The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-25 00:00:00

pointed flys to traverse the pretty rural drive of four
miles between Chobham-common and the Chertsey rail-
way station. The contract for bread and flour has been
taken by:Mr. John Gillett, of Silver-street, Bloomsbury,
who has also undertaken to furnish 600 sacks of corn, 80
loads of hay, and 60 loads of Straw, weekly, for the
cavalry horses. The contract for the supply of 6,0001 b.
of fresh meat daily has been taken by Messrs. Charles
Baker and Son, of Newgate-market.

THE CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.

PROCLAMATIONS OF THE REBELS.

(From the Overland China Mail.)
" Yang, entitled the Eastern Kind, and General in-
Chief, with Seaou, entitled Western King, also General-
in-Chief of T'hae-ping, by Divine appointment Emperor
of Theenkwo, the celestial dynasty, unitedly issue this
proclamation, to announce that they have received the
commands of Heaven to slaughter the imps and save the
people. According to the Old 'Testament, the Great
God (Shang-te), our Heavenly Father, in six days
created the heavens and earth, the land and sea, men
And things. The Great God is a spiritual Father, a
ghostly Father, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipre-
sent.; all nations under heaven are acquainted with His
great power. In tracing up the records of bygone ages,
we find that since the time of the creation of the world
the Great God has frequently manifested His displeasure,
and how can it be that you people of the world are still
ignorant of it ? The Great God in the first instance dis-
played His anger and sent down a great rain, during
forty days and forty nights, by which means the Flood
was produced.

"on a second occasion, the Great God manifested
His displeasure, and came down to save Israel out of
the land of Egypt. On a third occasion He displayed
his awful majesty, when the Saviour of the world, the
Lord Jesus, became incarnate in the land of Judea, and
suffered for the redemption of mankind. In later ages
He has again manifested His indignation, and the Ting-
yew year (A.D. 1837) the Great God sent a celestial mes-
senger, who was commissioned by the Lord of Heaven,
when He ascended on high, to put to death the fiendish
bands. Again He has sent the Celestial King to take
the lead of the empire and save the people 2 • from the
Mow-shin to the Sinhae year (A.D. 1848-51) the Great
God lias compa,ssionated the calamities of the people,
who have been entangled in the meshes of the devil's
net ; on the 3d moon of the latter year the exalted Lord
and great Emperor appeared ; and in the 9th moon,
Jesus, the Saviour of the world, manifested Himself,
exerting innumerable acts of power, and slaughtering a
great number of impish fiends, in several pitched battles ;
for how can impish fiends expect to resist the Majesty
of Heaven ? And how, we would ask, can the great
God failto be displeased with men for worshipping corrupt
spirits, and performing corrupt actions, by which
means they grievously ofend against the commands of
Heaven ? Why do not you inhabitants of the world
awake ? Having been born in the present day, when
you are permitted to witness the glory of God, how for-
tunate may you esteem yourselves. Happening upon
such a time as this, when you experience the great tran-
quillity of the days of Heaven, it is time for you to awake
and arouse. Those who comply with the will of Heaven
will be preserved,-and those who disobey the celestial
dictatei will be destroyed. At the present time this
Tartar fiend, Hee-fung, originally a Manchow slave, is
the perpetual enemy of our Chinese race ; moreover, he
has induced men to •assume the form of fiends, to wor-
ship the corrupt, while they disobey the true Spirit, and
thereby rebel' against the Great God, on which account
Heaven will not endure, and men are determined to
destroy him. Alas ! you assemblage of valiant men, you
do not seem to know, that every tree has its roots and
every stream its fountain ; while you appear willing to in-
vert the order of things; coveting the smallest advantage,
you turn round and serve your foes, and having been en-
tangled in the machinations of the evil one, you ungrate-
fully rebel against your true Lord. You do not seem to
remember that you are the virtuous scholars of the Middle
Kingdom, and honest subjects of the celestial dynasty ;
and thus you easily bend your steps in the road to ruin,
without compassionating your ownselves. Moreover,
you valiant men are many of you adherents of the Triad
Society, and have entered into a bloody compact that
you will exert your united strength and talents to exter-
minate the Tartar dynasty. Whoever heard of men
joining in a solemn covenant, and then turning their
backs upon their foes. Now, throughout the different
provinces there must be a variety of determined men,
numbers of famous scholars, and of valiant heroes
not a few ; we desire, therefore, that you may seve-
rally elevate the lofty standard, and announce that
you are determined not to live under the same
heaven with the Tartars, while you earn for your-
selves some merit in the service of our new king.
This is what we, his generals, most fervently desire. Our
army, wishing to carry out the virtuous feelings with
which the Great God loves to foster human life, and re-
ceives men into His compassionate embrace, has set
forward on its march of benevolence, embracing all in
its charitable folds. At the same time we lead forward
our generals and troops, carrying to the utmost our
fidelity in recompensing our country, in which we can-
not refrain from displaying the saute spirit to the end.
These our views are now communicated to you all. You
ought to know, that since Heaven has sent forth the
true sovereign to rule over the people, it is yours to aid
the monarch in establishing his dominion. Although
the devilish fiends should amount to millions, and their
artful schemes to thousands, yet how could they with-
stand Heaven ? To kill without warning would not be
agreeable to our feelings, and to sit still without saving
the people is not what a benevolent person would do.
A special proclamation."

