The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

THE MUTINIES IN INDIA.

THE PROGRESS OF THE REVOLT.

(From the Primal of belie.)
The fire must needs born out when the fuel in
exhausted; and the mutinies have almost ceased, became
there am few corps left to bo operated upon. A elm
scrutiny of the Army List made a few days since by com-
petent persons gave a total of *even regiments which, It
was Reprised, might be relied upon as being really stanch,
but for a policy of insurance on even their loyalty •
heavy premium would have to be paid. The meet
sanguine have grown too motions now to guamnts•
the fidelity of any poetk.n of the native arty; and
men who were abused Din weeks since fur thole
anticipations of wide-npread evil have it now all aide
ow• way. The community have become stupefied with the
immesion of disasters, to which there is no set-off save In
1!• isolated ioetances of bravery and fortitude furnished by
Lawrence, Whaler, and Neils, who challenge admiration by
the way in which they hold the ground covered by thede
bate and gum.. Day after day and week after week rolls
ens and tidings from Delhi grow fewer and fainter. Twenty.
fine papa have elapsed since General Barnard was to hay
nand the city with his whole fume. The daily journals
of Friday last received intelligence from government that
tie place had been captured and three fourths of the rebels
inneyed—the news having come, nut to the bead of the
/We in Calcutta, but to a " great banker at Indure." Foe
seven days utter silence has been maintained by the audio..
tides OD the aubject, who, knowing of course how deeply
Important it is to thousands that the news of the downfall
of Delhi should be circulated, feel perhaps that it is et
greeter moment still to withhold such information as they
are suppoeed to possess. We question the wisdom of the
policy, but time will clear up the meaning of it. The last
reliable information from General Bernard's camp was to the
effect that he had made a bole in the city wall, and had oat
down before it.

