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18E MONS tINITED COLLIERIES COM PANY (Limited).—Nrltice is hereby Oren, :fiat APPLXCATIONS for SHARES in the Mlns United Col .Perie9 Co m p any w il l not b e rece i ve d a ft e r SATURDAY, the ,iciday of January next. By order of the Board of Directors. T. R. PRESTON, Secretary. 4 6 Moorgate t t D '7 18''6 , -S TOO CC. J . F RE MONS UNITED COLLIERIES COMPANY (Limited). 'LAW One Million, in 100,000 Shares of 101. each, deposit V. per Share ou Allotment. TRUSTEES. Ills Grace the Duke of Wellington. The Right lion, the Earl of Albemarle. M. S. Thornton, Esa:, Banker, Birehin-lane. T. M. Weguelin, Esq., Governor of the Bank of England. NION ASSURANCE SOCIETY (FIRE, LIFE, and AxNunies). , A.D. 1714. Cornhill, and 70, Baker-street, London. College•green, ronengen- street, Hamburg. Exchange -street West, and Tithebarn-street, Liverpool. North Nelson-street, 1. dinburgh. Instituted in the reign of Queen Anne, A. D. 1714, with large Invested Funds. , ... DIRECTORS &C. CHAIRMAN—JOHN RE %I INGTON MILLS, Esq. DEXETT.CHAIRMAN—HENRY ALDWIN SOAMES, Esq. t James Bentley, Esq. John Paynter, Esq. Thomas Godley, Esq. John Rogers, Esq. Daniel Britten, Esq, Henry Rutt, Esq. Nicholas Charrington, Esq. George Spencer Smith, Esq. S. ) reston Child, Esq. ltichd. Horsman Solly, k sq. William Gilpin, E sq , W. Foster White, e• sq. Thomas . .ewis, Es q , Samuel Wilson, Esq., Ald. Thomas Mills, Esq., M.P. Stephen Wilson, Esq. John Mcgley, Esq. Reduced rates for young and FE. middle ages, with guarantee of a company in existence upwards of 140 years, and a large accumulated capital. The last Bonus (1855) g ava additions to policies varying 11. om 25 to 70 per cent. on the previous seven years' premiums. Lower rates, without profits. Two only of the premiums may be paid until death. Decreasing and increasing rates of premium, and hat yearly or quarterly. Medical fees allowed. FIRE. - Insurances at the usual rates, and profits returned on policies taken out for seven years by p.ompt payment. Loses occasioned by ex- Plosion of gas made good. The offices close on Saturdays at two o'clock. excepting in the fifteen days after each quarter-day. Insurances now expiring must be paid on or before the 9th Janu ary, at the office in London, or of the respective agents. WILLIAM B. LEWIS, Secretary. MR. HOWARD, burgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new descripti on o f ARTI FICIAL TEETH ,fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so Perfectly resemble the nataral teeth as not to he distinguished from t he original by th e closest observer; th e y will never cha nge co l our or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and i s guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered Bernd and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At come from ten till five. A NEW AN D IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OEDICINE. Pate nt °Mee Se a l of Great F Bri M tain. Diplome d'Ecole de PharMani a Fli artnacien de Paris. Imperial College of Medicine, a lozenge, TRIEREMAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of t pocket. devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoa toe _ by Sold in tin cases divided into separate doses, Vienna. as admints r el Valpeau, Lalleman, (1, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. RIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for ttE" ranquT LAUTION, SP ERMATORRIREI, and all tee distressing enees arising from early abuse, indiscriminate excesses, or t . ,ng residence in hot climates. It bas restored bodily and sexual Strength .„,, now l e ti . 7. ' vi gour to thou san d s of debilitated individuals who are whatever an isYrnent of health and the Functions of Manhood; and Gp . „nuY be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR RIA -, 'aeY are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. effectual] TRIESEM AR No. IL, , 3 7 , in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Clonorrhcea, toth in its mild and aggravated forms, Meets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of Urine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which CoNtivl and Cuhebs have so long been thought an antidote for, to the lOW of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR No. 111., i s the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis ard Secondary Symp toms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all Cutaneous EruPtions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Physician treats with Me rcury, to the in ev i ta bl e destruc the world cannot restore. tion of the patient's constitution, a nd which all th e sarsaparilla in Price 1 le„ or four cases in one for 335„ which saves 11s., and in Si. cases, whereby there is a saving of 11. 12s. To be had wholesale and retail in London, of Derby and °Gordon, 140 , Leadenhall-street ; Prout, 229, Strand; Hannay and C., 63, Oxford -str eet ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street. • HUMAN FRAILTY ; a Popular Medical Work, price ls., post free, beautifully illustrated with 100 engravin^s, and containing the opinions of Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, Ricor ' d, &c. It gives copious instructions for the perfect restoraticn of those who are prevented by impediments from entering into the married state, also showing the dreadful results from early abuse, gorrh, and syphilis, and t h e benefits arising from the chemical o t n ests a n ad examination of the spermatoza, by the author's newly-constructed microscope, with powerful lenses . — Piper and Co., 23, raternOliter row and from all agents for the sale of"Triesemar." • CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West Brompton.—Recretary's Office, 167, Piceadilly.—This Institu tion has been established excluiively for the treatment of the poor afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167, Pi ccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted at the Brornpton Esta , dishment, for one month, and for a longer period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this Charity. A 'Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be paid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's inn-fields ; Messrs. Coutte and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's Offices, 167, Piccadilly. BY order. W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary. -____ n past thepernrtes c , ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, G ray ' s -i nn - roa d. P a t r on—The QUEEN.— F ounded 1828. The sick poor are admit ted on their own application alone; no re commendation is required. e o i n ve t d he t i h r e p b e e r n so l a ts l uring the month . win_g o a f pp t D li li c is at C lo h n ar :_ ity, either as out follo or m-door utn a b u e Week ending 7th November 2,154 Ditto 'l4th November 2,043 Ditto 21st November 1.972 Ditto 28th Novemb er 2 309 29th and 30th November • • • • • , Total in November • • •• • 8,747 of which 2,775 were new cases, the remainder (still under treat ment) having been admitted previously. The clergy of all denominations have unlimited access to the patients. • Heavy expenses are Inevitably incurred in affoerdingat the aid such exten sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly ntre of the public. The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors, yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the Annual General Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursday, at o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the business, when any subscriber may attend, if so disposed, the Board .being at all times desirous of receiving suggestions or giving explanaVon• The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent oil volun tary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, John Masterman, Eeq., M.P., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coats and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; Berries and Co.; Hansom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Denison and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Ber ners-street ; Masterman and Co.; and at the Hospital. Clothing for the destitute patients will be thankfullylreceived. By order. J. B. OWEN, M. 4., Chairman. DIRECTORS. Lient.•General the Right Han. Lord James Hay, Chairman. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Bury. Lieut.-Col. the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Hay. Baron Gudin, Chateau Beaujon, Paris. • William Gladstone, Esq., (Messrs. Thomson Bonar and Co.), Old Broad-street. J. Fortescue Harrison, Esq., Cambridge-square, Hyde. Park. Robert William Kennard, Esq., Upper Thames-street. Alexander Miller, Esq., Ashford-house, Middlesex. ALTDITORS—(TO be appointed at the first General Meeting). BANKERS. .{Messrs. Williams, Deacon, Labouchero, Thorn 111 London ton, and Co., Birchin-lanc. Messrs. Hankey, 7, Fenchurch-street. In Mons Messrs. Guillochin, Sons, and Co, In Paris Messrs. Charles Laffitto and'Co. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Amory, Travers, and Smith, London. Monsieur Dolez, Avocat, Mons. BROKERS. Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son. Messrs. Laurence, Son, and Pearce. SECRETARY —T. R. Preston, Esq. Temporary Offices No. 46, Moorgate-street. Prospectuses and Forms of application for Shares may be obtained at the temporary offices of the Company, or at the brokers. Each applicant for Shares will be required to pay into one of the Bankers of the Company, one pound (1/.) per Share, on the numbers of Shares applied for, in part payment of the deposit of 21., in exchange for which a voucher will be given. In the event of the Directors allotting less than the whole number applied for, the amount paid in will be appro priated towards the deposit of(2/.) per Share payable on those allotted. Should no allotment be made to the applicant, the money lodged at the bankers' will be forthwith returned free of charge. ONDON GENERAL OMNIBVS COM- A PANY. —Reduction of Fares 10 per Cent., by Contract Tickets.