The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-29 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRIJRY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. Acting Manager, Mr. C. Mathews. Stage Manager, Mr. R. Roxby. Scenic Artist, Mr. W. Beverley. The eminent Comedian, Mr. Charles Mathews, every evening. Great Success of the Grand Christmas Pantomime, the Most magnificent ever produced on the English stage. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. Followed by SOMEBODY ELSE, in which Mr. Charles Mathews will sustain his original character. After which will be produced an entirely new and original symbolical, hyperbolical, parabolical, and extra-physiog nomical grotesque, statuesque, and picturesque Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, which for some time past has employed the unrivalled resources of this extensive establishment, and which will be called or entitled, as it is entitled to be called, SEE, SAW, MARGERY DAW ; Or, Harlequin Holiday, and the Island of Ups and Downs. The scenery entirely new, painted by and under the direc tion of Mr. William Beverley and numerous assistants. The Machinery by J. Tacker and assistants. The properties, de corations, tricks, changes, and transformations by Messrs. Needham, Glindon, &c. The masks, models, an d ph ysiog nomieal devices designed and executed by the ce lebrated Dykwynkyn. The overture and music composed and arranged by Herr Anschuez. The choregraphic arrangements under the personal supervision of M. Petit. The comic scenes con structed by and under the direction of Harry Boleno. The peculiar grotesque opening invented. and written by E. L. Blanchard, author of " Harlequin and the Seven Ages of Man," " Jack and Jill," " Humming Top," " Hudibras," &c., and the whole arranged and produced under the direction of %(r. Robert Roxby. Ye anciente and truthful legend on ye which ye pantomime is story is founded : " See, saw, Margery Daw, 4 ' Sold her bed, and laid upon straw." MSS. of Nursery Rhymes in British Museum. R3gion of Reverses, in the Island of Ups and Downs, " Yea, the Great Globe itself." .. Here we go np, up, up, H er e we go down, down, down ; .. Here we go backwards and forwards, " And here we go round and round." Juvenile Chorus of the earliest period, supposed to belong to the One. Up, Mr. Popham ; Down, Mr. Low; Opera beg, Rid Glove, Tiger and Brougham, and Porte-monnaie (attendants upon Up), Signor Lorgnette. Herr Tightfitt, Master Saucebox, and Monsieur Chinque ; Hard Up, Dupli eate, Distraint, and Rags (attendants upon Down), Mr. Friz hard, Mr. Popall, Mr. Quodham, and Mr. Patchwell. An nual appearance of Holyday in her Emblematic Car. Holyday (the Genius of the Season), Miss Marian Stanley ; Sport and Paitime (her attendants), Misses Lovelaugh and Lightheart ; Dame Necessity (who is on this occasion made a virtue of by particular desire), Mrs. Selby. Now Invention, the Daughter of Necessity, is called upon to assist the development of the story, while Holyday nvites both Up and Down to enjoy thOmselves. Holyday's Home in the Green Bower of Mistletoe and Winter Garden of the Fairies.—Mistletoe (the Fairy Queen), Miss E. Wadham ; Fairy Spirits of the Kisses that have bees given under the Mistletoe, by upwards of 100 Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Grand Ballet —Miss Rosina Wright, Mdlles. J. and E. Osmont, and the Co eyphees. The Golden Gates leading to the Palace of Huggamugga.—Herald (with a Proclamation), Mr. Hornogold ; Guards, Messrs. Stiffneck, Headsup, Eyesright, Shenlderarms. Stand-at-ease, and March well ; Tailor, Mr. Broadcloth ; Cobbler, Mr. Waxend ; Black smith, Mr. Anvil; the Princess Margery Daw (afterwards Columbine), Madame Boleno ; Sillily and Shelly (her Maids of Honour), Misses Dithery and Dothery. How Margery Daw has no notion of work herself, and the contempt she shows towards those who do work. Interior of the Palace of King Hrtggamugga. King Huggainngga (Sovereign of the Land of Sixes and Sevens), Mr. Dawking r Flnryl-Burly (Lord Chancellor), Mr. Bigwig ; Niminy-Pirniny (the Lord Cham berlain), Mr. Noodledom ; Hige,ledy-Piggledy (Goldstiek in Waiting), Mr. Muddle ; other Members of the Court. Messrs. Bow, Scrape, Cringe, Crouch, Tagvag , Merrywag , Perri w ig , and Hatband; Court Milliner, Madame Crinoline ; Drawing Master, Professor Crayon ; Governess, Miss Frump ; Music- Master, signor Hnrdigurdi ; Maid in Waiting, Miss Swet t -raper, Vhef de Cuisine, Mr. Cook : Prince Popinjay (of the Land of Prettistory), Mr. Finefeather ; his Retinue, elessrs. Glare, Dazzle, Gleam, Glitter, and Cuta.shiee. How the Princess is taught a wholesome lesson by Necessity, and of the change that takes place in consequence. Cottage of Necessity, with a Prospect of Hard Work in the Distance. The Enchanted Workbox—The Sampler and the Exemplar, and the pretty piece of work that Margery Daw makes of it. Inhabitants of the Workbox :—Row of Pins, Messrs. Sharp, Bent, Crooked, Pinaday, Groatayear, &c. ; Regiment of Needles (ready drilled), Messrs. Largeeye, Smalley°, Longsix, Splitup, Snapoff, &c. ; Thimble, Master Toth Thumb ; Worsted, Mr. Bewlaway ; Bodkin, Mr. Pierce ; Tape Mea sure, Mr. Inchhald; Hook and Eye, Messrs. How and Some bodyelse ; Shirt Buttons, Mr. Ea.rlypurly ; Scissors, Mr. Shearsteel. How Margery Daw makes an important discovery sad the audience also, and how, led by Necessity, she is com pelled to alter her opinions and change her position. The Mine of Labour, leading to the Mine of Wealth —Labonr (the Parent of Health, Wealth, and liaepittees), Mr. Strong'i'th'arm. What Margery Daw goes to see, what she saw, and the re ward that Holyday bestows Grend Scenic and Mechanical Effects, exhibiting (in processor constenction) the Fairy Fac tory of Fancy, completed with the assistance of Labour and Imagination. Brilliant Tableau. Ti e Transformation : —Two Harlequins, Herr Denlin and Signor Veroni; two Sprites, the Brothers Elliott ; two Pantaloor s, Mr. Barnes and Mr. G. Tanner; two Clowns, Messrs. Tlarry Boleno and Flexmore ; the Gent. Mr. Halferd ; two Columbines, Madame Boleno and Miss Honey. The Ups and Downs of the Harlequinade, showing the Ins and Outs and Turns About of the Pantomime Rally ; Toy Warehouse, Butcher's and Baker's Shop (P.olenom. Deulin, Tanner, and !Telford).— A pink of polite new —Clown very toyish—Getting a nutcracker, which turns out a nobby tov—First and last toys for gambling—Marbles versus dice—Despatches, loaded, and off they go—Harlequin takes a private box—Clown takes Chat terton's situation as beekeeper Kite-flying— A game of Crieket, by which some of the players get bowled out, and afterwards stumped, which turns out a long stop—The neesand abuses of the crin oline A .lack in the box—A. box of regular British toys and a basket of French bread (bricks)—Aldershott a size smaller —Grand review of infantry—A military ball—Going in for a buster—Coming nut with a roll—Clown make a peel t baker's feelings—List, oh, List—Squaring a round of beef— Clown takes a steak and gets a chop in return—Pantaloon tries his hand at a game and loses by it Cut and come again Clown takes a butcher's shop which Harlequin makes too het to hold him. Tailor's Shop and Perfumery Warehouse (Ve. roni, Barnes, and Honey). A gentleman in search of a tailor— A suit that is quite the ticket Tee Onde wrapper—Railway wrappers-- Transfer depot—Washing mach i n e--extraordi nary— Something that won't wash—Cleaned out-- Soen tin and sent out- Foreign versus English toothpowder—Hungary water—A Frangipani bouquet Wonderful effects of the Pistachio nut powder A case of real distress—Pantaloon in a fix—Fur nished Apartments for Single Men (Bolenos, Denlin, and Tanner).—Clown and Pantaloon in high life A domestic re volution—lttrning the tables—To bed, to bed A drop too much Clown now begine to reflect—The looking-glass follows his example—Two heads better than one—Clown takes a turn on the sofa, which also takes a turn on its own account "Sultiplication altercation, which ends with a regular row in the house. Judkin's Gas-regulating Machine and General Patent Office and Stationer's Shop (Veroni, Barnes, and Honey.)