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inhlbitants Of the large village which is situated
here gazed wonderingly at the " fire Ship.," confi-
dent, apparently, that the barbarians would not
mistake them for soldiers. A line of deserted
junks moored right across the ,river at this point
formed a very good defence for our advanced posi-
tion, and the whole peninsula being now in our
possession the day's work was considered complete.
We may trust that this blow will have been
sufficiently serious to bring the Chinese Govern-
ment to its senses. It had evidently been occu-
pied during the last five weeks in c-ncen'rating
he,e warlike resources. Large bodies of troops
bad been sent down from Pekin, and the batteries
had been improved and strengthened by guns col-
lected from neighbouring towns. So exaggerated
was the estimate formed of their own powers of
resistance that the Chinese did not hesitate to open
the first fire upon us, and it took us upwards of an
hour thoroughly to undeceive them upon this point.
The fact that the batteries were so easily taken
after so many weeks' preparation only shows how
simple it would have been in the first instance to
seize them. If the impression produced, however,
is more effectual in consequence, the delay is not
to be regretted. We have to deplore a melancholy
accident which t.2ok place in the centre fort
after it was in our possession. Some French
engaged in the work of demolition had imprudently
set fire to some gabions in the immediate vicinity,
a spark was blown into a magazine, which bad not
been observed, and a crowd of bystanders were
blown up. Some were killed on the spot, and
others frightfully wounded. The accurate returns
have not yet come in, but 36 is the estimate I have
generally heard givcn. Oar entire loss has been
comparatively trifling. We have captured about
150 brags guns, most of them of enormous calibre,
exquisite workmanship, and not above two years
old, and we have had five men killed and 15
wounded. Of these five, one was shot by accident
and one blown up. The Chinese loss has not been
so great as might have been expected, and is not
supposed to have exceeded 100.

It is generally believed that this success will be
followed by au immediate move towards Tien-tsin,
in which direction the Plenipotentiaries will pro-
ceed until they meet with an Imperial Commissioner
properly qualified to treat with them.
The Bella Isle storeship has just come in with
provisions for the fleet.

(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
THE PEIHO RIVER, MAY 21.
I was so sick of all the d, lays, all the idle excuses
for delay, to cover shortcomings, after arrangements
had been made wHougKong for an efficient force to
be here early in April, that I began to despair of
ever seeing the flag within the forts of the Peiho.
However, it is so at last, and yesterday, after
a brilliant little affair with our force of gunboats,
blue-jackets, and marines, all the Chinese work-,
containing fully 150 heavy guns, and some dozen
batteries of field-pieces, were carried in spite of a
creditable resistance extending over three hours.
Tire general orders, which will be published, will
tell you of the plan of attack ; it may be comprised
threein sew ences.
First, the heavy vessels, Nimrod, Cormorant,
Fusee, Avalanche, kc., to engage at 10 a.m.
S coed, the small gunboats, Slaney, Staunch,
Bustard, Leven, Opossum ; Firm to tow up seamen
and Marines in two divisions, to carry the works
on right and left banks.
Toird, Pint Division Landing Party—Pique,
Furious, Surprise, and some French, total 400,
under Srt F. Nicholson and Capt. Sherard Osborne.
The Second D.vision—Calcutta's, Fury's, Nim-
rod's men and some seamen of the French squad-
ron ; Captains Hall, Dew, Goodenough, Lechi-, dec.
I must in detail confine myself to what I saw in
the starboard attack.
Yesterday, at 8 a.m_, a letter was sent in calling
on his Imperial Majesty's Commissioner Tan to
surrender all his forts within two hours, as a gua-
rantee for the safety of our ambassadors while
they advanced on the capital. At 10 a.m., at a
signal, the Nimrod and Cormorant took up their
positions, speedily supported by four heavy French-
men. The Tartars opened the ball, and a heavy
well-sustained fire commenced on either side ;
fur casualties you must look to other quarters. I
hear of several, but am not certain. The Tartats
would not leave their guns ; uo gunners could have
behavEd better, considering their materials in guns,
powder, and shot.
About 11 o'clock Sir M. Seymour led up the
landing force, which bowled ashore in the usual
formal array of the British seaman. Dew and San-
marez had, however, effectually shut up such guns
as bore on the points of debarkation, and on the
right bank they took the Point Battery and Square
Fort without any resistance, the garrison, minus
its dead and wounded, wisely retiring at the double
to their camp and a cavalry entrenchment, whence
a heavy fire was being poured upon the gunboats
and some upon the men on shore. Having finished
that portion of our work, the French on our side
took to their boats, and went over to the left bank ;
while the Pique, Furious, and Surprise, with the
Leven, Opossum, Bustard, and Staunch, advanced
on the camps.
It was the prettiest thing of the day, after the
gallant and dashing manner in which Dew and
Saumarez took up their positions within 500 yards
of their respective points of attack, to witness this
attack on the camps.
The Bustard, Opossum, and Staunch covered
our left flank, and took off the attention of the
guns in the entrenched camps. Indeed they were
throughout under much the heaviest fire, the Bus-
tardd the
enemy continued firing on them until the landing
gallantly keeping the lead. In each of these
vessels there were several casualties, aii
party approached and threatened them in flank and
ai-peut took place, and
p heavy had
brass ababout
guns,
we poli4ted off some few of t
rear, when a general sauve-q
the blackguards as they
throwing 681 b. shot, and a
went over the open. By three o'clock we had pos-
session of all the works, and the enemy had re-
treated
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dozen iron guns of a new construction, on capital
must have had about 1,000 men in each, at the
piloeus.ndeErsa,chfocuarm
lowest computation, with abundance of admirable
some, unaccountable reason they did
Division had disembarked, and carried with ease
not advance on the village, consequently all the
garrison escaped and carried off their field guns on
that side.
The explosion of Chinese magazines was, of
course, a serious difficulty in all our advances, and
I hiaar of 40 Frenchmen having gone where French-
men may be said to go when thrown up 100 feet in
the air by some tons of powder. In the evening
the Second Division moved up, embarked in our
own gunboats, supported by Captain Dew (of the
Nin rrod), to our present position of the village
Jos s-house. Had I had my way I should have
pus .bed un all night, and been at daylight at Tien-
tsin, given them two hours more, and then burnt
,lown all the Imperial granaries.
With respect to all the delay in taking this deci-
sive step, I may assure you that Lord Elgin is in
-no way to blame, and it is only by constant pre,-
sure, and by threatening to refer the whole ques-
tion of their inaction home, that the admirals have
Jaeen induced to act at all.
The French admiral I perfectly understand. He
ha, s fitted out his men at our stores. They fire
glish powder and use English rifles ; but be has
a '='pigeon" in Cochin-China to which those nam
lied and inteticli%
a ;14' those articles are to be an

