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1. 11 E SUN , LONDON, S A . T WR DA r EVENING , EVE •• DECEMBER . • Qe f 1. S 5 7. ........__________ _... I the medium of European commerce. This, how - ; tain to be concealed under a mass of fine senti- to:observe how delicately they h ave been dropped over doubtless be a grea t deal to sa y i n favour of the inyen. p ore di s t r i c t, co ll ec ted a number of men in open rebellion, ' 15 , - at half - past one, and Feb. 5, at twelv e, at the Court of IMPORTANT LATTER FROU CHINA. ever, will quickly be altered by the extensive ex- meats. board. lion. But we frankl y confess we cannot thus far share and killed Mr. Kepner, his wife, and children, June. Bankruptcy. ports sure to come from. England, or by a full cot- In China every pragmatical pedant who has a (Front the limes' Special Correspondent.) 1 1116 North China Herald o f the 27th of June, 1857, the sanguine views of the promoters, More par ti cu l ar ly Mr. Snow, railway engineer : supposed to have been Thomas Taylor, tailor, Hastings Jan. 9, at half-Past contains two proclamations from the authorities they seem to us to beg the question in taking for ton crop in China. certain literary degree has the privilege of me-welve, and Feb. - 9, at tw e lve, at - the Court of Bankruptcy. of Fabkien and the prefects of Fubchow. These granted that the fermenting process is unwholesome in killed at the same time with the Keymers. . , Mr. Cockerell C.S.C.S. Deputy Collector and Joint Maps- SHANGHAI, OCT. 17. , i Secondly, reduction in prices has not been met morialising the Emperor. I have waded through John Young, draper, Pentonville-road, Jan. 7, at half of Banda, 'Mr . B enjamine, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Lloyd. past twelve, and Feb. 5, at two, at the Court of Bank- Fortusotely for me my mission to China has in i •by corresponding increase of sales. The dollar price hundreds of these to find only those stupid nlati- authorities profess that they have discovered tnat itself-was originally adopted with no other intention, :. amon g the foreign imports , there is an article called or serves no other purpose , than imparting lightness tnessta The Nawab Al' 13:1 d of Banda, is stated to have ruptcy. 1 a la 00r, something more than to chronicle the proceed- i , China for skirtings , for instance, the great staple tudes, those trite commonplaces, those "bona - lila Joseph Heldmann, lace manufacturer, Cheepside, Jan. andforeign medicine , ' . of which i mmense quant it ies are sold, the bread. A certain sacrifice there may b e , th oug h s of the Elgin embasey, or I should have died of 1 in article of goods, has not for several years been more sttr Ice morale "as Hite says, which, like the maximscau c s a e p d ta th in es s e k g e e n n e t , l e s m u e p n er t i o n be murdered . leness. A much higher object is to study upon than half what it ranged at a few years previously ;in Poor Richard's ' Almanack, pass for deep wisdom Superinten d ent ; Captain Gordon, De- 7, at one, and Feb. 5, at half-past eleven, at the Court on which hitherto there has been no duty." They hardly to the extent of 10 per cent. ; but in lieu thereof puty Snperintendent; and other European residents, names of Bankruptcy. innocently remark that *lt appears that this foreign a saccharine element is developed, which adds to the not given ;-killed in the fort of Jhansi in which they had William Lloyd, frying-pan manufacturer, Gospel Oak, e spot the subject of our trade wit h this em p ire, yet we see that the demand has not risen with the with the vulgar of all nations. The opium question medicine is sold to the people as medicine, aid is used flavour of the bread ; and it seems probable that, taken refuge. Ti p ton, Staffordshire, Jan. 7 and 28, at half-past eleven, dto labour to discover how commerce may be reduction in price. of course produced a rank crop of these imperti- for expelling epidemics, so that it cann o t be classed w ith apart from this, or its imparting lightness, the fermen- Captain Fletcher Hayes, Military Seceretary to the Chief at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy. 'doped and this great region opened_ up. Thirdly, the years which appear to denote great nences, and some were selected for publication in rice, paddy, cloth, &c., which are of constant use. There - tation makes the b r e ad more di g estible . Commissioner of Lucknow; Lieutenant Barber, 2d Regi- William Billings, bonnet-shape maker, Red Cross-street, It is a task of dull utility. If there be any w ho . . activity are in reality years of great disaster. In the Pekin Gazette. One of them is reprinted in fore in levying this duty en foreign medicine we do not meat of Oude Cavalry; Mr. Fayrer, a gentleman volun- Jan. 2, at eleven, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Court of ok to my letters for amusement I warn them to ~ 184 3, i 1844, and 1845, when the Northern ports the blue-book for 1840, and contains that rarest of oppress the people." The proclamations declare that INDIAN DESPATCHES. teer. These officers, with 2 rissalahs of Oude Irregular Bankruptcy, Cavalry, had been sent by Sir H. Lawrence from Lucknow Sybe I. Stevenster, merchant, Mark-lane, Jan, 2, at half &my company. I have nothing to show them emu just been opened, the people at home were all things in these memorials-a fact :- "hereafter this foreign medicine, when it has paid the a hard facts and perplexing figures. wild with excitement' , An eminent firm at Sheffield " From Fuhkein, Kwangtung, Chekeing, Shantung, duties, is to be regarded as a legal article of trade " -.0- under Captain Hayes, his Military Secretary, to ahl in past eleven, and Feb. 5, at half-past twelve, at the Court keeping order along the Grand Trunk Road and in the Cen- of Bankruptcy. First, let me say a few sent out a large consignment of knives and forks, Yunnan, and Kweichow memorials have been presented The duties , im posed are, that " e - very box of foreign (Front the London Gazette of last evening.) words upon the corpus tral Dooab Districts; the rissaliths mutinied on the way, William Hopperton, laceman, Oxford-street, Middlesex, bjectum--the region we seek to open. medicine containing 40 hallo shall pay a duty of one INDIA. BOARD, DEO. 23. and declared themselves prepared to supply all by the censors and other o ffi cers, requesting that probi- and killed the officers. The 18 provinces of China proper are quite sue- should be enacted against the cultivation dollar per ball" (th a t is, the Patna opium) ; " other The following despatch has been received at the East .'tent for our present purpose . s The half-tamed China with cutlery. The Chinamen, who know bition of the poppy and the preparation of opium ; but opium) kinds of foregn medicine in small balls (the Malwa India House. Serjeant-Major Matthews, 6th Oade Irregular Infantry; j e a ce n ti . r i t s O ' f it ß i a l : shot from the banks of the river while flying with other Eli Gibson, builder, Wilby, Northamptonshire, J..an• 9 9 half- t rzs t t cy t . wo, and Feb. 5, , at eleven, at the not the use of knives and forks (er, as they say, shall pay duty at the rate of $4 per 10Ib." The No. 1. ountaineers of Thibet are six times nearer to Cal abandoned the use of them when they became civi- while nominally prohibited, the cultivation has not , . proclamation ends QM :-" fugitives from Fyzabad, 18 miles below Adjoudheea (Fyza- at half-past one, and Feb. 9, at one, at the Court of Bank tits than to Pekin. The tribes of Mahomedana been really stopped in those places. Of any of those The Governer-General of India in Council to the C ourt bad District), 9th June. ruptcy. . lised),. but toss their rice into their mouths with "The high military and civil authorities of the province of Directors of the East India Company. Lieutenant Parsons, 6th Oude Irregular Infantry; Lieu- William Hills, grocer, Gravesend, Jan. 8, at eleven, and bo inhabit the vast hill districts to the north ofprovinces, except Yunnan, I do not praume to chopsticks, would not i look at these best balance- have already memorialised the Throne. Hereafter , when the Fort William, Nov. 9. (No. 71.) tenant Currie, Artillery ;-drowned while fugitives from Feb. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. eibest are to the rich provinces of China Proper speak ; but of that portion of the country I have it in • Fyzabad, 9th June. George Scott, coal merchant, Moor-wharf, Uxbridge, handles. They were sold at prices which scarcely my power to say, that the poppy is cultivated all over duty on foreign medicine is paid, the trade is legal; and at al In conformity with i ns t ruc ti ons received from the hide lieu pon their eastern boundary what the the Custom-houses the presentation of the proper certificate Secret Committee, that your Honourable Court should - Lieutenant Lindesay, 22d Regiment N.I. ; Lieutenant Middlesex, Jan. 8, at twelve, and Feb. 10, at eleven, at w al lets once were to the lowlands of Scotland. realised their freight, and the shops in Hong Kong the hills and in the open plain, and that the quantity of will secure immediate passage for the foreign medicine with- be furnished with autlaentic intelligence respecting Burin. Bankruptcy. g were for years afterwards adorned with them, opium annually produced there cannot be less than se- out the slightest opposition." Cautley, 22d Regiment N.I. ;-ki ll ed at the village of hie - the Court of wadubur, in the pore Discreet, while flying from SCOTCH orht:olsihouse factor, ft SEQUESTRATIONS. ageroocrel.4,laosizabur.ir:ghe.. Mews. Tartary, lying along the north, is rich only formed . . . . veral thousand cheste ; and yet we do not see any dimi•peans, whether belonging to the East India Company's Fyzabad, 10th June i bi ll and desert. It is to to shat densely peopled into devices like guns and spears in an The date o f the second of these proclamations is the service er not, who may be killel or wounded by the armoury. A London house of famous name sent ♦ nation in the quantity of silver exported as compared John D," 0 1 i n s I Trainor, ru le t ani n a n c o, Lace of the globe which lies between the China 7th o fJune 1857. hands of rebels, a circular bee been issued to the autho. out a tremendous consiomment of pianofortes. The with any previous eriod while n the other hand the ea and Tartary, between the Yellow Sea and e P , s 0 e, At Shanghai there bits been no formal proclamation, titles noted on the margin,* requesting them bencefor. Lieutenant A. Procter;-killed by the muti n eers speculation was based, probably, on the calculation lack of the metal in Yunnan is double in degree what it G wa li or iliaj e r Blake, Contingent; Com m andin ge r. K ir e 2, t S I up a'n Re gi ment t e n d Thomas Mitchell, fleshes,dealer, • Edinburgh. 