The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

A serious affray took place at
Majesty's
on Oc-
tober 15, between the boats of her Majesty's ship Cam-
brian and two Chinese junks. It appears from the
lengthened depositions in the China Mail, of the
19th October, that a Mr. Muir and some friends
were going ashore from the Tam o' Shanter, at six
P.M. on the 15th, when showers of' stones were thrown
at them from two junks. They lodged a complaint
at the police station, when three boats of police-
men were sent to the junks, but they were assailed
with stones also, and were beaten off with gingals and
matchh,cks. The superintendent of police thee pro-
ceeded on board the Cambrian, and requestedt;-,.. the assist-
ance of Commodore Plumridge, who, th the view of
arresting the Chinamen without bloodshed, ordered all
the boats of the frigate under the comman ief Lieut.
Lloyd, with First Li, utenant H. Jolliffe, of the Royal
Marines; Mr. Alexander, midshipman; Mr. Wise, second
master, &c., to board the junks. When the man-of-
war's boats arrived alongside the Chinamen they were
fired at, whereupon Lieutenant Lloyd gave the word, the
marines of the launch sent back a volley of ball'cartridge
with three cheers; the junks were boarded through the
smoke, and the prisoners, 2:1 in number, were soon se-
cured. The Chinese further resisted by pouring hot
water and molasses on the brat's crew, and by presenting
bamboo spears, and bit and pinched the seamen and
marines when they were captured, two of the Chinese
having been killed in the boarding.
An inquisition was taken on the bodies, when the
following verdict was returned--That Übafoo and
Niu-achiu, Chinese junkmen, came by their 4eaths
between Sunday night and Monday morning, the 15th
and 16th of October, 1848, from gun-shot wounds
inflicted by certain seamen and marines unknown, acting
under orders of their officers, who were instructed by
the senior naval officer on this station to aid the police
in capturing two junks anchored in-shore in tifk harbour
of Hong-Kong, the crews of which junks had been
alarmed by boats coming alongside after nightfall, and
resisted the authorities and others, under the impression
that they were thieves; and such resistance as was
offered on this occasion appears to the jury to have been
justified by the necessity for trading junks protecting
themselves from being boarded by strangers and pre-
tended plicemen, as is ell as by the existitEegulatnags
of the Hong-Kong Government, issued to junks anchdl.
ing in the harbour.

-The jury then considered it to be their duty to pursue
the inquiry into several matters not immediately con-
nected with the deaths of these two men, but the investi-
gation of which may ten d& prevent the securrence of
such disasters, and seems oT importance to the reputation
and prosperity of the colony.
A session of the Admiralty Court was held on Tues-
day last, the commissioners being Chief Justice Hulme,
Commodore Plumridge, the Colonial Secretary, the
Chief Magistrate, and Captain Morris, of her Majesty's
ship Cambrian—for the trial of two cases, one of which
(Kwok Asee) was postponed on the usual plea that the
whole of the witnesses were absent. The other case was
that of the Spec, which has excited a good deal of in-
terest and some newspaper discussion, in which last we
have abstain d from taking part, beyond announcing the
fact that in July last the schooner was boarded and
afterwards seized by Captain Pitman, of the Childers,
under suspicion of having been engaged in a piratical
attack upon a Chinese junk near the Chusan islands,
which seemed to receive so much confirmation from the
Spec's log, that Captain Pitman considered it his duty
to detain her, and carry the master and his crew for
examination before her Majesty's Consul at Shanghae.
The most material witness for the Crown having sud-
denly disappeared, the jury, after a deliberation of two
hours returned, having found "no true bill." Captain
Cole was discharged, and the Government immediately
offered 200 dollars for information, so as to enable them
to trace the missing witness.—China Mail, Oct. 5.

Lieutenant Teesdale, of the Ceylon Rifles, is gazetted
as Aide-de-camp to his Excellency the Governor, which
we presume is equivalent to cancelling Mr. Wade's in-
terim appointment as private secretary, either but not
both being allowed by the colonial regulation.—China
Mail, Oct. 5.
The interview between the American and Chinese
Commissioners took place at Howqua's residence on the
river on Friday last, the 6th. There were present on
the part of the Chinese the Governov.General Sea, the
Lieutenant-Governor, with Tung and other mandarins;
on the part of the Americans—H. E. Commissioner
Davis; Dr. Parker, Secretary of Legation; Mr. Forbes,
Consul; Commodore Geisinger, and Captain Glynn,
with several officers of the Preble and Plymouth. After
the interview a banquet was given, during which the
t to
he
natural reserve and taciturnity of the Viceroy
wear off, and he became as courteous and
meeting lastedcommucigoative
as it seems possible for him to be. The
from one one o'clock till five.—Chine I A
n Mail July 12.