—On and after the let of January, 1857. the Company will be prepared to Issue packets of 100, 50, or 25 Tickets, each ticket representing the sum of an omnibus fare, at a discount of 10 per cent. on the gross amount. The tickets will be issued for sums of 6d., 4d., 3d., and 2ii. respec t:l°oY, and they will be valid by any of the 600 omnibuses of the London General Omnibus Company, subject to the regldations printed ea the case of each packet. The attention of managers of public offices, merchants, warehouse men, and all houses of business having occasion to send mesQengers about town, is particularly directed to this arrangement as a desirable Medium for avoiding miscellaneous disbursements in their establ sh ments for omnibus hire. The tickets can only be had at the office of the Secretary of the Oompany, 454, West Strand. By order. A. G. CHURCH, Secretary. Offices, 454, West Strand, Dec. 10, 185 G. NOTICE OF DIVIDEND. BANK OF DEPOSIT, No. 3, PALL-MALL EAST, LONDON. Establi , hed A.D. 1844. The Warrants for the Half-yearly Interest, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, on Deposit Accounts, to 31st December, will be ready for delivery on and after January the 10th, 1857, and payable daily, PETER. MORRISON, Managing Director. Parties desirous of INVESTING MONEY are requested to examide the plan of the Bank of Deposit. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on appli cation. CHURCH of ENGLAND LIFE and FIRE ASSURANCE INSTITUTION.—Notice is Herehy Given, That the Half-yearly Dividend on the Shares of this Institution will be in course of payment at the Head Office, No. 5, Lothbury, City, on and after the 15th day of January instant. By order of the Board of Directors. WILLIAM EMMENS, Secretary. 2d January, 1857. LEGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, No. 10, Fleet-street, London. Notice is hereby given, that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of this Society will be helerat this Office; en TUESDAY, the 20th day of January, 1857, at One o'clock precisely, for th- pur pose of Electing an Auditor for the Proprietors, in the place of Wil liam Clarkson, Esq., deceased. By order of the E'ard. JOHN NET rLETON, Secretary. LA W x, IF E ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Fleet-street, Ist January, 1857. Notice is Hereby Given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the P roprietors of the. Law Life Assurance Society will be hold at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on MONDAY, the 2d day of February next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the provi slow of the Society's Deed of Settlement, for the purpose of receiv ing the Audi.ora' Annual Report of the Accounts of the Society up to the 31st December last; to elect a Trustee in the room of the late Right Hon. Sir John Jervis, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Corn roon Pleas, deceased ; and for general purposes. By order of the Directors. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,000/. TM:IBTM. ltt•Un. Spencer li. Walpole,M.p. Richard Spooner, Esq., MP. I Henry Peter Fuller, E sq . E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business transacted in all its branches. N.B. The banns declared at the last division of profits averaged a 3 per cent. on all the premiums paid. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE: COMPANY, 37, Castle•street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, Londop. 1855. 1856. £146,096 10,269 • ...... New Life Premiums ...... 11,137 57,979...... 13,713 10,763.......... Paid 11,396 Annuities immediate or deferred. Persons whose Fire Policies with this Company expire at Christ• mas are reminded that receipts for the renewal of the same will he found at the Offices of the Company in Liverpool, London, and Man chester, and in the hands of the agent!. .WIN iON BOU LT, Secretary to the Company. BENJ. HENDERSON, Res. Sec., London. ESTABLISHED 1837. 'BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY, Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Vict., cap. 9, and BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by Her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Meroz-GinanAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Number of Policies Issued, upwards of 11,000. Annual Income from Premiums (exclusive of Interest on Invest ments) upwards of 84,0001. Rates et Premium reduced to the lowest possible stele compatible with security, and computed in such variety of ways as to suit the circumstances and convenience of every clgss of Policy-holders. E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. (N es 20,137.) PUBLICATIONS. 13, Great Marlborough. street. ANEW NOVEL, entitled "WILD FLOWER," by the Author of "The ?louse of Elmore," in 3 vols., will be shortly published by 3iessrs. Hurst and Blackett, successors to Mr. Colburn. Orders received at all the Libraries. CHEAP EDITION OF CARLYLE ' S WORKS. This day is published, in crown Bvo., price 65., Vol. I. of THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: A HISTORY. By THOMAS CARLYLE. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. CHEAP EDITION OP LEVER'S WORKS. This day is published, in crown Bvo ., price 45., H ARRY LORREQUER. By CHARLES LEVER. With Eight Illustrations by H. K. Biowlsx. Chapman and Hal!, 193, Piccadilly. In post Svo with Illustrations, 75., TWELVE MONTHS with the BASHI BAZOUKS. By EDWARD MONEY, Lieut.. Col. in the Imperial Ottoman Army, and late Captain in the Bashi Bazouks. " A valuable as well as interesting little book."—Examiner. "The ook, though small, is brimful of interesting matter, and it cannot be perused without imparting at once information and plea sure to the reader."—Observer. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Mr. Newby has just published, 2 vo's., 21s , NAPLES: Religious, Social, and Political. " Lord 11******* is a shrewd obiterver and pleasant writer." —Critic. "The pictnres are lively, and as bright as the colours and climate they reflect."—Spectator. " Decidedly worthy of public attention."—Globe. " The subject is one of European interest "—lllustrated Times. " For entertaining narrative it can hardly be exceeded."—Sporting Magazine. " A book of greater interest has not come under our notice for many years."— Guardian. On Ist January, No. V., New Series. price 3s. 6d., T HE JOURNAL of PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE. Edited by FORBES WiNaLow, M.D., D.C.L. 1. Prolonged Shower-Baths in the Treatment of the Insane. 2. Professor Ferrier's New Scottish Philosophy. 3. Autobiography of the Insane. 4. The Belgian Lunatic Asylums and the Insane Colony of Gheal. 5. Philosophical Medicine. G. Mental Latour : its Effects upon the Blood. 7. Insanity of George 111. S On Chloroform in the Treatment of Insanity. 9. Physiological Psychology. 0. Casa of Mr. Millar. London: John Churchill, New Burlington-street. The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRH(EA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the heal Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. rickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi eat reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may he In his power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and . Meclical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those whs sniffer from the cora olaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of !ass importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much meneY.• ....This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. it is, therefore, !ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: 11. Baltiere, 219, .Kegent-stree'. - -- MR. ALBERT SMITH'S AIONT BLANC, BADEN, up the RHINE, and PARIS, is NOW OPEN EVERY EVENING (except Saturday) at 8 o'clock.—Stalls, 3s. area, Os. ; gallery, Is. Stalls can be secured at the box office, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, every day between eleven and four, with out any extra charge. The Moruing Representations take place every Tuesday and Saturday, at Three o'clock. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.-EXETER HALL.—Conductor, Mr. COSTA.—THIS EVENING (Fri day, January 2, 1857), as an extra repetition performance, Handel's MESSIAH. Vocalists—Madame Clara Novello, Miss Doliq ; Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Thomas; with Orchestra of 700 Performers. Tickets, 35., 55., and 10s. 6d., or Subscriptions, One, Two, or Three Guineas each (the two latter classes being entitled to Extra Tickets for the two past subscription concerts), now ready at the Society's Office,No. 6 in Exeter Hall. On January 9th, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang and Mozart's Requiem, being the next subscription concert. A RGYLL ROOMS.-LAURENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, St. James's.—The above elegan Nooms are now open every evening for the winter season, with f,aurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. P.oulcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that this fashionable pace of resort ha, been entirely redecorated during the recess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Addis s'on One Shilling. R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen only) from 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models and preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, 2,4, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, ; and a new and highly-interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery by Dr. KAHN, at a quarter past 8 p.m. precisely. Admission, One Shilling. Catalogues containing Lectures as delivered by Dr. Khan (gratis). GENERAL TOM THUMB HAS ARRIVED. This American M 4.14" IN 311.NEATURE, undoubtedly the smallest in the world, intelligent, sprightly, educated, perfectly symmetrical in all his proportions, and graceful beyond belief, will hold THREE PUBLIC LEVEES EACH DAY, for a short time only, at the Regent Gallery, Quadrant, Regent-street. He will ap pear in a great variety of New Characters and Costumes, Songs, Dances, Grecian Statues, &c. His Miniature Equipage will prome nade the streets daily. The General was honoured with the patron age of her \[ojesty and the elite of fashion in 1844. PARTICULAR OTlCE.—Ladies and families who can conveniently attend the early morning Levees (from 11 till 1 o'clock) ;will incur much less inconvenience from the crowd than by visiting the later Levees. Hours of Exhibition—from 11 till 1 ; 3 till 5 ; and 7 till 9 o'clock, Admission to promenade, area, and gallery, without regard to age, Is.; Reserved Stalls, 2s. ; Children, Is. ; Drawing-room seats, 3s. ; children, Is. Gd. TN CHANCERY.