, severely ; Mr. Pilkington, midshipman, slightly : William Tre win, A.B , dangerously ; James Mansell, leading seaman, severely ; Edward Pepper, A. 8., severely ; W .ll am Drew, leading sea man, severely ; Luke Sharp, private, R.M., severely : Wm. Fugwell, A. 8., slightly. Tribune's Boats.—Lieut. Norman, bullet through right cheek; William Lanpidge, A. 8., bullet lodged in left cheek, dangerous ; William Nelson, leading seaman, bullet wound, right shoulder; Benfield. Howe, private, bullet wound, right hand; Edward Strickland, private, bullet wound, upper lip ; Robert Groves, sail mate, bullet wounds, left hand and leg ; Thomas Clack, private, bullet wound, spine, dangerous ; and Henry Halfyer, private, bullet wound, left thigh. Inflexible's Boats.—Lieut. Bacon, slightly ; Mr. Magrath, Assist .nt-Surgeon, slightly; William Yeo, boatswain's mate, severely ; Colin Grant, A. 8., severely; Thomas Farmer, A. 8., slightly. ..< Fury's Boats.—James Carry, gunner's-mate, slightly ; George Grogan, corporal, R.M., severely ; Chas. O'Donn..ll, private, severely ; William Keechee, AB. severely ; and James Gibson, leading seaman, severely. Total wounded, 31. A RETURN OF CASUALTIES ON BOARD HER MAJESTY'S GUNBOATS AND BOATS OF THE SQUADRON puma THE OPERATIONS IN THE FATSLIAN CREEK ON MONDAY, THE IST JI7NB KILLED. • . Raleigh.—Commodore's Galley.—Pacr Tolhurst, captain of the forecastle, Launch.—Thomas Coleman, A. 8., mor tally wounded, since deao„, Pinnace.—John, Dart, A. 13., Simeon Bone, private, Royal Marines. Nankin.—John Smith, private, Royal Marines, killed on board the Hongkong. Tribnne.—Barge.—Richard Harper, A.B. Pinnaco.—Mr. H. Barker, midshipman, mortally wounded, since dead. Highflyer.—Pinnace.--bfr. E. C. Bryan, master's assistant. Niger. —lst Gig. George Griffin, A. 8., mortally wounded, since dead ; Thomas Christian, sergeant, Royal Marine Ar tillery, killed on board the Plover gunboat. Hornet.—Cutter.—Thomas Cronin, ord. Fury.—Gig.—Major Kearney, Deputy-Assistant-Quarter master-Gentral, who, being on duty in the Canton river, gallantly volunteered his services in the boats. Plover Gunboat—Charles Mead, mortally wounded, since dead. JUNE 9 When the Admiral had returned t) his anchorage a, naval court-martial was held on board the Svbille upon Commodore Koppel and his craw for the loss of the Raleigh. The report of the officer sent to survey the spot rendered this trial almost a matter of form. It was chiefly remark able for a speech from the Commodore, who appeared with his breast quite covered with orders and medals, and never allu led in any way to himself during the whole of his defence. The fact is no great loss has been sustaine I in the Raleigh. For modern naval warfare, and especially in these seas, your old 50-gun sailing ships are useless. They are pleasant as marine residences, but for fighting you might as as well arm your men with bows and arrows. The Commodore received back his sword, and is left iu co m mand up the river. To-day I visited the wounded men. All the severe cases are on board the Hercules. With the exception of two cases—one where the poor creature has the back of his head shot away, and lingers still with half a brain—the men are all doing well. The main deck of the Hercules might be envied as a hospital ward by the surgeons of Guy's or Bartholomew's. Many of the wounds are of the most frightful description. They are all caused either by cannon shot or jagged pieces of iron. It is wonderful to find the men sce cheerful under the ,pressure of such wounds. I heard no moan or sob all the time I was in the ship. - Yet there was one poor fellow who was even then having extracted from his shoulder small bits of a comrade's skull, whickbad been smashed and scattered in splinters by a round shot." `I: talked mnchlo Jenkins, the seaman of Keppel's galley, whose life Prince Victor saved by timely twisting his haukerchief over the stump. Jen kins is a very intelligent fellow ; he looks calmly at his stump—perhaps he thinks of England and Greenwich, and strikes a balance in his mind. Upon the whole I must re port that up to