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LEASEHOLDS.-MARGARET STREET,
CAVENDISH-SQUARE.—To be peremptorily Sold, pursu-
ant to an order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause,
" Henry Smith v. William Smith," with the approbation of Sir
Richard Torin Kindersley, Knight, the Judge to whose Court the
said cense is attached, by Mr. DANIEL CRONIN, at Garraway's
Coffee-house, Change-alley, Cornhill, on Thursday, the Ist day of
September, 1853, at Twelve o'clock, a valuable LEASEHOLD
DWELLING-HOUSE and PREMISES, situate No. 6, Margaret-
street, Cavendish-square, in the county of Middlesex, with a Cottage,
and extensive Workshops. Yards, and Out-buildings, at the rear
thereof, held for a term whereof above 4d years are unexpired, under
a Lease direct from the Duke of Portland. at the low rent of 601. per
annum. the premises are well adapted for the business of a general
smith and gasfitter, which business has been carried on there for
some years past.
Printed particulars and conditions of sale may be had of Mr. George
Francis Eland, Solicitor, No. 4, Trafalgar square, Charing- cross of
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UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
No. 8, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London.
The distinctive features of the Company embrace, amongst
others :
Tables of Premiums formed on the lowest scale compatible with
security, and constructed to meet the
vario
ce can be extendus wants of assureed.rs,
and every risk to which protection by assuran
One-half the Life Premium for the first Five years may remain on
creel.

,oans granted on approved Personal Security.
Assured not restricted in their limits of travel, as in most other
Companies, but may proceed from one part ot Europe to another in
decked vessels, without License, and to British North America, and
many parts of the United States, wit',out extra premium, by merely
giving the ordinary notice to the Office in London of the intended
visit.
Whole-world Policies granted et slightly increased rates of
Premium, thus rendering a Policy in money transactions a real
security.
Prospectuses, and every information, may be obtained upon appli-
cation to the Resident Direeto*

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIF.
POLICY COMPANY, 72, Lombard-street.

TRUSTEES.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq. I Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
Richard Malin:, Esq., Q.C., M.P. James Faller Maddox, Esq.
William WAlberforce, Esq.

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DIRECTORS.
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John Atkins, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-str .
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John Dnrerfiell, Esq., Craven-street, Strand.
R. Henry Forman, Esq., Ordnance, Pall-Mali.
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ar
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and Lin-
Charles Pemovten, Esq., Elboarne-terra, k,
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SECRETARY—Chas. Hoghton, Esq.
The Policies of this Company being Indisputable (in terms of the
Deed of Constitution duly registered), are Transferable Securities.
Used as Family Provisions, they relieve the Assured from all doubt
and anxiety as to the future.

ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager.

GUARDIAN F I
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No. 11, Lombard-
DIRECI
Sir WALTER R. FA.RQU'
FRANCIS HART DYKE,
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John Dixon, Esq.
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John Harvey, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq.
George Johnstone, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq.
John Loch, Esq.

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MAR, Bart., Chairman.
Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
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John Niartin,Esq., M.P.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
• Henry R. Reynolds, Jan., El*
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James Tulloch, Esq.
• Henry Vigne, Esq.

johinr
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Esq.
AUDITORS.
A.
Sykes A. W. Roberts, Esq.
Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq.
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ACTUARY—Griffith Davies, Esq., F.R.S.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
liament, this Company now offe- 3to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium
vAthout participation o: Profits.
The next division of Profits w'..11 be declared in June, 1855, when
all participating Policies watch shall have subsisted at least one year
at Christmas 1854, will be allowcd to share in the Profits.
At the several past divisions of Profits made by this Company, the
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Profits amo.mted, on an average of the different ages, to about One
per Cent. per Annum on the sums insured, and the total Bonuses
added at the Four Septennial DIVIL'OTIS exceeded 770,000/.
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plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many lundreds would
be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
much money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to the
empirical system of treating Spermatorrinea, and to place the treat-
men(tMurp°onßTakilmorire rationali"Die
ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular,
No. 11. June 16, 1852.
Kvo.. ,n cloth, price 3s. 6d.. by post free, 45.,
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Prim!.
pies at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms.
BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given
the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix, had res Sted, for a
period of twelve ye?rs, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed In as many weeks. But cases xviii. atoms. appear, both
in duration, severity, and complication of symp, of a more a-
A.Ld AND SURGICAL WlOtnisK,
therefore,il.
Just published, by U. Bailliero, 219, Regent-street, London
No I.
vo., in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. 6d.,
fliN TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORIMEA,
N 7 with the view to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
t,encrative System, 'sr Sexual Hypochondriasis.
Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD
"Dr. Hawn! 's known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, be informs us, that be has addressed himself to the non-rnedi-
sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
sower to correct•"—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
"We Promised in a former number that we should recur to thia
wze.c, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes
with great severity the impostors who ma
a livelihood by preying
on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathisers,'
and 'Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book
could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com-
less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize—
gravated character than an etailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
epartm.f.setratTio..ipztat b.
yn
their Course..
TreatmentnaY.pfrovstried.thetnroi____r:ertly successful."