—In the MATTER of the Joint-stock Companies Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and of the Royal British Bank. By direction of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, the Judge of the High Court of Chancery to whose Court the winding up of the Royal British Bank is attached, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the said Judge purposes, on SATURDAY, the tenth day of Jar uary, 1857, at Two o'clock in the afternoon precisely, at his chambers, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, London, to proceed to make a Call on all those Contributories of the said Bank who have been settled on the List of Contributories up to this day, anti that the said Judge purposes that such call shall be for Seventy five Pound- per share. All persons interested are entitled to attend at such day, tour, and place, to offer objections to such call. Dated this 30th day of December, 1856. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. AWIDOW LADY, thoroughly acquainted with the routine of Housekeeping, Is desirous of an engage ment as Domestic Companion to an ellerly or invalid Lady or Gen tleman or Widower with young children, where one or m .re servants are kept. A comfortable home the chief consideratien. Unexcep tionable refer( Rees given.—Address C. G., Mrs. Powell's, 4, Trinity street, Blackheath-hill. .21 20 MILNER'S HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING SAFES (non-conducting and vapourising), with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 1840.51-14 and 1455, including their Gunpowder Proef Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure). TIIE STRONGEST, BEST, AND CHEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. MILNERS' PIICENIX (212.) SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show-rooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. LONDON DEPOT, 47A, MOORGATE STREET, City. Circulars tree by post. CHMSTMAS PRESENTS. THE exuberance of the feelings, amid scenes of gaity, induces the fair and youthful to shine to advantage under the gaze of many friends, and therefore to devote especia attention to the duties of the toilet. It is at this festive season that ROWLANDS' MACASiAIf. OIL, For creating and sustaining a luxuriant head of hair ; ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, For rendering the skin soft, fair, and blooming ; and ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, For imparting a pearl-like whiteness to the teeth, are called into in creased requisition, to the attainment of those personal advantages so universally s ,ught for and admired. Beware of spurious imitations ! ! The only genuine of each bears the name of "Rowlands" preceding that of the article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton-garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. 4__~ d ~!~ fl/ ? / 1 -% ,r ' . 0 _ . ... , '....i , ......r.". ial ot ~ -..... . _. f ..... 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STAMPED JD• represent the feelings of the respectable inhabitants of Canton, nor is any tangible obstacle alleged to it by these except the impracticability of the Commissioner himself, who has laboured to associate the people with him, by representing the English as in league with rebels and outlaws, and has pushed his hostility to the ferocious length of proclaiming rewards for the lives of English subjects without distinction. "His Excellency is determined that his demand shall be conceded ; but the community must be well aware that any course his Excellency may now contemplate would be compromised by publicity. lie Excellency therefore confines himself to stating that he sees 113 im• mediate prospect of a restoration of quiet. " The security of the foreign position will be as well cared for as heretofore. The nature and object of any measures now to be resorted to his Excellency deems it advisable to keep to himself. (Signed) • " HARRY S. PARKES, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Canton. " To theßritish Community at Canton." (Traualated from the Chinese.) Notification of Mr. Parke; H.B . M. Consul at Canton, _ issued by order : for the removal of misconceptions, by declaration of the truth, to the end that confidence may be restored to the public mind. In every discussion there is a position which is the cor rect one; nor can a just conclusion upon the merits of any question be arrived at until the arguments on both sides shall have been heard.. The Governor-General, Yeh, has been at great pains, ever since the approval of the British forces under com mand of the Admiral, H. E. Sir M. Seymour, to inflame the public mind by the circulation of unfounded state ments on the subject ; and it is to counteract;the evil effect but too probably to be apprehended from these, that H. B. M. Plenipotentiary has instructed the Consul to issue a notification of the plain truth to the gentry and people of the city and suburbs of Canton. At Hong Kong, being a British colony, it is competent for the owner of any vessel, of any country, when he shall have obtained the requisite security, to make application, through the proper official channels, to the supreme autho rity for a Colonial Register. Under this the vessel hoists a British ensign, and the register once issued she is re garded in all respects as a British vessel, while those ou board her become alike responsible to Eritish control, and entitled to British protection. The conditions of this colonial registration were communicated some months ago to the Governor-General by the Minister Plenipotentiary, who is also Governor of the Colony, and a translation of the Colonial Ordinance was enclosed to him in his Excel lency's despatch. Meanwhile, the lorcha Arrow, a vessel duly registered as above, having come up to Canton in the earlier part of October, information, it appears, was given to the autho rities by a person who had been robbed by pirates at sea, that one of the delinquents was serving as a sailor on board the lorcha. Now by the treaty between England and China, all authority over British vessels at any of the Five Ports is vested in the consuls. The proper course, there fore, if any question had been raised against the loreha, as she was flying British colours in the port of Cantou— being one of the five—would have been to call on the Bri tish Consul to inquire into'the case and take the necessary steps. Without any reference, however, to the Consul, a party of the local marine boarded tl.e vessel, tore down her ensign, seized twelve men who were on board, and carried them into the city. The Consul, of course, as soon as he became aware of this violation of his jurisdiction, reported it to his supe rior, H. M. Plenipotentiary. He at the same time made his complaint to H. E. Yeh, as Imperial Commissioner, accompanying hie statement of the facts by a request that H. E. would cause the seamen who had been carried off from the vessel to be restored to her publicly, in order that the atonement might be made for the affront that had been offered tb his authority as Consul. He added, that if it were still desirable to examine the parties, he was pre pared to conduct an inquiry with any officer of his own rank, who might be deputed for that purpose. The Governor-General replied that the lorcha was not a foreign vessel. He sent back some of the men, but nine of the twelve that had been taken ; but these the Consul did not think it right to receive; and, under the instruc tion of the Plenipotentiary, he now demanded, besides restoration of the whole number, a letter of apology for their seizure, and assurance that nothing of the kind should occur again—to be given within forty-eight hours. The Plenipotentiary himself wrote to the Commissioner, on the 12th October, to the same effect, adding that, unless the required satisfaction were accorded within the period assigned, it would be left to the Naval Commander-in- Chief to exact it. This letter reached Canton on the 15th of October, but was left without answer for eight days. , H. E. Yeh then sent a reply, in which he repeated what he had already said to the Consul. To the requisition made by the latter he paid no more attention than before. H. E. the Admiral, unwilling to resort to force without due deliberation, waited fram one day to another, until the 21st of Oct., when the Consul, under farther instruction from the Plenipotentiary, addressed a last letter to the Imperial Commissioner. He was now told that unless he conceded what had been asked for by six o'clock in the evening of tho following day, the naval forces would act. At noon of the following day, an officer of low rank was sent with the 12 seamen to the Consulate, with a message from his Excellency Yeh, that two of them were criminals, and must be sent back to him immediaiely. The Consul, in reply, put in the hands of the officer sent two extracts from his letters befOre referred to, reciting the substadte of his requisition, and the form in which it was to be complied with ; namely, that the men publicly - ristelTved . from the ;vessel should be as publie.W . 