The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

THEIMPE.RIALISTS AND THE TAEPINGS.

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We have been permitted to publish the following
extract trom a private letter from Shanghai, dated
June 3. The writer has the best means of informa-
tion as to what passes among the Chinese :
"The English and French, c3-operating with
Colonel Ward's men, who now number about 3,000,
have made several expeditions into the country;
ociure plug uut ,2.<, Chinese authorities gave the
Admiral to understand that if he would retake cer-
tain cities Chinese troops would garrison and hold
them. Accordingly, Kading and Nandeing were
taken ; much ammunition was used up, and very few
rebels killed. That done, it became known that
there were no Chinese troops to garrison the. cap-
tured towns. Our people held Kading for a while,
but General Staveley became alarmed, and fearing
that while he and his men were at Kading the rebels
would quietly walk into Shanghai, he decided on
evacuating the place; accordingly, he last week re-
turned to Shanghai.
" The people here labour under a great delusion.
They imagine, from thepugnacious manner in which
the Taepings are prowling about Shanghai, and get-
ting into scrapes with foreigners, that the Taeping
cause is increasing in strength, and that, having
taken the whole of the rest of China, they now
want and must have Shanghai. No such thing ;
the idea is quite erroneous. The fact is that the
Chinese Imperialist troops, put in motion from
Hangkow, and operating eastwards down the
Yangtze valley, have been so well led that they
have carried everything before them. They took
Nankin last September; from that they drove the
rebels down the river towards Wuhu ; at Wuhu
the rebels made a stand, but ten days ago the Im-
perialists retookWuhu and drove the rebels towards
Nankin. A steamer has just now come in with the
intelligence that the river in front of Nankin
swarms with Imperialist war junks, and that four
of theebta
onlytteri e sh
ao\n, e t
thhe belamn k p
ehr
avlei
Bse ebne
en capture bd.
victorious
along the Yangtze, taking the towns on its banks
but for a long way into the interior
on
they have driven the Taepings steadily
before both
The Taepings, with the exception
expedi-
tionary army now fighting the of an
of the Fuhkien province,
nownohrethrn frontiermemedinbe-
tween a line drawn from ankin to Ningpo and the
sea. Inside this boundary the country swarms
with Taepings, but along its edge large Imperialist
forces are marching steadily. Thus, it is not the
Which rebel cause is
gaining ground. The pug-
nacity of
the Taep •
ings about Shanghai must be
accounted for in another way, and that is that in
their present position they are hemmed in ; they
must either take to the water, stand at bay, or
make a dash southwards along the coast line. Now,
they object, of course, to go into the water; they
are chary of going southward, as the range of
mountains that fringe the southern borders of the
Chekeang province present great obstacles to a
comfortable march ; their only other resource is to
stand at bay. Their numbers around here are great,
and the men that are here are their best fighting
men, who came from the south originally, who have
traversed the whole country, and fought in every
province ; here they all are, hemmed in, and the
circuit is daily be • coming more circumscribed. They
begin to find it no easy task to procure provisions,
and thus they are cutting about ferociously in all
directions within the limits of the boundary I have
indicated. I think they are almost done for; and
I believe that in two years mole the supporters of
the Taeping cause will be extirpated."

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SHIPMENT OF QUEENSLAND COTTON.—The
ship-
ment for England of four bales of cotton from
Queensland
is an event in the history of cotton cultivation in Australiala
und
s
which calls for some notice. The steamer Telegraph, which
arrived from Brisbane, on Tuesday last, brought down for
Mr. ranton, of Ipswich, four bales of Sea Island cotton,
scalorseelaybopurtes:sheed, consigned for ship-
which are at present in the stores of
Watt, and Co., to whom they haveu beeni Messrs. Gilchrist,
and their aggregate weight
a size of wool bales, but
tinheent. cotton The
i sbnaol et
is only a little over Bcwt.
long and firm in the The cotton is of very good qua-
lity,lts value, we are informed,
staple, and thoroughly cleaned.
English market, med, in the ordinary state of the
would
state,
be about 15d. per pound, but in its
present exceptional consequent on the blockade of
the American ports, thes le,
—,Sydney Morning Heravialline would probably be about 2s.

