The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1859.

FIRE IN LIME-STREET, Friday, May 20.
Thos. Hubbuck and Sons' premises, in Lime-street, be-
ing destroyed by fire, the Business of the Warehouse is re-
moved back to their old premises, 115, Upper East Smithfield,
without any suspension. The counting-house continues at
157, Fenchurch-street, and the Factory at Hubbuck's Wharf,
Ratcliff.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
A CHEAP EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Pad-
dington at 10 15 a.m., on Monday, 30th May, for Oxford
(Fares, 4s and 68 6d), Banbury (5s and 8s), Leamington and
Warwick (6s and lOs 6d), Birmingham (7s and 12s), West Brom-
wich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (7s 6d and 12s), Wolverhamp-
ton (8s and 13s), Wellington and Shrewsbury (10s and 17s),
Llangollen Road and Chester (118 and 18s 6d), and Birkenhead
and Liverpool (12s 6d and 21s) ; returning on Saturday, the
4th June, from Liverpool, at 10 30 a.m., and intermediate
stations as per handbills.

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments.
Loans on real and personal security.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

ORWICH UNION REVERSIONARY
INTEREST COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, That the ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the Proprietors, pursuant to the Deed of Set-
tlement, will be held at the Company's offices, 23, Lincoln's-
inn-fields, on TUESDAY, the 7th day of June next, at one
o'clock precisely, at which three Directors and the Auditors
will go out of office ; the directors and auditors so going out
of office are eligible for re-election, and will offer theinselves
accordingly.
N.ll.—Proposals for the sale of Reversions, Annuities, &c.,
can be addressed to the Secretary.
21st May, 1859.

HENRY NORRIS.

CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. -
Investment of Savings and Capital for all Classes.—
The rate of Interest on completed Shares, and Shares paid a
year in advance and upwards is now Five per cent. per
annum. The rate of interest on deposits has been raised
from Three to Four per cent. per annum. Prospectusses
sent free.

CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary.
Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.

Office of the Gas Light and Coke. Company,
Horseferry-road, Westminster,
21st May, 1859.
DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the
I.
following Proprietors, viz.,
HENRY DUFFELL, Esq., and Directors,
The Hon. RICHARD HOWE BROWNE, I
have severally given me notice in writing of their intention
to offer themselves for re-election as Directors at the election
which will take place at the Company's Gas Works, Horse-
ferry-road, Westminster, on FRIDAY, the 3d day of June
next, at 12 o'clock at noon, precisely. -By order,
C. BURLS, Secretary.

SALE OF LEAD ASHES, SLAG, SERGE CUTTINGS,
JUNK, BLANKETS, SADDLERY, HARNESS,
CLOTHING, IRON, WOOD, AND OLD STORES.
BY Order of the SECRETARY OF STATE
for WAR.—TO BE SOLD BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, on MONDAY, the 30th of
May, 1859, the following stores :—Lead Ashes, Slag, Doe's
Hair, Junk, Saddlery, Harness, Serge, Clothing, Blankets,
Miscellaneous Stores, Iron, Wood, Sc.
May be viewed, from 10 to 4 o'clock, on the three working
days previous to the sale, and Catalogues obtained at the
War-office, Pall-mall; at the Tower ; and Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich.

mHORLEY'S FOOD FOR CATTLE.—Every
person having an interest in domestic or farm animals
should obtain a supply of this celebrated and economical
food, which will prove invaluable during the approaching;
season. For keeping horses in good condition it is unequal-
led. Pigs fatten with surprising rapidity upon it, and their
flesh increases in flavour and value. Cowkeepers will find
great advantage in the increased quantity and improved qua-
lity of the milk during its use. All animals are benefited by
it. A pamphlet on this interesting subject, accompanied by
Testimonials from the principal Nobility, Gentry, and Agri-
culturists, forwarded on application. In casks containing
448 feeds (measures enclosed), price 505., carriage paid to any
Railway Station in the United Kingdom. Post-office orders
payable to Joseph Thorley, 77, Newgate-street, London.
N.B.—The public are cautioned against being imposed upon
by worthless imitations. •

VINEGAR. Patronised by her Majesty's
Government.—CONDY'S PATENT PURE CONCEN-
TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Families, by using this de-
licious Vinegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 50 per
cent. See Report of Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health ;Dr
Hassall, of the "Lancet" Commission, and others. Sold by
the Trade, in bottles labelled and capsuled. Whalesale, 63,
King William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample
sent free to any Railway for 3s. 6d.

GREY HAIR RESTORED TO ITS
NATURAL COLOUR. Neuralgia, Nervous
headache, Rheumatism, and Stiff Joints Cured by F. M.
HERRING'S PATENT MAGNETIC BRUSHES, 10s. and
15s. Grey Hair and Baldness PREVENTED by F. 31. H.'s
Patent Preventive Brush. Price 48. and ss. Offices, 32,
Basinghall-street, London, where may be had, gratis, the
Illustrated Pamphlet, " Why Hair becomes Grey, and its
Remedy." Sold by all Chemists and Perfumers of repute.

