The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-03 00:00:00

Lord PALMERSTON said he could not accede to the , are not a fighting people, but commercial, persevering,
amendment. land enterprising. The more I see of them, the more I
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n andrs. admire their ability • but I must admit them to be the
most unexceptionable liars I have ever seen ; beyond
pilfering in accounts (what we call at home a per-centage)
day next. they are honest as a nation—very much so—but in all
The house then resumed.
referL otilhxet furtherA L E
considerationST
ERS' NAMES BILL i accounts they will strive and squeeze when they can."
LAND TAX COMMISSION
The bill went through committee.
URNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE (IRELAND)
BILL.
This bill was read a third time and passed.
INSURANCES ON LIVES BILL.
This bill went through committee.
The house then resumed.
UNIVERSITY DISABILITIES.
Mr. HEYWOOD moved for leave to bring a bill to
remove certain disabilities which prevented some of her
Majesty's subjects from resorting to the University of
Oxford, and from proceeding to the first or bachelor's
degrees in arts, law, and medicine in the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge.
Sir It. H. INGLIS should oppose the motion, and was
prepared, if necessary to divide the house upon it,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER suggested
the withdrawal of the motion, which being assented to,
Sir J. YOUNG obtained leave to bring in a bill to
amend and continue certain acts relating to linen, hempen,
and other manufactures in Ireland.
The house adjourned at half-past two o'clock.

PROCLAMATION BY THE INSURGENTS.