XI.-YRS. TORTURE OF PETER & SELF—No PAT-RRLTEIy,
The" the'—erince Consort of—the Coin-Law.
Be not afraid'—MEINDELSSOHN—‘ /61,61 E I .C 1)
Iknaish-harpys are acting without my
.fis• call leave, altho
their will-6th deputy by 31 G m.o 32, §7. '9l act (1820-25,
by Castlereaeh's Calvin-prottturant to FEscs's v double
office of Archbishop of Lyons, and Cardinal of E-ney Ca-
nada—as Labrador successor to 14th Clement '72's Jesuit
outing, to 93's NAP. temporal holy see,)'ng—in Quebec's
Virginian 1764-76-88 Admiralty High Crt. of delegates
thro' yellow King's-post master, Benj. Franklin, for
Prince-Consort'd La die's Pocahontas & Mary March',
on Crown Probate-surrogate Ackerley—over Montagu
Dalhousie's Commune ty Affraneltie to red Scarf-chamber
of Deputies, as of ' Great Britain;-33 G. TIT., c 44, §1—
the free L'Britannos Superior of imp. Vespasian.
BALLOON ASCENTS without " LE NOR-
MAND'S" 1783 PARACHUTE FALL, AID.
MENto.—The Cruelty to Animals Act' gives civic cause
for magisterial stoppage of these R.
mani c. Coarst raffle-fooler
of col-
ex-
eitentents, without wisdom being fe in TOKEN
lapse efflux retreat,—at Over-3-mile Zone-electric to gas lb.
-within the balloon, as seen—above Wolverhampton's poor
" Union mill' of the Dudley Somerie Swinford Exchange.—
at which point of 26in.-baemeter Foulairdrop VA-tribute
out-brace Taraxlcute-Gordium, ought to have been Egypt-
spread, on 17 July, by Accidents & Sues Offences bill.
Yard. -26--eeee-----=-- 32- :: 36 in. Bar.
Mr. Coxwell's omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure
oxygenic wax taper flame (obtained in Piccadilly), used in
its vehicle ' the lamp of life,' for nasal vacu9-shield-bone
inhalation—by all Aeronauts, against the 151 b square inch
atmospheric pressure ou the lungs—accounts for Blue--lipid
Glaisher suffering the 451 b in., tho' descent-saved by hy-
drogen gas-lite circumvention—reminding him of Shen-
stone's Tulchan straw-calf' couplet (on 'Nun' Qu'esdrida
of Tip'ton), for bringing down the stayn'eth milkuser :-
6,4, That in Clent, as + martyed, under a thorn 1 981
Lieth, King Ken'elm with head off-shorn.' f
as the defunct ancestors of Erne.. Conrad ei.'s G.-daughter
Agatha, Malcolm m & wife Margaret's 9- offspring, now in
Spanish Escurial of Philip is. (whose daddy, CAR. v., was
Gaunt-constable of England), as Saxon kin of Edward 111.,
herein ambush'd Salve Lucein' Pompeii yr. 79.
The quicksilver drop 16 tn.—show aloft with I di-luced wet
expansion of ',Ba/Aen` evidenced the absence of Nitro-moist
fog within the motive power, and influx of the dry elec-
tricity, by the drowning-like effects on the system—the pit-
a-pat pulse of a Tucked-up heart, o'er its key-diaphragm,
sounded the Thumb-inch tic-dirge music of the spheres,
whilst the wiry hair and ruffled paper gave a Monochord
that they were entering 'Paradise ' where the first pair meet'
at 15in. deg., of Specula-crystalization to blood—on Airey's
31 barometer scale, and false sector to this latitude, to a
hall of science' idea—to out Stephen's Parrment Mon-
tag-ue House shift of the Gaspe-basin ' marine league'
limit—lndian with Surveyor LoGAN's chain--meter of
1818 act.
So Windsor-tie bowl-waft ZQ'erhead Opot, Cole region of
weir-Wulfra Hampton of EDGAR's l
aunch like
to Phaeon'd collapse, bull'srun (belly-paunch-like), on the
Pal-
Lang-hamlet of Oakham-n,—on Union deputy D.C.L.
merston's'9l ynlchan-pope vise, by xWrottesley's (P,G.'rOthy
.Dudley- Wardship of Bassett-wilton *Stamford.
This [‘ civil education coda Comift 1826.31 go bye, Sir
c, sruart, Admiral Hamond, & Hill Sandys' survey 29th
Aug., '2s—shows Brag as motur cbangel—for man's F. re-
aeri forne- within, in cases of Low fire• damp on Vaccu° rarifi-
cation of the breath, for purification of the blood against any