—Clown, being in Fleet-street. goes the pace rather fast—The language of the eyes (Malian of course) which everybody understands—Bath post versus London post—Re gulators Wanted : railway regulators, army regulators, gas regulators, smoke regulators—Sewing, cutting, washing, pressing, and ironing * done by a turn—Clown makes a shift which makes Pantaloon a little shirty—A box of common scents—A fresh supply of blacks from America—A Dred-ful scene ensues. Mechi's Model Farm (Bolenos, Detdin, and Tanner.)—Harvest-home —A rakish dance by rustic lads and lasses—The milky way : 1 Harlequin makes a pump of himself —A strong smell of game—A farm-yard gisitor—Clown finds the pig a very great bore—Pantaloon finds the dog gets greatly attached to him —Prize Poultry—Cochin China and conch in England Novel hatching—Tile old mail—Full in side—Clown eft' by the Express and Pantaloon by the Rocket— Mappin's Cutlery and Shilling Razor Warehouse, King William-street, City (the whole of the double eempany will appear in this scene )—Pantaloon proposes to take a bus—Present and future—Weight. of public opinion —A change for the better—The people's own bus—When fool meets fool then comes the tug of fun—Collision, crash, smash, and dash—Garotte preventive—Moustache move ment"A pair of sharp Monies—Clowns prove themselves a case for cutlery Holloway stopped by Holloway's oint ment—The duel—A cut direct—Forewarned, forearmed— Public nuisances of 1856—0 h, my Crinoline—A high wind, a regular blow up, and glorious termination to Ups and Downs in Holiday's Fairy Home. The reduced prices as follows, varying throughout the house to snit every one :—Galleries, fldf and ls. ; Second Circle of Ilexes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, 2s. ; First Circle of Boxes 2s. Gd. ; Dress Boxes, 35.; Stalls, As. ; P r i va t e B oxes , lOs. ls., 1/. lls. 6d., and 2/. 28.1 A Morning Performance of the Great Pantomime every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon. THIS EVENING will he produced an entirely new and original combination of burlesque and pantomime, entitled CONRAD AND MEDORA; or, Hailequin Corsair and the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the Rea. The burlesque opening by W. Brough, sq., at E founded upon the ballet of Le Corsair, as produced Her INestv's Theatre, The harlegninade upon things in gene ral. The new an d magn ifi cen t sc enery painted by Mr. F. Fenton. Characters in the opening : Conrad (the Corsair) Miss Woolgar Birbarto (his lieutenant) Mr. J. L. Toole Seyde Pasha Mr. Barrett sing &maul Mr. Holston Ynssi ft Mr. S. Calhaeml Medora Mrs. Charles Dillon (lulnar .. ........................... Mrs. B White Zuliem ..................... Mrs. lfelville Serena Snbmarina Miss Jessie Ryder, Miss Marie IVilton Clowns r. Torn Matthews and Pantaloon Mr. H. Ma rs h a ll Mr. Stilt Harlequin ...Mr. J Marshall Sprites The Brothers Nelson. Columbines Miss Clara Morgan and Miss Ladd. To be preceded by THE KING'S MUSKETEERS. D'Ar. tagnaa, Mr. C. Dillon. The box-office open daily, from 11 to 5, under the super. itendence of Mr. Chatterton. jun. Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to set down at the State entrance in Bur 2 leigh-street. A Morning Performance every Saturday, ato'clock. TRAND THEATRE. —Manager, Me. T. ► Payne.—Thip, Evening will he periorroed THE PERILS OF CRINOLINE. Followed by DON'T LEND YOUR UMBRELLA. After which, the immensely successful novel Burlesque Pantomime of THE MAGIC MISTLETOE ; or, Harlequin Humbug and the Shams of London. The Fairy Christmas, Miss E. Wilton; Good Humour Miss Norbury ; Mercury, Wigs Cameron ; Humbug, Mr. Herbert; Cant, Mr. Bolton ; Baron, Mr J. B. Johnstone ; Sir Roland, Mr. Clarke ; Lord Love)., Miss Craven ; Addefinte, Miss Cuthbert ; Crambo, Master W. Edouin ; Lady Agnes, Miss E. Jacobs ; Baroness, Ar, G. Lee ; Furbilosa, Mr. J. Howard. Novel Harle. quisade :—Clown, Miss Cuthbert ; Little Clown, Masts: W Eciouin ; Pantaloon, Mr. J. Clarke ; Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbines. Miss E. Jacobs and Mdle. Collison ; Premier Bansense, Mdle. Marie Charles. New And magnificent Scenery, Jic. New Curtain, New Mt Mop. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, ls. ; Gallery, 64. A morning performance of the'Pantomimo every Monday at two o'clock ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin and the Genii of the Ring. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Co. lumbine, Miss C. Adams. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, with Mr. Murdoch as Charles Surface ; Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. Chippendale ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Buckstone ; Crabtree, Mr. Compton; Joseph Surface, Mr. Howe ; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Rogers ; Moses, Mr. Clark ; Sir Harry (with a song), Mr. W. Farren ; Lady Teazle, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Candour, Miss Talbot ; Lady Sneerwell, Mrs. Poynter ; Maria, Miss E. Sabine. After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE BABES IN THE WOOD, or Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle. The scenery of the opening story painted by Mr. W. Callcott. The pantomime produced under the direction of M. Milano. Harlequin, M. Milano ; Columbine, Fanny Wright; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay; and Clown, Mr. Driver. A Morning performance of the Pantomime will be given every Thursday ; commencing at 2, concluding at 4. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, an original play, in three acts, entitled A BIRD IN THE HAND WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH. Roderick Praiseworthy, Mr. Shepherd. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE SUMMER QUEEN. Harlequin, Mr. F. Glover ; Clown, Mr. Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Bradbury; the Four Sprites, the Fills Fa mily; Columbines, Mesdames Marie and Agnes. T HEATRE ROYAL, A DEL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. Great Hit of A Night at :Notting-Hill. THIS EVENING will be performed DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which Mr. Wright and Pail Bedford will appear. To conclude with the new and original union of modern burlesque and old English pantomime (as originated at this theatre), by Professor Wordspinner, Member of Every thing, with entirely new scenery, dresses, transformations, &c., called THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVVNIINIG," JANEPARY 29, 1867. MOTHER SHIPTON ; or, Harlequin Knight of Love, and the Enchanted Whistle. Harlequin and Columbine (a la Watteau), Madame Celeste and Miss Wyndham ; Clown, Mr. Garden ; Pantaloon, Mr. Moreland; Scaramoueh, Mr. Le Barr. Characters in the bur lesque by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. R. Romer, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, Miss Mary Keeley, Miss Kate Kelly, Miss Arden, &e. THEATRE ROYAL, SADLER'S-WELLS. Under the Management of Mr. Phelps. THIS EVENING, TWELFTH NIGHT. MalvOlio, Mr. Phelps ; Orsino, Mr. F. Robinson ; Aguecheek, Mr. H. Mar ston ; Belch, Mr. J. W. Ray ; Clown, Mr. L. Ball; Olivia, Miss Atkinson ; Viola, Miss M. Eburne. To conclude with the pantomime, THE GENIE AND THE FISHERMAN. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. G. Vining and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling. A new Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., called YOUNG AND HANDSOME. M essrs. F . Robson, togers, Leslie, G. Cooke, Danvers. Misses Swanborough, Thirlwall, St. Caere, Castleton, Bromley, ,Haskell, and Mrs. Melfort. After which, CRINOLINE. Commence at half-past Seven. A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. THIS EVENING (First Week !), the risible Comedy called KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO (as taken by Garrick from Shakspeare's " Taming of the Shrew"), with Mr. W. Cooke's Equestrian Illustrations. Petruchio, Mr. James Holloway. After which, the EQUESTRIAN EXERCISES in tke ARENA. To conclude with the succeasful equestrian comic panto mime, called PAUL PRY ON HORSEBACK; or, Har lequin and the Magic Horseshoe, Doors open at half-past six ; commence at a quarter be fore seven o'clock. fox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun. A Morning Performance every Satnr(Liy, at Two o'clock, CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.— OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of .4 elections from all the popular Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., viz. —Miss E. Pearce, Mrs, J. Caulfield, Miss Brunel], Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. longliman3, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corgi, Senor Antonio M. de Solla, and E. L. Hime ; Masters Austin, Bennett, and vorri ; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins. Pianoforte, J. i I arro way, R. A.; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre cisely, Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock. Mr. C. Merton's Annual Full Dress Ball will take place on Wednesday, Feb. IS. Gentleman's ticket, 7s ; lady's ditto, 5s double ticket (lady and gentleman or two lathes), 10s. Ala a w.A.Trat AT LONDON BRIDGE. inns LSAT—Morn. 1.2 min. aft. 4—Evening 32 Lain. aft. 4 ';' , 7.-7.in - r.ow—.llorri. 31 min. aft. 4—Evening 12 win. aft. 5 WEATELEK—SUN OFFICE, JANUARY 29. TI37,R3IOIIETER, IN Till SHADS. 34 -biFAht !Jinn noon yesterday. 23 -lowest this morning and during the night. 34 —this day at noon. iLfa.1,..1 - 61117t, 29 . 84. WIND, N.N.E. Light, with fine, frosty weather. ) % Ya k f, 7S\ /111 tft `;•. 0 L )Ni ON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 18L7 Those who in URQUHART and Manchester style exulted so much in the convicting, as they thought, our English authorities at Canton; of illegal and cruel proceedings, seem likely to be themselves convicted of mere partisanship. With a certain school everything done by our colonial commissioners and admirals is necessarily wrong. They are wrong if they allow British trade and commerce to be insulted and injured, but much more wrong if they punish insults and injuries, especially if committed by semi-barbarians. Now, there are, doubtless, abuses of authority, and mismanagement in plenty, abroad as well as at home, but we cannot give in to the practice of condemning our own countrymen under circum stances so different to those which surround us, except upon the fullest information. From the first despatches, it might seem that the warlike proceedings were commenced upon ground technically illegal, the Arrow's British register having, it was said, expired for 11 days. But even this now appears to be improbable, to say the least. It appears that by the Colonial Act, if she left Hong Kong before the register expired, she was entitled to its benefit till by her return she was enabled to renew it. As, in accordance with one of the conditions of the Act, she had still her English master, Mr. KENNEDY, it hardly seems likely that he, for his own safety's sake, would suffer his vessel to lapse into a Chi nese one ; well knowing, as he must do, the tem per of YEH and his Canton rabble towards Englishmen. 1 Be this, however, as it may, it is very clear that the Chinese fully intended to insult our flag, and to defy the Treaty. They had duly been made acquainted with the Act which authorised colonial registers of Chinese built vessels on the conditions, principally, of paying a thousand dollars for it, and ten dollars annually for its renewal—next of having an English master—. next of having the name painted in very large letters both in English and Chinese on the stern. The latter fact, especially in connection with that of the flag being flying at the time the Arrow was boarded, shows that the Chinese must have been cognisant of the British character of the vessel. YEfr, himself, proves by his own remarks that he knew of the registration ; he objects, indeed, to colonial registrati on . But the objection was too l ate ; it ought to have been taken when the Ac t was first communicated to him. Nothing can be clearer, therefore, than the intent of YE; to gain a triumph over the barbarians, and to digrace us in the eyes of his brutal populace. It p 1 pe o b are e , too, as we all alon g expected would prove to the fact, that this was not the first act of the kind, but one of many similar acts. About a ' year before YEH had seized a lorcha under British colours, had dismantled her, had surrendered o n l y to men.of-war's boats, that only her bull had even then been recovered, and that, after weeks of fruit less negotiation, her owners had obtained no re dress. Some ten years previously four English- men were barbarously tortured and murdered only three miles from the city, while seeking a 1 , , little fresh air out of the close factories. Ships and brick walls are the only places, it would seem, within which Englishmen may move or breathe at Canton. In the interior, not long after, a French missionary was barbarously murdered, and three others barely escaped with their lives, all in direct contravention of the last Treaty. Now, there does seem no conceivable reason why Canton should longer evade the fulfil ment of treaties and agreements any more than the other four ports. One of them, Pow-Chow, wished to play the same game as Canton, but it was not permitted to do so ; and the result has been that we have had peaceful relations there, and both natives and foreigners have profited by our firmness. At Canton, on the contrary, for bearance has received the only interpretation which semi - barbarians, like Russians and Chinese, always put upon it—that fear was at the bottom. Henc© a series of unendurable insults and injuries, till the English authorities apparently resolved that the next must be the last. That next was the boarding of the Arrow. Satisfaction was demanded. It was granted in the style which, if accepted, would only increase the radical mischief ; and Admiral SEYMOUR, most properly, we think, demanded that the haughty system, directly in the teeth of treaties 'and subsequent agreements, of refusing to foreign 'authorities direct intercourse with Chinese officials should now cease. Hitherto we must think the Admiral has acted with equal humanity and courage. He has destroyed nothing but forts built to protect vio lations of the treaty, and Government buildings belonging to the obdurate and really guilty par ties. Canton, as yet, has been treated like Odessa. Apparently with the same results, for YEn has set fire to the factories though we respected the Chinese private property. We must continue also to lay the same stress, as we have yet done, o'h the cordial acquiescence of the mercantile community at Canton in the Ad miral's proceedings. Both public and private in formation show that all the merchants approve the measures taken. When we consider the ex traordinary sensitiveness of trade to any inter ruption, this circumstance has the greatest weight. Merchants and traders generally are prone to bear with too much for the sake of peace and quiet. They are not the men for merely political wars or revolutions, except under the most pressing neces sity. Think of the BRIGHT and COBDEN class endorsing an Admiral's acts ! We may be sure when this is the case that they were indispensable ; that the interruption of trade itself was better than the continu ance of injuries and insults which longer forbear. ance would engender. The time was come to put a stop to all that—to demand that fo reigners should be treated as equals of the Chinese ; at least that they should enjoy at Canton the reasonable privileges which they pos sess at the other Chinese ports, and to which they are entitled by treaty. We want the War Income Tax repealed ; and have, therefore, as little desire as any can have to incur the cast of needless Eastern wars ; but the "Arrow" case is a very different one to the great "Mrs. HA.SHEM case." We hope, too, that YElf or his master will be made t. pay the cost of war if he force it on us ; indeed this seems likely, since China had to pay before, without any regard to her EMPEROR'S " dignity.' It is only the dignity of political felons of far deeper dye, such as Czars who iiivade other rulers' territory, to save which we must pay a War Income Tax in time of peace, instead of making the arch-burglar bear the expense of expelling him from his neigh bour's dwelling. Now, however, the time is come to compel the Chinese Government to grant all reasonable facilities to Europeans for trading with them. The people generally wish it, for they avail themselves of all that we have gained from the EMPEROR and his mandarins. We hope therefore a better treaty than before will now be exacted. H.M.S. The Royal Frederick—a glorious man of-war, carrying 116 guns, having aburden of 3,100 tons, and constructed at a cost to the country of upwards of 100,0001.