The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

Mr. Tucker's Lucretia, 6 yrs
Several others started.
The Handicap was won by Adrian.

THE MARKETS-THIS DAY. •
WHITECHAPEL MARKET.
Beef, 2s. 6d. to 4s. 2d. ; 2s. Sd. to 4s. 4d. ; Vest,
3s. 4d. to ss. ; Pork, 3s. 4d. to ss. 4d.; Lamb, 4s. to ss. ;
Clover, 31. to 61. 63. ; Meadow Hay, 2/. to 4t. ss. ; Straw,
2/. ss. to 2/. 10s. Th supply of country killed was to-day
extremely small, with a very good demand. '1 he sudden
change in the weather alone caused the rise in prices ; bad the
heat continued the packed meat would have been spoiled- '
Abundance of town-killed meat.
TEA MARKET.
The Market was very dull, and prices were further depressed-
on account of the advices stating that large parcels of Tea had-
been received at Canton, and.some ships had sailed. The price
of Company's Congou was Is. 9d. cash.
TALLOW MARKET..
Prices steady with a fair demand. P. Y Candle 495. 3d. an' .
the spot, and 495. for delivery in the last thtee months.
OIL MARKET.
The demand was good for all sorts of Fish Oils. Pale Seal.
35/. ; Cod, 281. lOs. ; and Linseed Oil, 32/. per cwt.
FRUIT MARKET. -OP
Currants met a fair demand, and prices were firm. The,
supply small. Raisins in good request. ,J 3
METALS.
Lead in brisk request, and prices firm. Steel sold steadily
Iron in good demand.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA.Y).

LONDON, SEPT. 4.—Wind this day at noon W.
DEAL, SEPT. 3.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived from the
river and sailed the Sultan, for Port Philip ; Guess, Sin'
gapore; Token, Calcutta; Science, Constantinople.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 3.—Wind variable, and light. --
Arrived the Charlotte, Chrichton, from the Mauritius; •
Huddersfield, Jones, Bonny, sailed June 19, and from -
Fernando Po the 24th; Sylvanus, Jenkins, Savannah;
Coolock, and Princess Victoria, Quebec. Sailed the GO,.
zelle, for Calcutta, Henry Block, Wilberforce, Maran-
ham ; Sheffield, New York; Elizabeth Dalhousie, Merlor
sey, Genoa. Arrived oft, the Dale . Put back►''
the Georgiana, New Orleans.
HASTINGS, SEPT. 3.—Arrived off port the •Trident!,
from Porto Rico.

FALMOUTH, SEPT. -2::=-Wi-rtd S. to S.W., strong
breezes.—Arrived the Mary Ann, from London, for
Malta ; Oriential (s.) Southampton, and sailed for Ale%-
andria.
,PENZANCE. SEPT. I.—Arrived the Pioneer, from
Smyrna. Sailed Pero, for Malta.
Bram', SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Adelaide, Dovell4
from St. Vincent.
GLOUCESTER, SEPT. 3.—Arrived the Cumberland.,
Metcalf, from Miramichi.
SWANSEA, SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Catherine, Grail''
ger, from Cuba.
MILFORD, SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Dtary, from Bristol.,
for Nevis ; Redcliff, for Alicant ; Hudson from Nei;`
port, for Liverpool, with cargo shifted and w
sails split.
The British Queen, bound to London, in beating down
the River yesterday, ran on shore in Langan Pool, but
got off lost night without damage.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 3—Wind S.S.W. to S.S.E.--
Sailed her Majesty's ship Pique, for lialifa.v ; her Vs;
jesty's ship Impregnable, Madeira ; Edward Quebec. Oil
port the Dart.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Albert, Guth, 114301
St. John's New Brunswick ; Sir Walter Scott, ditto.
YOUGHAL, AUG. W.—Sailed the Champlain. Quebec.
CORK SEPT. I.—Arrived the P. H. Dean, from Leg'
her,: ; Puke of Roxbutigh, London, for Sydney, her 310".
jesty's ;hip Belliesle.
DRoGgzi,s,A, SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Larch, M'Ad:
from St. John's New Brunswick ; Jane Elizabeth, fry nl
Quebec.

We are authorised to state that the highly re'
spectable firm of Anderson, Garrow, and Co., of . Liver-
pool, whose stoppage was announced in the Times of the
2d inst., have resumed payments.
