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MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, NAPLES, POMPEII, nd VEATJVIUS, will op n on Mon day, November 23d. Places can now be secured, with •ut any extra charge, at the box office, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, every day between eleven and four. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King-William-street, Strand, every Evening the JULLrEb7 BURLESQUE, received nightly with shouts of laughter. Doors open at kalf-past 7, commence at 8. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 26. ; amphitheatre, Is.; Private Boxes, 11. 19. Seats can be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Hall. On Saturday, a Morning Entertainment, commencing at 3. ADELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade, Strand.—Argyll Band every evening—Triumphant success Of M. Lamotte's Ha►elock Schottish. Solo, Euphonion, 111. L. Ikfosca. Solo, carnet-a-piston, lli. Boulcourt. Opens at half-past 8. Dancing commences at 9. Admission One Shilling. Reading Room. All the evening papers. SALLE FRASCATI, 5, Leicester-square. The Lessee respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that he has been fortunate enough to secure the professional services of the Greatest Musical Phenomena that ever visited this Country, HERR KRATKY BA HIK. the only Artist who has ever had the distinguished honour of performing a solo at the Grand Opera at Berlin. by Royal Command, on his HORK-MELODICON. Four Horns In One! ! The effects of this instrument are really astounding, and must be heard to be properly appreciated—and for the satisfaction of the public it is left for inspection from the hours of 12 to 4 o'clock, at Frascati, 5, Leicester-square. The. Professor will make his first appearance on MONDAY EVENING nest, November 23d. Doors open at half-past 7 ; to commence at 8 o'clock.—Body of the Hall 6d.; Reserved Seats, Is. EAST INDIA COAL COMPANY (Limited). —Notice is hereby Given, that the SECOND ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders in this Company will be held (in accordance with the deed of settlement) at the Company's Offices, 221, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, on MONDAY, De cember 7th, 1857. The Directors who retire in accordance with the deed are Sir Thomas Herbert Maddock, Lewis D. B. Mackay, Esq., and his Highness Meer Jaffur Alee, the whole of whom being eligible, offer themselves as candidates for re-election. The following gentlemen have also intimated their intention of offering themselves as Directors :—John Gregory. Esq., of Messrs. White and Co., bankers, Haymarket ; W. S. Austin, Esq., barrister, Reform Club, Pall-mall ; George Armitage, Esq., Clement's-lane, Lombard -street; and Peter Brown, Esq. Basingnall street' The Auditors, Messrs. John Noble and H. C. Read, have also inti. mated their intention of offering themselves as candidates for re election. and W. H. Dawson, Esq., has intimated that it is his inten tion to offer himself as a candidate. The chair will be taken at Two o'clock preel iely. The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 20th November till the 9th December, inclusive. By order of the Court of Directors. Gresham-house, Old Broad-qtrect, on HENRY don, HAYbiEN. Secretary. November 13, 1857. GARDEN, Mayor.—The First Court of Mayor and Aldermen, held in the Inner Climber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Tuesday, the 17th day of November. 1 8 57, and in the 21st year of the reign of Victoria, of the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, &c., Resolved unanimously—That the sincere and cordial thanks of this Curt be presented to the Right Hon. Thomas Quested Flunis, late Lord Mayor of this City— For the zeal and assiduity with which he has discharged the arduous duties devolving upon him in the high and responsible office of Chief Magistrate : For his peculiar attention, when first assuming the distinguished position he occupied, to the condition of the labouring poor, by personal investigation of their state and requirements, which enabled him not only to assist in alleviating their wants, but aided him in the exercise of his functions on the bench of justice : For the anxious desire he has evinced to assist the progress of civilisation and science—particularly by his graceful attention to the most remarkable Missionary and Geographical Investigator of the age : For the dignity and IP'erality with which he has maintained the character of the City for hospitality, and for his judicious selection of occasions for its display : For his benevolent assistance to the charitable institutions of which this city is so justly proud, and his anx ety to promote not merely the well-being of the adult, but of the juvenile, portion of the population; And this Court cannot refrain from most warmly expressing its admiration for the promptitude and unwearied perseverance of himself, and his excellent lady, in originating and establishing the fu rld for the relief of suffering humanity by t , e disasters resulting fro in the Mutiny in thA Indian Empire, whereby he has obtained and secured the most lasting testimonial or his public and private worth. NIEREWETHER. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in the matter of the estite of Frances Mary Shard, deceased, and in a cause of " Partincton v. Reyno:ds." all persons claimine to be CREDITORS of FRANCE. NIART SHARD, late of Torbay-house, Peigmon, in the county of Devon, and of Harley-street, in the county of Middlesex. widow of William Shard, Esq , of the same place (who died in or about the month of May,lBl9), are, by their solicitors, on or before the 16th day of December, 1857, to come in and prove their debts at the chambers ef the Vice•Chancelb , r, Sir Rich4rd Torin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-Inn, in the said county of Middlesex, or in default thereof they witl be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said order. Friday, the eighteenth day of December, 1837, at one o'clock In the afternoon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims. Dated this 16th day of November, 1857. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. T. H. EWBANK, 3, South-square, Gray's-inn, Plaintiff's Solicitor. SALE OF PROVISIONS, &c., AT DFPTFORD. ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET-PLACE, 13th November, 1857. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 26th Inst., 'at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. the Captain Superintendent will put up to sale, in her Majesty's Victuallin; Yard at Deptford, several Lots of ARMY, NAVY, and TRANSPORT STORES; consisting of Salt Beef and Pork, Biscuit, and Biscuit Siftings, Com- Pressed Vegetables, Clothing, &c., &c., &c., all lying in the said Yard. Persons wishing to view the Lots must apply to the Superintendent for notes of admission for that purpose. the Yar Catalogues and Conditions of Sale may be had as above and at DIT BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DELIC 4.TE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is More easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than 1M alt ; acidity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofula, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of the system and sound sleep insured. