The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-18 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1853.

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connected with them. These are all the particulars
which have as yet transpired.
" Though the rebels have been hitherto so successful,
the Imperialists do not seem to despair, for they are
purchasing a number of foreign vessels, several of which
had been sent up the river before the Bombay left.
Among those said to have been already bought are the
Sir Herbert Compton,• Antelope, Dewan, Agnes, and
Clown.

" The rumour current about Europeans having been
massacred, supposed to be the crew of the Science, must
have been, as usual, the fabrication of some mischief-
loving Chinese, who seems to take a delight in coining
such stories, and retailing them to the gossips of Can-
ton, by whose exertions they are first industriously cir-
culated there, and ultimately find their way to Hong-
kong with some appearance of being founded on fact.
Endeavours should be made to trace out the persons
who thus lend themselves to the propagation of mis-
chievous reports."

We subjoin an extract from the North China
herald of the 7th of May :
"The Hermes returned to this port on the afternoon
of the sth instant, with his Excellency Sir George Bon-
ham on board. She had made an eventful trip up the
Yangtze, during which she lay five days at Nankin, and
brings back intelligence of a deeply interesting and even
astounding character respecting the insurgents, giving
us much cause to thank her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
for the steps taken to obtain some positive information
regarding them. The following particulars we give on
good authority, and hopeto furnish from the same source
more details in a future issue :
" The insurgents are Christians of the Protestant form
of worship, and anti-idolaters of the strictest order.
They acknowledge but One God, the Heavenly Father,
the Allwise, Allpowerful, and Omnipresent Creator of
the world ; with Him, Jesus Christ, as the Saviour of
mankind; and also the Soly-Stiirit, as4lite last of the
Three Persons of the Trinity. Their chief on earth is a
person known as 'Tae-ping-wang, the Prince of Peace,'
to whom a kind of divine origin and mission is ascribed.
Far, however, from claiming adoration, he forbids in an
edict the application to himself of the terms Supreme,'
Holy,' and others, hitherto constantly assumed by the
Emperors of China, but which he declines receiving on
the ground that they are due to God alone. Their moral
code the insurgents call the Heavenly Rules,' which
on examination proved to be the Ten Commandments.
The observance of these is strictly enforced by the leaders
of the movement, chiefly Kwang-tung and Kwang-se
men, who are not merely formal professors of a religious
system, but practical and spiritual Christians, deeply in-
fluenced by the belief that God is always with them.
the hardships they have suffered, and the dangers they
have incurred, are punishments and trials of their
Heavenly Father ; the successes they have achieved
are instances of His grace. In conversation they
bore' the more worldly-minded by constant recurrence
to that special attention of the Almighty of which they
believe themselves to be the objects. With proud
humility, and with the glistening eyes of gratitude, they
point back to the fact, that at the beginning of their en-
terprise, some four years ago, they numbered but 100
or 200, and that, except for the direct help of their
Heavehly Father, they never could have done what they
have done.

" They,' said one, speaking of the Imperialists,
spread al kind of lies about us. They say we employ
magical arts. The only kind of magic we have used is
prayer to God. In Kwang-se, when we occupied Yung
Gnan, we were sorely pressed ; there were then only
some 2,Q00 or 3,000 of us. We were beset on all sides
by much greater numbers ; we had no powder left, and
our provisions were all gone • but our Heavenly Father
came down and showed us the way to break out. So we
put our wives and children in the middle, and not only
forced a passage, but completely beat our enemies.'
" After a short pause he added—
" If it be the will of God that our Prince of Peace
shall be the Sovereign of China, he will he the Sovereign
of China ; if not, then we will die here.'
'The man who used this language of courageous
fidelity to the cause in every extreme, and of confidence
in God, was a shrivelled up, elderly, little person, who
made an odd figure in his yellow and red hood ; but he
could think the thoughts and speak the speech of a hero.
He, and others like him, have succeeded in infusing their
own sentiments of courage and morality to no slight
extent, considering the materials operated upon, into
the minds of their adherents. One instance, was a
youth of 19, who acted as one of the guides to a party
that rode into Nankin, and who again and again, as he
ran along on foot, ,begged and besought Mr. Interpreter
Meadows, if he came back from Shanghae, to bring him a
double sword; but also exhorted that gentleman to refrain
from smoking, from drunkenness, and other vices, with
a simple earnestness at once amusing and admirable.
This lad, the son of a literary graduate in Hoonan
of the second degree, and himself no bad scholar, had
left his father's house at the age of 17, and travelled some
days to join the insurgent camp before Kwei-lin,
prompted by an adventureus*irit to share conquer-
ing the rivers and monntaffir-44he expression by which
the holy warriors' of Tae-ping designate their enter-
prise.