MEDICAL ADVICE ON
AND MATUR THE SECRET
ITY. INFIRMITIES OF
YOUTH
DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University o
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medics
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall. London, &c., &c.
m.A.y. be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro-
&iced More misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist-
ex is causes able to
miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitfhl Marri-
ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
necessary that all men should know that there are
endless modifications owe their almost entire origin,
rinciPles of personal management which cannot be violated without
p
incurring grievous penalt an
It is absolutely
d when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be retnoved,
and how the evil and its ccavequenc es may befirmity avoided, and
functional
enctional
all.
that there is scarcely any degree of physical in or fu
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure
DOCTOR LI'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
In an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
plaints, and s the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
attention to these enormous evils, from which no
he grhade of soeen amply
ciety is
tree. In selecting this department of practice, as b
rewarded by the reat success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirics,
who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
se who
of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on tho
have been induced to place faith in their pretensionS.
At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
Six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address.
It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'MERT
shoul first obtain a copy of his work on
SELF •PRESERVATION.
A. Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-colocred engravings, and des-
cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
description
French,
sp o
Spanish,
ish,
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Brothers their
asDetttcehs,
Italian,
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3" post for forty-two stamps, to any addrer from the Author's real-
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orders, and give instructions as to the arrangements of entertain
ments. Note —Messrs. Purssell have no other remises
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acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure of
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hi li
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J oz, Pmacien, 161, Rue Montmartre, Paris ; at Liverpool, M.
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THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.

The first ordinary general meeting of this company
was held yesterday at the London Tavern; Mr. S. Laing,
M.P., in the chair.
The usual preliminaries having been gone through,
Mr. GROVE, the secretary, read the following report :
" A special meeting of the company having so recently
taken place, little remains to be said at the first ordinary
general meeting to be held under the provisions of the deed
of settlement, beyond submitting the subjoined balance-
sheet and statement of accounts, together with the report
of the auditors, which accompanies them. With regard
to the state of the works and the general progress of the
undertaking, the directors have only to repeat their con-
viction that everything is progressing towards a favour-
able result. The whole of the south (or Norwood) end of
the building has been completed, together with the iron
work of the north end, as promised by Sir Joseph Paxton's
report of the 2d of July last, and the only operations of
any great importance remaining to be accomplished in the
building are those connected with covering in the central
transept, which has been already commenced, and one of
the ribs fixed in its place. The directors have to conna-
Ii
tulate the shareholders on the passing of the act for the
West-end and Crystal Palace Railway, and upon the fact
that the directors of that company have made such ar-
rangements as will insure the earliest possible opening of
the line for Crystal Palace traffic. The statement of ac-
counts to the 7th of July last showed that the receipts
amounted to' 501,5951. 12s. id., and the payments to
440,55`01.65. 9d. ; leaving a balance of 61,0451.55. 4d."
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port and accounts, said, as he had stated a few weeks,]
ago all that was necessary with regard to the works
up to that time, and, as nothing had occurred since,
he had nothing to tell them. The only matter of im-
portance was that of fixing the first rib in the great
central transept, in which there was some mechanical
difficulty, but the work bad been satisfactorily com-
pleted. There was nothing they knew of to throw a
doubt on finishing the building at the time specified.
He was informed that preparations were making in va-
rious parts of the country to organise excursions to the
Crystal Palace on its opening next year,
ect of and from
what he had heard, there was every prosp bril-
liant success—something like that which attended the
Great Exhibition in 1851.
Mr. Alderman WILSON complained that the state-
ment of accounts did not show the state of their affairs,
particularly with respect to the item for land, which
showed that they had paid only 48,0001. on that account.
The CHAIRMAN said, the statement showed the result
of the account ; the matter had
id been
00/. explained t
aandthe
former meeting. They had pa 160,0 land,
bad sold a portion of it for 110,0001. Of the 160,0001.
they had paid 100,000/. in cash, leaving 60,0001. to pay ;
and of the 110,0001. for the land sold they had received
55,0001., and would receive the remainder by instal-
ments, so that the cost of the land to the company
would be about 50,0001.
Mr. Alderman WILSON contended that it was the
duty of the auditors to see that a proper statement of
accounts was laid before the proprietors.
Mr, GEACH, M.P., said it would require a certain
time before the accounts could be made up so as to
show the actual expenditure under certain heads. There
was every. desire on the part of the board to give in-
formation. They had purchased, in the first instance,
170 acres of land from Mr. Schuster for 86,612/. and
178 acres for 81,000 L ; so that the 349 acres had cost
167,7611.
The policy of securing a surplus quantity of
land was shown by the offer Mr. Wythes had made
them of 110,000/. for 140 acres, which was accepted,
I the company in the possession of 200 acres at a
m
A long discussion ensued on the question relating to
the statement of accoun ts, which resulted in an leaving the
figure.
carried, to the effect that the report be rde-
mceeivnetbeing
and adopted and circulated among the proprietors,
ei
accompanied by a detailed statement explanatory of the
principal sums paid and received on account
account of
had been
land.
The CHAIRMAN stated, that the s
open to the inspection of the shareholders for 14 days
before the meeting, and they would be likewise open to
inspection for 14 days after the meeting, in order to
satisfy any shareholder on the state of the
st company's
affairs. (Hear, hear.) It would be amo unusual
course to pubish all the details.
Resolutions were passed re-electing the retiring direc-
tors, Messrs. Laing, Lushington, and Farquhar ; fixing
the qualification of the auditors at 100 shares, and the
salary at 25 guineas each ; and to allow certain persons
to pay up their new shares in full, but to allow no mcre
payments in advance.
The proceedings concluded with a cordial vote of
;hanks to the Chairman for his conduct in the chair.

