The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-02 00:00:00

CHINA.

RUMOURED DEATH OF THE TARTAR EM-
PEROR OF CHINA.- PROGRESS OF THE
REBELLION.

HONG-KONG, MAT 10.

Admiral Sir James Stirling waited until the lit
inst. for the return of her Majesty's ship Rattler from
Siam ; but, finding no chance of her arrival, his
Excellency sailed in the Winchester (flag-ship)
northwards. We hear that the British fleet will
proceed to the River Amcor or Sagaleen, and that
part of the fleet will remain there for the purpose of
maintaining a strict blockade, and to prevent the
Russian vessels of war in that river putting to sea
and annoying our trade with China.
The progress of the rebellion is little talked of just
now, The prevailing famine ham compelled the in-
surgents to give over fighting, at least on any male ;
starvation stares every one in the face, and the im-
perialists have it nearly all their own way; but the
frightful famine now dominant may produce snot less
fearful reaction, augmented and hastened by the hoe.
rots :which famine inevitably occasions. There is a
repott current that the Emperor Hien-fang is dead,
but no confirmatory accounts have been received of
Pooh en event. The insurgents still hold Nankin,
but we do not hear of their malting any advancement
towards Pekin. Canton remains quiet in a political
sense, but its domestic state is frightful, in copse-
(inertia of the famine. The Circular of the Canton
Chamber of Commerce dated the 7th inst. remarks :
The scarcity of food reverted to in our last circular has
continued to concise a very painful and depressing influ-
ence throughout the month ; thousands have been dying
from starvation, and famine with all its horrors prevail', to
the complete derangement, of coarse, of all trade. A large
Beet of grain junks despatched for the relief of this city are
detained on the west coast by pirates. Foreign aid has
been solicited to effect their Mean, but with what result
bas not transpired. Importations of foreign rim have been
considerable, and, though far inadequate to the wants of so
vast a population, have buoyed up hope that relief is at
band, and 12 relieved temporarily, the Preemie causing •
decline of about eighty cents. from the highest point of the
market. It is to be feared, however, that prices will rule
high for some time, notwithstanding all the grain which
foreigners can import, the neighbouring country having
suffered so severely by the troubles ; and, decimated as its
villages have been, much of the richest soil Is now loft
without cultivation. Politically there is no change to no-
tice. The scarcity of food is supposed to have driven the
Insurgents elsewhere, leaving their strongholds an easy
prey to the Mandarins.

SIR JOHN BOWRING'S MISSION TO SIAM.
Our correspondent at Singapore writes that Sir
John Bowntig hu succeeded beyond all expectation
in negotiating a treaty with the Siamese government,
which promises to open the resources of that rich
country to the enterprising European trader. Sir
John Bowring reached Siam in her Majesty's steamer
Battler, accompanied by her Majesty , sloop Grecian.
His Excellency landed on the 3rd April. The com-
mission to determine the points of the treaty was
signed on the Bth. The commissioners held their
Snit mooting ea the 9th, and the treaty was formally
'signed on the 18th. Every endeavour was made by the
Him to beim Bir John to submit to the humiliating
sepal., of the Simmais sort, but bin Excellency in-
eistei
that be Mil ems at the must of his Majesty,
sal MAO mo Wise formalities than those observed
whet M. Cllmaisat, the French ambassador, was

received. Bit John's determination gained the point,
and bath his Enslimey and his suite entered the royal
prawns with their shoes and swords, and eat on
chairs at the durbar, the highest Siamese nobles being
all the while prostrate on the ground.

AUSTRALIA.

LIVERPOOL, Emma:.
Thin morning the clipper ship Gipsy Bride, Cep.
taro Montgomery, belonging to the Liverpool hue of
Australian packets, arrived in the Mersey from Mel-
bourne. She left that port the same day as the
Lightning. She has brought on freight 40,000
maces of gold.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
LIVERPOOL, SurAy.

The British and North American royal mail steam
ship Africa, Captain William Harrison, arrived this
mornieg from Bostoa and Halifax, with the usual
mails, 223 passenger., and 811,142 dole. 13c. and
6001. in specie.
Her dates are—New York, June 19; Boston, 20.;
and Halifax, 21.
The Africa passed the royal mail steam-ship Ame-
rica, of the same line, at 8 p.m., on the 27th ult., lat.
M N., lon. 26 W.
The United States revenue cutter Washington, in-
tercepted a vowel leaving the harbour of New York
on the Bth, with nearly sixty persons on hoard,
enlisted, as it is alleged, for the Crimea. The fact
was reported to the United States district attorney,
but be mimed the informant to the city autho-
rities.

A despatch from New Orleans states that cholera
has appeared among the United States troops at
Baton Rouge in an epidemic form, and that several
deaths had already occurred, and some fifty of the
soldiers were sick.