ONE HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD ON
CONVICTION.
The fearful dangers to invalids from spurious imitations of
DU BARRY's invaluable HEALTH-RESTORING REVA
LENTA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and,
upon application in 1854 for protection, the High Court of
Chancery granted an injunction restraining Alfred Hooper
Nevill, and his agents, under a penalty of X.. 5,000, from selling
any article resembling or being a colourable imitation of Du
Barry's Revalenta Arabica, of which we are the sole pro-
prietors. Now, therefore, this is to give notice that the above
reward will be paid, upon conviction, to anyone giving infor-
mation of any breach of the injunction. An intelligent
public requires no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who
may attempt impositions. London BARRY DU BARRY
& CO,
NO MOUE SICKLY OR ILL-CONDITIONED HORSES

DESTRUCTION OF CHINESE PIRATES.

In consequence of representations made to Ad-
miral Sir M. Seymour, of the mischief done by
pirates in the neighbourhood of Macao, the steam
vessel Niger, Captain Colville was despatched to
look them up and if possible destroy their strong-
hold. The following particulars are from the letter
of an officer who took part in the affair :
" We left Hong Kong on Friday the 11th of
March with the gunboats Janus and Clown in tow,
and proceeded for Macao, where we arrived the
same evening. The Clown steamed in and fetched
off some Chinese from Macao, who knew the
whereabouts of the pirates. On the morning of
the 12th we weighed and steamed about 12 miles,
anchored, and sent all the boats with the gunboats
up the Broadway. They returned in the afternoon
having been unsuccessful. We then weighed and
steamed down the coast, arriving at Coulan late in
the evening, so that the pirates would not see us or
gain information of our movements. On the fol-
lowing morning,the 13th, everything was prepared
for an attack on the stronghold of the pirates, and
at seven o'clock the gunboats left, with all the
boats in tow, for the reported place, arriving there
about ten o'clock. We then heard heavy firing, and
so knew something was going on. In the evening
the boats returned to the ship, and the party gave
the following account of their day's work. On
nearing the place they saw by unmistakeable signs
that the pirates anticipated us and intended a
contest. The gunboats rowed in as close as they
could; the boats were manned and gave way
for the shore, the pirates opened fire from a
number of guns mounted on shore, but on the boats
went through a shower of shot. Nevertheless, only
one boat was struck, but not a man was touched.
The boats at last touched the ground, when the
order was given to jump overboard and charge.
The usual cheer was given, and on they went. The
Chinese were drawn up both outside and inside
their stockades, with long spears and their usual
arms, and appeared to fancy that, as a matter of
course, they would drive the " English barbarians"
back. But it was no go; on the charging party
went, and on arriving within a few yards of the
pirates those outside abandoned their posts and ran
inside the fortifications. They were followed, and
as may be supposed numbers were killed. After a
short time we succeeded in driving them all out of
the village, which was then burnt, destroying the
whole place. The rascals were so confident in their
fighting powers, and in the means of resistance
they had prepared, that dozens stood still until our
men run their bayonets through them. The most
extraordinary part of the whole affair is that we
had not a single man wounded, although shot came
in perfect showers on all sides. On the side of the
pirates there must have been at least 100 killed and
thrice that number wounded. A short time after
the village was burnt, a number of neighbouring
mandarins came down to see the captain, and
thanked him for having destroyed the pirates'
stronghold. They said they had found them too
strong, and could not manage to take them. They
also said it would have taken over 3,000 Chinese
to have destroyed this place, and then they of course
would have taken a very long time in doing it,
whereas a few Englishmen in boats did it in a very
short time.

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" On the following morning, the 14th, the gun-
boats and boats were off again, manned and armed,
in search of a number of piratical junks, reported
to be collected in the Broadway, near Macao. The
Niger at the same time weighed anchor and came
to Macao at noon. The gunboats returned during
the night of the 16th. They had a most successful
cruise, and destroyed everything in the shape of a
piratical junk they met with. They met the whole
fleet, and after an exciting chase in the boats they
destroyed it. The chase was in different directions,
one boat chased a junk 20 miles before she caught
her. It seems crud sometimes, when you think of
so many human beings being killed ; but one's
regret is dissipated when one knows that those
men were monsters without mercy and without
honesty, permitting nothing to stand between them
and the obtaining any possible booty. It is re-
ported of them that they were in the habit of
eating the hearts and the sinews of those captains
of trading vessels and others who most stoutly
resisted their piratical attacks."
We learn that Admiral Seymour, before leaving
the station, wrote a letter, which was read on the

decks of the Niger, the Janus, and the Clown,
thanking all who had taken part in this expedition
for the admirable and most successful manner in

which it had been conducted.

The Chinese and

the merchants of Hong Kong are greatly delighted
at the destruction of this nest of pirates ; and it is

supposed that there will be some marked recogni-
tion of the benefit thereby conferred.