—is just discovered to be very seriously affected by the dry-rot. Observe ! —this magnificent three-decker is only just now discovered to be very seriously affected by the dry-rot, after having remained actually seven and-twenty years on the stocks, never having yet to this very day been launched ! It is only another illustration, we are perfectly aware, of a well known and even notorious grievance. But it is a very striking illustration—an illus tration so peculiarly significant in its way, that we cannot but regard it as one entitled to a few moments deliberate consideration. There are many other ships of war, besides this one, lying idle in our dockyards —many others that have been lying idle there for years past, rotting away iu like manner upon the stocks, and destined, so far as one can at all calculate, to remain there for yet many years longer, until they shall at length, in the fullness of time, be broken up at hit, and carted away as rubbish by a remote posterity ! There are absolutely, in some of our dock yards, men-of-war situated like this by twos and by threes " all of a row"—fastened like so many village varlets " in the stocks"—fixtures as inexorably bound there, apparently, as ever THESEUS was bound to the Chair of Hell ! But the Royal Frederick, although in no respect an exceptional case, is, at the same time we must admit, a very startling one. One so startling, so strikingly illustrative of the monstrous evil doings of the Admiralty in this particular, that we do seriously think it is an example not to be passed by as of no peculiar significance. What are the simple facts of the Case ? Here —in H.ALS. the Royal Frederick, of 116 guns, of 3,100 tons burden, built twenty-seven years ago at a cost of more than 100,0001. —is a magnificent man-of-war which has never yet been launched, and is only now, at the close of the January of 1 857, found to be very seriously affected by the dry -rot ! The keel and other parts of her are so far injured as to be, to all intents and purposes, utterly worthless ! Literally, the vessel we are now writing about is what we may call an "artificial ruin' of a very noble specimen of maritime architecture. As a noble specimen of her class, beyond all doubt, this vessel must still be regarded ; but then, as has been recently remarked in commercial phra seology, and remarked, too, be it observed, very judiciously, it is a class of vessels latterly placed at a discount by the modern tendency to con struct ships-of-war not merely of a heavier ton nage, but ships all but endowed with vitality by being fitted up with the screw-propeller ! Where fore it is not to us the least bit in the world surprising to learn now that it is intended that the Royal Frederick shall, in the twenty-eighth year of her existence, be treated as so many other vessels of the same class have already been treated in slow succession ! It is only hearing the same old story all over again when we are told now , as we actually are told, that it i s con templated in re gar d to the Royal Fred er i c k t o cut her in,f I to lengthen her—and to fit her ) up with the screw I Repairing, of eourse, while so doing, the serious damage dose during all those seven-and-twenty years by the dry-rot ! And— [a word in the ear of JOHN BULL] —" That's the way the money goes !" Thousands upon thou sands squandered upon the construction of ships of war which are, with wanton extravagance, allowed to rot away upon the stocks before it is ever dreamt of their being launched ! And —then, when the mischief has been done effectually by time and neglect—then, when the very keel is decayed and the hull is foand to be crumbling away piecemeal—then, forsooth, it is sagaciously discovered that the whole affair has been an egregious mistake from the very begin ning ! It proves then, and then only, that the unfortunate " wreck-in-still -water " is not long enough—is not heavy enough—is not, in point of fact, big enough ; it has to be cut in two— its length from stem to stern has to be increased —it has, last but not least, to be fitted up de MVO with the screw propeller ! It is precisely thus at this very time, as we have seen, with H.M.S. The Royal Frederick. A magnificent ship that has been lying in the stocks uninter ruptedly ever since the year 1830 ! A man-of war built, at the close of the reign of King GEORGE I - T.—allowed to remain idle and unmo lested in Portsmouth Dockyard during the whole of the reign of King WILLIAM IV.—and at length, in the twentieth year of the reign of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen VICTORIA, is found to be in want of we don't know what all, before there can be any possibility of her (even now) being launched ! Like men, like ships :as "The Immortal Bard" hath it— " And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe ; And so from hour to hour we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale I " GOYERNAfENT WASTE. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 28.—1 t has this week been dino- Tared that the Royal Frederick, 116 guns and 3,100 tons burden—a vessel not yet launched, has the dry rot to a very serious extent. The keel and other parts of the vessel are affected. The Royal Frederick has been on the stocks 27 years—the tendency to build ships of hea vier tonnage and for the screw-propeller having placed the class of vessels to which she belongs at a discount. Like others of that class, it is now, however, contem plated cutting her in half, lengthening her, and fitting her for a screw. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Theresa Lewis left town yesterday for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli will receive a party of members of the House of Commons to dinner on Monday next, at his residence ; Grosvenor-gate. A marriage is shortly to take place between the Hon. Richard Handcock and the Hon. Louisa Mati:da Harris, daughter of the late Lord Harris. The following report of the medical gentlemen attend. ing the Earl of Harewood was issued on Tuesday morning :—" The Earl of Harewood has passed a quiet night, with some tranquil sleep. His lordship continues aenscious and free from fever.—Harewood House, Tues day morning, Jan. 27." The answer to inquiries made yesterday was that his lordship continues in the same condition. The steamer Madrid has taken out 14,6601. in specie to the Peninsula. The Heather Bell, homeward bound from Melbourne, with a large quantity of gold, is calculated to have been at sea about 88 days. EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.—The screw steam-ship City of Baltimore, Captain Robert Leitch, sailed this forenoon for New York, with 172 passengers. REPRESENTATION OF FINSBURY.—A rumour very extensively prevails throughout the borough that a can vass is going on in behalf of a gentleman named Cox, a solicitor residing in Islington, who is ambitious of repre senting the borough in the House of Commons. ST. MARTIN'S HALL.—Mr. Charles Cotton, a gentle. man not unknown to fame as a public lecturer, com menced a new entertainment last night at St. Mart n's Hall, entitled the " Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle," with great success. MINING PROPERTY AT GARRAWAY'S.—Yesterday the Great Rough Tor Consuls Copper Mine, near Camelford Cornwall, now in full it orking, together with the build ings, machinery, and other articles forming the entir e plant, were put up for sale. No bid was given. At a meeting of the United Mexican Mining Asso ciation held yesterday the report of the directors, after a lengthened discussion, was adopted, and it was agreed to empower them to raise the remaining 6,5001. of the 21,5001. voted in 1854 to carry on the workings of the Jesus !traria Mine, the returns from which have latterly improved. Ad vices from Parris state that the construction of the Ferdinand Railway of Tuscany, the particulars of which were put forth in London yesterday, has been contracted for by Messrs. Burroni Brothers, of Florence, at a sum of 732,0001., or 68,0001. below the amount of the gua ranteed capital. The caution money of 48,0001. has been deposited. The half-yearly meeting of the London and North Western Railway Company is called f or th e 29th o f February. A resolution will be submitted " for the consolidation into stock of so many of the London and Birmingham 201. shares, and the Manchester and Bir minghain C 101. shares, as have been fully paid up." THE WRECK OF THE NORTHERN BELLE.