'hibet and Kokonor, that we must look for advan- but the same Viceroy rules, and levies a duty of 24 I ward to suchmad ., ' for Gwalior Contingent , l4th June. tee s that China must contain 200,000,000 women, and formerly was. To what cause is this to be ascribed 1 irons relations. To what but that the consumers of the drug are very a chest. to your Honourable Court. Lieutenant Smith Adjutant of the 4th Irregular Cavalry; BANK OF ENGLAND. This compact mass is about half the size of Eu- " now that China was opened up " at least OEM out y, and that those who are choice *and dainty with At Ningpo a tax of 12 Shanghai dollars per chest has 2. With respect to past transactions, these au th or iti es shot by a duffadar , of his corps, at Mosuffurnuggur, 21st An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for of every 200 would wish to learn the piano. The been established for some time, and the mandarins are have been requested to collect, from the best available June. the Week ending on Weinesday, the 23d day of December, 1857. • ope, about seven times the size of France, and regard to its quality prefer always the foreign article." Mr. Butterfield ; shot in the outbreak at Mozuffurnug. Chinese remained faithtul to their gongs and now about to raise it to the Shanghai amount. lam sources' as complete a statement as can be procured ot ISSUE DEPARTMENT. bout 15 times. the size of our islands. It is about . This testimony of Choo Tann as to the cultiva- , got, 21st June. g t . rump!ets, and refused all hospitality to this intro - ' told that it was originally proposed to levy this tax as those who have fallen • and that, though this statementx ,500 miles long and broad. M'Cu ll och reckons ton of thousands of chests of native opium in one an important duty, but that tbe merchants refused is to be made as complete as possible, still, whatever in Dr. Lyell, Ist Alai/slant Opium Agent; shot in an out .. 25,633,790 Government debt.• - 11,015,100 sive flight of squares, uprights, and horizontals. break in the city of Patna, on the night of the 3d July.s 459,90 0 tat in square miles it measures 1,348,870. Province alone was given in 1836, while the vet - to pay it, and threatened to retire to their depot ships formation they might have, should be sent in, without N.B. Of which two Other securities .. •• -, 0 The embarrassment became great. Hong Kong I m m i t n e i s ol l i s s su a e r: l issued t wo der the authority of Gold coin and bullion i 0,208. 79 Cutting off the surrounding fringe of savage life, million pencil was inditing heroics about the im- again. In this lam inclined to think they were nowise. , • •l morality of foreign opium-growers. waiting until the report can be made complete. could not hold them .. At last the consignees, being Silver bu11i0n....., •••• •• -- bins is still a 'vast empire, but not so imrneasur-Opium might have been brought within the 5 per cent. 3. These returns, when received, will be duly tram- tistatt o f tr i n t ! Len the letter from the people of great social influence, extricate d them- Joint of Jorye Sing First Lord of the Tres- He or so unmanageable as we are accustomed tol,o:ljli•o;s:3:3oofAwkirirozispro:rkec,iil te d I can add to this statement that the culture of of the " unenumerated articles clause" of the treaty, mitted to your Hon. Court. In the meantime we fur and others, zemindars of Porno nor at Pelee Indigo Fac se Yesby an ac t of grievous tyranny . 1 s sury and the Chance,- 3ne.eive it to be. With a railway like our Greatopium certainly is not confined to the province of and this vexed question thus settled for ever ; whereas ward a list, extracted from letters addressed t o this tory, near•Gopeegunge, 4th July. force the Exchequer. reatern laid down, we might traverse it from north upon every . European resident buying two pianos. Yunnan. Any one who penetrates intothe am hi- the tax is now levied from the Chinese brokers, and is, department. ' Mr. Jones, Indigo Planter ; Mr. Kemp, Indigo Planter ; ---•-•-. £26,653,7 90 south or from east to west in 30 hours. The price, as we may suppose, was not exorbitant, theatreeof mountains which bounds the Ningpo of course, without limit. 4. The Home and Military Departments have been killed by the folio were of Jorye Sing aud others, undo.- £26,683,790 Dated the 24th day of Decembe M r;lB ll s7 lll . This country contains 360,279 , 897 human crew - but what sale was effected was a matter of private Plain will see valleys upon valleys of fine rich land I n the face of the present large returns from these directed to submit what information they now possess opium duties-concerning the amount whereof Lord on the subject, to this Department, for transmission to g d a ar n e ge of 4 P t o h ro J o u p l o y o . r, at Pole° Indigo Factory, near Gopee arege The amount need not startle us. If England / obligation and not by fair market. The tonne - P covered with poppies. The o ffi cial reports deplore Major Holmes, 12th Irregular Cavalry, and his wife ; BANKING DEPARTMENT. quence .the partof of this spirited conduct on nd Wales were as large as China England and Walesthis, but cannot stop it. 'the estimate is that • b the b es t m a k ers manufacturers is, th at pianos y e information which bas not yet reached him-there will CANNING . dered by the mutineer sowers of the 12th Irregular Ca- Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 (lovemment securities rould contain within one-ninth of the same amount 60,000 chestsof opium annually • abound iu Hong Kong and the four ports. An bee- be no difficulty in putting this part of our trade on a J. DORIN. valry, at Segowlee, 23d Jul July. If population. If Lombardy were as large as . . . China. This opium is purer and stronger than the Public deposits (in- Annuity).. •• . . 5,492,75 6 h vitable sequence arismg from the indescriba bl e u- satisfactory treaty basis. J. LOW. Mr. Loyd, C.S„ Magistrate and Collector of Humeer line, Lombardy would contain 360,000,000 also ; Indian opium, but for want of skill in the prepare- chiding Exchequer, Other Securitles•....• 28,0,38,18 6 climate • b mid'ty of the le, that these noise- oxes are Perhaps I have said too much about this topic ; B. PEACOCK. pore ; Mr. Donald Grant, C.S., Joint Magistrate and DA. COMMISSIO .ors of Notes ... .•• ...... 7,426,61 0 SHALL, Chief Cashier. ,nd if Belgium were as large as China, Beligum . d • d . tion, and patience in keeping, it has an acrid fla- but it must come into the new treaty, and there may Since the above was written, the required lists have puty Collector of Humeerpora ; Mr. Murray-supposed to National Debt, Say- Gold an-I . Silver Coin.. b 44,491 all out of tune and discourse most eloquent d iscor d. zeild contain 400,000,000. Take the average of your. , dis- What happened in the case of cutlery and pianos be some few readers in England who may be willing been furnished by the Home Department and the G o . have been killed. A country born English mg.' Banks, and Dividend ccounts) 7,23,87 se whole 18 provinces, and there is nothing in theto hear the question stated as I have endeavoured to yernment of Bengal, and they are forwarded herewith. guised as a native , • occurred also in a less noticeable manner in the case The English •1 h h Indian a opium trade , even a t egg and asserted that these gentlemen were murdered at Orate. Other deposits .... 15,151,318 g ums as they come out. Tte population as a opium should ha en to be consumed only hy mag i c. state it-without the prejudices either of a missionary - came to Allhabad, via Ifurneerpoi - e, Seven Day and other of those staple commodities which form the subjec t Captain P. H. C. Burlion, 67th N.I. The company of hole is not excessive. But when we come to t ra c es on the judgment-seat and other distinguished or a merchant. * Secretary to Government, Central Provinces. Secre- • Bills of our table and which in the resent condition of the 67th N 1., doing duty at Muttra, were to have been .......---..... ote the distribution of that population the figures / / P 'persons, is a great thorn in the side of the British min- One word upon a subject to which I shall probably tart' to Government of Bengal. Chief Commissioner, relieved by a company of the 44th N.l. from Agra. The £41,552,103 £41,552,10 3 relations with Chin form almost the rea our a, North-Western Provinces. Chief Commissioner, Punjab. ecome very remarkable. There is a pressure only sionary. The controversy which the Chinese polite l y not have occasion to recur. I have sometimes spokenen MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. sonable articles of export from England. untenderly of topics much cherished by some of our General's Agent, Rajpootana. Governor-Genera l's Resident at Hderabad. Resid ent when the men of the 67th, who had behaved well hitherto, Dated the 24th day of Dec., 1857. n. the Esstern seaboard provinces such as is with- evade finds exercise among the Christians, An English Protestant . missionaries. There is, however, no subsc riber rtaßoarr-Godean.eraivAegrnenort: opportunity was seized for sending treasure down to Agra, A fourth observation which arises upon this missionary related quite recently how he bad met and s ut parallel in the world. The Chinese coasts b AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. Ilich look out towards Japan, and whence a table is the rising-I should rather say the risen 7. vanquished a Portuguese priest who confronted him in • to the various bodies which send preachers forth who thinks more highly of the usefulness of these men Sanger. I ' the Cutcherry, and, being joined y the relieving company shot Capt. Barlton, fired at ell the Europeans who were at of the 44th N. 1., marched to Delhi.- , of the great northern port of Shanghai hostile manner in the streets of a northern city Having traight a straight sea line might e drawn to Aus- importance • - than I do. I will not s making • ay that they are sincere - Major Spencer, Commanding 26th Regiment Light In- puled from the returns made in the week endin,; Dec. raffia, are choked with people, the average for the ance of the ort of Canton no European language and the declining import p .in common and L ain being ' ' - Chinese Christians-those who say this must be either • No. 2. fantry ; this regiment had been disarmed. Major Spencer 22, 1857, exclusive of the Ditties of Customs paid or • List of Earopeane Killed by Rebels, prepared at the rhole empire being 268 in the square mile ; This will be strengthened by a careful analy sis of found to be an inconvenient medium they dropped it fluently into the Shanghai dialect. ' The gaping , governed by a delusion or guilty of a fraud-but they . Ihe A verage Price of Brown or Muscovado I. Sugar.Gtooremat P ayable thereon, on the importation thereof into :iangsu has 850 ; its next inland province Anhui, the Consularreturns fur 1856, whence wills ear Foreign Office, Calcutta. are doing the work which, if China is ever to be Chris- Major M. T. Blake, Commanding 2,1 Regiment Infantry, July 1857. Britain :- s, d. 514 705 • ; Shantung, to the north on. the cast , has t . . that if we throw off rice and Indian cotton the ex- Ch . d d d • • Chinese stood roun an wondered, while the priest . . tianisaid, mint precede its conversion. They live among Gwalior Contingent ; Capt. A. W. Hawkins, Command- y em s era k , i 3 llAd h. by blows yes dealt him with a hatchet, at Meean From the British Possessions in America ............ 26 9 i ' accused the E ng lish Minister of bei ng a bout teac h - ...... I_6 _52 44 ; the inaperiel district of Chihli 475 ,• and Che- ports of British produce to Canton were 604,083 • ..or Birch, 41st N. 1., Lieut. Smalley, 41st N.1.