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred to. and a copy of their Testimonials may be had free on forwarding a stamped and addressed envelope, to Barry Da Barry and Co., S 7, Regent-street, London. Prices :—ln Canisters, Is.; Ss.; and 121 b. at 2 Is. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on receipt ef Post Office Order. ROTAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-i nn - roa d. —The AID of the benevolent is earnestly soliOted. John Alastennan, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom donations will be thankfully received : also by the following bankers: —Messrs. 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No vestige of any such inkoterfil ' 4 lf All is gone back t o Chi nese not i on " squalid houses for Chinamen to herdNin, cldps crops for Chinamen to eat. These paddy-fields were now full of water ; the city also was slightly flooded. The Chinamen seemed to have clustered like flies upon the only foul spot in this beautifut island. I walked down into the English burial-ground. The inscriptions have been torn away from the square tomb, and the obelisk had been broken. The Chinese have crowded the place with the coffins of their own dead. A fellow who was working there at this " pigeon" addressed me in the jargon they use for English, and told me there had been an insurrection in the city two days before. The "soldiers" had assembled from their shops and. had beaten the Mandarin almost to death because he had paid them their pay in the new depreciated. cash. He ended by a patriotic wish that we Eng- . lish would come and take the island again. His English acquirements showed that he had found. his account in the last occupation. If it be our policy to retake Chusan it may be dose without the expenditure of a shot or a life, provided it be done promptly. I know not where else we can find a basis for naval operations upon the coast. If we have to police the Chinese coast, or to hold power in the great inland waters, we must have a large naval depot, and that can be no other than the harbour of Tinghai. It will, how ever, be a naval depot and no more. Not only past experience, but also all a priori reasoning shows that Chusan can never become a place of great commerce. I had seen enough—enough, at least, for one day. It was raining a drizzling rain and blowing hard. I was racked with rheumatism, and total - wed by that horrid 4pestilence which no one can escape, for they are the blossoms of this flowery land—an eruption of boils. I sent into the city for Coolies and a chair to penetrate a little into the interior on the morrow, and I returned on board. The Rosina lay just abreast of a long low building of European or rather of Anglo-Indian build-11 winnows and a verandah. P.rt of it is now used. - - as a Cuetem-house, and the rest is dirt and desola tion. This was the British hospital. The man who chose that site is guilty of many of the deaths re corded in that graveyard, and also of many of those upon the Cameronian-hill. There are mils and val leys close around where at small labour you might make a little Eden. If you must be near the dirty town and the Chinese samshoo—which, of all Chi nese inventions, is the most deadly to the English soldier—there is the Josshouse-hil The British hospital is placed upon a level with the swamp, in full reek of the paddy-fields, within the circuit of the stench of that filthy suburb, and in a spot where samshoo can be conveniently handed in through every window, yet we wonder in England that Chu san was found unhealthy. I had full oppartcnity of contemplating this place. No sooner had I got on board than the breeze be came a gale and the misty rain a driving storm. Then rose the tempest—a tempest such as the China Seas only can show. It lasted all night, and the next day arid the next. During a momentary pause we saw through ono of the narrow islet channels a large a:row steamer carrying her funnel abaft her mainmast, struggling down under the mainland. Some one has since sail it was the Durance French transport, and that she grounded on the height of the Typhoon. The Shanghai Shipping,List afterwards repeated this latter report. It may be so, but I doubt it. I believe it was the same steamer I saw two days later in company with the Capricieuse frigate off Lookong. She might be the Durance, but we did not make her opt to be aground or any otherwise in "durance vile." What ever she was, however, she passed like a spirit on this hurricane. Outside the typhoon was sweeping the seas and ravaging the coasts. It drove the light ship at the mouth of the Yang tse-Kiang from her moorings, it strewed the junks about in pieces of floating wreck, it broke down walls, it cast away a three-masted English ship, and lifted a schooner over the sand of the south bank and deposited her in the paddy-fields. It dammed up the waters of Waug-poo and the Yung, and here in this bay of Chusan it put junks adrift and bands of wreckers upon the alert. The Rosina had ground tackle made for such emergencies. She drifted at first, but her second anchor brought her up. We were fortunately in the best harbour on the coast of China. After this experience I have a right to speak well of the harbour of Chusan. On the night of the third day we sailed forth with a moderate wind and a bright moonlight. SHANGHAI, SEPT. 20. Since the Remi started with the mail and my des patch we have the semi-moathly from England with dates to the 281 of July. Messrs. Jardine's house, in their usual grand seigneur way of dein.; things, despatch a fast private steamer to overtake the mail or perhaps outstrip it. Se I have an oppor tunity for more last words. I have nothing to chronicle, however, except the blank disappointment of all the English residents at the newsjust received. Delhi not fallen and Lord Palmerston's Pekin monomania sarong upon him. We had hoped that Lord Elgin, sharing, as we all believe he does, the universal feeling here, would have obtained leave to allow the Russians and the French to go up and each get his kick at the mouth of the Peiho, white he stayed south and took Can ton. The Russian has got over his twenty days' naval koo too. The Frenchman comes on very leisurely to take Iris turn of humiliation. Lord Elgin may now, I suppose, be expected i u a b out a fortnight. He also, with th e navy of England, must dance attendance in a sea of winter tempests while the petty Mandarin at the month of the Pekin river is calculating how long he can keep up the ex hibition of the humiliation of the "barbarians." Oh ! that narrow blue riband of the Foreign-office. It is harder, and tougher, and stiffer than the red tape of the Circumlocution-office ; it swathes the energies of nations, while the reel tape only cripples a clerk. The Emperor has just taken pains, by an announcement in the Pekin, Gazette, to let the world know that ho is informed of and approves Yeh's doings at Canton. France and Russia have no castes kW—they have no factories destroyed, no steamers taken and burnt, no proclamations of head-money to resent. They have their quarrel to seek, and they go up, therefore, and offer their faces to the smiter. We are in the position of that valorous individual who said, " Sir ' you have tweaked my nos e , y ou h ave ki c k e d me behind, yon have knocked my hat over my eyes ! Take care, sir ; you may go too far ; you may rouse the sleep ing lion !" Oh, for one three months of the elder Pitt ! He would have telegraphed—" Take Can ton and held it with your present force." And it would have been done ; for, although the authori ties here are afraid of "her Majesty's Opposition," they are not afraid of Chinamen. With Canton taken, and some gunboats at Tien-sing, we might write our own treaty and have it signed in three months. But no ; years, and millions, and perhaps fleets, certainly human lives, must be sacrificed to the pedantry of diplomacy. Somehow or other those six black rams who are reputed to be the genii of Canton city seem to have obtained seats its our House of Commons. Then we are told that sailing ships can carry troops faster than steamships, and, judging from the choice made, we are also to believe that re gular old water-bruisers with indifferent antece dents are better than good screw vessels. I find that some people here know, or profess to know, something about these ships — w h a t one o f t h em was sold for, and bow many times that amount her charter to China will bring, what happened to another of them, and so on. However, let us hope that they will bring us our 1,500 ma xims out in time to eat their Christmas dinner 'n Canton. 1' , ,=1 [PRICE 4n. STAMPED 513.] RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN'S. LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTEIur RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending Nov. 11, 1837 .216,510 310 Corresponding week last year Decrease in 1857 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.— Traffic return for the week ending Nov. 14, . year 1857 £ 13,861 6 11 T C o o t rm al sP of o t n h din e half - e y e e k ar las to t this date, 1857 351,235 10 9 Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 356,764 7 6 YOMEMIMIN IN IONIMMEN•II _________....... ADVERTISEMENT,I—We have read with much Pleasure Du Barry's report on the cure of diseases without medicine by Du Barry's Food, of Indigeition(Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipa tion, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility. The following are a few extracts which appear to merit the attention of many: —Cure No. 47,121. —Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham cross Herts: a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gather' ings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Core No. 48,314. — Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool: a care of 10 years' dyspepsia and all the horrors of nervous irrit abilit y . Cure 52,612. —Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, induc e., e, 1854.—The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart f eels _Barry's in the interest of suffering humanity, cured her, after excellent Revalenta Arabica Food ia estion bile, great ‘II medicines had failed, of indigestion, standing. This lervousness and irritability many y of allsiifte e rers, and may be con yr . a n x i t w g r e red. am Food deserves the confidence . of. to state that Du Ba Professors of Ure; Dr. Shorland ; Dr. Harvey ; Chemistry, Dr. Andrew ttiker ; Dr ' ci s . th e Dowager Countess of Cast'e ssiudpeporedrtaedre.4 blessing. testimoni a tiquu ra us t v p ri hre l . l e: be l,eurb eh raze e ter erf ;d u p ll King, and many other respectable stuart ; Major- Geri. lth has been restored by it, after all othov persons, whose i.'ea, failed. Suitably packed with full in moans of core ha d canisters, 11b, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b, Dr. Campbell Ca S m tu p a b rt ell ie in structions, 1 225. The 121 b canisters arc sent carriage ft ee, D T e ho e mas ' ;1;1 is i f e celp i t' of Post-Office order.—Barry Du Barry, di. - Co., , Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against tbe fearful il ir d l a V n illi gers am of Pa sp g uri e W ou oo a d, ed a n Injunc tion imitationsnt : --- Th eVi lo 10th March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Nevin, fa imitating eo-Choa o n ethel; "De Barry's Revaleu t a Arabic& Food." ,-•,-'.,__. .. aim t . .1i:: .41 41. vit hl N Aroal'Air,?:;-• , A d ) • ‘1.. :1145k , r114%i '414 4.1. 7 40111 I)! 1,•( „ jj 4 t . 11 .101 I •-• • • \<. 7 - 'o> `, • . - • PUBLICATIONS. description. I can only pause, however, to say a word about the batteries. They are built of stone, and some of them have very powerful guns, but the wonder is that their armament has not long ago been stolen by the pirates and convoy lorchas. I have visited them all in different excursions down the river. There is no guard-house, no magazine, no sponge-rammer or worm; the iron guns and the stone walls make up the battery. A naval officer who accomponied me in one of my wanderings was positively distressed at the forlorn condition of an English-cast 32-pounder 13 feet long, and weighing 4 tons, so mounted that a charge of a pound of pow der would have thrown it from its rotten carriage. I believe he would have provided the poor gun with a decent carriage at his own expense, even it he knew that he must meet its fire next day, so indig nant was he that a good gun should be so shame fully treated. At the mouth of the Yuog we come to the city of Chinghai with its enormous fleet of junks which crowd the river, and its extensive artificial sea beach of hewn granite. Here are those extraordi nary natural fortifications which the Chinese at tempted to utilise in the last war, and this was the scene of themost tremendousslaughter that occurred. The mouth of the Yung is beset by rocky islets and sunken shoals, which make the approach difficult and the channels intricate. Each shore is com manded by a high conical hill. That on the left. is surmounted by a stone tower, that on the right by a fort and a josshouse. On a former occasion I passed a night and two days in that Pagan temple. I slept, wrappd in my.eloak, a 1; the feet of a ter rible Indian god. All night long the Abbot in his mitre sat upon his throne turning his back upon a gigantic idol of " the Queen of Heaven,". and his priests sat round the table before him. A thou , sand little dishes, each containing some article of vegetable food curiously cooked, preserved, or made into sweetmeats, covered not only the table, but other temporary scaffoldings erected for the pur pose throughout the temple. It was a great cere mony, with a highly emblematical ritual. The prayer was evidently for a favourable harvest., for every fruit was taken up and blessed and chanted over. The picturesque scene, the monotonous mut terings, and perhaps also the mosquitos kept me awake till past midnight. When 1 awoke in the morning the sun was invading my corridor, and priests, aLd food, and scaffoldings, and tables had all vanished. But the old Indian god scowled upon us as ridiculously fierce as ever. Alas his divine scowl had not scared away the mosquitoes. From the embrasures on tke top of this Jess house Fort I could look down upon the scene of that terrible carnage, when in the last war the Chinese army of ten thousand men were routed in ten minutes, when the flying multitude was arrested by a line of bayonets, and when before the slaughter could be stayed one-half the number either perished by the steel or were forced into the broad river. This lesson, repeated at Ningpo, and again on the hills beyond, has never been forgotten. In the Josshouse-fort there is one gun, mounted, probably as an alarm gun. There is another sunk half-way in the earth, with a British spike