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Leaday, October 6.

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p.m. Dewsbury lt 9.35
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Manchester
Staley Bridge „ 3.45 Manchester
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Euston Station, Sept. 22, 1858.

CHINA.

OFFICIAL DESPATCH.
(From the London Gazette of last Ereni»g.)
ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 27.
_ _ _ . .

With reference to the despatches from Reai-Admiral Sir
Michael Seymour, K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief of her
Majesty's ships and vessels on the East India station,
dated the 21st May last, inserted in the Supplement to the
London Gazette of the 27th July, 1858, the following de-
spatch has been also received from Sir Michael Seymour,
by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
Coromandel, at Tientsin, June 1, 1858.
Sir,—Owing to the short time I had to prepare my de-
spatches, after the capture of the forts at the mouth of the
Pei-Ho, I omitted to inform the Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty that the Cormorant, the leading ship
at the attack, had to force and break a heavy boom
of bamboo cables drawn across the channel, upon
which the fire of the enemy was concentrated; a descrip-
tion of the boom is inclosed. I should also have men-
tioned the essential services rendered by Captain Rode-
rick Dew, in her Majesty's steam gnu vessel Nimrod, the
fire from her formidable broadside having mainly contri-
buted to destroy a sand bag battery of 19 guns, upsetting
nearly every 'gun in the wel.
I enclose a statement of the troops in the batteries, trans-
lated by the Rev. Mr. Martin, from muster rolls picked up
in the forts, amounting to 3,200. This is independent of
the large encampments of troops which were in rear of the
position.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) M. SEYMOUR,
Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief.
Secretary of the Admiralty, London.
H.M.S. Cormorant, River Pci-Ho, May 21.
Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that, in obedience
to orders received from you to examine into the size and
description of the cables stretched across the rivers which
the ship under your command had to force her way
through, under a heavy fire from the batteries on both
sides of the river, the first set of cables were seven in num-
ber, made of 9-inch bamboo rope, and buoyed the whole way
across the river with spars of about 19-inch, and moored
with Chinese anchors. _ _

The second sot of cables, about 200 yards north of tho
first set, were of the same size and description as the first.
—I have, &c. (Signed) W. H. FAWCKNER,
Master Commanding Hesper.
Commander Saumarez, H.M.S. Cormorant.

A Summary of Chinese Troops at the Southern Battery at
the mouth of tho Pei-Ho, from a Paper picked up on the
day of the Battle :

Old Fort.—Total of all the battalions 885, distributed as
follows :
Haikow Battalion
Ho Koo Battalion
Ho Kien Battalion
Tientsin Regiment 2OO
Middle Fort.-=Total of all the battalions 1034, distributed
as follows _ _

...,, _ .._ .
Left and Marine Battalions 3OO
110 Kien, 2 Levies 197
He Kow Battalion
Militia Trained Band.. . 512
Southern Fort.--Total 628, distributed as follows :
Left Battalion 3OO
Woo Kwan 1.50
(Cetera desunt.)
. _
A roll picked up upon the north bank gives the number
of troops at the North Bank Fort as 358.
A wounded man met with at this place gave the total at
all the batteries as 3,200.
(Signed) W. A. P. MARTIN.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAY.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 28.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to make and
ordain a special statute of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath, for appointing the Earl of Elgin, K.T., hor Ma-
jesty's High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary on a Special
Mission to the Emperor of China, to be an Extra Member
of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand
Cross, of the said Order.

Her Majesty has also been graciously pleased to give
orders f)r the appointment of—
Captain William Cornwallis Aldham, R.N.
Captain George William Preedy, R.N., and
The Hon. Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, her Ma-
jesty's Agent and Consul-General in Egypt,
to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third
Class, or companions, of the said Most Honourable Order.

DOWNING-STREET, SEPT. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint P. F. Little, and
B. Robinson, Esqrs., to be Assistant Judges of the Supreme
Court of the Island of Newfoundland ; and George J.
Hogsett, Esq., to be Attorney-General, and John Haward,
Esq., to be Solicitor-General, for the said Island.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Charles
Young, Esq., to be Attorney-General, and Wm. Swabey,
Esq.. tube Registrar of Deeds and Keeper of Plans, for the
Island of Prince Edward.
WHITEHALL, SEPT. 28.

The Queen has been pleased 'to present the Rev. Wm.
ungall to the church and parish of Barr, in the presbyteiy