-killed the Chinese people, they speak their language, they are ing Ist Company Artillery, Gwalior . Contingent ; _Lieut. Mr. Gibson, a Salt Officer ; killed by some inhabitants iang on the coast, to the south has 671- 4e., while those to Shanghai amounted to the Chinese a modern heresy, only 100 years old, in• known to them by deeds of charity and beneficence ; C a. P . roctor, Adjutant 4th Regiment Infantry, Gwalior of the Maboniedan village of Kurreenegunge (Budaon Dia. Muscovado, the produce of the Hest Indies vented by a wicked king and an abandoned woman ; 26 • 81 1,679,581/. list Again, we must remember their wi ves are the friends of the poor, friendless Continent ; Lieut. W. Stewart, Commanding 2d Corn -Average of the above descriptions. ............. trict), Ist Sep t em b er, 1857. After these come those smaller central provinces th at and while the priest was in his turn twitted with teach-pang of Artillery, Gwalior Contingent ; Major F. Shirreff, I Ronan (420) and Hu eh (389), which extend heEn fish ex cuts to A these amounts include t g p Amoy ing an idolatry stolen from the temples of Buddha. We Chinese woman ; their children prattle to the natives Commanding 4th Regiment Infantry, b Gwalior Contingent ; C ooper, of the 32d N. , . ____ 32d NJ. killed by t h e mu mu ti nee rs ramie through the centre of the empire, and which and Foochow, which are transhipped at Canton, have all classes of missionaries here, except only o high in their own tongue, and are the messengers of their Surgeon K. W. Kirk, M.D., Superintending Surgeon ; Mr. Ronald , Assistant Commissioner , t. Deogurh ; Lieut. at Deogurb, 9th October, 1 e67. ogether with the province of Sechuen form the and also some which afterwards reach Shanghai, churchmen, whereof I bare met none. The ordained little offices parents • ti of love. The merchants in China Rev. G. W. Coopland, Assistant Chaplain : Gwalior, CECIL BEADON, ................40.,..... whereas(Shanghai being the most distant port th ;irdle of China. The eastern part of Sz'chuen w ) e clergy in China often abandon their prayer-book, and are almost universally large-hearted and benevolent men •Ml 4 , ay , 9 p.m., on timir return from dinner at Brigadier they will give largely, but they have not either time or Ramsay's, by the mutinous corps of the Gwalior Contin- Secretary to the Government of India. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. Shanghai returns include only its own proper im- conduct their service in the Presbyterian form. Some TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. rould show the same large amount of population • ; taste for such offices as these ; nor would the wildest gent, stationed at Gwalior. November 6, 1857. nit the western part joins upon Thibet, and is P° '• of the sectarian ministers carry their Protestantism with -- Receipts. P expect it from them. Yet this must be Captain Spottiswoode, Cornet Newberry, Ist Regiment Miles nountainous and thinly peopled. The opium trade, the least desirable part of our a dauntlessness that makes us start or shiver. There . .No. 4. 29 4 Killed red, NAME OF RAILWAY. isb7. 1856. It is very important to our commercial inquiry to export trade to China, shows healthiest in statistics. was a reception day some time since at the yamun of done by somebody if China is to be opened. Even if I Bombay Dancers : Nusseerabad, May , p.m. List of Europeans Killed or Wounded by the hands of 857. -------------:------- Taoloai of Shanghai city. The Raman Catholic Bishop pe that the cold speculative systems of Laotze, had to ho• whilst charging the mutineers, viz., two Regiments Native Confucius, .and Buddha could be overthrown, that those Rebels in the Lower Provinces. I A !member the lay of the strata of Chinese popula- The "foreign medicine trade," as the Chinese now Infantry and Artillery, who carried off six guns, and made At Rohnee, in the Sontbal Pergunnahs-June 12. BRITISH. had just had hi,, audience, and an uncomprom sing Protes- towards Delhi. - ion. If we go into the country with our cottons more delicately call it, is sturdy and increasing. Defaces of ice would some day melt before the fervid Sir Norman Leslie, Adjutant, sth Irregular Cavalry, - Aberdeen ......•• •• •••••••••• • •••• .11 - 57 1,156 .3 • tau t of an extreme sec t took his place. Now, .this Taou quickening fire of true religion, still 1 would say plantand Ballymena •• •• .• ~.. •• •• , Ind our woollens our lace and our hardware, it is The deliveries to the different opium stations in Colonel Penney, Commanding let Regiment Bombay 244 243 tat had tbe reputation of being a clever, a malicione, and . Lancers : Nusseerabad, 29th May, 4 p.m. Fell dead from Don•• •.•• •• ••.. Grant, attached to Irregular Cavalry , wounded; while 17 Belfast and County killed ; Majoi J. M'Donald, and Assistant-Surgeon N. J. 65 Belfast 2 614 h're and Cheshire 2,512 ._. o the men and women we must go, and not to the 1849 and 1854 were as follows :- a sarcastic man, accustomed to gather all the European establishments missionary in China ; but remember his horse on the march sitting together in front f the mess bungalow, a sudden 1 2 1 6 ,, 2 Birkenhead, Lancas . , 3elestial Mountains and the Sea of Stars. Names of Stations. 1849. 1354. always that a fool, a bigot, or a firebrand can do scandal of the settlement, and to cast it into the faces of rush was made at them e by three men of the regiment, rt kburn and West York •• •• 1,0 55 00 ! 11 _79 Bolton, iac , .... 5,521 5,57 7 Let us remember, then, that the populous dis- P. P. the missionaries-Roman Catholic, Ca th olic, and Pro- more et.' there than ten good men can repair. care : Nusseerabad. Wounded on the above occasion. with naked swords ; Sir Norman Leslie was disabled by 8 Bristol and Exeter •• •• •• • • ...• •• - - 19834 Cal donian- .••••••••••• •• •• •• •• - 4,552 4,4b 3 aicts of China, are, first the provinces on the Cumsingmoon ... ... ... 15,400 20,010 testant. "The bead man of your Christians has just (To be continued.) Mr. Hilliard, Mr. Fell : Sirsa. Murdered by a Jemadar the first blow, Major M`Donald had two cuts on his head, 94'4 Chester and Holyhead... •• •• •• •• •• •• 6i 188 m0n.,....., during the insurrection at, and destruction of, Sirsa. and Dr. Grant received a severe wound in the arm, and 63 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ....•• 281 261 !astern seaboard-Chihli, " the Imperial pro- Hongkong ... ... .. 900 2,760 gone out," maliciously remarked the Taontai. "Sir, --- - - Mr. Davis (hiabrother died in the jungle from thirst), 20 Cork and Bandon.. •• •••••••• • • •• •• 1,125 1,082 rine, f' Shantung, " the province east of the Macao ... ... ... ... 600 he is not our head man. He is not a Christian at all ; AERATED B.READ. another in the leg; they both defended themselves with Clerk in Captain Robertson'e office : Sirsa. Murdered on • 56 Dublin and Beltast J unction •• •• •• •• 1,568 1.5 53 Namoa ... ... ... ... 2,470 3,095 1 dd.i d • • ff th • •1 t S . chairs, an, succeeded e a riving o me. asset an s. ir mountains ;" Kiangsu, " the province of the abun- he is an idolater ,• he worships the crose." " And do • the above occasion. 63 Dublin and Drogheda. •••••••• • • • • • • 1 187 1,100 Amoy ... ... ... ... 3,200 3,860 Norman was fearfully wounded, and died shortly after. 40 Dublin and Kingstown •• •• • • "•• •• •• •• '541 634 last river ;" Chie-kiang, the province of the Chewchew ... ... ... 1,390 1,352 not you ?" asked the innocent Taoutai. "No, Ido not." (Front the Spectator.) Mr. and Mrs. Wedderburn, Magistrate of Ilium . ; "Lieut. At Patna. -July 3. 17 % Dundee and Arbroath ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• • •• •• 64 931 neandering river." Seconclly, the inland girdle M tii 1 840 4,495 " And yet if I were to lay the cross on the floor at The English are a great people ; the 19th centu r y i s and Mrs. Burwell, Hurrianah Battalion ; Mr. Daniel, Pa- Assistant-Surgeon R. Lyell, Principal Assistant to the 81 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junotior. 7 5 _ 7 40 'orming provinces Nganhwui, er Anhui, "t h e Lookong ... ... ... ... 1,000 2,190 your feet you dare not trample upon it ?" " I w ould," a great century. No question of that. The bitterest trol; Mr. Thompson : Hisser. Mr. Wedderburn is re- co • Agent , Patna , killed . • the disturbanceat 35 Dundalk and Enniskillen-- -•••• •• 4 5 550 pium.-in novince of peace and plenty ; Ronan, " the pro- Woosung... ••• ... ... 21,030 28,870 answered the unhesitating Christian missionary. Of enemies of both or either are yearly compelled more Ported to have been shot in his kutchery ; the rest were 67% East Anglian.... •• •••••••••••• •• •• •• Patna, on the night of July 3, Dr. Lyell, while riding in e, 4 697 ~) East Lancashire •• •••••••••••• " •• •• , 6,557 course, there must be jealousits ard difficultiee and frankly to do homage to the achievements which mark massacred in their houses by the Hurrianah Light Infan. front of his men, to attack the rebels, was shot to the 489 Eastern Comities and NorfOlk.• •••• } 23,570 23,390 rince south of the river ;" Ho eh "provine e - - 47,870 66,662 heartburnings among risen bolding such very different them out as different from all other races and all preyi- tr y' ground. Eastern Union •.•••••••• • • •• • • • •• 4,8 ,4 4,972 mirth of the river ; Sz'chuen, " the province or opinions. Even some Americans of the more violently ens centuries. In innumerable respects, too, there is a Lieut. Townsend. Killed by Desoits on his way to At Segowlee.-July 23. 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• •• •• •••• •• 56 2,761 he four streams." A I have not the station statement for 1856, but hostile sects point out to the Chinese that the English sort of partnership in this greatness. A peculiar p eople Mahoba. Major .T. G. Holmes, Commanding 12th Irregu- 78 Edinburgh , dee• ••••• 20 h, Perth, and Dun ......_• I shall hereafter have occasion to show that these the total amount was 76,300 piculs, and the value are opium dealers, suppressing the fact that American and a peculiar time play, se to say, into each oth er's Hanel Sergeant Fitzgerald : . Mr. Cockerel] Joint Magistrate : Banda. Cut down by far Cavalry, and Mrs. Holmes killed :-while taking their 6 Exeter and Cre ditors .. •• •• ..•• •• •• •• 1,029 1,027 22 F u rness Railway •• • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ese rovinces so rich in men are those with which we was 30,868,050, or 7,202,5451. Now, this is a very houses are quite as eager in di=puting the profits of the hands,___and contribute to make each other what they Nawab's Sowar's. evening drive, bath were killed by the mutineers of the tux Glasgow, w t 5,954 5, and South- es ern•• •• •• •• 26 (331 26,23 5 `.) h Irregular . let. 6,342 ~ night naturally to have the closest relations that important sum of money spent, no doubt, upon a trade. Sometimes it happens that in the midst of a mss- are. But 2.11 strength bee its weakness , all greatness Mr. Bruce, Mr. Brinsum, in the Banda Nawab 's service.killed ye e wes tern (Ireland) Assistant - S urgeon H. S. Garner and child, :-the eoe Great Southern an 25 248 24,73 . , they are the moat accessible to us, and that with very deleterious drug. Divided among the sionary discourse an cld man come( forward (either has its drawbacks. There are things in which this no- Reported by the Nawab as murdered. mutineers, after killing Major Holmes, proceeded to the 48 . Great Western •• •••• • • •.: ... • • •••• •••• •.. 240 947 me exception they are the provinces to which we 360,000,000, it is nearly 6d. per head per annum- spontaneously or at some one's ,liggestieri), and te ll s the table and progressive ago has not shown itself progres- Capt. A. Shen°, with his wife anti two children, Super- Doctor's Bangelow, forced it open, murdered tbe Doctor, 'V Lri an sh c. S(Lu r th an E d asgrAz o .................. 5 , 693 2 8131 lave hitherto had no access. • Canton, with its about one-tenth of what each one average unit of crowd what a good son he once had, and how that sive ; and some of these in regard to which England intendent ; Lieut. F. D. Gordon, Deputy Superintendent ; . his wife, and one child, and then set fire to it. Oue child, 2 88 U Lancashire and Yorkshir... •• •• •• ... 