—The un lading of this vessel, now lying on the rocks at King a gate, is rapidly progressing. Several thousand barrels of flour and wheat have already been safely landed by the loggers Fame:and :Inrirea addition e d n n t g hatatozoetftße s ome .ro it ad q s u t a a n ir t s, y faos ssai as sisted beefd by :Margate in ah° g b a o n r of Sappers and Mi ners i s companyNo Norfolk Island, mistak mistake. No N as o sis s t uc i h n forming T placed h e u r n e a p d o er r t ot convicthrda e t r a s settlement, orders have been given. Some small. force is to be sent to the Falklands, to replace the exist ing guard, but o n ly for for ordinary duty, and not to form a convict establish ment. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The morning performance of the Great Pantomime attracted an immense audience. Amongst and the the royal family visitors fwaenly of France. Duringoticedtheex-Quee n of the French the week the theatre has been honoured by the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of Buck ingham, Lord Tankerville, and a host of the nobility. Her Majesty's steam ships Sonoom and Megmra are announced to sail for the Cape of Good Hope and the Mauritius, and we feel it is not too much to ask of the Post-office authorities to despatch mails by each vessel. At all events the mercantile classes connected with those colonies would be glad to take advantage to some extent of the opportunities offered to them. THE NATIONAL HALL, HOLEOEN.—The lessee of the National Hall, Holborn, has received from the Metro politan Police Commissioners a notice under the Me tropolitan Buildings Act, 18 and 19 Viet., cap. 122, sec. 2, requiring him to take down the side walls of the structure, from the level of the gallery fleora upwards, where bulged out of the perpendicular. In consequence of this notice the public meeting of the National Sunday League, which was to have been held there was postponed. RUMOURED OPERATION OF ROTHSCRILD IN THE WHISKY MARKET.—A report got abroad last week in the spirit trade that Baron Rothschild, the great capi talist, bad purchased 7,000 puncheons of the Caledonian Distillery Company, Edinburgh. As the report was operating injuriously on the market, a gentleman in town, a few days ago, addressed a note to the Baron on the subject, and he received a courteous note in course of post, stating that there was not a shadow of truth in the rumour referred to.—North Britisi Mail. ACCIDENT TO A LIVERPOOL FERRY STEAMER.—An ac cident, which for a time caused general alarm, occurred on Tuesday evening on board the ferry steamer Wallasey, which plies between Egremont (the Cheshire side) and the landing stage. The Wallasey left Egremont as usual at 7 o'clock, and it is supposed that in crossing the river her bottom came in contact with the anchor of the steamer Fairy, inasmuch as she began to fill immediately. In order to save the lives of those on board the captain signalled for assistance, when the Tiger ferry-boat, hap pening to be close, took off the crew and passengers, excepting two of the former, who remained on board, but who were afterwards saved in the small boat. The Wallasey was then steered for the Prince's Dock basin, which she succeeded in reaching, when she immediately sank. BOAT ACCIDENT.—The John o'Groat Journal records another of those terrible calamities with which the fisher men of the Zetland Islands are so often visited—viz., the loss of a boat, with not only all her own hands, but five others who were passengers. The boat left Lerwick, to return home, on the morning of Wednesday, the 14th instant, but never reached her destination, nor have there been any left to tell the tale of her fate. There were, in all, ten men in th e b oa t . F ive o f these had been fishing in it during the p as t season, an d were car rying, home their entire earnings, so that four families have been both bereaved and left totally destitute by this terrible stroke. Five of the men were married, and four, if not all five, have left families. Two of the young men were on the eve of marriage, one of them having left his bride elect in Lerwick fora few days, intending to return for l her. In a duplicate account of the accident, received by the same mail from Z e tl an d , it i s state d that 12 lives were lost. In his description of the accident our correspondent writes six.oar boat belonging to the Luichness left town between 11 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon deeply laden with wood and other goods, and containing, besides, eleven men and a female. She was observed to have performed the voyage in safety until she passed Mousa, but she wa s never a f terwar d s risen. The alarm was first given by t wo p ersons w ho had missed their passage in the boat, and who subsequently had gone home by other conveyance ; and the fears then entertained were confirmed by th e b oa t, con t a i n i ng little or nothing of her cargo, drifting asho r e at Noness Head. According to the latest account s , none o f th e bodies had some quantity o f th e goo ds has since fl be o e a n ted fo a u s n h d o , ut re b . It is stated th a t th e p a rty were ail perfectly sober. LATES r NE 14 S. MARSEILLES, WEDNESDAY. By the Carmel, which left Constantinople on the 19th, we have Eastern news to that date. The Russians have evacuated the Isle of Ser pents. The English squadron has left the Black Sea and returned to the Bosphorus. The disorders in Lebanon have been put down. The Circassians have divided their forces into three corps. The first, the army of Abchasia ; the second of Lesghistan ; the third, of Kabarda. Their forces are very considerable, and have alarmed the Russians, compelling them to concen trate their troops on the banks of the Kur. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received our advices in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The dates are Bombay, Jan. 2 ; Calcutta, Dec. 22 ; Madras, Dec. 27 ; and Hong Kong, Dec. 16. CAPTURE OF BUSHIRE. The following is from the Bombay correspond ent of the Times : BOMBAY, Jan. 2.—On the morning of Sunday, the 9th, the force commenced its advance upon Bushire, distant about 12 miles. I should men tion, by the way, as it may occur to you to won der that a nearer point was not selected for the disembarkation, that the coast from Bushire to Halilla Bay presents an unbroken line of cliff, of no great height indeed, yet quite insurmountable for artillery, while in the bight of the bay the land slopes gently upwards from a fine broad beach. The first brigade, commanded by Co lonel Stopford, was on the right ; the second, under Colonel Honner, on the left. The steam frigates moved on the left flank of the army in support. Gradually drawing ahead, Sir Henry Leeke, in the Assaye, found himself about noon abreast of the old Portuguese (in the despatches called Dutch) Fort of Rushire, four and a half miles below Bushire. This and the neighbouring ruins he observed to be occupied in force by the enemy. The position is described as a strong one, the fort having the cliff on one side, and a wall and ditch, deep though dry, on the others. The Assaye, at 1,700 yards distance, immediately opened with shot and shell from her eight-inch guns. The effects were shortly seen in the preci pitate flight from the fort of a large portion of its garrison, of which the whole force is estimated, at from 1,500 to 2,000 men. Some 800, as it is supposed, remained, however, to stand the attack of the army, which was now rapidly approaching in line. As the troops came up with the enemy the Assaye necessarily ceasod firing, and General Stalker finding the balls dropping among his men gave the word for the assault. Brigadier Stopford had dismounted to lead his brigade in the rush at the works. With a wave of his sword ho was just calling to the men of his own regiment, the 64th, to come on, when a matchlock ball struck him on the breast, and he dropped dead upon the spot, shot through the heart. Furious at the fall of their colonel, his corps dashed at the enemy's position, and in honourable rivalry with the Europeans was the other regiment of the brigade, the 20th Native Infantry, through whose ranks went the cry that the