"That there are ambitious self-deceivers, shrewd im-
postors, and calculating hypocrites among them in
plenty we doubt not ; we also doubt not that numbers
join, and will continue in their ranks, influenced exclu-
sively by motives as worldly and ignoble as those which
guide the conduct of so many professing Christians of
the West. But among the leaders and originators of
the movement there are unmistakeable signs of a good
leaven, which, we trust and earnestly wish, may ulti-
mately spread throughout the whole mass. One convin-
cing proof of the sincerity of the ruling minds is, that
while fighting to free their country from a foreign yoke,
and anxious to obtain adherents, they, nevertheless,
throw great difficulties in the way of a rapid increase of
numbers, by insisting'on the general adoption of a new
and revealed religion learned from barbarians.'
" While they have manifestly derived their religious
beliefs from the writings, if not in some cases the direct
teachings, of foreign Protestant missionaries, they ap-
peared to be extremely ignorant of foreign nations.
Canton was known to them as the seat of a great foreign
commerce; but Shanghae (which has indeed sprung into
importance during the few years they have been fighting
in the west) was found to be quite unknown to many of
their leading men. It is gratifying to learn that under
these circumstances the existence of a common religious
belief disposes them to regard their foreign brethren'
with a frank friendliness which past experience renders
it difficult to comprehend in a Chinese, but which we
earnestly trust every effort will be made to cultivate and
establish in their minds. It would, to speak of nothing
else, do more for our commercial interests, should the
insurgents succeed, than hundreds of ships and regi-
ments. We understand that during a long ride of ten or
twelve miles into the city of Nankin and back, along
what may at present be called one of the streets of
a large camp, Mr. Meadows did nor hear one of
those abusive and derogatory epithets applied to him-
self or companions which have always been so liberally
bestowed on passing foreigners by the heathen Chinese.
There was also the fullest evidence that the obscene
expressions with which the latter garnish all their con-
versations are prohibited and almost banished from the
language of the Christians.
" We have not time or space to say more at present.
We have thought it advisable to dwell, in the first in-
stance, mainly on the most striking and momentous fea-
ture of this movement, its religious and puritanical ele-
ment—a feature now placed beyond all doubt, but
which the previous conceptions of many foreigners will
cause them to regard with the greatest astonishment, if
not incredulity, in any body of Chinese. We hope
hereafter to be enabled to give some account of the
origin, military organisation, actual position, and pre-
bable future movements of the insurgents. They now
hold Nankin, termed by them Teenking—Heavenly
Capital,' Chin-kiang, and Yangthow, and are for the
present busily engaged in strengthening and increasing
the fortifications of these cities."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
BOMBAY MARKET.
(From the 22d to the 29th of May, 1853.)
Bombay Times-office, May 30.
Since the departure of the last mail the market has
been as dull as it usually is just before the monsoon.
Nothing worthy of note has been done, and such sales
as have been effected have been forced on purchasers at
reduced prices. The only large sale which has been
effected is one of twist.

In consequence of the small quantity of cotton which
has been despatched to China and the larger than usual
quantity which has come in from the districts, the stock
now in Bombay is nearly one-half greater than has ever
been known before at the same season of the year. It
is calculated that we have not less than 150,000 bales
in stock. The price has in consequence slightly fallen,
but is still much too high to induce European houses to
ship in any quantity. The natives, however, are ship-
ping to a considerable extent, as they generally do at
this season of the year, in preference to housing it for
the rains.

The commercial news from China is very bad, every
description of business almost entirely put a stop to.
At Shanghai, particular, matters are anything but in a
prosperous state. In the opium market here, however,
there is still some business doing, but chiefly in the ful-
filment of engagements entered into some time ago.
The price of Malwa may be quoted at 950 r. to 975 r.
per cltest.
Freights, in consequence of the recent numerous ar-
rivals, have gone down further, and, although we do not
know that any ships have been let at the figure we
quote, we should not consider tonnage to Liverpool
worth more than 2/. 10s., and to London 2/. 15s. per
ton. To China, 12r. per candy ; nothing doing.
Exchange may be quoted at 2s. lid., at 2s. 1 3-16 d.
on England ; on Calcutta, 99r. ; on China, 226 r. at
227 per dollars at 60 days' sight.

MONEY-MARKET, MAY 28.
EXCHANGES.

On London—at 6 months' sight, per rs., 2s. 14d. fur
document bills ; 6 months' sight, pr rs., 2s. lhd., for
credit bills.
On Calcutta—at 60 days' sight, 093 r. ;30 days' sight,
99kr. ' • at sight, 100 r. 6-6th.
On Madras—at 30 days' sight, 100ir. ;at sight, 100 r.
On China—at 60 days' sight, 100 dolls. 228 r. to 230 r.

BANK AND OTHER SHARES.
Bank of Bombay l,ooor. each, 1,00028 per cont,p.m.
Oriental Bank Cor 2sor. 85 per cent. p.m.
Commercial Bank
Agra Bank soor. 40 per cent. p.m.
Bank of Madras .
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
5 per Cent. transfer loan Rs. 110 i ... per 100 Sicca
" loan 1825-26 „ 106 i to 109 h per 100 Sicca
loan 1829.30 „ 111 ... per 100 Sicca
" loan 184142 , per 100 Co.'s
4 per Cent loan 1832-33 :, 106 i ... per 100 Sicca
loan 1835-36 „ 100 ... per 100 Co.'s
" loan 1842-43 „ 100 ... per 100 CO.'s
PRICES OF BULLION.
Sovereigns, each ... rs. 10 2a.
Bank of England Notes „ 10 ... per £ noml.
Spanish Dollars ... „ 222 to 223 per 100
German Crowns ... „ 216 ... per 100
Syceo Silver ••• ff R
1041 to 101 i per 100 tolas.
Gold Leaf (range of quality) 16h ... per tola.
Gold Ingots, according / 15
per tola.
to touch, for 97 touch f