this present time no wounded men could possibly be better cared for than those of this Chinese squadron. In Hongkong we are now listening for the gun which will announce the arrival of the mail. It is a great incon venience to every one here that it is so arranged by the authorities that one mail comes in either about 12 hours befOre the other goes out, or about 12 hours after it is gone, thus causing uncertainty and most precipitous haste in all matters mercantile. Why not arrange the arrivals and departures for alternate weeks ? I dare say there is some stupid clerk in some inaccessible office who has some stupid reason for inflicting this annoyance upon us. The merchants have at length resolved to make a demon stration upon the Chinese question. It appears singular that they have not done so before; but the politics of Hongkong are very intricate, and there were objections to all previous propositions. The Dents have now taken the matter in hand, and an address to Lord Elgin is in course of signature. After the usual congratnlations, the address proceeds thus : " Wo venture upon no opinion at present respecting the readjustment of our relations with the empire at large, though always prepared to hold our advice and experience at your Lordship's command; but upon that branch of the question which we distinguish as the Canton difficulty, we would take this, the earliest o pportunity, of recording our opinion —an opinion founded upon long, reluctant, and we may add traditional experience—hat any compromise of it, or any sort of settlement which shall stop short of the complete humiliation of the Cantonese —which shall fail to teach them a wholesome respect for the obligations of their own Government in its relations with independent Powers, and a more hospitable reception of the foreigner who resorts to their shores for the peaceable purposes of trade, will only result in further suffering to themselves and further disastrous interruptions to us. "Many of us have already been heavy sufferers by the present difficulty. It must be apparent to your lordship that our best interests lie upon the side of peace, and upon the earliest solid peace that can be obtained. But, not withstanding this, we would most earn,:stly deprecate any settlement of the, qu estion which should not have elimin ated from it the very last element of future disorder." This means, " You must take Canton, my lord, and negotiate at Pekin with Canton in your posseseion." *acia is the opinion of every one here, from the highest to the J R MAJESTY'S THE A ... .I lowest. Even those Chinese who live by gr a tifying Eng - 1--r - FARE WELL PERFORMANCES A 1.- lish tastes, painting portraits of vessels for uxorious sea I REDUCED PRICES. captains, or selling puzzles, bamboo chairs, and grass • THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, Aug. 1, cloth handkerchiefs, are quits of t he same o p in ion. Th e y LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, ask, " Why not that soijee men come catchee that city ?" I am obliged to close my despatch without any tidings , with the following powerful east : Stissannah, Mdlle. Piccolo:llin' ; Cherubino, Mdlle. Spezia; of the mail. We aro, of course, most anxious to know whether it brings Lord Elgin , and whether General Ash- to be The Countess, M M dlle. Ortolani ; areellina, Madame Perna ; Il Coate cPAhnaviva, Beneventano ; Basilic., 8....1art ; Curzio, burntana coe down iq her from Bengal. I e able to subjoin i s n a postsCript a list of killed and ho wopunded, M ercur iali; Antonia, Corsi ; Bartolo, Rossi ; and Figaro, and Mr. Secretary Wade's feport of the contents of the B Aletti epers taken in the junks. These last, I understand, are T o conclude with the new Ballet Divertiss m:lent, by Paul p Taglioni, entitled rather curious than important. ALPHEA. Male. Mario Taglioni, M. C,;eehetti, and M. Charles. PRICES : Pit Tier, Grand Tier, and One Pair.. ...... £2 12 6 Two Fair Half Circle 1 1 0 Pit Stalls 0 12 6 Gallery Boxes 0 12 6 Gallery Stall; Gallery Side Stalls 0 3 0 Pit Gallery No free Est.