The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-11 00:00:00

CIIINA.

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We have given the official reports of General Gough
and Sir Fleming Senhouse, describing the operations
before Canton. We now publish a third official. reporf,
no loss interesting--narnelb that forwarded to Pekin at
the speed of 600 le per day for the Emperor-:--drawn up
by the Imperial Commissioner Yihshen. In this desratch
the ,statements• of the English Commanders are fully
borne out. The Chinese troops were completely discom-
fited, and the people cried out for peace and surrender.
It is taken from the Canton Press.

REPORT or YIHSHAN.-
The Imperial Nephew and Commissioner, dated May
the 31st, sent by couriers at the rate of 600 le per day.
Since my arrival in Canton province, the forts of oo-
chung (first bar), of Ty-wong-ko (Macao passage fort),
Tung-wong-kong (Swallows Nest fort), and other places
were lost. I then consulted with Lung and Yang, assist-
ant-commissioners, and erected on the banks of the, river
in succession to the stone fort, or Ny-ching (peat where.
the British troops landed) and batteries at Wong-sha, at"
the Singhaegate (petition-gate),and at Hungmeouchucle
(a temple in the suburbs), at Hwangcha (above Shaming),
and at Yili-cha and other places. Officers and soldiers
guarded them, and all around we put up sand bags, pal;
lisadoes,, piles of stones and balls; we moreover dug
trenches for .the protection of the soldiers. We also
placed sand-bags all around the city walls to make them
stronger, and I, myself, with the assistant-commissioners,
went round to reconnoitre and inspect the works in dif-'
ferent places. Besides, we embodied some of the brave
Fukeen sailors, to the number of more than .1„009 men,
and prepared rafts and straw to.makc rafts, byAre.
-On the evening of the Ist day of the 4th . moon
(21st May) the great, conffiet with the 'harbaiians
commenced at the western fort. We attacked them
with our guns, burning instantly five -Of • their boats.
and breaking two of their guns, gnashing two, great
masts of the barbarian ships. They were now all
returning, when your minister at the fifth watch (three
o'clock to five A.m.) was upon the . pcint• of bring-
ing up his soldiers fur their extermination. But all on
a sudden the number of their vessels was,,nereased by
16 ships, eight steam-boats, and eighty ships', hogs which
all pressed- forward. The soldiers, on, account of the
hard fighting during the night, were all fatigued, their
guns were few, and although they had fired several tens of
rounds, yet the barbarian 'ships being strongl and
numerous, they could not beat them buck. Their'
soldiers finally got on shore, and rushed to the plunder
of the city, entering the forts at the small and large,.
northern gates, and attacking the town on three sides.
Their rockets were thrown in masses; their balls hit
the people's houses, and they caught firei All our soldiers'
had 'not place to stand on ; their cannon was melted
by the fire of the barbarians, and the buildings de-
stroyed (magazines blOwn up ?). I
.caunot yet accu-
rately ascertain the number of all the solAiers and great
officers that were killed and wounded. We were hard
pressed, and returning into the 'city myriads of people
were weeping and wailing; the number of those'who in-
voked Heaven and begged for peace covered the roads.
When Your Minister looked with his own eyes upon this
his very bowels were torn asunder:. In;stooping down
from the walls, I -Made inquiries of tle'llarbarians; they
all said that several millignS of taels.for the surrendered
opium had not been paid, and, therefore, they requested
the sum of one million of taels in liquidation thereof,
and they would immediately withdraw their soldiers and
retire outside the 'Bogue ; that they had to make no
other request ; and that then the people might go on in
their cuStoinary way. I then asked them about the sur-
render of the whole' territory of Hong Kong; and they.
replied that Keshen had given it them, and that an
authenticated paper from him to this effect had been
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placed on record. _

Your Minister thought that the City was in danger ;
that there had been repeated disturbances ; and that the
whole people were prostrated in mud and ashes ; I there-
fore agreed to this pro t'enaporc : moreover, I considered,
again and again, that this was a solitary city to be
fought against, and that both the fat and liver were
greatly injured. There was, moreover, no battle-field
for deploying a great army, and I could not do otherwise
than.beguile.• them to go out ,of the Bogue. Then we
shall repair our forts, and endeavour to attack and ex-
terminate them, and recover our old territory of Hong
Kong.