'restored to her, and that a letter of apology should be written. At eight in the evening came another despatch from his Ex cellency Yeh, requesting the Consul to inform him why his despatch of the morning had not been acknowledged. It being thus apparent that farther protraction of the cor respondence would be of no advantage to the settlement of the question at issue, there remained no alternative but to place the matter in the hands of the Admiral. His Excl. lency, unwilling to inflict unnecessary injury upon the in habitants, confined himself in the first instance to the cap ture of some of the forts along the river ; this done, he directed the Consul to warn the Governor-General that if ho persisted in refusing to listen to us more serious proceedings would be rendered inevitable. The Governor-General pro posing nothing, the Admiral proceeded to possess himself of the remaining forts along the Canton serer. He then reached the city wall, and blew up the Tsing Hai gate. Now, his Excellency has been brought to this point by no intention of his own; he has been simply driven onward by the determined obstinacy and extreme discourtesy of the Governor-General. The original claim advanced was, com paratively speaking, of no great magnitude. Leas could not have been demanded than the formal rendition of a crew unauthorisedly seized without reference to the consul. To the high official of a nation with whom the rule and prac tice of what is due from man to man are so important a consideration, what could have been so easy as to acknow ledge an error committed, and to give assurance that none such should be repeated. How widely different a course was pursued ! For several years past, the high authorities at Canton have entrenched themselves in inaccessibility to foreign officials, pleading al ways that the people are opposed to the admission of foreign. ers within their walls. It has hence resulted that discus sions, which might have been disposed of in a single inter view, have endured thrpugh months of correspondence, and this, too, without any satisfactory result. The present case commences with an insult to our flag, that is to say, an affront is put upon our dignity as a State; this is fol lowed by the unauthorised seizure of sailors subject to the British control and protection ; we complain, and our as sertions are contradicted ; no attention is paid to our ap plication, once and again, for reasonable redress ; we are ' eanstrained to threaten force, and our menaces are simi larly disregarded ; and at last, after repeated delays, we make some demonstration of our power, and the Governor 'General Yeh, forgetting that our act is the consequence of his own obstinacy and discourtesy, proclaims to the people that we are in league with the rebels, and set a price on our heads. Would barbarism and ignorance have gone the length of such a declaration ? Will the people of China, knowing and practising the duty of man to man, believe the fact when it is told them To conclude. This quarrel is not with the people ; out proceedings have not originated in anything done by the people. They have been caused by the obsti nacy and discourtesy of the chief authority, and for any calamity that may result from them, the chief authority is singly responsible. There is but one means of escaper from it, and this is in the hand of the chief authority, who, if ho lose no time in meeting our high authorities, will be en abled, by arranging matters on a satisfactory footing with them, to put an end to the existing peril, and to prevent the recurrence of like misfortune in the time to come. Think how completely at our mercy are the lives and property of the entire population of the city ; and with what facility, in one moment of time, we could effect their utter destruction—a terrible contingency. You aro told this in no spirit of boasting ; the power of our nation is too well known to require that we should indulge in self glorification ; but simply because we have no wish to see a long continuance of these hostilities, so cruel to the feelings of the people, and so injurious to their interests. REMONSTRANCE OF CHINESE GENTRY. A few days ago we heard that the English authorities bad suddenly brought their steamers and war-vessels to enter the river, fire on and injure the forts, and kill the soldiers —(which is) exceedingly perverse and unreasonable. For tunately our officers and soldiers in the forts did not resist, thereby avoiding the infringement of the treaty. Having inquired (we learn, that) for some time many of the lorzhai that have traded on the Canton river have infringed the laws very much—smuggled and sold salt ; instances of their infringements are piled up. Not one of the native officials and people but has been much provoked' Now, this No. 27 lorcha boldly dared to shelter the robbers Lee Ming T'ae and others, and to enter canton- The English officials are bound, in accordance with the treaty, to find out vagabonds and handi them over to th e Chi nese officers for punishment. But in this affair, the Captain loyed of the lorcha has deceived the English consul ; the wrong, E w n a g s l e is m h P therefore, rests with him,( the captain), and not with our na tive called Soo Millg .the register was dishonestly pro military authorities. iTthiiss.nloetrc.ahna y lorcha—there a s and the foreign men-of-war, a cu g r r e e d at b t y li t ff h e e re c n a o p e taiu; between it and ships that are of an honest ch arac t er. The duty of o ur military is only to find out and capture robbers; they do not understand th e t reaty, at wh i ch we seed not be astonished. Our officials have heard (of this affair), and, being very merciful, have liberated the twelve men (who were taken from the lorcha)—(in accordance) with all love and reason. But, unexpectedly, the English officers, distinctly against the treaty, have fired on and injured the forts, killing the soldiers.. -- We wish to ask if there is any love or reason in such conduct ? We recollect that the forts on the banks of the river were formerly made for the protection of the people, now they being suddenly injured, the (neighbouring) coun try suffers also. Not one who has blood and breath but will be engaged. We can only expose this perverse and unreasonable in fringement of the treaty by the English officers, univer sally informing the officials and merchants of all the hon ourablelcountries, as well as the large English merchants —(requesting them) altogether to investigate, and not to say we men of China speak against human principles. Public Statement by the Gentry of Kwangtung. LONDoN, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1867. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CANTON. The Friend of China says— " We have much pleasure in giving publicity to the following memoranda by a gentleman possessed of good opportunities for nothing what occurred : " Thursday, Oct. 23.—This morning Her Majesty's ship Barracouta having a large party of marines on board, under the command of Captain Penrose and Lieutenant Burton, took in tow the boom boats of Her Majesty's ships Winchester and Sybille, and proceeded to the Barrier Forts, followed by the Coromandel with flag, and having in tow come of the boats of the Calcutta. On reaching the Upper Fort (Napier's), situated on a peninsula, she opened fire with shell, throwing them in first-rate style. The Winchester's boats pushed in under shelter of her guns, and took possession of the fort. The Barracouta then shelled, first one, then the other of the forts, the Coromandel's and the boats' guns doing good work. Two forts opened fire, but it was but of short duration, owing to the rapid movement§ of the boats. Lieutenant Dent, with boats of the Syhille, took possession of Howqua's Fort. The guns (45 of them) were found loaded. They were spiked and the trun nions broken off, the carriages destroyed, and the doors of the embrasures torn from their hinges. A similar fate awaited the other forts. Promptitude and decision were the order of the day. The Winchester had some sharp firing with the Braves, who wished to retain pos- session of the forts. Meanwhile the Barracouta steamed through Blenheim teach, shelled Blenheim Fort, and anchored below the stakes near Macao Fort, the latter having already been taken by the boats of the Calcutta. The Coromandel, after the boats had finished by burning the buildings within the forts, took them in tow, and proceeded to Canton. The officers engaged during the day were as follows : —The Sybille—Lieutenants Dent and Chisholm, Midshipmen De Burgh, Price, Brooke, and iliperley ; the Winchester—Lieutenant Bushnell, Mr. Mate James, Lieu*thaut Peliow, Mr. Midshipman Broom; and Assistant-Surgeon Trenson ; the Calcutta —Lieutenants Campbell and Beamish ; Staff Surgeon Anderson on board the Coromandel. "Friday, 24.—This morning Commodore Elliot, in the Barracouta, crossed the Barrier, and opened fire on the Bird's-nest Fort. This place was a mass of ruins in a short time. The Sampson soon followed, and took up a position opposite the Shameen Forts. The Bird's-nest Fort having been taken possession of was left garrisoned, while the energetic Captain Hall, with the Sybille's and Winchester's boats, took possession of the Shameen Forts. " 'Saturday, 25.—The greater part of the day was spent in destroying the guns of the Shameen Forts. The Red Fort being already in the charge of her Majesty's ship Encounter, in the afternoon the boats went down the river and gained the Dutch Folly without opposition, though a few - hours previously there were close to it about 20 Mandarin junks. These retired to a further distance, and got rid of their guns. A strong party of marines was placed in the Folly, the boats returning to formdr positions. " Sunday, 26.—A party of the Royal Artillery ar rived, under command of Captain Rotten. They were stationed in Dutch Folly, witu marines and bluejackets the latter to work two 32-pounders under command of Commander Rolland, of the Calcutta. The guns taken and destroyed were 437 in number, including some fine brass 24-pounders. " ' Monday, 27.—This morning, at 6 o'clock, the Barracouta proceeded to Sulphur-creek, about two miles and a half distant from the Shatneen Forts, where in the late war the troops disembarked to attack Gough Fort. She succeeded in getting within shelling distance of the Tartar encampments. Some of the shells which fell on the Red Tower elicited cheers three times three from ,he people on the Factory housetops. The Encounter ;bre - w shell into the Viceroy's palace with unerring pre• _ . cision. The firing ceased at G p.m. " Tuesday, 23.—The Hon. Keith Stewart, with a strong reinforcement from the Nankin, arrived. The merchant Howqua requested an interview with his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. His Excellency declined treating with any but those high in authority. His Excellency, however, gave the Imperial Commis sioners a little longer time to pause ere more blood should be spilt through his mulish obstinacy. The En counter commenced shelling the palace, and the Dutch Folly opened fire at noon, clearing away the houses between the wall and the water's edge. One of the houses caught fire, which spread rapidly toward the Chin-chew Hongs. This was subdued by midnight. During the day a strong party of blue jackets was employed in pul ling down houses in Hog-lane. This lane is in dangerous proximity to the factories in case of fire, and has been frequently a source of much terror to foreign residents. "‘ Wednesday, 29.