GREAT MATCH BETWEEN NEWELL AND POCOCK.
T 1: e great match between Robert Newell, of Battlebridge.
stairs, and William Pocock, of Lambeth, is the principal
theme of conversation in the aquatic circles, and so di.

versified is the opinion of good judges respecting the
merits of the men, that they are very shy in laying their
money out. The race, which is for 1001., is to come
of to-morrow, from Putney to Mortlake, and the Cur-
lew steamer has been chartered to accompany the race,
with the umpires on board, for the benefit of the losing
man. She will leave London-bridge at four o'clock,
call at all intermediate piers on her way up to Putney.
A very fine race is anticipated.

We have been favoured with the following description
of Sir G. Bonham's mission to Nankin :
H.M.S. HERMES, SHANGHAI, MAY 7.
I have just returned from Nankin, having tak Sir
George Bonham there.
The Governor of this place, and other Chinese a on--
ties, having proclaimed that we_ were going to assis ham
with 15 steamers, and it also appearing that the movement
was religious, Sir George thought right to show that we
were neutral, and, by going up, ascertain their intentions
relative to foreigners.
On going up to Chin-kiang-foo--which was in the pos-
session of the insurgents—they, taking for granted the
truth of these proclamations, fired onus; and we, supposing
this was the cause, and being anxious to come to an un-
derstanding, did not return their fire. On ending 'this,
they desisted, but the Imperial flotilla coming up they
re-opened fire, so we passed on ; but the insurgents higher
up, and on the opposite side, at Kiou-Chow, not knowing
the state of affairs, also fired, but we passed this also with-
out firing. However, to prevent the recurrence, we seized
two Chinese, and promised them some dollars to take a
letter to the insurgents at Nankin ; the result justified the
precaution, for on our approach they opened fire, without
any injury to us, as we remained out of gunshot.
On understanding from our messengers that we were
neutral they flocked on board with the greatest confi-
dence, and continued to do so all the time we were there,
evincing a curiosity quite unusual with Chinese. Some
of the first that came at once suggested our coming nearer
to the town, and actually fell into the capstan and clapt
on the catfall to assist in the operations.
After inquiry I was going to write, but the fact is they
let us know immediately that they professed Christianity
—Protestant Christianity—and I believe sincerely, and
many of them intelligently so i nor can there be a doubt
of their Protestantism, for their expression is character
istic ; they always said—as also the Imperialists in speak-
ing of them—that they were worshippers of Jean, in eon-
tradistinctioa to that of worshippers of Tien-ehu.
-They circulate tracts, not copied from rnissto6ry,tracts,
but drawn from the scriptures by themselves, and written
in a far superior style of Chinese than that current or,
perhaps, possible to foreigners.
They are iconoclasts, and destroy every vestige of idol
worship.
They adopt the Ten Commandments, translated by
themselves, to which they have appended annotations ;
thus, they state under the seventh Commandment, that
smoking opium is always associated with the sin men-
tioned there, and must be discontinued.
They behead for smoking opium, and. bamboo for
smoking tobacco.
givinge
They said they had the whole of our scriptures, but we
only saw Genesis. I gave them two New Testaments in
Chinese, and a naval and military Bible. This
New
th was of
Tcoeusraem,
einntEthneglfirishs.t occasiontiOmnet,hteherewss n
ofomoyne
present who
could interpret it, but the chief opened it, and, after reading
two or three passages, showed by his manner that he under-
stood what it was and valued it; and, on the interpreter
returning to my cabin, I told him he was to present it to
his Prince. He rose and made several bows, and otherwise
expressed his thanks for the present.
They are very severe for any, infraction id' morals, and
separate the sexes to prevent improprieties of any kind.
They hold an open court, confronting litigants—not so in
the old Chinese courts—where they nearly always have re-
course to torture. They style the army the Holy Army,"
and the name of Nankin they have changed into that of
the " Holy City." They style each other "brethren," and
they invariably called us " foreign brethrer."
I rode with an interpreter about 12 miles, and must have
passed 20,000 people carrying rice, furniture, &c., and the
interpreter assured me that he only heard one expression
that could offend the nicest ear, whereas one can hardly
move as many paces elsewhere without tearing many—
indeed, I am told the very children use the grossest expres-
sions in their ordinary play.
It was obvious to the commonest observer that they were
practically a different race. They had Qitzlaff's edition
of Genesis, and the person they spoke molt of was a Dr.
Lohoson. This we supposed was either Dr. Hobson, of
Canton, or Dr. Lobside, also a medical missionary. The
first belongs to the London mission, the other to the Rhenish
mission. Perhaps the latter is the more probable, as he
was attached to the same society as Gutzlaff, and is said to
have itinerated in Quangsi, where the movement took its