Erusian-colice blue'skin-discolour of hands at four miles
wing Life absence—sets a '32 TIBET precedent for
altitude'
future Pendul'unsierella-like dipfalls, tho' opposed to Cox-
well's Aeenautemileonic ides, with Virgil's oet-troy 9th
discord line-- (to Mundane -C-oval of Henry B's-lease at
Kennington-'Butts ET cratera-1791' on sham Cliicher 'of
L' an ker star's white-Al ba. gait for 'Buff's of Sc or
otia min) on
the Isc.-Ezeter *5) stellar Gqcfegog • : : gyration, fwithis
night poach N. bill, 6 August J'sus-nomenalist' N day,--
as the Rotherham-will, 1490, O.S. Ye-transfiguration e-
errant L'enfer—Conception fest° realist-idea.
A /3= m" F acilis defeendsus Wverni." [lndia,
• • " N.] s''Atkyns- Montague C. ACKERLET, Exec.
•
1-2 w. iv., we. 54, Chamberlayne' Gie-sworn.
'
el • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid§ of
• China Rug wall circuit horizon ofe-London, Aug. 12.
o 1862) its Montezuma-inch Admiralty red flag. not in
°2 Brant's power to give up IMP. 1793 Cma, to lercy,
suport. to
tQn's.
a & GREY-cause of Capen's xe-yr
rag ministers use his brains, and mock him &c. to death.
Carib-protectorship
esnu r
ydturo
fe oxatiot h6pooaony iotrs
rn`' intimorito della voce, del Padrone sul'onde,'
for holding to 1820-25-37. s
/for
190. yr retaining fee for his
tdhuetylerxepa
Indian of America, which
unrorved Nimrod-sentinel appointment,
Act of 1818, 9, for Deputy soil-
reply to their own
voice, on AB-juration ac
under the Polar rasaitp....ici,h_
title (to Ackerley orate oratz &c. of • "7911
7)
isb. Catb.olic corp Labrador, Baltimore-
-so ... OM
nd Brazil, under Luther church pay—for their
wan' fend,.s. a unknown to him till Peter's arrival in 1851, as
officedeputy—recognised by Earl Grey's November
Pontiff' a
letter ' that Indian justice should be done,'—by his election
as ,fit/ Deputy High Constable of England—on report of
the theft of Tower stores 'J. King' issued to him in '42 for
Ashburton Ind. survey of the New Found-land of Virginia,
by the Earl of Derby' and Blackwood, sectry.-holding the
Indian Yellow Gold-edged 1764 3ty. grant land at Frede
rickton, N. Brunswick. (Signed) Benj. Franklin, Rich-
mond -delegate—on 'I7BB inseparable a jainais by 1794's
Deputy Jefferson's tr.e, 1, §3 Resume-1819-26.
Whence the doubtful subscribed public fund for the
Prince Consort Memorial of 1851 recognition as above—
Tee definite article of this adjective sentence under the
King of Prussia's signature at Windsor Castle, with Albert
and Wife of the Church for Sir Wen. Logan's survey of
Canada—intimates to Sir C. Eastlake Loy 1842 VICTORIA
coin Consort-tie to the Soil right, has no reference to the
Victoria: of the Noinen double sectarian Kirk-head.
To M— Jefferies, & Bailiffs of Tame-(worth, Stour-Trent
Anker e, river DNB fish'ry on Poor-law 0. S. audits, March
2.5, Rate in aid on 43-Eliz.) in Wye part of Guy's Mospital
by 21 July, 1521-2 CARL. V. &H.B, of Southark ' bar' for
Clapham's Conjugate reciprocity 3ty, to Yellow Tiber' Zoll-
verein trustee*ship, yr 42—on the 4 great nations of Gaul's
Lion Pont del' Areuba/istafy—Jetsam-statute of 4-Geo. 4
Ch. 74—on Barometer oz-libralis lb. Air-Q-pressure.
Ye I will ask the UNION for Loan to lian and Self
Was lin receipt of my father's life-hold name estate—its
rental being withheld by Attorney Cole's freehold voting
on my brother Chatnberlayne by 1-2 Will. re., No. 54,
(not Ackerley), whence the double forge of " Charles and
O. Henry." in Master of Roll's toist-decree, 15th March,
'62e. touching the `L'ilourton Orr the Watet .1,4 by Caler
its canal Ells-mere agent of Seven-se. washall, of Dean and
Chap ter of Chester's Crt. of Aairfax delegates, Nov., 1807-
9, on-Youß—‘exeommunication of name—Tie-palatine.'
" As uawksey'-owl, in desert lone
Hugh Loop,'d am I now—Lo las one."
(See Sun April 19, 28, May 6, & July 19.)

