The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-19 00:00:00

CHINESE PROCLAN4 TION.

The following proclamation has beep posted on
the walls of Shanghae; the translation is taken
from the North China Herald
Le, of the verily Heaven-ordained Celestial King-
dem of Great Peace, Commander of the Imperial
Body Guard, Imperial Commander-in-Chief, Loyal
and Righteous, the Faithful King (Chung Wang),
once more most impressively and distinctly proclaims
And ordains, that all may understand and not be
confused, thereby calling down sorrow on themselves.
I, carrying out the heavenly commands, have for
no small number of years led as one man my mighty
soldiers to - the slaying and extermination of the.
destructive imps. It having occurred to me that
within a hundred li of Nanking itself were many
myriads of demons, my heavenly soldiers swept
them away-as by a flood. Everybody has either
or rd of these thine, so there is no use in
my a nig them. --Vier leavinrNanking we
came through Chu Jung, Tanyangt Changchow, and
Wuhsi, to Soochow; through a journey of many
hundred li we never received a check. We have
recovered every place (from the Manchoos) and all
the imps have now hidden their carcases by the
seashore. Now I ask you people what is the use of
shaking and trembling ; why don't you choose the
right side P Everybody is aware of my forbearance.
It is my determination now to lead the whole of
my mighty troops to the capture of Shanghae and
the extermination of the imps, nor shall this my
intention ever be absent from me early or late.
During my march the people everywhere fled, first
to Soochow and afterwards to Shanghae —like
birds fearing the bow, there is no resting place for
them. Is it not so? It was on this account that
I, looking up and acting according to the life-
loving benevolence of God (Shang-ti) and the
world-rescuing heart of the True Holy King, did
not wish to lead troops against Shanghae too
quickly; but having pity on you, I issued a pro-
clamation for your guidance. All good people
should have deeply reflected (let. wash head and
wipe face), and with all speed have submitted
themselves, thus walking on the right path.
Shanghae is but a hundred li or so from Soochow,
in which place I have now been for two months ;
you should have made a book for presentation to
me, containing a list of your houses and families ;
or standing on the roads, you should have respect-
fully offered a cup of wine as a token of your sub-
mission. Instead of so doing, you have seized and
killed the messengers sent by me to execute my
commands; your wickedness has really no limit,
and is unpardonable.
The ancients previous to a fight exchanged cour-
teous civilities, nor were the heralds ever killed.
How is it that "you Shanghae people alone with-
stand all reason, and still listen to impish man-
darins who do you nothing but injury ? Your
offences have now reached the climax that compels
me to set troops in motion for your extermination,
and I have consequently ordered a Pai-Yuen-shih
(Generalissimo) to precede me on the way to
Shanghae. •
Although I should properly spare you on no ac-
count whatever, yet apart from punishment, I have
still a merciful intention towards you, and therefore
once more emphatically advise and direct you at
once on seeing this to reform. I have hitherto
taken cities without number, and it would behove
you to amend your faults, and so be in the way of
having your lives spared. From the first outbreak
of righteousness in Kwangsi until the present time
ten years have passed, during which time no enemy
could withstand, and no attack could repress us.
Should your little place, only a span in size, brave
us and refuse to listen to us ? Shanghae is an intel-
ligent city enough, let the people take the good and
the evil, and make their choice (of sides). I issue
this proclamation strongly to command and advise
you ; you know that an egg can't oppose a atone ;
make up your minds, then, speedily, and submit
yourselves; and when the soldiers shall have come,
:13 one fraction of any thing shall be exacted from
you. if you won't put confidence in me, but run
away, every one of you, with the idea that you can
withstand me, why, do exactly as you please. I will
establish my will firm as a mountain, and my com-
mands shall be as flowing water. Immediately after
1 have informed you by this my soldiers will arrive;
they are not going to wait for you ; don't say that I
gave you no warning. Tremblingly obey, and don't
slight this.
Heavenly Kingdom of Universal Peace,
10th year, 6th month.

THE END OF 711 E SEA-SIDE SEASON.

(Front Punch.)
Our Ramsgate correspondent writes to us as fol-
lows :—" If the ghost of Goldsmith were to rise up
at this time, with a wish to add a line or two to his
Deserted Village,' he could not well do better than
take the train to Ramsgate, and muse in mournful
numbers' on its melancholy aspect. Everything
and everybody soon would clearly enough show him
that the season is all over. Even the poet Thoth-
son, who wrote four books about the Seasons, could
hardly find materials to write two lines now about
this. The few visitors who linger sadly on the pier
flit noiselessly as though they were the ghosts of
the departed, and pass with downcast looks as
though ashamed of being seen there. They move
about with all the air of melancholy maniacs, and
if they stay much longer they will run the risk of
being carried off to private madhouses and clapped
into strait waistcoats. The steamboats come in
daily with nobody on board except the crew and
captain. The shilling-an-hour boatmen have laid
up their crafts in winter quarters, and have rigged
their better halves in bran •new gowns and bonnets.
The bathing machines are all drawn up so high
and dry that it seems to be a problem if they ever '
will be wet again. Not a donkey brays defiance on
the beach ; not a bath chair is now visible, even
with a telescope. Not a wooden spade or sand-heap
is there by the sad sea waves ' • not an organ, or a
bagpipe, or a German band is audible. All the
minstrels with blacked faces have taken themselves
off to Charlestown' or some other locality ; and the
Tyrolean tenor who sings so sentimentally and
sweetly out of tune, with one eye closed in strong
emotion, and the other looking out for coppers, has
left us with his wife and small harmonium-playing
son, and is probably now singing to some al fresco
inland audience. More saddening fact still—the
vocal vendor of crisp hardbake, delicate drops, and
tempting toffy, has at one fell swoop deprived us of
his sweet songs and his sweet stuffs, and has left
us lollipopless to lament his absence.
" Paragon is a wilderness ; grass is growing in
High-street, and hay, if there were sunshine, might
be made on half the pavements. The shopkeepers
have mostly put their chains and shutters up, and
are now engaged in counting over their unholy gains,
and in sending conscience money to the income tax
collector. The lodging-letters have emerged from
their coal cellars and dust bins, or whatever other
holes be in the summer time their sleeping places.
It is believed that they would occupy the bedrooms
which in summer time fetch five guineas a night,
but that they are haunted with the ghosts of recent
victims, who came, saw, and were fleeced, and flea-
bitten into the bargain, The flys have flown
away, or else hybernating in back slums; the riding
horses have returned to their normal occupations,nin a
and are now drawing bakers' carts or working
togvisit
circus. The hotel-keepers have vanished
their estates, or confer with Bfaerwonayßofoethmspchloiyld-
about buying up the Bank, as a.
raing some of their spare millions. n short, so dull
the ilteeinr
is ltamsgate, that the brigand'soccupation is, like
°are pnow the only
Othello's, gone. A cat or twoNen the fleas, it isy
beasts of prey left payable.
flightaffirm affirmed, have hbaeveenthis Kopfasti
r7ed
retreatth e t w iogf.
thousand." ......O.IINONOOO laW/m/MMOMIN
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AUTUMNAL HERRING VOY:AGE., LOWESTOFT,
This fishery, we are happy to repot 11, is progressing most
favourably. On Monday nearly dl the boats had good
safers, and one or two had as many as three lasts. Prices
ranged from 3s. 7d. to 4s. 10d. per 1 kundred. One boat has
already made over 4200.-13ory (4t4 2\70,1(404 2'04