rise.
On inquiring of an Imperialist belonging to the gunboats
above Nankin the cause of the outbreak, he said that a
number of them were in the habit of meeting in Quangsi
for the worship of Jesu, and that the mandarins prohibited
them, stating that they allowed no societies for the propa-
gation of depraved doctrine ; and as they persisted in meet-
ing they had some of them beheaded. The remainder took
up arms in their own defence, commencing with 200.
They now state they have a million adherents. I have no
doubt they have several hundred thouiaad at Nankin,
Chin-ldang-foo, Yang-Chow, and Kwa-Chow.
They had about 20,000 daily employed while we were
there conveying rice into Nankin and, assuming that
they had 1,C)0 full junks, many of whica we know con-
tained about 400 tons each, they must have 150,000 tons,
all which the Imperialists have been deprived of, being
Government tribute.
They were organising their forces, anti we saw them
erecting batteries and putting guns in Win—some of them
good 24-pounders. -
They seem very sanguine of success, and hold the Impe-
rialists very cheap. With similar arms the former would
have no difficulty in going direct to Pekin in a few days—
certainly in a very short time. I believe, as it is, the in-
' surgents will walk out of Nankin when they please so to
determine. Meanwhile the difficulties of the Imperialists
are increasing, and with that their senseless policy, of
squeezing the people, even their most faithful adherents,
and the feeling in favour of the insurgents is daily on the
increase. They often say, "We knew 'this would be the
last of his race ;" and an English merchant at Shanghai
told me that a Chinaman told him, several years ago, hat
this was the feeling existing in the breasts of some at that
time.
While some of the Imperialists are saying " t is the
will of Heaven that Tae-Ping-Wano. lsucceed,"
others are saying, " Wait a little, and' should it it
will all blow over." The insurgent
said, "
you will see a.
heavy and decisive blows. A Chinesescontinue to strike
with us, describing the insurgents, that we took up
of their word. If they say they will
bamboo, make your mind easy, they glue youTh 20 licks lia:kse men
a
19." Now, it is most unusual for a
cwhiilul
anmotausttoopdshoowrthaatt
he says or mean what he says.
They are most frank in their manners •
quite unlike what
we are accustomed to in the Chinese ; and, but for some
misunderstanding about a claim of supremacy, which they
were said (I think improperly) to
have understood them better, have set up, we should
They are fanatical, but not to the extent at first sup-
posed, and I dare say, less so than we think, and
little difficulty, I think, might be made
with
less so.
They believe they have a mission from Heaven to kill
all the Mantchoos, and they certainly put this in execu-
tion as far as they can ; and, without attempting to justify
this practice, I believe that nothing shortof driving
them out of the country can make civilisation progressive
in China.
They state that their King was t nup into Heaven
ref and there invested with power to •
, but this is mixed
up with that which must be figurattv and therefore that
mean no more than is said of all Chinese Emperors, that
they are empowered by. Heaven to rule.
They say that their King has received revelations from
time to time from God ; but it is to be observed that these
are all respecting temporal things,
rule of life ; they refer to things and do not refer to tile
of temporal import.
I am the more inclined to believe that they do not hold
these extravagant notions, from their saying that their
scriptures were the same as ours, and that we
brethren, &c., and from Tae-Ping-Wang were
ang so distinctly com-
manding that his people should not use towards him even
those expressions which are used in speaking of all"
their
“ Supreme," " High,nd
former sovereigns—such as
"Father," as these belong only to God.
Then he makes somewhat light of rulers in thecompar
of what the old Covenanters and others would call "
elect," and properly so, when he says, the rulers are chosen
re
of God and are His children, but they who are good a
specially so.
They have no priests nor ordained teachers—holding that
all believers are qualified for such purposes, yet they have
people with ecclesiastical titles.
Be they fanatical or. not now, ley take the Bible for
their rule of life and circulate it ff ly, it will produce its
necessary fruits and eradicate all such errors. That they
value the Bible I can have no doubt. One of our men
offered to buy one that was given eye of them, but he re-
fused to sell it ; neither would he let it out of his hand.
The only specific information wq could obtain relative
to the Imperialists was from the insurgents, and was to
the effect that they were in considerable numbers close rip
to the walls of Nankin ,• in fact, that their respective ad-
vanced posts were within gunshot of each other. Yet this
did not seem to affect the insurgenis in the least ; for dur-
ing the few days we wore there they had
at least 20,000 men
employed unloading and carrying the rice into the city;
many more were employed carrying guns, ism, into
position, others in erecting batteries, and others throwing;
up breastworks on the opposite side of the city to the Im-
perialists—intending to • repel us ehould we attack them,
or the Imperialist flotilla ; but there was no chance of its
going higher than Chin-kiang-foo.
Confidence was said to be on•the increase among the old
population, and they were graually returning toe heir
homes, and I fully believe this to be the case, as we saw
many carrying furniture and clothes, tec., into the city. We
observed, also, that the houses of the better classes of Chi-
nese were sealed up by the insurgent chiefs, I fancy to pre-
vent their being plundered ; not Sr those of the Mantchoos,
which they evidently consider fair game—the disgorge
ment of unjust gain and plunder, from them or other Chi-
nese. Their clear principle is Ckina for the Chinese.
Na reliance can be placed on tile statements of the Im-
perialists, but they may be estitaated somewhat as they
were in the latter part of theirs .4. With us—in proportion
gaining,..n that ratio were they
as they said they were
losing.
yesterday they posted up hets, notwithstanding that
the authorities knew to the coltrary, and also that we
knew full well to the contrary, that Chin•kia,ng-foo was
retaken by the Imperialists on tha Friday before we passed
up. We knew that it was in the hands of the insurgents 1
(and likely to continue so) a urea later.
It was said for some time that L descendant of the Ming
dynasty (the last Chinese one) xas at the head of this I
movement, but on our' asking Pam if this was so, they
said not, and seemed indiffert'to the influence which
they would lose by the denial, for the idea was not with-1
out its weight among the Chinese.
They say they are merely waiting a mandate from
Heaven (this is the statement of a subordinate) to proceed
to Pekin, see-ming to make quite tight of the fact that there
is a Mantchoo army on the route.
What a set of imbeciles
the Imperialists are may be Othered from the fact that
the general commanding the armies at Nankin was in com-
mand in Quangsi, and was disgraced Na
not having put
down the rebellion in its earlier stages, but by the succes-
sive degradations of his superiors has again risen to the
chief command, and the Emperor has lately invested him
with vice-Regal power over seven provinces ; and how
anything may
little dependence there is upon his achieving
be gathei ed from the fact tlat he has been professedly
beating the rebels and destroying them all the way up from
Quangsi ; and yet with such impunity did the insurgents
travel, with this conquering allay at their heels, that they