THE TRIMETRICAL CLASSIC.*

The great God
Made heaven and earth ;
Both land and sea
And all things therein.
In six days,
He made the whole :
Man, the lord of all,
Was endowed with glory and honour.
Every seventh day worship,
In acknowledgment of Heaven's favour :
Let all under heaven
Keep their hearts in reverence.
It is said that in former times,
A foreign nation was commanded,
To honour God ;
The nation's name was Israel.
Their twelve tribes
Removed into Egypt ;
Where God favoured them,
And their posterity increased.
Then a king arose,
Into whose heart the devil entered ;
He envied their prosperity,
And inflicted pain and misery.
Ordering the daughters to be preserved,
But not allowing the sons to live;
Their bondage was severe,
And very difficult to bear.
The great God
Viewed them with pity,
And commanded Moses
To return to his family.
He commanded Aaron
To go and meet Moses :
When both addressed the King,
And wrought divers miracles.
The King hardened his heart,
And would not let them go ;
Wherefore God was angry
And sent lice and locusts.
He 4so sent flies,
Together with frogs,
Which entered their palaces,
And crept into their ovens.
When the kin" still refused,
The river was turned to blood ;
And the water became bitter
Throughout all Egypt.
God sent boils and blains,
With pestilence and murrain;
He also sent hail,
Which was very grievous.
The king still refusing,
He slew their first born ;
When the king of Egypt
Had no resource ;
But let them go
Out of his land.
The great God
Upheld and sustained them
By day in a cloud,
By night in a pillar of fire.
The great God
Himself saved them.
The king heardened his heart,
And led his armies in pursuit;
' But God was angry
And displayed his majesty.
Arrived at the Red Sea,
The waters were spread abroad :
The people of Israel
Were very much afraid.
The pursuers overtook them,
But God stayed their course ;
He himself fought for them,
And the people had no trouble.
He caused the Red Sea
With its waters to divide ;
To stand up as a wall,
That they might pass between.
The people of Israel
Marched with a steady step,
As though on dry ground,
And thus saved their lives.
The pursuers attempting to cross,
Their wheels were taken off ;
When the waters closed upon them,
And they were all drowned.
The great God
Displayed his power,
And the people of Israel
Were all preserved.
When they came to the desert,
They had nothing to eat,
But the great God
Bade them not be afraid.
He sent down manna,
For each man a pint ;
It was as sweet as honey,
And satisfied their appetites.
The people lusted much,
And wished to eat flesh,
When quails were sent,
By the million of bushels.
At the Mount Sinai,
Miracles were displayed ;
And Moses was commanded
To make tables of stone.
The great God
Gave his celestial commands,
Amounting to ten precepts,
And breach of which would not be forgiven.
He himself wrote them,
And gave them to Moses;
The celestial law
Cannot be altered.
In after ages,
It was sometimes disobeyed,
Through the devil's temptations,
When men fell into misery.
But the great God,
Out of pity to mankind,
Sent his first born son
To come down into the. world.
His name is Jesus,
The Lord and Saviour of men,
Who redeems them from sin,
By the endurance of extreme misery.
Upon the cross
They nailed his body ;
Where he shed his precious blood,
To save all mankind.
Three days after his death
He rose from the dead :
And during forty days
He discoursed on heavenly things.
When he was about to ascend,
He commanded his disciples
To communicate his Gospel,
And proclaim his revealed will.
Those who believe will be saved,
And ascend up to heaven ;
But those who do not believe,
Will be the first to be condemned.
Throughout the whole world
There is only one God (Shang te);
The great Lord and Ruler,
Without a second.
The Chinese in early ages
Were regarded by God ;
Together with foreign states,
They walked in one way.
From the time of Pwan-koo (1)
Down to the three dynasties (2)
They honoured God,
As history records.
Thang of the Shang dynasty (3)
And wan of the Chow (4),
Honoured God
With the intentest feeling.
The inscription on T'hang's bathing-tub
Inculcated daily renovation of mind ;
And God commanded him,
To assume the government of the empire.
Wan was very respectful,
And intelligently served God ;
So that the people who submitted to him
Were two out of every three.
When Tsin obtained the empire (5),
He was infatuated with the genii (6) ;
And the nation has been deluded by the devil,
For the last two thousand years.
Suen (7) and Woo (8), of the Han dynasty,
Both followed this bad example ;
So that the mad rebellion increased,
In imitation of Tsin's misrule.
When Woo arrived at old age
He repented of his folly,
And lamented that from his youth up,
He had always followed the wrong road. (9)
Ming (10), of the Han dynasty,
Welcomed the institutions of Buddha,
And set up temples and monasteries,
To the great injury of the country.
But Hwny, of the Sung dynasty,
Was still more mad and infatuated,
For he changed the name of Shang to (God)
Into that of Yuh hwang (the pearly emperor) (11)
But the great God
Is the supreme Lord
Over all the world,
The great Father in heaven.
His name is most honourable,
To be handed down through distant ages :
Who was this Hwuy
That he dared to alter it /
It was meet that this same Hwuy
Should be taken by the Tartars;
And together with his son
Perish in the northern desert
From Hwuy, of the Sung dynasty,
Up to the present day,
For these seven hundred years,
Men have sunk deeper and deeper in error.
With the doctrine of God
They have not been unacquinted;
While the King of Hades
Has deluded them to the utmost.
The great God displays (12)
Liberality deep as the sea
But the devil has injured man
In a most outrageous manner.
God is therefore displeased,
And has sent his Son (13),
With orders to come down into the world,
Having first studdied the classics.
In the Ting-yew year (1837)
He was received into heaven,
Where the affairs of heaven
Were clearly pointed out to him.
The great. God
Personally instructed him,
Gave him odes and documentts,
And communicated to him the true doctrine,
God also gave him a seal,
And conferred upon him a sword,
Connected with authority,
And majesty irresistible.
He bade him, together with the elder brother,
Namely Jesus,
To drive away impish fiends,
With the co-operation of angels.
There was one who looked on with envy,
Namely the King of Hades ;
Who displayed much malignity, •
And acted like a devilish serpent.
But the great God,
With a high hand,

CHINA.-SHANGHAI.

The North, China Heraldfurnishes the public with an
English rendering of the letter said to have been sent
by Sir G. Bonham to the rebel chief at Nankin, running
as follows :
" Sir G. Bonham, 'cher Britannic Majesty's Plenipo-
tentiary, Governor of Hong Kong, and Superintendent
of Trade at the five ports of Canton, Amoy, Foochow,
Ningpo, and Shanghai, makes the following communi-
cation :
" Yesterday (April 27th) at noon I arrived at Nan-
kin, on board the British steamer Hermes, and sent
Mr. Interpreter Meadows on shore to annonnce the
fact, and also to arrange at what time I could meet with
your Majesty. Subsequently Mr. Meadows returned
on board, saying that he had had an interview
with their Highnesses the Northern King and the
Assistant King. To-day at noon an officer deputed
by you was to have come on board to escort me into the
city to your Majesty's palace, that we might hold a
conference together ; but it is now two or three hours
past noon, and the officer in question has not yet ar-
rived. On account of my various engagements at
other places 'I cannot long remain at anchor here ; I
therefore deem it expedient to make you acquainted
with some of the matters about which I wished to
deliberate with you. The English nation has car-
ried on commercial intercourse with China for a con-
siderable time, namely, for the last 2004,years in
Canton ; and 10 years ago a new treaty was formed
and commercial regulations agreed to, by which it was
arranged that at Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Nmgpo, and
Shanghai, British merchants should be allowed to build
houses and bring their families to reside there ; that in the
trade carried on by them duties should be paid acccording
to a settled tariff, without any further let or hindrance. At
every one of the abovenamed ports there have been ap-
pointed British Consuls, for the superintendenc?of affairs
belonging to British subjects. I, the Plenipotentiary, have
also been appointed by my Sovereign to be Govenor of
Hong Kong and Superintendent of Trade. at the above-
named five ports. All intercourse with the officers
of the Chinese Government has to be conducted through
me. For the last ten years things have gone on thus,
without any remarkable change. But of late we have
heard that the Chinese people have been engaged in hos-
tilities with the Mantchoo people. We have also heard that
your Majestyh as obtained possession ofNankin and various
other reports differing from each other. Further, the Mant-
choo officers have issued proclamations, saying that
they have borrowed a number of European steamers,
which are gone up the Yang-tsze-kiang to fight with
your Majesty's troops. But these are all the false re-
ports and lying statements of the Mantchoo officers.
It has been the custom of the British nation hitherto,
in every place to which they go to trade or settle,
when hostilities break out in said places, not to
interefere ; how, then, could we lend 'steamers in
China for such a purpose ? As to the lorchas
hired by the Mantchoo officers, or the European.
vessels bought by them, I, the Plenipotentiary,
have nothing to do with them ; we do not allow
British merchants' vessels to be hired for any such pur-
pose. People purchase British merchant vessels just
as they purchase English piece goods and other articles;
all which it would be difficult to prevent. But though
we cannot prevent the subjects of other nations purchas-
ing British vessels, we do not allow such vessels
after having been sold, to hoist the British flag.
Should any British subjects remain on board such
vessels and allow themselves to be employed by,the
Mantchoo officers, we deem it improper, and our nation
does not protect them. Now, your Majesty being at war
with the Mantchoos, the British Government does not
wish to interfere with either party ; but as British
subjects have built many dwelling-houses, churches, and
storehouses at Shanghai, and as there are a number of
English vessels coming and going, as Well as anchored,
in Whampoa river (opposite that city) ; and as your
Majesty has arrived at Nankin, which is not far from
Shanghai, and it is reported that your Majesty intends
marching an army to Soochow and Sungkeang, and
subsequently to Shanghai,—we wish previously to be
made rcquainted with your intentions towards the
, British nation and its interests.'
"The following cards accompanied the above docu-

ment :
" "rhomas Taylor Meadows, Interpreter to the
British Consulate at Shanghai.
" E. G. Fishbourne, Commander of her Britannic
Majesty's steamer Hermes.
" W. Woodgate, assistant in the office of her Britan-
nic Majesty's Superintendent.
" Unitedly send their respects.'"
The following letter, from a well informed merchant
at Canton, describes the critical state of that city :
" Canton, June 3.

