The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-10 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CHARGE OE CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—Jas. Henry,
an old man, was charged before Mr. Bingham, with cut-
ting the face of a young man named George Shaddock, re-
siding in Drury-lane.

It appears that the prosecutor saw a young woman home
to the house where she lived, in a court in Crown-street,
Soho, and in which the prisoner also resided, and some
altercation taking place the prisoner struck the prosecutor
a blow in the face, causing the blood to flow freely, and
compelling him to seek surgical assistance at the Middlesex
Hospital. _ _

A young woman was called, but she was unable to state
distinctly whether prisoner had anything in his hand at
the time he gave the blow, but believed he had.
In his defence the prisoner tried to show that he was
very much annoyed by the young women in the house
coming home at a late hour, and bringing young men with
her, disturbing him, but his landlord stepped into the
witness-box and said the prisoner was so troublesome that
all the lodgers in the house would leave if he did not, and
the prisoner's son had also threatened to put a knife into
his stomach.

Mr. Bingham said he should remand the prisoner for a
week to see the result of the wound the prosecutor had re-

ceived.

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TEE AMERICANS IN PEKIN.

We have been favoured with the following very
interesting letters, describing the progress of the
United States' mission to Pekin. It is important
to ob3erve how strongly they insist upon the neces-
sity of reparation being exacted for the late out-
rage on the Peiho

PEKIN, AUG. 10.

We have reached this capital of the East, and
are about to depart from it, after long delays and
many vicissitudes. Nor can we sum the results of
our tour in the triumphant bon mot of Caesar,
" Vent; vidi, vita !" for, though we took part in a
battle, as you have heard, our party was not victo-
rious ; and though we have made a long and tedious
journey, we have experienced much, but seen little.
The veni is, therefore, all that remains of the for-
mulary, and we wait with some anxiety to supple-
ment it with redivi.

After the unfortunate battle our Minister, feel.
ing bound if possible still to preserve neutrality,
and to carry out the objects of his mission, entered
into correspondence with the Viceroy of this pro-
vince. The result was an invitation to an inter.
view on the Bth ofJuly. He was received with all the
tawdry magnificence so characteristic of China, and
the Viceroy, at his request, memorialised the Em-
peror to allow him to proceed to Pekin. The Im-
perial consent obtained, we set out for the capital
by land on the 20th of July.
Our own cortege consisted of twenty-five vehicles,
each drawn by two mules, and we were accom-
panied by a numerous escort of Chinese, civil and
military. The highest of the former was (excuse
the Hibernianism) a Manchu of the grade of Salt
nd
Commissioner, a gentleman of great affability and
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medan in faith. All the arrangements for our
accommodation were made on a very expensive
scale, and secured us as much comfort as the
country „could afford. And as to honour, the
array of buttoned and feathered officials who ac-
companied us by the way, and the new ones who
met us at every stage, was enough to satisfy
the most fastidious as to the distinction with
which the first American Embassy was greeted.
The Viceroy had welcomed our Minister on the Bth,
and now, on the 20th, he was entertained at his
stopping place by the Treasurer, or Poo-tsing-sze'
the next provincial in authority ; and at each suc-
cessive stage the local grandees came in swarms to
tender whatever theirjurisdiction could afford.
After two days of weary travel through barren
heaths, we struck the Pilo,ebove Tien-tsing, and
proceeded thence to Tung-chow in boats. To track
up a distance of 360 le against a rapid current re-
quired no less than five days, but the voyage was
the reverse of tedious, for though the scenery was
neither enlivened by opulent cities nor emboldened
by lofty mountains, it unfolded at every turn of
the many winding stream a new and pleasing land-
scare—

"E'en on a plain no humble beauties lie,
Where some bold river breaks the long expanse,
And woods along the banks are waving high,
Whose shadows in the glassy waters dance,
Or, with the moonbeam, sleep in midnig►ht's solemn
trance."

We entered Pekin on the 27th ult. with our escort
of cavalry largely augmented, and affording (not
me, but bfilliant escort) a spectacle to not less than
100,000 of the citizens. Among these some myriads
were large-footed Tartar women, who appear to be
free from the restraints imposed on their sex by
the Chinese.