in it. These are the defences of the mouth of the Yung. At four o'clock in the morning we were tacking through the islands ; at 10 we cast anchor in the harbour of Chosen. We are accustomed in England to think of Chusan as a fine, large island, open to the Chinese seas, where you may see the sun, with purple-coloured face, lift up his head from the dis tant waters. So upon its eastern side it probably is ; not so as we are in the habit of approaching it. The harbour of Tinghai is a land-locked strait, about three-quarters of a mile across—not unlike the Menai in some places. You might be in a made ra• e sized river ; you have come in through a labyrinth of narrow channels, and you see no evi (fele° of an open sea. Many a city upon a Chinese river looks mere like a seaport than this famous port and harbour of Tinghai. Nothing can be more picturesque to look upon than the mountains and valleys of this fair island, which now occupies all scope of view upon our left. Gradual elevator's, clothed with small hamlets and many-coloured vegetation, swell from t e strait, affording charming sites f r barracks and hospitals and head-quarter houses. Away behind the in terior hills rise into peaks on which the clouds are resting. Narrow gorges Kid deep valleys run far up inland, offering shady retreats in hot summer months and fertile fields in every season. The least pleasant is th e fist on which the city stands. Opposite to the spot where we cast anchor the hills retire from the strait and form an amphi theatre. The interval between their base and the water is a semicircle. Let the hills represent the arc of a strung bow and the strait represent the string. The area between is the swampy marsh upon which the city of Tinghai stands, surrounded by paddy-fields and moist grounds. Just at that point of the siring where the archer would fix the notch of his arrow there is a hill which nature seems to have placed there to command and protect the strait. Such is the natural site of the land at the port of Chusan. Along the shore of the strait, to the full extent of the string of our bow, runs a green em bankment. You would think it a dam thrown up as a protection against high tides, but that at regu lar intervals embrasures are left. The hill which stands in the centre of the chord of our arc has been fortified with walls and parapets of stone masonry ; arid it is still surmounted by that same Josshouse which 17 years ago obtained for it the name of Joss house Hill. There are stone batteries also upon several of the islets ; all the narrow channels gra thus commanded, and there is a large battery far up the valley. Except that the harbour contains, instead of a Mandarin fleet, some 60 small trading junks, the place must now look much as it did when our fleet first sailed in—when the Chinese Admiral so feel ingly expostulated with us upon the injustice of revenging insults put upon us by the Cantonese by slaughtering the defenders of those weak intreuch ruents—when the old man, with a dignity and cou rage worthy of a better fate, acknowledged that our power was too great to allow him to hope for suc cess, but declaring that his orders and his duty en joined him to die at his post, went smiling down the side of our flagship, resigned to meet the doom which too surely awaited hun in its most painful form on the morrow. If I recall the memory of these painful scenes it is to protest against their recurrence. If these places are to be again occupied let it be done sud denly, before any peremptory orders for a desperate defence can arrive from Pekin. Not that Tinghai is, under proper conditions, incapable of defence. Garrisoned by English troops, it is difficult to con ceive a place more impregnable. Approached by narrow rock-bound channels, covered by command ing heights, and having its own citadel hill, it is formed for a place of strength ; but the Chinese at Chusan seem to have learned only one lesson from the last war—the inutility of all defences. Yes : I think they have learnt one other lesson ; it is that British dollars follow hard upon British bayonets. I landed and walked along the embank ment ; there was not a gun. I olimbed the Joss house Hill. The masses of masonry that look so imposing from below are all loose blocks which a shot would topple over ; still no gun. In the Joss house was an old priest muttering and beating upon his little drum, another smoking his pipe, and a third asleep. A half-starved dog seemed perishing under the same vice of idleness which per vades the place. His diet in a Buddhist temple could not be very succulent, and his skin was worn raw from lying all day long upon the stone floor. Sloth had eaten into his bones. Two or three Chinamen, sailors from the junks, were venting their " Ey yaw," as they examined the representa tions of the punishments of the Buddhist Hell. Not without reason, for the Joss-house of Tinghai is richer than any temple I have seen in ingenious tor tures. The kings of Hell sit in judgment like Chinese mandarins. The executioners are braying the victims in mortars, boiling them in furnaces, skinning them with knives, throwing them to tigers, squeezing them between boards, cutting them up and hanging the bits on hooks, beating them with mallets, tormenting them with hot irons—all re presented in coloured plaster groups with a horrible fidelity of detail, and . with an ingenuity of concep tion as to the instruments employed, which would argue that the Buddhist priests are no contemptible mechanics, and that it is well for the barbarians they are not employed in the invention of warlike tonnentaria. No one, not even the deg, took any notice of me. I looked from the top of the hill down into the city of Tinghai—into the suburb which extends from it up to the water side —upon the pagoda aid the Artillery-hill—and upon the English tombs which cover the descent o f the hill upon which I was standing. Everything was swamp and paddy. Everything had the same listless, unprepared, care-abandoned air. 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In . e d for all climates, lie, 1219 225 , The 121 b car riage free, on receipt of Pos aleiita Ara canisters, lib 2s 9d ; Co., 77, Regent-street, London; 21b 4s 6d; also al 60, Gracechurch veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly;_ eapei Ic ; 149, Bl3l4oPigat 4 • Mason, and Co., pur street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Ch street, and 150, and 158, Oxford-street. sFlobrtnitr, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18, 1857. CHINA. (FROM CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES.) SHANGHAI, SEPT. 15. The Russians have played the first card in the game which is now to come off here. On the 2d inst. Count Putiatin, Vice-Admiral Aide-de-Camp, General. Governor of Amoor, Minister Plenipoten tiary and Ambassador Extraordinary from his Im perial Majesty the Emperor of Russia to the Court of Pekin, landed here in plain costume and from a little boat, accompanied by a suite as unpretending as their principal. He had left his steamer at Woo sung to coal, and took up his residence with the American house of Russell and Co. The only visits he paid, except return ♦isits of ceremony, were to Mr. Beale, an old friend whose guest he had been when stationed here before the war, and to Mr. Hurd, the head of another of the principal Ameri can houses at this port. From these