The new steam-frigate, Merrimac, was success-
fully launched on the 14th from the Charlestown
Navy Yard. An immense crowd of spectators wit-
nessed the spectacle.
The New York Herald, speaking of the Kinney
expedition, says the Vixen is cruising now outside
the harbour, while the City of Boston is in the
neighbourhood of Hurlgate, to intercept her should
she attempt to sail by that way. The revenue cutter
Washington also is stationed off Governor's Island,
with a taimilar intent.

MALTA, Jaws 28.
By the Ganges, French steamer, we have received
news from the Crimea to the 19th. Our letter states that
notwithstanding a heavy and destructive fire our brave
fellows carried everything before them till they were stopped
by a ditch 20 feet wide and 14 feet deep, for crossing which
no preparation had been made, and the existence of which
we appear to have been ignorant of. Our attacking force
consisted of 35,000 French and 15.000 English ; but some
of these were only partially engaged. The naval brigade
undertook the placing of the scaling ladders. Oar attack
was completely beaten and driven back, though three regi-
ments, under the command of G 1 Eyre, made a lodg-
ment in the town, near the arsenal, but, by order of Lord
Raglan, retired with some diffieulty from their perilous
situation.
The hut, during this time, made several attempts on
the sea (root, to distract the enemy's attention, the ships
going in and delivering sash three broadsides, to which the
Russians promptly replied, and we had several killed and
wounded in the fiset Arsons the latter, is Captain Lyons, of
the Miranda, the calla whose leg was shot away by a shell ;
he has gone to Therapia Hospital.
Notwithstanding this repulse the army is in the but
spirit, and only anxious to be led on again, which it is un-
derstood they will be in a day or two.
Among the naval casualties are Captain Peel, R.N., and
Captain Lyons, wounded; Lieutenant kidd, killed; 112
men out of 120 of the naval brigade who advanced were pat
hors de combos ; Lieutenant Cave, wounded; Lieutenant
Uneaten, wounded; Lieutenant Daly.U, wounded; Mr.
Persons, wounded ; Mr. Wood, wounded. General Jones's
(Engineers) wound does not preclude his attending to his
duties. Captain Peel's (It N.) wound, though severe,
is not considered dangerous. Hon. Captain Agar lost both
lop previous to his death. It is said the 38th Regiment
have lost ten officers.
The following is en extract front a letter dated Camp be-
fore Sebastopol, June 19, 1855:
" I write you a very hurried letter. I have had only seven
hours' rest during the put 90 bouts. The Russians attacked
our lines this morning, but ware soon driven back with
great lois. The fire they opened on us was terrific."
MALTA, Juba 27.

The 8.8. Holyrood has arrived from Balaklava. The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ermine, with
Indian passengers, stemmed for England last night.
One of the English blockading steamers lately went into
Odessa under a fl .g of truce, for the purpose of exchanging
prisoners ; she took in some 180, receiving two in return.
The governor in sending these is reported to have said that
he regretted having so few, but trusted in a short time to
have a great number, u the Russians intended very shortly
to begin the war in sunset. Numbers of the good people
of Odessa came dewn tome the officers, inquiring how they
amused themselves while cruising, the monotony of which
Is only usuionally relieved by landing for a day's shooting
on some of the islands. Sines this we have sent another
large quantity of prisoners up, and received one only in re-
turn, a soldier of the 11th Cavalry Regiment, who speaks
most vehemently against the treatment he hes received, and
strongly expostulated against the civility our efficers was
showing to the Russians. My informant stated that the
Russians, taking advantage of the flag of trace, attempted to
march a large body of troops en route over to Perecop, a
bridge commanded by our guns. The steamer instantly
hauled down the flag of truce, steamed close into the
bridge, opened fire, and drove the att!eilitll hack, after
which she rehoisted the fig and returned to Odessa, an-
choring within pistol shot. The fortifications of Odessa are
described as becoming very formidable, and will soon be
but little inferior to Sebastopol.

circumstance of a

somewhat extraordinary character occurred a short time
since in one of the flourishing towns of the midland counties.
A clergymen died, and his wife and daughters on the third
day after his decease, recollecting that no likeness remained
of the once cherished son and brother, it was agreed, ere the
grave closed o'er him, that the body should be unshrouded
and a portrait taken. A young lady of some professional
celebrity was engaged for the task. She. with the assist-
ance of the attendant, took off the shroud and placed the
body is the requisite posture; but, other duties requiring
the artist's attention, the sketch was deferred till noon.

