The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-28 00:00:00

7th Regiment Light Cavalry.

Killed—Lieut. L.A. Arthur.

Wounded—Capt. C. W. Radcliff, dangerously (since
dead); Capt. T. T. Boileau, slightly ; Veterinary Surgeon
F. A. Hely, dangerously (since dead).
Her Majesty's 22d Regiment of Foot.

Killed—Lient:P. O. Webb.

Wounded—Major E. W. D. Lowe, slightly ; Captain
W. Power, dangerously (since dead) ; Lieut. J. Edmon-
stoup°, severely ; Lieut. C. M. Foster, slightly ; Lieut.
E. Harmar, severely ; Lieut. H. Cooke, slightly ; Lieut.
J. W. Charlton, dangerously ; Ensign W. H. Studdy,
mortally (since dead).
Detachment of her Majesty's Bth Regiment of Foot.
Wounded—Lieut. D. O'Brien, severely.
13th Regiment Native Infantry.

Killed—Major Bruere.
Wounded—Capt. D. P. Waterman, slightly ; Cap
R. B. Francis, mortally (since dead).
41st Regiment Native Infantry.
Wounded—Capt. M. F. Beiable, severely ; Lieut.
H. Inglis, severely ; Ensign G. L. K. Hewett, slightly,

48th Regiment Native Infantry.
Wounded—Lieut. and Adjutant 0. L. Smith, severely
(accidentally) ; Lieut. C. W. Fletcher, severely ; Lieut.
A. J. Dashwood, slightly( since dead of cholera); Lieut.
D. Hay, slightly ; Ensign H. 0. O'Dowds, slightly;
Surgeon W. W. Wells, slightly.
61st Regiment Native Infantry.
Wounded—Capt. G. Strangways, slightly ; Surgeon
W. Brydoo, severely.
Officers not belonging to the Oude Brigade.
Killed—Major J. S. Banks, 33d Regiment Native
Infantry.

Wounded—Lieut. H. S. Lester, 32d Regiment Native
Infantry, mortally (since deao); Ensign R. L. Inglis,
63d Regiment Native Infantry, slightly.
Oude Irregular Force.
Wounded—Major of Brigade, Capt. G. R. P. Barlow,
slightly (since dead).
let Oude Irregular Cavalry.
Wounded—Capt. H. Forbes, slightly.
2d Oude Irregular Cavalry.
Killed—Lieutenant J. S. Shepherd.
3d Oude Irregular Cavalry.
Wounded-.-Lient. F. W. Graham, twice slightly.
6th Regiment Oude Infantry.
Wounded—Capt. W. H. Hawes, severely ; Lieut. G.
Grant, dangerously (since dead).
9th Regiment Oude Infantry.
Wounded—Lient. J. A. Vanrenen, slightly.
Assistant Chaplain.
Wounded—Rey. H. S. Polehampton, severely (since
dead of cholera).
Ordnance Departmeat.
Wounded—Permanent Conductor P. Baxter, severely
(since dead). _

'Gentlemen of the Civil Service.
Killed—M. C. Omrnaney, Esq., Judicial Commis-
sioner.

Wounded—Deputy Commissioner of Mullaon, W. C.
Capper, Esq,, slightly ; Officiating Deputy Commis.
sioner at Goodall, G. H. Lawrence, El., severely ;
Assistant Commissioner of Lucknow, J. G. Thornhill,
El., slightly.

Civil Engineers.
Weunded—J- M'Rae, Esq,, severely ; J. Casey,
severely (since dead of cholera).

Abstract.
Killed and Died of their Wounde.
Officers
Gen.leman of the civil service 1
Warrant dicer 1
—l9

Wounded.

Officers .
Gentlemen of the civil service
Civil engineers
Assistant chaplain
—4l
Total
—6O
T. F. WILSON, Captain,
Officiating Deputy Assistant-Adjutant-General.
J. INGLis, Brigadier,
Commanding Lucknovv Garrison.

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Return of Killed and Wounded of the Garrison of
Lucknow, from June 30 to Sept. 26, 1857.
General and Brigade Staff—Killed and died of
wounds, 1 European officer ; wounded, 3 ditto officers.
Artil ery (R-4utar and Irregular)—Killed and died of
wounds, 2 Eur peen officers, 2 ditto warrant officers
and staff sergeants, 6 ditto non-oomnaissiened officeie,
1 ditto bugler er drummer, and 13 ditto private 4 and
gannern, total 24 ; wounded 6 European officers, 2
ditto warrant officers and staff sergeants, 6 ditto non-
commissioned officers, 1 ditto bugler or drummer, and
10 ditto privates and gunnere, total 25; killed and died
of wounds, 3 native non-commissioned officers, and 8
ditto rank and file, total 11 ; wounded ditto commis-
sioned officer, 2 ditto non-commissioned officers, 1 ditto
drummer, and 6 ditto rank and file, total 10.
Engineers—Killed and died of wounds, 2 European
officers, and 2 ditto warrant officers and staff sergeants,
total 4 ; wounded, 1 ditto warrant officer and staff
sergeant.
7th Regiment Light Cavalry—Officers killed and died
of wounds, 2 European officers, 1 ditto veterinary
surgeon, and 1 ditto warrant officer and staff sergeant,
total 4; wounded, 1 ditto office*.
Her Majesty's 32d Foot—Killed and died of wounds,
3 ofThaers, 9 nonecommissioned officers, 2 buglers or
drummers, and 70 privates and gunners, total 84 ;
wounded, :6 officers, 15 non-commissioned officers,
buglers or drummers, and 114 privates and gunners,
total 139.
Detachment her Majesty's 84th Foot—Killed and
died of wouncl4, 2 non-commissioned officers, and 10
privates and gunners, total 12 ; wounded, 1 officer and
2 privates and gunners, total 3.
13th Regiment Nati.e Infantry—Killed and died of
wounds, 2 European officers ; wounded, 1 ditto
officer ; killed and died of wounds, 2 native commis-
gloried officers, 6 ditto non-commissioned officers, 3 ditto
drummers, and 18 ditto rank and file, total2B; wounded,
7 ditto commissioned officers, 9 ditto non-commissioned
officers, 2 ditto drummers, and 34 ditto rank and file,
total 52.
Detachment 41st Native Infantry (officers and
drummers)—Killed and died of wounds, 1 European
warrant officer and staff sergeant ; wounded, 3 ditto
officers ; killed and died of wounds, 5 nativo drummers.
48th Regiment Native Infantry—Wounded, 5 Euro.
pean officers, 1 ditto surgeon, total 4 ; killed and died
of wounds, 2 native non-commissioned officers, and 1
ditto rank and file, total 3 ; wounded, 1 ditto commie-
'dotted officer, 2 ditto non-cornmissioned officers, 1 ditto
drummer, and 3 ditto rank and file, total 7.
71st Regiment Native Infantry—Killed and died of
wounds, 1 European warrant officer and staff sergeant ;
ditto
wounded, 1 ditto officer and 1 ditto surgeon—total 2 ;
killed and died of wounds, 1 native commissioned
officer, 2 ditto non-commissioned officers and rank and
ale, total 9; wounded, 1 ditto commissioned officer, 6
:1:1-071,40natuiecesri:n;ed officers, and 6 ditto rank and
file total 12.
aOude Irregular Force--Killed and died of wountb,
nduropee
3 ditto tonm-coo
e died and
'minded, 5 ditto officers ; killed
1 ditto of
urnsrana:ls, 1 native non-commissioned officer,
1:1,1 1 ditto so war, total 3; wounded,
Pensioners matlia:i7edxo.fficers and 10 ditto sowers,
non-commissioned officers and 7 rank('
total 13.
esioned officers and 16 rank and
wounded, 15 non-coaatm• aiendd ofifielotuontdals,,92;
filex—etotal,at3ivie.
Levies—Killed, a d d a
commissioned officer and i - '''' ie- of wounds 1
wounded, 4 rank and file. rank and file—total-2 • .
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Qqi
lu:
enaki ie1:1 end2d
e ,
Lucknow Magazine—Killed and European warrant officers and Eitaff died
of wounds, 3 and died of woaufitnieda.sc,b2edutatl
ivtuii:Onukde4
dittooffircaeurl.ne
not
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died of w onnds, 2 European officers ; oundisd, 1 ditto
officer.
) .N.B.—One member of the. civil service killed, and
0 three wounded-1 military chaplain wounded--2 civil

engineers wounded, also 15 gentlemen of the uncove-
nanted service and others killed and 9 wounded— are
not included in the above.
(Examined.)
T. F. WILSON, Captain,
Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General.
J. Nous, Brigadier,
commanding Lucknow Garison.
(True copies.)
R. J. H. BIRCH, Colonel,
Secretary to the Government of India in the
Military Departuxent.

THE MARCH OF THE CAMERON MEN.

" Ohl proudly they follow their chief to he field."
Never did traditional ballad contain a line more
truthful in its application than this to the 79th
Cameron Highlanders. Sir Colin Campbell, their
chief, sailed for India in July, and ere that month
had expired, the 79th Highlanders had also em-
barked to
" The land of 6he East, and clime of the sun."

The regiment's embarkation was effected with so
much order and good conduct that it became the
subject of eulogistic remark in the Dublin Garrison
Orders of that date.
On the first day of August, then, the clipper-
ship Walmer Castle sailed from Kingston harbour
with the head quarters and body of thei79th Regi-
ment on board, and
" With white Bails flowing the seas beyond,"
the continued

"To plough a furrow in the deep,,,
until the Ist November, when the monotony of the
voyage was broken by the vessel casting anchor in
the roadstead of Madras.
Here it was that the regiment peruned for the
first time, with a thrill of horror, the accounts of
the unparalleled atrocities which had been perpe-
trated in the Bengal Presidency. The mtn gathered
on the deck in groups, and repeated to each other
whispers those stories of treachery by which so many
brave men have been sacrificed, and those ghastly
tales of ruthless violence by which so many helpless
and unoffending women and children have been
sacrificed. Revenge, or a feeling much' akin to it,
seemed to take possession of men and Officers ; at
least, all became animated by a deep desire to in-
flict a condign punishment on beings who, by their
deeds, have cast a stigma on the human species.
But the Madras authorities detained these 500 able
soldiers for more than six and thirty hours, though
a favourable breeze was blowing, which would have
carried them on in but a short time to Calcutta.
No wonder, then, that the pipes played without
ceasing
" Hey Johnnie Cope, are ye wauki& yet ?"
The sequel to this unnecessary delay was, that on
the third day from leaving Madras thel wind fell,
and for an entire week the Walmer Castle lay be-
calmed off the Coromandel coast, literally
"As idle as a nainted ship
Upon a painted ocean."
At length the welcome breeze returned, but being
from the Nil it involved a constant tacking and
re-tacking, so that a fortnight more elaPsed before
the ship began to stem the swelled waters of the
Ganges, aided by a steam-tug. It was on the 27th
November that the Walmer Castle at last dropped
anchor in front of what travellers have. been went
to call the City of Palaces—Calcutta.
These Cameron men are deserving of all praise
for their conduct during the voyage ; crime was
unknown, and the most perfect harmony pervaded
all ranks—the defaulter books being the only closed
during the passage.
- The left wing of he regiment havinibeen tran-
shipped at Point de Galle into the steamer Simoom,
had already arrived, and were in actual possession
of the Town Hall of Calcutta. Circumstances con-
sidered, it were impossible to have devoted that
noble building to a more rational purpose. Au
artist would have found good subject matter for his
pencil in delineating the picturesque tableaux
which its inside presented—here, a stalwart High-
lander might have been seen standing with folded
arms against some statue by the hand of a Chau-
trey, tie Herculean proportions of the former vie-
fug in their development with those of the latter ;
and there, a son of Scotia, wrapped in slumber, lay
reclining at the feet of some beautiful women whose
portrait, painted by the brush of a Winterhalter,
adorned the lofty wall.

The 30th of November being St. Andrew's Day,
in the evening the officers of the regiment gave a
dinner at one of the principal hotels, to which about
sixty Calcutta residents, of whom so many were
Scotch, were invited. After the repast, which was
in itself good and excellently served, suoceeded
toasts, wherein the past, the present, and the future
were all severally alluded to—then

" Wild and high the Cameron's gathering rose,"
and the regimental pipers entered playing one of
those wild and spirit-like pibrochs that so entrance
and thrill the heart ; by and bye this merged into
the lively quickness of a strathspey. A reel l a
reel neish I neish I" was now the cry ; and now
all seemed inspired and dancing. Dervish-like
commenced the maddening " Hielind Fling" and
" Reel of Tulloch." Rarely had the inhabitants of
Calcutta seen a "St. Andrew's Nioht" so well sus-
tained ; it brought back to them
" The days of mild langsyne."

On the 2d Dec. the left wing marched from their
quarters in the Town Hall, and commenced their
"up country" journey, going by railway so far as
Raneegunge. On the following morning the right
wing, head-quarters of the regiment, paraded at
Fort-William for a similar purpose, and their pro-
gress to that point of the river where it is requi-
site to cross over for the railway station was a com-
plete ovation. As the steamer left its moorings the
band commenced playing " Partant pour la Syrie ;"
the crowd on shore reciprocated with a loud cheer.
The bayonets of the soldiers glistened in the sun,
while bright eyes sparkled with a responding gleam
on the river's hank, and fair hands waved snow-
white handkerchiefs, to which feathered bonnets
were doffed in reply. The whole was one of those
unique scenes in a soldier's life. That evening the
whole regiment found itself encamped at Ranee-
gunge, where the railway terminates, at a distance
of 130 miles from Calcutta. Here it is intended the
regiment should remain in quietness till the end of
the week—it is the calm before the storm—the
pause made by the lieu before springing on the
treacherous tiger.
Toe Queen's Btys (2d Dragoon Guards) and part
of the 20,:h R gimeut are also hero enceimped. The
20th, however, proceed on to-morrow by bullock
waggons.

lianeegunge, Dec. 8, 1857.
—Edinburgh Courant.

OHINA.

We take the following summary of China news
from the Over/and China Mail of the 16th of
December :

Our readers out of China will doubtless be anxi-
ously looking for news by this mail of the bombard-
ment and capture of Canton, and, if so, they aro
doomed to disappointment, for though the prepara-
tions are well nigh or altogether eompleted, (nothing
has yet been done beyond the drawing the blockade
closer round Canton), in which proceeding, as will
be seen from the following official notice, taken
from the Gazette, the French squadron is now
taking part :

" NAVAL DIVISION OF INDO-CHINA, CABINMT OF THE
ADMIRAL.

" Macao Roade, Dec. 10.
" Mon. le Minietre,—lbave the honour to forward to
your Excellency copy of the notification of the blockade
of the Canton River by the naval forces of his Majesty
the E;aperor of the French, which are placed under my
orders, which blockade I declare established from the
12th of the current month.—l have the honour to be,
Monsieur le Ministre, your Excellency's very humble
and very obedient servant,
"The Rear-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the
Naval Division of his Majesty the Emperor of the
French,
" C. RIGAULT de GENOUILLY."
" TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER-PLENIPOTENTIARY

OP HER MAJESTY THE QUERN 0/ GRBAT BRITAIN, &C.
"Naval Division of Indo-China, Cabinet of the Admiral,
Frigate Nemesis, 10th Dec., 1857.
" I, the undersigned, Rear.A.dmiral, Commander-in-
Chief of the Naval Forces of his Majesty the Emperor
of the French in the China and India Seas :
"After coming to an understanding with the High
Commissioner of his Imperial Majesty on the pending
difficulties between the Government of France and that
of China, on the means of terminating them, on tha
resolutions of the Governments of France and England
to proceed by oommon action for the reparations which.
are due to them, and in virtte of the powers appertaining.
to me as Commander-in-Chief, declare : From the 12th
day of the current month the river and port of Canton
and their ou,lets will be held in a state of effectiv,
blockade by the naval forces placed under my command,
acting in concert with the naval force of Her Britannic
Majesty. Any vessel attempting to violate the blockade,
will be proceeded against according to international law,
and the treaties in force with neutral Powers.
. _

"C. RIGAUETdc6ENOIIIILLY.
On board 11.1. M. Frigate LoNernosia, MEWS'') RoAda,
10th December, 1857."

The two squadrons are to act in concert, and in
taken of the alliance, the British, on the 13th,
raft
hoisted the French, and the French the British,
flags at the main on board the men-of-war. For-
merly the blockading force was stationed at the
Bogue, and little interruption was given to native
cdated.
Plying ou the river, buta note from the fleet,
the u
j9th, tells us that from 40 to 50 junks are
\
t;rilecl. back daiiy at Whampoa, and that another
t
le'el'acle has been established at Hyacinth Island,
branchttte of nction of Fatee Cree with the Fan
thts river ; the natural k consequenceatsh is, the

entailment of muoh misay in Canton frOm scarcity
of food.

Of rumours regarding the movements of the
forces, we have enough and to spare, but little
definite has transpired. Diplomacy continues re-
markably silent; we gather, however, that Yeh
has been addressed by Lord Elgin and Baron Gros
separately, and that, failing his acceptance of their
conditions, the combined force will, in few words,
knock Canton about his ears. A notification in
the name of the two Plenipotentiaries is in circula-
tion along the river, warning the inhabitants of the
impending contingency, and urging them to look to
themselves ; and some copies, we understand, have
been sent into the suburbs for distribution. As
nothing is further from probability than that Yoh
will surrender unconditionally, the assault on the
city, it is pretty evident, will take place in the
course of a few days. All the Marines are in the
and
a portion were to land on the Heinen
aide.
The artillery are on board the troop-ship
river,
Mooresfort, ready to start. The party of Engineers
arrived by the mail steamer, with, it is said, 4 com-
panies of the 59th Regiment, are under orders to
embark on board of the Lancashire Witch ;
and about 300 of the Chinese Coolie corps go up in
the Inflexible. The steam transport Hesper, under
command of Mr. Henry Hill, late master of Her
Majesty's
sship Sybille, has been loading with
fascines, scaling ladders, ordnance, and other mu-
nitions of war, and leaves this morning, having on
board also some of the military staff and 200 na-
tive camp followers.
Lord Elgin himself, we understand, will leave
Hongkong for the river either to-day or to-morrow,
Her Majesty's ship Furious having been prepared
for his reception.
Of the arrangements for the attack we are told
that the French fleet, the advanced ships of which
entered the river on the Bth, will take the Whampoa
branch of the river. Captain A. C. Key, of the
Sanspareil (who is . considered one of the best
officers in the service), is to command the Naval
Brigade, and will be supported by Captains
Cochrane and Osborne, and Commanders Hamilton
and Hood ; while the field-piece parties are to be
under the immediate direction of Admiral Seymour
and Captain Hall. The Bittern has been converted
into a mortar-vessel ; and the crews of the gunboats
have been increasedfrom sto 10 men each. General
Straubenzee, who went up on Saturday last, will
of course command the land forces.
Yesterday the combined fleets were to close in
upon Canton, but previous to that the stations of
the British men-of-war were Actaeon Hornet,
Bittern, Highflyer, Elk, and ten gunboats (the
advanced squadron), from Macao Fort to the
Barrier ; Maned and two gunboats at Fatshan '
Creek ; Sybille, Racehorse, and Surprise, with two
gunboats, at Whampoa ; Sampson, at Second Bar ;
Nankins, off High Island; the rest of the fleet about
Pirangtung and Tiger Island.
False rumours have been spread abroad to the
effect that plundering has been sanctioned by the
Admiral, and that 48 hours was to to granted for
looting in the city, it may be as wear to mention,
that a circular has been issued by hik Excellency,
in that respect.
threateninghis
orders
with s
expressly forbidding anything of tle kind, and
4evere punishment my breach of
The steamer Adelaide, whose long passage had
begun to cause some anxiety, arrived on the Ist,
having on board 20 officers and 507 nen of the
Royal Marine Light Infantry, and 5 officers and 20
men of the Royal Artillery. She left Portsmouth
on the 17th August, arrived on the 3d
October at the Cape of Good Hop whence,
after having been detained six day; for coals,
she sailed on the 9th, and reached Singa-
pore on Nov. 19, leaving for Hong Kcng on the
same day. She reported that the Prircess Char-
lotte, storeship, had left Singapore on the 18th, and
the Sanspareil, with the Marines from Calcutta,
on the 19th ; neither of which, however, though
anxiously looked for, has yet arrived. The men by
the Adelaide are in fine order, only one casualty—
the loss of a corporal overboard—having occurred
on the whole passage. She left for the river the
morning after her arrival.
The gunboat Lee, it appears, captured a snake-
' boat the other day, with a valuable cargo. The
cargo she took out and brought down to Hongkong
—the junk she destroyed.
The military force has sustained a heavy loss in
the death, from inflammation in the bladder, of
Lieut.-Col. Lugard, commanding RoyalEogineers,
whose remains were interred on the evening of the
2d inst., at the Protestant Burial Ground in the
Wong-nei-cbung. The funeral procession was com-
posed of two companies of the 59th Regiment, and
one of the Royal Artillery, with a number of etficers
and civilians. Lieut.-Colonel Lugard was highly
respected as a good officer and a kind-hearted man.
As some alarm may be felt for the safety of Hong
Kong during the absence of the expedition, we
would mention that the colony will be properly
cared for by Major Cazalett and Capt. King, with
from 800 to 1,000 men, consisting of Artillerymen,
the remaining companies of the 59th, the Medi-
cal Staff Corps, and Madras Sepoys. It is also
rumoured that a body of French Marines will be
landed at West Point, for the protection of their
naval stores ; and we suppose the Americans will
have a strong guard at their stores in Spring Gar-
dens. The Tribune will remain for the protection
of the harbour.

The transport ship Neleus had arrived at Singa-
pore on the 22d Nov. She made a oApital run
down the China Sea (only 8 days), and had had
lovely weather. Four of the invalids died on the
passage, but the rest of them were pickingup rapidly.
From Amoy we hear little of importance. Trade
seems to be dull, and raw cotton, cotton yarn, and
rice are the only imports in which ti ansactions have
taken place; the latter is said to be in good demand,
and is quoted 2 dole 30 for Siam, and 2 doll 55 for
Formosa.

(From Special Correspondent of the Times.)
HONG KONG, Dec. 13.
It will be remembered that the last mail went
out leaving Hoeg Kong denuded of all its diploma-
tio grandees. There was a solemn conference at
Macao, and it was soon whispered that Count Pu-
tiatine was admitted to the councils of Lord Elgin
and Baron Gros. A rumour soon spread that Mr.
Reed had taken an
had independent line, and had met
with a rebaff. He ,so went the story, sent a
but could not think of admitting
to Yeh to treat with him inside the city,
proposal
Y;ithin the walls of Canton. Mr.
bet Yeh replied that he should be happy to see him
proceeded to Macao, but even rumour
el'itiionire to affirm what he proposed to him-
trney, or whether the rather con-
fhuissaol
opinion
ihoanda jsutsot
entanglingre ee i received h aadll
ann anycs.
saotßieluilledytfes
dnibbcyolaet:
ttlbNhel,aloirtersui
have another version of ilis affair,
They profess to have seen a copy of the answer, and
laugh when they speak of it. I have not been able
to induce any of them to procure me a transcript,
way modified
and cannot make much of their description of it.
should reach you by way of America, I
Ttelni:PCtul;nuesse
Will find that the Imperial Commis-
sioner has replied to his Excellency Mr. Reed
by what is vulgarly called "a sell, a sort of
Chinese version of "Don't you wish you may get
it 1" Certain it is that Mr. Reed- is very irate with
If
finikt you
his celestial friends, and has rather abandoned his
th world that he is determined to
carry out the p olic e
idea of being master of the position. Yeh seems re-
solved t 0
show y
openly acknowledged in that
notorious Chinese State paper, and to consider the
terms of the last treaty binding only so lon as he
had not forts enough to break them. He seems to
be confident also that the present is a proper sea-
son for perseverance in this policy. He has doubt-
less heard of tbe might and wonderful contrivances
of the Minnesota. Nothing that can be said ja
praise of her discipline and arrangements, her ex-
quisitely finished machinery for economising labour
and time in the working of her gulls, her Sharpe's
rifles, her officers' cabins, and her state reception-
rooms, can be too great praise, but Yeh has heard
all about these. We have just seized copies of a
correspondence which has been passing between a
Chinese writer resident on this island and Howqua.
It contains a minute chronicle of every event and
descriptions of men and things, including a by no
means flattering account of the personal appearance
of Lord Elgin. Possibly it also included a statement
of the draught of water of the Minnesota. I recol-
lect that once on circuit, when a zealous and hot-
tempered junior replied with a scarcely decent
violence to an interruption of the judge, and drew
down upon himself a rebuke, a sarcastic old stager
who sat by said, "Pitch into him again, give it to
him well, he can't coins down to you." Yeh knows
that the Minnesota cannot come up to him. More-
over, he has filled his city with soldiers from the
North. We have just kindly rescued and released
300 of these from the wrecked Waverley. The
Chinese report that the walls are now bristling
with cannon, that the streets are all undermined,
and that Yell is determined to blow the whole
place into the air rather than give it 'up. We
shall see shortly what truth there is in these tales.
They by no means lessen the eagerness of our fel-
lows to get into the city, but they may perhaps in
duce the Admiral and General to explode these
mines by a few shells before they set our British
bulldogs at the walls.

Meanwhile the valleys and precipices of this
mountain island ring and echo with preparations.
The quiet citizen cannot take his afternoon walk
without his rumination upon the pricPs of gray. shn t-
lugs or his sigh over the d,,preciation of " Malwa."
being interrupted by a slarp volley of musketry,
or the ringing of a Minie bullet, or the whistling of
a shell. The Chinese are certainly not a nervous
:race. On the parade-ground to the east of this
Avail-less and citadel-less city of Victoria some 500

a.»..~

meti" of the 59th may be daily seen at their exercise.
A. cloud of Chinese children take advantage of the
severity of discipline to hang upon their skirts,
stooping down and picking up the cartridge papers
from between the feet of the immovable redcoats,
who dare not even raise a foot to tread upon the
fingers that tickle their ankles. We are too poor
in men to be able to spare any to keep the ground.
Up in the ravine behind Government-house a de-
tachment is firing at a target at a range of 1,000
yards. That target has its attendant company of
more adult Fuk-hees. They can scarcely be kept
at a safe distance, and when the bugle sounds to
cease firing they rush in and dig out the wasted
lead. Further off on the side of the mountain,
with little flagstaffs fixed on rocks at various ranges,
a field battery is practising with shot and shell
Straight in the line of fire the Chinese washermen
are spreading their clothes to dry upon the brush-
wood, quiteueconcerned at the discharges, satisfied
to confide in the skill of the artillerymen, and
having a full practical knowledge of the flight of
shot. At the short ranges the shells must pass a few
feet over their heads. It cannot be that men
who behave thus can be of a race of cowards.

We have also had a sham fight on a grand
scale. The racecourse and the surrounding hills,
and the road leading thence to the city, were com-
teAed with steadfast valour ; but, alas ! in this
month of December the thermometer still stands at
84 deg. in the shade, and the men look white and
worn before the work was done.

As a balance to the contemptuous indifference
with which we open all our preparations and all our
intentions to the spies of the Canton authorities, we
take care to use our own special sources of strength,
discipline, and wealth. The Coolie Corps are, like
everything else in China, anomalies in warfare.
They are natives of a country about to bo invaded,
under drill, to carry the guns and provisions of the
invaders. Each gun has 18 coolies attached to it,
and they are exercised to attend the process of un-
limbering, and to take up the gun on their bamboo
poles and trot off with it, at a pace which might be
dangerous if their fidelity were in doubt, or if there
were no Minie rifles in their rear. These fellows
will do their work if they can be got on shipboard.
They will not desert, for they are better paid by us,
and would probably be beheaded by Yeh. They
will scarcely be expected to take the guns up under
fire from the enemy, so they will have no violent
incentive to run away. From the experience we
have here of the Chinese character—if such a fagot
of contradictions can be called character—l believe
they will do what we have hired them to do—act
as artillery and commissariat mules over rough
ground intervening between points of dobarcatien
and points of action. It will probably be arranged
that their pay shall be a little in arroar, and they
know that they will be shot down without mercy
it they attempt any tricks.
A short time since Mr. Caldwell, the " protector
of Chinese," whose practical knowledge of the
Chinese population is greater, perhaps, than that of
any European, was invited to inspect this body.
They were paraded to the number of 800. In walking
down the ranks he picked out 18 men as Canton
men, and three others as Mandarin soldiers. He
was right in every instance. The Canton men when
interrogated at once admitted they had never had
the least intention of trusting themselves in the
neighbour hood of their own authoriti es, but proposed
to take the English pay, and escape at the last
moment. The Mandarin soldiers said they would
serve, for the Mandarins owed them arrears, and
the English paid regularly. The other men come
fl mu a distant mountain district, have no families
within the power of the Mandarins, are many of
them implicated as rebels, and may, as Mr. Cald-
well thinks, be moderately trusted to act as their
interests may point.
These traits of Chinese character are not unim-
portant. It is only little by little that we can come
to get a notion of a people whose trains of thought
and motives of action are so utterly different from
our owu.
On the Ist the death of Colonel Lugard, of the
Engineers. was announced, and on the 3d he was
buried with all military honours in the cemetery
hard by the racecourse. It was an imposing
spectacle, for all the officers of all the European
nations now present in Hongkong followed in long
procession the gun-carriage on which he was borne
to his grave. Many of those present not
only knew him as an officer whose loss at this
critical moment is disastrous to the public
service, but also loved the man. I was
one of those who mourned to think we shall
hear no more his frank hearty laugh, and receive
no more his manly, soldierly greeting. Poor
Lugard was a victim to hard labour in this treache-
rous climate. He had much to do and small
materials to work with. He was a leader without
soldiers. He had to form and fashion a corps of
Engineers and Sappers and Miners out of troops of
the Line. His labour was incessant, and he paid
the penalty which these trying Hongkong heats
almost always exact for over-exertion.
The long-expected Adelaide made her appear-
ance on the Ist, having ou board 20 officers and
507 rank and file. On the 4th the Assistance came
in from Calcutta, bringing us back the 300 Marines
left behind by Lord Elgiu and 100 of the 59th.
The letters by her were very unsatisfactory in their
tone, and gave no promise of more troops from
India.

We are now able to calculate the force upOn
which we must depend to take and hold this city
with its million of inhabitants.

The first act in the way of a move was the issuing
of the following General Order to the fleet :

" GENERAL ORDER

"The period being now at hand for commencing active
operations against the city of Canton, the Commander-
in-Chief has to call the serious attention of the captains,
officers, seamen, and marines of the squadron to the
necessity of carefully protecting the lives and property
of the peaceable and unarmed inhabitants, not only on
the ground of humanity, but likewise on that policy,
which renders it so important to retain the goodwill of
those cla-ses of the Chinese population, whose material
interewt and predilections separate them from the High
Mandarins and the military powers of Canton, against
whom alone hostile actions will bs directed.

" The Rear-Admiral has also to impress upon the ofli-
t•rs and men who may so soon b. actively employed,
his determination to discountenance and prevent all
looting or pluldering, both as demoralising and as sub-
versive of the discipline that is so essentially necessary
to success. He trusts that the officers, by precept, and
especially by their example, will carry out his views :>,,nd
instructii.ns. _ _ _

-----‘ilTieCotn. mender-in-Chief takes this opportunity of
expressing his, warmest thanks to the commodore, cap-
tains, commaitding officers, seamen, and Royal Ma-
rines of the squadron for the patient endurance they
have evinced d.uring the last twelve months in the
monotonous mud frequently harassing duty of keep-
ing open the navigation of the river, and he fur-
ther assures theni that, whatever may be the nature of
expected-operations, he shall enter 'von them with the
strongest confidence in their ready and gallant co•
operation for then maintenance of the honour of the Bri-
tish flag and the fineness of our aron.-
_" M. SEYMOUR,
Ri3ar-Admiral, Commander-in-Chief."
The next act was a declaration from the French
Admiral deciding on the part of France a blockade
of the Canton river.

On the 11th it became known that the Chinese
writer, Ochung, who had been taken into custody
for maintaining a Correspondence with Howqua,
had been sent into the city with letters from the
English and French Plenipotentiaries announcing
their arrival, and giving note of their credentials.
On the 12th Mr. Wade, the chief of Lord Elgin's
interpreting stuff proceeded to the city under a flag
of truce, and delivered the demands of the English
and French nenipoteatiaries upon the Imperial
Commissioner holding the city of Canton.
A proclamation in the Chinese language was at
the same time uirculated in the suburbs of the city.
It stated that c ortaiu demands had been made upon
the Imperial Ciommissiener, and that 80 days had
been given hini within which to accede to them ;
that in the mertnwhile (on the following Monday)
the allied forces would occupy the Islandof Honan,
opposite to the city, doing no damage unless resist-
ance should be made ' • that at the expiration of the
10 days allowed to the Commissioner an attack would
be made upon ithe city, unless the terms demanded
were yielded, and warning all non-belligerents to
take such meartures for the removal of their families
and property as they might think expedient.
It is a curious fast, illustrative of the rapidity
with which the Chinese obtain intelligence, that on
the Friday morning, while all the English in Hong-
kong were in ignorance of any communication
being about to be made up the river, I heard the
Chinese picture-dealer, to whose shop as a focus of
Chinese news I have already alluded in these
letters, offering to bet a picture against $5O that
the English would not be in Canton within ten days.
He would not bet about 12 days. He musth.h havewas
got an early copy of the proclamation,
I believe, printed on boardship up the river, and
could not, even •at that distance of 50 miles, have
been in the hands of any Chinaman more than a
very few horn s.
I post this letter on
for as Honan is to be
Sunday,an although the mail
does not leave until Monday,
occupied on Mondt.y, dasl am going to witness
the operations, I may not be able to write again by
the outgoing mil. If possible, however, I shall
send.you a second letter.
We must hope, in the interest of humanity, that
when the allotted interval has expired. Yeh will
yield.
He must know that he has at his gates the
representatives of the four great nations of the
' earth, and that however they may lifer upon the
modus operandi, they are equally determined to
tolerate no longer this foolish Chinese pageant.
Mr. Reed does not, I apprehend, propose to him-
self to go home without making a treaty, any more
than does Count Putiatin, or Baron Le Gros, or
•

the Earl of Elgin. However much we may deplore
the undignified policy which the American states-
men at home have chosen to adopt,' and however
much we may feel satisfied to find that they are
baulked of even the advantage they proposed to
themselves of monopolising the trade while we
were fighting the common battle, still our interests
are identical, and eventually we must work toge-
ther. The High Mandarins of China cannot but
know the power of the nations arrayed against
them. But, if they do not, if they are ignorant of
what every Chinaman at Singapore knows fall well
and of what each small tradesman at Hong Kong
could tell them, what a practical satire this igno-
rance is upon that system of competitive examina-
tions and the rule of literary men, which, as it is
worked in China, has been so little understood and
so senselessly extolled I It is useless, however, to
speculate upon what Yeh will do, for the next mail
I
will bring you tidings of what be has done, and what
we have done.

Meanwhile we must have troops. It will not do
to " give up China altogether." The hot months
will soon be round again, and we must expect that
of our handful of land force many must be invalided.
If disease should unhappily so reduce our scanty
and insufficient garrison as to compel us to retire
from the city, after having once taken possession,
the consequences would be most disastrous. Already
have placards been posted at Amoy threatening a
massacre of the English there. It is a vain threat
while the might of England is felt in the South, but
it would easily become a dire reality. The English
families are mixed up in the crowded Chinese town.
They are without any means of mutual protection,
and the presence of a single ship of war is rather
a terror to the Chinese than a protection to the
British. At Swatow, where many English now
reside, there is, and can be while the present treaty
holds, no protection whatever. At Foo-chow there
is a ourishing English settlement, but the ships-
of-war cannot get within 10 miles of the place.
What might be suffered at Ningpo the Portuguese
have already proved. Shanghai has the guns of
the Pique, and Sir Frederick Nicholson might land
his men and do something to protect the settlement,
for it has already shown itself defensible. But it
is our moral prestige which protects us in the North,
and this would be utterly ruined by any weakness
or shortcoming at Canton. Better be wise in time,
and send on a reasonable number of troops at once
than have to exact more terrible vengeance for more
massacres.

The attacking force, exclusive of the ships, a
list whereof I gave you by the last mail, will be
as follows :

Troops from the garrison of Hong Kong, including
the 59th Regiment, the Artillery, the Engineers,
and a portion of the Madras troops BOO
Marines

Naval Brigade .
French troops and sailors 9OO

5,700

Coolies—
Chinese b 671
.
Attached to Medical Staff
Commissariat
Malaya • lB3

Total
CANTON RIVER, DEC l5.
As I had-reason to suppose that the occupation
of Honan would take place on Tuesday, and that
the mail would be detained to allow the news of
this fact to reach England, I came up the river on
Sunday and found the English Admiral's flag still
flying at the anchorage between the Bogue Forts
and Tiger Island.
The French fleet had just moved up. The two
navies had been indulging in mutual civilities on
the occasion of the Freneh declaration of blockade.
The English Admiral hoisted the French flag at the
main and issued a congratulatory general order.
The French returned the compliment, and issued an
order very fervent in its term. Moreover, the
French entertained the English fleet with theatri-
cals, and supper after the play, and they have left
Jack in high good humour with his lively alli•'s.
Mr. Wade and M. Marques had returned from
their mission. Yeh despatched a mandarin of the
fifth rank—" All same, Captain," as the pilot re-
marked—to receive the two epistles. His scribes
are probably now looking up Mencius and Clwo-tze
for a stock of moral sentiments to be worked into
the reply.
If the reader has any curiosity as to this piece of
Chinese ceremonial it was after this fashion :—The
Chinaman, Achong, had been seat with a letter
from Sir John Bowring, and another from M.
Bourbelonne, notifying the arrival of the English
and French Plenipotentiaries, and stating that on
Saturday, at noon, a communication from these
high officers would be sent to the Imperial Com-
missioner.

At 10 o'clock on the day appointed a Hong boat
containing a well-known official—rather a low fel-
low and decided in his opinions as to outside bar-
barians—took its station in the river. At noon the
English gun-boat, accompanied by the Dragonne
French gunboat, appeared at the western point of
Honan Island, and choosing its anchorage sig-
nalled to the Mandarin's boat to approach. The
interpreter, accompanied by M. Duchesne de Eel-
cour, Captain Bate, and some few other spectators,
went on board the Chinese boat, and was received
by the Mandarin with that tone of rollicking, swag-
gering civility which is thought by the Chinese to
be good manners towards barbarians, but bad man
tiers towards each other. He called for tea, and
after this had been duly taken delivered Yet►'s
answer to Sir J. Bowring and M. de Bourbelonne's
notes. Then he received the despatches from the
plenipotentaries of the allied Powers, and with
bows and " chin-chin" the parties separated. I
understand tbat Yeh's answer is couched in terms
of scant courtesy; that it recognises the plenipo-
tentiaries not as ambassadors to the Emperor, but
as ambassadors to Canton, and that it merely says
he shall receive any communications they may have
to make to him.

General Von Straubenzee, attended by Major
Clifford, joined the fleet on Sunday.
This morning at half past nine the Admiral, ac-
companied by the General, left the Calcutta for the
Coromandel. They go up together to the Fronch
Admiral, and will direct the debarkation of a
marine force of about 1,000 men on Ronan Island.
I have frequently explained—but some do not
read and some do not remem'ae; so I may as well re-
peat—that the Canton River is a very enormous
volume of water, seeking the sQa by various chan-
nels. In front of Canton there are two of these
channels of special importance, and between these
two and formed by them is the large island of
Ronan, more than a mile and a half wide and four
or five miles long. On the channel opposite to the
back of the island stands the Macao Fort, now in
our possession and garrisoned. The island, there-
fore, lies between Macao Fort and the city of
Canton.

The Imperatrix and the Imperador have already
gone up with the Marines, and behind the Coro-
mandel is the curious sight of a long train
of Chinese bumboats, freighted not only with or-
dinary stores, but carrying 30 head of live cattle.
The Chinese purveyors modestly desired that a gun-
boat should be ordered to tow them up, and although
the request excited some merriment among the blue
jackets, these bumboatmen are much too important
to be left behind. So the Plover is tugging them
up the stream. That stiff little Plover, the last
time I saw her she was sharing the shot with the
Hong Kong high up Fat shan Creek ; now she is
dragging up a ragged crew of China boats. Let us
move up the river after the Admiral and the Gene-
ral. It is fortunate for General Straubenzee that
he is not only a good soldier, but also that he is a
man of popular and winning manners. The fleet,
who all have a sort of Chinese filial affection for
Sir IVlichael Seymour, were rather inclined to look
with an evil eye upon any one who came to share
his laurels. They began rather early to find fault
with the General's name ; but now he has been
among them a little the general opinion is, as I
heard it expressed, " It is impossible to help liking
that old Strawberry jam after all." Moreover, they
see Sir Michael and the aforesaid Strawberry-jam
consorting togetheyvith intimate cordiality ; the
Marines see that the
General is every inch a sol-
dier, and everything inthis important matter moves
easily and well.

Dia. 16.
This morning the occupation of Honan took place.
The sight from Macao Fort was interesting only
for a few minutes. One battalion of our Marines
and 150 French sailors disembarked, under the
guns of shipping, upon the back of the island, and
out of sight of Canton. As they advanced into the
island we watched the lines of red and blue, not
quite expecting, but feeling the possibility that some
puff of smoke might give signal for a fight. The
Chinese, however, had wisely seen that this plain
and open island was not defensible. If there over
had been any soldiers there, which is very
improbable, they had been withdrawn, when we
issued our proclamation to the inhabitants that
wo intended to take peacable possession. Some
tents were now pitched, the outposts formed, the
French and English positions demarcated, and our
material guarantee was seized.
Another affair has happened, which terminated
in a very different manner. Intelligence travels
slowly from ship to ship in our widely-separated
force, but I believe the circumstances aro these
On the afternoon of Monday Lieutenant Pyw, of
Arctic celebrity, who now commands the Banterer,
landed for exercise in the neighbourhood of a
Mandarin village some way down the river. He
was accompanied by Mr. Wurgman, the artist wilo
is here sketching for the Illustrated !Sews. Allured
by the friendly appearance of the inhabitants, they
entered the village, and they appear also to have

entered the house of the Mandarin there. Whether
Lieutenant Pym was acting prudently or properll
in doing this I am not able to state ; my infortra.
tion is too indistinct to allow me to offer eve n.e
suggestion upon this point. All that is certain is
that as the party returned to the boat the poPu'llA
tion of the village suddenly encompassed them and
poured in a volley from gingals and other firearms:
Five men were killed. Lieutenant Pym was 001
through both legs. The interdreter then jumped
overboard, and was followed by several of the re")
who retreated across the paddy fields. They were
followed by the Chinese multitudeand six wounded.
All this took place within sight of the Nanlaut
whence assistance was, of course, despatched at the
first sound of fire-arms. The Nankin men arrive'
just in time to rescue Lieutenant Pyn, who
keeping the Chinese at bay with his sword and
revolver. Of the whole party every one was either
killed or wounded, except Mr. Wurgman and tic°
seamen. This seems to have been a ra9S"
treacherous and unprovoked assault, and an attack
upon the village was subsequently made by the
Nankin. The first attempt was, I believe, not ye')
successful, but it will doubtless he renewed.

TUESDAY NIGHT.
It is most provoking that the most imnorten'
events will happen within half an hour of the de-
parture of the mail. This afternoon a messenger
from Yeh arrived at Macao Fort with a despatch fer
the Plenipotentiaries. You know how hoping
against hope I have kept up some intelligence ill.
side the city. Hitherto it has stood me in little
stead, but at a critical moment it has turned tiP
trumps. lam informed, then, that the Chineee,
merchants say that Lord Elgin's demand was e 1
the most temperate character ; that he asked for sie
more than that the treaty should be carried otit,
that Canton should be put upon the same footing
as the other treaty ports, its gates opened to Nei:
mores, compensation given for damage done 0
British merchants, and our occupation of
acquiesced in as a material guarantee until a
ll
matters are settled. At least one of the Chinee°
merchants thinks that these demands should liecP
been jumped at. Yeh, however, thinks otherwise'
The answer just gone up to Lord Elgin is conchal,
if my information is correct, in a fine sarcastic Veit
much like that returned to the American. It tell
his lordship that the question of the treatment °
strangers at Canton has been settled by the decree
of the Emperor ; that Sir George Bonham W
made a baronet for respecting that decree, and he
recommends Lord Elgin to follow his example.;
that, as to compensation, Yeh bas..a demand tiPt
the English Government for losses suffered by iP"
Chinese.

You must mal-e some allowance for a version et
,a Chinese document read to me in Canton English
but I think I can pledge myself that this will be
found to be the substance of this document.
Lord Elgin is no true son of Robert the Bruce if
he stands this style of answer ; so we may soon new,
expect something decisive here.

THE TRANSIT THROUGH EGYPT.
ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 113*
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's stearaya
Candia, with the Calcutta and China mails, arrive
at Suez on the evening of the 14th inst., about
three days before they were actually due, and ful
two days have consequently been lost in Egli
during which the homeward mails have lain 11,,
Alexandria awaiting the arrival of the steatoel
from England. This is far frombeing the worst °
the first instance of a similar nature, but one All
teration having recently been made in the post
communication between England and the East, ;
mention the detention more particularly on tli,
occasion, because it clearly demonstrates the neceo
sity for further improvements, with the of
attaining the object which ere long wilt on all Diu:
be peremptorily insisted upon, namely, that the iv
b 6
of t
shall be no avoidable delay on any point
route whatsoever. It is obviously impossible
contrive arrangements by which the arrivals of the
boats from England and from India will be ab°o,
lute and at all. times simultaneous. The only
il,
way, therefore, of avoiding frequent. delay i 1,1& have the steamers at Suez and atAlexandria before"
hand, ready to carry forward the mails and pass n
"
gers immediately on their arrival, the inward Prt,
remaining in port for the following transist. 11;,;*
or some similar plan, will of a certaintrere long b,
carried into execution although there 'nay be
stacles which for the present still render its adoP'
tion a matter of more or less difficulty. '
The arrival of the Candia was followed next
dal
by that of the Hon. East. India Company's steamer
Punjaub, from Bombay one of the two boatil!f; pointed to receive the 71st Highlanders en rOln,re India. Of the other steamer—the Feroze'4B
were without tidings until this morning, but 'irjg
Candia had brought no information of her haTlar reached Aden. This morning a telegraphic, re, spatch from Suez announced her arrival truedii
bringing the untoward news that the East ALI
Company's steamer Ajdaha, which left Suez "rem the 24th ult., with 270 men of the 69th anui,:r
outward London mails of the 10th of Deceini.7,4
had returned to Aden in a leaky state after 11040
proceeded about 300 miles on her voyage. liso
men were to be transferred to the Alma, t
which he
remained at Aden since her breakdown, and rrf
Candia is preparing to receive them and to 04
them on to their destination.
meHneorfthe
Majesty's7lst
Highlanders,steamerVulturr,aeecwhed,
ithAia beoxilaul
from Malta on the 10th inst., and the Prio!ng
Royal arrived five days after : the latter dray*,
two feet more than the depth of water on the
__":.4
is shut out of the harbour, and the weather havUt
been very rough she could not anchor outside,:s.
was obliged to cruise 'off the port until yesteru7e,
when the men' were transferred'to the Vultll,ol
To-day the whole are to belanded, and to betre
forward .to Suez. At that place, however, If
will again be some days' delay, the Punjab alicl.4l
Feroze having to take in large stocks of coal
74:
water, which, at Suez, more especially, is a 1/1.)
of some labour. The men will on this ocesisio
0
o
again be provided with donkeys to carry them tcr
the 25 miles of Desert intervening between Duos,
and the extremity of the railway.
There has been a marked improvement in 11111/i;
ness ' during the past fortnight, and both sotto,
o
and breadstuffs have undergone successive advells.
in prices. Said wheat is quoted 265.' 6d. t( to
11.
9d. per quarter free on board, ; beans 22e. 6)toll
235. 6d. ; hauley about 14s. The safes of ooafio
since the 4th inst., are computed at about 2211
cantars,•at prices varying from about 6d. to
per lb. f. o. b., according to quality. ExchauV
are firm at 1011 piasters per £ for three mon t
of
bills on London. The demand for shipping
likewise improved.