corps had never been in action before, and that now was the time to show. what it could do. The 2d Europeans and the rest of the second brigade were also well up. For a while the fighting was sharp, and the bayonet bloodily at work as the assailants forced the enemy back from the ruined houses and garden walls, and closed upon the fort. That entered, the survi vors among its defenders broke out and endea voured to effect their escape. Many slipped down the low cliff, and were making off unper ceived, till the 4th Rifles, who were on the extreme left of the advance resting upon the sea, caught' ight of them and brought their fire to bear upon them with fatal effect. Others got out upon the plain and were then charged by the Poonah horse and the squadron of the 3d Cavalry. In command of the . latter was Colonel Malet. This officer in the mele6 saved the life of a man whom a trooper was about to cut down. The Colonel turned away, and the scoundrel catching up his matchlock, which he had dropped in im ploring quarter, shot his benefactor dead. Two other officers fell in the affair, both Lieutenants in the 20th, Utterson and . Warren, and yet— most strange disproportion —one only was returned as wounded. Among the native and non commissioned officers and men, the loss amounted to six killed and 35 wounded. Our opponents in this smart skirmish were not regular Persian troops, but Arab mercenaries belonging to two of the most powerful among the sea coast tribes —the Dashti and the Tangestooni—and last, it is believed, three chiefs of note, besides great numbers of lower degree. Meanwhile Captain Jones, the Resident, had proceeded to Bushire iu a small steamer, bearing a summons to the Governor to surrender, and offering most favourable conditions, both to sol diers and non-combatants. But his flag of truce was fired upon from the town, and he returned to the Admiral. An apology from the Governor followed, disclaiming the discourteous act, which he attributed to the ignorance of an artilleryman, and begging for 24 hours' delay, which the Gene ral and Admiral promptly refused. The anchorage was buoyed during the night by the boats of the fleet, and at eight on the morning of the 10th the steamers anchored off the defences of the town with springs upon their cables, while the army approached upon the land side. A redoubt commanding the works on the plain, from which Bushire derives its supply of water, was shelled in the morning by some of the lighter vessels, and its garrison forced to retire into the town. The engagement then commenced between the ships and the defences, and continued for four hours, when the enemy finally ceased firing, and lowered the Persian colours. Their firing is said to have been steadyand well sustained, yet, strange to say, not a single man in the fleet was touched. The Semiramis was hulled once, and she and the Feroze and others suffered a little in their masts and rigging, but that was all. It is true that the principal strength of the defences was on the land side, where the enemy expected to be attacked, and were ready, so far as regards the number of guns, to give us a very warm reception indeed. Still there were many guns on the sea face also; and, moreover, at the southern angle of the town were two troublsome erections in the nature of stockades, formed of date trees, strongly faced with an earthen embankment. These it took some time and good gunnery to silence. It was noon when the Persian flag fell and the ships ceased firing. The army was then drawn up in line opposite the land face of the town ; and their imposing attitude, and the recollection of the skirmish the day before, no doubt had their share in inducing the Persian Commandant to surrender. After some little delay, and not with out threats of an assault, the gate opened, and the Governor and Commander -of the Forces came out and surrendered themselves prisoners I of w•.r. Another notable per,uua g e wa.6 raker', who had, I believe, been sent clown from Teheran to raise the tribes against us, and whose Persian title is translated 'Minister of Foreign Affairs. The remainder of the garrison who marched out gave up their arms, and being too numerous to be retained in the present state of the Commis sariat, were escorted some distance into the interior by the Poona Horse, and there set free. At half-past 4 the British flag was hoisted by Lieut. Clarkson, First of the Assaye, at the Residency flagstaff, the Shah's staff having been felled by the garrison in their hurry to lower the flag. " Thus easily has Bushire fallen." The Bombay Times of Jan. 2 gives the following narrative of the capture of Bushire, and other operations on the part of our fleet in the Persian Gulf : The island of Karrack, held by i us from 1839 to 1841, had on the 4th been taken possession of and converted into a military depot. On the 6th the fleet moved down from opposite Bushire to Hallila Bay, where a body of three or four hundred of the enemy making their ap pearance they were dispersed by shells from the gun boats. The troops were now permitted to disembark without any molestation. There being no carriage cattle, they were without tents or baggage of any description, three days' rations having been carried with theni in haversacks. Forty-eight hours were required to get the whole body on shore and in motion, when on the morn ing of the 9th they commenced their march northwards by the line of the coast, the ships of war led by the Admi ral keeping abreast of them, and as near the land as the depth of water permitted. By noon the old Portuguese fort of Bushire began to be approached. The position was naturally a strong one, the walls were good, and protected by a dry ditch forty feet deep. In front was a heavy re doubt scarped on the side next the sea, and the other two were strong and well protected. The Assaye was unable to approach within one thousand seven hundred yards of the place, but at this distance her shells were so effective that the bulk of the enemy fled, leaving eight hundred, who had been driven back by our ad vancing columns, within the work, and who seemed determined to fight it out to the last. The garrison on our approach had at first sallied out, and at one time nearly attained possession of a gun. The vanguard, which had pushed too much a-head, were compelled to make a dash, and unfortunately charged at the bayonet's point, sacrificing valuable lives that might have been spared had the shelling been continued. Brigadier Stop ford fell leading on the 64th, shot through the heart, and pierced by many wounds ; while Lieutenants Utter son and Warren of the 20th were killed by his side ; Captain Wood dangerously wounded. The enemy were without artillery, but defended themselves stoutly with their matchlocks ; whea driven to flight, they were charged down upon by the 3d Cavalry and fearfully mauled. Here Colonel Ivlalet fell, shot through the heart by a wounded Arab, whom he had just ordered to he spared. Here the troupe bivouacked for the night on the bare tround and under the open sky. Capt. Jones was now deputed into the town with a flag of truce in a small steamer carrying the summons of sur render, and the terms offered the garrison. The non• cunleatants and women had permission to withdraw. Private property of all descriptions wee to be protected, the fullest toleration in matters of religion secured, the garrison I o be suffered to march out with all the honours of war. The Governor was allowed till dawn the follow ing day to give an answer to the terms proposed, but the flag of truce was fired on ; and after waiting some time on the assumption that this might possibly have occurred from mistake, the envoy returned, his mission unaccomplished. An apology was almost immediately afterwards sent by the Governor on board the fleet, and the declaration of war of the Governor-General and letter of terms proposed were transmitted be the mes• senger. Meanwhile General Stalker intimated to the Admiral his intention of advancing with all his troops on Bushire the following morning (10th December), arid the fleet was immediately disposed in order of bottle —first dismantling the enemy's newly-erected earthworks and then moving with a view of breaching the south wall of the town, The tide was favourable and so eager was every one to close in, that every