—Applications to be•made at the Box-office of the Theatre. Doors open at 7, Jpera to commence at half past 7. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Farewell Performances at Reduced Prices. THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, Aug. 1--LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and ALPHEA MONDAY, Aug. 3—LA FIGLI A. DEL REGGIMENTO. Last Scene, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. TUESDAY—IL DON GIOVANNI. WE DNESDAY—FIG ARO. THURSDAY, (Last Night)—LA TRAVIATA and the Last Act of I PURITANI. The NATIONAL ANTHEM will folllw the Opera. The entertainments in the Ballet will combine the talents Madame Rosati, Madlles. Katrine, Boschetti, and Marie Prices as above. THEA TR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. OPEN EVERY EVENING. GREAT E Q UESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL COMPANY. Prices—Pit and Promenade, is ; Boxes, 2s. 61., 25., and ls. 6d. ' • Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7 . Commence at 8. _ . JACK THE GIANT KILLER, with novel effects. OYAL - PRINCESS'S THEATRE, U. THIS EVENING will be performed Shakespere's Play of THE TEMPEST. Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET • Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock, with the new and greatly successful original Comedy, entitled VICTIMS, in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. William Farren, Miss Reynolds, &e., will appear. After which, the successful Classical Love Story, un der the Apple-lation of ATAL ANTA.; or, The Three Golden Apples : in which Miss M. Oliver will appear; also Miss M. , Wilton, and Miss Ellen Ternan. Followed by ACTRESS OF ALL WORK, in which Miss Anna Maria Quinn (from the principal theatres in Australia) will sustain six characters. Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening), 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Price. s. d. Second price. s. d. Dress Boxes Upper Boxes ... 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit ......... Lower Gallery 1 0 Lower Gallery ........... ... 0 6 Upper Gallery 0 6No half-price to Upper Gallery. THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. LesF:eo—Mr. Ben. Webster. TIES EVENING, will be performed the new drama of GEORGE DARVILLE, in which Mr. BenjaminWobster, Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul Bedford, and Madame Celeste will perform. After which, the new sketch of WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright. Mr. Paul Bedford. &C. To conclude with " FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN THE SEVEN DIALS." 1 - 1) OY AL OLYMPIC THEATRE 11, Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, FRIDAY, July 31, will be performed ALL IN THE WRONG. Characters by Mr. Robson, Mr. Addison, Mr. G. Vining, Mr. G. Cooke, Mrs. Stirling, Miss Swanborough, &c. To conclude with the original Extravaganza, by Rlbeit B. Brough, Esq., called MASANIELLO. Messrs. Rob son, Cooke, Danvers, &c. ; Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, Hughes, Bromley, and Mrs. Melfont. Commence at half-past Seven. 0 OVAL SURREY THEATRE. 11. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING will be performed tho grand opera of MASANIELLO. Mr. Haigh, Mr. Durand, Mr. Mauvers, Mr. A. Cooke. and Miss Lanza. After which, A GRAND C )NCERT. Lucy Escott, Miss Dyer, &c. To conclude with THE WATERMAN. G REAT NATIONAL STANDARD TUE A.TRE. Proprietor, Mr. John Douglas. Pretessor ANDERSON in a round of Dramatic Characters, supported by Mr. Hamilton Brabani, Mrs. Vickery, &c. Jerrold's drama of BLACK-EYED SUSAN. William, Pro- THIS EVENING, will be performed PIZARRO. Pizarro, Proveisor Andorsoi. After which, TIE MILLER OF WHETSTONE. To conclude with MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN. A_STLEY'S ROYAL AMP FIITH Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Under the patronage of Her Majesty and His Royal Highness Prince Albert. Llst Nights of the Splendid Spectacle of MAZEPPA. The Breit Parisian Equestrienne, Madlle. Mililos, continues to be received with unbounded approbat , on. THIS EVENING the entertainments