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

THE CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.

PROCLAMATIONS OF THE REBELS.
(From the Overland China Mail.)
"Yang, entitled the Eastern King, 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 Ike 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 ; from the
Mow•shin to the Sinhae year (A.D. 1848-51) the Great
God has compassionated 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 fail to be displeased with men for worshipping corrupt
spirits, and performing corrupt actions, by which
means they grievously offend 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
dictates will be destroyed. At the present time this
Tartar fiend, Hee-fling, 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 eelestial 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 net 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 same 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 feign 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 every place 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 aro
acquainted. I have heard, however, that throughout the
villages there are numbers of lawless vagabonds, who, pre-
vious to the arrival °lour 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 sonic of
these, and decapitated about a score of them. Now, be-
cause their localities are somewhat removed from the
provincial capital (Gran-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, lie 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 1,0 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 great sages of antiquity how, then, could we

stoop to receive rank and emolument from these
Mantchou barbarians. Do you, therefore, each one
throw away the diplomas which you have received, and
deceive yourselves no longer with them. As soon as I
have taken Nankin, I will consult about arrange-
ments for the literary examinations, and, after having
weighed the merits of the respective candidates, I will
select the most worthy scholars, and settle the degrees
of literary rank to which they are entitled. With
regard to the temples and monasteries, which belong
to the priests of Buddha and Taou, together with the
property possessed by the brothels and gambling-houses
it is much better that it should be distributed among the
poor people of the villages. At present we are seizing
the priests of Buddha and Taou throughout the country
and putting them to death, and we are inquiring into
those who have been foremost in the building and repair
of the Buddhist temples, that we may have them appre-
hended likewise. When I, the General, have led for-
ward my troops to the destruction of the Mantchous; I
will deliberate further about the examinations, in which
everything shall be. re-arranged according to the original
customs of the Chinese. Should any disobey our in-
, junctions, as soon as our grand army arrives we will not
leave them a dog or a fowl remaining. A special pro-
clamation.

"Copied at Ning-kwo-foo (lat. 31 deg. 2 min. N.,
long. 118 deg. 40 min. E), about 180 miles west of
Shanghai, and 100 miles south of Nankin."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENOE.