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to do as little as possible hire, w.
second-fiddle.—
11l I wrote to .
you in my last is not&Pkisto
strong, as subsequent events have proved ; and it
you at hoine want a short and decisive action,
instead- of a war extending over years, you had
better put the screw- upon- the Executive, and
authotise Lord Elgin to declare war instanter; far
&dare it he will• not, we all here can.see, without
distinct orderi ; and moreover, if he did, the
admirals would not act•Viprously. vow any old
woman in England, w:th our gunboats behind her,
might, had• she been here, as- some- of us. were,
early in April, have passed up to Tien-tsin and
d ctated a- treaty in just one week's time; As it
is, we have allowed all the. resources of Shantung •
and Chilli to be directed upon this point,- given -
them a mouth in which to employ tens of thou-
sands in digging —entrenchmentN allowed the -
capital to be provisioned by the entry of 900 junks
laden with grain; subjected onrielves to a precious
lot of insult and contumely, and then only attacked
to remain at the mouth of the Prilio unlesaaccident
or opportunity enables us to push up.

I.LILITJLY AID NAVAL INTELLIGENCL

Sir Jobn Pakington held his last levee this sea-
son yesterday at the Admiralty, at which the, fol-
lowing officers were present :—Captains H. Hale,
F. Austen, C. Fitzgerald, E. Norcott, Bowyer, E.
Vansittart, and A. Phillimore ; Commanders W.
Bridge, C. Phillips, S. Brook, W. M'llwaine, H.
Gallwey, J. Risk, C. May, E. Beauchamp, W.
Read, and W. Griffiths ; Lieutenants j.- Boileau,
W. Scrymgonr, A. Carter, and E. Kennett; and
Mr. J. Tomline. _

Admiral Lord Lyons, G.C.8., Sze., accompanied
toy Mr. Al°o..qnon Lyons, his flag lieutenant, re-
turned to Portsmouth yesterday, but not to his
flagship. His lordship has engaged a suite of
rooms at the Portland Hotel, Soutbsoa, where he
will sojourn for the present. Marshal the Duke of
Mal,khoff will join his lordship in a few days.
Rear-Admiral Codrington, C. 13., was yesterday
appoin•ed Admiral Superintendent of Malta dock-
yard, vaunt by the promotion of Vice-Admiral
Stopford.

The Royal Sovereign, 131, screw, went out of
haibmir to-day to "warm" her engines prepara-
tory to trying her speed at the measured mile. She
shimmed about eight or ten miles beyond the Nab
Light to the eastward, and, after proceeding in a
reverse direction as far as Osborne, returned to the
harbcr , ef. • Q(`llb^rne power worked
in beautiful order, and there was very.4llMA•vihra-
tory motion. This preliminary trial was a satis-
factory one to the officer in charge, Captain Gor-
don, of the Hannibal, suptrintendent of the steam
reserve. Weather permitting, she will proceed to
Stok 's Bay on Saturday ; au+, it is expected, will
realise a speed of upwards of 12 knots.
The Victor Ernman uel, 131, screw, Captain Moore,
at Portsmouth received on board yesterday a de-
tachment of Royal Marine Artillery and Marines,
together with about 60 continuous service men
from the Victory.
The Terrible, 21, paddle-frigate, Captain Glasse,
C. 8., the Archer, 13, Captain Sanderson ; and the
Racer, 11, Commander the Hon. T. A. Pakenham,
arrived at Si ithead yesterday from Sheerness and
Woolwich.

