The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-08 00:00:00

" NOTIFICATION.

" The annexed is an extract of a letter addressed on
the 15th of May last, by her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Sir Henry Pottinger,
Bart., and is published for the general information and
guidance of her Majesty's subjects in China.—By order,
"G. A. MALCOLM,
" Secretary to her Majesty's special mission to China
" Macao, Aug. 10."

" Foreign-office, May 15.
" The Queen having been graciously pleased to select
you to be her Majesty's Plenipotentiary on a special
mission to the Government of China, and also to act as
Chief Superintendent of the trade of her Majesty's sub-.
jects n ith that country, I herewith transmit to
.you, in
your former character, a full power, authorising and
empowering you to negotiate and conclude with the
Minister vested with smiliar power and authority on the
part of the Emperor of China any treaty or agreement
for the arrangement of the differences now subsisting
between Great Britain and China ; and also a commis•
sion, under the royal signet and sign manual, constitut-
ing and appointing you her Majesty's Chief Superin-
tendent of trade in China. These two instruments
invest you with all the power and authority requisite for
enabling you to discharge the duties which are confided
to you. (Signed) " PALMERSTON.
"True extract. G. A. MALCOLM."

TYFOONS IN THE CHINA SEAS.
(From the Bombay Gazette.)
About eight a.m. on Wednesday, the 21st of August,
a severe gale commenced ; and the inhabitants of Macao
were speedily convinced that they had to witness and
suffer one of those dreadful visitations of Providence and
conflict of the elements, called tyfoons.
From various sources we are enabled to give our
readers the following intelligence of the calamitous ef-
fects of the 21st ult.:—
Her Majesty's cutter Louisa, Lord A. W. Beauclerk
in command, Mr. Swan, master, with their Excellencies
Sir G. Bremer and Captain Charles Elliot, her Majesty's
joint Plenipotentiaries in China ; Flag-Lieutenant
Fowler, and Ur. Morgan, Sir G. Bremer's secretary, on
board, and the schooner Young Hebe, Mr. C. V. Temple
in command, left Macao roads for Hongkong on the 20th.
Giving the first place to her Majesty's cutter and her
important and distinguished passengers (besides those

. The safety of the Young Hebe was, humanly speaking,
owing firstly to the unceasing watchfulness and careful
precautions of Mr. Temple, before the extreme severity
of the typhon came on, by which everything was safely
housed, and nothing but the two lower masts were left
exposed to the wind, and so, after having cut them
away, all the other spars were saved, excepting one
which was accidentally washed overboard ; and, se-
condly, to the speedy determination made to cut away
the masts when the necessity arose, and its instant ex-
ecution; for their weight alone buried the vessel each
heavy gust, with four or five planks of the deck under
water, and soon after they were cut away' the vessel
drifted so close to the rocky shore of an island to lee-
ward, that had they been standing her total wreck would
have been inevitable; and, lastly, to the ready support
he received from his brother officers, particularly from
Lieutenant Collinson.

This tyfoon had been expected, from the usual prog-
nostics of the weather for the last fortnight or three
weeks ; although the heavy rain, thunder, and lightning,
on the evening of the 20th, which state of the weather is
not usual on the eve of a tyfoon, calmed the expectations
of many ; but it is remarkable that the cutter and Young
Hebe, with the usual fatality that has attended every mo-
ment of this unfortunate expedition, should have rushed
into its very path.
It is still more singular that her Majesty's Su-_
perintendent, -who is self-charged with the Go-
vernment of Hong Kong, did not, when he as-
sumed that office, immediately appoint the only
officer who is wanted, or who can be of any
use—namely, a master-attendant or harbour-master. To
prove what an utter _ job her Majesty's commission has
been made by her Majesty's Ministers, it is only neces-
sary to advert to the following facts :—Captain Elliot was
first sent out as un adventurer to China, as a master-
attendant in Canton River, where he could no more
legally interfere with either British orForeign ships than
he could in the harbour of Brest ; yet in Hong Kong
Bay no officer has been appointed to properly berth the
Merchant vessels, which, if they had all been safely
moored with an open hawse to the N.E., would not have
suffered so severely as is detailed under the head of our
shipping intelligence ; to which we regret to add the fol-
lowing fresh disasters, which occurred in the second
tyfoon on Monday:—
The City of Derry cut away her mizenmast and lost
her fore and maintopmast in the Lantao passage, where
she was suidenly overtaken by the tyfoon on her way
from the river to Macao roads.

The Forfarshire, which vessel was missing on Thurs-
day last, has been found with foremast and rudder gone.
Her Majesty's ships Algerine and Thomas Grenville
are reported to be totally dismasted in Hong Kong Bay.
The schooner Sylph was lost on Lintin.

The Nemesis, miring to the precautions of Captain
Hall, rode oat the tyfoon on Thursday in Hong Kong
Bay
.in perfect safety ; and the second tyfoon on Mon-
day in the Typa. She left on Tuesday to tow the Sul-
phur off shore.
After the first tyfoon the Nemesis was actively em-
ployed. On Thursday she towpd the schooner Starling,
Lieutenant Kellett, in from Nngkoo Bay, everything
standing.
On the same day Capt.a,-- Alan found oirlioweclice
island Captain Pritchard and < ten seamen, who had
saved themselves from the wreak of the James Laing;
Mrs. Pritchard, the Captain's wife, and nine seamen were
drowned ; he took on board the Nemesis five of the
James Laing's crew, also Mr. Jones, conductor of ord-
nance, and Sipahis, who bad escapad to the shore from
the wreck of one of the prize Chinese war-junks.
Captain Pritchard remained on shore with five of his
men, in the hope of finding his wife's body; they were
all afterwards taken on board the Atalanta. The James
Laing and the transport Prince George went all to
pieces; the Prince George's crew were taken on board
the Queen; the schooner Black Joke was also wrecked;
Captain Hall took her crew out of a Chinese boat. The
Greyhound anchored off Hong Kong after the first ty-
phoon; all well.
We much fearire shall have to add to the foregoing
catalogue of disasters, when all the effects of the two ty-
phoons to the N.B. and the Chinese sea are known. It
is reported that it is probable the Framjee Cowasjee may
be got off the shore.
It is said 180,0001. were lost in the schooner Rose.