" There is no doubt but we were on the point of
having trouble here about 10 days ago, as it now turns
out. Every arrangement bad been made, and parts as-
signed to all. The rising was to have taken place from
within, where every possible organization had been
made and completed ; but very soon before the blow was
to be struck, some difference of opinion as to certain
immaterial matters took place among the leaders, which
was considered inauspicious, and, consequently, it is for
the time put off, but, whether longer or shorter, of this
we are not told. The city is slumbering on the summit
of a -volcano. An attack upon the Tartar encampment
and the officers of Government, to be made simultane-
ously, will be their death-knell, and a signal that the
work has begun. Every effort will be made to guard
the foreign houses, but great doubt is expressed from
the fact of a hatred and hostility existing against
foreigners, beyond everything that was ever imagined
to be possible. However, the factories.can take care of
themselves, for some time, at least ; if burnt out the in-
mates may take to the square, and defend them-
selves there until relieved. lam told the Rapid can
go abreast of the factories, against tide, in two hours,
and, with the tide, in a very short time, say half an hour
or so. We can also get up, I suppose, 200 or 150 men
from Whampoa in a very short time. Bland can land
40, and, as we shall probably have nothing to fear, ex-
cept from the barefooted rabble, it certainly would be a
great matter of astonishment if we could not defend
ourselves. The Chinese people will take no part in
the strife, and it is very possible that all the officers
and Tartars well know that no sympathy nor aid need
be looked for, for they will get neither. The Chinese
will, doubtlessly, with lightning speed shut up and bar-
ricade their dwellings and shops, and thus they will
remain passive listeners to what is going on until one
party or the other is victorious. The Chinese soldiers
—some 7,000 or 10,000—are much mistrusted by the
mandarins. _ _

"Tomorrow and on Monday morning there are to be
grand reviews, at which all the high officers are to be
present. There have been several of them of late on a
very large scale.
" The river is singularly clear of boats. Captain Hunt
came up from Whampoa this morning, and reported that
even the 'chop boats,' which always, as you will recol-
lect, used to anchor between Huillieras and the rocks,
have left ; and from the top of my house I can quite
confirm his report, for the river is very clear indeed.
"It is no doubt true that the people have an idea that
there is trouble about to come, but I suppose, from a
feeling that it is only directed against the Government
and the mandarins, they are, with very few exceptions,
altogether indifferent to the matter."

The following is an extract of an interesting letter re-
ceived from Shanghai, with which we have been
favoured:--

" Shanghai, May 31

" Everthing lately has been going on.quietly at Nan-
kin, but there is no doubt that the rebels are going
ground daily ; the more I hear of them the more I am
led to believe they are an earnest determined people.
The prospect, however, of their settlement as the govern-
ment of the country must be very uncertain, and is
rendered the more so as in the south of China two other
rebellions have sprung up—one at Amoy, which place
they have taken, and there set a guard for the protec-
tion of foreigners—that is, English and A.mercians, &c.
How it will end the wisest cannot say, but there can be
no doubt that the empire under the Tartar rule and the
mandarins is drawing to a close.
" We are on the eve of startling changes in China, I
am sure ; they will not be long in coming ; let us hope
that good will result, as I hope it will. The rebels at
Nankin requested us to go up and trade with them ;
they are anxious we should do so, and provided we
would go they promised us protection.
"The mandarins are making some efforts by buying
English ships and giving the command to English and
Americans, with as many Englishmen for crews as they
can collect ; but these men are hired at enormous pay,
and do not, as you may be sure, expose themselves to
more risks than they can help ; as to fighting, they
intend to do nothing of the kind, they go merely for
their pay, and take care to do little or nothing.
"The Emperor's army is diminishing daily, for they
bolt as their pay ceases, which is the case with many ;
their expenses are enormous with a decreasing revenue,
for the people plainly refuse to pay their taxes, and the
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* Each line containing three 'cords, and each verse four
lines.