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Yesterday Government circulated intelligence that Delhi
had been taken, and 7,000 of the insurgents slain. They
ere reported to have fought with desperation, and to have
been at hat not all exterminated, but driven from the city.
If this be true, men will scarcely regard it u • victory, for
the nintineors will but have been expelled from one strong.
hold to sly to another. Much credit, however, should not
be attached to the report, for, though officially COMIDUIIi.
cased, it rests upon Flight foundation. The story has
travelled far and passed through many hands. It originated
at Ajmere, received strength and circumstantiality at Bose
bay. journeyed to Nsgpore, and finally was transmittal by
telegraph to the supreme government at Calcutta. FM
Colonel Durand. at Noemuch, intclligenoe has since been ma
ceived that Delhi was stormed on the lids and the remainder
of the rebels driven into the fort.
It will be recollected that some time back we spoked
rumour that two native regiments in the camp of Sir Hen
Barnard had mutinied, and were in consequence cot to
pieces. The story of the crime was true enough, but r,
so that of the ounishment. The commander in chief wer
afraid of the responsibility of action, sad soothed the
mutineers into good humour. We do not blame the plat
for believing the whole tale. It was hardly poodle fo q.
pose that a body of Sepiya would have dared to abow
subordination in the presence of several Europe= oda
went., but still harder to believe, that, having rebelled
they should escape scot free. The censure passed by Lind
Dalhousie on Sir Charles Napier for his diabandment of the
66th Native Infantry would not have been repeated at thie
moment ; besides whidi, the conqueror of Scinde was blame;
nut so much for the act u for the needless haste in which*
was carried out. The Bombay papers have lengthy del&
of the subject, but the ventilation of it only serves to deeps
the heart-sickness malting from long-deferred hopee d
vigorous action.
It is angular that energy and power should be inc.spable
of combination, but certainly recent events would seem to
eataldieh the paradox. Colonel Neile, with 137 men of bee
Majesty's 10th Regiment, and 37 of the Madras Faille;
could establish order at Senores and punish three regiment;
whilu General Barnard, with some hundreds of Europese
troops at his back, dared not to cut up the mutinous 6th ail
GOth. Every assn who owes no a grudge believes that the
time hem onus to exact payment. No idea can be formed
yet of the utter state of disorganisation which prevails in tee
Upper Provinces. Trade is wholly destroyed, the public bier
way* everywhere overrun by thieves; the disported
Reminders in nearly all the villages have emerged into day.
light, and muted their successors. Scores of petty Rajah.
have proclaimed their independence, and make up far defacer
of title by ccaseleag activity in the work of rubbery and
murder. Of all the villains engaged in thole congenial per.
emits, Nana Sahib would appear to be the moat bloodthirsty.
This man is the adopted son of the late ex-Beldam
Rajee Rao, and as such laid claim to the reversion of hie
enormous pension, but the government overruled his per
tensions, and he is now reaping the harvest of his re-
venge. He has organised a corps of assassins, ad
not a day perinea in which some poor hunted
European is not brought in and literally knocked to pied&
His last act of butchery was of a wholesale character, sal
is a pity that be hsa not a thousand lives to make expiation
at for it. An alarm had broken out—ceaselessly, as it seem;
Puttyghur and 132 person" (men, women, and childrell,
in 60 boats,' left that place for Allahabad, but now of
them reached their &sedation. They had advanced ell
ter as Bltitoor, when Nana Sahib first fired upon then
and pursued them in dhingios. The boats were boarded
and their occupants landed and dragged to the
ground at Cawnpooce. There they were Ituddlerit
a heap and fired at, but the work of destruction pro
too slow, the wretches closed in with their tulwars and
hacked them to death. Such an event has not occurred 6:e
ages, and yet so unaccustomed have Anglo •Indians become*.
theme tales, that they are only too thanldul that the portals
of death were not rendered more horrible,and that the
hapless victims were not dishonoured before hey were slain.
But even the sepoy becomes at last tired of watching the
agonies preceding death, and eventually he who was but as
amateur, and loved killing as a pleasure but rarely to be
obtained, and therefore to be indulged in with the greater
east, regards it as a business, and value the proem only nor
in. results.
Bathos has been recently thrown into considerable alarm,
but the panic has now subsided, owing to the jildiciocui eons
duct of Mr. Rose. On the I Ith of June it was commonly
that there wee to be a rising of all the Mahratten
!'ll'aTeetere 600 malcontents in the city, and 800 from the
Bore country were ea roues. Lieutenant Kerr was at once
ordered off to arrest the insurgents lie had but 60 man,
and with these he accomplished in 20 hours 60 miles. His
sudden appearance, though he met with no armed foray
was productive of no sight good. The would-be rebels Ira*
astonofficd, and when they thought themselves most secure
were confronted by an armed force. A Puttaltwallah fm
the service of government attempted to seduce the 22nd
Regiment from their legiance, but fortunately, owing le
the fidelity of a SonbahW' he was salted. Affairs noir
wear a much better aspect, and it is not likely, unless any
great dimster befalls our troop. elsewhere, that the attempt
to restore the line of the Rejaha will succeed. The snivel
of an European force from Yoonah has given an oddities's'
sense of security.
At Hyderabad there has been considerable alarm, and sours
real danger. Seditious placards were posted in some parte
of the town, and a eepoy, the bearer of a treasonable mese
sage to the townspeo* was captured; but the Arake
proved stanch, and, being, placed at the gates of the city,
effectually debarred the gamy. from holding any comma.
nication with the disaffected among the Inhabitants. The
Bkurtpore levies have proved as treacherous as the Idehalpoth
Contingent, but, as a setooff, the Mahwah Contingent have
behaved most nobly. They resisted all the attempts of the
cavalry to seize the Treasury at Mehidpore, and with at
inferior forces finally beat them off. The spirit of diodes: doe
bail been carried to most unlikely places ; even at Buslibe
there is a report that a mutinous spirit has exhibited lad
in the 16th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry. We
attach no credence to the rumour, and feel thawed that the
companions in arm. of those troops who acted so
igeltripl:
Nuoeeerabad would not willingly even induce a
But the report is significant, and shows how easily angel
noes so fickle as Asietica empires may be loot and won.
The outbreak of the local troops at Nsgpore has both
quelled, and the ringleaders shot by sent of court-mar
sal. At Seetsibuldee matters are in a very unsatisfosell
state, but, luckily for the quiet of the province, Ramose
garrisoned by Madras troops, or the whole country wog
have been in a blue of insurrection. Bangor, Jubbolpeffit
Nagode, and Munch were quiet on the 23rd alt., and Car
taro Flukey had gone up from Jubbulpore to put down twee
Thakoon Chundagreo and nand districts He
with him four companies of infantry amia Bangor, a for
Irregular Cavalry, and half • bduwy of ethlt_.
=boa fallen and ter Is lama flrt Major Bi" 1.5
7.6... of the 41st are biled, balm seams have beet
froilet. Pears en. gm safety of Memel
Chile; Theenseth, awl Thoell. elite Serrits.,,ies
taws b a gistat beau and sepliesd men our*
mimes tessilwad, to wbildisis aim not refer. we
bath ellenglet et Omit the was. motet° be tod,
theebt the
talkie Ise aidal. solve pat it alai &Liu day; s
elbow is punt talk sad the day et imirlaace ono is
Mani
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le mid, by the intarlassam of soave unrsata. The tar:
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"kas. The ants total win eine dim Altar
Shal ihe red of Delhi; an it dminingerbm Si in
reined
writ math of demettel, k will meet
visa ~ tile Wigwams.
DAREILLY AND MORADADAD.
The following ia a list of
the Faith& eillun,
him and tonne who in moped Aber bon pia
er Men y, red bed mind at Nyasa 1%11, theta\
et ter, as rdinet to Is the wee* et be lanim
• lionsein' nee loan ot ober' and
Mrs lids Reinwsite, Omen Lem Miele
wad Mrs paws! Ilidorie and
O. cmwastasel, ILIL's lesik dine :11.11,11newIllodlls
bra; Weer aid Mrs. Trier • tiehre /MA letit
; etas Mr. en Km Rim et Ilyste_Td mad
Yes. ; Rev. Mr. Penner and Mm Toyeder awl
=,...eigetein beelki lb. NM" end &rift
alisiornir7; Cigna sad IlAsseag, Mr.
s* CR, Mr., Mrs., en Mee listaim Cigna end Mn.
Mma er.,lnilea Wen
MON; lin
te dile
nst Meletia, I7a=t
SIM .
_Omni end Mrs
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it N.L, dine Sr" in-
=a Sate and Ma IlelagadaCimer* Tbd
Xre. Omahnlaiß 7Not c*Pitia
Illeslinem aide 0100.11 ), Copts'
theeenim Linslineetialai=r N.r,
lisaismat mg Mn. Bowles Omellild, Munro,
Aellerieentemet Cmlll^._Liniseint Ar-
end
nd.l., Trr.ll= lbs. Xbn
Ilse Watson, CA.. &Ohm sod maim Innighen,
0.0. Mr. Fairfax, CI., Ws. lidestim, CS.,
, Mn. Hq emleiMirea, Mrs. lean.
Mies Mks Drown mil beer &Dena of Dr.
mites Mr. Kress.sald Mm Xenia, Mrs. Nines-
* I Mrs lbsehews, M. Reid an Riney.
. Lie Nth Regimed Native y, Dareilly raddente
al Ma Nettie bentry.—lnneenet-Clnneebeel Troup. Cop-
lab an like. Ehnen, Os do. Pansens, Es do. Gibb• and
left linenteale weds, do. W Mrs. Christian, do. do.
ESs4Beelpsiandft.. Jamb, Segesat-Mslor sad
onings alre.=(widow of Quarter-
. Ibli"l.4llleginerlallsatry...ll .-44eniment limier, Ensign
Nam* Dr. Oehler sd Mrs Oakley, lb. end Wm Alex-
wierr, CS., de. do. CannieheiL 10, Oahu* C.S., Mr.
Cory C.S.„ Mi. Paden Mr. and MW
110/4, Yes. away, Mr. liseholey,jen., las
mn. res Ilk Seginset Nadir lalkiermilleaddlents. et
Karlabed ; fah lieginent Phan I .—Lieetnant-
Odeon Otslimisrantele lt. It=eums , Terse,
Omen,
nakeri„Snilli,T=lkketer, thelmni,
Well 4.47o7l==llltrill=and Xis 1
sill
165*
eed &Rd, Mn. Dann= sad sift Mos Orme and child
his Bell, Mrs. Thanes mil two deign, Mn.
Mn. Noise and diadem, Ilr. end Mrs Thernedll,
Cl., C.S.,_ Min Chambers, Yr. iternelt,
anadmen, Oapida moi Dir. Kirby, Artillery, Mrs Cm*
=We and Ye. Ilbehosa sod family, 44th N. 1., Ysl
emits Ceptais Mn. Human
Elmn2iew,nis. mat., Coi. Richeadoca,
Yes
an dad, N.., Mr. Reins, C.S., Ssrg.s
Simm Mem.
. 111,111Pilt Cayskys
Csptids Maekannia, Lionemat
Palm Dr. Curtis.
a Alaltallder, Cam Mr:Outhtio,
C. Cards, Mr. Piney, Mr. Berkeley and sun.
•OilhNastben—Dr. Asthma, Mr. Tempetor, Mr.
Islinon Rm. L. Poyeder.—Laters Chrespiale, June 24.
• lOrlog 11Mh E.gkwt N. I.—Mejoir Heenan, Cassis
lithellom Canna Manorn, Lientenent Comm Lieute-
nant Itswart. Rosign Dysonergien, tiort
Cram.
geon-Idejer, ind Sam
dirmalnettemenw-el
n—lklienker Sibbeld; ingeTeekie, Stith N. I. ;
Pandenallhernet Maly, wilt sad in alarm with hie
ribeide Hardy, H. We Din liennent ; Mr.
.. Iffier, badly ; Mr. WBhlaem, writer ;
gmaksisos INA la erg tormis. mil ridding hen ter
ell ass. er Cbrolormior-garsort Wary, en
XI., an two Zernein impanis itsioming
Azar,.
"Clams lOsiw.—Mr. Robeson. Inge; lb. Reins
Mpg ; WOR , deputy odiemer; Mr. Orr, deputy eid-
Rat llr. MA. Colin.; Dr. Renown, Nowt, mol-
°W; surgeon.
ill be • burnt to the Broad at Barrilly, and
a. *lire lams y.
ketone/Meg theyneseard."
•—ineen Oinniste, Jane 19.