CRYSTAL PALACE.-G'-,EAT BALLOON
ASCENT, TOMORROW.—The SEr;OND PUBLIC
ASCENT' OF MR. COX WELL'S NEW MAMMOTH
BALLOON will be made from the grounds about half-past
six o'clock. Partial ascents will be made (weatherpermitting)
from the Sports Ground near the Cedars, during the after.
noon. The balloon was built for the British Association,
and is capable of attaining the unprecelented altitude of
five miles and upwards, and will carry sixteen persons.
In the Palace there will be the usual band and Great
Organ Performances. Display of upper series of Fount
tains at Four o'clock.
One Shilling. Children Sixpence.

CANTERBURY HALL.
The renowned Performers,
DEBONNAIRE and AUGONARD (from Paris).
Grand Selections from
" DON SEBASTI and "IL TROVATORE,"
Principal Artistes— N"
Miss Russell, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Raynor,
and Mr. Russell Grover.
The great Comic Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth (the
original Stump orator, "Or any other man." Also the fol-
lowing Comic favourites—Marshall, as "Lord Duss ndreary
J. G. Fords, A. B. Hollingsworth, and Mi Georgina
Smithson.
Visitors to Lodon are infoed tat the Picture Gallery
is open to the public on Sundramy evenhings.

T H E 0 X- F 0 R D,
6, OXFORD STREET.
"THE DAUGHTER OF THE ISLES,"
a Cantata composed by F. LEsLIE, Esq., and written by A.
MATTIIISON. Esq, in honour of the Marria_ge of her Itoyal
FO-mess the Princess Alice, EVERY EVENING,
n addition to the usual entertainments, which include
operatic selections by Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn,
1-"ssrs. Mthoriex, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and
torus •
and Mr; Iv! ,omic performances of Miss Caroline Parkes
Randall the Ethiopian oddities of Rumsey,
Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Unsworth (the originai " or
any other man"), and the astounding feats on the Flying
Trapeze of DERONNAIttE.
Hall, 6d.; Balcuny and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d.

** * For full partieulm.s of amusements see first page.
T a il ATI:LE-no-y.lv
This Evenin2-, A RISs n,,T4-ImDRURY-LANE.
E DARK. After which,
the first part of the Arab Enteriii
be followed by THE COLLEEN Aliment at half-past 7. To
THE ARABS OF TaE D E sER,F.-wN. ro conclude with.
A Troupe of the Beni-
Zoug-Zoug.

Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROY`.L. HAYmA.,_
This Evening, FISH OUT pF WATE-ET.
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With el,,Lotter which,
And THE CfIRISTE Commence at 7.

NEW EATRE-ROAL, ADELPRI.
This EveninTHg OUR CLERKS. After which, iiix,_
Followed by T
TILE SHILLING DAY.
lIE PRET]: Y IiORSEBREAKER. "VA.
...aux
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
`Phis Evening, THE RENDEZVOUS. After W
Which, at Oa
quarter to c 4, KING HENRY VIII. With T 1,04
POLTS.

Commence at 7.