brought their wives and families up with them, and have
them now, with few exceptions, at Nankin.
It has been are-_,ued that the insurgents must be very
think ;
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weak, since they have not held any of the towns trownanthley .cap-
tured as they passed along—withoutwell that if they took theeas reason,
the
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stroying his 'ships, they gained both moral and physical
force • and, strange enough, on any other supposition than
P
that
the Imperialists are horrid poltroonsthough these
insurgents show no disposition to return to their own pro-
vince, the Imperialist Chinese army has planted itself in
the rear, instead of forming, or endeavouring to do so, a
junction with the Mantchoo army, to protect the approach
on the capital, or to raise the siege of the Grand Canal, the
investment of which is starving the capital out.
It is horrible to think that they cut off 20,000 Mant-
choos, even to the infant at breast, but they seem hostile
only to them ; but it is still more horrible to think that
the Mantchoos, in two of the many provinces, cut off as
many in the name of justice within the year (we know of
2,000 in six weeks)—and this in the name of justice! The
former is the exception, the latter is the rule. It may
prove the least sanguinary practice in the end. Like Crom-
well's severity at Drogheda, it has struck terror into their
opponents • the Mantchoos are chopfallen and almost afraid
to approach them • they say that six of them would beat
any 20 Imperialist; ; they talk of their strength, when we
know a multitude of them are but boys, and of their red
eyes, Vic.
If they succeed—and I fancy they will, and soon—they
will deliver 300 millions from the grossest of immoralities,
the most grovelling of idolatries, and the most grinding of
tyrannies. China will be opened to light, life, and civili-
sation, all which will be thrown with all their influences
and importance into the Anglo-Saxon scale.
If they fail, Protestant Christianity—for whether spoken
of by themselves or Imperialists, they are always styled
" Worshippers of Yesu, ' which is characteristic—will be
proscribed,-• because they are identified by individuals
among, if not by all the Imperialists, as connected with,-
Protestant Christianity, but who are now too politic to
proclaim it, lest it should originate a sympathy among us.
A partial despotism will be re-established for a few years ;
meanwhile the Jesuits will be active, working through
their old ideas and form of worship,, and may establish a
Romanist dynasty, that is a Court professing the Roman
Catholic religion ; and if the influence of these 300 millions
be thrown into the Popish scale, unless God himself work
a miracle for our deliverance, good night to liberty.
The French Consul at Shanghai says it is a conspiracy
got up by the Protestant missionaries and Canton servants
of the English houses ; and there can be no doubt but that
he will make every political use to their, and to our, dis-
advantage if they fail.
The French have long shown their hostility to the move-
ment, yet they professed ignorance of its plans and princi-
ples, stating that they had no information; but since our
return they have confessed that they had men (if not mis-
sionaries) among them, in disguise, however; for one of
the insurgents confessed to us privately that he was a
Roman Catholic ; and it is clear that they must have
known, for the Tontai Governor of Shanghai told me that
they had killed several Roman Catholics. This might well
be of converts to the Jesuits, who permitted in their con-
vents the worship of ancestors and also a sort of baptised
IBuddhism.
One of the Hong Kong papers mentioned some time since
that a number of military-looking priests had landed at
Canton, as he supposed, to assist the insurgents; thinking
at that time that the 'movement had been originated by
the Jesuits, most likely they were going to assist the Im-
perialists, as the French wanted us to do, and even got a
requisition made upon us to do so.
Thousands of the insurgents visited the Hermes, and
some few—very few—spoke a little broken English, and
said they had been at school in Hong Kong. One said there
were those among them who could translate the English
scriptures.
One said, on going down among our men, that he was a
Protestant ; several said they were of the same religion as
them ; others, again, said that they were of the " Ten
Commandment religion," the same as the schools at Hong
Kong; and one said he was of the same religion as " King
Victoria."-
When I went into the city to see the chiefs we were
guided by a very nice boy of about 16, who, it appeared,
had run away from his father. He spoke good Mandarine,
and gave us tolerable information on some points. The
earnestness with which he enjoined the avoidance of certain
vices, and the adherence to the Ten Commandments was
amusing, stating that they knew they would not win the
empire unless they kept them, and interlarding this with
petitions for a double sword.
He told us that Tae-Ping-Wang had 36 wives • the
Princes 12,43, 6,4, &c.; but that polygamy was not al-
lowed among the people generally. But, on being asked
whether they were small feeted, he said they were all large,
as they came up from Quangsi. This satisfies me that he
could not have been well informed, as I think it was im-
possible that they could have brought up so many from
Quangsi, and that it is very questionable whether they
allow polygamy to any. However, it may be so, as they
seem to have had much more knowledge of the Old than
the New Testament.
We took them by surprise in our visit, and, as some of
their chiefs were absent, they had to be sent for. After
detaining us a little, one of them came in and apologised
for the delay, assuring us that this was the cause, and in-