will commence with Byron's grand spectacle of MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE. Mazeppa,, Mr. James Holloway. Concluding with a Brilliant Series of Mr. William Cooke's Novel and Inimitable SCENES in the ARENA, in which Madlle. Mililos will appear. Commet,ce at seven o'clock. Dress Boxes, 4s. ; Upper Boxes, 35.; Private Boxes, from 2(5., no charge for booking; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is, ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Half-price at Calf-past Eight. B Jr-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. rIANTERBITRY HALL, WeArninster-road.- 1} OPEN EVERY EVENING,—The folio w coinpany of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Gees, Duets, die., viz.! Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. Palmyre, Miss Walcatt, ' , figs Brunel!, Mis.iiummers, and Madame Marietta; St. Aibyn, Herr F. Jonglimans, R. Grover, T. Far rant, S. ;orie6, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor An tonio M. 'lc Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Master COITI ; Messrs. Sam Collins, and E. Mackney. Pianofort 2, Mr Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. pars, dm., until twelve o'clock THOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGR. DAY—MOIII, 1 min. aft. 10 —Even. 39 tr:.n an. 10 ro , VotitrYw—Morn. 17 min. aft. 11—Even., 0 min. aft. 0 THE WEATHER -SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 1. THERIIO2IETES, IN VIZ SIIADN. 73 —highost since noon yesterday. 66--lowest this morning ;aid during the night. 74 —this day at noon. BAIIOVICTEB, 30.15. WIND, Westerly, light, with fine weather. A .1 -y r e 3 / 4 ,1 o • LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 18t7. he advices from India have at length come to hand. We are no longer dependent on the curt notices of the telegraph. Our information, so far as it reaches, is complete. It is not, as we have already stated, by any means worse than might have been anticipated. It is true that Delhi still remains in the hands of the mutineers, mil that the puppet King maintains a Brummagen Court ! That temporary holding out has led to the seces sion of those who cherished disaffection in their hearts; and who could only have been held faith ful to their duty through fear, not love. In every instance the insurgents have hastened to Delhi, where alone the standard of revolt is erected, and which is their camp and stronghold. It is, perhaps, as well that we should know the full extent of the evil, so that there should be no undue confidence manifested in those who might have turned their arms against us at this most critical period. We are told that the Bengal Army has ceased to exist. No less than fifty-eight regiments have Banally mutinied, and gone off with the arms supplied to them by the Indian Government, and twenty-one others have been disarmed, as they could not safely be trusted. Seventy-nine regi ments are thus accou nted for, a large proportion of the entire number receiving pay from the Com pany. The troops in the other Presidencies have, however, remained faithful. It will be remem bered that they are composed of very diff eren t materials. The Bralimius, or high caste H* oos, were chiefly enlisted in the Bengal Army, while L' llesi'm anbdaY t n Madras consi s t e d ma i n ly o f Parse T ad :elower castes, and amongst these there has not been the slightest symptom of affection manifested. The native chiefs have, generally speaking, behaved very well. They have protected those who sought refuge with them, and to the best of their power discourage the mut inears. We are as yet ignorant of SoiNnun's Proce,e'lin,gs. The contingent which he supplied have joined the mutineers. But it is not, tbere- 'ore, certain that he will join the movement or place his entire fate on the cast. Wherever conflicts have taken place between Europeans and natives, the former have invariably been successful. At the first collision, the troops under Major. General BA.RNARD completely de feated the enemy stationed before Delhi, captured their positions, and drove them