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—The usual prods"
mation for holding the fair was not made by the toll
Mayor until four o'clock yesterday afternoon, instead
at noon, to the great disappointment of the various sta.'.°
i;„
keepers. According to ancient usage the beadle t- '
the Merchant-tailors' Company went round Cloth";
fair and the district to examine all the measures P'
the drapers. On their return from meeting the ;
Lord Mayor, the Piepowder Court was opened with the
usual proclamation at tho Hand and Shears public-house,
in Cloth-fair, by Mr. Martin, the steward of the manor.
The fair has much fallen off this year, as " piccage and
stallage" was only paid for eighteen stalls and one show,
whereas last year there were twenty-eight stalls and
three shows. The clerk of the parish of St. Bartholoin efe
was in attendance to receive the usual fee of 4s. 6d., ''''
which 2s. 6d. was for the rector, and one shilling each' ~
to the clerk and sexton, which have been paid from e"
very remote time. Wombwell's menagerie eontaint
a large and very interesting collection, amongst • which
are three giraffes, three elephants, a lioness wi11i.,,,
four cubs, a tigrests and three cubs, a pair of WO.. '
tiful gnus, and a rhinoceros, which has been for th.4l
years in the collection. Several of the animals we.T,
through a series of surprising performonces under tr ,
direction of Birt, the keeper. The weather was vet)
unpropitious, and the holdingod of the sbow'los :
been curtailed to this day and Moz7daa , With tiof
strictest injunctions that every place shall- closed
every thing
yesterday, was a large
with de o Wm
ye concourse of persorP
alingwaCity P 0 ice em
was
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the strong attendance of the u
due order.
DEADLY EFECTS OF PASSION.—A
t'eartdany, ight.
but The re
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shocking occurrence took place in Lisburn, on Tuesditi
evening last. A man named Wm. Boomer, a blackstn_tithw
and his son, a fine young lad, about 17 years of age, Jo'
some angry words in the forge, where both worked, wlleffs
in a moment of irritation, the former seized a small bof
of nail-rod iron and struck the boy so severely on tivf;:
lower part of the chest that the instrument passed
obliquely in the direction of the lungs, and cause'
death in a few minutes. Doctor Wetherell and seve-
ral other medical gentlemen were immedictely °Il
t.i.:e spot, but at once pronounced the case as Wye,- 'tii
Icas. The unfortunate man was generally veri %; 0,-,
offen,:ive, and, till within the last few years_ ~ /v.T...'' ~
one of ttis.' most industrious individuals in the neighbou• :iy
temperance, that:
hood; latteri..,", however, he had been sadly addicted to fral ,
this tragic occurrent.
fruitful source of Ireland's misery ; 1.1,,..
either directly or otherw.:'e,
? is only one of the many which aril,.
from that demoralising itidtloo.:.
Wednesday, before 'Thomas ii • Smyth Wednesday,
An investigation hits') the above affair took pAc'ecA, .
wretched man's being sent to Carri...l,fergus
Esqrs,. local magistrates, the result. of which was,no
th and R. CrartfloZ
his trial at the spring Assizes._EdiOurgh Courier
CAUTION TO Pic KPOCKETS. ,s(laf
—9n Wednt
,v,
last, two well-known professors of the art of rekti;t.,,
picking were placed at the bar of the I'eliee-e°ool
gaol, to a.:"
having been seen late the night before in aet ~e- •
attempting to make free with the poelt3ts.
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their neighbours. The policeman who took has:
into custody saw them case one gentleman or r‘ne;
handkerchief; and afterwards disappear in the crowd-
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of the rascals thought he was all right under these ac'
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cumstances, and very impertinently calied upon his ~,t,,;,,v
curers to produce the witness. Mr. Rushton heard .01
he had to say, and then asked Mr. Parkinson if the V_7'a; ~1-*
ri
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-en were of his acquaintance. It turned out ._10; ,01!
04,.., -man had only been committed sixteen t.,; (if.
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the §Pout-- ' - companion ii`cout four times.
has that to do witn, .1...
s.t we've done b .10.,is ,
tifread for wh.
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dignantly. "We ve F,,
taken up on
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charge." . Mr. Rushton replied,—"
►lre f°lind, it
-committed. to, gaol, whenever you' . err do Lhe
tirect,
and that's no reason wily we stould I:*
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so i vili send you to guot,,
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CHINA. 1.