treating us not to suppose that any slight was intended.
However, when they did come we did not get on, from
some difficulty or fancied difficulty- -I fully believe the
latter—about etiquette; and therefore we were obliged to
leave, in the opinion that it was a fancied difficulty, and
that they did not claim supremacy. I think lam borne
out by their wanting us to stop, dine, and sleep, and see
Tae-Ping-Wang in the morning. This was 5.30 p.m., and,
as we had six miles to return, we knew they would be
anxious about us on board ;so we left abruptly. They, 1
however, came out among the crowd to see us away, wish-
ing us to wait for chaises or better horses, and would not
hear of any of us walking, as one or two wished to do.
Quantities crowded round, but all were civil and good-
humoured. .
An Imperialist told us that he had heard it stated as a
reason for the movement, that " Huen-su-chuen, or the Tae-
Ping-Wang, had passed the first examination for literary
honours, but that, on appearing a second time, though a
very clever man and fully entitled to his next step, the
examiner, from some improper motive, would not give it
him ; and he said it might be that he was discontented at
this treatment, and so stirred up a rebellion against
authoiity."
On our repassing Chin-kiang-foo they fired on us, and
in consequence of our returning it the general came down
with a letter of apology, and sent it off. A Maoutsee, one of
the aborigines that have never been conquered, and who
live in the mountainous districts of Quangsi, came off for
the answer. This man stated that his people had had the
scriptures for 200 years, and on questioning him, through
an interpreter, stated that these Scriptures had come down
from Heaven about 2,000 years before, and were the same
as those the remainder of the insurgents had ; that they
had been taken to Pekin about 1,000 years ago ; and that
it was thence his people got a copy, which they had multi-
plied. They were most hostile to the Mantchoos for their
continuous persecutions.
I fancy they have settled the vexed question as to the
proper rendering of God into Chinese. I fancy, they say
I am Shangto, and thou shalt have none other eikons
but me." I have no doubt they will also show us that the
Chinese translators have used other improper expressions,
and have so been misunderstood, because the teachers that
such translators have to assist are seldom Christians,
and are therefore nearly unacquainted with religious
nomenclature. A literary Chinese thinks very little of a
man that uses a common-place style either in writing or
speaking.
The quiet self-possession and confidence of the leaders
we came in contact with was quite nu-Chinese. When it
was told them a second time that we should in future re-
turn their fire, they seemed to think that we wished to
frighten them, and said, " Well, do as you please ; we are
not afraid." Another time they said, If you are come
to assist us, we shall be glad ; but do as you please ; we
are independent of your assistance ; only, if you are going
to join the Mantchoos, be good enough to let us know."
And when told if they came to Shanghai and attacked any
of our people there, they would be treated as the Mant-
choos were in '42, they said, " But why should we fire
upon you ; we are brethren, and worship the same God?"
Their policy is only to be known by first knowing their
religion ; and this, because of imperfectly understanding
their language, wo are not clear about. On the inter-
preter's first visit he endeavoured to explain to ono of the
princes the power and resources of England ; he said, "We
don't want to know that; we want to know your religion."
SHANGHAI, MAY 16.
A Dr. Taylor, who went up in a boat with a view to
obtain an interview with the insurgents, returned, having
only got to Silver Island, but there ho found a large num-
ber of Buddhist priests, who most gladly accepted copies
of the scriptures, and took others with a promise of for-
warding them to the insurgents, who were only two miles
higher up. He stated that the Imperial flotilla had been
up part of the way again, but, finding it so much stronger,
did not wish to go further. The captains stated that it
wanted power and shot, and was of no use ; that, as a last
hope, they bad determined upon a joint attack of the army
and flotilla, for which purpose they had dressed 600 Canton
Broves in a uniform as nearly like the English as they
could make it ; but I am very much mistaken if they will
do even Patrocles' work with Achilles' armour.
The Tontai at Shanghai who has been the most active—
I cannot say stout-hearted, for he is afraid of being saluted
even when ho visits a ship—is so doubtful of the result
that he has ordered the last vessel ho bought not to go
further than Kiang-Sying, not within 30 miles of Chin-
Kiang-foo.
The feeling in favour of the insurgents is daily on the
increase, and the Mantchoos are senselessly. accelerating
this,wh i
1 fore th theye
insurgents,r pl u n do
ne ritnh ge their
nitraadryhe, raernetsvreiryghpt
particuleft,lar
to pay for everything, and, if they borrow, to find bonds.
Pekin is in a dreadful state, in consequence of the Go-
vernment issuing paper money to meet their difficulties.
The 'bankers are also leaving and hiding their money, lest
they should be obliged to accept it. Four families have
been directed to make up nearly 2,000,000 taels (about 7s.
6d. each)—that of Keying and others, who have been
Prime Ministers. The late Viceroy who was killed at
Nankin had been ordered up to be beheaded ; his family
have been degardecl and his property confiscated, all which
is producing such an effect that I fancy the mandarins are
th
believe,svae
beginning to think of passing over to the insurgents
their lives. The Tontai of Shanghai, who has been the
most active against the rebels, is suspected, and I
even under arrest. _

