The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-20 00:00:00

CHINA AND TIIE INDIAN l'.:ingW,
ARCHIPELAGO. er,..ot
robbed i
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HONG-KONG. off .rd i
gm 30.—Our domestic neelligeoce is of a melon. of the .
sinlY nature: death has carried off several of our Taunts
bet la China. 'Lem-Kong itself is healthy.
men
gwerviog of first mention iu toe obituary of the
ale is Hie Excellency Sir Fraueis A. Collier Nov
sto
CB e KAIH't naval cemmander-it-chiet in the Europe
Fasters sus. In my lest I selviwel you that the ad- in the
wire was rot expected to survive many days. Due- Capt.t
the Fury's "biota alter the pirates, and waitinf the ee
int
ice her return that be might proceed to 8 aughal, John 1
de admiral became the guest of Judge Hulme and claims
dto be doing well. On Oct. 23rd a fresh at- eatly
stroll? puslysis came, which his enfeebled frame chievo
sir enable to survive. On the night of tbe 27th he out 51.
mewed fatal symptoms, and after a few hours Le be kill
His remains were interred on the prison
gig& Commodore Plumridge is shortly expected here
is the command-in-chief, and in the meantime
Glen Masts, of the Cleopatra, becomes senior naval Om
agar. Our obi'uaty elle contains the death of the Sept.
Bev. John Lowder, episcopal chaplain at Shanghai, to get
who was drowned %heist bathing in the sea ; the Hey. mend
. totehwell, at Shanghai, missionary L. M. S., also order.
Mr. Thomas Nl•Knight, naval store-keeper at Hong- Made
long. Several other deaths, chiefly at Shanghai. 21st
Strictly political news we have none to record. The arrest
Canton rabble are quiet, and Sea is complacent. But ter ec
this state of qu crude cannot continue for any length Meca
d up, The proceedings of the pirates, our inter- withi
fie, and the e steamer slaughter c. mmitted by the the g
gets et our ships-of.war, are the topics of general pr at
taverns• ion amongst the Caine's. As noted in my been
ye. ;Lew pirates have assumed an air of superiority sums
Mai to ncuce the Ceinese government to confer honours ing a
spt them, in the hope of immuring the favour from 100117
attack, aid to encourage the supprestion of pirates cape
ef lees DOW. The &spores% of Chins is Rag
',OEN. ; the government either cannot or sum
will not venture on the surprestion of pir-ey. can
They ceuntenseee piracy on foreigners from the be- nial
pa that they will drive as away. Her Majesty'. imp
ship. Fury and ColuxuSine have had an Wier with It
a tags fleet. Jest prior to the departure of the last Sini
mail w Europe the Columbine was sent after some to et
pirates who were reported to have landed sod de- by t
stioyed the town of Treanii. We fleet e3osiated of Meg
mireee ;two of the largest juaks kept up a rapid fire den
with the Calumbios during the nigh'. la the morn- Bee
bg th- chase was continued, and the ;ant. s ma's Wig
weards shore, but were cut off oy the steamer teat
Canto, tie esptaiu of which vessel was in search hay
after the Cosposee, and seeing the manceuvre of the a m
joke, be immediately steamed leatween them and the
desse. The Cantos took the Columbine in tow,
emeging her near Pat largest of the junks: during the j
elms the Colombice gut oa share, and the junk inn
serdweed sear two small forts. The CAumblee's boa's Zt.
urn lowered sad manned, fur the purpose of cutting het
the joshes', the beats being under the command of iw,
1 Liestesant Bridges. After having exhausted then teal
ammo:Aden, it was resolved to bard the led
jetk, ill which operation several of the pirates to
were drimn uvetbmard. Mr. Midshipman GA- es
.
t dard owerving a man going down the hold with pee
a ligleed match in his hand, followed, but b-fore this ;,
I
6 gallant rang officer could overtake the man en ex- „I,
plosion took piece. Ou the first appearance of the 41
C smoke Lieut. Br dices jumped ove:huari, dragging a ed
t
• seaman with him, by which means both escaped un- et
L hart. Two marines and one seamen were kilted, end to
•
4 sight wounded. Mr. Goddard was mortally wounded, g
a and died 03 his way to Hong Kong. Of ti e crew ol
w the ju ak (about 90) it is said chit wily ore esuped. 7
a
a The Csntuie witn the wounded, was dtspeeched to e,
Hoeg Kong, see =ponied bye re quest ler almittance to d
I.
