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fowls,
tried to
and another of brandy. They admired the wine-glasses so
much that they were added to the gift, and they went away
rejoicing. Excellent springs of water have been found in
Odin's Bay. _ The place is so safe and convenient, so near
the Peiho and the scene of future operations, that the naval
and military authorities have determined 033 making Ta-
lien-hwan a depot for stores, provisions, and :intuitions of
war during the expedition. The Engineers are Erecting
two small forts to command the landing,
and a battery of
artillery, with some infantry, will remain behind in cblire
when we sail for the Peiho.
Let us land and see the camp of the first division. 'Rl-
the left of a rude jetty thrown out by our men are the lents
of the Royal 'Engineers. They are busy directing Coolies

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them efficient as speedily as possible. Their gunboats were
sent in pieces on board the transports. Some have turned
up and are being put together, but many are still wanting.
Now, let there be no mistake on this subject. The summer
is waning fast, the time for prompt and immediate action
has arrived, and yet our expeditionary force, which costs at
least a million monthly, is lying idle at Ta-lien-hwan. It
could be embarked and sail to-morrow. It has been ready
for days. The delay lies with the French, and with them
alone. I readily admit the difficulties encountered by our
allies at such a distance from here, and with no depots at
'Hong Kong and in India. I make eery allowance for the
'increase in difficulties from the loss of many of their tran-
sports. But the'consequences of delay may be so serious,
and the faots are so unquestionable, that I should fail in
Inv duty did I omit to State them.
This bay was intended as a rendezvous only. It was
never imagined that the troops would disembark. When
Sir Hope Grant saw we should be kept back for some
weeks he determined at once to get men and horses out of
the ships, and put the_ men under canvass. This was
accordingly done, and the whole force—horse, foot, and artil-
lery—is now encamped on either side of the bay. The
British expeditionary army to China is composed as follows :
—Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant-General Sir Hope
Grant, K.C.B. ; Aides-de-Camp, Major the Hon. A. An-
son, V.C., 7th Hussara ; Captain Grant, sth Lancers ; and
Captain Farquharson, 60th Rifles ; and Military Secretary,
Captain Biddulph,R.A, Deppty-Adjutant-General, Lieut.-
Col. Stephenson, C. 8., Scots I'usileer Guards; Assistant-
Adjutant- General, 'Major the Hon. J. C. Dormer, 13th
Light•lnfantry ; Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General, Ma-
jor H. Taylor, Madras army; Deputy-Quartermaster-Gene-
ral, Lieut.-Col. Mackenzie, C. 8., 92d Highlanders ; Assis-
tant-Quartermaster-General,. Lieut.-Col. Ross, 933 High-
landers; Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General, Lieut.-
Col. Wolseley, 90th Light Infantry, and Captain Williams,
Ist Royals; Judge-Advocate-General, Major Wilmot, Rifle
Brigade; French officer attached to English head-quarters,
Major Reboul ; naval officer attached to English head-
quarters, Lieut. Johnson, RS.; Provost Marshal, Captain
Usher, Royal Marine Light Infantry ; Postmaster, Captain