..,...._
HONG BONG, MAN 28.
We arrived at Amoy on the 23d, and found it in the
hands of a band of insurgents, and learnt that they had
taken several places here without much difficulty ; that in
a space of 40 miles they had met with 30,000 adherents,
and that there was no chance of the Imperialists being
able to raise a sufficient force to overthrow them.
Their conduct had been marked with the greatest mode-
ration, having repressed all crime with a strong hand,
decapitating summarily for grave offences. They gave
English merchants guards to protect their lives and
property.
We saw one of the chiefs, a small, but intelligent man.
He said he was nephew to one of the most respectable
Chinese residents at Singapore, where he also had been. He

On inquiry here I find that the " Lobosen" spoken of
with such respect is the Rev. Mr. Roberts at Canton, and
he states that the " Tae-Ping Wang," ("Prince of Uni-
versal Peace") was a student of his, and applied for bap-
tism some years since. Lye, who was the chief with whom
we were most in correspondence, was amember of the Bap-
tist mission at Canton, used to preach at Hong Kong, and
was a teacher to Mr. Roberts. He told me that he was
personally acquainted with " Lobosen," and be was de-
scribed to me at Hong Kong by one of the clergymen of
this mission. There could be little doubt of his identity,
as his surname agreed and he had a double chin, with a
somewhat remarkable scar on it.