ship was laid aground at high water, and daybreak found them all ready to open on the fort. A second flag of truce beg ging f r twenty-four hours' further delay, now made its appearance. The request was at once refused ; and at eight the signal to engage was hoisted, and a storm of shot and shell at once poured in. The redoubt south of the town, when the enemy had assembled in force to resist our troops, was the chief object of attention, and, not withstanding the enormous distance, it was speedily cleared, the defenders retiring within the walls. As this work commanded the walls, much importance was attached to it by both parties, and General Stalker was advancing upon it when it was abandoned just as his line was being formed. Though their small guns were useless, the courage and perseverance with which the larger ones were worked surpassed all expectation, and the Semiramis, Feroze, Victoria, and Falkland, were repeatedly struck both in hull and rigging ; strange to tell, not a man was hurt. By noon the batteries were all silenced, and the troops were preparing for the assault, when the flag-staff was struck d , wn in token of submis sion. The Governor and his staff immediately came and -urrendered themselves, the garrison, from one thousand five hundred to two thousand in number, laA down their arms, and at four o'clock the British flag was hoisted over the town,the troops appointed to garrison it having marched in at sunset. A large proportion of the Persian arms had fled as we approached—nurnhers were drowned in attempting to escape. About 3,000 in all were said to have perished. Sixty-five guns, many of them brass, most of theta in good condition, and some of them of large calibre, with vast quantities; of warlike stores and small arms fell into our hands. Un less at Reshire, not a singie mishap of any kind occurred in capturing the maritime capital and securing the whole sea-board of Persia. The fight shown was by a warlike tribe of Arabs. Active operations having thus for a time been brought to a close, the army prepared to en• camp and throw up strong field-works and entrenchments just under the walls of the town. The prisoners, after being disarmed, were conveyed soma way into the in terror, and then liberated. The Governor and other men of distinction have been brought to Bombay by the Admiral, who returned in the Assays). The transports, meanwhile, are being recalled to prepare for the em barkation of a second army at least five times the size of that already in the field. The Bombay Times goes on to state, that a fur ther force of 25,000 men has been ordered to be got in readiness in India for despatch, bringing the invading army up to 30,000. By the time it has assembled "we shall have at least 100,000 men, including camp followers, to feed in a country so destitute of supplies that everything for man and beast must be sent from Bombay." Lieutenant General Sir James Ontram, Resident at Luckuo w, has returned before his sick leave was expired from England, to assume supreme political and military charge. The Poonah Observer says The following troops of the army of this Presidency have been warned for immediate , ervice in the field, field, and measures have been already taken to equip them for this service. The troops under orders from this station will leave Poonah for the Presidency on or about the 10,h Jan. H.M.'s 14th Light Dragoons and H.M.'s 78th Highlanders will tben leave depots here — the 4th troop of Horse Artillery, from Kurracbee ; the First. Company 21 Battalion Earopean Foot Artillery, with No. 2, Light Field Battery attached, now en route from Sholapore to Poona; H.M.'s 14th Light Dragoons, from Kirkee ; one regiment of the Scinde Irregular Horse, from Scinde; .1 - T.M.'e 78th Higainders, from Poona; the 23d Regiment N.L.1., from RYjcote ; thqi 26th Regiment N. 1., now en route to Poona from Sa tara. A Flank Battalion, to be composed of the light companies of the 2d Regiment N.I. (Grenadiers), 3d, sth, Btb, 11th, 15th, 221, 25th, 28th, and 29th Regi ment N. 1., is to be formed. Major-General Stalker, commanding the expedi tionary field force, says, in his despatch to the Secretary of the Government : Political Department of Bombay— I would beg especially to mention the unwearied exer- . _ tions and valuable aid rendered to me, from the landing at Haliila Bay to the taking of Bushire, by my aseistaut Adjutant-General Lieutenant-Colonel Younglinsband ; Captain %"Tray, the Assistant Quartermaster -General ; Major Hill, Commanding Engineers ; Captain Dunster vine, Assistant Commissary-General ; and Dr. Macken zie, the Superintending Surgeon. Brigadier Stopford and Lieutenant-Colonel Malet died leading on their men in the most gallant style. Brigadier Honner, commanding the 2d Infantry Brigade ; Lieut.- Colonel Shepheard, who succeeded to • the command of the Ist Infantry Brigade; Lieutenant-Colonel Treve lyan, commanding the Artillery Brigade ; and Lieut.- Colonel Tapp, commanding the Cavalry Brigade, have earned my warmest thanks for the manner in which their arduous duties have been carried ; as also Captain Pottinger, Brigade Maj,r of Artillery, whose exertions were conspicuous ; anti my best thanks are equally due to Major Stirling, Commanding H.M.'s 64th Regiment ; ttohe 20th RegimentCaptainMacleod ; , who succeeded t o the command of to Lieutenant Colonel Ramsay, commanding 2d European L. I. ; to Major Manson, Commanding 4th Rifles ; to Captain Hough, command ing 2d Belooch Battalion ; to Captain Forbes, who suc ceeded to the command of the 3d Light Cavalry ; to Major Blake, Commandins g the 4th Troop H.A. ; to Captain H atc h, comman di n No. 3 Light Fieid Bat tery ; t o C ap t a i n Gibb ar d , comm anding No. E Light Field Battery ; and to Captain Dickinson, commanding the Sappers and Miners. I have also derived every possible assistance horn my Aide-de-Camp, Captain Hunter ; Major Bellard, Head of the Intelligence Department; Major 80-ye, the Deputy Judge Advocate General ; Captain Rigby, who ens acted as my Persian Interp reter ; Captain Finni more, Commissary of Ordna nce ; Ca p tain Collier, Deputy Lieutenant Assistant Holland, Aut a t Deputy General Assistant; C p tai n Sh Quartere we ll , and Master General ; Major Barr, Paymaster ; and Lieut. Willoughby, Sub-Assistant Commissary General. Lord Dunkellin, of the Coldstream Gnat ds ; Major Taylor, of the Persian Embassy ; and Mr. Jolin-i4M-, of the Indian Navy, also rendered most efficient service (having attached themselves to my personal Staff); and to Mr. Johnstone's knowledge of the country and its inhabitants, with ti)P nr z=gl h.• bag Pxhillitod, I am much inrici , '. In fine, re thing caul , have surpA'Scd tbe aumrrabie spirit exhibited by the officers and men of all ranks, and the utmost praise is due for their.zeal, devotion, and gallantry. I have the honour to be, &c., (Signed) F. STALKER, Major-General, Commanding Expeditionary Field Force. The Governor in Council, in publishing the de spatches receiyed from Major General Stalker, C. 8., and Countnander Jones, observes that he feels most sincere pleasure in "drawing the attention of the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India in Council to the gallantry displayed by Major-General Stalker, C. 8., and Rear Admiral Sir H. Leake, K. H., and by th e o ffi cers an d men under their command during these important ope rations. The Right Honourable the Governor in Council is pleased to direct that a Royal salute be fired at noon this day (Dec. 27th) in honour of the capture of Bashire and the occupation of Karrack The following official return of the killed and wounded had been issued : POLITICAL DEPARTMENT. B , mbay, 30th December, 1856. With reference to the Government Notification of the 27th instant, announcing the capture of Bestrire by the British forces on the 10;h instant, the Right Hon. the Governor in Council publiAhes, for general information, the following Return, which has subsequently been re ceived, of the killed and wounded of the Field Force under the command of Major-General Stalker, C. 8., in the attack on . Reshire on th e 9th i nst., an d a l so a Return of tae Ordnance found in the Fen Bushire on its Sur render on the 10th inst. By order of the Right Hen. the Governor in Council. H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. Bt.mbay Castle, 29th Dec., 1856. Field Hospital. Nominal list of killed and w Ainded of the field force under the command of Major-General Stalker, C. 8., during the attack of the village of RFshire. Field-ho , Tital, ship Result, 9th Dec., 1856. BANK AND NAMES. Sf n ff. —Brigade Staff : Col. James Stopford, C. 8., killed. A! Tillery.