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LONDON, WEDNXBDAT, NOV 28.

Two letter of our Ocamspowdeni with the imp
in China and the despatches of Ble Hors 011 ANT,
published this morning, were very much wanted,
the telegraphic anticipations of the news by this
mail having been not only exceedingly masers,
but having altogether failed to represent the aggra-
vation of our quarrel with the Chinese Govern.
ment. Whether it is that that Government is
altogether infatuated and reckless, or that Sago.
LURAIN, the Commander-in-Chief of its army,
takes upon him to indulge his humour regardless
of the civil authority, certainly an act of tresitheary
has been committed so gross that it is impoirible
that negotiations can be resumed before the most
solid guarantees of good faith are in the hands of
the Allies.

By the last mail we learned that, on the 9th
of September, General Sir Hors OKA= had set
out from Tientsin, on his way to Pekin. On the
fourth day, having marched about ten miles per
diem, he halted. New Chinese Commissioners,
said to be of high rank, had sent letters to Lord
Einie ; so Messrs. PARKIN and WADS were sent
forward to meet these personages, while the army
remained at Hooseiwoo. This is the explanation
the General gives of his halt, but we hear from
other quarters of difficulties connected with
carriage and the supply of the army, which
make it probable that the arrest of our advance
was not altogether due to political causes. At the
end of two days, however, Mews. PAWS and
WA DE returned, having made arrangements for the
evacuation by the Chinese of a convenient camp-
ing ground at Chang-taia-wan, lying twenty
miles in advance of Hooseiwoo, and five
miles short of the city of Tungehow, ground
which the allied army was to occupy while
the Ambassadors advanced with an wed
to Tungchow to sign the convention. These
arrangements having been accepted by the Eng-
lish and French Generals and Plenipotentiaries,
Lord ELGIN sent Mr. Passes back to Tungchow,
and with him Mr. LOCH, his own private secre-
tary, to prepare for Lord Elates 'reception, Sir
Hon Owe also sending Lieutenant-Colonel

Waxamt to fix the site of the camp in agreement
with the Chinese authorities, and Deputy Assistant
Commissary General Tnowrsox to receive the
supplies which had been promised for our force.
On the 18th Sir Hors Gx.awr was advancing
towards Chang-teifrwan, and bad got within about
a mile of that place, when he found that the
Chinese army, instead of having fallen beak, se-
cording to the agreement with the Imperial Com-
missioners, was on the spot in very great force.
Very soon Lord Extax's private secretary came
in with the news, that whereas the Commissioners

at Tungebow had been most complaisant, and
had promised everything, the Chinese General waa
throwing up batteries to command the site of our
camp.. Mr. Loon was ordered to go back
at once to Tungchow, and command the
instant return of his party. He went
under a flag of truce, but so little wee
that respected, that, instead of bringing back
Mr. Paulus, he was himself made prisoner, with
Captain BILLILLZON, R.A., who accompanied him,
and Lieutenant Aensasox, who commanded the
escort of the party when it first went to Tung-
chow. noes gentlemen had placed themselves in
the power of the Chinese on the invitation of the
latter to facilitate the negotiations, and their de-
tention by force is either an act of the grossest
treachery on the part of the authorities at Pekin,
or a confession that the Government has not the
authority over its troops neceseary to guarantee
their safe conduct back to our lines.

While our civil agents were thus dealt with the
Chinese General unmasked his designs. Disposing
of some 20,000 cavalry, he appears to have
thought he could envelope and utterly extinguish
the little army of the Allies, composed of not mom
than four thousand men. His horsemen advanced
in great numbers on both flanks, and his infantry
poured down on our right front. Regard for the
safety of our officers who were in the enemy's
lines withheld Sir Hors GRANT from giving the
order to engage ; but suddenly this impediment
was removed, for Lieutenant-Colonel WALLZI-.
haring seen one of his companions, a French
officer, amassinated, and perceiving that the same
fate was reserved for his men—set spurs to his
horse and brought out his party under the fire of
the Chinese line. The action now commenced
simultaneously on all points, and the delibe-
rateness and extent of the enemy's preparations
were revealed. Commanding the very ground
which we had been invited to occupy,
"an entrenchment skilfully concealed by
" natural obstacles extended on our right and
" left for several miles, and was armed with nn-
" morons guns." We refer to our Correspondent's
letter for a description of the action. Without
a MOM killed on our side, and with only nineteen
wounded, the enormous Chinese force was beaten
back by the English and French, suffering the
loss of 600 killed and 75 guns. It is to be
regretted that Sir Hors GRANT was compelled to
leave so many troops behind to maintain public
order at Tientsin. He complains that the enormous
extent of country covered by the enemy did not.
permit him to use his force with as good effect as
he mi4lit have done had it not been too small to
allow of its being scattered.

The second action, which followed at an interval
of two days, equally demonstrated the inunsmure-
able superiority of the Allies. Again large masses
of cavalry and infantry confronted and vain-glori-
ously threatened their advance. Charges of
cavalry, which cost us little, and a judicious um
of the Armstrong gun against dense masses of
Chinese were sufficient to indict severe loas ou the
enemy, and t) drive him from his positions. When
the n.ail Id:, on the 22m1 of Septemtkr, it was the