within the walls. Subsequently, two formidable sorties were made, but in each instance the assailants were driven baCk with consideralule loss to themselves, but comparatively trifling on the part of our troops. It is satisfactory to know that the conduct of the Ghoorka Battalion, of the Sappers, and. other native troops, was exemplary, and elicited the warm approbation of General BARNARD. The Corps of Guides particularly dis tinguished itself. The Cavalry made an extra ordinary march of 750 miles in 28 days, and the Infantry were brought down on camels from the Punjaub to take part in the contest. The con tingent of JHEEND RAJAH also rendered true and loyal service under the walls of Delhi. This concentration at Delhi ia, in some respects, fortunate. It gives the rebels " but one neck," and, that disposed of, the insurrection will be completely suppressed. Great vigilance must of course be exercised for some time to come, and India must be garrisoned with a large 'proportion' of European troops ; but we cannot doubt the issue of the contest, or that, when concluded, the Anglo-Indian Empire will rest on a firmer basis than it has done for many years past since Sir CHAS. NAPIER issued his neglected warnings. The arrest of the Sing of OUDE and his Minis. ter is confirmed, but we have not the evidence of his alleged complicity in the conspiracy. On this point we must patiently await the next intelli gence, which may be looked for about the 12th inst. The proceedings may have been taken on conclusive grounds, or been merely justifiable pre cautions against any possible treachery on his part. The most deplorable part of the transaction is the atrocious murders that have been committed, not only on officers and civilians, but on helpless women and innocent children. For these san guinary outrages ample retribution awaits the 'of fenders. None can pity or sympathise with those who have disregarded every law, Divine and hu man, and set aside every obligation. We hope and believe that the next mail will bring a very different tale. The auxiliaries expected daily by General BARNARD will enable him to attack and, we trust, to capture Delhi. That will _be the signal for submission, and it is more than prob able that when Sir COLIN CAMPBELL and the troops from England have arrived at the scene of action, they will find the work finished, and but little if anything remaining to be accomplished. It was truly fortunate that the troops en route to China could be intercepted on their way. Their arrival, of which we shall hear the next mail, will probably settle the affair. The Government can not, however,display any apathy, or false economy Whatever may be the result for the present, some time must elapse before the Anglo-Indian Empire can rest upon a secure foundation, and the pres sure of a large European force will be essential to a safe and satisfactory arrangement. We have but little fears as to the result, but no effor t should be spared to render it what every true hearted Englishman must desire. WOUIIDED. Raleigh.—Commodore's Galley.—Alfred Jenkins, A. 8., loss of left hand, severely ; James Buckley, A. 8., contusions from splinters, slightly; Edward Rowe, A. 8., contusion of right shoulder by a grapeshot, slightly. Pinnace.—J. S. Graham, Lieutenant, contusion, slightly ; William Seymour, A. 8., flesh wound of left shoulder from fragment of a man's skull, severely ; Mark Rieeout, A. 8., laeerated wound and contusion of shoulder by a round shot, severely; John God ding, A. 8., contusion of shoulder by a grapeshot, severely ; John Raffell, A. 8., oontnsion of elbow, splinter, slightly. Launch.—George Sackett, A. 8., penetrating grapeshot wound of right shoulder, severely; George Payne, A. 8., contusion, slightly. Ist Cutter.—Joseph 'fatherly, captain of foretop, grape wound, left shoulder, severely. 2d Cutter.—Mr. E Pilkington, midshipman, contusion, slightly. Hongkong Tender.—Edward Braughton, leading seaman, gunshot wound of groin, dangerously. Calcutta.—Launch. — J. Callister, ord., right hand and leg contused by a round shot, slightly. Ist Pinnaza.