—An efficient breach having been made in the walls by the guns of Dutch Folly—and no intimation from Yeh as to a wish for peace—prepara tion was made to attack the &ty by assault. The fort again-commenced firing, the Encounterithrowing in an occasional shell. At a little past 1 p.m. a party of 180 marines and some blue jackets from ships embarked in boats ; they were accompanied by two field pieces, in charge of Lieutenants Bushnell and Twisden ; the whole number being short of 300. After a short delay under the walls of the fort the boats disembarked the marines and blue jackets, who were for shore ditty. The ruins through which the men had to pass were still smoul dering and the air oppressively hot. The marines fell in four deep and quickly marched to the breach. On the wall, at either side, large parties of the Chinese were waving their flags and brand shing theirqswords. The breach once gained, the flag was soon exhibited floating over the much famed wall. A party of blue jackets and marines, with artillery, filed to the right towards ono of the city gates, which they blew in after a little time. The firing in the breach was kept up with much vigour on both sides. Four of our men were wounded and removed. Our sharpshooters did good execution. His Excellency ordered up a fieldpiece, a road having been previously cut under the inspection of Captain Stuart. A. con tinued fire was kept up by this one piece on a wall stir rounding the courtyard of the palace, while the Commo. dore gained a shorter entrance by cutting away a pali sade. The Admiral, followed by the Consul and other officers and men, entered the Palace, the only occupants to receive them being the lifeless bodies of some Chinese killed by shell. Pools of blood stained the residence, which, from some rich hangings and other articles of value still remaining, must have been furnished in a luxurious style. The party sown returned to the walls, where there was still a brisk fire. The United States' Cobsul Keenan had a narrow escape of his life. Having remained behind a little longer than was prudent, the Chinese made a sudden rush at him with frightful yells, but failed in gaining their object, and met with a volley of musketry from the marines which laid prostrate a goodly number. Just after the Admiral left we oberved a fire, which originated from the necessary explosion at the gate. As this was fast gaining on the dwellings towards the breach, the fieldpieces were removed to the boats. The Braves returned to the attack, and unfor tunately killed two of our men and wounded several others. Deep was the revenge inflicted by the Marines, who, cool as they are brave, fired with unerring aim. The fire gaining on us, we slowly retreated towards the boats under a strong covering party. Some boats with 12-pounders, as soon as the last man bad filed off to his boat, opened fire on the breach, thus securing a safe embarkation. "' It were invidious to point out the names of any when all appeared to vie with one another in the execu tion of their duty, from the brave and worthy Admiral to the humble mid. The Marines were under the orders of Captains Penrose and Boyles' Lieutenants Burton, Henry, Swale, and , Allnutt ; Captain Rotten, Royal Artillery ; medical officer with wounded, Assistant Surgeon Tronsen. The C ticutta—Captain Hall, Lieu tenants Campbell and Beamish ; the Sybille, Lieutenants Dent and Naers, Messrs. Brooke, Rice, and De Bergh ; the Bittern, Captain Bate, Lieutenant Butler, and Mr. Johnston ; Dr. Gorrin and Dr. Orr (59th) ; the Winchester, Lieutenants Bushnell, Pellew, and Mr. Brown, and Mr. James ; the Encounter —Lieutenants Gibson, Twisden, and Mr. Shambler ; the Barracouta—Capt. Fortescue, Lieut. Bush, and Mr. Tully. There were other officers, but their names could not be got hold of. " Two men were killed, and one has since died of his wounds ; one officer and 13 men were wounded. The wounded were at first removed to the Dutch Folly, where Dr. Anderson had an efficient staff under his orders, with Mr. Newton, of the Bittern, and Dr. Rattray, of Nankin. " On reaching the factories the force was received with loud cheers by the foreigners assembled, which was replied to by three lusty British huzzas from the strong lungs of our sturdy fellows. " The bags of coarse brown sugar which had been piled up against the T-singhai Gate, situated about 150 yards east of the entrance to the Viceroy's official residence, having been removed by our men from the inside, so that one person could get through, Admiral Seymour and suite made an entrance into the city, and proceeded up the wide staircase on the left on to the wall. This wall on the south side of the city is about 20 or 25 feet high, tapers upwards, and including the battlements, is some nine or ten feet broad on the top. Here our marines were found popping away at every Imperialist soldier showing his bead above the house-tops. The appearance of the houses and shops within the city is in no way attractive —less so, indeed, than similar buildings in the suburbs. Proceeding along the wall his Excellency again entered the city down the breach, and over the remains of a house skirting a lane outside the extreme wall of the Viceroy's yamun.' Under this wall, on the outside, was a coffin ; within the wall were two or three dead bodies, one of them a stalwart Tartar soldier ; another a long haired wretch, and a third with his head blown off close to the shoulders. " The courtyard at the entrance is over 100 feet in width, and runs up for a considerable distance before the grand entrance of the official residence is reached, trees, flagstaffs, and low buildings ranging along the sides, on either of w hi c h, near the south end, are gateways marked in largecharacters Eastern and Western doors. Passing into this courtyard from east and west, too, are two streets; and it was from ambuscades in these we had the most to fear. Preceded by a guard of marines and blue jackets, his Excellency Admiral Seymour, Consul Parkes, and others passed o nwar d s , an d found little diffi culty in driving in the doors forming the entrance of the yamuo: Once within one could hardly fail to Tam an obaervation on the cowardice of the Chinese c %ti n g a post so easily defensible. Proceeding on we reached a large ball, in the centre of which hung a full-length picture of the late Emperor Taouk-wang, as plazed there on the 17th day of the first month of the 26th year of his Imperial Majesty's reign. In the rear of that again was another hall, with a similar picture of Hienfung (the present Emperor) for the third year of big reign. To the left of these hall swere the sleeping apartnients ; to the right the kitchens ; above them the refiptory. The whole place, however, was pretty well stripped, and the north east corner of the building terribly battered by our shot. In one of the bedrooms spoken of, mixed up with Chinese ladies' clothing, several State papers of some interest were found, along with a pretty letter from the father and mother at Pekin of the Lady Lum, the Chetoy's (Viceroy's) wife. " On the whole, the interior of the Viceroy's official residence within the city was found to possess much less of grandeur than had been generally anticipated. It was evidently a mere place of business, with accommo• dation for residence as occasion required. The following account from the supplement to the Friend of China comprises the latest particu lars of what bad taken place : CANTON, OCT. 31, 4. 30 P.M. "Firing from the Dutch Folly commenced this morning at 6 a.m., and lulled for a couple of hours after 11 o'elock. The steamer Canton arrived early with about 80 marines, who were landed in the Garden:. The Coromandel also came up an hour after her, and has again left for Hong Kong. "Another placsrd is posted up in the city and suburbs, raising the head-money for each foreigner to•I00 taels. Chinese report that Yeh has transferred the Is of his office to a high mandarin, who distinguished`Waself in exterminating the rebels, and that he is amost energetic man. Yeh's apathy and mulish obstinacy in coming to any decision puzzle even the Chinese. They seem to think that he is not iu the posession of a sound mind, and hence arises his unaccountable indifference to the events of the last few days. "The removal of the whole of Yeh's treasure 'and valuable property from the palace took place on the night when the first shell from the Encounter wao thrown into the city. It is said that 3,000 coolies were employed the whole night in carrying away his effects. Yeh is reputed to be enormously rich ; his treasure is mostly in goltt: "CANTON, SUNDAY, Nov. 2,185 G. "Nothing has been done since yesterday, and perfect quietness reigns in the fa , 3tories. "The heads of three foreigners have been seen hanging on the city wall. No one knows who these poor fellows were ; some suppose them to be sailors from the shipping of Whampoa, who went into the city with the storming party—probably lost their way, and were taken prisoners. "The city is now, according to Chinese report, filled with soldier, , , and if the British forces attempt a second entry a vigorous resistance will be made. The populace are apparently, but most foolishly, opposed to the city being opened to foreigners. This prejudice must be overcome, cost what it may. "The Chamber of Commerce have addressed a letter to the Admiral fully approving the course he has pur sued towards the Chinese Government since the com mencement of the present embroglio, and expressing a hope that he will insist on a compliance with the rea sonable demands he has made to them. _ uV " The last two letters of the Admiral are remarkable for moderation and that due sense to the claims of hu manity which characterise a great heart and brave man. May he, therefore, be successful in the accomplishment of the arduous task he has undertaken ; and may the God of Battles grant him victory and shield him from harm ! " It may be mentioned that the terrible fires of the 28th and 29th ult. entirely destroyed 3G out of the 38 Chin-chew and Fokien:Songs. The value of property lost is said to be immense. Unfortunately, however, the Chinese will not believe that the fire was purely acci dental, and that it was far from the wish