The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

CHINA, INDIA, AND EGYI-T.

(From our Second Edition sf last night.)
The following extracts from the letters and papers brought
by the Overland Mail (in addition to what we gave in our
Edition of yesterday) will he found exceedingly interesting :
CHINA.
(From the Canton Press, Feb. 27. )
Au eye-witness has kindly favoured us with the following
interesting particulars :
" On Thursday night a party of seamen and some native
troops landed in South Wantung with three howitzers ; in land.
ii,g they were fired on by the Chinese without eflect. In the
course of the nigl.t a sandbag battery was raised, the Chinese
firing at short intervals cn the, working party all night. At
daylight this fire was returned with great effect from the
newly raised batteries; about II a.m. on Friday the signal
was made to get under weigh with floodtide and a very light
wind. The Calliope led into action, 'the Samarang, Druid,
Wellesley (towed by the boats), Sulphur, and Modesto, all
attacking the North Wantung fort, occasionally firing at a
small f,:rt on the side of the river opposite to Anunghoy, but
this he ivy fire was not long answered briskly from the forts,
and the steamers Nemesis and Madagascar soon were seen to
run close to the fort and land the soldiers from on board of
our boats they had towed; the soldiers speedily had the whole
island in their possession, and I was told there was not a
single casualty cn our side. The number of killed and wounded
on the part of the Chinese was very considerable, but not, I
understand, equal to what took place at Chuenpee. The pri-
soners at Wantung were about 1,000, and were carried over by
the steamers to Tycocktow side, and let go.
" The Blenheim and Melville assisted by the Queen
steamer, attacked Anunghoy fort a little after the other
action was begun ; the Blenheim was not apparently so
near as the Melville. Their fire was answered with
spirit for some time ; the marines and seamen were
landed, and took possession of the lower fort, and
soon went along the beach to the upper or old fort, and the
whole by this time was in our possession, the Chinese making
off up the hills. On the Tycocktow sids the hills were co-
vered with Chinese soldiers. At night, as we were coming
away, they fired one or two guns, and soon after the whole
line of hills where they had been encamped was in flames, I
do not know how fired. The Calliope was leading a squadron
up the river, but how far they go I did not hear. Not a man
on our side was wounded, I believe, in North Wantung; I
have not heard whether the Anunghoy division was equally
fortunate.
FORCES OF TIIE EXPEDITION IN CANTON RIVER.

H. r Majesty's ship Wellesley, 74, bearing the broad pendant
of Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, C. 8., Captain Tho-
mas Maitland; Blenheim, 74, Sir H. S. Fleming Senhouse,
K. C. H., Captain Pritchard ; Melville, 74, Captain the Hon.
R. S. Dundas ; Druid, 44, H. Smith, Esq. ; Calliope, 28,
Herbert, Esq. ; Samarang, 28, James Scott, Esq. ; Alligator,
28, H. Kuper, Esq. ; Herald, 26, Nias, Esq. ; Hyacinth, 20,
W. Warren, Esq. ; Modeste, 20, H. Eyres, Esq. ; Sulphur, 8,
Belcher, Esq.; Starling, Killett, Esq. ; Jupiter, armed en
flute as troopship, Fulton, Esq., Honourable Company's
Service ; Queen, armed steamer, Captain Warden ; Mada-
gascar, Captain Dicey; Enterprise, Captain West; Nemesis,
Captain Hall.