Your MinisterS beseech your Majesty to 'deliver us
over to the Board that we may be punished, and als=o to
direct that Ke,• the Goiernor, and E, the Lieut.-Gover-
nor, be severely dealt with. Respectfully, we present.
a petition from all the people asking for peace.
Your Minister is conscious'of not being guiltless. A
respectful memorial.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
• The average priee 'Of Wheat in the week ending on
October 2, was 22f. 38c. ; and that of Rye 12f. 7c.
Yesterday a pretty little vessel was seen near the
Corps de Garde of the Sapper's. It is a gun-boat (the
guns, however, are of wood), which seem to have been
sent by the Queen of England for the young flake of
Brabant. An officer of the Royal Navy who came with
• in
The police Prussia has just prohibited the " Mc_
moire tliveenitt,,y,al yesterday,;aiilynto. the I.3alace, Lacken to present it
moirs of Madame Lafarge," a German translation of
which is announced.
BRUSSELS, OCT. B.—The Duke of Saxe-Coburg, ac-
companied by his son, 'loft the Palace of Lacken the
Nhicho, if,
however,
were foreseen, have obliged:'our Commissioners to ask, as has
day before yesterday by the iron railway to Liege, 'on
his return to Germany.
The Independent says that the commercial negotiations
beenopen cd
asserted,a t l3arbisut
trheatn,sootmae difficulties,bsolutely brokenr
for further instructions, and that thinking verbal Corn-
manications necessary, they had returned to Brussels.
The negotiations, are therefore ,enly deferred for a short
time, not broken off: • • • .
According to an official statement; Belgium exported
in 1839 to the value of 58;000,000 francs to France, and
only 21,000,000 to RusSia, Austria,•_;all the States of the
Customs Union, the. Hanseatic cities,' 'Hanover, and
Oldenburg. •
The founders of the Belgian Colonization Society gave
an entertainment yesterday, to which the 'deputation of
the English Company of the Eastern Coast of Central
America were invited: Mr. Pollock, President of the
English Company, and brother of one of the Members
of the present British Cabinet, gave as a toast the health
of the King of the Belgians, vilich the Chairman an-
swered by giving the health of the Queen of Great
Britain.
BRUGES,•OcT. 7.-=-The Louisa Maria corvette, of the
Royal Belgian navy, Captain Petit, which sailed on the
30th of April, to cruise in the seas where our fishermen
carry on the cod-fishing, arrived at ()Steed the das, be-
fore yesterda:-. This vessel is to get ready shortly, to
convey the Commissioners of the Belgian Government
to Vera Paz, on the coast of Guatemala.
Tun HAGUE, OCT. 5.-r-The First Chamber in its sit-
ting to-day agreed to the,projects of 14w relative to the
Qhamber of Accounts. •