and intention of the English to peril private property in any way when it could be avoided. " CANTON, MONDAY, 4.30 P.M. " The Admiral's letter has drawn forth no satisfactory response apparently. His Excellency will hardly have expected it, for to-day, at a little before noon, firing commenced from the Folly, the Encounter, and the Sampson—shell as fast as it could be thrown into the old city. This terrific and continued cannonade for now five hours is quite sickening to civilians on shore; houses appear to quiver again. There has been some firing at foreigners on the factory roofs from the direction of Looking-glass -street. " CANTON, TUESDAY, 4.30 P.M. " Firing commenced at 1 o'clock to-day, and has just ceased. It was briskly kept up, but without much apparent damage. There were some signs of a fire in the old city just now, but it is out again. • The subjoined official connaingeatlia4orm a * connected narrative of the various-6%5n CJEOULAR. British Consulate, Canton, Oct. 21, 1856, 6 p.m. The undersigned circulates for tho information and guid ance of the British and foreign community at this port, the accompanying copy of a letter which, in the spirit of the instructions of her Majesty's Plenipotentiary he has ad dressed, and has this evening delivered to the Imperial Commissioner and Viceroy of the Provinces. (Signed) HARRY 5. PARKES, H.B.M.'s Officiating Consul at Canton. To the British and Foreign Community at Canton. NoPY.) British Consulate, 21st October, 6 pm. 1 856 . On the morning of the Bth instant the British lorcha Arrow, when lying among the shipping anchored before the city, was boarded without any previous reference being made to the British Consul, by a large force of Chinese officers and soldiers in uniform, who, in the face of the re monstrance of the master, an Englishman, seized , b ound, and carried away twelve Chinese out of her crew o f four teen, and hauled down her colours. I reported all the par ticulars of this public insult to the British flag, an d g ra ve violation of the IX. article of the Supplementary treaty to your Excellency the same day, and appealed to you to afford satisfaction for the insult, and cause the p rovis ion of the treaty to be iu this case faithfully observed. But your Excellency, with a strange disregard bo th to justice and treaty engagement, has offered no rep aratio n or apology for the injury ; and by retaining the men y o u have seized, in your custody, signify your approval of this viola tion of the treaty, and leave her Majesty's government without assurance that a similar event shall not again occur. . _ ---- Your Excellency was warned by what took place on the evening of the 14th inst. of the dangerous consequences to which a refusal of justice might lead, but your Excellency treats with indifference that warning and also the several protests made to you not only by me, bat by her Majesty's Plenipotentiary. I am therefore instructed by her Majesty's Plenipoten tiary to inform your Excellency that twenty-four hears, t o count from the delivery of this representation, are allow e d your Excellency to accede to the demands made to you i n my letters of the Bth and 12th inst., and in the event of those demands not being complied with within the ti me named her Majesty's naval officers will then have recourse to force to complete satisfaction.-1 have, (Signed) H. S. PARKEs. To H. E. Eep, Governor-General of the Two Kwang, &c. • if not atnencled, can scarcely fail to be productive of the most serious calamities.—l have, &c.,. &e., MICHAEL SEYMOUR. To his Excellency Yeb, Imperial High Commissioner, &c., &c., [Received at 7.30 a.m., Ist November.] Eep, Imperial Commissioner, Governor-General of the Two Kwang, &c., &1., makes communication :- 1 have this day received your Excellency's letter of the Ist inst., and have acquainted myself with its cont ents. The relations between your Excellency's country and the Chinese, ever since the commencement of commercial inter course between them, have boon none other than those of politeness; and when on the Bth ult. the 12 prisoners were seized on board the lorcha, having ascertained from the officer I deputed to conduct the investigation that nine of the number were innocent, I directed an officer on the 10th ult. to put them onboard the vessel again. Mr. Consiil Parkes refused to receive them. Early on the morning of the 22d ult., I wrote to Consul Parkes, and at the same time for warded to him twelve men, namely, Leong Mingtai, and Leong Kee foo, convicted on the inquiry I had instituted, and the witness, Woo Ayu, together with nine previously tendered. But Consul Parkes would neither receive the twelve prisoners, nor my letter. The lorcha, it appears, was built by Soo Aching, a Chi nese ; she was not a foreign vessel at all, and her British flag had been purchased through the merchant Block, as we clearly established by the admission of the prisoners, and Woo Ayu, when under examination. It was not known at the time that my Executive went to seize persons on board her, that the lorcha was a foreign vessel. She was anchored in the neighbourhood of the Dutch Folly ; she was built by the Chinese, Soo Aching. As to the question of the flag, it has been the invariable rule with lorchas of your Excellency's nation, to haul down the flag when they drop anchor, and to hoist it again when they get under way. When the lorcha was boarded in order that the prisoners might be seized, it has been sa tisfactorily proved that no flag was flying. How then could a flag have been hauled down ? Yet Consul Parkes, in one despatch after another, pretends that satisfaction is required for the insult offered to the flag. There has been in truth no breach of the treaty commit ted, and after so many years of peaceful understanding between our two nations, why, without cause, a military operation should be undertaken, I am utterly unable to explain. In reference to the admission into the city I must ob serve, that in April, 1849, his Excellency the Plenipoten tiary Bonham issued a public notice at the Factories here, to the effect that he thereby prohibited foreigners from entering the city. The notice was inserted in the news papers of the time, and will, I presume, have been read by your Excellency. Add to this that the exclusion of foreigners from the city is by the unanimous vote of the whole popu lation of Kwang-Tung. It may be supposed how little to their liking has been this storming of the forts and this destruction of their dwellings ; and, apprehensive as I am of the evil that may hence Mal the officials and citizens of your Excellency's nation, I can suggest nothing better than a continued adherence to the policy of the Plenipo tentiary Bonham, as to the correct course to be pursued. As to the consultation (proposed by your Excel Prefect Luy- chow-fon. I accordingly reply, availing myself of the occasion, to wish your Excellency prosperity, &c. A necessary communication, addressed to his Excellency Sir Michael Seymour, Naval Commander-in-Chief. Hieng-Fung, 6ch year, 10 Moon, 2d day, (31st Oct. 1856). Translated by THOMAS WADE. True Copy. T. H. HANCE. British Consulate, Canton, Ist Nov., 1856. Sir,—l am in receipt of your Excellency's reply of 31st nit. I must positively decline any further argument on the merits of the case of the lorcha Arrow. lam perfectly satisfied of the facts as represented to your Excellency by Mr. Consul Parkes. The men who have been publicly seized on board the Arrow were not publicly restored to their vessel as he had requested, nor was the required apology made for this violation of his jurisdiction by your Executive. The whole course and issue of the lengthy correspon dence arising out of a matter, which might in the first in stance have been easily adjusted, have determined me, as I have already told you, to insist on behalf of the foreign re presentatives, on the same right of access to the authori ties within Canton, as has invariably been conceded at other ports—the exercise of this right, being in my belief our sole security against's, recurrence of misunderstandings like the present, involving proceedings so distasteful to myself and so disastrous to you. Your Excellency's reply refers me to the notification of the British Plenipotentiary of 1849, prohibiting foreigners from entering Canton. Now I must remind you, that although we have indeed serious matter of complaint against the Chinese Government, for breach of the promise given in 1817, to admit foreigners into Canton at the end of two years, my demand now made is in no way connected with former negotiations on the same subject, neither am I demanding admission of any but the foreign officials, and this only for the simple and sufficient reasons above assigned. On my proposal to treat personally with your. Excellency, you do me the honour to remark that you sent a Prefect some days ago. lam compelled therefore to regard your Excellency's whole letter as unsatisfactory in the extreme, and have only to add that, unless I immediately receive an explicit assurance of your assent to what I have pro posed, I shall at once resume offensive operations. The de liberation with which I have so far proceeded should have ;convinced you of my reluctance to visit the shortcoming of •therimaiipozikies-usitla.. thd iiihilsitaute . of Canton. , The re. sponsibility of what In aya4rUnitrtfretiVTlleta 1 ell -your Excellency. Should you persist in your present line of policy, you leave me but one course to pursue, and you will learn, when too late, that wo have the power to exe cute what we undertake.