NOTICE TO MARINERS,

MESSINA, May 13.—A light will be placed on Point
Sorello, near Cape Granitola, on the Southern Coast of
Sicily, and not far from Mazzara. It will bo fourth class,
and constant, varying in brilliancy every three minutes,
erected on a tower of the elevation of metres 26, 59, and
visible at a distance of 14 miles.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 24.
The Rachel, Hamburgh to California, was spoken Feb.
27, lat. 56 S., long. 68 W.
The Murray, for London, was spoken March 27, lat. 21
S., long. 21 W.
The Wye, London to Melbourne, was spoken March 29,
lat. 21 S., long. 23 W.
The Abraham and Sarah, Pernambuco to Trieste, was
spoken April 30, lat. 40 N.,long. 39 W.
The Rhondda, Buenos yres to Liverpool, was spoken
April 8, lat. 22 S., long. 33 W.
The Giaour, of New York, bound S., was spoken May
4, lat. 32 N., long. 41 W.
The Arethusa, Cape of Good Hope to Falmouth, was
spoken May 6, lat. 38 N., long. 34 W., with maintopmast
carried away.
The J. P. Curtis, bound E., was spoken, May 15, lat. 46
N., long. 17 W.
The Bolivia, bound E., was spoken May 19, lat. 49 N.,
long. 8 W.
The Agnes, Jamaica to London, was spoken April 11,
lat. 24.
The Amelia, Belize to Gibraltar.
The Geraldine, of Liverpool, was spoken March 11, lat.
55, long. 64.
Tho Stata was spoken March 27, lat. 28, long. 34.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Lavinia, Arracan to Table Bay, March 12, lat. 35.
long. 21, E.
The Harbinger, Mauritius to London, March 18, lat. 27
S. long. 8 E.
The Queen of the Ocean, Liverpool to Para, April 11,
lat. 6 N. long. 28 W.
The Queen Victoria, for Quebec, 1 at. 47 N. long. 39 W.
The Helen, for Picton, May 3, lat. 51 N. long. 15 W.
The Kezia, Belfast to New York, May 12, lat. 48 N.,
long. 13 W.
The Etheldred, steering west, May 15, lat. 49 N. long.
9 W.
The Superbe,. Cadiz to Panama, 9th April, lat. 6 N.,
long. 25 W.
The Hope, Cardiff to St. Francisco, 22nd March, lat. 35,
long. 80 W.
The Java, New York to London, 11th April, lat. 21,
long. 62.
The Aldebaran, Liverpool to Sydney, N.S.W., Ist May,
lat. 37 N., long. 13 W.
The Oriental, London to Montreal, 12th April, lat. 46,
long. 39.
The Kate Sweetland, Boston to Australia, 29th April,
lat. 43, long. 67.
The Edward Robinson, California to London, 18th April,
lat. 1 N. long. 27 W.
The Sabina, Monte Video to Liverpool, 27th April, lat.
28 N., long. 46 W.
The Rapid, Mazatlan to Plymouth, 17th April, on the
Line.
Her Majesty's Ship Grecian, in Mozambique Channel.
The Murray, from London, 27th March, lat. 21 S: long.
21 W.
The Wye, London, to Melbourne, 29th April, lat. 20 S.
long. 23 W.
The Concord, Berbico to London, Bth April, lat. 50
long 25.
The John Cumming, Liverpool to New Orleans, 16th
April, lat. 50, long.. 9.
The Christiana, London to Now York, 16th April, lat.
49 N. long. 14 W.
Tho California, Charleston to Liverpool, 20th April, lat.
35 long. 70.
Tho Velocity, London to Barbadoes, let May, lat. 3G N.
long. 18 W.
The Georgians, London to the Chesapeake, 2nd May, lat.
40 N. long 37 W.
The Lucy (brigantine), of London, for Trinidad, 16th
April, lat. 48 N. long. 9 W.
The Thane of Fife, Clyde to Melbourne, lat. 51 N. long.
7 W.
Tho Henry Trowbridge, Mauritius to Port Philip, 19th
Feb. lat. 25 S. long. 60.
The England, Calcutta to Liverpool, 19th Feb., off Cape
Agullas.
The Cecilia, of London, for Geelong, 13th April, lat. 1
S., long. 21. W.
The Richard Mount, outward bound, on the Line, 13th
April, long. 21 W.
The Ann Falcon, Leith to Barbadoes, 7th May, lat. 43
N.. long. 24 W.
The New York, Liverpool to Now York, 12th May, lat.
50 N., long. 10 W.
The Jane Sharp, Newport to Quebec, 11th April, out
three days.
The Falcon, Boston to Australia, 27th April, lat. 17 N.,
long. 32 W.
The Fergus, of Hull, Galway to Quebec, 2d May, lat. 46
N., long. 50 W.
The Culloden (propeller), under canvass, from the Clyde
tolMelbourne. 19th April, lat. 7 S., lon. 34 W.
The Ann (barque), Clyde to Port Philip, 7th May, lat.
48 N., lon. 16 W.
The Priscilla, Callao to Liverpool, Ist March, lat. 55,
lon. 57.
The Sheffield, Liverpool to New Orleans, 13th May, lat.
43 N., lon. 17 W.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of yesterday.)

SUGAR.—lmporters of West India sugai were desirous
to-day to realise, but submitting to a reduction on Friday's
rates of 6d per cwt occasioned a very good demand both
for refining and grocery purposes. Operations amounted
to 871 hhds, &c., including at auction 375 hhds, 30 tierces,
and 49 barrels Barbadoes, which went for fine yellow at
388 Gd to 395, middling to good 368 to 38s, ordinary 34s Gd
to 35s Gd, brown from 32s Gd to 34s ; 203 hds 2 trcs, and
38 brls St. Lucia, low to good middling grey 31s Gd to 355,
fine yellow 38s to: 395, middling to good 35s 6d to 37s 6d ;
32 casks Demerara crystallized, good to fine yellow 38s
to 395.

REFINED.— To-day refined sugar sold freely for home
trade purposes : but prices have ceased to advance ruling
for brown lumps at 475, and low to fino grocery 47s 6d to
50 per cwt. Crushed in good demand for export at pre-
vious rates.