About twelve o'clock, at the foot of the bed, the lady ooze
meaced and went through as hour's work oa this image of
death. At this stage of the proceedings, by some unaccount-
able notion, the head of the deathlike figure fell on one
side. Nothing daunted, the artist carefully took the bead
to replace it, when, to ! the eyes opened, and staring her full
ia the face, " the dead" inquired—" Who are you ?" The
=1:62/310iiesahsionaead L,'d' vont
bed :irsepi:iedlioniiteo=istresil-
MN OM shroud, and laughed immoderately. The artist
ride* called the family—their Joy may be imagined but
cannot be described. That evening, he who bad lain three
days I. hie shroud, bemoaned by mother and sisters with
sicsaislag tease, gladdened their hearts by taking his amis.
Waal place at their tea table, and at this moment is making
as emersion la North Wales.— Bedford Tines.
LETTERS FOR OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS IN THE
BRITISH HOSPITAL AT RENLIOI, NEAR THE DAIWA-
RITT.Lae.—ORKRaLL POST.OPTICI, JDiE 1855.—1 n order
to prevent as far as possible the delay of letters and news-
papers for invalid °Mein and soldiers in the British hospital
at B.enkioi, which would result from such letters, &a.,
being sent to the headquarters of the army, a separate bag
will in future be made up in Loudon for the correspondence
referred to, and letters and newspapers will be forwarded
is this beg if they be plainly addressed to—" The British
Hospital, Reskioi' Dardanelles," and if the postage upon
am be duly paid in advance according to the following
sok: —Weighing under k os, 3d. ; weighing i os. and
andtr * or., 61. ; exceeding or. and not exceeding 1 os.,
Iggleteiag 1 os. and not exceeding 2 on. 2d.; ex
2 ass. and not exceeding 3 nes., Is. 4d. ; exceeding
3 oss. and not exceeding 3} on., Is. 61. The regular mails
for the British hospital at Reakioi, intended to be for-
warded through France and by French packet, via Mar-
seilles, will be made up in London every Monday evening;
but supplementary mails will be made up on the morning
of the following day, containieg such correspondence as may
be patted or received is London in time for the day mail to
Francs —.ROWLAND HILL, Sec.
SALE OP THE RECTORY OP STOCKPORT.—A great
sealulastical sale by auction, involving the religious teaching
of no fewer than 48,000 people, is announced to take place
early in the present month. The property that is to come
to the hammer is the rectory of Stockport, comprising the
rectories of St. Maly, in Stockport, and St Thomas, in Stock-
port, as the same will be divided under the proemial:a of a
recent act of pirliautent, upon the death of the present
Teeter of Stockport, now in has 69th year. Upon such divi-
sion taking place, as income of the rectory of St. Mary will
be about 2,0001. per annum. The patronage and right of
presentation to All Saints' church, at Mande, worth 1501.
year ; to St. Chad's, at Baldly, worth 1201. • year ; to St.
Range's, Hyde, worth 1501. • year; and *to St. last.
Dakiafield, worth 1801. a year, are vested in the recited
St. Mary. The present Incumbent of St. Thomas, who will
bosoms rector of St. Thomaa apes the divides taking plum,
is now Is his 45th year. The biome of the sectary of St.
Thomas, after the division, will to about 9201. According
to the " Clergy List," tie property thus oared for sale
beings to Lord Vernon.

SPORTING.