—Danie Toomey, ord., 2 C contused won .d of chest and knee by a round shot, severely ; Michael Rourke, ord., contused wound of left leg by a round shot, slightly - . 2d. Pinnace.—William Green, ord., elten-ive burn from a gunpowder exp osion, severely. Landing Party, Royal Marines.—William Collins, pr veto, Royal Mari es, ditto, severely ; George Pope, pri vate, Royal Marines, contused wound of chest by a round shot, slightly. Sybill,.—Commodore Elliot's Galley.—Mr. H. Hi ppesley, midshipman, spear wound, slightly. Launch.—Mr. B. Staunch, master's-a.sistant, contusion of t houlde-, slightly ; Richard Light, captain of 'oretop, ditto, severely ; John Smi.:ll, d tto, wound of head, slightly. Tribune.—Pinnace.—Cenjamin Sheldrake, leading seam", grsl eshot lodged in lung, dangerously; William Nelson, A.B , grape-wound of wrist, wish fracture, severely. Niger.—First Gig.— The Hon. A. A. Cochrane, Captain, C.B , grapeshot contusion of arm, s'ightly ; Mr. W. Potter, gunner, slightly. Second Gig. —Henry %eerie, sailmaker's mat ightly. Pinnace.—James Pearce, stoker, sl ghtly ; Alfred Durrant, ord., 26, slightly. Hornet—Pinnace—Emanuel Buchanan, gunners's mate, grape wound of arm, dangerously ; Thom is Anderson, A. 8., wound of shoulder, severely ; James Rively, A 8., wonnd of neck, dangerously ; David Aitchison, leading seaman, wound of scalp, slightly ; J hn Copping, bombardier, Royal Marine Artillery, wound of arm, slightly ; Henry Wyatt, private, Royal Marines, wound of neck, slightly. Elk—William Walker, boatswain's mate, gunshot wound in right lumbar region, slightly ; H. Starlus, private, Royal Marines, splinter wound iu right thigh, slightly. Cruiser—Edward Mitchell, private, Royal Marines, slight'y. Haughty—Gunboat— Mark Patterson, A. 8., wound of wrist, slightly. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN. At Hong-Kong—May 11, the Wellington, from London, 13, her Majesty's steamer Highflyer, and gunboats Plover, Opossum, Haughty, and Forester—all from England ; 24, her Majesty's ship Amethyst and the Patus, from Liverpool ; 26, the Cairugorno, from Lon d on ; 27, the Wellington, from Newaftle ; 31, the Northfleet, from London 1 June 2, the JohrTlWade, from London. At Shanghai —May 3, the Fiery Cross, from London ; 14, the Spirit of the Age, from London ; 23, the Harriet Armi tage. from London. DEPARTURES TO GREAT BRITAIN. Flom Hong Kon g —May 15, the Esberu Snare, for Cowes, From Foochow -51y 25, the Crest of the Wave and the Queen of May, for London. Frcint Shanghai—May 10, the Sea Star, for London. SIIIPB or IN At Hong Kong—Her,Vlajesty's ship Calcutta, her Majesty's steamers Sampson au d Coromandel, her Maj sty's schooner Saracen, her Majesty's gun-boats Starling and Staunch; the French steamer Catinat; and the American steamer San Jacinto. At Macao—Her Majesty's steamer Encounter, her Majesty's yr N bo ir i i te e r s; , ship Nankin ; the Portuguese brig Mon lego, and the lorcha Amazona ; the French friga,Os Virginia and Capricieuse, the French steamer Marceau, and tho French brig Nisus. At Amoy—Her Majesty's sloop Comus. At Foochow—Her Majesty's brig Camilla. , Cruiser, Fury, High. Hornet, Inflexible, and her Majesty's gunboats In Canton River—Her Majesty's brigs Acorn, Bittern, and E fl ke Tribuner ;, H he o r ;n ghe i.Majesty's Kong, Majesty's Bustard, Trusty, Haughty, Opossum, mil Plover ; her Ma jesty's frigate Amethyst. At Shanghai—Her Majesty's ship Pique and her Majesty's sloop Levant: Sirs te Charlesas h rn i r COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. BOMBAY, JULY 1. IMPORTS.—Cotton Piece Goods. —From the commencement of last mouth, the season may be considered to have closed, the disturbances in the country lik-ly having had an effect to expedite the cessation of transactions. EXPORTS.—Cotton Wool.—Since the date of our last report, the rates have advanced from two to three rupees, from the favourable advices received by the last overland mail. We quote Surat and Broach at Its., 142. ExcuAN z has continued steady at about last mail's quota tions, say 2s. 24d. at g.to 2s. 2id. On Calcutta, sight is Rs. On Mndras 30 days' sight Its. 99. On China 60 days' sight Rs. 221. CALCUTTA, Jorn 19. Our produce market has experienced no change since our last ; business continues very limited, consequent on the in sufficient supplies of staples, and the extreme prices. The Money Market.