OFFICERS KILLED IN THE MUTINIES.
2.7,:epowehay Ilikrapi) subjoin a Eat at siker,
Is tis maws anssisests is love* bra Med
Isis dr bat !lifted soilas• It my isms trokl to
Dos glis tabs a mime* Islissit to the Isesssffisis of
Isim=ssiallsa. • tssrals Ist it Is :--Diossilit .T. H.
; Oisalls J. !Etas, 11th N.I. • 7.- Poz7, Ist
Fs
L P.. ZlChria, Di Ifittli; I. ? . 6416
1111.1 ;
E. num., smws ma Moss, D.
DI., 3. H. Taylor, 1134N.L. J. PlsalsB4,4l6N.L, 3.
Delassis, 68624.1„ Q. B. Batt" Cow st ileidst,
P. 11. Pationos, bath N.I. C. Barrowts. 84th NJ., IL It
Isiah, tottio,4l., P. Lit 02sd NJ., =2.414t41,
Is
Att D. Cods* H.
Ist Lamosts,_sad Hooka moats D. H. limmlevoss,
2116 N. 1., W. Pottle. 10th NJ.. Ilir R. N. Leak Rh LC.,
P. W. Bra 31ot 24.1., C. J. Hot, 4th L.C., P. J. list.
gOth 24 1., IL A. Ilsophawys, 90th 24.1., R. 8.
101 k N,!., Look lot Less, J. W. Hoard. 38th
. Watseka?* 48t1 N.I. E. A. Idwardo, 64th N. 1.,
• Raw*. 74th N. I. J. D. (Smith, 74th NJ.,
Alossador, Swart, NSW'S, bass, sad Batt,.
brim R. D. H. Tilted, 64th N.I. C. H. Osetbisr. 314
H. 1., McNabb, Ilai LC., Dodd, amok Bmit4 Moira,
lr2, Horst, 36th NJ., Amid°, sod Ike& Comte Rs-
, sal R. Newtorry, Ist Lasoots. Doctors Lhopping,
Ili& XI., Dimas, HA., sad Phillips, Rd L.C.