Ifres-n China we have intelligence extending to the 2d
of May,, but the informatior„ which will be found in the
subsecithent columns, relate s chiefly to the strange sayings
and doiniss of the Pekin Court ; for on our side, up to
the date.abovententioned , little had been said or done
since we made the demc,nstration upon Canton, recorded
by us some three mo-n".h,s ago. Doubtless ere this some-
thing has btrt,, done, Jr it at present we can only conjec-
ture. The Eniperotl it will be seen, still continues to
" gnash, his teeth" sw.th concentrated wrath ; and as an
earnest of tl re opera Lions which he purposes to perform
on us, he has order ad Keshen to be cut in two at the
middle. Toeir lf.etshen, who seems to have had a keen
insight into, the rtsal state of the affairs, and, moreover,
to have had ..ate courage to lay before. the Emperor a
most truthful e: aposition of them, has been sentenced to
death in the rot nner above noted for taking bribes from
the British, ant I compromising the honour of the Celes-
tial Empire. •!' rhe, Tartar tyrant will find it difficult to
replace him, fi
cious, and wKeshen was evidently shrewd and saga-
as, at all -events, diplomatist enough to
outwit Elliot Assuredly,.- if this cutting in two at
the middle were a fit judgment upon the unhappy
Reshed, ITS,I lot's head, trunk, and . limbs should be
made into a thousand cylindrical sections. as a warning
to all his fr,rnily. He is, however, to be superseded.
Rarely ha s an announcement from home created more
general sr ti:iiisetion in India, than the announcement of
this supet session ; but some time must yet elapse before
the new sler .ipotentiary can reach China, and ere his
arrival; s ie - trust that some important demonstration will
have bee's -tnade. It is reported that the second act of
this Chit% drama will be
opened with the recapture of
Chusan. ' Northward, ho !" must be the cry, for by
hacking :s; the extremities we irritate the Emperor, but
do not alai
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to him. He is bent upon our extermination,
and, in sp s to
of Keshen's exposition of the true state of
affairs, th;t: tits, or pretends to think, that it would be the
easiest 01' t Lig in the world to crush us. He orders vast
armies-to .-rush down upon us. but nothing seems to come
of his e rdering ; he calls spirits, numberless, from the
vasty de m, but they will not come when called ; and
then he • egnashes his teeth with combined imprecations."
Keshen has told him, that his soldiery are not meant
for fighting, and that, though he is looking about for a
gun-feura:ler, it must take tune to get his ordinance and
ordnanc a commissiariat into a fit state to cope with the
33ritiFh. The Emperor has replied to this, by ordering
Kes'Aen to be cut in two at the middle, and a mighty
fosee tc• rush down upon the barbarians, who have dared
to invac e his country. Thus matters at present—
we shah see in time what will come of all this idleboas,t.
-LHengal Ilurharu.
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(From the Bornba !I Courier, July_ 13.)

:;3ftlie arrival of the ..'..rdaseer, from Marco, W have
received intelligence ftc,m that place to the 15th. ,of May.
The latest accounts frean Canton are to the day previous.
Tae pity, was full of Chinese troops, many ot, whom had
lately:4rrivcd from the ,northern provinces, The Eng-
lish. -residents were b-ecoming somewhat alarmed, and
nicat of them had. v.:solved on sleeping i s the hall of the
faictory, to preveTat the risk of their being cut off in
(14:tail, should the Imperial Commiss'aaners suddenly re-
same offensive. measures. A gentl'araan. who left Canton
am the 14th of May, and. reached 'Macao on the follow-
. ,
:mg clay, states that the panic at the former place was
:gradually increasing, and extended to the Chinese
traders, some of the meet respectable of whom had left
the city, and others svera preparing to follow their ex-
amplo. The 3.landa.,:ins had commenced the erection of
a new fort about 6`..:0 yaa is from the factories ; 3,000 ad-
ditional soldiers had as rived within the three previous
days, and ma'.ters had assumed so warlike an aspect,
that her Male sty's ship Modeste had been moved close-
to the city, and the 2'.Jgerine was placed in a position
to cover the factolies, in whose vicinity armed parties
of seamen and Marines were posted every night. The
guard of I farincs stationed on the shore was also doubled.
Many persons are of opinion that an outbreak would
very sh .ortly take place, and that it would be necessary
for the„, English to tak a military possession of the city.
This, it is supposed, nraght be easily effected, as the ma-
jority of the people hive lost all confidence in the Man-
darins, and with a lit tie management might be induced
to facilitate the movements of the British forces. Capt.