—The unsettled state of affairs has dis arranged the market. The natives are panic struck, and are drawing largely on the Bank of Bengal in silver ' • the effect of which has compelled the directors of the Bank to raise the rates 2 per cent, all round last week, and increased the mar gin for loans on company's paper 5 per cent. Government securities maintained their value till the re ceipt of advices last week of heavy discounts in the North Western provinces, and they, have receded to the following rates, viz.: Sicca, 4 per cent., 19 Bto 20 per cent. discount; Company's, 4 per cent., 18 8 to 19 per cent., discount; Public Works Loan, 5 per cent., 1 to 1 8 per cent. discount. Exchange on London—Sales for the present mail were first made at 2 1 for six months paper; but owing to the state of the market, there being no great demand for remit tance, the rate rose to 2.2, at which the bulk of transactions has taken place ; but during the last few days there has been little doing, and rates have risen to 2-24 to 2-21 for first class credits, and 2-21 to 2-2 g for document bills. On China the rates aro 228 to 230. Freights.—Notwithstanding a considerable demand for tonnage for rice to China , rates to Great Britain, owing to li m ited transactions in produce, have somewhat declined. DEATa OF MR. Mum, M.P.—We are 'sorry to ant nounce the death of Mr. G. F. Muntz, M.P., for Bir mingham, which, according to letters received in town this morning, occurred yesterday afternoon, at his resi dence in the neighbourhood of the town he represented for 17 years. It is unnecessary for us to say that, as a public man, Mr. Muntz was remarkable as possessing peculiar views on monetary questions and as an ad vanced reformer. The hon. gentleman, who was in his 64th year, had been in ill health for some time past. THE MURDER AT MAIDSTONE.—At the assizes held at Maidstone, yesterday, George Edwards was indicted for the wilful murder of his brother. It will be recol lected that the prisoner caused the death of the unfortu nate deceased by nearly chopping his head to pieces with an axe. The jury found him guilty, and he was sen tenced to death, the learned judge holding out no hope of mercy. Just published, price 3s. 61 , letter to Viscount Pal merston, K.G. on the political import ance of the Euphrates Valley Railway, and the necessity of the , financial support of her Maje3ty's Government. By W. P. Andrew F.R.G.S. &c., Ch a irman Euphrates Valley Railway , with reports by Major-General Chesney and Sir J. Macneill, and memorandum, (to., by Sir Justin Sl - zeil, K C. 8., and map. Alio ntinutss of evidence before the House of Commons on the establishment of telegraphic communication with India through Turkish Arabia. By Sir W. B. O'Shaughnesey, T. K. Lynch, lEsq., and W. Ainsworth, E-q., &c., &c., &c. Kur rachee, by the Euphrates, is 1,400 miles nearer to Eng land than Bombay is by the Red Sea ' —Sir Justin Sbeil. Lenden, W. H, Allen and Cu., 7, Leadenhall-street THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH _ - DUBLIN, JULY 31. All the arrangements for the sailing of the Atlantic Cable Fleet are prepared. Yesterday eveninr , the respective portions of 6 ° cable on board the Niagara and Agamemnon werZ joined together, a nd m essages w e r e sent throug h the whole length, upwards of 2,500 miles in lee s than one second ! Everything works b eau tifully' . and as the preparations proceed all c onnected it feel more and more confident of success. THE INDIAN TELEGRAPH The Government are understood to have commenced t!il inquiry regarding the causes of the delay in the tranami g ; sion of the Indian telegraph f r om Trieste on Tuesa i '• last. It appears that the message was despatched from Trieste at half-past 10 on that morning, and was not r „, e 6 . 