OWALIOR.
The following is a list of those who have lost their
Iwo lo Geollar—ii=sok. Isersda, Gwaltor Con-
Isiodry ; Dr.
Wli4.111.111"Iltillinoldas tad Cop.
My;lda 14e. ifti 4th blustry , Rey.
; Qsartermastee
Moises Clark , Bst-
pest Omis.—.ABswilik
Tho Idlooks b a IA ot offisow owl intliss who how
wersoi Aspairwa Owdlor:—Doisr Dlasphowss, &Wis-
est lisiesm Mr. Imrs, Mrs. osstossy, ww, mil le-
-167. OtWltha sal sh H
Voids owl Om
Colds owl Dow llowto swi two abild
Doi Ind Mws. Maw sal Add. lisolowwit=
Mrs. Paws% Ilsolwowt essibry, Dr. 1 lioirs Mr.
IteetiLitiadaßeyeet Iltiptet Lowe, Avdtery
hee mamma el the Mewls We:
Drooltwwl, Ili oh, bar Ilsipieffs lid root,
Liewiemted 2th Mew
Dm Lem wMrs. Oil= olliassa, Drs.
LOW sod 41414, lbw GEOID, Din. Disks, Mot Proctor,
Pim
tw• &Ikea, Yrs. Crook sad child,
Now Wolk 1a i 5..., sad Mrs. Quick, AM co the toad.