—Accept, &c., (Signed) M. SEYMOUR. To His Excellency Eep, Imperial High Commissioner. &C., kfle Yeb, Imperial Commissioner, Governor-General of the Two Kwang, &c., makes a communication in reply : I sin in receipt of your Excellency's letter of the 2d instant, and have acquainted myself with its contents. In the case of the lorcha, you state, that on the representa tion of Consul Parkes, I should have caused the men pub licly seized on board that vessel to have been publicly re turned to her, and that it was incumbent on me to admit their capture by my Executive was a mistake. No foreign flag was seen by my Executive at the time of the capture, and as, in addition to this, it was ascertained on the exa mination of the prisoners by the officer deputed to conduct it, that the lorcha was in no respect a foreign vessel, I maintain that there was no mistake committed. In the next place the 12 men were all handed back to the Consul after examinatien, but he declined to receive them ;—there was not then any refusal to return the men to their vessel. As to what is said in the letter under acknowledgment respecting that rule of intercourse between foreign officials and the native authorities that has always obtained at other ports, it has been found that the people of liwang- Tung are extremely fierce and violent, differing, in nature from the people of other countries. In 1818 there was a long controversial correspondence on the subject between my predecessor Seu and the British Plenipotentiary Mr. Bonham, and Mr. Bonham being satisfied that an inter view within the city was utterly out of the question, ad dressed (e letter) to Seuin the—April of 1819, in which he said—" At the present time I can have no more discussion with your Excellency on this subject." He further iseted a notice from the factories to the and that no foreigner was to enter the City, which was insetted in the paper 4 and he communicated this to the British Government. There was not a Chinese or foreigner of any nation who did not know that the question was never to be discussed' again, and as is shown by the records, his Majesty the Em peror was informed, in a memorial drawn up by myself, the then Governor of the Province, together with the late Coma missioner Seu, that Mr. Bonham had stated in his corres pondence that this question could not be discussed, and had issued a notice prohibiting foreigners from entering the city. `- Assuming that your Excellency has long been aware of this, I am utterly unable to explain what is meant in the letter under acnowledgment, by the statement that the present demand is in no way connected with the negotiations of former years, and thatit is only for the admission of foreign officials into the City. As to former negotiations, Mr. l3onhan stated in correspondence, that discussion of the question could not be renewed, and issued a prohibitory notice on the subject. Your Excellency's proposition having reference to the very same question (as that mooted by Mr. Bonham), how can it be said to have no connection with it? And when Mr. Bonham has said that the question could be no more dis cussed by him it is to be inferred that it can leas be dis cussed by your Excellency. To conclude, our countries have been many years on friendly terms. Without cause you have in one day come upon us with hostilities ; the result of which has been in tolerable misery to the people. Let your Excellency pon der well, what is no vain fiction of mine, that hundreds and thousands of them have been for days past clamorously tendering their services, ardent and united for the defence of the city. I accordingly reply, availing myself of the occasion to wish your Excellency prosperity. Hieng-Fung, 6th year, 10th moon, 6th day (3d November.) British Consulate, Canton, 4th November, 1856. Sir,—l am in receipt of your Excellency's letter of yes terday, referring me to the correspondence between your Excellency's predecessor and Mr. Bonham, our late Pleni potentiary. The perusal of all that is on record will show you, that although, when the Chinese Government declined in 1849 to fulfil the promise given in 1817, of right of entry into Canton, was for the moment waived, it was distinctly informed at the time and since that our claim was in no respect abandoned. My demand, how ever, as I have already told you, is entirely distinct from any former proposition on the subject. It is needless to restate my reasons for insisting upon it, and I have only to add that, until it is acceded to, I have no alternative but to persist in the course you have corn pplled me to adopt.—l have &c d) , (Signe M. SEYMOUR. " British Consulate, Canton, Nov. 15, 1856. "Her Britannic Majesty's Consul has received the in structions of his Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K.C.8., Naval Commander-in• Chief, &c., to issue the following notice to the British community : ---;" His Excellency feels it unnecessary to recapitulate to the British community the origin and progress of what has been done at Canton during the last few weeks by her Majesty's naval forces under his command. Their loss has happily been trifling, and their operations, now including the capture of the Bogue Forts, eminently successful. " His Excellency regrets to find that neither the ex treme measures to which the Imperial Commissioner's defiance of treaty obligations has compelled him to resort, nor the plain proof given that the city and its inhabi tants are at the mercy of her Majesty's ships of war, have as yet induced the Imperial Commissioner to make the concession demanded by his Excellency,. as a guarantee against future misunderstandings of a similar nature to the present. " The concession is not regarded as unreasonable by Chinese, who, his Excellency understands, adequately CIRCULAR. British Consulate, Canton, Oct., 18 56 , 7 p.m. The undersigned with reference to bis Circular of yes terday morninginforms the British and Foreign community, with great regret, that the Imperial Commissioner has not yet complied with the demands which were then presented. The task' of exacting the satisfaction claimed devolves therefore from this time on her Majesty's naval °facers. H. S. PABiocs, H. B.M.'s Officiating Consul at Canton. British Consulate, Canton, 31st October, 1856. Sir,—l am instructed by his Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, K. C. 8., '&c., Scc., Naval Commander-in- Mercantile Com- Chief, to forward to you for the information of the Members m of u C n h it a y m , bcoerpyofofCoamemomermcemianiedatoifon sentForeigny yesterday evening at alatehour toh o is be E d x ie c n el t le s n er c vyaEnt,eP' Imperial High Com missioner.—Your --- - C. W. Murray, Esq., H. PARKES. Chairman of British Chamber of Commerce. British Consulate, Canton, 30th October, 1856. Sir, When the prefect of Luy - chow I had to make, vv-foo was sent yes terday Your Excellency for the p a r t p o o s t e h e o f ß a r s i o t e i s r h t a ioio g w Consulate hat I instructed the British Consul to state to him for the in formation of your Excellency, that convinced as I am, that were the right of access to the authorities within the city that has been invariably conceded at the other ports, similarly in force at Canton, no such contingency could arise as the present, in which , the impossibility of other wise effecting any satisfactory arrangement had rendered necessary the proceedings of the last few days, what I had now to insist upon was simply this—that the foreign re the same access to the pre au t s h e o n r t i a t i t e i a y eas ats s h o t u h l e d ot h h a e v r e phoretrse. my message, and, ac cording to t E o xc t e h l e le i n n c t y en s t e i n o t n no of reply to I had given notice to your deputy, I broached the wall of the city, and thus obtained access to your Excellency' s official residence, which I visited yesterday afternoon. This object accom plished, I withdrew my troops. I may observe that it has been wholly with a view to the preservation of life that my operations have been hitherto so deliberately conducted. Even yesterday when entering the city no blood was shed save where my men were assailed, and the property of the people was in every case respected. The fires which have broken out during the last two days were not either designedly caused by us. They were but a lamentable consequence of the measures to which your Excellency's conduct has compelled me re luctantly to resort. I have now one remark to make, to which I request your Excellency's particular attention. The lives and property of the entire city population are now at my mercy, and could be destroyed by me at any moment that any event might impose upon me so sad a necessity. The preven tion of any such necessity is entirely in the hands of your Excellency. I have been constrained to move enward, proceeding from one step to a further, by the pertinacity and discourtesy with which your Excellency has persisted in evading the j rest and simple claims advanced by us in the first instance. It is now for your Excellency by im mediate consultation with me to terminate a condition of . things of which the present evil is not plight, but which, / / 7 7 /p/, -rS L !•; _ 2-/ti TEffil PFTSIAN PXPBDITIO.N. (Front the Bombay Telegraph.) Since the departure of the military and naval expedi tion to the Persian Gu'f, under the command of General - 2 . ! Stalker and Rear-SV mire' Sir Henry Leeke, we have bad no tidings irom Bassadore, the point of rendezvous. We are, however, in hourly expectation of the arrival ?f a steamer with despatches from the commanders, and it is 'pest possible that they may arrive before the mat closes. The latest news received from the Gulf is not at all of a pacific character. The Shah is resolved to fight to the last, should the soil of Persia be profaned by Co) footsteps of an invading foe. The Resident at Bushire o when the lea vessels left, had been ordered to haul dow n his flag, and leave the town ; together with all the Chris tian and American residents wh o were su pp ose d t o b e favourably inclined towards the British. A proclama tion had been issued by the governor of the province, directing its subjects to remove into the interior, as the Shah was determined to maintain the integrity of the empire, and to do battle with th e British.' Most of the inhabitants have accordingly moved out of the vicinity of the expected battle-fieid. Troops were being rapidly collected in the vicinity of %shire; about 40,000 soldiers of all arms having been moved towards that point. Russian officers and even Russian troops are said to form a portion of the Persian force at Busbire, and they consequently hold high hopes of preventing th e British from effecting a lauding on their shores. An island about two miles from Bashire has been fortified with 80 guns. "Works to strengthen the position are being rapidly. and vigorously executed. Much reliance is seemingly placed on this fortification for keeping off our ships from approaching the shore. It is evident, from what is transpiring around us, that the war in which we have just engaged will be something more than a mere hostile demonstration. Orders have been received by the Bombay government from Calcutta, to prepare a reserve field force with the utmost despatch ; and the mi litary departments are all now busily engaged in carrying out these instructions. It is expected that the reserve will be ready to sail by the time that the transports return from the Golf ; and it is evident that the authorities are waiting for them, as no extra freight has been taken up. The Reserve Brigade is to consist of the Ist or Leslie's troop of Horse Artillery, her Majesty's 14th Light Dra goons, and the 78th Highlanders, at present stationed at Poona ; the Ist Company 2d Battalion European Foot Artillery, from Sholapore ; the 26th Regiment N. 1., from Sattara, directed to march to Poona immediately ; and three Native Infantry Regiments from the Madras Presidency. Should this demonstration fail in obtaining the object desired by her Majesty's Government, an army will march across Affghanistan into Persia, the Ameer Dost Mahorsed taking the same part in the cam paign that the Nizam took against Tippoo Sultan. The object of her Majesty's Government is to obtain the cession in perpetuity of the island of Grand Kishma, which is immediately on .occupation to be made a free port, and transformed into the head-quarters of her Ma jesty's arsenal and dockyard in the Persian Gulf. The ob ject appears to be to control not only Persia, but all the trade down the Euphrates, which empties itself into the Persian Gulf, and will soon be the highway for the trade of the East to the West. The island commands not only Persia and Turkey, but Arabia, especially the trade of Muscat and the country of the Jossamines, so long famed for their piracies. From the island a flotilla of steamers would sweep away all the trade of a refractory chief in less than a week, and shut up all Persia, especially the rice and fish trade, which would starve both Ganeroon and Bussorah into compliance in less than six months. The island of Grand Kishma completely covers Ormuz, and is capable of supporting a population of 200,000 without any foreign aid whatever. On the western and north-western frontiers of India, preparations for a campaign are being silently but surely made. Our ae-ents are quietly accomplishing their ends in Affghanistan, Candahar, and Kelat : and when the storm does burst it will descend upon Persia like an avalanche. TIE FUTURE OF ASIA. \ (From the Friend of India.) Of all revolutions perhaps the strangest and the least marked is the one now transacting itself in Asia. There is little perceptible alteration. There are fewer wars than of yore. There is no violent uprising of whole races. There is nothing worth insertion in a telegraph bulletin. Yet at one and the same time all the dominant races of Asia are passing from the scene. To use an expression we have employed before, the air is filled with the noise of the crumbling of rotten thrones. One by one the races which rose up to power in the wild confusion of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, are drop. ping their sceptres into stranger hands. Of the north, Europe as yet knows unfortunately too little. Its political position is the true Asian Mystery Disraeli's followers Lave so long sought in vain. But the little we do know is sufficient to indicate the result. The Tartar empire is gone. The Russian has step by step from Moscow to the Sea of Okhotsk swallowed the ancestral possessions of the tribes. The Tartars who fled from Ivan 111. in 1462 cannot fly further ' for Russia has reached the sea and looks face t o face withthe Anglo-Saxons in their march along the Pacific. From the North Pole to Herat, from the Caspian to the mouth of the Amour, the land is Russian. The Tartar can but obey the ukase from St. Petersburg, and whatever his future destiny must for the present be erased from the roll of the domi• east races of the earth. The offshoots of his power fare even worse. He has been conquered. They are dying of inanition, and the vices luxury is said to introduce. The authority of the Turks but nominally subsists. Their military prestige, decaying for a hundred years, expired with Sultan Ma. homed. Their wealth has been drained from them by the supple slaves, the Bengalees of Europe, who hope because they are parsimonious and pliant to wriggle back • • - the Empire of Byzantium. The last bond which bound the Turks together, their fanaticism, or the love of per secution which survive fanaticism, is crumbling under hatti-scheriffs. Their numbers are known to be de clining. The race is not recruited from the desert, and is like its own great cities rushing down. The English press occasionally talks of the improve ment of Turkey. It is becoming tolerant. Is not' a church rising at Scutari ? Is not a rayah admitted into the army ? Is not Layard establishing a bank, O'Shaugh nessy a telegraph, and Andrews a railway ? Did not the Sultan go to a masquerade ? Are not all these things the visible signs of civilisation patent to the eyes, consola tory to the breeches pocket ? Possibly they may be. They are what the nineteenth century accepts for its mission at any rate, but as Turks and civilisation are in compatible, they do not greatly affect the argument. The Greeks may prosper and grow greater, though no effete race has ever yet revived. Turkey may be filled with new colonies., or new races. She may be divid ed between France and England. She may even suc cumb to Russia, and under any of these changes may advance. Turkey may improve, but the Turks receive orders from quiet attaches in round hats. They, like the race from whom they sprung, are losing their place on the grand muster roll of dominion. The Mogul, the second offshoot, vanished away a cen tury ago, but far to the eastward the third of the great Tartar dynasties is perishing beneath our eyes. The Chinese insurgents, their creeds, their leaders, and their motives, may remain inexplicable till they have won. We may remain even ignorant of the geographical di rection of their conquests. But two facts'are none the less certain. They are winning. They are Chinese. The Tartar rulers are perishing out, and whatever the fate of China, its dynasty will not be Manchow. Already the oentral provinces are lost. The south is kept in order only by atrocities which seem to Europeans almost de served by the cowards who can endure their perpetra tion. The Tartars of China are forcibly cleansed out of the Red Book of the world. Three countries thus ruled apparently remain. The an cestry of the Indo-Chinese rases may be a puzzle, but if there be truth in physiognomy, they are Calmueks. They have the same form, the same head, the same peculiari ties of face which local circumstances do not appear to cause. The Burman is already paralysed, and the Siamese and Cambodian only wait in their marshes till the inevit able tide of progress brings them also within the red line. Forbidden to judge foreigners without the intervention of the consul, their claim to dominion seems but slight. The late remaining state is Persia. That kingdom alone in Asia was filled as well as occupied by the conquerers. Whatever be the nature of the indigenous population. it has become inseparably intermixed with its rulers. The sovereign race is scarcely a dominant race, in the sense in which we have employed the phrase. In any sense, however, it is decaying. Russia has its fairest provinces. The Shah ventures to trust cities only to his sons. The army is too disorganisod to keep the Knords within of England and now at the appointed time , a g ain s t the will and and of India, we are advancin g to effect a bounds; lodgment which will terminate when the gulf is dry. Ten years more at the present rate of advance and the Tar tar dynasties, the race wh o under on e form and another have held Asia for five c enturies, will have passed from too, almost unr ecor d e d . Th e indi genouse much, the T ar t ar not hi ng. Th e ed a civili sa ti on on w hi ch t h e i r c th h e i n s e c s e e n r e ah . cae T vse h h e ap y yr oe p d a du s o s cn , sovereigns are but an excrescet:ce. Turkey is not so rich or so cultivated, has fewer cities, fewer buildings, fewer traces of wise government than she had in the days of her Greek emperors. The trade of India was conducted by Hindoos, not Tartars. It is the industry of the indi genous race, not the government of her conquerors, which made her rich and fertile. In the North, where they had absolute possession, what have they done There is not one road, one bridge, one city, better than a camp, between the Ural and Saghalien north of the Jaxartes. Not one idea has emanated from the Steppe, not one law, and, with the exception of a dozen soldiers, not ene great man. Earth can spare the Tartar rulers of Asia. It is impossible, watching these things, to refrain from speculation on what the end may be. We have some facts to guide us.l All history shows that indigenous Asiatic races require the direction of a dominant class. Industrious, hardy, and with many of the qualities essen tial in the development of civilisation, , they seem to lack social force. India was in the days of Aurungzebe what she was in the days of Ram. China is now what she was a thousand years ago. The Greek rayahs of Turkey are what the Greek peasant was in the days of Canta cuzene. Their numbers even do not materially change. They do not advance, and need the directing force of a progressive race. It remains but to speculate on the races to whom this high function must be assigned. They must be Europeans, for Europeans alone have so. quired the necessary superiority in arms. Of Europeans the English and Russians alone display capacity for the permanent administration of subject peoples. It is to their hands that we believe Asia to be entrusted. The advance of Russia will be checked by no humanity and few scruples. That of England may, but he obeys the irresistible impulse the more thoroughly for her o sional recoil. Year by year the two powersiclose in to be redicted wards each other ; and, if the futur e mayp cea from the experience of the past, anot her cen t ury will see ington, and St. Petersburg. this quarter of the globe governe d from London, Wash. r: I=-. t;•%,\ ;z:fr ••": 411/4z.'-' ‘ll-'4:l:%'');-.7 N. fl . ,