Thus far our journey was an ovation. But we
found it was to end in a quasi imprisonment, for
that extreme Oriental jealousy which so long con-
fined the English to the suburbs of Canton and the
Dutch to the island of Dezima still reigns supreme
in this metropolis. Thus, when we were snugly
installed in the Hotel of the United States Lega-
tion, we soon found that for the interim we were
in a prison. A host of officials stood ready to obey
our wishes, and of all things that we desired but
one was withheld—liberty of locomotion. Assured
that we should be allowed to perambulate the
streets, and see the lions of the capital as soon as
our business should be settled, we were not per-
mitted to go far from the door of our lodging
place. We were not even suffered to exchange
visits with the Russian Embassy ; and Chinese
diplomacy has played its game so well that, though
our Minister early fixed his own day for departure,
they have protracted the business up to the present
hour, and we arc to leave tomorrow morning.
But, you will ask, what business? That which
we proposed was simply to deliver a letter of the
President and exchange our treaty. But the Chinese
Ministers said they had orders to bring us into the
presence of the " Son of Heaven." Of course they
expected us to conform to the "rites"—excepting
that, in honour of American independence, they
would exact but one kneeling, and three" kotows,"
or prostrations—onc-third of thht required from
tributary nations. This was out of the question,
and his Imperial Majesty finally consented to re-
ceive our Minister according to our own etiquette,
his officers signing a paper to that effect, but exact-
ing a private compliance, so far as kneeling on one
knee. To this condition Mr. Ward returned a nega-
tive, and our visions of the place all vanished. The
Emperor was disappointed, and even somewhat in-
censed, but he has become pacified, ratified our
treaty, and received the President's letter. Politi-
cally our mission has been successful, and, with the
exception I have made above, the Chinese have
treated us magnificently.
SHANGHAI, AUG. 30.

We arrived from the north on the 22d, and, hav-
ing received an invitation to go over to Japan in
the Powhatan, I ran Kiown to Ningpo ; saw my
family, from whom I had been absent three months,
and brought P-- back with me, hoping he may be
benefited by the voyage. We expect to get under
way early next week, and, after touching at Naga-
saki, to run up to Jedda. It is a rare thing in one
cruise to visit the two chief capitals of the East.
As to Pekin, the time for missionary occupation
has not yet come. The policy of the Chinese Go-
vernment must first undergo a thorough change, and
that change is not to be brought about by gentle
means. The haughty spirit which they manifest
now calls, loudly for the humiliation they are to
suffer next year. Though I disapprove of some
things in the policy of Mr. Bruce, yet I feel that a
successful campaign in the North is equally ind:s-
pensable to the true interests of both China and
England.
" On looking over my letter, I find :t necessary
to enter a caveat against misunderstanding. As to
the suspicious and restrictive policy exercised
towards us, that was altogether negative, no actual
constraint being placed upon our movements. At
the outset, however, the Chinese Ministers requested
Mr. Ward to keep his suite indoors until business
should be completed. To this he consented, and we
were fettered by the word of our own chief. Our
missionaries at Ningpo and here have just passed
through a period of great peril, owing to tumults
excited by the Coolie traffic,' in connexion with
the defeat at the Peiho. The chapels of Syle
and Muirhoad were nearlyldestroyed. Things are
nay! becoming quiet, but they will not be on a secure
basis until British prestige is restored.
" I remain, &c.,
" W. A. P. M."

HORRIBLE DEATH.—On Monday an inquest was
held at Cambridge touching the death of Hester Borbon,
who was burnt to death on the previous Saturday night.
Deceased was a married woman, and was in the habit of
getting intoxicated. She had bee a " charing," but her son
stated that she was "getting on" at 2 o'clock, and so dis-
posed to drink that she had been known to take quartern
loaves out of the house to get beer with. Between 6 and 7
deceased was seen standing, all in flames, between the door
opening from one to the other of the two rooms of their
wretched habitation. She fell on the entrance of the first
spectator, a neighbour with whom she had been drinking,
and never spoke afterwards. The body presented a sad
spectacle. There is every reason to believe deceased had
been seized with a fit, or in a state of drunkenness bad
fallen forwards on the fire. The jury added to their verdict
of accidental death their opinion that she was drunk at the
time of her death.

GRESHAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

ANNUAL MEETING (THIS DAY).
The ordinary general meeting of this society was held
this afternoon at the offices, 37, Old Jewry, to receive the
report of the directors for the year 1858-1359, and to tran-
sact such other general business as is required by the deed
of settlement.

SVilliam Tabor, Esq., chairman of the board of directors,
presided.

The advertisement calling the meeting, and the other
routine business, having been transacted,
The CHAIRMAN said the present meeting was called in
accordance with the Act of Parliament, to give an account
of the transactions of the society for the last 12 months, and
he would therefore call upon Mr. Farren to read the direc-
tors' report.