The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-02 00:00:00

ATTEMPT OF CHINESE TO RETAKE A

FORT.

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telligens ea the 7th et
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model was litEdhlinglirhe Niger and lkommatoor elf
the Feetery thatea, when, at 20 adanha
rit I p.m. on kat, a boat arrived ham the
Immo Pomace that ebbing the admiral of the &p-
-pm& below 011111 dirt eta large aumber of Chinese
war junks. Sham was get up hamedittely, and,
with all the asolialle boats la seopany, the Com-
manded preemie/ to a reeemwessenat, the
•En-
counter bobs limns& to haw as sees as passible.
By the Um the °nemesia get Mrs b he kat,
theadsembsimageithstpelimet ask sgseiroe,
same SO mole* and bad ess• ism is the
Adana Creek, is a lie between Madam lama
and Ihennee Wm& eked midway between
the Mesas Parer (resistam) Fort and the maim
of the Hornet MI OMNI of the harrier—eay
mile ma a (mann !am Its fire. a mile esi •UV
NMI the bailie, solemn esanstiag sien. The
time limes In Ika egmessi MI lion was me-
siineit it wen imilsw meg die, emmematly a
meld at& Hamersinit senate? wee wade to

ramathepesesge. the thasunter being n-
ewer tem rake dawn. But jut as the En-
emata was mew weigh use treaty art thirty
Minh wan sea emits into Starling Bern* and,
instead of peosseilligNesely, it wee deemed but to
send a few &do dada thaw The Niger, sad the
make-shift paha* at the boom, too, took up the
Ire, and astioned it till they retired. The En-
taunter thea allespesil to get down the Macao
thong', but eaketesably grounded somewhere off
bird's Nest Feet„ ad was unable to get to the
ithetense of the ethers engaged. The acci-
dent labiLeartracil ken the Coromandel, Sir
liftehael met deem it prudent to do
more with Cesunsaid than stand on the defen-
sive, and eesspilegly dropped back with the tide,
still tiring be& 6e bow., sad seat the boats'
crews into the fleet. The Maths, et Neese, con-
strued the mousiont to irreseation, and mime on
barely to with bar hundred yards of the fort,
whoa, from the Ebbs sad earths and mali arms
ass, dB them wader WM, they resolved nprated
soaks, whisk mart bath maie. MOW men-
them. It wee about Wiliest two that a twenty
pound shot be. the Odom Brack down Mr. Pearn,
mater's assietent of H.M.S. Cabana, in charge of
one of the maw et his ship—s vend in the breast
proving meta The either wee immediately sent
to the Eseounlar that be night have eargical atten-
tion, but be ady Bogeyed etheria-thera, male, and
upsides ed his holly to the het useleat This gal-
lama meg haw bad hem la sharp el the boat
orrall4.2lrdirvaitsg:tib bni'out four, or alina
after Chime, firths they had again met
menthe disk meth and locecebg that as the tide
wade they owls net drew tea a mdaab, gave signs
of an intention to MOM the way they came, to
freshen which neveimeat the Caresmidel and boats
Mined up their wake, icing ebb, AA and rocket
es
bats they odd fevered *coil es the Chinese
beats were camas& with um the haves eaten
them cannot have been trifling. At all mats, they
were too busily engaging in escaping to sewer the
fire. By five o'clock they were out of rash in water
too shallow for our
"The Comes and =to this time were hard at
work too, the knew, eke breabide to Hamilton
Creek, pour' the of her gums into another
division of inks that had made the ap-
pearance in that illeephe Hawes lug Nate
the rear of the divides that bed gone towards the
fort committing forage execution, while the boas-
boats, headed by Oradeis Fomyth in his cutter, did
their best in an unmessestal arts.$ to cut of nue
of the stragglers in thek retreat. Just as the en-
gagement was well ever, mil the Ceremandel re-
turning to her old berth the Pastry nine, the
Encounter canes dewi, sacethed br a sheet time off