The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Files of papers Nom India, China, and Australia,
have arrived in anticipation of the Overland Mail.
They bring the most exciting and important news
that has ever reached these shores from China. A sum-
mary of the leading events and incidents preceding and
attendant upon the surrender of the capital of the
Chinese Empire into the hands of the Allies, appeared
in a third edition of our paper yesterday, and we
now publish a detailed account of these stirring and
astounding events--events which in many respects more
than realise, for they almost exhaust, the imagination—.
extracted from the North China Herald, and from the
letters of correspondents at the scat of war.

The length to which these interesting details extend,
precludes all attempts at an enlarged comment on them ;
but there are some explanations and supplementary par-
ticulars which our readers will no doubt expect to re-
ceive from us, as filling up the telegraphic outlines
given of some of the occurrences.

It is almost needless to mention that there is nothing
new to be told regarding the fate of Captain Brabazon
and Mr. Boulby, the Times' special correspondent. All
We gather from the detailed accounts on this saddening
subject is, that " no information has been obtained "
concerning them. They are merely supposed to be
with San-ko-lin-sin's army, but where, is not known,—
a state of things which no doubt is a shade less dis-
comforting than would have been the existence of
rumours or ptobable suspicions that they had met with
foul play, or, like Capt. 'Anderson and Mr. de Norman,
had sunk under that savage and brutal treatment from

which even Mr. Parkes and Mr. Loch were not exempt.
But, at the same time, the greatest uneasiness, and—
alasl that it should be so—well-founded uneasiness
will continue to be -entertained respecting them until
they ere returned to the allied head-quarters.
\V have, however, some highly interesting additional
particulars respecting the circumstances attending the
capture and restoration of Mr. Parkes and the other pri-
soners who have been released, which are communicated
in letters written from the Camp, on the 9th and 13th
of October. In the letter of, the 13th, which describes
the barbarities inflicted on Captain Anderson and Mr.
De Norman, under Which these gallant but unfortunate
gentlemen succumbed, we are -told that the Sikh
sergeant, and other survivors are suffering very much)
and that it will be long before they can return to duty ;
and it is explained that when they were delivered up,
they had been brought from a town some thirty or forty
miles off, to which they were conveyed soon after their
capture,. They had, howeyer, as we have previously
said, neither seen nor heard anything of Captain
Brabaaon or Mr. Boalby.
A good deal of curiosity has been excited, and no
little speculation indulged in, as to the difficulty which
the ambassadors Were likely to experience in the eon-
. dad of the farther necessary negotiations with the
Chinese, and the definitivesettlemelit and arrangethents
to follow on the Capture cf the imperial city and the
flight of the Emperor. These feelings will; it is to be
hoped, be largely, if not fully, gratified, when there is
n opportunity of perching the official despatches, Which
are expected in London te-raorre* j hilt ineanwhile
We may obs'oi•ve, that the writer of the letter

Prom *dada we have last quoted does not appear
'celisible of the existence of any such stumbling-block as
that which seems to be 'thus so much apprehended, for
he says, in reference to the pour-parlers for the surrender
of the capital, " The Emperor accedes to all our demands.
Harry Parkes and Colonel Stephenson, the Deputy
Adjutant General, went in a hall 'of reception outside
this meriting to -confer with Hung Key (late Hoppo, or
GoVernor, of Canton). They *told him the Uty 'Would
be bombarded if it was not surrendered at noon:" It

Will also be noticed that the pressnre 'of the population
had great weight in indticing this funotionary to yield to
this last-inentiorred alternative, which he appears to have
done with a very good graCe, in the eireumstances.
The looting 'of the Vinperor's palace is a chapter in
this ebendkll history altogether by itself, and so it has

been delt with by the naltatars of the inartellotts details

connected with this remarkable feature in this most
remarkable of all such'eVents—taking it all in all, in
the present age of the world. The value of the seventy
of eighty thousand rolls of silk alone, estimated as worth,
in Canton, $25 each roll, which was stored hi the palace,
amounted in money value to £373,000 sterling ; but
this commodity was taken little account of by the eager
soldiers when found in junta-position to heaps upon
heaps of golden ingots and Sycee silver, sufficient of
themselves to meet a large amount of the indemnity
which the vanquished ate prepared to pay to the
tong e rots.

There is obviously some mistake in the statement that
" the entire British share is estimated at 00,000 dollars."
This estimated amount doubtless refers to some partial
division of spoil, especially as we are told that the
Oomniatider-in-Chief and the other general 'officers have
generously agreed to waive their own rights in favour
of the army at large. One would like also to be a little
more enlightened as to the reason why the lion's share
of the booty should appear to have been conceded to
the French, who are numerically so inferior to the
British troops.
Lord Elgin seems to have sent for his brother, as
soon as the occupation of Tien-tsin by the allies was
completed) and it is inferred that his lordship does not
himself intend to remain over the Winter; but this
inference ie, to sty the least, a Very doubtful one, all
circtunstanees considered. • It would appear that the
head-quarters of the troops are shortly to be moved back
to the place last mentioned, and no doubt ,for weighty
reasons, which can be-guessed-at.. Count 'goofier; the
Russian Minister to the Court of Pekin, has joined the
allies at Tien4sin, Where he intends to remain ; tint Mr.
Ward, the American Minister, not knotting what to do
with himself in presence of events so much beyond his
¶' calculations," has gone home.
It only remains for its to notice that the feel-
ing of the Camp, as to the conduct of the
Chinese authorities in complying with all the demands
of the allies: seems to be that the former are in
this instance, as at Tien-tsin in 1858, yielding under
pressure, and that they would break all their engage;
'meats without hesitation the instant the troops were
withdrawn from the country. Consequently, the only
guarantee for the pfesthation of the advantages and
successes Which have been obtained would seem to be the
keeping of the ground which we have gained,—at all
events, until a new Government, whose interest it would
be to keep faith with us, shall have been strongly estab,
lished in lieu,of the present Tartar dynasty:
The latter it the Work to which Lord Elgin and
Baron le Gros have now, without delay, to address
themselves, and towards its accomplishment it is to be
hoped some considerable progress has already been
made. A large amount of specie and an immense
quantity of military stores are already on their way
from France to relnforee the French Fleet and Expedi-
tionary Corps itt China; and still larger efforts are being
made in this country for strengthening and sitstaining
the British Contingent. ' On'this latter subject, by the
,way, we notice that the indefatigable Mr. G. F. Train,
of road tramway celebrity, has offered, with a view to
facilitate the conveyance of war material front Taku to
Pekin, to lay doWn rails for hoist-pottier lietiveeii these
two places, within three months after the date of ship-
ment of the rails.

From Ningpo we learn that the insurgent movement
in the neighbourhood of Shanghai has considerably
increased the tea and silk trade at the former port.
Should the apprOabhet td Shanghai he 'blocked up by
the same cause for any length of time, that may possibly
be the means of diverting a considerable amount of
the trade of that port to Ningpo, particularly as both
the tea and silk districts are nearer to Ningpo than to
Shanghai, and there is an easier internal communication
with the former.

In Hong Kong the great event of the fortnight has
been the visit of the 4.apanese Ambaissitddrs, in the !Tug,
nificent steam vessel Niagara. They and their suite
have availed themselves of their stay at Hong Kong to
make minute inquiries into various institutions of the
place,

The Fifth Bombay European Regiment having
mutinied, it has been disbanded; and tint df the
mutineers shoL

Owing to the great length to which our account of
the intelligence from the East extends, it will be seen
that we have unavoidably been compelled to appro-
priate to it a large portion of the space which is usually
devoted to general news and dthek Matters.