Elliot is said to have written to the Imperial Commis-
sioners, and demanded from them a pledge that they
v ;mild not infringe the terms of the existing truce. It is
rrdoubtful whether this request will be complied with, but,
even- should the Mandarins make the desired promise,
not the slightest confidence can be placed on it.
The greatest; activity prevails amongst the commercial
community sv).io are purchasing teas, and shipping
them off to F.ngland with the greatest celerity. The Chi-
nese almost entirely confine themselves to selling, there
being very few of them inclined to take imports in
exchange for their own goods. The Earl of Clare was
taken up about the 10th of May, at W. sterling per
ton, and s VitS expected to complete her cargo and sail for
Englard within that month. 11,000,0001 b. of tea have
been. &Ix eady shipped, and it is expected as much more
will b e brought forward, but the state of affairs is
so very precarious that no one can calculate with
confid .enee on 24 hours' continuance of the present sys-
tem t f trading. Notwithstanding this uncertainty and
the r isk to which the persons, and property of British
subjects must necessarily be exposed, if a force amply
sufliei ent for their protection be not kept near Canton,
Captain Elliot appears bent upon immediately proceed-
ing to the northward with the greater portion of the
squadron.. His doing so without awaiting the arrival of
the Coinniodore and the expected reinforcements appears
to be the measure of a man who, finding that his folly
has entailed on him the obloquy of all his fellow-subjects
and the displeasure of the Government which he serves,
has resolved, in a fit of desperation, to run all risks and
endeavour by one bold stroke to retrieve 1):.s past errors,
before the arrival of his successor shall p.tt it out of his
power to de, further good or evil. This .Is, however, but
an idle ho pe of the imbecile and infatuated superintend-
ent, who ' if he should by any chance plan a daring en-
terprise, has not nerve to carry it cent. Even were this
deficienc.y supplied by the energy and courage of the
naval a' ad military commanders, 'heir efforts would be
useless, :since Captain Elliot d, ks not possess sufficient
wisdom to avail himself of thi,se advantages which the
exertions of others may hay,: placed at his disposal.
Captain Elliot, by virtue c.f his powers as Plenipoten-
tiary, has appointed Captain Caine, of her Majesty's
26th regiment, chief mrtgistrate of Hongkong, and
drawn up a code of regulations for the administration of
justioe. Several public 'Juildings are being erected on
the island, and everything indicates an intention of its
being retained as a pert nanena possession of the British
Crown. Captain Elliot, has issued a notice intimating
that land will be granted to her Majesty's subjects on
ter ms something similar to those adopted in Australia.
Ti le general impression isy that there will be very few
pa rchasers.
It appears that the C,hinese are putting Chusan in a
state of defence. A 'fosse' which lately returned from
that island to Macao brought information of several new
forts having been eiaer...ted. The walls of Tinghae were
likewise undergoing repair. These may be regarded as
symptoms of a loreg and severe struggle. There can be
no doubt that tb a authorities at Canton are merely en-
deavouring tu gain time with the view of collecting a
large, and, as f
,hey hope, an overwhelming force, before
they resume c densive operations.
We undere ,land that the transports at Hong-Kong are
under order 3 to be ready for sea to proceed to the north-
ward by rib out the 12th of this month.
Lin; it is . said, left Canton for Ningpo on the Ist of this
Whether this officer's frequent offers to take
.cousmanet of the troops of that province, and to lead
them agrainst the English, have been accepted by the Em-
peror re actins to be seen ; we think it is not unlikely.
1-t is said that the Tartar officers and their troops, ex-
Peeted l`.tim the north, linger so long on the road in order
o squeeze the people of the towns and villages through
th,
"whl). --y pass to the utmost.
• Piracy in the Beihbourhood of Macao is again becom-
ing frequent Ifishing boats are said lately to
am many
have been plundered.
Arrived—May Gth, Thomas Lowrie, Graham, from
Sydney, sailed March 6th ; 7th, Amizade, eretra, from
Singe; pore.
Sai led-Ist, Eben Preble, Ballet, for New York ; 3(1,
Splendid, for New York ; Orleans, Cameron, for Lon-
don.; sth, Ann Laing, Hudson, for London ; Duchess of
Clan gate, Birch, for Liverpool.
Tflie Coromandel and Susan are about proceeding to
hunpoa.
Under Despatch.—The Recovery, for London. Sir
1 ferbert Compton to sail for Bombay on the 15th.