little facts some people draw conclusions as to a probable coincidence of Russian and American councils in the forthcom ing negotiations. _ _ _ — Count Putiatin left Petersburg in April, tra velled overland in 70 days to the Amoor, where he found the America, a paddlewheel war steamer, ouilt ir, America during the war, and sent round the Horn and across the Pacific by our kind cousins. The Count steamed down to the mouth of the Peiho, tud, after delays and much difficulty, succeeded in despatching an announcement of his mission to Pekin. Having occupied the necessary interval very agreeably in Shanghai, he is now gone north again to seek an answer to his despatch. The America left Woosung just before the heavy gale, And was seen standing northward making very heavy weather. The Admiral has no force with slim, and his embassy is evidently of an entirely pacific character. _ It seems to be thought here that the objects of the Russians extend no further than to convert their college at Pekin into a diplomatic establish ment, and to obtain a participation in the privi leges granted to nations " heretofore trading to Claxton." With an A m b assa d or at P e ki n they can work out the rest at their leisure. Meanwhile the odium of all coercive measures is to be thrown upon the English and the French. We shall see presently how this will work. The Count will either go to Pekin, or he will be back nere before the next mail leaves. If Russia gains ime by this quick isolated step, she also risks. From the treatment she receives we may surely ear❑ something that may be useful to us. The weather has broken up, and we are suffering a succession of gales which marks the change from , he south-west to the north-east monsoon. Steamers therefore will come slowly and at much expenditure of coal from Hongkong hither, and sailing ships, if these incumbrances are to come, must be towed. After the north-east monsoon has settled into its steady course, there are, however, usually some weeks of fine weather, and we may still hope that something will yet be done. I believe the Pekin weather to be a bugbear. Lord Macartney did not leave Tartary for Pekin till the 21st of September, I nor Pekin till the Bth of October. He traversed the whole of China to Canton between the Bth of October and the 18th of September. We have heard nothing here either of the French Ambassador nor of Lord Elgin. But this is not dispiriting, as, according to former computations, they are not due till the last week in September. Perhaps this mail, as it passes Hongkong and Sin gapore, may gather some tidings of them both. The French show signs of movement. Asl came here from Ningpo, we had opportunities of seeing the coast. My little sailing-boat sped from point to point during the intervals of light skies and mo derate weather; and then, when night or the gale grew heavy, flew with half-closed wings before the howling blast, and nestled in some winding inland creek known only to experienced opium -runners or the native fishermen or pirates. During these de vious fits of progress we saw the Capricieuse French frigate trying to make way northwards, and a large steam transport, which we thought to be Russian, but which turned out to be also French, lying at anchor under a sheltering headland. This is al the news Shanghai affords. The Rus sian officers have, indeed, been most provokingly candid and circumstantial as to their means of ue- ' fence at Castres Bay and Petropaulovski, and as to their escapes. It would be easy to make an amus ing letter out of these revelations. But cui bono ? Let these unpleasant topics cease. Some Horace Walpole is no doubt telling the next age all about it. In a former letter T told you that I had esta blished a little channel of communication with Mr. Commissioner Yeli's back parlour in Canton. Un fortunately the difficulties of transmission, transla tion, and testing make the underground way very tortuous. I send you some reports, however, which I think you will find interesting. übseque n t events have shown that I might have relied upon my in formant's first despatch more than I felt justified at the time in doing. The proceedings respecting the overtures made by the Americans are, we now know, at least founded on fact. The blockade which was, of course, at once instituted by the Admiral when the scheme reached his ears put a stop to its execu tion. In a printed publication, having something of the character of a newspaper, which is in circula tion at Canton, it was stated three weeks ago that negotiations for peace, together with resumption of trade, have been delayed in consequence of the Eluglish "headman" having been compelled to leave for Calcutta to take part in the fighting that is going on there, and the settlement of these questions is accordingly for the time postponed, until the Ame rican Commissioner "Forbes" (!) can come down from Shanghai. If it be true, as my informant states, that Yeh has removed all prohibitions on trade, you will pro bably hear of a brisk traffic being done at Macao in the teas, &T., that we know were shut up in Canton or its vicinity, as much of this and other produce can reach Macao from the West without risk, to long as the port and river of Canton are the only points blockaded. The most important, however, is what is said of the advance of the rebels towards Canton. Shaou hing is scarcely 00 miles west of Canton, the river leads direct from one place to the other, and there is no point between the two at which the passage of a force could be disputed. Our best hope that the rebels will not traverse those 90 miles must be that they kno w th e y w ill fi n d on l y f am i ne a t theirjour ney's end. (Translation.) "REPORT No. 1. "On the 28th July Howqua visited the yamun ?f the Geveruor-General (Yeb), and was received by his Exce.leocy in the western reception-room. The inter view lasted for a couple of hours (Chinese or English not specified —one of the former is equal to two of ours), and the attendants and every one else were excluded from it. It is impossible, therefore, to say what formed the subject of it. "At about 8 a.m. on the 29th the Governor-General summoned two of the linguists before him, and put various questi ons t o t h em, the subject of these questions being the st a t e o f a ff a i rs in Hongkong and its vicinity. He also requi re d t h e li nguists to bring him an official letter that had been broeght to Whampoa by an American ship. As soon as the Governor-General had perused this letter he ordered the officer in charge of the gate of yamun to inform How qua that his Excellency wished to see him, and the expectant Taoutee (or Intendant of Circuit) Chin was also desired to wait upon his Excellency. The subject of the conference held by his Excellency with these officers was an application on the part of the Americans to be allowed to trade. " We hear that the Americans have expressed their readiness to present the Governor-General with $200,000 in the event of his permitting them to carry on trade (at Canton) as heretofore. " On the 30th of July Elowqnn proceeded, by dire°• tion of the Governor-General, to Whanapoa to see there the American Consul and other officers, and to settle with them relative to Ia() permission given to the Ame rican merchants to trade at Fushan, Chint.qm, and other places. . _ " The Americans had another request to make— namely, the grant