CHINA.

OWN ova etsciAL

HONG KONG, Ivies 24.
The Indian intureete lan perammant to any other
ii tha Lett se we an net sinpriand to beer that the
ilii Fusilier% and the Nth Regiment, will be sent on
In Oalestta inthod of asoung here, and that
the ether Chian reghnents ma they ollow will
be itched kale moue direction. It is strange, con-
by the 41111.11P1e blest of preparation blown
by sb• ha Maistry when it went to can-
vass, that these none leaflike preparations should
haw dwindled down se quietly ; that after two
imam of pasimaded Meth was solitary regiment,
the 111111th ka the Himalaya, is all that we are advised
If having ha licianit, up to the date of the dept'-
Ir. ft as h et mea The 6,000 men, complete in
ail arm, which we were told were to have left
Eights& to coerce Yeh—and, in ease of necessity, to
have arched on Pekin—appear to straggle badly.
The Chime " ble" will now be reduced to
Its papa and our operations will be
ig
to sempelling Canton and the Cantonese to
eve Matilbetien for the mischief they have done.
The paint lens in China, with the seamen,
.ianti gumboots on their way out, will, if
handled, more than maim for this.
irle aesendsry rule will suit Lord Elgin is
eih maw "Natter; but if he be the sensible man
Tie h sagmeented to be, be will not hesitate to give
hi 111111111MIP to conclude this miserable affair, which
h dated/Ng daily into deeper mischief, from the
want of a httle right-minded energy to will strongly
ma thing or the other—war or pea. At present,
ohm the whim seizes us, we rush furiously at war-
Imam, barn, destroy, and blow ap, till in a fit of com-
elution we spare the rest and leave the enemy to his
arias to flab up the eunken guns, and remount them
as other forts and junks to be retaken when a pug-
amides fit, or when a stirring op from home, excites
as again. In another momentary fit of zeal Aer-
ate seized to cut off the supply at Canton, but
re sure to be released the next :tar for the Bake
of
qa
English consignors, or of the Chinese con-
soo,me. As far as any practical purposo is Cait-
iff* it is rather we who arc blockaded out pf the
raver than the Cantonese wbo are blockaded in It. This
Lethal* way of makinjosizt, and no war—of play'
IN at soldiers and I quite the fashion of I
T. ; sad a eery bad fashion too. We prefer
ale earnest brutality of illigb, and the undiplo-
matic, anliseitettag pertinacity of Benbow, and the
Commodores and Captains of the old school, who, at
ally rate, knew what they meant when they went
NMI Wag.