The Thomas Lowrie left Sydney on the 6th of .'&farch;
ern the same day the transport Palmyra sailed for Chu-
sail direct from this port ; the two transports Prince
'GeOrge and Baretto Junior, both at Sydney, were to
follow in a few days. The Highland Queen had sailed
for China some (lays previous to the Thomas Lowrie.,
(From the Canton Press, May 15.)
Our dates from Canton reach to the 12th, at which
time everything'remained quiet and business was trans-
acting as before, although the excitement caused by the
warlike preparations of the Chinese still continued.
During the last days of last week a great number of
• • Szeehuen soldiers, it is said as many as 3,000, arrived
in Canton, and pissed the factories in boats. From
other parts of the country detachments of troops are also
coneeting. At Shamsing, a few hundred yards west of
th.e factories, a new fort, mounting six guns. 'nas been
eerected, and everything, in fact, looks as w ell as can be.
By the last letters from Canton it appears, that numbers
of the inhabitants that had returned to Canton for the
sake of trade were agai-a leaving i.s. It is true Yihshan
and his colleagues have issued a proclamation, telling the
people not to be alarmed, but the Mandarins have lost
their credit with the people, and are not now listened to
with much reverence. How long the present state of un-
certainty may last is not for us to predict, although we
fear that the " arrangement" will very soon be inter-
rupted by some violence on the part of the Chinese. It
can hardly be supposed that 40,000 men, although they
be Chinew soldiers, would suffer- themselves for any
length of tune to be kept in awe by what must to them
appear a. very contemptible number of the enemy, and
that they will snake, and at no distant period, a trial of
numbers against skill appears to us to be inevitable.
We shall not now enter on the subject, whether the cut-
tin; roads and building- at Hong-Bong at the present
'foment, whilst the trade, which her Majesty's Picni-
c; potentiary invited to Canton, is going on, and whilst
Immense quantities of British property are warehoused
in Canton, have in any way caused the extraordinary
hostile preparations of the Chinese.
On- Tuesday last her Majesty brig Columbine, Capt.
Clarke, returned from her trip to Chusan, whither she had
gene to 'take SachoP" from her Majesty's Plenipoten-
li tiary for Elepoo, the Governor of Chekeang, demanding,
1 • We suppose, an explanation of the manner in which
S Captain Stead, of the Pestonjee Boman*, met his death.
rt When arrived at Tinghae, a boat with a flag of truce
was sent on shore in order to deliver the chop, but
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st-number of soldiers threatened to fire into her if she
proceeded. On this the Columbine signalled her to re- I •
turn. At Singlo, where Captain Stead was killed, Mr.
Gutzlaff, the interpreter, went on shore in the captain's
gig, in order to obtain some further intelligence as to the
manner in which Capt. Stead met his death, and was
there, we are informed, told by the inhabitants that they
had nothing to do with the transaction, but that Captain
Stead had been killed by Mandarins and soldiers, who
beat him to death with stones. While obtaining this in-
formation, a body of soldiers, whose approach had been
hidden by a hill, suddenly came upon them, intent upon
cutting off the. retreat of the party to the boat, which,
however, was gained without accident. This is all the
communication the Columbine had with the shore ; some
letters for the authorities were given to fishermen to
deliver; but if they were, which is very doubtful, ever
delivered, no notice was taken of them. The reception
the Columbine met with at Chusan abundantly inani.fests
the spirit of hostility entertained by the Chinese against
the English, and it likewise shows that what has hitherto
been done by the latter has entirely failed of making
them feared or respected ; in fact, the _haughtiness of
the Chiness towards outer barbarians seems rather to
have increased than otherwise since the evacuation of
Chusan, which, in imperial edicts, is ascribed to the fear
of Tartar armies; and if the Chinese give credit to these,
it is natural they should not stand in awe of so weak an-
enemy. From all that could be seen of the proceedings
on shore, preparations for defence were making in all
directions; several new forts were building near the city
of Tinghae on Chusan, and the fortifications of the city
were likewise being repaired and strengthened.
AIIIIIVALS.—May 6, Euntress, Sydney, May 8,
Candhara, Bombay. May 10, Salvadora, Manilla ;
10, Island Queen, Manilla and Sydney. May 11, li
her Majesty's ship Columbine, Captain Clarke, Chusan ;
Sovereign, Bombay and Singapore. May 12, Myaram
llyaram' M
Bombay and ,Singapore. ay 13, Helen, Bom-
bay and
Singapore.