of an island at which they might carry on their trade with China, but the Governor-General said he could decide on nothing in reference to this im portant matter without previously bringing the subject to the notice of the Emperor. " Letters have been received from Foochow, stating that the committee (tor supplies of war) at Nautai. the suburb by the bridge, resolved on levying a tax on Patna opium of 40 dole. per chest, and 4 doll, per 10 catties on Mal ova and Turkey opium. "The Governor-General took occasion only recently to ini , irtn all the high principal officers, comprising the Principal Committee for War Supplies, that as the bar barians now desired to treat for peace some relaxation might be allowed in the strict guard hitherto maintained and that with this view the (or certain of the) city gates might be opened, and traffic again permitted. Sulo).e- Tient to the issue of these orders, reports were repeatedly received of Shaouhing being greatly distressed by rebels who, it wou ld appear, have invested that city. Direc tions were thereupon given for the despatch of some of the officers, soldiers and braves who had been employed against th e b ar b arians, to relieve the said city by extir pating the rebels, and accordingly a force embarked in 70 boats, under the orders of Soohai, bound to Kaouming a district city near to Shaonhing. This force took its departure on the 25th and 26th of July, and on the 2d inst. word came that it had sustained a severe defeat, many of the boats having been burnt, and the whole force scattered. Soobai himself was among the missing. " The 29th of July being the Emperor's birthday, all the provincial authorities were in attendance at gunfire in the temple dedicated to hie Majesty, where they did reverence before the sacred tablet. For seven days, viz., from the 26th o f J u l y to t h e l e t o f August, they all ap peared in public in full uniform." ton as bearer of 65,000 taels, which had been contri buted by the mercantile - classes of Chaou-chow. The Viceroy directed that the money should be paid over to the committee, and that the officer should be ad mitted to an audience to-morrow. " The district magistrate of Shuntik, near the Bogue, reported his arrival with 137,000 taels, being the amount realised upon the lands and property of rebels, or people in their interest, that had lately been seques tered. The Viceroy directed the delivery of the money to the committee and the admission of the magistrate to an audience to-morrow. "The district magistrate of Nanhai reported the detection of certain frauds in the collection of the sums which the pork-butchers of Canton had been called upon to contribute. The fraud had been committed by the butchers themselves, and the magistrate was authorised to procesd againstthem for the sums that had been short paid, amounting to 18,000 taels." In my last letter I ventured to point out that when England assumes the character of champion of all civilised nations she incurs some rather onerous responsibilities. If all are to share in the advantages she claims for herself, she is bound to guarantee to the Chinese that by none shall those advantages be abused. I must rocur to this subject, even at the risk of being tedious, for it is a most im portant topic for consideration in anyfuture treaty. Every one who looks at China from the English point of view must now be satisfied that no treaty can be worth the powder that salutes its signature if it do not stipulate that China shall become one of the great family of civilised nations. Foolish people treat children withalternate coaxings and floggings, and John Bull, with a certain conceited pity, has so treated John Chinaman. Treat him as a man, and exact from him the duties of a civilised man, and you will have no further trouble with him. The port of Ningpo is an example of what a hundred other large cities will be when you have obtained your object of an unrestricted trade up all the great rivers on all the coasts of China. It is what Hangchau, Chin-Kiang, and Nankin will be. Your direct trade is only to the immediate district ; the carrying trade will attract ships from all Euro pean countries. Hamburg sends mere ships up the Ningpo river than even England. Every petty nation that has a flag to lend or sell is represented either by its square-rigged ships or by its nonde script lorchas. Sweden and Denmark, and Ham burg and Holland, and Spain and Portugal, are all Christian nations, all have traded, or say they have traded, to Canton, and all have flags under which honest men and scoundrels may equally claim treaty rights. But these nations have no consuls and no men of war to keep the peace. If an English, an American, or a French ship comes to Ningpo, she must pay her tonnage dues and get her grand chop before she can clear out. If an armed Ham burg ship comes up the river she does as she pleases, —that is to say, she pays no tonnage dues, to the obvious disadvantage of the ships of the great Powers. Toe other day five Europeans boarded a Chinese junk iu that river, and, under pretence of being officers entitled to see her papers, plundered her of all the silver sue had on hoard. Complaint was made. One of the pirates was found to be an English subject —one Murphy—ho was tried before the Consul and sentenced to two years' imprison- I meat. Several of the others were Europeans, 1 subjects of nations represented by no authorities here ; there was no power to tJueli them. . This is a difficulty which must be met if we would not "open up China" to all the outlaws of Europe ; but it is not insurmountab'e. Let it be part of the treaty stipulation that no nation shall claim the advantages of a treaty power except under con ditions. Let one of those conditions be, that when that nation is unrepresented at any port the two senior Consuls, or the English, French, and Ame can Consuls, or the Consuls chosen by the other resident Consuls for that purpose, shall have the consular power over the subjects of the nation. I believe that to render the remedy perfect you must go still further, neil provide that the resident con suls shall assist each other with any force at their command in order to preserve order and enforce the provisions of the treaty. The time is not far distant when commerce will teach China how to defend herself. I noted these facts at Ningpo in sight of au armed commercial steamer and four large ship-rigged vessels, all owned by merchants of Ningpo who wear tails and carry fans. At present, however, Chinese Mandarins in this peaceful North dread all hostile contact with Europeans who are not Portuguese, and it is rather our policy to cherish this feeling. Tue case of Tobin, the man who went up the country to collect " convoy money," or, in plain English, to rob with violence, is another embarrass ment. The man is dead, and the circumstances are, itappears, worse than they were at first reported. When he had, either in anger or by mischance, shot one of his Chinese comrades, the villagers seized him and lashed his arms and legs to a bamboo pole, passed up his back - . The poor wretch's torments must have been fearful. He could not lie, he could not sit ; the thongs were eating through his flesh, and his wounds were fes tering in the sun. A little boiled rico was daily put into his mouth, and that was all. Six days he endured this. On the 7th be was taken to D:. Parker's