The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

JULY 20, 1847.

GROUSE SHOOTING!!
STEAM to ABERDEEN, INVERNESS, and
the NORTH of SCOTLAND.
The Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company's splendid and power-
ful ships will start as under, weather, &c., permitting :
For ABERDEEN, the CITY OF LONDON, ou Saturday. July
24, at Six o'clock, Evening ; and on Saturday, July 31, the new
fast Iron :,team-Ship the EARL OF ABERDEEN, at Twelve,
Noon.

For INVERNESS, the new Iron Ship DUKE OF SUTIIER•
LAND, on Monday, August 2, at One, Afternoon, calling off Burg.
head, Invergordon, Cromarty, and Chanonry Point.
Freight of Horses, Carriages, &c., reduced.
Offices: Spread Earle, Regent-circuQ, or 257, \Yapping.
CHARLES WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, Agent.

CONTRACTS FOR COCOA AND PEAS.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling mid
Transport Services Somerset-place, July 17, 1847.
The COMMISSIONERS for executing :.he Office of Lord High
Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do
hereby give NOTICE, that on TnunsuAr, the 221 Instant, at One
o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing
to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victual-
ling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned Articles, viz.:—
Tons. When to be delivered.
COCOA •• .. • • 100 t Half 11 Three Weeks, and the remainder in
Three Weeks afterwards.
Quarters.
PEAS 500 [Half in a Fortnight, and the remainder in a
Fortnight afterwards.
The Cocoa to be exempted from the Customs Duties.
Samples of the Cocoa (not less than 21bs), and of the Peas (not
less than 2 quarts), must be produced by the Parties tendering.
The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at the said Office.
No Tender will be received after One o'clock, on the day of treaty,
nor an, noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him, duly
authorized iu writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, and those for Cocoa,
accompanied by a Letter signed by Two responsible Persons, engag-
ing to become bound with the Person tendering, in the sum of 251.
-per cent. on the value, for the due performance of the Contract.

EAST INDIA HOUSE. JOLT 14, 1847.
rrHE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY hereby give ,
That a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of thenotice said COMPA_NY
will be held at their House in Leadenhall-street, on WEDIVESDAT,
the 21st instant, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of
submitting to the Proprietors of East India Stock for confirmation
a Resolution passed unanimously by the General Court this day,
approving the unanimous Resolution of the Court of Directors of the
30th of June, 1847, granting to Major-General Sir George Pollock,
G.C.8., an annuity of One Thousand Pounds, upon the grounds
therein stated.

JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary.

PUBLICATIONS.

Now ready, price 6d.,
THE PETITION of the MERCHANTS,
BANKERS, and TRADERS of LONDON, against the BANK
CHARTER ACT, with COMMENTS on each Clause.
Pelham Richardson, 23, Cornhill.

PROTESTANT ELECTOR FUND.
" The Church of Reme may flourish in the country which it
ruins."

The "Protestant Elector" is published and widely circulated three
times a week.

Immediate pecuniary Contributions to the Fund arc earnestly so-
licited.

Subscriptions and Donations will be received to " The Account of
the Protestant Elector," with Messrs. Strachan, Paul and Co., 217,
Strand, London.

LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON'S NEW WORK.
Just published, in 3 volumes,
GRANTLEY MANOR. A TALE.
" In her second book, Lady Georgians Fullerton more 'than
realizes all the promise of her first, and, we venture to think, takes
a high place :among writers of modern fiction. We have not for
many a day read so charming a story as Grantley Manor.—Exa-
miner.

Alse, in 2 volumes,
MRS. BUTLER'S (LATE FANNY KEMBLE) JOURNAL OF A

YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN ITALY
Edward Maxon, 44, Dover-street.

Just published, in 2 vnls.yost Bvo., price I6s ,

.
DR. CdUt.T.gR'S AIWENTURES on the
WESTERN COAST of SOUTEI AMERICA and the IN FE-
RAM of CALIt ORN, A.

" Dr. Coulter appears to be a genuine Typee or Omoo. What has
been put together under the later titles lie hes actually seen and ex-
perienced; and he describes a world very new to us in a very striking
manner."— Literary Gazette.

" This book goes far to prove the reality of Mr. Herman Mel-
ville's adventures in the same extraordinary scenes. 1 here can be
no d,ubt of the vetacity and authenticity of Dr. Coulter; and the
book has the same wild peculiarities of incident, almost the same
glow of colour In the de•criptions, and not a little of the dramatic
force of character and dialogue, which attracted to Mr. Melville so
much admiration ant so many doubts. But for carelessness of dan-
ger or fatigue, and quiet s If-possession and command to outfacing
either, a e remßmber few travellers that have excelled Dr. Coulter."
—Examiner.

THE LATE OPI:IRATIONS IN
(CANTON Itl VER.

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Correspondence relative to the operations in lihe
Canton River has been just laid before Parliament by
her Majes,y's command; and the following are ert-
tracts from the more interesting portions thereof.
The first extract is of a letter floin Sir John Davis.
SIR JOHN DAVIS TO COMMISSIONER KEYING.
" Victoria, Hong Kong, April 2, 1847.
I have to acknowledge the receipt or your Exec d-
lency's single reply to three of ray notes.
It has always been our invariable rule to write &e-
-parately on every separate subject. This new I
ceeding on your Excellency's part I regret to observe
is insincere, and tends to confusing and evading tli.e
real points at issue.