03ived here until half-past 12 on the follo w in g day. hours were thus occupied in a duty which ordinar'',, takes four. Meanwhile the news had been fully received b 0 private persons. If the latter had obtained it by t ue same line a case of gross delinquency on the part of sale one connected with the company would have been at one° established, but the statement is that the private ma c ' s was received from Turin• It is to be hop a . however, that the whole affair will be thoroughly sat e 0 Probably the blame will be thrown on the Austri,,i or some other foreign officials, but even in that case it be well for us to be aware of any impediments wilfo.,P. placed in our wry, either for political reasons or to suit the speculative purposes of these functionaries. Accorn: to some accounts there was a disturbance from a th tl i, deratorm,—a plea which may be true, but which can 9 , 1 ways be conveniently resorted to. On the other Wan; should the suspicion be that the English directors or thel h servants cannot be relied upon for that strict reserve v7 1 % 1 . is vital to the respectability of a telegraph company. , " exposure of the fact will be most imp or t a nt. There 1 31 ), not be any immediate remedy, b u t it w ill ultimately let to- the formation of similar c om p an i es o n a better ba o 7, and meanwhile all person s i n th e mone y an d o ther mark° 0 will be more than ev er on th e i r guar d aga i n st sued speculative operations. TROOPS FOR INDIA. Nothing but the delay in the arrival of the transP° l f at Portinouth prevents the embarkation for India °,l some 3,000 men, who have arrived here. The 34th al l 42d, and other regiments, are ready for embarkatio,lit's and others would come down, were there the requis, l v barrack accommodation, pending the arrival of " ship?. Yesterday afternoon the E and F troops of the Roi„ Horse Artillury, commanded by Captain J. Andere" - so C. 8., and Capit;in C. L. D'Aguaar, C. 8., embarked board the screw-vessel Scotland, f or I n di a . The six Or : : pani9s of Foot, now at Woolwich, under orders for la i ,°' h - 0 wilt embark at the Royal Arsenal Pier next week. 'e Scotland will also take out a large quantity of wa rf a r e stores. The sailing vessels Spartan and Sunderlan d now receiving similar stores for India at the PI Arsenal Pier. A tb 6 ROYAL ITALIAN OPNRA ,— Last night terminate — opera season at the Lyceum. La Favorita wag roe formed to a full and fashionable house, and wen t o f with great eclat, Grisi and Mario being in mageiT c l, vo ice, and exerting themselves with the happiest ele tt ie Aft e r the opera, Madame Maori appeared in the to comedy, La Collerica. This lady's performances et ° be continued for four nights next week. o nt H E R MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There a re to be additional performances next week, at the redo - di prices. In consequence of the success of Le No n l,,g Figaro on Thursday, it i s t o b e repea t e d thi s ev e ".4ll and on Wednesday n ex t. O n Th urs d ay th e sea son " come to an end. ITALIAN OPERA AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATIII..O Arrangements have been made for a series of lta of operas at the Princess's Theatre, under the directiolor Mr. Beale, commencing on the 24th of Augest' co o. mediately after th e dose of the present dramatic el o e The company will include Madame Grisi, 144 eet Alboni, Madame Gassier, Signor Mario, Herr F° r— e re Herr R?ichardt, and other favourites of the twc °P houses in London. The ratifications of the treaty of commerce between France and Russia were exchanged on July 16. .„bt. Prince Napoleon quitted Osborne on Friday 13° He sailed in Ls Reine Hortense for Cherbonrg. the Hughes, the jockey, who rode Gunboat, one °' W pe horses that fell in the race for the Goodwood COP' sufficiently recovered to ride yesterday. ra ti° l2 The Medway has been accepted by the Emig from Coniissioners for the cuirNeyance of passeng trB m Plymouth to Melbourne. o itir Y AR MOUTH ELECTION.—Sir J. W. Hogg, it ia rlo" intends coming forward for the representation mouth in conjunction pith Sir E. Lacon wi re; th, fo: ha Oe