Her Majesty's steam-frigate Catalpa, which
arrived at Portland early on Saturday morning,
left under canvas for the eastward on Monday
morning. The Orion, 91, arrived in the night.
Commodore Eden arrive d from the westward in
the Argus sl,camer, on Monday, and inspected the
Blenheim Coastguard ship ; he also went over the
breakwater works with the chief engineer, Mr.
Coode.
The Firefly, 4, paddle-wheel steam ♦essel, Com-
mander George Fiott Day, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday from the west coast of Africa, to strip
and pay off. She immediately proceeded down the
river on a trial trip, in charge of an officer from
the factory department, to test the condition of
her engines and machinery, and it is ascertained
that the vessrl will require extensive repairs, as a
portion of her timbers are rotten, and during the
voyage home she was in a leaky state. The Firefly
has been in commission nearly four years, and
formed part of the Baltic fleet in 1835, under the
crmmand of Captain Henry Charles Otter, now of
the Porcupine.
Mr, John E. Petley, Master Commander of the
Black Eagle, Admiralty steam yacht, this day re-
ceived a case of valuable mathematical instruments
as a preent from Prince Alfred. The present is
accompanined by a letter from his Royal Highness,
who refers to his recent cruise in the Black Eagle
—hopes that the instruments will he useful to Mr.
Petley ; and amongst other matters his Royal
Highness states ho has forwarded a knife for True-
love, the boatswain, as be had not forgotten that he
lost Truelove's knife when they were out in a small
boat. _ _

Admiralty orders have been received at Chitham
for a return of all the steamers ar:d vessels of war
now lying in the Medway attached to the ordinary,
in order to ascertain what vessels are fit for further
active service.

The Oneida is shortly expected at Southampton,
and will take out troops to India. It is expected
that she will sail about the 4th of next month. She
was the first steamer that took out an Australian
mail under the European and Australian Com-
pany's contract, and on her return to Suez she
broke down, and for a long time was supposed to
have gone to the bottom. She has now undergone
a thorough rPpair. Both the Oneida and the Tas-
manian belong to the Royal Mail Company, and
are the only two screw ships possessed by the com-
pany, all their other large ships being side wheels.
The Tasmanian is larger than the Himalaya.
The Royal Mail Company have now two of the
finest and la•gest screw steamers in the world.
They will carry a very large number of troops.
The Falmouth freight-ship has commenced ship-
ping war stores at Chatham for Devonpott dock-
yard.
The reports of our Alalta correspondent reach to
the 22d of July, on which day the ships in port
were, her Majesty's screw line-of-battle ships
Marlborough, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral
Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8., and the Centurion ; the
Hibernia receiving ship, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral the Hon. Sir Montagu Stopford,
superintendent of Malta dockyard ; the screw steam
gun vessels Coquette, Osprey, and Vigilant; the
steam sloop Harpy, and the steam-tug Hearty.
Fler Majesty's screw liners Conqueror and Princess
Royal and steam-frigate Vulture left port on the
15th July, with orders to cruise from a to 15 leagues
distant from Malta between that island and Sicily.
The Ma' lborough, 131, and. the Centurion. were to
leave during the week to join the other ships at the
rendezvous off Cape P. .
assero, after the arrival of
the mail, when the ships, is said, will proceed on
a four months' cruise in the East, visiting Corfu,
where the Admiral will, according to custom, be
invested with the order of Knight Grand Cross of
St. Michael and St. George. The steam despatch
boat Caradoc left on the 15th for Alexandria with
a t-lograun from England ordering Capt. Pullen,
of the Cyclops steam-frigate, now at Suez, to repair
to J ed,lah and demand satisfaction for the late
atrocities committed there upon Christians.
Captain J. Wilcox, C.B. (1850), to the Victor
Etnnoanuel, 91, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth,
vice Moore, whose appointment is cancelled.
Lieutenants L. H. Versturme (1853), to the
Himalaya, iron screw steam store-ship at Devon-
port ; H. Burnaby, to the Perseverance, 2, iron
screw steam troop-ship at Portsmouth ; J. F.
Leuon (1856), to the Argus, 6, paddle-wheel steam
sloop, at Sheerness ; and J. D. A. Irvine (1858),
to the Cornwallis, 60, screw steam-ship, for coast-
guard service in the Humber.
Chaplain the Rev. L. Graham to the Victor
Emmanuel.
Naval Instructor W. D. Hay (1855), to the
Illustrious, 26, training ship, at Ports_louth.
Assistant-Surgeon E. T. Ryan (1800), to the
Pembroke, 60, screw steam-ship, for coast-guard
service at Harwich.
AcVng-A,si,t4ot Surgeons R. Hogar, to the
Fury, 6, paddlewheel steam sloop, East India and
China station ; P. M'Evan (1858), and J. L.
Whitney, to the Boscawen, 70, flag-ship, Cape of
Good Hope station.

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