Even in a diplomatic moral strength is it
of view, it meet ha reameabored that Yost is
at the heed of the stemig esalereative trey
the livran.tung whisk is Aimai
the whole of the clue and
of a league of 96 village'. This woes ir-
rained in the last war with the Rag ' sad its
auto is " hatred to the hedge devil." It was this
prey that raised the fens of =disciplined rabble
=tisk =eaten= Lord CisegVe rear, when he
ampled a realm for Cease% and which has ever
dose heeded, sad pushups believed, that but for the
kearthehis mama min with as by the Canton
would have annihilated the English
tiamillit it s
party, which is animated by an one-
time= lab= wait all foreigners, has always op-
posed the perflonsmies of the treaty at Canton. It
'shed a sesdisable bre', and a large subscription
• taaariN is apple the Teeple' rebels when they
theadesal Ordes. sad it furnished and manned the
=los we deetroyed at Escape Creek and
. At the hale( this party, Yeh is a power-
fel vassal, who, in those times of rebellion, is not to
be thwarted with impunity even by the Emperor
himself. There is every.reason to believe that the
Plasproe is sincere in his desire to bo at
1111018 with IL It is his interest, at a time
whoa his exchequer is so low, and his country
till of rebels, to prefer a friendly trade,
which fills his coffers, to a war with a
powerful enemy, who could give the enup-de grecs
Ito his dynasty. There is proof of this at Sbanghse,
and at all the parts to which hie direct influence
extends, all of which continue on the best terms with
us. At Canton alone he is almost powerless, owing
to the communication by land being intercepted by
the rebels, and also to the powerful position of Yeh,
at the head of a rich and numerous faction, which is
loyal only in its own way—in the way of the Marne-
lakes and Janimaries—just so far as suited their own
views, but quite ready, on sufficient provocation, to
pail down the Protector of the Faithful, and, by the
wild God, to substitute another in his stead. They
Leer=to the Emperor, as the emblem of eon-
bat they would throw him over, if they
• the first symptom of change, and declare
him desuied by the Gods.
It dead be our business, therefore, to strengthen
the heads et the Emperor and the progress party, and
he this there are ample means. By making the war
Me heavily on the people, wo should greatly
abmistisen the opposition party in Canton, Hunger
awl Ms are powerful allies; we can enlist them
ea ear side if we plesee. We have a list of the 96
villages, and most of them are saes ible to stack. We
an acquainted with the rendezvous of the Mandarin
fleets at Fatshan, Tung-Kwan, Angungoy, and else-
where, and we know Canton to be the prima place
of offence, and the head-quarters of the conserva-
tive faction. Suppose, therefore, instead of letting
our ships lie idle and umbels—for except an occa-
sional buccaneering raid they are perfectly idle
and useless—wo were to establish a close and
efficient blockade ; instead of bringing eight or tea
thousand soldiers to sicken with swamp fever at
Canton or rot in Hong Kong, if we tried what a
little management would do with the feces we nee.
and which is exactly suited to the nature am» sew
vice required. Then let a proclamation in Chia=
be widely circulated containing the names of Hs
offending places, and stating that a strid
blockade will be established on the Curs
ton River and its branches to cut dl
supplies, and that, u opportunity offers, each of
the denounced places shall be put under contribution
or destroyed. My life upon it, that after the want
of rice began to pinch, and a few striking examples
had bees mcdc, commencing with Tung-K wan and
Mork there would soon be a scramble among the'
term and villages to eject braves and conservatives,
and mandarins. Our and the Emperor's faction, so
bashed, would soon gain the upper hand, and mat-
tes would not wait long for a favourable termina-
tion, without any very great outlay or risk on our
pert. At present we will and we won't—we destroy,
end we leave alone ; we alternate brutal ferocity
with htal supineness; we assert no particular line
of policy, and seek no sympathy from any. party,
treating the whole as enemies with indiscrimmatieg
hauteur. This mere assertion of brute strength,
insolent indifference, is simply stupid, and jostling
the appellation of " barbarians." The best deer
dieade enneet tell what object we have in view, aid
tits widest of our enemies may safely
7matimesust be pleases of our PT=
sr ridicule oar scruples as fears. This
h set the way to sisal with a reasonable, calculating
prepie libe the Meese ; it countenances the went
seepieleass ad deprives us of the sympathy sad
aseastaass et IN beet well-wishers.
Compare ear ireltery attacks and undetermined
policy with the emegetie proceedings of Yeh, who
is stopped by no emmideration but want of ability
te sem eat his views. There is nothing like bed-
Wes air ample sheet him. He initiates his opera-
=pekoe awl proscription, by kidnapping, and
ihr usembetion. He ejects the berbadeae.
beaus down the feeteries, and sows the ground with
salt. He means mischief, and does it to the best of
his ability. Secure in our strength and stupidity,
we maintain this state of things by hesitating to use
the means, and the only means, we have in our power
to put an end to them by pressing severely, unpity-
ingly, on the offending districts. People like the
Chinese only recognise power in its unscrupulous
application—hesitation to cure it, from whatever
motive it may arise, is ascribed to imbecility or fear.
When our force was one-third what it is now we
eatered Canton, and might have destroyed it but for
merciful considerations, which compelled us to stay our
prcesedi ngs and send for a I urge addition to our fleet and
ear army, that the place might be both taken and
held. We have now a force which enables us to re-
take it, but are disappointed in that which was to
have held it—the alternative should be to destroy it,
if instant submission be not made. Our affected
mercy, with its half-measure, is perhaps more hurt-
ful to the enemy, is certainly. more injurious to our-
selves, than the severest punishment inflicted earlier
would have proved.