4 pursue the main body of the fleet, which was much n
as too strung for the Columbine. In two hours wilier I
J. the Fury was und.r *teem, and proceeded to the
Is mistimes of the C dumbine to a place called o
Mire Bay, ab rot 70 mile s dimtant from Hong K ng. p
IA
„ii The piratical fleet was observed at archer, with flags °
Ire flying at their mist heads and the mews dressed far ;
ea the occasion. The Coiumbine keeping t-, seaward,
ree the Fury proceeded towards the jubloesnal,appruach t
l'• log the latter, they opened a dewily fire, e htch was i
sr
onLeeded and not a eIDgl a shot returned (tom the i
le Fury, which vessel steamed at 12 knots through :lie i
i 5. entire fleet uttil she gut between the pirates std the ,
shore, when, having cut off all shone of escape, the a
In Fury at dewed. Tree Fury's hulwart's were
thrown down, and the guns opened op° . the jerks,
dpi. threwieg shells with such p• ecisioa that scarcely one
ea
failed iu its objet t. By noon 14 of tae largest junks
iris
est were burnir g. As the junks were fired, the ere ws
WO were seen to land and estape over the Melees, earrj -
ale tag the wounded with them. Parties of matinee
rut from the Fury succeeded in shooting a few of these
ad
DWI. runaways, A wounaled man was tact out of the
water; he said the shell wnich took away his leg
struck 10 other pirates, including their chief, Chin-
ells
Eel Apno; the latter was wounded in the back, but ma-
. titled to escape on shore. Of the pregeess of our
era
Al& "'ration.. against thew pirates some idea may be
NM- gathered from the following oflleal &aura :
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• .. Hants ii." et Hong lifowr, Oct. 8, 1840.
fir-
:Ur- Litt of Chiac:ii Piratical V owls captor..! mad destroyed by
per Her 811jtey's Ships between the mantes el May arid
o.:toba 1819.
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F. A. CO.Lisa,
Row- kheival and C.manander-in-Chief.

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The Fury, Medea, and Phlegethon, have proceeded
to the we after the piratical fleet of Shap'ng-lee,
who haslroved to be so pose ful in the teighb tar-
hood of Hainse. Up to this moment the ex kiedition
has tot rcurned. In the meantime the bu-y torque
tf rumour has it that the Phlegethon has been taken
by the pi.st a, and Mr. Caldwell, the interpry tee,
murdered. In elnflrmaion of this, it is said some
nukes have arrived overland t 3 Canton; but at pee-
vet all is mere rum..nr. Steers' other Listens** of
piracy have been brolutit to notice, and it was disco-
vered that COOSSUfeII ha 4 been taken to capture every
vaasel proceeding through Cunning-Motu to or from
H sag R erg. Cori-Aire°, the chief of the fleet de-
stroyed by the Fury, is the same on whom is affixed
the mu dine( Certain Da Costa and Lit ut. Dwyer.
By the way, some fuet'.er clue hat been °stained to
this murder. A deserter from the Ceylon Rifles has
been captured. This worthy deserted about two
years ail ce, and enlisted under the banner of Chu:-
Apeat hie busioesebeiog to teach the pirate- I.erwora
exercise. It is, rum,ured that a fleet of pirates was
about to attack Amoy.
Nothin4 has been eacited respecting the miming
v. owls Sylp t and Cociuttte, to whop we regret to
add the names of the Greyhound, ch left flings-
pore for this, on Aug. 23rd, and the Anna F.lza.
which bane a [rum shanghai, on Sept ssta. The
Sara. a tutnar, from Sosaighai to Cork, with a cargo
(item, was wrecked on the Pescadores; crew saved
and taken into Amoy by the Dart. Fears are enter-
tained for other vesails, as ty
the middle of Oct.,
sad about tie 24th or 23th.
Macao still otustionis quiet. The head and hand of
the late Governor Amaral have not yet been given
up. The Chi•.es: Ganmissioner Sea has adored a
ditreaceful 000dition, which is reeee•ed by the Macao
Senate in Lard 'sortie, predicative perhaps of blowe.
The foliowirg is as extract from one of the despecbes
which have passed on the subject :
This council west positively declares to your Brener',
tkat If you Abik of waking *ha head and band of the mar-
emir $OllOlllOl &II übje e. of barter or eachtnge, V) procure
flefe by the release o. the tares Chisels detained here now
imp, Word, 10T the purples of e.rrying on liquifier, and
who, when. thee, are concluded, will be set at liberty,
Partners and all subs, civilised eclair lu tee world lank
upon such an attempt r an iniquitous/4 neteriuwe WIN
which devrastntes at the least the cowracency felt byL 'wari
Ea ellency at the awassw ation of the Claverner of Monwee
the r, as
of her mast faithful -ajesty ; and, there-
fore, as a fresh trait to her mail Majesty, this council pro-
test against your Excellency for the right appertaining to
.fewily tbe reared; ia so much as tr.. head and
al" biluldpng to the body of the dectassd, mud that to his