17,669 2,1 a leighlec uring provinces of Kwan • gm, Kweichow , our 20,000,000 Britons spends in tobacco ; about son kept him in comfort, bat that he has lately taken lags behind most civilised nations -possibly even behind Mr. T. Andrews, P. S. Ameen ; Mr. R. Andrews, with a little girl, escaped notice, and was taken care of by the _ Leeds Northern ..•• -•••••••• •• •• " _ _ his wife and four children, Deputy Collector and Deputy T hsidar 16 i Liverpool, Crosby, and Soutbport.• •• 55,286 60,775 tad Yunnan, we the most thinly peopled provinces one-sixth of what he spends additionally on gin to spend all his earnings in opium-smoking, and leaves some that do not boast to be civilised-as much as she Magistrate ; Mr. W. S. Carshore, wife and four children, e . 637 London and North Western ••••••• •• 1,184 1,208 24th July. 6 % London and Blackwall.• •- •••••• " •• 19,579 12,576 11 the empire. Kwanetung has only 241 inhabi- and whisky. his father unprovided for. The old gentleman outruns them in other respects. Collector of Customs • Mr. Wetton , wife, child and two • wife 14,268 13,619 wishes to know whether it is the countrymen of the Exempli gratia, let us take what in this country is • Cattle to the square mile, which is below the aver- It is very wrong of John Chinaman to smoke sisters, Patrol ; Mr. Orr, and mother, Superintendent . uered by the mutineers of the same regiment. 288 % London and South Western. •• ...... 73i 762 " elder " • teacher who sell that opium. We malt imbue called " the s t a ff o f lif e " - i n F rance , still more expres• of Customs • Capt. J. Dunlop, 12th Native Infantry ,• - ageEn ; Kwangei has 93, Kweichow has 82, and Tun- opium to the extent of 6d. per head per annum w i th At DeogburesOct. 9. 60 Londonderry and Enniskillen • : al n tle . c . k . ,& - el - ourselves the exaggerated sot i . ns which the Chinese sively, '' la benediction de Dieu." The process of bread - s i g n S. B. Taylor , 12th Native Infantry ; Lieut. W. C. L. - Manchester, Buxton. Lieutenant H. C. A. Cooper, Commanding Detachment d n il d Lincolnshire 9,045 ' 9,79!' nen 52. Contrast these figures with the 850 of But what is he to do ? He detests beer and wine. ess of parenta despotism to fa y un- making does not appear to have altered much since the Eyves, 12th Native Infantry ; Dr. McEgan, wife, and sis have of the sacredn 1 • 11d 32d N.I and. Mr R. E. Ronald, Assistant Commissioner, 173% 3lanchester, e Shdlloelnction...... 795 41 Kiangsu and the 705 of Anhui. You may leave an open brandy bottle in his custody derstand the effect of such a question. If while a candi. time of the Pharaohe ; and such improvements as h ave ter, 12th Infantry ; - Newton, wife, and four chiliren, Deogliu;: killed by mutineers of 32d N.I. . 9 Manchester an 8 54 28 staryport and Carlisle •• •••• •• •..... 868 Such is the country in which we seek to develope for weeks, and it will not evaporate. His own sum- date was addressing the electors of the berongb of Maine- been made England has been the Flo west to adopt, QuartermasterSerge/Cut ; ieut. apbel, and another Mr. J. W. Garatin, Deputy Ma g istrate, Buxar, wounded 567 !Midland •••••-•••• " • • • • •• - •• .... 29,983 30,442 our trade , glace is, BO fax as I can discover, almost a myth, ex- law, with their wives in genend tea-party ftssembbsd, English bread ia the astonishment and despair of foreign fa cavalry o cer, 14th Irregular Cavalry ; Sergeant while accompanying the force to relieve Arrah. 177 Midland Great Western (Irish) .. •• .. 3,918 3,909 Ryley, Overseer Publics Works ; Capt. F. J. Burgess, Re. A. R . YOUNG, 52 Monklanda •.•• •• •• ..•• •• .......... 1.376 1,45 b Let me now shortly sketch the present condition, cept as an article to sell to foreign sailors. Ilia vile Mrs. Brown Jones Robinson Smith were suddenly to era, continental bread the constant theme of travellers'3,l2s 3,022 venue Surveyor ; Lieut. Turbull, Assistaut Revenue Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 75 Newcastle and Car1i51e............ • • of that trade. . tobacco is a very miserable debauch. It is used i n appear leading in Mr. B. J. R. Smith, staggering in the Praise ; while as regards those collateral preparations of Surveyor; Mr. D. T. Blyth, wife, brother-in-law, 149 North British ••..••• • •• • • .......... 4,734 OA Itis a subject upon which the data are not very very small pipes by the Men, and is much affected last; stage of maudlin tipsiness-if Mrs. Smith were wheaten and other grain which largely •upolement the and three children, Sub-Assietant , Revenue Sur- • 233 North Staffordshire ................ 6,577 7,343 exact. Even with the assistance of two manuscript by the ladies. My room at Hon g Kong looked upon then, addressing the candidat-, and renting to her use of fermented bread in other parts of Europe, and veyor •• Mr. H. Millard, wife, and three children, , - 47 North-Western •• •• •• •• •• .. •• •• •• .. 366 837 FromtheLondon Glzette of Last Ni; t. 50 Scottish volumes of commercial statistics, compiled by one the domesticities of a learned Chinese "teacher," spouse to ask whether the report was true that he, Mr. surpass it is powers of nutriment, England has nothing Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr Munrood, - i .__ 32% Scottish Midland •• •••• •• • •• •• •• •••• I '.... 544 Juniper was the person who made and sold the liquid either in respect of new inventions or immemorial tea- Sub Assistant Revenue Surveyor; Mr. J. Young, of the two largest mercantile houses in China for his wife, and his child. The exigencies of the East / 2 9 Shrewsbury and Birmingham ...... 21'59225 2:247 S'S hi ch had reduced Mr. Smith to the condition of a beast dith ns that can be placed on a par with them. Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr. Gabriel, WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 21. 48% Shrewsbury and Chester •• •• ........ - . 7 926 915 their own practical guidance, and very generenslY -open casements and narrow thoroughfares-ten- -and if the candidate thus adjered felt cons ra i ne d to It may be doubted indeed whether aey part of Eu. Lieutenant Powye, wife and child, Executive Engineer ; This day had audience of her Majesty-The Count de 30 Shropshire Union .. •••••••••• • • - .. 2176 137 1 given up to my use, I tread this labyrinth of figures dered strict seclusion di ffi cult. Whenever, in mid- - ' ' • is the trac k in • • Mrs. B o wife of Deputy-Commissioner, with sister Brown o, Platen, Envoy Extraord i nary an d el' •tPI, • t n 57 South Devon .•• •• .• .. • •• •• •• •• •• •• .: • ' 669 . ma er two e - confess that he eerie m y was ihe proprietor of a rather rope on right 301% with considerable hesitation. night, a more than usually intense sense of suffoca-and child ; Mr. A. Scott, Clerk • Mr. Purcell, Clerk ; Mr. tiary Hem the King of Sweden and Norway, to deliver `it s 1 S outh ou t h Ens a 1 t e e s r n:•.••: •• •• •. .......... •. :..:..:•• : -. . 6 , 763 7,09 3 extensive dis ll ,the • # t . wouldnot be and use of cereal products. There is no more painful ti ery, e in.errup ion At the end of the commercial year 1854 the tion or a particularly heavy thunder-storm, or a provoking than those which sometimes occur at • Purcell 'un Clerk •Mr Mntl'oo with wife and child Amoy misgiving on the subject of oar much-vacated civilisation 'i ' ' • ', • • cre dent i als; t w hi c h . h was introduced by tho " ._ , i South York., Doncaster, and Goole •• '254 ,124 balance of trade between China and Great Britain specially shrill fit of screaming from the infant or Shanghai. than that which arises from the gradual substitution all Clerk ; Mr. Mutleo, jun., Clerk ; Mr. Elliott, with ta . ther Earl of Clarendon, K. G. her Majesty's Principal &ere- 53 Taff Vale .• •• •• ....•• "•••••••• •• •• 2 ' 1 , 442 . 1,412 and moth. r, Clerk ; Mr. Crawford, Clerk ; Mr. Eleming, tary of State for Foreign Affairs. 36 Ulster. •• •••••••••••••••• •• '• ** •• •- 569 1 , 063 was estimated at 7,900,000 dole. or 2,000,000 stet- Chinaman, or the sharp bite of some mosquito The English • • • • • missionaries meet these things with a over Europe of white bread for brown, or black-a less out of service : Jhansi sth and 6th Juno. Massacred by WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 22. 77 Waterford end Limerick •• •• •• •• •• •• 588 573 ling against China. which had eluded my forti fi cations made me start conet cy a , most 39 bold as the chronol f the Por- wholesome and nutritious kind for one more a° , the mutineers of the lith Native Infantry and 14th Irre i her Maje t -His Eiceellency 27 West Cornwall .. ••• • • ...• ••••• •• 375 305 . During the succeeding three years the exports to up in my bed, the same object always presented tu a° - - ~.. guese pries'. They say that India ie n i gY n:t England, Justly looked upon as one of the surest tests of an ade afar Cavalry, aided by the Ranee of Jhansi, who fur- Ferifi''sder 1(1 audience of than, Ambassador Extraord inary y from the Shah 12% Whitehaven Junction .•• • .... w . 7 ...„ 682 York and Newcastle, and Ber ek & - ••T Great Britain have greatly increased. In the corn- iteelf. The lady of the house opposite, with her but a country to whnth hina is indebted for lie two vancing civilisation, does or does not the use of white niched them with armed men. of Persia, to take leave ;to which audience he was intro- York and North Midland & Leeds.. wheaten bread, a s ordinarily made imply a d * ' Mr. T K Magistrate of Humeerpore • Mr , ' mercial year 1856-7 the export of teas to England hair full dressed, but otherwise in deshabille- great curses-opium and Buddhism. As to this effect • • . , e.eriora- •T.. K. Loyd, 0 . ' doted by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty'a Prin n the staple nourishment of the nations ? Or Grant, Joint Magistrate of Humeerpore : Humeerpere, . lion i it . , FOREIGN. 2,845 2. 114 and her colonies was 87,741,0001 b and in the same rather economical than elegant-the simplex with- upon the conversion of the Chinese the suggestion is • 1 cipal Seorotary • of State for Fore] 'go Affairs. 109 Dutch Rhenish • • •• •• • • •• •• ......•• a 365 24,756 • I granting that does so-owing to defects in manufac- 14th June. Murdered by mutineers, wbo are suppose( to FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 23. 344 Lyons and Mediterranean •• •••• •• •• -I . .... year the deliveries in England of China silk out the munditiis-was always at her casement, simply absurd •; but it is a weak point in the armour ~, tore or tricks of trade-need it continue to do so ? have been aided by the R e jah of Chirkaree. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Archibald 63 Monterean and Troyes .........• •• •• - _ amounted to 74,215 bales. gravely smoking a bamboo pipe. But for the mos- of controversy, and our missionary countrymen feet is These are questions hitherto di.m o Captain Burton and his two sons; Political Agent, Ha- - ties° pretty much en Shanks Schaw as Consul at Glasgow;, of Mr. George Nil- - Namur 38,834 55, 606 The silk exporting power of China seems to be quito curtains I could almost have stretchel forth very bitterly, amateur, which one day or other society will be calad • ' rowtee • Kotah 15th October. Murdered by the Kotah Ham Ewen as Vice-Consul in London ; and of Mr. Robert 539 Northern of France •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • ..... - without limit. Every year we take from her an my hand and lit a cigar from her bowl ; alas ! I At Ningpo I accepted an invitation from the Rev. Mr. on seriously to determine. troops. as Vice .Consul at Falmouth --for Richards Broad„ , jun., , - Orleans and Central .. ..... ........ 33 126 25,07 3 Mr. Salder, Sub-Assistant-Surgeon : Kotah, 15th Oct. 434 Paris and Lyons ....