hospital, his wrists, and legs, and back, all covered with sloughing sores. He had been tor tured to death, and he died. Now, this is the melt important fact that has occurred since the late war. The affair of the Arrow is as nothing compared with it. It is the murder of a British subject. There is no reason to regret that this wretched ruffian has ceased to live ; but wo must recollect that he was tortured to death not because be was a robber, but because one of his own fellow-ruffians was slain. Ti3o conduct of the villagers was in dir ec t con t raven ti on o f t h e treaty, and the precedent, if allowed, will apply to any Englishman whomayacciclentally violateOhinese law while in pursuit of peaceful avocations. I have no doubt that Mr. Meadows will deal with this matter with the temper and firmness it requires. The elder of the village must be made accountable for this English (or rather Irish) life as be would have been accountable for a Chinese life, and the reparation should be very public. Otherwise any treaty will be a dead letter. To-day the victim is a worthless outlaw ; next year the victim's name may be Jardine, or Dent, or Beale, or Gibb, or Fletcher. As I thought the English public may like to know what preparations the Chinese are making in the neighbourhood of Ningpo, and what probability there is of a repetition of the occurrences of the last war, I determined to spend a few days in a survey of the scenes of our most important conflicts. I believe that John Bull will be utterly disap pointed of anything like a fight. Ningpo itself is defended along the whole extent of its walls by two guns, whose explosion would be terrific and cause immediate destruction to all who should ap .proach—to fife them. It is said there are a thou sand soldiers in the city, and the assertion is very probable. But the Chinese, -who invented every thing, invented that system of purchase which is the ornament and safeguard of our military system. They carry out the principle further than we have yet done. In China a soldier receives a certain modicum of cash and rice, amounting perhaps to 6d. a-day, he attends parade now and then when called upon, and he works at his trade at all other times. This is an advantageous position, and the Mandarins take care he shall not get it for nothing. From 15 to 30 dollars, according to the demand, is the price paid for his commission by a private in the Chinese army. Some time sines) some tall strong Shantung fellows who were out of employ wished to enlist. Their offer was laughed at, and some old men and cripples whose friends wished to provide for them in the army of the Empire were duly regis tered. I believe that if at any moment Commander Dew were to land his 17 marines and proceed to the Toutsi's Yemen, and were to tell him that his Sovereign had resolved to annex Ningpo and the surrounding plain, and that Mr. Consul Meadows now reigned as Toutai, the old gentleman would simply protest that such conduct was " most un reasonable" and would be led away liken lamb. As to the people, they are so worn out with con tinual " squeezes" that a judicious proclamation would quite reconcile them to the change. CHUSAN HARBOUR, SEPT. 9. On the 6th of Sept., in a boat with two ears and two eyes, a foresail and mainsail kept taut by bam boo sticks worked into them, and a comfortable cabin, built as a hurricane-house, and occupying nearly all her length, I started with a strong, ad verse wind for Chusan., The Rosina is partly used as a passage boat, partly to carry information, but chiefly to carry " drug"—the commercial name for opium. She belongs to an eminent commercial house, is navigated by one European and a Chinese crew, has a good store of Minie rifles, always fit for service, is a good sea boat, a fast sailer, and the type of a numerous class. Everybody of any im portance has one of these Ningpo boats. It would take more space than I dare occupy to describe the 10 miles of the river Yung. The simple, yet effective ice -houses, and the no less simply con. strutted salt stores which occupy the right hank ; the wood junks, each in its separate mud dock (so closely packed that there is not room for another); which line the left bank ; the " frowning" batteries which are built at the end of every reach--alideserve " REPORT No. 2. The following particulars have been taken from the records in the yamun of the Governor-General : (The first report describes the measures taken by the Governor-General to prevent the exportation of copper cash to Shanghai, his interviews with the prefect and magistrates of Canton, and the orders issued resulting in the arrest of 12 of the money-changers, who, it was understood, would he severely punished, &c.) " On the 6th of August the Governor-General sum moned Lin Fuhshing, an expectant Prefect, and one of the officers of the Committee for the Supplies of War. Shaouhing, it appears, has been invested by a rebel force, who, taking advantage of the swollen state of the West River, swept down past Fungchuen and Tihhing, two cities near the borders of Swangsi province and about 150 miles to the west of Shaouhing, their advance being greatly assisted by means of large rafts constructed of heavy spars lashed together, and having fires lighted at the foremost end. Their presence before Shaoubing occa sioned the greatest distress and:,larm in that city. News had previously been received (at Canton) of the defeat of Soohai's (late Admiral at Escape Creek) fleet with the loss of 70 junks —the number of missing soldiers and officers had not been ascertained. The Governor-Gene ral's object in now summoning Liu Fahshing was to direct him to go to the relief of that place with 1,000 of the Lin Braves (a bodj•inised 4 for the defence of Canton by his father, who acted at one time as chief magistrate of Shanghai, therefore called Lin Braves—the braves raised by Lin), and the Governor-General authorised him to hire 30 fast boats to serve as transports, and to travel day and night. Swan Tapir, the military com mander in-chief of the whole province, is holding Shaou hing against the rebels with about 3,000 regulars. " On the 7th of Aug. the Governor-General ordered the acting Taoutai Le and the expectant Prefect Chin to take a linguist with them, and proceed to Ta Shih and Chanchow to confer with the American merchants there, but the particular nat are of the business did not transpire. "Again, all the boats at Chintsun, Siangman (towns of supply for Canton and Macao), and other places, that have been lying there laden with tea and sulk and other produce, have received passes from the Chinese authori ties allowing them to proceed to Macao and to trade there with the foreign merchants. " The principal officers of the Committee for the Sup plies of War—viz., the Commissioner of Finance and Commissioner of Just;ca (being the highest officers of the province next to the Governor-G-neral and Gove). nor), had an audience of the Governor-General to discus in an informal manner the condition of the funds at their disposal. They represented that they had already de livered to the committee the following recent contribu tions : Taeie. From the Shuutih district From the Heangshan district From the Sinhwuy district As well as additions! contributions or percentages from other sources of 78,000 Total "They farther represented that now, while the bar barian affairs remained unsettled, the