AUSTRALIA, VIA PANAMA.

The long-agitated question of postal communica-
tion with the Australian colonies, via Panama and
New Zealand, in addition to the existing service
by the Peninsular and Oriental Company, via Suez,
is at length about to be solved. Government are
upon the .point of inviting tenders, which are to
include provision for conveying the mail of Victoria
and the other Southern colonies to and from Mel-
bourne, the port terminating the main line on that
side being Sydney. The time of conveyance to and
from Melbourne is fixed at under fifty-five days, and
the arrivals and departures are to be timed as to
alternate fortnightly with those of the existing
service. It is understood that the competitors for

the contract will be three in number, but it is most
probable that the West India Royal Mail Company,
froM the facilities they possess for its execution,
will be successful. It has already a fortnightly corn-
munication
between Southampton and Aspinwall,
connecting at Panama with the steamers of the''
Pacific Company, which run regularly between that
port and Valparaiso, calling at all the intermediate
ports, and between Panama and San Francisco,
calling at Acapulco and Manzanilla ; while between
Panama and the principal ports of Central America
there is regular communication by the steamers of
the railway company, whose carriages traverse
the isthmus, from ocean to ocean, with the
greatest punctuality, in about three hours and a
half. The offer of that company in respect of the
conveyance of the English mails over the Isthmus
is most liberal. The directors have undertaken to
perform the services on the same terms as they now
convey the mails for the United States Government,
and thus without any reference to the quantity of
mail matter carried. Whether that quantity be
large or small they offer to convey. it for a fixed'
annual payment of £20,000, which is the sum paicl.
by the American Government for the transmission
of their mails. It is to be observed that, under the,
existing arrangement, the British Post-office De-
partment pays the Panama Company twenty-two
cents per pound for the conveyance of the mails for
the West Coast, which is precisely the rate paid by
the United States Government previous to their
present contract. Under the arrangement for the
transmission of the Australian and New Zealand
mails over the Isthmus of Panama, the mails for all
parts of the West Coast, from Vancouver's Island
and British Columbia down to Valparaiso, will be
included, and these may, at no distant day, be as
important as those of our possessions af the anti-
podes. It is not, therefore, the Australian colonists
alone, and their correspondents in this country,
whose interests will be served by the additional
mail services via Panama. Our commercial rela-

tions with the whole of the Pacific will be vastly
benefited by it. The Royal Mail Company has, look-
ing at the matter in this light, and assuming of course
that their tender will be as reasonable as is com-
patible with thorough efficiency of service, already
deserved the contract by enabling our merchants
to avail of the facilities afforded by the Panama
Railway for rapid communication with the West
Coast of America. An arrangement has been
entered into with the Panama Railroad Company
and Pacific Steamship Company, under which goods
are now shipped at Southampton for all ports on
that coast between Panama and Valparaiso, through
bills of lading being issued by the Royal Mail Com-
pany. The like facilities are afforded in Liverpool
by the steam line of Mr. Holt, and the line of sail-
ing vessels for which Mr. J. Hamilton is agent, in
respect of the Central American ports. Contraots
have been entered into between the Panama Com-
pany and the Government of Costa Rica, Salvador,
and Guatemala, under whichlimportant privileges
have been conceded, one being a reduction of ten
per cent. on the import duties leviable on merchan-
dise carried over the Isthmus, and landed in the
ports of those republics from the steamers of the
company. Owing to this reduction, valuable goods
can be shipped to the Central American ports on the
West Coast from Europe and the United States,
via Panama, more economically, even at the com-
paratively high rates now charged, than via Cape
Horn, freight free. Aspinwall and Panama, being
free ports, have become important entrepots of mer-
chandise, and the merchants of Central America,
and of many of the ports of South America, regu-
larly resort to the latter to replenish their stocks of
goods. The advantages to be derived from the
Panama route are not, however, confined to the
facilities it affords for more extensive and frequent

intercourse with the West Coast of America and
the Pacific generally, nor to the more pleasant and
less costly transit it affords as compared with the
Suez route, for passengers going to or returning
from the Australian colonies. The Suez route is
dependent on the good will of two foreign powers
—France and Egypt. It can only compete with the
Panama route so long as the mails can be conveyed
through France, and without the latter postal com-
munication between the United Kingdom and the i
Australian colonies might be suddenly suspended,
should unforeseen complications, arising out of the
struggle now pending on the banks of the Po, in-
volve us in hostilities with France. This is an
important consideration, which, in the present
critical position of continental affairs, has probably
not been without influence in putting a period to
the delay which has taken place in calling for
tenders for the additional service, which it was
notified several months ago had been determined
upon. Mr. David Hoadley, president of the Panama
Railway Company, is now in England, so that there
need be no delay in completing the necessary
Governmental arrangements with that company,
which are altogether irrespective of, and in no way
embraced in, the tenders for the steam packet por-
tion of the proposed service.—Liverpool Albion.