LuxEmidunG, OCT. "4. Yesterday placards were
posted up, announcing to the inhabitants that the pre-
paratory measures for executing the treaty for the en-,
cession of the Grand Duchy to the German. Customs
Union, are suspended.
•On the Ist of this month a numerous meeting
ivies': held of the principal manufacturers
.of the Grand
IStiehy. It was resolied at this meeting to address a.
petition to his Majesty the Grand Duke, requesting him
to be pleased to rectify the treaty of Berlin of Bth.
,August. The petition was signed on the apOt by all
'the People present. Before breaking up the meeting
appointed a permanent, Committee of six members to
adopt such measures as may be required by eircum-
siances Jim the interest of the manufacturer of ' the
Grind Duchy,
HAOct4,Uct. 7.---411 the sitting of the Second
blimiber t' ,slay, a resotution of his Dlajesty was .read,
b.), which the department for Foreign Affairs,- which Watt
,confided, ad interim, .on Baron . Van Zuylen Van
sYeVedts. is given to , Baron Van Huyssen Van Katten-,
drni:;, and also another . resolution, appointing the
14,ulster of Finance to defend the projects of law for
Ilk budget
~of. 1842 and 1843, in what concerns the
4partinent,cif Foreign Affairs, The debates on the
budget then commenced. The &alto Courant gives in
a few words the declaration of ten Members who.clisap-
prate. of the Pltitiget, *thief' does not fulfil the hopes
that the nation had conceited of retrenchment in the
ive?lic expenditure. Several• thought that the Budget
Should be voted for one _quarter only.
Tisx HAGUE, OCT, 7.—The Second Chamber, wild<
xijio tltc dehs,tes• on the budget. M. Lame acknow-
Jedlged that; the pfeitant embarrassed - state of the
41nances was to be ascribed to the events of the last
reign, and especially to
,the want of an independent
Ministry, and that the :nation had expected that a dif•
(fent system would .be pursuedby the new. Government.
He Otivertiment, it is true, had
.shown its zealous wish
by a number propogala for filling up existing deficien-
cies and making useful-improvements. Still, however,
he disapproved of.the proposed budget, and thought that
the best way, would be to reject it altogether.
Mr. Van Gottstein thought a budget fur one year only
Was preferable. He would, therefore, refuse his assent
to the proposed laws, but was ready to agree to a budget
for mile year, in order to give the Government time to
introduce a better system.
Mr. Luyben wished for a reduction, and a more equal
distribution of the burden, and ,he thought. that the
fichvr classes were net taxed sufficiently; and the middle
classes too hetrily, Above all, . the . public creditors
,ought to contribute more to the.public burdens. He was
glad. that the Government had not been induced to pro-
:pose a budget for one year only, which 9r041,2 have been
,coffillty; to the Constitution.
Mx. thought that the rejection of the budget
,r;tuld lead, to no pfautival advantage. The account he
aeknawledged was high, but this was chiefly the conse-,
quence-of the adoption of the salutary principle of in-
cluding all ..the items .of expenditure in tee Budget,
Great retrenchments he.saiti, could not be. made—time
qiiiired but ;his did not hinder judicious im-
provetnefligi partietdarlt, in the system of taxation.
But even this retliate time.. He thought that much
was 'already, gained by Abe- proposal of .a budget
by which the Members declare that everything is pro-
vided for. He would vote. for the budget. Some oilier
Members expressed their disapprobation, and some said
they 6hottld tots against the first chapter, " The Royal
Household,'4for 110 tither reason than because they wished,
by rejecting the whole hticlitet; to make way for the in-
troduction of a budget for one year - •
The Ministers of the Marine and Colville, of Finance
and of the Interior, answered at great length to the ob-
jections that had' been made. The general discussion
being closed, the Chamber immediately went to the vote
on the first chapter, " The Royal Household," which
adopted by a majority of 5S to 14, The Chamber brokt:
up at midnight.
THE HAGUE, OCT. B.—ln the Second. Chamber to-day
chapter 2' of the budget, the King's Cabinet, &C., was
agreed to by 32 t 0.21 votes. Chap. 3,Foreign Affairs, by
30 to 24 Chap, 4, Justice, by 37 to 17 ; and Chap.
5, The Interior, after lotig,dt:bates, by 32 to 21.-
DUTCH FUND.s.—Abi3Tgibsni, on. a
Money. 131! os.
. Debt, 2% Per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Arnett Svndie, 454 per cent 91% 0?'
Ditto, ditto, 3 per cent 744 :6%
Commercial Company, 4';, per cent 155 '51)6
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
.Lonn 1837, 5 per cont. ..... ....
•• Exchange on London, One month l2 10
Twomontha
• Ifamburgh, One month 35 f,'N'
Two months ..... 35 :37%
Pula. Papers, Oct. 9. - •
BELGIAN f!UNDS=Baussacs, °G.-LS .
Actual Debt. 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent • 10114
• Loan .of Thirty Ai,pions, 4 per Cent. t2 A
3per Cent.
----Thirty.seven—
s•-----,..--(1840) • ' 101%
Loan of City, 1732, 4 per Cent. 02%
Society of Ccinms,ce, 4},iper Cent
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 74
National Society . •••••• • •••••
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, Oct. 8.
. • AUSTRIAN, FUNDS"-Vizsrira, OCT. 2. •
five per Ciats. ‘detalliques
Foal per Cents. 0,44
Three ti:r Cents
Rank 'shares l5OO
.411,remeine Zeilung, Oct. 6.
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, Om 5
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Rank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loan 10.34 11115).i
Russian 5 per Cent. tat series, C,rtificate ...... 102%
Inscription, Ist Sefics
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cont. (1840) 86% 16!i
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pe Cent 50%
Ditto . 5 per Cent
Polish Bondi

New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Ccrt ' 76 76
Nxwegian Loan. 1834, 4 per Cititt.... ...... ...'... De% 1021 A
Spanish, New 5 per Cent,. 1534
EXCHANGES OK LONDON.

HAMBURG, OCT. 6.—13 71.4.—Tw0 months, 13 5%
RIGA, SEPT. 15. —Three Months, 3931.
slochnoLm. SEPT. 2-.—Sevs•nty.five days, 12. 1.
RF NIA N. OCT, I.—Three months, 6.18
LEIPSIC, SEPT 27.—Two mo .ths, 6. 1834.

eRUSSIAN FUNDS.— Baku.sx, Ocr. 2.
bids Money
St. Schuld. Sch., 4w per cent. IU4 JC4
Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent 102 101
kxchange on London, three months — 6 163,
—Prussian State Gazelle. Oct. 3