Apart from the pecuniary considerations involved,
the large increase of naval and military force will
cau..e a greatly augmented loss of life by disease,
which, however careful the treatment of the soldier
and sailor may be, is sure to create great ravages.
It may be calculated, in fact, of the military force
sent here, that it is lost for any practical after-use ;
for the seeds of China fever once sown, will surely
invalid or destroy the whole of the men within a
short period. Let the records of the 26th, 49th, 66th,
and 98th speak for that : but few of the men fell by
the enemy; all, or very nearly all,perished by disease
within a short period of the termination of the war.
With regard to the millions to be expended on the
expedition, it may be argued that a Chinese
indemnity will cover that. But, among our merci-
ful considerations, this surely ought to be taken into
account. The disgraces of our last war, and the
financial exhaustion caused by its expenses, and by
the payment of the indemnity, have already shaken
the Tartar throne to its foundations. The new dis-
races and the fresh indemnity will probably topple
it over, and a changed dynasty, a disruption of all
social relations, civil discord and revolution among
3,000,000 of people, will be the fruits of our merciful
considerations.

The Cantonese are hated for their haughty inso-
lence throughout China. The Emperor disowns Yeh
and his adherents. We have no wrongs to complain
of except at Canton; we should therefore vindicate
our rights on those who have made as suffer. without
making the innocent and unolfending participators
in the expiation. For the local hurt let a topical
remedy be applied that will not destroy or disturb
the functions of the whole body.

In the way of fighting, nothing bas been done since
my last. An attack on a town and some war junks
at the back of Annwighoy is talked about. Chuew
pee Fort, near the Bocce Tigris, has been occu-
pied, having been abandoned -by the Chinese, and
the guns buried, though: not so cunningly but that
Jack unearthed them. A tea junk, under mandarin
colours, also was taken, and Appropriated. She was
valued at 40,000 dole., and 8,000 dole. was offered
for her, but the captors held nut for more, till the
I news reached Hong Kong, when some of tbo mer-
rhants claimed a right to the cargo and they char-
tered a steamer to go up the river to recover it.
Notice, however, was given of their corniDg, and
lank and ea:go were disposed of to the first bidder
far 4,000 dolts. before they arrived. This is a queer
state of affairs. On one side the navy treating