The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-14 00:00:00

(From the Overland Register, Oct. 29.)

It is distressing to have to note that Capt. An-
derson and Mr. de Normann died from the effects
of the brutal treatment they received at the hands
of their Tartar captors. Nine sowers of the Sikh
cavalry were released, and reached the camp on the
evening of the 12th.
At the latest dates, several of the prisoners were
still in the hands of the enemy. Among those
unaccounted for are Capt. Brabason, and Mr.
Bowlby, Times special correspondent. A sergeant
of the Sikh C►valry has deposed to the fact that
all the prisoners were most inhumanly used,
having their wrists bound with cords, an insuffi-
cient quantity of food supplied them, and otherwise
barbarously tortured.
Lord Elgin has now entered upon the more legi-
timate duties of his office. Mr. Bruce has been
summoned to attend him at Pekin. In Chinese
treachery he has a more formid►ble obstacle to
contend with than Tartar troops.

It is said to be the intention of the Commander-
in-Chief to withdraw from Pekin, and make Tien-
tsin his winter quarters. Lady Grant has left this
to join him.

England is said to enter into all her wars unpre-
pared, but the Chinese Expedition presents a
laudable exception to this general rule ; for, from
the incipient to the ultimate step, so far, all the
arrangements connected therewith are worthy of the
highest praise. Tho commissariat, even in its
moot trifling details, is unexceptionable, and as
a oonsequenoe, the general health of the troops
has, all along, been excellent. It remains to be
seen, however, how the Indian soldier will stand the
rigors of a northern winter, which does not offer
a pleasant perspective even to the hardy eons of
Britain. It is to be hoped that the chiefs of the
commisaariat will show as much judgment in
catering for the comfort of their charge during the
winter as they have done for the summer campaign.
Big coats and blankets, warm stockings and flannel
shirts, in addition to a well-filled stomach, are great
assistants to the efficiency of an army. Doctors
and gallipota are, at best, but necessary evils.
It is worthy of note, and highly creditable to the
' masters of the merchant shipping employed as
transports—British, American, and others—that
in the navigation of these, to many of them, un-
known waters, no casualty worthy of mention has
I occurred.

(From the North Chios Herold, October 20.)

The following letters were brought down by her
Majesty's ships Pioneer and Furious :
Camp of the British Army, one mile distant from the
North-Fasten2 Gate of Pekin, October 9.

We encamped here on the 6th. On the same evening the
Emperor's summer place Yuen-min-Yuen was taken pos-
session of, and yesterday Messrs. H. S. Parkes and Henry
Loch were liberated and returned to the Embassy.

I sent a letter to you from the camp, six miles from
Tung-chow, on the 4th, which will probably reach you
with this. On the following, the allied forces were ca the
march in march of the Tartan, who were supposed to be in
great numbers about four or five miles off. The front of
the two armies stretched over a large extent of country,
but the enemy was not seen, nor any sight of an aban-
doned camp visible. We halted at 1 o'clock p.m. Re-
connoitering parties were sent out at night, and they fell in
with the Tartar pickets, who fired three &hots at them.
On the morning,of the 6th we were again on the move at
an early hour, but on reaching the ground where the pickets
bad been seen, all was still.
Here are some very high brick-kihn, from which several
gates and other structures within the walls of Pekin were
distinctly seen about five miles distant. Still in pursuit of
the retreating enemy, we marched on through a thickly.
wooded country until within half a mile of the earthwork
which extends along the north side of, and distant one mile
from, the capital, where some Tartars were seen among the
houses close to. The King's Dragoon Guards went in at them
and they fled, leaving eight dead or disabled and one of the
dragoons wounded in the skirmish. In a short time after
the earthwork was reached, and a gap of 60 or 60 yards
opened upon a straight road of the same width leading tothe
N.E. gate of Pekin. The troops entered by this gap, and,
wheeling to the right, baited where we now are, within the
earthwork—an embankment of forty to eighty feet high,
which would be a strong defence in the bands of efficient
troops. Here the greater part of the British army en-
camped. Why it did not proceed to the Sommer Palace at
once, as was planned, I do not know. The Preach, and
most of our cavalry with some artillery did so, but the
former did not arrive on the spot until two hours after the
latter, who were wasting for the remainder of our army.
On the French coming up, the brigadier offered to co-ope-
rate with them. They asked him to go round to cut off the
Tartars, whilst they attacked the palace. This they did,
and found 300 eunuchs in charge of it, and forty men who
take care of the gardens, only twenty of whom had guns.
They made • alight resistance ; two eunuchs were killed,
and two French officers wounded, and they then took pos-
session of the palace.
It u said that the reason our army did not advance was
that a body of tirtars were seen to come out of the north_
east gate, and dissppoar in a southerly direction, and
that we should follow them. I believe it was a felso
alarm.
In the evening • communication was made to the autho-

cities, demanding the Mau of the prisoners. A promise
was given that those who were in the capital should
he released next day. The surrender of the gate was
also demanded, with an intimation that it would other-
wise be taken. The lint has, happily, been complied
with, so far that we had tho pleuure yesterday of
welcoming the return of Metre. Parkes and Loch, with •
French officer attached to the Societb Scientihque, and six
or eight French, and panstasiof the Seikh cavarly. They
were, whilst with Sen-ko-llia.ein's army, treated in • moat
cruel roannsr ; forced to Israel before every mandarin, how-