The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sax--In The Evening Sun of Tuesday there is a
statement which is calculated to convey a wrong impres-
sion as to a matter of fact ; and knowing your desire to
be accurate, I beg to call your attention to the statement
in question :
A paragraph in The Sun states that on Monday last
" three men pleaded guilty to an assault on the police in
the progress of a procession on Whit-:Monday, headed by
Mr. O'Connell."

A paragraph immediately following.states " that an-
other was tried and convicted for the same offence," &c.
This paragraph, which states that another " was con-
victed of the same offence," conveys that. he was tried
and convicted of " assaulting the police during the pro-
gress of the procession headed by Mr. O'Connell." This
is an error. The assault was not, either in time or in
place, or in any other manner, connected with the pro-
cession in question. Mr. O'Connell took no. other part
in the said procession than joining it, as a member of the
Total Abstinence Society. One teetotaller, accused of
an assault in its progress, was on Monday last acquitted.
At the former Sessions two others were convicted of an
assault, by no means of an aggravated charaeter ;
and they were sentenced' to nine and six months'
imprisonment, whilst two prostitutes, arraigned for
the murder in Shoreditch, and convicted of man-
slaughter, were only sentenced to be imprisoned for six
months.—Your obedient servant,

M. P. HAYNES,

WOOL W I CH—MONDAY.
ROYAL MARINES. .
The following appointments and _promotions have
taken place in the Royal Marines,' dated Aug. 17, 1841 :
First Lieutenant Edward 'locker, of the Portsmouth
division, to be Quartermaster at Plyinouth, vice Wat-
son, promoted to Captain.
Second Lieutenant G. C. Symonds, of the Portsmouth
division, to be First -Lieutenant, and re-appointed to
Portsmouth division, vice Hockey.
"'CIRCULAR.
" Royal. Marine•office, Aug. 18, 1841.
" Commissions dated yesterday will be laid before her
Majesty, appointing the following gentlemen to be Se-
cond Lieutenants in the Royal Marines, and they are
to be attached to the divisions opposite their names :
" Mr. Charles Louden Barnard ... Portsmouth
Richard Franklin Tucker Chatham
Henry Watson Hall
. Henry G. Johnstone Davis
Frederick William Hall Chatham
Rodney Vansittart Allen
Nerison W. de Courcy

THE LAST NEWS FROM CHINA•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sirt—ln reference to the statement which appeared
in a Second Edition of. the Herall of the 17th instant re-
lative to the chop of the Emperor of China for the.de-
strUction of all the teas and rhubarb in the province of
Canton, &c., it appears to me to be beyond all doubt that
it was nothing more nor less than a vile'hoax' got up. by
an interested party. We have an account of the Akbar
having arrived at New York with a full cargo of teas
(17,896 packages), and that two other vessels with tea
had left Whampoa for the United States. The Akbar
sailed from Whampoa on the 17th of April, and she
brings no account corroborating one line of this big lie as
to the outward cargoes that were landed at Canton, and
said to be seized by the Chinese. You have a document
under the hand Of the Commander of her Majesty's ship
Sulphur, dated Macao-roads, April 7th, wherein he tells
the British merchants resident at Macao of our strong
force stationed at Canton, and the precautionary steps
which had been taken to prevent any unexpected hos-
tile movement on the part of the Chinese, so that had
such cargoes been seized there must have been
,;some
desperate fighting, and our troops must have got a good
thrashing. Of this the Herald's informant, or rather the
informant of the French Papers forgot to tell us.

Let not the advocates of the hoax alluded to deceive
themselves, but rather let them expect every hour the ar-
rival of one or more vessels, at our own ports, direct
from Canton, that they may not be, taken quite so much
by surprise as our friends at New York were on the
4th of this month.

I admit the dispute between us and the Celestials is
far from a final settlement, but it is evident, that in pro-
portion as John Chinaman has been playing,- the fool
with Eliot, so is he now humbugging the Chinese into
the belief that we now only want trade and ask no more,
and he is even quibbling, or pretending to quibble, about
a reduction of export duty on tea, to the extent of one
tad per pical (about ;111. per lb.) ! ! Eliot, after all, is a
clever fellow, and I shall be much mistaken if he does not
get two or three months shipment of teas previous to the
return of Bremner.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Bristol, Aug. 21, 1841. A TEA-DEALER.

THE TEA TRADE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—I think the annexed letter of Captain Elliot's
will bear reprinting, and at the present moment will be
interesting to some of your friends connected with the
China trade. It may set at rest their doubts as to our
prospect of getting a supply of tea, as well as the
Americans. I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Bristol, Aug. 23, 1841. A TEA DEALER.

TO MESSRS. DENT AND CO., AND OTHERS.

Macao, Afarch 22, 1841.

GENTLEMEN—I have the honour to your
letter of the 15th inst. My own opinions being coinci-
dent with those expressed in the fourth paragraph *ofi
your communication, I had already publicly expressed
my determination never to sanction the resumption of
the trade till it could be carried on on a perfectly
equal footing by our own merchants and in our own
ships. It only remains for me to add, that the least at-
tempt of the provincial Government to advance or pro-
tect the interwils of the merchants of other countries
more than our own will be considered a violation of the

understanding between us, and lead to an immediate re-
currence of hostilities, accompanied by a sudden and close
interdict upon the whole trade of Canton, native and
foreign. I have the honour to be, &c.
CHARLES ELLIOT.
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary.