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H. L. POWYS, MAJoa, chairman.

Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, at ChaMbors.
IN the matter of the Joint-Stock Companies'
Winding-up Acts, 1848 and 1849, and of the Saint George
Benefit Building Society.
By direction of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley,
the Judge to whose Court this matter is attached, Notice is Hereby
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of May, 1858, at Two o'clOck in the Afte•noon, at his Chambers,
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same without leave of the High Court of Chancery first obtained.
Dated this Thirtieth day of April, 1858.
CHAS. 'UGH, Chief Clerk.
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CF. HANCOCK, of Bruton-street and New
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impression which exists amongst some of his customers, that he has
retired, or is about to retire, from business. This impression (which
is entirely unfounded) has probably arisen in consequence of the re-
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Rood-street, but with whom C. F. Hancock is not, and never has
been, in any way connected, either in business or by relationship.

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For Qualification, vide Diplomas and Medical Directory."

YETI'S PORTRAIT.

(Front the Times' Correspondent.)
CALCUTTA RIVER, MARCH 17.
I told you in my last letter from Hongkong that I
intended to accompanyYeh to his place of captivity.
I cannot tell whether the public mind of Eng-
land will take such interest in this man Yeh as I
have taken. I have caught at the opportunity of
accompanying him in this voyage as a chance of
studying Chinese character which has never before
happened, and which may not soon recur.
Hitherto we have been told, and truly told, that
we cannot judge the ruling class of Chinese from
the Coolies, the compradors, and the traders with
whom we are brought into contact, nor from the
half educated " theachers" who are retained
upon a scanty pittance by our sinologues, nor
from the occasional interviews we have had with
high Mandarins. I have been shut up for many
days with the great Chinaman of the present day.
Yeh must be hereafter one of the men of Chinese,
history. a
exercisedlle s
the
highsecond
offices man
o
ofr morethe
than Empire.a
He h 8
quarter of a century. He has ruled with an abso-
lute despotism 30,000,000 of souls. His sentences
have been tortures, his lightest words have been
death. He has been to China what Wentworth
was to Ireland, and wished to be to England. His
policy has been "thorough," and he has been able
to work it out in a reign of terror unrestrained. He
tells with a coarse laugh that he has himself sen-
tenced to death 100,000 of his countrymen and
countrywomen, and he boasts that that estimate
must be quadrupled if we take into account the
towns and villages destroyed by his orders. Yet
after this successful career of ruthless energy he
suddenly adopted towards us a conduct which ap
pears in our eyes to have had no other qualities than
sloth and insolence. He fell, earning from no
Englishman the re:pect due to a gallant enemy, and
he lives execrated by every Chinaman as a traitor
to the ancient suicide-enjoining traditions of his
country. He rose to his great position under a
system of competitive examination, and in a State
where exf cutive ability alone is supposed to
lead to high office, and he is acknowledged
to be of the very first excellence in all the learning
of China.
Such a man must be a great problem. If I fail to
soave it, I may, at any rate, supply to others the
materials for a solution. I hope this is sufficient
excuse for having constituted myself the Boswell of
this terrible Johnson.
anldnrahthiserptearsllomnaaln appearance
firanveceteYeet ehliesveanv,a
long thin Chinese moustache and beard, remark-
ably receding forehead, a skull in which what the
phrenologists call " veneration" is much developed with stout
Ittliue
a
a certain degree of rotundity behind the ear, and a
moderate development of the back head. Shorn
nearly to the crown, and very thinly covered with
hair in that part where the Chinese mostly culti-
vate their hair, our Mandarin offers every facility
for craniological examination. His tail is very
paltry, very short and very thin. The smallest
porker in China has a better tail than her highest
Mandarin.
His face is heavy. There is more chin than you
usually see in a Chinaman—more jowl and jaw,
indicative of will and obstinacy. The nose is long
and flat, the nostrils forming one side of a very ob-
tuse angle. Seen in profile the nose is very re •
markable and very ugly ; in the front face this,
the most simial expression of the man's countenance
is mitigated. The e 3 e—that round slit Mongolian
eye—is the most expressive feature of the man
who is sitting opposite to me, and looking rather
auspiciously at me as lam now WI iting. In his
ordinary mood there is only a look of shrewd-
ness and quick cunning in this, the only mobile
feature of his face ; but I have seen him in the
turning moments of his life, when those eyeballs
glared with terror and with fury. He has a large
protruding mouth, thick lips, and very black teeth,
for, as he remarks, " it never has been the custom
of his family to use a toothbrush." It is, however,
a very common custom in some Chinese families,
as any one may see who walks the streets of Canton
aid notioes the Coolies and small traders at their
ablutions.
He does not wear long nails. He says he has been
too busy all his life to do so. His hands, as is
almost universally the case in China, are small and
well shaped. The same occupations which have pre-
vented him from growing his pails seem to have kept
him from washing his bands. I think I can remem-
ber, however, that when first taken the nails wore of
Chinese growth,
No habit of looking at Yeh deadens the feeling of
shi
csi ieoafinrye ofby
through
thisoisu hg uhtgi ema feapctreaomfii nii
lsr
tiprri lss. io
withnTwi he
hisi
Englishthe
ee
pxs
features,
rheel
e
sketched by Major Crealock at the moment when he
was brought in a prisoner. This has been copied
and recopied and lithographed by the Chinaman of
Hongkong, and sent home to England in hundreds
of letters. It has been sometimes thought to be a
caricature, and in the lithograph there is some ex-
aggerition. But the original sketch is the most
striking likeness I ever saw. I stood at the Major's
side while he was pencilling, and we compared the
portrait with the man. It is tine it was taken in a
moment of mental terror, while the prisoner's eyes
were ranging round a large room in quest of a
headsman and his sword ; but in his quiet moments
the expression, although mitigated iu degree, is the
same in character—a face of dull, heavy, stolid, im-
pas - able ci uelty.
There is strong will, there is dogmatic persever-
ance, there is immovable inert resistance, but there
is no active courage in that face, uor in that heart
When Captain Key seiz- d his vast carcase shook
with terrer, and he completely lost all presence of
mind. Perhaps this is not to be much wondered
at. Fifty blue-jackets, with drawn swords and re-
volvere, were dancing round him like madmen,
flourishing their cutlasses, throwing up their hats,
and cheeritg at the top of their voices. He might
well believe that his last moment was come. But
a man who had sent so many thousands to their
great account might be expected to meet ilia own

, . .
fate with dignity. Yeh was not equal to this. He Inflexible. Yeh's retinue consists of a cook, a bar-
shook, ho made gestures of submission, he denied her, two waiting servants, and a military attendant.
his identity, ho would have fallen had not Captain This last person was with our usual absurd practice
Key held him up. In the presence of the Admirals of dignifying Chinamen with European titles called
his fright was ill-concealed by an assump• ion of im- an aide-de-camp. He is a military Mandarin of the
prudence. When Captain Hall took him on board sixth degree. He is also a dirty fellow, doing me-
the Inflexible he trembled violently as he went up vial offices about the person of his chief, and mess-
the ladder, and when on board he eagerly inquired ing with the other servants upon the meats that go
whether he was to be put to death. As soon as he from his master's table. If he were an Englishman
had ascetteined that it was not our custom to kill we should call him at best a soldier servant, or an
our prisoners he seemed quite contented. As he orderly.
had previously considered his death certain, so he After Yeh had manifested his acquaintance with
now became c mvinced of his absolute security. entomology, the "aide-de-camp" and the domestics
During all these early scenes, however much he were compelled to wash, and some strong hints were
suffered from the infirmity of bodily fear, his arro- thrown out to their master. The washing was
gance never, after the first moment, forsook him. grumbled at asa tyranny, and the hints were thrown
I have in a former letter related his behaviour to away.; so nothing was left but to hope almost
the Admiral when interrogated by him as to the against hope that the Mandarin himself is free from
fate of Cooper and other European captives: This, vermin, and to continue to scrub the attendants.
however, was the impudence of despair. When The southern Chinese are for the most part of
Capt. Hall took him off in his boat he refused to cleanly habits; but the northerns are dirty. Yell is
sit by his side in the stern sheets, but squatted on from Hupeh, which is one of the five northern pro-
the thwart opposite, thereby rendering it necessary vinces.
to lay in the No. 8 oar, but still not avoiding fre- ! Yeh sleeps in a recess in the captain'scabin, which
quent digs in the back from the knuckles of the he prefers to a separate sleeping berth. He goes
No. 7 oarsman. to bed about 8 o'clock, and while we are reading or
As soon as he became composed on board the In- writing, or playing chess, he sleeps the sleep of in-
flexible he took up those childish tricks which have fancy—an unbriiken slumber, apparently undis-
sometimes embarrassed our diplomatists by their turbed by visions of widowed women or wailing
simple impudence. He had come to the ship sidely orphans. This man-killer, after slaying his hun-
to see Lord Elgin, and wondered he had not kept ' dred thousand human beinga; -enjoys sweeter sleep
his appointment. He had determined not to wait thau au innocent Landon alderman after a turtle
for him much longer. He refused his autograph dinner. So false are traditions ;so false are the
when Sir Jehn Bowring, with doubtful taste, remorseful scenes of Greek and Roman and English
asked him for it, because he said it was impossib!e tragedies.
toe rite an iudifferent sentence in Chinese—every But, although our great Mandarin is at peace
word can be distorted to some hidden meaning. ' with his own Chinese conscience, he has an evident
The Chinese Minister evidently believed that we horror of his living countrymen. He has "lost
considered him still as a person from whom a treaty face" with them, and the greatest fear he has is the
might be obtaieed, and he was prepared to make a being made an exhibition to a Chinese rabble. We
good diplomatic tight. ..e, were malicious enough to ask whether he would
At first he treated Mr. Alabaster, the interpre- like to go to Hongkong:He answered, just as
ter appointed to attend him, with infinite rudeness • the father of a serious family might answer, that it
and contempt. He was magnificent and theatrical • never had been the custom of his family to go to
in his answer to Lord Elgin's messaze conimuni- ' races•
eating to him that he was to go to Calcutta. He 1 The day before we stlrted many curious people
refused all conversation, telling Mr. Alabaster that I came off to see him, and Yeh became very sulky.
he knew he was a spy put over him to report all he Sir John Bowring got very little out of his inter-
might say. Mr. Alabaster, of course, replied that view. He did not even reuipt mate Sir John's coin-
he was not a spy, but a public servant ;and that I phment of asking him his age, and when Sir John
Yeh, himself a great officer, must know that it was asked whether he could do anything for him, Yeh
his duty to report to his superiors. In one of the only remarked that Mr. Alabaster was there, and
earliest interviews I had with him I was careful to he would tell him. The Admiral was present at
make him understand the functions which I was the same time. Yeh is very fond of the Admiral and
discharging. Mr. Alabaster exhibited to him a copy spoke to him with more cordieli,y. The Bishop of
of the Times, at the size whereof he seemed greatly Victoria also sought an interview, not wishing how -
astonished. I told him that the learned men of the ever, to be introduced to him by his official title,
Western world were much perplexed upon ques- lest he should be thought to be paying too much
tions of Chinese government and philosophy, and respect to such a man. The fear was ungrounded,
that I should consider myself fortunate if he thought for the Chinaman knows nothing of epi copal rank,
fit through me to inform them upon these subjects. and if there is any profession for which a proud
At this time his reply was usually either a grunt or Chinese literate entertains a supreme contempt, it
a grin ; he answered my appeal with a grunt. is for that of the priesthood of all faiths, Bhuddist
This uncomfortable state of suspicion gave way emphatically included.
under the judicious treatment of the high authori- On Monday, the 23d of February, tke Inflexible
ties. When he found that Lord Elgin took nts notice steamed out of Hong 'icing harbour, and Yeh might
of him, unless to send curt messages inquiring after
his personal comfort—when he saw that, while if he had pleased, have taken his last look for some
treating him with all respect, and doing all be time of the shores of his native land. If he felt any
could of the bitterness of exile he was successful in con
for his convenience, Captain Brooker paid no
attention to where he s it, or what ho wore, or how sealing it, for lie was entirely occupied in smoking
he demeaned himself—when he discovered that no
one wished to make him sign any treaty, or to his pipe and settling himself comfortably. A few
minutes after and we had rounded the green island
thatthe treatment he received
sad his true position, and
ques- and the steamer danced tothe piping of the strong
tion him upon topics which he declined to enter upon, north-west monsoon. [ was on deck watching the
he gradually relaxed. I think tjaat before we left familiar objects of the harbour as they receded, and
Hong Kong he had recceen
P thinking regretfully that some frieudships which I
hadconvinced himself
was only the respect accorded to a prisoner of high most valued there had been dimmed by the strong
line I had felt it my duty to take upon some public
rank, whose power for good or for evil had passed questions, when sounds cams through the c dein
away. He gave up playing the high Mandarin, skylight like the strains and groans of Etna. The
conversed with affability upon indifferent subjects, pipe and the little cakes, flavoured potently with
preferred a request for a daily ration of six pounds pork fat, even the frequent thimbli-fuls of saunshu
of fresh pork, presented a portion of his stock of had been unavailing to fortify the great stomach Of
oranges to the Ward-room mess, and begged to be the great Mandarin. The " aide-de-camp" was in-
allowed to send for a full supply of Chinese tobacco. capable of aid ; the servants and the cook had crept
Up io this time the only occasions upon which he into corners to die. Poor Captain Brooker's cabin
manifested any vivacity were upon discussions as to was in an awful state.
his food. His Chinese cook was sent for, and ar- For three days this condition of things continued.
rived at the last moment with great stores of Judging from the sounds the Viceroy might be
Chinese comestibles, to his immense satisfaction. throwing up his two -provinces of Quangsi and
Visitors annoyed him. He was, or pretended to be, Quaugtung. It must be admitted, however, that
much shocked at the dress of an English lady. He he struggled manfully with his m lady. To use
kept his eyes studiously turned from her, and re- his own expression, his stomach was excruciated
marked afterwards that her throat was not covered.
M and his bowels required nursing ; but he mani-
r. Alabaster showed him some portraits in an
fe,te,i all a Chinaman's courage of endurance. On
Illustrated News of ladies in balroom dress. Y,h the fourth day he even returned to his pipe, and re-
was scandalised; that women should wear bedgowns quired his slowly recovering cook to prepare him
was proper, but that they should be painted in their breakfast. He does not love mutt •n—it is Tatter
bedeowns was atrocious. food; he does not eat beef, fur it is written by Gin-
When left alone he wou'd climb up to the stern- fucius, " Thou shalt not slaughter the labouring
ports and look out upeu Hongkong, but he never ox." This is n, t a superstition, but an ethical and
could be prevailed upon to say any more of the city and economical obeervance. It is ungrateful to
of Victoria than that it was " Hu)," " Good." If slaughter the animal that produces rice, and it is
any one came down while be was looking out he re- contrary to Chinese notions of good policy to kill
turned gravely to his seat, rather anuoyed at being creatures that till the earth. Yell does not drink
detected in so undignified a curiosity. milk, nor will he eat biscuits prepared with milk ;
Yeh is in his private life a very respectable China, but he explains that this is not because lie is a
man. He is entirely free from all suspicion of those Bhuddist, for that many who are not Bhuddists
detestable habits common to his countrymen, and do not drink milk. while the Bhuddists of Mary-
notorious.
for which even the virtuous K.ying was but too chouria are fond 'of it, If—which I very much
He smokes no opium ; his ordinary doubt—he is of any religion, he belongs to that
drink is only warm tea ; he uses samshu only as a higher sect of Bhuddists who are above all forms of
medicine. He has sent his only wife, under the abstinence or idol worship, and place their devotion
sity on this topic,
protection of his father, to his native village. He in iffteusis inner aspirations for perfections.
spoke of his concubines, but, as I could not tell As lie recovered from. his sea sickness he grew
how far it might be wrong in his eyes to show curio- more communicative and conversational than he
I did not learn their number or had ever been before. As we left Singapore bar-
destination. He has no son, but has adopted a hour he looked like a man who had ha•l a load re-
nephew,
who is now 24 years old, and is pursuing moved from his mind. I believe his feeling was
his studies at Pekin.
that he bad got away for a time from big own
He eats twice a-day of four or five succulent county mite and was no longer in danger of meet-
dishes, anti lie has the good sense to eat rice with ing the people in whose eyes he had "lost face."
each dish, not reserving it for the end of the dinner, He now talked fluently upon everysubject to which
as
the Chinese do at their feasts. He drinks no- we led him, and I shall best convey his opinions
thing while eating by transcribing these conversations discursively as
. •
His devotions consist of sitting in the posture of I noted them. Let me remark here, once for all,
a Chinese idol, his legs crossed, and his face to the that Mr. Alabaster is so far as my experience goes,
east. He remains in an abstracted state for about a unique instance of a youth who has learnt to con-
ten minutes, andthe act of devotion is accomplished, verse fluently in Mandarin after only two years'
When he first came on board he retired into this study. In terms of philosophy and art difficulties of
contemplative state several times a-day. He after- translation must of necessity occur, but apart
wards became much more remiss and once a_day from these I never bear the interpreter obliged to
appeared to suffice him. He uses no idol and when ask Yeh to repeat what he has said, and very
asked whether he wished for any facilities for per- rarely find that Yeh requires the interpreter to
forming his devotions privately, replied that he repeat. I consider myself verb fortunate in my
wanted nothing of the sort. I imagined that this medium of conversation with this great Confucian.