MAunfiaus.—This afternoon the large quantity of
15,500 bags of Mauritius sugar was submitted to public
sale. Prices gave way Gd per cwt., still 11,000 bags were
sold, superior yellow at 388 to 38s Gd, good to fine 354 6d
to 37s Gd, low to mid 34s to 355, good to fine brown 32s to
33s Gd, inferior 27s to 31s 6d, very ord 25s Gd. to 26s Gd,
refining from 32s to 375, grainy yellow 35s to 38s Gd, and
mid white ditto 41s to 41s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—Tho public sales this afternoon of 3,400
bags Bengal sugar went rather under last week's rates, but
mostly sold—Benaros, low to good whito at 35s to 38s, fine
grainy white 43s 6d, good to fine yellow ditto 37s to 38s Gd,
low to middling 35s to 36s Gd, brown 334 to 34s Gd, low
grainy 31s to 32S Cd. There was no public sale of Madras,
and little dOno privately; prices have a downward ten-
dency. •

Cocam--To-day there was only a moderate demand for
Trinidad cocoa ; and at auction, of 970 bags, a small part
only sold at 30s to 33s for grey, and at 33s 6d to 37s for low
to tine red, ~being rather lower rates.
_ _ .

COFFEE.—To-day there was a greater desire to operate
in Plantation Ceylon Coffee. At auction 190 casks, 402
brls, and 57 bags nearly all sold at rather higher rates—
good middling to good went at 62s to 655, middling Ms to
61s, low middling 57s to 58s, other sorts 52s to 565, triage
4Gs to 51s, and pea berry 66s Gd to G9s. Gd.
TEA. —ln better sorts of Congou immense purchases
have again been made both by the trade and speculators,
the rates obtained being rather above those current pre-
viously. There is no further rise for lower kinds, still de-
mand is good, and market firm.
OlLS.—Prices continuo to give way for Seal, and trans-
actions have been limited, whilst supply is on the increase :
pale has been selling at 311 10s to 321, and other sorts 301
to 311 per tun. Cod is cheaper, 331 to 33155, having been
accepted for smaltparcels. Southern is little enquired for,
but supply not increasing prices remain at 321 to 361 for
common to fine. Sperm sells more freely, and the cur-
rency is firm at 901 to 921. fleadma.tter
,921 to 941.
SALTPETRE.—To-day there was no improvement in de-
mand for Saltpetre, and at auction 895 bgs Calcutta were
only in part sold at 26s to 27s for refraction 61 to 7i per
cent.

PEPPER.—To-day little was done privately, and at auc-
tion 80 bags Penang sold at 3Bd-to 3id for rather dusty,
being easier.
INDIUO.—In Spanish little has been done, but sales at
present are not pressed. Prices are for Guatemala are for
Flores 5s 9d to 6s Od, Sobres 43 4d to 5s Bd, Cortos 2s 10d
to 4s 3d, low and lean 2s 6d. to 2s 9d, and Caraccas 3s 2d
to Gs per pound.
TALLOW.—There is a reluctance to operate in Russian
on the spot, yet sales are not pressed, and the currency is
for fine Y. C.'46s 9d to 475, 1851 ditto 46s 3d to 46s Gd per
cwt. For delivery in the last three months of the year
large contracts have been concluded at 47s Gd to 47s 9d.
Home melted only in moderate demand, and can be ob-
tained at 47s 3d to 47s 6d, supply being rs.ther larger.

DETERMINED SUICIDE. Yesterday the following
desperate suicide was perpetrated by Samuel Richards,
aged 52, residing in Somers Town, It appears the de-
ceased, who was rather respectably connected, led a wild
rollicking, dissipated life, frequently indulging heavily in
drink ; and that upon recovering from Lis fits of intem-
perance, he would become melancholy and depressed, as
if from remorse. His dissipated habits so reduced him
from affluence, that he became a pensioner on his
friends' charity. About half-past ten yeeterday morninc,
he went to the water-closet out of the Louse where he
resided, where, having remained an umusual length of
time, his landlord went to ascertain wl,;.at detained him,
when he found the unfortunate man lying dead on the
floor, amidst a pool of blood, having nearly severed his
head from the body with an. office knife, which, upon
the removal of the body, was discovered. underneath. So
frightful was the gash, that death must have been in-
stantaneous. The body was removed to the dead-house
to await an inquest.

FROM TILE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDA Y.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Mar 20,

The Queen has been graciously 'plea;ed to appoint Lord
Augustus Loftus, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation
at Stuttgardt, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at