NEWMARKET JULY MEETING.
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lby 10 Olio& tbe rein Wore twirls& to go to re moor et re
eared bane; for 841.41/11 erl words. Iter T.T.C.
thrmormer it If mew. emelt ter &reads ; err. 71b ; ebb
smt tr. Was Wooer to hi maid ke 100 mom It dmonetiod,
New T.C.
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1111 !we. ad owe, rat The Wiser to be gold for
KO eon. it kib. TILJL
Too JILT et $0 ors. erb, 80 tt. Ile &malls ogre
Sit 711) ; sad Mr. let Mb. newer of the mested bone to min
beet re robe. Jew T.T.C. (21 ebbe) •Alsarr. •Intraktarro.
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Tr Tows Yks T 3 of 10 son. for 3-yr-old; sr to, Im 7112; and
I ,M 316. LL
Smarr Pun et 70 sow., for 5-yerds sad upwards. Chester-
flor arse Course.
Swnasorsins of 10 son. oar, for 0-yr olds ; air Ist 7112; and E-
lias, Or Ob. The winner to be sold to 060 sook, tf demanded, Os;
Wt half of 11.11.
Strussrsras of 10 son. orb ; for S-Tr-olds, Ist 71b ; four, Est Sib
I Ir. Or 1010; sr sad sired, Ist Mb. Tho winner lobs sold for 1201.,
ltm Onissisd, fro. V.
MONIONIUUL brim of SO IPOTL ask b ft, Orr it-yr-olds; colts,
Ilat Mit Or Mos, Sr Mb; rove by stair= or mu of snares that
now lad s vizor allowed Sib; only sr ellovanse. Tr. winner
of tbs Dory Ur sobs; of ths TIM Timm* Orme or Owls, Sib;
of Ober err rho Mom, Worm tbe wires own stake,
234 fat Ins tiro 10 whs.. 616 errs. Ms OWNS of tbo
mond bons to Neils host his mob. D.N. (111 rata) Mirror
=(6t szorithilthroy (4112), Tonrisr, *Basel, b I Warr —Toone
411), Terhory, Pararps (46) totroysoser,
Cirsmork of W Croot—hroprosa (Mt),
cam, trim 7km (Sib), girl Peke Obi, 17/1113ns Kos
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PLOW IC ;bt 1-yedilde, 64 16; three, OA RI; /1114116 1111 b;
Ave sod epww.* de• winker to be sold for "ALI twkwed to
be sold ter 164 Omni 91b.; is 1004 141 b. ; If it 161.,2110. ;If
for 401" fib. Ird half of
HANISI6IIP PLATS of 701. for 349416 ewl *welds. B.M.
thnwrereites of 10 sees. wish ; it 11.. yr-olds, 6 4 410 ; three,
sa kb; tear. Oft 121 b ; Are sedegeree6,l6 210; the winner to be
sold for 330 tom New T.Y.C.
Humseer Swnrersin of 16 tam tech, 10 ft, fax all ages (2.yr.
aletweepted); to start 6 tke etarling-piet of AM., end sun 6 the
swl 61/46T.T.0.
16e 01ee11e611731 Armes of 30 ow. each. 10 ft, for 2-yradds ;
616 M Mk i awl ills,, ist d 1 i tb• winter of tbeJely Stakes, 9.b ;
the mond lira s 41b astir lan half of B.Y. (36 albs.) Rainbow,
abtaddeliss. es by Bey lliddletos—lllaader,
=k, Car. Miagsr. "it" 10 El'ols •bY
Wanyhisen—Onien of by Anna—Lletle Vary, F.y • way, *I by Dee
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• * Abler Deielenten—Farters Berk lissaar and Desna. lb
neath Kinardy, 6266, leeretary, Katherine LW" besiber
to Waco; Betowildreat, Lawn, Melissa. '(by Itatat—rif add&

RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.- EASTERN 001INTIM1 RAIL,
WAY : BIAIMOPSGATE STATION.
Trains will Maw Widen sad Newmarket as follows :
Mal Laadsa. Due In Newmarket.
6.40 a.m., 14 kid. =died Maas
3.0 LEL. Lind lad ohn 10.43 a.m.
1129
(Elprem)
oak. Island anislam 1.20 p.m.
r.
ea n... lad Man
SIIINIIktit. Das In
ILO am, Ist mod fad sisal (Ewer) 11.0 a.m.
LSO am., 14 1•4 sot Sid dams
12.4 p.n., Ist sad 224 a 5..... 3.40 p.m
4.0 p.m.. la salt fad alsad- 7.10 p.m.
On Tasemilay, July 3, ia aidttits to the ordinary trains, a Special
Train at trot-elass earrings will bays Newm.ukst for London ens
hour aftsr Gm lest mos.

WORCESTER SUMMER MEETING.
THVINDAY.
PROGRAMME OF THE SPORT.

Two o'ckek.—lke Twee tivazaa, a handicap of 5 bon. sub, with
30 added. Ons mite and a quarter. (il tabs.)
Aga sr lb
!Ilkeston' (h b) a 80 I Watford .
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Postulant . 6 78 1 _ .. __

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LIS. —Tug Two-Tmut-OTA Seam of 10 sore melt. with 50
deed: mita, 84 71b; Illies, 84 41b. Certain winners sites. T.Y.C.
Straight halfdaile. (7 rubs.)
Mild Cherry I Duet ', IA Victims f Pretty Eoy
fisherman Mork 1 St. LeAstan I
B.3o.—Tsa W 090111.04111111 STASIS, 9 Imam. of 10 4071. each.
5 ft, and sway Sif didend, with 100 added. Certain w men earn..
Mont One ono ad a lialL (77 eabs, 41 of whom declared.) The
highest visit Issuptios Wet under 84 71b, it he. been raised to
that. mil 616 raw romistng in proportion.
Ap st lb Ap st lb
Alms* a 8 7 R:eeping Partner
Mixer of Trumps 6 8 7 Medal
WWI* 6 711 Oamelad
b 7 9 I Capoeine $
6 5
D.. 4 7 9 Herald
Maw 6 7 7 Alma 6 6 3
IL Wm, (In& 3 oz.) 3 7 6 Venison
Mow Warier 4 7 Ilea Bess
Masa.
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8 5 18
.... 6 613 Field-Marshal
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Lae, Beebe 6117 Gael
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