SAILED.-April, the Oneida, New York., May 3,
anish Oak, Copenhagen. May 7, Hope, Australia.
May 9, Minerva, Greenock. May 10, James Ewing,
Cork and the Clyde ; Monarch, Liverpool. May 11,
Recovery, London ; Hamilton, New York ; Julius Cm-
sar, London ; Eliza, London.
Passenger per Myaram Dyaram, Mr. Middleton.
We have struck from the list of vessels expect'A irom
Singapore the Sultana and Elizabeth, they be;;,,g• too long
overdue to allow of hope of their not bei:4, lost.
The Clown, for Singapore and '---",alcutta, to be de-
spatched on the 19th. The 3Stnrod and Ann Gales, un-
der despatch for New Soy.' a ale`. •
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Latest dates, from IT;ogllind, 4th of January, via Bom-
bay; United St'' :es, 19th of December, per Ann M'Kim;
Calcutta, 12:cli. of March, per Ariel ; Bombay, 27th of
F:bro',,'ry, via Calcutta ; Singapore, 17th of April, per
I
-,.yaram Dyarain ; Java, Ist of April, per Ann Miiim ;
Manilla, 3d of May, per Island Queen.
SHIPPING AT WHAMPOA.—The Fort William, Earl of
Clare, and Amazon, M. Jardine and Co.; Aden, Lowjeo
Family, and Ann Gales, Dent and Co.; Francis Smith,
and Castle Huntly, Macvicar and Co.; Chebar, Anna
Maria, Duke of Lancaster, and Susan, Turner and Co.;
Scaleby Castle, H. Rustomjee; Bella , Marina, Bell and
Co ; Monarch, It. Webster; Charlotte, Dirom and Co.;
Coromandel, Fox, Rawson. and Co.; Lowell and Narra-
ganset, Russell and Co.; Sumatra, Westmore and Co.;
La Lydie, J. Stevens.
The following is an extract from a letter dated Macao,
19th of May, 1841 :
" All was quiet at Canton yesterday morning, when
I the Paradox left. The Hong merchants- had invited the
foreign merchants to meet them yesterday at noon, and
we are most anxious to learn the purport of the inter-
view. Appearances indicate as if the Chinese authori-
ties had really made up their minds to the hazard of
more fighting, for a gentleman who left Canton the
evening before last says, private notice had been given
by them to the head men of each street to lay in pro-
visions and supplies of water, to be at hand in case of
fire. This, however, may.perbaps be a precaution from
their having possibly got a rumour of Captain Enka's
intention to starve the place by means of an embargo,
unless the northern troops should be quickly withdrawn.
We also learn that the Chinese are making warlike pre-
parations on the shores adjoining our men-of-war. The
native inhabitants continued leaving the place in crowds.
As Captain Elliot reached Canton yesterday morning,
and we learn that our forces were about to move up the
river from Hongkong, matters will very soon be brought
to a crisis. I myself think, that when the movement
from Hongkong becomes known at Canton, it will have
a wonderful effect in checking the belligerent ardour of
the authorities."
The following extracts from letters, -dated Canton, the
11th, and Macao, the 15th, of May, will also be found
well worthy of perusal
CANTON, MAY 11,
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Matters are apparently urging to a crisis. In the mean-
time teas are being shipped off as hurriedly as possible ;
every ton is engaged. The Scaleby Castle, Fort William,
and Earl of Clare go to England. It is probable that
20,000,000 lb. will be sent away from Canton, if the
trade remain open a few days longer.
Imports.—Of the chief staple manufactures, the follow-
ing have been landed since the opening of the trade :-
401,779 pieces shirtings and domestics, of all sorts ;
4,524 bales yarn, 3,453 bales long ells and 3,237 bales
woollens.. Good shirtings, white 36 in., and gray 40
in., have been selling at 320t0 3 40, short price. Thin
gray 351 to 381 in., $3 ; good water twist, Nos. 22 to
26, $32 : higher numoers will fetch a little more. Large
quantities of shirting have been tquitted. For yarn but
little inquiry. Woollens and long ells immovable. The
regular dealers appear determined not to come back.
Exports.—Of the 2,000 bales of silk brought to market,
very little left. Prices for middlino• to good 480 to 500.
Congous common and middling, 27'to 30 ; other teas in
proportion.
Freight.—Opened at 71. 10s., is now 91.
Exchange.—On. England 4s. 11d. : we hear of ,nothing
doing.