" Hung, Captain-General of the Army, having entire
superintendence of military affairs, and aiding in the
advancement of the T'hae-ping, or Great Pacificating
Dynasty, in obedience to the will of Heaven, issues this
important and triumphant proclamation, to announce
that he has punished the oppressor and saved the people.
" It appears that, throughout the empire, rapacious
officers are worse than violent robbers, and the cor-
rupt mandarins of the public offices are no better
than wolves and tigers, all originating in the vicious
and sottish monarch at the head of affairs, who drives
honest people to a distance, and admits to his pre-
sence the most worthless of mankind, selling offices,
and disposing of preferments, while he represses men
of virtuous talent, so that the spirit of avarice is daily
inflamed, and high and low are contending together for
gain ; the rich and great are abandoned to vice without
control, whilst the poor and miserable have none to re-
dress their wrongs, the very recital of which exasperates
one's feelings, and makes one's hair to stand on end. To
refer to the case of the land revenue in particular, it
appears that of late years the exactions have been in-
creased many fold, while the taxes due up to the
30th year of the last king's reign were at one time said
to be remitted, and then again exacted, until the re-
sources of the people are exhausted, and their miseries
grown to excess. When our benevolent men and vir-
tuous scholars contemplate these things, their minds
are deeply wounded, and they cannot restrain them-
selves from rooting out these plundering officers
and wolfish mandarins of each prefecture and district,
in order to save the people from the flames and floods
in which they are now involved. At the present
moment our grand army is assembled like clouds, the
province of Kwang-se has been settled, and Chang-sha
(the capital of Hoo-nan) tranquillised; and being now
about to proceed towards the region of Kwang-se, we
deem it necessary to announce to the people that they
need not be alarmed ; while agriculturists, mechanics,
merchants, and traders may each peacefully pursue
their occupations. It is necessary, however, that the
rich should have in readiness stores of provisions to aid
in the sustenance of our troops. Let each clearly report
the amount of his contributions to this object, and we
will furnish him with receipts, as security that hereafter
the money shall be all repaid. Should there;be any bold
and strong men, or wise counsellors among you, let
them with one heart and effort aid us in our great de-
sign ; and when tranquillity is restored, we will have
them promoted and rewarded according to their merit.
All the officers of prefectures and districts who resist us
shall be beheaded ; but those who are ready to comply
with our requisitions must henceforth send in to us their
seals of office, and then they may retire to their native
villages ; with regard to the rabble of wolfish policemen,
we shall, as soon as we succeed, hang up their heads as
a warning to all. Being now apprehensive lest local
banditti should take occasion from our movements to
breed disturbances, we wish you people clearly to report
the same, and we will immediately exterminate them.
If any of the citizens or villagers dare to assist the ma-
rauding mandarins in their, tyranny, and resist our
troops and adherents, no matter whether they reside in
great or small places, we will sweep them from the face
of the earth. Be careful. Do not oppose. A special
proclamation."

" Yang-seu-ts'hing, especially appointed General of
the Grand Army, engaged in sweeping away the Tar-
tars and establishing the new dynasty, issues this second
proclamation : _

"I, the General, in obedience to the Royal commands
have put in motion the troops for the punishment of the
oppressor, and in everyplace to which I have come the
enemy at the first report have dispersed like scattered
rubbish ' • as soon as a city has been captured I have
put to death the rapacious mandarins and corrupt
magistrates therein, but have not injured a single in-
dividual of the people, so that all of you may take care
of your families and attend to your business without
alarm and trepidation. I have already issued pro-
clamations to this effect, with which I presume you are
acquainted. I have heard, however, that throughout the
villages there are numbers of lawless vagabonds, who, pre-
vious to the arrival of our troops, take advantage of the
disturbed state of the country to defile men's wives and
daughters and plunder or burn the property of honest peo-
ple. I, the General, have already apprehended some of
these, and decapitated about a score of them. Now, be-
cause their localities are somewhat removed from the
provincial capital (Gnan-hwuy), these persons flatter
themselves that I, the General, am not aware of their
proceedings, which are very much to be detested. I
have, therefore, sent a great officer, named Yuen, as a
special messenger, with some hundreds of soldiers, to
go through the villages, and, as soon as he finds any of
these vagabonds, he is commissioned forthwith to decapi-
tate them,' while the honest inhabitants have nothing
more to do than to stick up the word Shun,' (‘ Obe-
dient ') over their doors, and then they have no-
thing to fear. I would . wish to ask those of you
who have given of your money and aided with
your provisions (the former Government), in or-
der to purchase titles and official dignities, what
is the glory of such distinctions ? and even those lite-
rary honours, which the Mantchou robbers have 'con-
ferred at the literary examinations, of what use are
they ? I and my followers are all subjects of the Great
Chinese empire, and students of the books handed down
by the groat sages of antiquity ? How, then, could we