was an act of devotion according to the custom of The topic upon which Yeh talks moat freely is
the higher sect of the Buddhists ; but one day, his success iu putting down the rebellion in Quang-
when be was in special good humour, he con- tung. He insists that there was no one chief of
descended to explain wh
he turned himself to the these rebels, and that their only objects were rape
east, instead of to thew at, which is the birthplace and robbery. He says that the persons execrated
of Buddha. He said if he were praying he should by his order were over 100,000, and he reluctantly
turn to the w ; but he is not praying. He turns admits that he was unable to extripate the whole
totheeast
becauseest
the east is the :' sang chi" class. He is able to estimate the numbers he sent
....the principle_ of life, as the west is the ptinciple to execution, because he was obliged to make
of death. He He says the four cardinal points agree periodical reports to Pekin of the progress of the
the
thisfour seasons—the north is the winter, the work of extermination. The ordinary rule of
-'s summer, the east is the spring, and Chinese law is that no criminal can be put to death
the west. is the autumn. We. asked him what without the special warrant of the Emperor ; but
Taoli this " was,s
~" Confucian 7" "Yes." "Bud- this was an extraordinary case. He was armed with
dhist ?" , xe • " Taouist 7" " Yes. It i 3 a general warrant to destroy rebels, and he reported
more ancient even_. than Confucius. It is the ancient his proceedings under ite He declares that no indi-
cereraonial of ()tuna." " Are the Taoli of Coufu- vidual was put to death without being previously
cius and Buddha and Laotzn all subordinate to examined by bina. The course was this :—They
swoiuthtla i
the ancient Taoli of China ?" " Yes ; they are all were first examined by the local authorities, then
included in it. Front the time there was an east they were tried before the judge, then they went
there was this Taoli." before the Lieutenant-Governor, and lastly they
In the practice of that virtue which we Westerns were brought before Yeh himself, He says that he
are glad to rank next to godliness Yeh is certainly acquitted a small proportion. Notwithstanding my
conspicuous. A more undesirable messmate repeated questions he would not commit himself to
commander of a ship of war can scarcely be any specific proportion,—" They were not many,
'
Hespits, he. s. inpkee, he
egds his nose with
com hifoit of pocket handker- I asked whether be ever spared any one on ac-
., a s fingers. Capt. Brooker deuce."
has eructates, and for they were generally accused upon good evi-
nfio mohertabt
taught
hai ooneu
blows
hits the
chief, but not to use it for this purpose, His daily count of youth, or because she was a woman, or by
ablutions consist of a slight rubbing of the face reason of station or good character, or whether it
with a towel moistened hotinni water. He has a was a mere question with him of innocence or
horror of fresh air, and
deck.wltie in Chinese waters guilt. The answer was—" I never spared the
went on He
never willingly loved to have guilty." I asked what the nature of the evidence
the skylights d
the ports closed and
He wears thickly padded
Stockings, the long, "We had our spies among them and their neigh-
blue-sleeved, quilted cape, and blue pantaloons tied hours informed."
the ankle, common to all Chinamen. He boasts " Was not this liable t ) abuse, and might not
that he has worn his outer coat for 10 years, and such testimony be adduced for purposes of extor-
its appearance justifies his assertion ;it is stiff with non or revenge ?"—"lmpossible. They would have
grease. lit hen we drew nsar to Singapore, within been afraid. Had I found such a case I should
one degree of the line, the., heat became frightful. have punished the witnesses and his wife and
His practice thenlwas, whileBtealning with libations children."
of hot tea, to strip off his coat and sit in his long " Would you have put the wife and children of
yellow grass cloth shirt, wet and discoloured—a a perjured witness to death 7"—" No."
most disgusting object. Did you. ever discover such cases?"—Occasion-
Once, after six weeks' confinement, he gravely ally, but very seldom. If they perjured themselves
intimated his intention of taking a bath : deeply I cut their heads off, and inflicted minor
and he was eagerly reminded of what he penalties on their families."
bad been more than once informed, that The treatment of European prisoners was a topic
there was a most comfortable bathroom on that required to be approached with great caution,
the deck, quite at his daily service. That or he would grunt or grin, and retire into silence.
was not at all Yeh's idea of a bath. The cabin was When he does talk upon this matter he insists that
given up to him and his domestics, and a small pan no European was ever brought before him. They
of boiling water. We all hoped that he had cleansed were buried, he says, in the malefactors cemetery,
himself, but when we saw him again he was still outside the Eastern gate, and marks were placed
wearing his old greasy, unwashed jacket. by which the local authorities can still point out
Considerable alarm was at one time entertained the graves. I have sent a note of this statement
as to whether the great man did not encourage a to Mr. Parkes, and hope it may lead to an investi-
class of parasites not usually tolerated by great gation that may clear up the mystery as to the
men. Mr. Alabaster saw to his horror an unknown, identity of these persons, and may satisfy us as to
but most suspicious insect, crawling within the the truth or falsehood of the story of the
poison-
sacred precincts of the captain's cabin. It was not inns. To the latter I never dared allude. It would
by the Mandarin's agency that the action of Peter have been of no use. Yeti's talent for adroit lying
Tindal's great epic was re-enacted on board the amounts, as I shall hereafter have more special