•• •••• ••...... ~._ ..... annually increasing quantity. In 1843 there was could quite taste the flavour of her tobacco, and it Russell, the Church of England missionary priest, and At present the question is vastly more pressing for • M k Mason, Political • Agent, J lb Captain one on. pore : the Republic of Salvador. - Paris and Rouen. •• .• .• • • ....„ „.. 33 889 31 103 not a bale sent home. In 1845 there were 1027 i was not fragrant. the Rev. Mr. Edkine, of the London Mission at &lanai, England than for any other Country ; and for reasons by Ab wa , 18th September. Murdered by the, men of ADMIRALTY, DEC. 14. 886 Paris and S'trasburgh •• •• •• •••..... ~.... ,_ i.... 1- r- i 0,,, ~. ___ ' -7 -- I Tf 41,,,,, Joba illiiriarna , .. , in , -1- Ima;..v voaunrimiblo to visit the onium dens of Niorneci city. Commander no means difficult to define. First, th e use o f w hi te th e Joudhpore mu ti neers , a id e d by th e men of the di e . Corps of 1 3 , 0Yai Marines-Gentleman Ca let Thomas it ouen and _II tof •• .. 26,595 26,01 596 West and North-Wes France taro to be concealed under a mass of fine senti ments. In China every pragmatical pedant who has a (From the limo' Special Correspondent.) SHANGHAI, OCT. 17. certain literary degree has the privilege of me- Fortssuitely for me my mission to China ha s in morialising the Emperor. I have waded through hundreds of these to find only those stupid plati it something more than to chronicle the proceed- tudes, those trite commonplaces, those "banalites -Jugs of the Elgin embassy, or I should have died of sur la morale , " as Huc says, which, like the maxims tillerless. A much higher object is to st ud y u p on in Poor Richard's Almanack, pass for deep wisdom the spot the subject of our trade with this empire, with the vulgar of all nations. The opium question Ind to labour to discover how commerce may be of course produced a rank crop of these imperti aeveLoped and this great region opened up. nences, and some were selected for publication in It is a task of dull utility. If there be any who the Pekin Gazette. One of them is reprinted in look to my letters for amusement I warn them_ to the blue-book for 1840, and contains that rarest of Auit my company. I have nothing to show them all things in these memorials—a fact : but hard facts and perplexing figures. " From Fuhkein, Kwangtung, Chekeing, Shantung, First, let me say a few words upon t he c orpus Yunnan, and Kweichow memorials have been presented esthjectum—the region we seek to open. by the censors and other officers, requesting that probi ' The 18 provinces of China proper are quite sus- bition should be enacted against the cultivation &lent for our present purposes. The half-tamed of the poppy and the preparation of opium ; but .mountaineers of Thibet are six times nearer to Cal- while nominally prohibited, the cultivation has not matt& than to Pekin. The tribes of Mahomedana been really stopped in those places. Of any of those who inhabit the vast hill districts to the north of provinces, except Yunnan, I do not praume to Thitket are to the rich provinces of China Proper speak ; but of that portion of the country I have it in w hich lie upon their eastern boundary what the my power to say, that the poppy is cultivated all over h i g hl a nds once were to the lowlands of Scotland. the hills and in the ope n plai n , an d that the quantity of Chinese Tartary, lying along the north, is rich only opium annually produ ce d th ere canno t be l e ss than se ise hill and desert. It is to to shat densely peopled veral thousand chests ; and yet we do not see any dimi nution in the quantity of silver exported as compared piece of the globe which lies between the China with any previous period, while, on the other hand, the 13 ea and Tartary, between the Yellow Sea and lack of the metal in Yunnan is double in degree what it Thibet and Kokonor, that we must look for advan- formerly was. To what cause is this to be ascribed 1 serous relations. To what but that the consumers of the drug are very This compact mass is about half the size of Eu- many, and that those who are choice *and dainty with tope, about seven times the size of France, and regard to its quality prefer always the foreign article." about 15 times the size of our islands. It is about This testimony of Choo Tsun as to the cultiva -1,500 miles long and broad. M'Culloch reckons tion of thousands of chests of native opium in one that in square miles it measures 1,348,870. province alone was given in 1836, while the ver- Cutting off the surrounding fringe of savage life, million pencil was inditing heroics about the im- China is still a vast empire, but not so immeasur- morality of foreign opium-growers. able or so unmanageable as we are accustomed to I can add to this statement that the culture of conceive it to be. With a railway like our Great opium certainly is not confined to the province of Western laid down, we might traverse it from north Yunnan. Any one who penetrates intothe amphi to south or from east to west in 30 hours. theatreeof mountains which bounds the Ningpo This country contains 360,279,897: human ores- plain will see valleys upon valleys of fine rich land turee. The amount need not startle us. If England covered with poppies. The official reports deplore and Wales were as large as China England and Wales this, but cannot stop it. 'the estimate is that would contain within one-ninth of the same amount 60,000 chests of opium are annually grown in of population. If Lombardy were as large as China. This opium is purer and stronger than the China, Lombardy would contain 360,000,000 also ; Indian opium, but for want of skill in the prepare send if Belgium were as large as China, Beligum tion, and patience in keeping, it has an acrid fla would contain 400,000,000. Take the average of your. the whole 18 provinces, and there is nothing in the The English opium trade, even although Indian figures as they come out. The population as a opium should bapppen to be consumed only by magis whole is not excessive. But when we come to traces on the judgment-seat and other distinguished note the distribution of that population the figures persons, is a [spat thorn in the side of the British mis become very remarkable. There is a pressure sionary. The controversy which the Chinese politely on the Eistern seaboard provinces such as is with- evade finds exercise among the Christians. An English out parallel in the world. The Chinese coasts missionary related quite recently how he bad met and which look out towards Japan , and whence a van q uished a Portuguese priest who confronted him in steal ht a straight sea line might drawn to Aus hostile manner in the streets of a northern city. Having be no European language in common, and Latin being tralia, are choked with people, the average for the found to be an inconvenient medium, they dropped whole empire being 268 in the square mile ; fluently into the Shanghai dialect. The gaping Kiangsu has 850; its next inland province Anhui, Chinese stood round and wondered, while the priest has 705; Shantung, to the north on the coast, has accused the English Minister of being about to teach 444 ; the imperial district of Chihli 475 ; and Che- the Chinese a modern heresy, only 100 years old, in kiang on the coast, to the south has 671. vented by a wicked king and an abandoned woman ; After these come those smaller central provinces and while the priest was in his turn twitted with teach of Ronan (420) and Hupeh (389), which extend ing an idolatry stolen from the temples of Buddha. We wards through the centre of the empire, and which have all classes of missionaries here, except only "high" together with the province of Sz'chuen form the churchmen, whereof I bare met none. The ordained girdle of China. The eastern part of Sz'chuen clergy in China often abandon their prayor-book, and would show the same large amount of population ; conduct their service in the Presbyterian form. Some but the western part joins upon Thibet, and is of the sectarian ministers carry their Protestantism with mountainous and thinly peopled. a dauntlessness that makes us start or shiver. There It is very important to our commercial inquiry to ass a reception day some time since at the yamun of Taoutai of Shanghai city. The Roman Catholic Bishop remember the lay of the strata of Chinese popula- had just bad hi!, audience, and an uncompromasingProtes tion. If we go into the country with our cottons tent of an extreme sect took his place. Now, this Taou and our woollens our lace and our hardware, it is tai had the reputation of being a clever, a malicious, and to the men and women we must go, and not to the a sarcastic man, accustomed to gather all the European Celestial Mountains and the Sea of Stars. scandal of the settlement, and to cast it into the faces of Let us remember, then, that the populous dis- the missionaries—Roman Catholic, Catholic, and Pro testant. of China, are, first the provinces on the testant. "The bead man of your Christians has just eastern seaboard—Chihli, "the Imperial pro- gone out," maliciously remarked the Taoutai. "Sir, wince ;" Shantung, " the province east of the he is not our head man. He is not a Christian at all ; mountains ;" Kiangsu, "the province of the abun- he is an ido l ator ; he wors hi p s the cross. " " And do not your' asked the innocent Taoutai. "No, Ido not." dant river;" Chie-kiang, the province of the " And yet if I were to lay the cross on the floor at meandering river." Secondly, the inland girdle your feat you dare not trample upon i t ?" "I would, " forming provinces Nganhwui, er Anhui, ' the answered the unhesitating Christian missionary. Of province of peace and plenty ; Ronan, " the pro- course, there must be jealousies and difficulties and vince south of the river ;" Hupeh, "provino e 47,870 66,662 heartburnings among men holding such very di ff erent north of the river ; Sz'chuen, " the province o, I h opinions. Even some Americans of the more violently the four streams." A ave not the station statement for 1856, but hostile sects point out to the Chinese that the English I shall hereafter have occasion to show that these the total amount was 76,300 piculs, and the value are opium dealers, suppressing the fact that American provinces so rich in men are those with which we was 30,868,050, or 7,202,5451. Now, this is a very houses are quite as eager in di-puting the profits of the ought naturally to have the closest relations, that important sum of money spent, no doubt, upon a trade. Sometimes it happens that in the midst of a mis they are the most accessible to us, and that with very deleterious drug. Divided among the sionary discourse an cld man comes forward (either one exception they are the provinces to which we 360,000,000, it is nearly 6d. per head per annum— spontaneously or at some one's iuggestion), and tells the have hitherto had no access. Canton, with its about one-tenth of what each one average unit of crowd what a good son be once had, and how that neighbt using provinces of Kwangsi, Kweichow, our 20,000,000 Britons spends in tobacco ; about son kept hi m . in comfort, bat that he has lately taken and Yunnan, a- e the most thinly peopled provinces one-sixth of what he spends additionally on gin to . spend all his earnings in opium-smoking, and leaves in the empire. Kwanetung has only 241 inhabi- and whisky. his father unprovided for. The old gentleman wishes to know whether it is the countrymen of the tanta to the-square mile, which is below the aver- It is very wrong of John Chinaman to smoke "elder teacher" who sell that opium. We must imbue age ; Kwangsi has 93, Kweichow has 82, and Yun- opium to the extent of 6d. per head per