daily expenditure of the committee for the hire of junks, braves, and their equipments amounted to upwards of 12,000 taels, and that this sum would now be further increased by up wards of 7,500 taeli in consequence of the additional outlay they were obliged to incur to provide means for checking the alarming advance of the rebe!s upon Shaots king ; that therefore the incomings were not suffi cient to meet the expenditure, and they accordingly moved the Governer-General to appoint a deputa tion, consisting of a taotitai and a prefect, with 10 aoio ciates of the rank of district magistrates, to make a tour through all the districts of the province, to raise therein all the contributions in their power, making returns of the same every three months to the Provincial Govern ment. The proposal received the assent of the Governor General, who said that the appointment of the officers who were to compose the deputation should be made on the 11th or 12th of August. "The levy of an import duty on opium both in the viceroyalty of the two Kiang provinces and in that of Fuhkien and Chebkiang has been officially announced (by the Governoro-General of those provinces to the Government of Kwasgtung), and his Excellency the Superintendent of Maritime Custoass at Canton and the Governor-General Yeh have despatched a joint memo rial to the Court, begging to be instructed whether it Is his Majesty's pleasire that the same course should be adopted in these provinces. This memorial was sent off in 'be charge of a ere *Tee. on the Bth inst. " The Le Szeting (a Tartar civilian) reported the issue of ratinns to the Tartar troops for the fifth month (May, June). On this occa.ion 7-10ths had been issued in grain, and 3-10 the in case, the total amount of grain being 7,600 shib, and of cash 3,200 teams and upwards. (A. ship is about equal to a pica!, 1331 b. ; a teaon is 1,000 cash, about 6s. Sd.) "On the Bth inst. an officer reported hie return from Pekin, and that he was the bearer of a present, consisting of incense, deers' sincere (which are stewed into a soup, a great Chinese luxury), and other thiugs, which the Emperor had been pleased to con'er on Yeh's father. These were accordingly received in state in the Viceroy's yamun. "Dated Cantos, Aug, 10." (Translation ) " REPORT No. 3.--Norx OF OCCURRENCES IN THE VA HUN OF THE IMPERIAL HIGH COMMISSIONER YEEL " August 20. "One of the Viceroy's messengers (an officer) arrived to-day from Pekin. He brought a despatch from the Nuy-woo-foo (or office for the management of the Impe rial household), stating that the Emperor bad been pleased to direct that the Superintendent of Maritime Customs for the province of Kwangtung (or Hoppo of Canton) should continue to hold that appointment for another year. A second despatch from the Nuy-woo-foo enclosed eight taels' weight of pearls and 370 pieces of ginseng, the value of which, estimated at 114,000 taels, the Hoppo is required to pay into the treasury of the household. He has given notice of his readiness to pay 74,000 taels, but has applied to the Governor-General to call on the Salt Commissioner for the remaining sum of 40,000 taele. " A despatch was also received from the Board of War (at Pekin), urging the transmission without further delay of the following supplies for the use of the main army near Nankin :-170,000 teals of silver, 8,000 catties of gunpowder, 1,000 catties of bullets. "The Governor (rib Kwei) had an interview to-day with the Viceroy on the subject of supplies required for the army in Hoonan. The Commissioners who have to provide for the necessary munitions for that force have sent an officer to Canton to purchase 2,000 rattan shields and 500 foreign muskets, and their Excellencies had to consider whom they should depute to procure the latter either at Hong Kong or Macao. " Tsang-fungn-een, the admiral commanding at Yang Kiang (in Shaoubing department), and Wei-tse-pang, commanding the naval station at Shun-tih (between the Bogue nd Canton), were admitted to an interview with the Governor-General, and received directions to take under their orders 3,000 regulars and militia, and having embarked them in 50 war-boats and 30 cargo-beats, to procee d with them to the relief of Woochow with all possible despatch. "The head Committee for the supplies of War issued 20,000 task of silver to certain officers deputed by them to purchase at Chin-tsun and Kiang-mun 10,000 picuLs of rice, which it is; the intention of the committee to forward immediately to Woochow, under convoy of a force of 500 men that have been told off for the purpose. " The Commissioners of Finance and of Justice waited upon the Viceroy to report to him the condition of the funds of the bead Committee for the Supplies of War. They have still in hand 581,000 tilde, but this sum it appears, is not more than sufficient to meet the demands that will be made upon them during the first 10 days of this month (August—September.) They therefore sug gested that officers should be deputed to visit the va rious districts in the vicinity of Canton, in order to se cure the prompt payment and immediate transmission to Canton of fresh contributions. "The Prefect of Canton reported that the Wan-ming gate (on the south face of the old city) had been again opened and placed in the charge of an officer and guard. "His Excellency Shwatig, the Tartar lieuteuant-xene ral of the right division (of the garrison), bad an inter view with the Viceroy to request his assistance in pro• curing for the use of the naval brigade to be attached to the Tartar force 1,200 jackets of cow-hide and 800 fo reign muskets. The bead committee for supplies of war were directed to arrange for the purchase of these articles, the cost, amounting to upwards of 7,000 teals, being defrayed by the Tartar commander-in -chief. " August 23. " Reports were received to-day from the West (of the Province). It appears that, although the rebels of Tih hing and Fungchuen have fallen hack, Woochow is suf fering severely from the long siege, and is now without r: f' cr as They make the provisions. In the middle of the s ixth month (beginning of August) a tael ( or ounce) of si lver could only purchase 10 ounces of rice , and bothsoldiersanradpeond other people were dying in great numbers. T a nd fe e o r d s . upi T )ly he o s f u g fi r e a r i i n Dg is s ei: h fd i t s ee cffm l i, birds, tp, a o m vn f: o r tw Ft e lenixs'ruhagrarevelinitvetaoaegrdpse'prelcayaa'inlssd(if)o uth:g r tillk a ebts ssistanc e or relief of any kind, and the Viceroy has called upon the d fferent tradesmen and shopkeepers to contribute dried meat, dried potatoes rice, cakes, and portable foods of that nature, which are to be vconveyedcsr oy , t s o us W e ci s s o c eh ng o e w r alseffatstf o a r s they f e n t w e r it e h ceived. three memorials from his E xcellenc y Yeh to the Throne, one p months' jhk we a a x t e d s to hi s th r e es i u n m ha p - . porti ng t h e recent d escen t and other dis tricts in the vicinity of Shaouui ng; another, an n ouncing rei inha bitants porting g f t S h i e u h remi ss ing, ° i n n c o in six g, Kaouminb, the defe a t o f th e i mper i a l the eti lat a :o r arf rebelsni v d a l t office; the ef u pon death en h ad e t ht s G h hoo o af vose otheruro h a ohnragr "August 24. " An officer from the department of Cha ou - c h o w.foo (in the oast of the Province) reported his arrival at Can-