The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-16 00:00:00

CHINA.

OW advice' from Hoag Kong are to DM 30.
Foiliktimela:reporChad prevailed in that raw
auna._ tttlx4EmperorCwas :anxious:foe pease nail
hiztiPpointed one Eling a commissioner to supsresie
Yeh. This report, however, was subsequently disco-
vered to be imaginary, and Eling insane.
On the: evening of the 20th Mr. Cowper, son.,''
tart of Mr. Cowper, shipbuilder, of Whampoa,
was ihrelbly carried off by a party of Chinese. It
appose that Mr. Cowper, with his family, has for
may passe resided in his chop, off Fidler's Reach
Deaps, at Wbompsn, and is described as a very
quiet sad isallneeke man. At about 5 p.m., on the
20th, whirl wain with his wife on the terrace of
his chop, a mss, belonging to a sampan, expressed
a desire to dam a letter into Mr. Cowper's
hands; he descended for the purpose, and'
was forcibly carried off by about half a dozen
Chinese, his wife in vain endeavouring to save her
husband from violence. They carried Mr. Cowper
away up the river in the sampan before any effectual
means could be employ Al to prevent them. Mr.
Cowper, Jan., at once applied to Admiral Seymour.
The naval commander-in-chief forthwith published
a notice to the Chinese inhabitants of Whampoa that
unless Mr. Cowper, men., was delivered up, he would
destroy their dwellings. The Hong merchant How-
qua had assured the Admiral that Mr. Cowper, sen.,
was not in the city of Canton, nor was he aware of his
fate. When the steamer left Mr. Cowper had not been
recovered. The Hong Kong papers hint that he is in
the hands of the Mandarins, but it was thought
much more probable that he is kept a close prisoner
by parties who expect to gain a large sum of money
for his ransom.

The Straits Times says that it is believed that
the ltritiah loreha Alma has been taken by the Chi-
nese, and the foreign portion of her crew murdered.
Intelligence Gan Amoy and Foo-chow-foo notices
that at the above places an ill feeling had been dis-
played towards foreigners. Iler Majesty's steam
road Sampan had proceeded to Amoy, and the
United States steamer Portsmouth to Foo-chow-foo,
to afford protection.

In a letter from Ututton of Dec. 23, the Friend 11
CA ins thus reports the adventure of the Thistle:
The Postal arm THode, Caplet* Wall% him
scasewhet deeper then inert, w towing the DM& Webs
Ammar to the Depa, ilienjant es As bed prod second
Bar, between II sit 112 'Week het aigte, a dust et a tsun-
ami Chasse Jobs gaud Ste yea hr. Xe at the
ear time asser• alwA en the poet aide,
else immoral atier—ond with hal podia, two diva
anegb the toad, sal doing eat the as te the
Ciders pin ereashed beide 'HIM shot bele the sae at
ths eselt of the Inemaysto, rein, with the rest of Ira mew,
had jolt cone ea hasall—metber killed • presager sad
sr Chas salter; tallepallor seas des &Pie stark the
wtoool, tae of tbsai, s she ebebesed low, %lag but • tar
Inaba show the water Ikea, elblespbe One* the paddle-
bona. Two prude were Mud wataght, sal her weanded
—ate of then @Montt, mielsll7, hie Wes Introdleg.
Thee were My Chimes end two Eagle pa wagers
(liaws. Wright and Byers) on board, se that, ca the
whole, the casualties wen caseamtively trials& The
Anonyms woe, of cause, out olc and will prove a Ins
peas, having in at the the. • NI cargo of neraboadtle
mad et poet =pass sad risk from the Heim peck-
homes. The l'hietle went as to the Basun sad basin
obadassi the services of • saga. Aram Nookhk to eon
the wassuild ass, pomaded ea her sease—epsalring the op
seesseer Shamrock &only dieroweds sod wanaleg ler not
to mooted tin day ; but as the Pertegare leseener Quern
wea to have Wleaspee, for Meer, at tat—en bar slew the
Thistle—k L probable that Cap Hall a same her or
the Air Clothe lathe just aided to tow his bras tip at
out, in cedar% preset the Chasse flea math. soother
capture. The erase of the Amapa as. Wet THweepon,
by • torstpae is the Mel Ilea they that Mama two and
three hembed Illseahrla been wage • linis belew—ond that
he ebeabli be aril Thom is • mat that Haalhel and
hie mw ere alas within the city.
. _ _

The Priem: of China, jolts issue of Dec. 30, thus
semi up the latest news flora Canton :—" There is
little elf amest to report, excepting some firing
lab dm • frets the Dutch Folly. Admiral &y-
-awls, tar the present, reclines on Les arms, as good
raw, perhaps, moreactive messmes ; for, as
everyairs inability to 6oabout their customary
arocatites must cause smote distress to the Celes-
tial Obstinates,' it cannot be doubted but in course
of time they will come to their senses. Reports
from the north run that Yeh has been superseded,
and that the incoming High Imperial Commissioner
has full liberty to admit us within the city.

This report is not likely to be true—
Yeh, perhope, would be glad if it was.
Our min frees ametesa mom up to yesterday noon.
At that time las Dfrisety's steamship Coromandel,
LieatesawkDevalas eramsanding, left for this port,
having ea lewd Xr. Gemini Parke*, Captain Bush,
of her Wesel:ft Nth Ilegirea4 and Dr. Andersen;
(dile
het shot Coked*
of le Amp ef eiek semen. Blase the
Orbs eight, dime has less no
two bad& geowseftabwa. It in mow putty sertain
taut Oewpor, sea, is alive within the town of
and one of the elders lea less released
litorFte institute ammeraree Om his release
ems paper publishes the following late letterfrom Cambsit

a Clanton, Sunday, Dee. 28.
" Aniawas nods on Friday Right to blow
lo op the bat with et hub somas as the pro-
mos one an tMNiger—Weed ha, he the powder
did eat all tipiedeln the pseud Mk The Dutch
Folly was waft bst abet led AA bits tae city all
A
pre ghte t, credits aptetlebiebtmegthe Matte.
Aaof tae MI died this stersimg digitises it
is said. Notice Ls bete sent to Ti tied mars Kr.
Cocr, son., is ghee np by Tusedtpr issrsing, tho
witak of Whops& will Ist thsigeL A great Bel
is aide by tie "km buboes et ear having Elm;
in cur hank tegetber will lib& dr old Fest India
°lmLmes .ondirader. tad amain es beettges for
Mr. sorwpsra Nasty. Baas of then have gone to
Hong Kortg to see 111 r John Bowing about at.
" Among the lents sustained by the burning of the
foreign factories at Cantata is to be regretted the
irreparable one of Dr. Maus' *Meg atablish-
ment, including th=lbesta !AI Masse typo
with which Dr. " was
•inted, and whisk bed Una to Dr.
William by the linglids goverment in 1844.
Besides dse types ort prase% the was a largo
stock el books cc bssi, nesabedeg basil oar 10,000
" Chinese
volume ;and
Repos etsyM • " Chinos the minos ei& tiepin if the
itory
" English-Chinese Vc:eabedesy," "
" Premieres Notitia," &a. I ha eel, the sweating
copies of nearly all the walls whisk were Issued
dosing the 24 years the press had buss in operation,
sautes of which will never be reprbeed. Besides
thee. Dr. Flesses nimbi* esibetiss et botanical
weeks has bees coustnesd,"