annum ourselves with the exaggerated aoti.ns which the Chinese nan 52. Contrast these figures with the 850 of But what is he to do ? He detests beer and wine. have of the sacredness of parental despotism to fully un- Kiangsu and the 705 of Anhui. You may leave an open brandy botile in his custody derstand the effect of such a question. If while a candi- Such is the country in which we seek to develope for weeks, and it will not evaporate. His own sane- date was acidt easing the electors of the borough of Maine our trade. shee is, BO far as I can discover, almost a myth, ex- law, with their wives in general tea-party assembled, Let me now shortly sketch the resent condition cept as an article to sell to foreign sailors. His vile Mrs. Brown Jones Robinson Smith were suddenly to p of that trade. . tobacco is a very miserable debauch. It is used in appear leading in Mr. B. J. R. :smith, staggering in the It is a subject upon which the data are not very very small pipes by the Men, and is much affected last; stage of maudlin tipsiness—if Mrs. Smith were exact. Even with the assistance of two manuscript by the ladies. My room at Hong Kong looked upon then, addressing the candidat-, and ['tinting to her volumes of commercial statistics, compiled by one the domesticities of a learned Chinese "teacher," spouse to ask whether the report was true that be, Mr. of the two largest mercantile houses in China for his wife, and his child. The exigencies of the East Juniper, was the person who made and sold the liquid ehich had reduced Mr. Smith to the condition of a beast their own practical guidance, and very generously —open casements and narrow thoroughfares—ren- —and if the candidate , thus adjured, felt cons'rained to confess given up to my use, I t rea d thi s l a b yr i nt h o f fi gures dered strict seclusion difficult. Whenever, in mid- - ess that he certa inly was the proprietor of a rather with considerable hesitation. night, a more than usually intense sense of suffoca- extensive distillery, the interruption would not be more At the end of the commercial year 1854 the lion or a particularly heavy thunder-storm, or a provoking than those which sometimes occur at Amoy balance of trade between China and Great Britain specially shrill fit of screaming from the infant or Shanghai. was estimated at 7900,000 dole . or 2,000,000 ster- Chinaman , or th e sharp bite of some mosq ui t o The English missionaries meet these things with a ling against China , which had eluded my fortifications made me start constancy a!most as bold as the chronology of the Por- During the succeeding three years the exports to up in my bed, the same object always presented tuguese pries , . They say that India is not England, Great Britain have greatly increased. In the corn- itself. The lady of the house opposite, with her but a country to whiob China is indebted for her two mercial year 1856-7 the export of teas to England hair full dressed, but otherwise in deshabille-- great curses—opium and Buddhism. As to this effect and her colonies was 87,741,0001 b., and in the same rather economical than elegant—the simplex with- upon the conversion of the Chinese the suggestion is year the deliveries in England of China silk out the munditiis—was always at her casement, simply absurd ; but it is a weak point in the armour amounted to 74,215 bales. gravely smoking a bamboo pipe. But for the mos- of controversy, and our missionary countrymen feel it The silk exporting pewer of China seems to be quit() curtains I could almost have stretched forth very bitterly. without limit. Every year we take from her an my hand and lit a cigar from her bowl ; alas ! I At Ningpo I accepted an invitation from the Rev. Mr. annually increasing quantity. In 1843 there was could quite taste the flavour of her tobacco, and it Russell, the Church of England missionary priest, and not a bale sent home. In 1845 there were 10,727 was not fragrant. the Rev. Mr. Edkins, of the London Mission at Sbangai, bales. In 1855 there were 50,489 bales. 1856 If, then, John Chinaman, not being reasonable, to visit the opium dens of Niogpo city. Commander showed an increase of 50 per cent. over 1855 ; and will not get drunk, and. if he has small comfort in Dew, of the Nimrod, and several of his officers accom the present year, if the stocks on hand are brought to the narcotic which it pleases us to patronise, what panied i us. d 1 had seen the opium-eaters of Cotan• we and the Europe, will show an increase of at least 50 per is he to do 1 It is not in his habits to call a temper- t :no n p i e ne a S my rn a, ta t and hashish emaciated smokers fo r o f 8 C a a i n .d cent. over the year past. lam informed that if the ance or a teetotal meeting and harangue himself trembling limbs. I recollected buying a taboosh in the Chinese succeed iu establishing the prices now and his hearers into a state of excitement which bazaars of Smyrna from a young Moslem whose palsied demanded, and in selling all their produce in stock, leaves all other drunkenness far behind—which, hand and dotard bead could not count the coins I offered the money paid for China silk at Sbanghai during , instead of involving the penalty of sad reaction, is him, I recollected the hashish-smokers of Constantine, the current year wilt certainly not be less than followed by sweet soothing reports of platform w h o were to be seen and heard every after -10,000,0001. sterling. 20, 40, 60, 90, 140, are speeches, by votive slippers, an d by a pleasant con- noon at the bottom of that abyss which yawns figures of redid progress, yet they represent the sciousness of self-superiority to a ll other mundane under the " Adultrees's Rack, —lean, fleshless advance of our silk imports from China. At the creatures. He knows not the civilisation which Arabs, smoking their little pipes of hempseed prices now paid, you may, I believe, double this la-t teaches means of cheap moral excitement. Our chanting and swaying their skeleton forms to and fro, quantity in the year to come. Ido not understand, young ladies shall thrill with ecatacy while some shrieking to the wild echoes of the chasm, then sinking however, that by stimulating the production you dear good man is describing to them the horrors of exhausted under the huge cactus,—sights and sounds of can greatly decrease the price. We have, I believe, drunkenness, and in the next street some zealous saturnalia in purgatory. found by experience that however abundant the' surgeon shall electrify his medical class, and throw The Chinese exhibition was sufficiently disgusting, corn crop may be in America there is a price below I the blood up into his own head, while setting forth but was otherwise quite a failure. These opium den• are ordinary Chinese cottages, with a room about 12 which it will not be brought down for export, but I with anatomical severity the consequences of tight ean be profie ably employed at home ; so of China lacing. But these are the resources of civilised f l e n e t thesq u fi a r r e e t , wfurnished entered with ibLrhe e a m b e e n d, ea a t table, and asofa, upon the be d and silk. You have to compete as buyers with such an Britons, not of pharisaical Chinamen. two upon the sofa. There was the opium pipe, the enormous population of home consumers that any Yet there never was found in any age or in any lamp, and the small porcelain cup of treacle-looking extra production to meet our demands may be clime a tribe, a race, or a nation, which hid nut opium. One of the customers takes the pipe and the thrown, without great effect, upon the home acme stimulant-in which they habitually indulged. market. By impro v i ng th e present faulty system l amp then dips a pin iuto,the opium, turns it round and' Mrs. Chinaman takes her numeouseus ; her hue- round till he has the. proper quantity of the jellified of winding you may perhap s ma k e the silk more band varies the same pleasure with an occasional drug, inserts the pin in the pipe, applies the pipe to the valuable, but if you take treble your ancient whiff of the stronger narcotic. I wish he would flame of the lamp, and at tto same time draws up the quantities you-must pay treble your former quantity drink beer, or whisky, or gin, or British brandy, vapour by two or three long inhalations—not whiffs, of silver, and so far increase the balance of trade for they are all recognised means of intoxication for he draws it into his lungs ; then he passes on the against you. and British raanutacoires. But he stedfestly re- pipe, the opium b ing consumed, and gradually lets the The rapid increase in our imports from China is fuses—Que voulez vow ?It est fait comme cela. vapour slowly return through his mouth and his no e. The metrite a of this convivial socie'y were gOod a source of unmixed joy to the, merchants of the A Chinaman loves opium as he loves nothing else. humoured and communicative. One was a chair Cootie, five ports. Their calculations do not ext e nd beyond The head of a Parsee h ouse at Hong Kong was 80 a second was a petty tradesman, a third was a runner their-own business. Why should they 1 They send civil as to take me into his warehouse and to open in a mandarin's yamun ' • they were all of that clays of home the produ ce anei th e y rece i ve it s va l ue . Th e y two chests of opium, that I might see the drug as urban population which is just above the lowest. They do not feel the inconvenience occasioned to Europe it passes in commerce. The first consisted of balls, e ere, however, neither emaciated nor infirm. The chair by a constant and unvarying trade wind, which the size of a large apple dumpling, and when cut Coolie was a sturdy fellow, well capable of taking his blows semi-monthly cargoes of silver into the ports open the mass was found to be solid ; the other share in the porterage of a 16 stone mandarin, the of a hoarding nation. Of course the y stimulate the was full of objects which a commander in the navy runner seemed well able to Pun, and the tradesman, productive power of China so long as they can find not long since ordered his men to return to th e who said he was 38 years of l—say, 37, fcr the Chinese a market for the produce ; and they act from the owners of a captured junk, " Aril% you ashamed, commence to count their age nine months earlier than - healty instincts of commerce. lam not about my lads, to loot a lot of miserable Dutch cheeses ?" we do—was remembered by all of us to be a singularly to resuscitate any of the buried heresies which The "Dutch cheeses" were fine Patna opium, worth young looking man for that ag d e. o H m e t ha e d e smoke d d opium taught that there ie a distinction between silver about 51. each. They are globes of thick dark jelly, fur went seven t , y , e n ar c s. hin A es s e we te p e ass n e rde f n r b a dirty Pi p a a m ved coact and enclosed in a crust not unlike the rind of a cheese. and gold, and other articles of barter, or to suggest that a trade between tea and silk on My Parsee acquaintance tapped one with a frag- and „ ery with some small trees a nd flowers in flowerpots,— emaciated and yawning proprietor pre thement of the iron fastening of a chest, and drew one side and silver on the other side ought to anted himself. "The man has destroyed himself by be disfavoured. I only wish to put the fact plainly forth about a spoonful of the evil-smelling drug. opium-smoking," said Mr. Russell. The man being that such a trade has its inconveniences ; that it It was nut the opium which engaged my attention ; questioned, declares that he had never smoked an would be much more advantageous to us to pay for it was the effect produced by it upon the