Hanmer, 87th Regiment ; Principal Medical Officer, W.
Muir, M.D.; Surgeon on Personal Staff, Surgeon A. Home,
V.C.; Deputy-Commissary-General, Philip Turner; Se-
nior Purveyor, C. J. Mirinly; Deputy Military Storekeeper,
W. L. Young, C. 8.; Principal Chaplain, Rev. R. M'Gliee;
Roman Catholic Chaplain, Rev. J. Mahe. The army is
divided into two divisions, in addition to, a cavalry and an
artillery brigade. The First Division consists of her Ma-
linty's Ist, 31st, 2d, 60th, and 15th Punjaub, with Barry's
and Desborough's batteries of Royal Artillery attached,
and;Fisher's Company of Royal Engineers. It is commanded
by Major-Gen. Sir J. Michel, K.C.8., with Lieut.-Col.
Elkington, 6th Foot, as his Aide-de-Camp; Capt. Green,
77th Regiment, is Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General,
and Lieut. Allgood, Bengal Army, Deputy-Assistant-Quar-
termaster-General of this division. The First Brigade, con-
sisting of the Ist and 31st, is commanded by Brigadier
Staveley, C. 8., 44th Regiment, with Ensign Irwine, 44th
Regiment, Orderly Officer, and Capt. Brook, 60th, Brigade-
Major ; the Second (2d, 60th, 15th Punjaub), by Brigadier
W. Sutton, 31st, with Lieut. Hon. A. Stewart,R.A.,Orderly
Officer, and Capt. Straubenzee, 9th Foot, Brigade Major.
Major-General Sir R.Napier, K.C.B, commands the Second
Division, of which Major Dillon, Rifle Brigade, is Deputy-
Assistant-Adjutant. General, and Lieut. Lumsden, Bengal
Army, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General; Capt.
Brooke, 48th, and Major Greathead, Bengal Engineers,
hre Aides-de-camp to Gen. Napier. This division consists
of her Majesty's 44th and 3d Buffs and the Bth Punjaub,
forming the First Brigade; and her Majesty's 67th and
99th and the 19th Punjaub, which compose the second,
with Govan's and Mowbray's batteries of Royal Artillery
and Graham's company of Royal Engineers attached. The
First Brigade is commanded by Brigadier Jephson, 2d
Queen's, with Ensign Kelly, 2d, Orderly Officer, and Capt.
Hamilton, 44th Regiment, Brigade Major; the .second by
Brigadier Reeves, 99th, with Lieut. Kempson, 99th, Or-
derly Officer; and Major Walker, V.C., 3d Buffs, Brigade
Major. Brigadier Crofton, R.A., commands the reserve,
consisting of Royal Artillery, Madras Artillery and Sap-
pers, and the Military Train. Lieut. Hickes, R.A., is his
Aide-de-Camp, Capt. Hay, R.A., his Brigade-Major, and
Capt. Brabazon, R.A., Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-
General. The cavalry consists of one sqUadron King's
Dragoon Guards, Probyn's Horse, and Fane's Horse, with
Milward's battery of Royal Artillery attached. It is com-
manded by Brigadier Pattie, King's Dragoon Guards ; the
Hon. Capt. Thesiger, 6th Inniskillings, is his Aide-de-.
Camp, and Lieut.-Colonel Walker, 2d Dragoon Guards,
Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General of the Brigade.
The effective force of this army consists of 6,357 British,
and 2,178 Native Infantry, 1,012 Cavalry, 1,793 Artillery,
485 Engineers, and 286 Military Train ; making a total of
12,111 men. There are two batteries of Armstrong guns
(12-pounders), three batteries (9. Pounders), two and a-half
Madras mountain batteries, and a siege train, consisting of
light 32-pounders and B.inch howitzers ; 1,689 horses are
in camp, besides a number of ponies and bullocks.

, at work sinking wells and obtaining a supply of waterf
. which is more scarce here than on the other side. Turning
to the right we come among the Royals—the weakest regi-
ment of the force, being little more than 500 strong. Having
ned Hong Kong for nearly two years, the climate
has
from
produced
uced its usual effect. But the fine, brisk breeze
bay is fast settine• Them right. A visible im-
provement has taken place, and their hospital list is sen-
sibly diminished. Their band is playing before a host of
lowers, naval and military, and thenaetr are lying about
their tents enjoying their otiuin after a hArd v";
work.
The 31st are next to the Royals, and have the best camp
in the army. Branches of fir-trees adorn their encamp-
ment, and the soldiers have made excellent walks between
each row of tents, so that the place has all the air of being
tenanted by old campaigners. The 31st is the strongest
regiment in the force. Many of the men are volunteers
from the 64th and other regiments; distinguished during
the Indian mutiny, and. they evidently know how to make
themselves comfortable. Half-an-hour's walk through
the corn-fields bring us to the second battalion of the 60th
Rifles, who are out for drill and exercise. Fine active fel-
lows are they as eye could desire to look on, quick and ready
in their light infantry movements, and steady as a wall in,
marching. The Sikhs are on an eminence beyond them.
They have just killed a goat and are-cookingit for their
evening meal. Mirabile flictu ! not one of them has been
up before the Provost-Marshal for looting. The 2d Queen's
are to the extreme west of the cal, just on the borders of
a large village where one of their. sentries is stationed.
Within piatol-shqt of this man a peNistint is pulling beans
to sell in camp, and in every direction,
ground is wanted far manoeuvring., the e ,except where the
rlys are untouched
and uninjured. We walk on and reach Et,large field of
barley falling nuder the sickle, soon to be dispo,,sed of by its
owner for the use of the cavalry across the bays In fact,
there is no looting whatever, thanks to Sir Hope Grant and
Admiral Hope. Even where the crops have neeenswily
been destroyed in forming the camp, the owners will re-
ceive compensation.
Crossing the bay in the steamer which daily plies be-
tween the various divisions of the fleet and army, we reach
Odin Bay,' where the Artillery and cavalry have been
landed. The Armstrong guns are still on board ship, but
some of the ammunition waggons have been landed, and
are perfectly sound and good. The carriages have been
shipped and transhipped some half-dozen times, but I am
assured on all hands that nothing could be sounder than
their condition, and they were well worked at Kowloon.
The waggons I can vouch for myself. Ample supplies
of ammunition have arrived, and Brigadier Crofton and
Major Hay are perfectly saaftfied of the entire effi-
cacy of this most important arm. J3eyond the Artillery
are the King's Dragoon Guards, FroDyn's Horse, and
Fane's Horse. Both men and beasts are in splendid condi-
tion. Indeed, out of 1,689 horses there are but 40 sick.
Colonel Mackenzie understands how to disenahark horses; .
not one was lost, and but two or three suffered kjuries of
any consequence. What a beau ideal of light cavalry these
irregulars afford, and how their marches wfuld astoro"..4
our so-called Light Dragoons I Probyn and Fane starte4l.„
nearly at the same time from Cawnpore and Lucknow to
embark at Calcutta. They marched one against the other,
and performed the distance-700 miles—in less than a
month. Probyn outmanoeuvred Fane by leaving the main
road about 200 miles from his destination, `and making a
flank march across country, but he only won the race by a
couple of days. I have not hai time to visit Gen. Napier's
division, but I hear it is most efficient. Ihe 67th has but
1 per cent. on the sick list. The sanitary arrangements
are excellent. There is no foul smell about the .can:Ps,
which vie with each other in cleanly neatness. The nein.-
ral consequences have ensued. There are but 13 officers'
and 648 men on the sick list out of the 12,000 composing
the force. With the exception of 116 cases on board the
hospital ships, the diseases are of a very trivial seharacter.
This speaks volumes in favour of Dr. Muir and the medical
staff, and particularly of Dr. Rutherford, who is charged
with all local sanitary arrangements. The Coolie Corps
has not been so successful as might be desired. Sir Hope
Grant wished to raise a force of 6,000 Coolies, but rather
less than 2,000 have been secured. There is no hope of
procuring any addition before we reach Tien-tsin... How-
ever, we shall never be far from the sea, and the Land
Transport has a fine supply of ponies.
No plan of operations has yet been settled. Sir Hope
Grant went to Chefow on Tuesday, and returned yesterday

The French Admiral and General arc expected to-morrow,
and we hope they may be able to fix a clay by which they
will be prepared. This much, however, seems certain,-,--
the French will land to the south, the English to the north
of the Tabu forts. Tho place selected by us is Peh-tang-f
about eight miles from the Peiho, and at the mouth of the

The first division is encamr ed on the west, the
second division, and the artillery, cavalry, and Land
Transport, on the east side of the harbour. Looking
over the hills which surround the bay, you can hardly
believe that this is the furthest east. Approaching from
the sea, the rocks rose high and precipitous, much like the
cliffs of Freshwater. Ascending the bay the hills recede
from the water, become terraced, and bear a striking resem-
blance to old friends on the west of Scotland—Mull, for in-
stance. Sand and shin gleform the beach en the western
side. Between it and the hills is a large plateau, varying
in width from two miles to ten. Mount the height, and
undulating slopes meetyour eye, scantily covered with short
sweet grass and wild thyme. " The very place for a sheep-
walk," cries a friend, of no small experience. Merinos
would be the thing here, for they don't like your rich, fat
herbage, but prefer taking a constitutional between meals.
At the head of the bay and all along the promontory which
forms the eastern side is a magnificent plain, well and care-
fully cultivated. The inhabitants are colonists from Shan-
tung, who have supplanted the lazy, thriftless Manchoos.
Lord Elgin pronounces them the finest men he has seen in
China. Many are six feet high, and stout in proportion.
Their husbandry is excellent. We see bearded wheat, bar-
ley, Indian corn, millet, beans, peas, carrots, turnips, yams,
sweet potatoes, cabbages, and lettuce. The comis in straight
furrows, evidently sown in drills. The gardens contain
apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums, pears, cherries, and
small grapes, none of which are ripe, fortunately for the
British soldier. Carnations, pinks, roses, and hollyhocks
form part of the Manchoorian flora, and in the few hedge-
rows dog roses and honeysuckles abound, with forget-me-
nots and anereonies. There are thistles enough to please
oven the most enthusiastic Scotchman, while such fami-
liar weeds as dandelions, dockens, and briers spring up in
places which have eluded the care of the farmer. Foot-
paths intersect the fields, the swallow skims by, and the
lark " can scarce get out his notes for joy" as we take our
quiet evening walk. Small villages dot the plain in every
direction. Near most of them is a clump of trees--fir,
dwarf oak, willow, birch, poplar, acacia, walnut, and
yew. There is but little game. A few pigeons have been
potted, and one hare has been shot at by half the British
army, but she is too quick for them. The cottages r
geed and substantial, built of large stones plastered
over with mud mortar, and very well thatched with
sea-weed. Each house contains two rooms, and a.luarz
sort of oven to warm the place in winter. Few agrioult
labourers in England are better lodged, but I fearfor
our in •
dustrious Chinaman pays little attention to cleanliness,
a villanoas bad smell salutes you on entering the doorway.
In a cottage occupied by Brigadier p a ttlets orderly is a
Chinese print, cut from the Illustrated News of the country,
and posted on the wall.
represents the defeat of the
"barbarians" at the Takurts.
The Braves are brave ifot
sotaen.
But in-
deed, in all the glories of yellow ochre and bright vermilion.
t our
the
The "barbarians' " despair is depicted in every variety of
gloomy, sombre colours
* faAcedinbliaraclk withilop W
Hope
standson
bridge of a steamer, his
Chinaman appreciates his signal gallantry, for he is waving
The , on his men regardless of the shower of bullets most liberally
bestowed upon him. gunboat kas a magnificent main-
top, into which a 32-pounder has been hoisted. Its shot
falls harmless among the Braves. Not so the guns from
the fort. One of these is pointed on a cutter, containing
two British naval and two military officers in full uniform.
The shot streams full upon their faces, which exhibit the
most curious expression of passive endurance. A regiment
of Tartars—due to the imagination of the painter—sabres
the marines and blue-jackets in the mud, while three man-
darins in a lofty chair of state look serenely upon the fight.
It is a curious print to find, for we are 600 miles from
Pekin by land, and there is little or no trade.
The climate is delicious. The thermometer in the shade
has never exceeded 84, and a fine breeze springs up in the
evening. August among the hills will give a fair idea of
it. Captain Hand, in the Sampson, surveyed the bay last
winter. There were 18 degrees of cold in the worst weather,
but the north wind swept sharp and keen over the hills.
The villages are peaceful, unarmed, and well disposed,
though terribly frightened at seeing the large force.
Soon after our arrival half a dozen of our fellows got
into ono of the villages, and during a " row" one of
the peasants was accidentally shot. Next day three officers,
ignorant of this, landed at the same village. They had re-
volvers in their belts, and the peasants attacked them, got
them down, and took away their weapons. They then con-
ducted them to their boat without inflicting any injury.
Sir Hope Grant the following morning sent an aide-de-
camp and interpreter to require them to give up the arms.
This demand they at once complied with, explaining that
they meant no harm, but, seeing three men armed, they
feared a repetition of the scene of the previous day, and so
thought it best to possess themselves of the pistols. Most
stringent orders have been issued by the Admiral and Gene-
ral against looting or annoying the people. These orders
have beau well carried out, and euppliee are conseguen tly

river which Mr. Ward, the American Ambassador, as-

tended on his late journey to Pekin. A naval brigade will
probably be formed from the blue jackets and the Marines,.
which will act with the army, and while the troops attack

the forts in the rtar, the gunboats will tackle them in front.

THE MEDITERRAATEAN ELECTRIC

CABLE.

Readers of the English papers are already
aware that the British Government have agreed to
continue the guarantee on the other half of the
old capital of the Mediterranean Extension Tele-
graph Company, thus renewing the entire payment
of the original subsidy, on their laying down and
maintaining a new line between Corfu and Otranto,
in the heel of the Italian Peninsula. Mr. Andrews,
the company's engineer and superintendent, pro-
ceeded on the Gth inst. to Corfu, by the English
steamer Zebra, for the purpose of selecting the
landing-places in that island and in
erecting the land wires, and making such arrange-
ments as may be found necessary. TWO spots
e at or near
are proposed for landing the cable,
on the
Cape Drasti, on the north spidelao:frun
the other at or near Cape 1 niCo,rfu, and
runs between
the
ortllis-lwooesdts side. One lines runs
the other
f which t e two men-
south of the group of islets o
MerleraOne of the a h
cilia ones.
prin The latter line
tioned form the
seven nautical miles more cable,
would
but take about
would be safer and more easily accessible from
Corfu. It is probable,
the town of Co however, that
owing to the difficulty of landing the cable at or near
Cape panacrum, on account of the high mountains,
the lauding-place will be between Lavinga Point
and the river Leondari, which would take the line
only about two nautical miles further south. If this
last point be selected there will be about 13 miles
of land wire, the greater part of the stores for which
are on the spot. The landing-place
Italy will be as near Otrantoas possible. The sub-
marine cable will be of the same size and descrip-
tion as that existing between Malta and Sicily,
which continues to work in the most satisfactory
manner, and is now being manufactured by Messrs.
Glass, Elliot, and Co., the t con ractors for laying it
down. The screw steamer Berwick, belonging to
that firm, with the cable on board, may be expected
in the Mediterranean early in October, calling at
Malta for coal, I understand that Mr. Andrews
has made a proposal to the directors of the com-
pany to construct a land line, for the purpose of
connecting their two cables—that is to say, the
Malta and Sicily cable and the Corfu and Otranto
one—through the island of Sicily and Southern
Italy, and to complete the communication by lay-
ing a short submarine cable across the Straits of
Messina. This would render the telegraphic com-
munication between Malta and Corfu instantane-
ous, and would greatly facilitate the transmission
of intelligence between both islands and the United
Kingdom. It is also suggested that at or near the
junction of the wires at Castrovillari in Southern
Italy an Englishman should be appointed Nvllo
.
would have the entire control of the corresponde.t.
In conjunction with these lines the French GoV..ee;
ment are making preparations for laying f!. new
submarine uaeta,
submarine cable between Toulon, Corsica, and__anis.
which when completed will, for tariff andr
French
sion purposes, render Gaeta virtually
r accelerate
frontier, and will greatly Malta, the
telegraphic communication bet;
ne:ther plan pro-
lonian Islands, and England.
I believe already ap-
posed by Mr. Andrews, elicit()
connect Corfu with
proved by the directors, 0_
'Levant, by means of a
Turkey, Greece, and
_tli.evreen Corfu and Albania.
new submarine line b t
e attempts will be mad
If time and weather admit,
Both the Cagli •and e
Cagliari Corfu
this season to repair t
been so ong in errupted ; and in
lines, which have
operations failing) as Much. cable
the event of qi.esbee
recovered;
as possible well

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gas fittings
was yes-
from the houses of licensed victuallers
those of lair. Wilby, the Crown,ors ; amongst them were
Winchester-street, the
aging away of which caused
i 0 rA dayltSaerd at till:
Hs was convicted on two such lamentable consequences.
to two years' imprisonment charges
, and sentenced on each
with hard labour, the second
sentence to commence
making it in at the expiration of the first, thus
all tour years' imprisonoient,