—Gunner George Barrett, 3d Troop, H.A., flesh-wound below the right ear; Serjeant Sam. Blopman, 3d Troop H. A., seriously wounded near elbow-joint ; Private Thomas Butt, 2d Company, 2d 8.A., slightly wounded on the dorsal of fingers. 3d Reg. Light Cavalry.—Lieut. Col. Malet, killed ; Private Ram Sing, sth Troop, severely, 3 slug wounds on lumbar region—since dead ; Ram Sing, 2d Troop, slightly in right arm ; Peera Sing, 2d Troop, danger. ously, in right hip and shoulder-joint. H. M.'s 64th Reg.—Corporal Michael M'Donald, slightly, left thigh ; Private Arthur Dogherty, mortally wounded in abdomen--since dead ; Private Patrick M‘Narnara, mortally wounded, left thigh—since dead ; Private Isaac Sutton, seriously wounded, left arm ; Private Patrick Meehan, slightly wounded, right thigh ; Private Richard Carthy, sightly wounded, left thigh ; Private John M'Donald, slightly wounded, right arm. Second European Regiment Light Infantry—Privates Daley and Doyle, killed; Serjeant Jas. Juckett, severely wounded, left shoulder; Serj , -antThos. Cooway, slightly wounded, right side of neck ; Serjeant Henry Hughes, severely wounded, above left knee; Serjeant William Ross, severely wounded, above left knee ; Private Thos. Madden, severely wounded, below left knee, slightly injuring fibula; Private James M'Gill, severely wounded right shoulder, grazing the hone. CHINA. The advice.s from Hong Kong, by the last Over land Mail extended to Nov. 24. They brought intelligence, it will he remembered, of the demo lition of the Barrier Forts by the Americans. The present mail brings the news down to Dec. 16. The general summary of the Overland Friend of China of Dec. 15 is as follows : "The mail packet Norna, with London dates to Oct. 10, reached Hong Kong on the Ist inst.-52 days over all. " We have no change in the temper of the Chinese Government to report. Yeh, backed by the gentry and people, is as obdurate as ever ; he will make no sign ; and nothing hut the extremest measures can now produce the result desired. Until we have more men, however, little can be effected. Not until the heights, the city, and the suburbs, are entirely under our command—and traversed by our soldiers—will the Cantonese be satisfied of their inability to maintain the unsociable position they have so long contended for. A couple more regiments and some field pieces would be sufficient. " The only event of importance since the des patch, on the 25th ult., via Calcutta, of the record of the ten preceeding days, has been the capture and demolition of the French Folly Fort, with loss on our side of one marine private, shot through the body by an iron arrow. The destruction of the fort was most complete ; and the rapidity with which it was performed must have had an astonish ing effect on the Chinese mind. In each of seven mines a hundred pounds of powder were buried, and at the hour of high noon the whole was ex ploded—so leaving hardly one stone square upon another. Our gallant brothers in arms, the Ame ricans, have been less successful in their operations on the Barrier Forts—the indiscreet use of a crow bar on a charged mine sending three to eternity at once, and wounding six others who were standing by. Nevertheless, they, too, have well performed the work of destruction ; if it can be' thought well to destroy forts (the two southernmost especially) that might have been easily held, and would have proved useful. " The destruction of a village where a sailor and a marine of ours wore waylaid and murdered, and the death of Captain Cowper, R.E., Acting Sur veyor General, Hong Kong, by the fall of a house upon him,are also among the notabilia of the period. "Now that the astonishment —not unmingled with a feeling of pleasure at seeing an apparent determination to put an end to the long continued anomaly of our intercturse with Southern China has passed away—and it is learnt from published —indiscreetly published—official correspondence that the business is the freak of a " would-be con sidered statesman"—determined to obtain notoriety at the expense even of setting the world in a blaze —the public feel a disposition to question the pro priety of the time chosen for effecting that which might well have waited a reference at home;—and fear lest the want of reflection so evident in the commencement of the proceedings may prove the preliminary to an indiscreet and useless conclusion. From this, however, Sir Michael Seymour is entirely exempt." AA extra to the Hong Kong Regi s t er , o f D ec. 16 , details the destruction of the factories at Canton. "On Sunday night, the 1 4th inst., at 11 o'cl oc k, the factories to the west of British Factory, were set on fire in six places, and when the steamer Lily left on Monday at 4 p.m. - the destruction was complete, with the exception. of two houses f ac i ng the American garden, now or lately in the o ccupation of Messrs. Russell an d C o., but as all behind were burning they were expected to go also. Tue house built at the bottom of Hog lane for a parsonage was blown up to prevent the flames spreading to the houses in the British Fac tory, but our informant seemed to doubt if it would be attended with success. We have no further particulars. " During the conflagration the Dutch Folly Fort was throwing shells and rockets into the city. No attack was made—the Chinese contenting them selves with burning the empty houses, by which their own people will be the greatest sufferers. " Since writing the above we have dates two hours later to 6 p.m. yesterday. By them we learn that the Oriental Bank was at that time in full blaze—the Agra and Mercantile Banks burned down—the Consulate still standing, but expected to go, with all the remaining buildings in the No ' tories. The fire commenced behind the premises of Messrs. Dent and Co., an i all the houses front ing the American Gardens, except those of Russell and Co. and Westmore and Co., burned ; th e two last named were saved for the time. "We are sorry to learn that the fir e h as b een accompanied with loss of life, Mr. 0 . T . Lane, of the Consulate, hav in g been killed by the bl ow i ng up the parsonage,uid. and Dr. Winchester, Vice-Con aul, slightly An extra of a China iato of th e same d ate says : Hong Kong, 16 t h D ecember, 1856. r b The Factories have been burnt down by the Chinese ; and the only particulars, we hav e ascerta i ned are, that— At 10.30 or 11 o clock on S un d ay night, the beating o b f ur t s ° t outrnt'n'B sounded the alar m , and i nstantly the flames in every direction. Vigorous efforts were made by the seamen and marines to stop their progress, but all such attempts were fruitless, and the tire raged thriughout the night and up to the time of the steamer leaving. Dent and Co.'s premises were about the first to go, and the whole of the Paoushun Hong, the Impe rial, French, Minqua's, `pike—ail the hongs indeed— are de-troyed—the only houses untouched when the steamer left being the British Consulate, Augustine Heard and Co.'s, and J..rdine, Matheson and Co. s, Turner and Co.'.,and one or two others in the New Eng lish Hong ; Russell and Co.'s in the Swedish Hong; and whether they could ultimately escape the fate of the others was very doubtful. The three Banks—the Oriental, Agra, and Mercantile—were on fire, with no hopes whatever of saving them ; and Admiral Seymour had withdrawn his men into the garden, the only refuge left for foreigners. Only one fatal accident is known to have occurred. Mr. Oiliorne T. Lane, nephew of Sir John Bowring, basing been killed —crushed by the falling of a wall at Fletcher and Co.';, house, which was blown up by our people. D r . Wi nc h ester, the acting Vi ce -C onsu l , wa s with hi m , b u t received only so me slight bruises. What steps tLe Admiral means to take are of copra ( ' unknow n , b ut t h ere i s l itt l e d ou b t t h a t the C i ty o f Can tor, will be n o l onger s p are d, an d the discharge o frookets and shell is said a l rea dy t o have commenced. Au account of the occurrences at Caxton, as re-