Bur- opium pipe in his life,—a bad shot, at which no one our tea and our silk with goods of our own menu_ rounding Coolies. I never before saw real excite- was more amused than the rev. gentleman who fired it. fabture, upon which we make a large profit, th an ment in a Chinaman's face. I've seen them tried I only take the experiment for what it is worth. with commodity which is n o t manufactured by us for their lives and condemned to death, and I've There must be very many moat lamentable specimens "4 upon which we make little or no fit pro .Thi s seen them test the long-suffering patience of Mr. of the effects of indulgence in this vicious practice, is doubtless a self-evident although we did not happen to see any of them that evident truths P ' that would lutve _must be paraded now and then if we roposition but self- Tudor Davies in the Hongkong Police-court, where gentleman is daily engaged in laborious en- morning. They are not, however, so universal, nor ut vernment keep them in view and even so common, as travellers who write in support of make ode deavours to extract truth out of cenflicting lies. some thesis, or who are not above truckling to popular q t "`te efforts to enforce them. We cannot obscene to I've seen . them laugh heartily at an ees re open up g oi e _ ua witho ut Government energy and and I witness -' with prejudices in England, are pleased to say they are. Government expenditur at a singsong, once saw a grin But if our visit was a failure in one respect, it was the end is worth ti le c o st , an d we m us t s h ow th at great delight as he unexpectedly recognised his most c fully instructive in another. In the first house we visited intimate friend, a tradesman of reputed wealth, Blue's-Ft Re o . ooos no man spent en an average less than 80 cash a-lay on among a crowd of prisoners in the dock. But these his opium pipe. One man said be spent 120. The In 1838 and io 1844 we t xporte ; it . wce the Tian_ Coolies, when they saw that opium, opened their chair Coolie spends 80, and his average earnings are 100 tity of worsted stuffs that we eapoited last year ; horizontal, slit-shaped eyes, till they grew round cash a-day. English physicians, unconnected with the in 1852 four times the amount of eamlete. The long . and starting, their limbs, so lax an d limpid when missionary . societies, have assured me that the C ails ells have fallen off from an averaf % r have sunkfr 15- 9 °, 0 00 to * not in actual strain of labour, were sti ff from ex- opium-smoker dies, not from opium, but from starvation. 36,642. The woollens cottons 1836 to 38,553. printed vibrate from 6 8,042 i a citement, every bead was pressed forward, every If he starves himself for his pipe, we need not a.,k what with a hand seemed ready to clutch. There was a pussi- happens to his family. somewhat higher average in later years, a . laree de but Printed bilit y that it wou!d be put down upon the window- No earthly power can stop opium-smoking in China; cottons and cotton twist show 'suddcernea" sill near which we ware standing. I could see the but if the people of England are earnest in wishing to since 1853. While I write there is a . de- shadow of fingers ready to slide in • it was almost stop the English trade in it, nothing is easier than to do wand f o r E ng li s h cottons at remunerative priete, certaint that it would be thrown aside—there was so by far less of self-sacrifice than the opium smoker liot.e of an opium debauch gratis, and this was but both the demand and the price now obta in ed he partial the Stat e would be obliged to exercise. Let the old ladies give are temporary. The first arises From the _ of mind that hope created. up tea and the young ladies give up silk, and the thing againet this passion for opium. I doubt failure of the cotton crop in China : thesecond arms The Cliiiieso Governments have long ceased to is done. If the Chinese had again to pay for opium in from a cause to which I shall have occasion more strive silver they would grow it all at home, and look sharp after the foreign smuggler, At present . the tr ade . is as whethertimethey ever really did strive against it. At open and as unrestrained in all the cities of China as the particularly to refer hereafter—the alteration in the relative value is th e between silver and copper cash. one , when, the balance of trade was against was drawing the Sycee silver out of London. sale of hot-cross buns on Good Friday is in the streets The consumer "up country" is prepared to pay China, the opium a s a matter of the s ame quantity of cash for i.is cottons which he of the country, and Lin thought stte it absolutely ne- Those u Ifortunate fine sentiments of Mr. Cemmissioeer policy joiep t h o s s u t r o f p ine th o e f Lin cost tt e Chit e e Treasury a very haunsome source used to pay, and, P.B these cash are now worth so cesiary . .I. Chinese official • much more La dollars, the Chinese merchant can traffic, of revenue. When the drain of sycee these steatite , nta good or evil, they are ter- became only expensive enooralarance airord to give higher prices in that metal which is ' diplo y mac ; he his deeds Se It is acaueng (From the Spectator.) The English are a great people ; the 19th century is a great century. No question of that. The bitterest enemies of both or either are yearly compelled more frankly to do homage to the achievements which mark them out as different from all other races and all previ ous centuries. In innumerable respects, too, there is a sort of partnership in this greatness. A peculiar people and a peculiar time play, se to say, into each other's hands, and contribute to make each other what they are. But all strength has its weakness, all greatness has its drawbacks. There are things in which this no table and progressive age has not shown itself progres sive ; and some of these in regard to which England lags behind most civilised nations —possibly even behind some that do not boast to be civilised—as much as she outruns them in other respects. Exempli gratia, let us take what in this country is called " the staff of life"—in France, still more expres sively, "la benediction de Dieu." The process of bread making does not appear to have altered much since the time of the Pharaohs ; and such improvements as have been made England has been the slowest to adopt. English bread in the astonishment and despair of foreign ers, continental bread the constant theme of travellers' praise ; while as regards those collateral preparations of wheaten and other grain which largely Fupnlement the use of fermented bread in other parts of Europe, and surpass it in powers of nutriment, England has nothing either in respect of new inventions or immemorial tra ditii ns that can be placed on a par with them. It may be doubted, indeed, whether aey part of Eu rope is on the rght track in respect of the manipulation and use of cereal products. There is no more painful misgiving on the subject of our much-vaunted civilisation than that which arises from the gradual substitution all over Europe of white bread for brown, or black—a less wholesome and nutritious kind for one more so. Justly looked upon as one of the surest tests of an ads vancing civilisation, does or does not the use of white wheaten bread, as ordinarily made, imply a deteriora tion in the staple nourishment of the nations ? Or granting that it does so—owing to defects in manufac ture or tricks of trade—need it continue to do so ? These are questions hitherto discussed pretty much en amateur, which one day or other society will be wiled on seriously to determine. At present the qnestian is vastly more pressing for England than for any other country ; and for reasons her no means difficult to define. First, the use of while bread is the rule in England; and is rapidly becoming so in Ireland and Scstland ; while in most other countries it is little more than the exception. Secondly, the pro cesses of English breadmaking are inferior and adultera tions of the material more glaring. Thirdly, English wheat is unquestionably deficient in gluten, its chief nutritive element, compared with contineotal wheats grown in warmer climates ; nor can the importation r f foreignsupply this defect. Fourthly, less use than mo s t other races of the preparations of grain, and sometimes what i 3 d e f ec ti ve i n the bread- the " st a ff o f lif e, " O atmea l , oort bly, wheatsth Englishmore than m ako much partially o o of roots, other countries b ieh barley, meal, maccaroni , polenta, hominy, haricot beans, lentils, we might also say potatoes, are mere luxuries u r accessories of the table in England ; while i n oth e r which supply as the countries they are staples of food, and make the mass of the population comparatively independent of variations in the price or defects in the quality of wheaten bread. Fifthly, theme is much less home grinding and home breadmaking in England than in any other country, and consequently the mischief done by such adult, rations as are prevalent has a much wider scope. This last pecu liarity, like the first, i s the natural and inevitable result of improved facilities of intercourse, greater division of employments, and the predoininsnco of a town popula tion. The others are of older standing, and more bound up with the peculiarities of our climate and character. We are not require to enter into the somewhat trite, but still very far from exhausted discussion, how the alum and other ingredients with which bread is adulterated injure the health of the ipopulation, and they tend in the lung run to detriorate the race. There is the less occasion to do so just now, because if some sanguine people are to be credited we are on the eve of a revolu tion in breadmaking which will effect all that is required, and rid us for ever, by one and the same process, at once of the adulterations of the material and defects in the baking, which bave hitherto had such a baneful effect on the health of the people. Since, some 25 years ago, an enterprising company erected a large factory in Pim lico with the view of utilising the alcohol that is gene rated in the process of baking, we do not remember that any proposed improvement in tt e manufacture has ex cited so much attention as that recently invented by Dr. Dauglisb, and carried out on an extensive scale by Messrs. Carr and Co., Carlisle. No doubt, if the invention succeed, the revolution will b e a thorough and decisive one. Hitherto all the im provements proposed in breadmaking have either taken for granted the necessity of fermentation, or sought to replace it by some she meal prooese of which the harm lessness was, to say the least, exceedingly question 1191 Dr. Dauglish goes more effectively to wore, and, by a simple enough adaptation of processes familiar for other uses, dispenses with all recourse either to the brewer or the chemist, and undertakes to produce bread of a qua• lity superior to any that is made, without any other ingredient than flour, Water, and salt. There are few articles of consumption that have seemingly less analogy than bread and soda -water or other effervescing liquors ; but Dr. Dauglish's Patent is pretty much the same step in the process of breadmaking that was gained by using a macbine to charge liquids with carbonic acid gas. me flour is placed in a strong iron vessel somewhat similar to a Papin's digester, and moistened with aerated water from an adjacent condenser. Then, for the brief period of eight minutes the dough is kneaded by machinery inside the vessel. The vessel is thee opened nod the gas contained in water with which the flour has been mixed, lit,erating itself when the pressure is withdrawn, instantaneously expauds the flour to fi v e or 'ix times its previous bulk ; and behold, the raising of the dough, so tedious and laborious by the old methods, is completed I The process is un deniably a rapid one. Its other a nvantages are set forth by the patentees as follows : " 1. There is a saving of the whole of the waste caused by fermentation, which averages fully 10 per cent. Thus 10 per cont. more bread is made out of a sack of flour than by the old process. 