I enclose a remarkable statement, drawn from informa.

tion of the above-mentioned Mr. Roberts, but which was
more fully stated in the New York Recorder of the 9th of
February, 1853, which goes far to justify nay conclusions,
that our interpreters have not understood some of the
writings of the insurgents, and charge them with very
grave extravagances, when he merely means to say he had
dreams or visions, and not, as they state, " revelations ;"
yet it is by no means strange that among half-educate
people there should be some extravagance, and they must
be a remarkable people that there is so little error and so
much truth.

I have just learnt that an order was sent to Foo Chow for
reinforcements to bo sent thenceto join the Imperial army.
There are said to be 60,000 troops there, composed of Chi-
nese and Mantchoos. The Mantchoo general said the Chi-
nese should go, and the Chinese said the Mantchoos ought
to go. The result of the conflict of opinion has been that
no reinforcement went.

The missionaries who came from there lately state that
they had spoken to many influential people, and that they
all said, when they could do so privately, that they and
the people generally, were only waiting an opportunity to
go over, and that when the insurgents appeared they Would
declare for them. Many Chinese here state that they have
been informed by letters from Pekin that even there the
insurgents have adherents ready to join them on their ap-
proach.

MAY 30.
It is reported that 100,000 insurgents are marching on
Canton. This is most probable, as they said they would
some time since. lam credibly informed that the Nankin
insurgents have received money from time to time from
Canton, and the rising was the result of the fall of Nankin.
The Governor-General has of late been committing some
atrocities in Quangsi, and that may have precipitated
matters ; if so, they will be made to pay dearly for it un-
less they take themselves off without much opposition.
Some there will be, who, from pure motives, will say
this movement will be put down and that the professions
of religion are hypocritical. Others will say the same
from interested motives. lam as sure as I can be of any-
thing still uncertain, that there is a living principle among
them that cannot be extinguished, and persecution will but
serve to light up that bright " light in China that can
never be put out."
Except in the destruction of the Mantchoos their conduct
seems to have been marked by wonderful moderation for
a revolutionary movement ; and can it be wondered at that
mcn, just emancipated and raised to moral status—which,
it is true, that Christianity only could effect—with a
rapidity that left no time to learn that " not by might, nor
by power, but by the spirit of the Lord," in such a state of
things as they were subject to, and under which their
people are groaning and grovelling, should suppose that
it was the will of Heaven—a holy work, by any means, to
throw off this incubus, and say to 300 millions—Be free,
be good, be great !
1 only hope you may be interested in this movement as
I have been ; then you will be able to overlook the faults
of this, and excuse the length. I write to save post. We
are to start-to-day for Shanghai if this news from Canton
does not stop us.