I again enclose a copy of my principal and mo Lt
important note, which you have passed unnotice.il.
Viscount Palmerston requires reparation for the
lence committed on the two sailors on the 17th
tuber. I have also to demand the immediate punisl s-
ment of the guilty at Fuhshan on the 12th of Marc, b.
You have frequently evaded the punishment of ti le
aggressors on former occasions, and Lord Palmerston
states it can be endured no longer.
According to the general rule of nations, my Gi
vernment will be compelled, by a refusal of justice, no
take possession of securities for the performance (►f
what is due. Perhaps it may becorqe necessary do
resume possession of Chusan if our people are badl y
treated at Canton with impunity. The four poinlts
indispensably required are as under :-
1. The punishment of the aggressors at Canton o n
the 17th of October.
2. The punishment of those at Fuhshan on the 12t h
of March.
3. Sufficient ground for the dwelling of Britiil
merchants at Canton.

4. The practice now, or at a fixed period, of th e
right of free entry into the city.
(Signed) J. F. DAVIS.
SIR JOHN DAVIS TO COMMISSIONER KEYING.

Canton, April 4, 1847.
In pursuance of the arrangement agreed upon at
our interview of this day, I beg to inclose to youit
Excellency the following written specification of
points which I wish to be settled :
_

1. That I should either return your Excellency':s
visit in the city, or that a time be specifically named,
after which there shall be a general free ingress for
British subjects.
2. That British subjects shall be free from moles-
tation in their perambulations within the neighbour-
hood of Canton.

3. That the aggressions of October 17 on the two
seamen be punished, and also that of March 12 ort
Colonel Chesney and others, and that the names and
punishments of the guilty be reported to me.
4. That British merchants be granted a building►
site of about fifty acres by the river, at the corner
of the Macao Passage.
5. That a site for a church be rented on this side
of the river be also granted, as well as a burial-
ground at Whampoa.
6 That a flying bridge to connect the two factory
gardens be silo v‘ed to be constructed, and that the
garden walls we kept clear of Chinese huts.
7. That the river space in front of the factories be
kept permanently clear of boats.
As soon as the foregoing points have been settled
I shall be able to re urn immediately tollung Kong.

(Signed) J. F. DAVIS.
The result of the operations is described in this
dispatch from Sir John Davis to Lord Palmerston :
Victoria, bong-Kong, April 12, 1847.
My Lard—illy hurried despatches of the sth and
6th of April were intended to put your Lordship in
possession of the outline of events from the 2d to the

6th inst, within which period of tour days a rapid and
successful course of operations obtained for me all
that I justly despaired of ever effecting by negotiation
alone, and the absence from this colony, for exactly
one week, of a portion of the ordinary garrison, has
probably rendered all the details of an expensive ex-
pedition unnecessary hereafter.
Every military precaution was adopted, and we
reached Canton in thirty-six hours, after capturing
and disabling all the means of annoyance in our rear,
in spite of resistance. This was effected with 900
men of my garrison, three steamers, and a brig ;
while in 1841 the same end was attained after many
days by 3,000 troops, three line of battle ships, eleven
frigates and sloops, and four steamers. For the de-

tails of our rapidoperations I beg to refer your Lord-
ship to the Major-General's dispatch to Lord Grey,
By the testimony of the able officers of artillery
and engineers forming the staff of our garrison, the
city of Canton was entirely at our mercy, and only a
word was ieciuired to involve it in helpless and in-
evitable ruin. Ibis catastivo. 1.11,1 v
four days after quitting-Honi:liorirViatztai—rlD6---
lieve the loss of a life. The good conduct of the
troops, while in position at Canton, was equal to
their promptness and discipline in their irresistible
passage up the river.

I now have the honour to inclose a translation of
Keying's agreement.
1. The entrance to the city is not required on ac-
count of its value, because scarcely anybody would
think it worth while to exercise the right, as we see
daily at Shanghae and elsewhere; but the principle
is worth our care, and the previous indefinite period
is now reduced to a fixed one of two years, in which
interval the confessed and admitted weakness of the
Canton Government may have time to prepare the
people for the change.
2. The limit for excursions is defined (as at Shang-
hae) by a day's journey out and home, and we have
now furnished the authorities with a strong motive
for restraining and punishing the aggression.
3. The punishment of those who maltreated the
two seamen (required by your Lordship's dispatch of
January 12, the communication of which Keying did
not think proper to acknowledge) and that of the
assailants on Colonel Chesney, are conceded. The
sequel of this dispatch will show that I had some
trouble to procure the latter to be inflicted before I
quitted Canton, in the presence of our own officers.
4. The grant of additional building ground, so
long denied to ourselves and the Americans, is at
length obtained ; and its being on the opposite, or
less populous side of the river, may be considered as
an advantage.
5. The additional space fora church at Canton, and
the burial grounds at Whampoa, though now for the
first time obtained, are all according to treaty.
6. The bridge between the gardens, and the addi-
tional building in the same space, now conceded, were
before the subjects of dispute, as reported in my
dispatch of the 17th of March.
7. The control of the boats in front of the factories
is a mere measure of police,, for which the Govern-
ment should be as ready as ourselves, though the
point has always been neglected. -
An important proclamation was issued to this effect
the day after the above dispatch was written :