2. The process, instead of occupying eight or ten hours, i Completed iu half an hour. 3. The cost of machinery and gas is hiss than that of yeast used in the old process. 4, The dough requires scarce,y any hand ling to form it into loaves. 5. The bread is absolutely pure ; it is simply flour, water, and salt. Finally, should the whole of the bread in the kingdom be thus made, a saving would be effected of an amount equal to our entire importations of foreign wheat." VoUlcl all these advaotages be realised, there would Sergeant Fitzgerald : Hansi. Mr. Cockerel], Joint Magistrate : Banda. Cut down by Nawab's Sowars. Mr. Bruce, Mr. Brinsum, in the Banda Nawab's service. Reported by the Nawab as murdered. Capt. A. Bkene, with his wife anti two children, Super intendent ; Lieut. F. D. Gordon, Deputy Superintendent ; Mr. T. Andrews, P. S. Ameen ; Mr. R. Andrews, with his wife and four children, Deputy Collector and Deputy Magistrate ; Mr. W. S. Carshore, wife and four children, Collector of Customs ; Mr. Wetton, wife, child, and two sisters, Patrol ; Mr. Orr, wife and mother, Superintendent of Customs ; Capt. J. Dunlop, 12th Native Infantry ; En sign S. B. Taylor, 12th Native Infantry ; Lieut. W. C. L. Ryves, 12th Native Infantry ; Dr. McEgan, wife, and sis ter, 12th Infantry ; Newton, wife, and four children, Quartermaster -Sergeant; Lieut. Campbell, and another cavalry officer, 14th Irregular Cavalry ; Sergeant Ryley, Overseer Publics Works ; Capt. F. J. Burgess, Re venue Surveyor ; Lieut. Turnbull, Assistant Revenue Surveyor; Mr. D. T. Blyth, wife, brother-in-law, and three children, Sub-Assistant Revenue Sur veyor; Mr. H. Millard, wife, and three children, Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr Munrood, Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor; Mr. J. Young, Sub-Assistant Revenue Surveyor ; Mr. Gabriel, Lieutenant Powys, wife and child, Executive Engineer ; Mrs. Browne, wife of Deputy-Commissioner, with sister and child ; Mr. A. Scott, Clerk ' • Mr. Purcell, Clerk • Mr. Purcell, jun., Clerk; Mr. Mntloo, with wife and Child, Clerk ; Mr. Mutleo, jun., Clerk; Mr. Elliott, with father and moth. r, Clerk ; Mr. Crawford, Clerk ; Mr. Fleming, out of service : Jhansi, sth and 6th Juno. Massacred by the mutineers of the 12th Native Infantry and 14th Irre gular Cavalry, aided by the Ranee of Jhansi, who fur nished them with armed men. Mr. T. K. Loyd, Magistrate of Humeerpore ; Mr. Grant, Joint Magistrate of Humeerpore : Humeerpore, 14th June. Murdered by mutineers, who are supposed to have been aided by the R .jah of Cbirkaroe. Captain Burton and his two sons; Political Agent, Ha rowtee Kotah, 15th October. Murdered by the Kotah troops. Mr. Sadder, Sub-Assistant-Surgeon : Kotah, 15th Oct. Captain Monek Mason, Political Agent, Joudhpore : Ahwa, 18th September. Murdered by the, men of the Joudhpore mutineers, aided by the men of the dis affected Thakoors. Mr. Neilson, Veterinary Surgeon : Ferozepore, 19th August. Throat cut from ear to ear by the mutineers of the 10th Cavalry. Major Spencer and the Quartermaster-Sedate:it, 26th Native Infantry ; Mean Meer, 30th Julya Attacked by the men of the regiment Find murdered, along with the Havildar-Major and Soobadar Brigadier Brind, Commanding at Sealkote : Sealkote, 9th July. Killed by mutineers of 9th Light Cavalry. Dr. James Graham, Superintending Surgeon ; Dr. J. C. Graham, Medical Storekeeper : Sealkote, 9th July. Shot dead by mutineers of the 9th Light Cavalry, in their car riages' in presence of their female relatives. Captain Bishop, 45th Native Infantry : Sealkote, 9th July. Murdered by mutineers of the 9th Light Cavalry. Rev. J. Hunter, with wife and child, Missionary : Seal kote, 9th July. Murdered by an Hindoostanee Peon, who bad formerly been a Jemadar of Magistrate's Chuprassees, but reduced for bad conduct. No. 3. List of Europeans, whether belonging to the East India Company's Service or not, who have baen killed or wounded by the hands of rebels. Prep .red from papers on record in the Home Department, Calcutta. Lieut.-Col. Finnic, 11th N. I.; Mrs. Chambers, Captain Macdonald and his wife, Captain Taylor, Lieut. Hender son, Liout. Pattie, 20th N.I. ; Lieut. hlacnabb, Veteri nary-Surgeon Phillips, Veterinary-Surgeon Dawson, his wife and children, 1d Light Cavalry ; Captain Fraser, Sappers and Miners ; Mr. Tregear, Inspector in the E lu cational Department—killed at Meerut by th 9 mutineers, 10th May. Lieut.-Col. Hogge, Artillery; Dr. Christie, 3d Light Cavalry t—wounded at Meerut by the mutineers, 10th May. S. Fraser, Esq., Commissioner and Agent ; Captain Douglas, commanding the Palace Guards; Rev. M. Jen nings, Chaplain ; Miss Jennings, Miss Clifford ; other Eu ropean and Christian residents, names not given ;—killed by the rebels at Delhi, 11th May. Captain Corfield, 9th N. 1.; wounded at Etawah, by a party of rebel Native Cavalry in the attempt to seize them, 16th May. 13riganier Sibl,ald, C. 8., Brigadier Bareilly Division ; Ensign Tucker, 68th N. 1.; Dr. Hay, Doctor Bareilly Di vision • Mr. Robertson, C.S., Judge ; Mr. Orr, Deputy C ; Mr. Raikes, C.S., Additional Sessions Judge ; Dr. Buch, Educational Inspector ; Mr. Aspinall's whole family (Mr. Aspinall was an Uncovenanted Assistant) ; killed in the mutiny at Bareilly, May 31. Mr. Wyatt; Mr. Lawrence, Retired Clerk of the Com missioner's Office, and his family of children ; supposed to have been killed in the mutiny of Bareiily, May 31. Sergeant Staples, Bareilly Briga le ; murdered while flying from Bareilly. Mr. Mordaunt Rickette, C S., Rev. Mr. M`Calluno, Presbyterian Minister, and Mr. Smith, officials and inha bitants of Shabjehanpore—killed by the mutineers in the outbreak at Shabjehanpore, May 31. Lieut. ;Hutchinson, Quartermaster of the 17th N. 1.; shot at Azimgurh by Madho Singh, a Sepoy of the Light Company of the 17th N. 1., June 3. This man owed Lieut. Hutchiuson a grudge. Sergeant Lewis, Quartermaster -Sergeant of the 17th Native Infantry : Azimgurh; dangerously wounded by the mutineers of the 17th N. 1., 3d June. Lieutenant Mara, commanding the two companies of the Loodiana Regiment of Sikhs : shot in the chest while walking in the verandah of the Critcherry at Jounpore, in which place the European inhabitants had taken refuge against a party of sopoy mutineers, sth June. Mr. B. R. Cuppage, C.S., assistant magistrate, shot in the back at Jounpore. He was discovered lifeless on his face by the party who quitted the Catcherry, sth June. Sergeant Big wood, 13th Irregular Cavalry—Sergeant Bigwood was with the fugitive party from Jounpore, but was killed while going to get some papers from his house, sth June. Mr. Thriepland, Deputy Collector of Jounpore, and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Thrieplaud and two children were hid in one of the Court chuprassees houses, ;Jut were be trayed and shot by some sowers 6th June. Lieut. Alexander, 6th N.I. ; ;hot throagh the heart and sabred at Allababad, while striving to make his men do their duty, June 6 Captain Birch, Fort Adjutant; murdered at Allahabad, during the night, June 6. Mr. Cheek, an Unposted Cadet; died at Allahabad, of wounds inflicted by the mutineers of the 6th N.I. He was, with other prisoners in their hands, rescued by the British troops, on the 16th Juno, but died that night in the fort. _ ADMIRALTY, DEC. 14. Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Ca let Thomas P a lmer Norton to be Lieutenant. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT Queen's Own Reyal Regiment of Glasgow and Lower Waid of Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—George Camp boll, late Captain lst Royal Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Sir Archibald J. Campbell, Bart., resigned ; Quaater. master John Howie Paterson tube Cornet, vice Middleton, promoted. 2d Royal Lanarkshire Militia—Chas. Roger, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Mariette, promoted. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia—Joshua Paul Barker, Gent., late of the 44th Regt. of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lomax, resigned. 3d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Royal Lancashire Militia—Francis Law, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Hicks, promoted. 4th or Duke of Lances' er's Own (Light Infantry) Regi ment of Royal Lancashire Militia—William Upton Slack, Gent., to be Ensign. Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia—Loftus John Rolleston, Gent.; to be Ensign. MEMORANDUM. —The Commission of Ensign Alfred Selby, dated March, 18)6, has been cancelled. Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia — Anthony, Walmesley, Gent., late Lieutenant 731 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Meek, promoted ; Pargiter Malvoisie Dickenson, Gent., to be Ensign. i Royal South Gloucester Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Francis William Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Esq., to be Honorary Colonel. Royal North Gloucester Regiment of Militia —Nathaniel Frederick Ellison. Esq., to be Captain. The Galloway Rides—Wm. Robinson Lodge, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Erasmus Gower, appointed to the 12th Lancers. Northamptonshire Militia--Lieut. Robert. Jas. D'Arcy to be Captain, vice Capt. Drur y Wake, resigned. [The following Appointment is substituted for that which appeared in the Gazette of the let December inst.) Northamptonshire Militia—Ensign Charles Jeunins to be Lieutenant, vice William Evans, removed. COPYRIGHT OF' PICTIIRRE4.—the committee of th Society of Arts for considering this subject held their first meeting on Thursday last. There were present Sir C Eastlake, P.R.A., the President of the Society of British Artists, the President of the Society of Painters in Water Colonrs, the President of the Portland Gallery, Dr. R Blaine, C. W. Dilke, R. Fenton, W. Fladgate, G. Godwin, F.R S., J. Leighton, F.S.A., and R. Red. grave, R. A. It is understood that the committee are desirous of obtaining particulars of individual cases as illustrations of the injury arising from the want of legal protection in the way of copyright in works of fine art. 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Thomas Taylor and John Sanger, indigo manufacturers, Soundwell, Gloucestershire, Jan. 4 and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Thomas Roe, machine builder, Nottiug'uam, Jan. 11 and Feb. 4, at half-past ton, at the Shiro-hall, Nottingham. John Porter, lace manufacturer, 011 Radford, Jan. 14 and Fob. 4, at half-past ten, at the Shire-hall, Notting• ham. Georgo Hamilton, cotton spinner, Bacilli, Lancashire. Jan. 5 and Fob. 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District William Rnbinson Urwin, iron merchant, by Court. upon-Tyne, Jan. 8, one, at the Royal Arcalo, Newcastlo-upon-Tyn e • Court of Bankruptcy. Dyne, builders, Croydon, Jan. at half past cloven, ,C oFu Finsbury, s. and F eb. Jan. J a m i; e t s and Brow n,Feb. 2 , a t innkeeper, elev e A D V . , h a t a le they l l 3 a r ai ( n i g o h e e s and ,t N ejra e ß . D. u c i x a sst s t : t o i l a n c e tt , Court. 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