The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-18 00:00:00

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parade grounds, European ho .••
spaces. No vestige of any such inkoterfil '4lf
All is gone back to Chinese notion"
squalid houses for Chinamen to herdNin, cldps
crops for Chinamen to eat. These paddy-fields
were now full of water ; the city also was slightly
flooded. The Chinamen seemed to have clustered
like flies upon the only foul spot in this beautifut
island.
I walked down into the English burial-ground.
The inscriptions have been torn away from the
square tomb, and the obelisk had been broken.
The Chinese have crowded the place with the coffins
of their own dead. A fellow who was working
there at this " pigeon" addressed me in the jargon
they use for English, and told me there had been
an insurrection in the city two days before. The
"soldiers" had assembled from their shops and.
had beaten the Mandarin almost to death because
he had paid them their pay in the new depreciated.
cash. He ended by a patriotic wish that we Eng- .
lish would come and take the island again. His
English acquirements showed that he had found.
his account in the last occupation.
If it be our policy to retake Chusan it may be
dose without the expenditure of a shot or a life,
provided it be done promptly. I know not where
else we can find a basis for naval operations upon
the coast. If we have to police the Chinese coast,
or to hold power in the great inland waters, we
must have a large naval depot, and that can be no
other than the harbour of Tinghai. It will, how-
ever, be a naval depot and no more. Not only
past experience, but also all a priori reasoning
shows that Chusan can never become a place of
great commerce.
I had seen enough—enough, at least, for one day.
It was raining a drizzling rain and blowing hard.
I was racked with rheumatism, and total-wed by that
horrid 4pestilence which no one can escape, for
they are the blossoms of this flowery land—an
eruption of boils. I sent into the city for Coolies
and a chair to penetrate a little into the interior on
the morrow, and I returned on board.
The Rosina lay just abreast of a long low building
of European or rather of Anglo-Indian build-11
winnows and a verandah. P.rt of it is now used. - -
as a Cuetem-house, and the rest is dirt and desola-
tion. This was the British hospital. The man who
chose that site is guilty of many of the deaths re-
corded in that graveyard, and also of many of those
upon the Cameronian-hill. There are mils and val-
leys close around where at small labour you might
make a little Eden. If you must be near the dirty
town and the Chinese samshoo—which, of all Chi-
nese inventions, is the most deadly to the English
soldier—there is the Josshouse-hil The British
hospital is placed upon a level with the swamp, in
full reek of the paddy-fields, within the circuit of
the stench of that filthy suburb, and in a spot where
samshoo can be conveniently handed in through
every window, yet we wonder in England that Chu-
san was found unhealthy.
I had full oppartcnity of contemplating this place.
No sooner had I got on board than the breeze be-
came a gale and the misty rain a driving storm.
Then rose the tempest—a tempest such as the
China Seas only can show. It lasted all night, and
the next day arid the next. During a momentary
pause we saw through ono of the narrow islet
channels a large a:row steamer carrying her funnel
abaft her mainmast, struggling down under the
mainland. Some one has since sail it was the
Durance French transport, and that she grounded
on the height of the Typhoon. The Shanghai
Shipping,List afterwards repeated this latter report.
It may be so, but I doubt it. I believe it was the
same steamer I saw two days later in company with
the Capricieuse frigate off Lookong. She might be
the Durance, but we did not make her opt to be
aground or any otherwise in "durance vile." What-
ever she was, however, she passed like a spirit on
this hurricane. Outside the typhoon was sweeping
the seas and ravaging the coasts. It drove the light
ship at the mouth of the Yang tse-Kiang from her
moorings, it strewed the junks about in pieces of
floating wreck, it broke down walls, it cast away a
three-masted English ship, and lifted a schooner
over the sand of the south bank and deposited her
in the paddy-fields. It dammed up the waters of
Waug-poo and the Yung, and here in this bay of
Chusan it put junks adrift and bands of wreckers
upon the alert. The Rosina had ground tackle
made for such emergencies. She drifted at first,
but her second anchor brought her up. We were
fortunately in the best harbour on the coast of
China. After this experience I have a right to
speak well of the harbour of Chusan.
On the night of the third day we sailed forth
with a moderate wind and a bright moonlight.
SHANGHAI, SEPT. 20.
Since the Remi started with the mail and my des-
patch we have the semi-moathly from England with
dates to the 281 of July. Messrs. Jardine's house,
in their usual grand seigneur way of dein.; things,
despatch a fast private steamer to overtake the
mail or perhaps outstrip it. Se I have an oppor-
tunity for more last words.
I have nothing to chronicle, however, except the
blank disappointment of all the English residents at
the newsjust received. Delhi not fallen and Lord
Palmerston's Pekin monomania sarong upon him.
We had hoped that Lord Elgin, sharing, as we all
believe he does, the universal feeling here, would
have obtained leave to allow the Russians and the
French to go up and each get his kick at the mouth
of the Peiho, white he stayed south and took Can-
ton. The Russian has got over his twenty days'
naval koo too. The Frenchman comes on very
leisurely to take Iris turn of humiliation. Lord
Elgin may now, I suppose, be expected iu about a
fortnight. He also, with the navy of England, must
dance attendance in a sea of winter tempests while
the petty Mandarin at the month of the Pekin
river is calculating how long he can keep up the ex-
hibition of the humiliation of the "barbarians."
Oh ! that narrow blue riband of the Foreign-office.
It is harder, and tougher, and stiffer than the red
tape of the Circumlocution-office ; it swathes the
energies of nations, while the reel tape only cripples
a clerk. The Emperor has just taken pains, by an
announcement in the Pekin, Gazette, to let the
world know that ho is informed of and approves
Yeh's doings at Canton. France and Russia have
no castes kW—they have no factories destroyed,
no steamers taken and burnt, no proclamations of
head-money to resent. They have their quarrel to
seek, and they go up, therefore, and offer their
faces to the smiter. We are in the position of that
valorous individual who said, " Sir' you have
tweaked my nose, you have kicked me behind, yon
have knocked my hat over my eyes ! Take care,
sir ; you may go too far ; you may rouse the sleep-
ing lion !" Oh, for one three months of the elder
Pitt ! He would have telegraphed—" Take Can-
ton and held it with your present force." And it
would have been done ; for, although the authori-
ties here are afraid of "her Majesty's Opposition,"
they are not afraid of Chinamen. With Canton
taken, and some gunboats at Tien-sing, we might
write our own treaty and have it signed in three
months.
But no ; years, and millions, and perhaps fleets,
certainly human lives, must be sacrificed to the
pedantry of diplomacy. Somehow or other those
six black rams who are reputed to be the genii
of Canton city seem to have obtained seats its
our House of Commons.
Then we are told that sailing ships can carry
troops faster than steamships, and, judging from
the choice made, we are also to believe that re-
gular old water-bruisers with indifferent antece-
dents are better than good screw vessels. I find
that some people here know, or profess to know,
something about these ships—what one of them
was sold for, and bow many times that amount
her charter to China will bring, what happened
to another of them, and so on. However, let
us hope that they will bring us our 1,500 ma-
xims out in time to eat their Christmas dinner
'n Canton.

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN'S.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTEIur RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Nov. 11, 1837 .216,510 310
Corresponding week last year

Decrease in 1857
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Nov. 14, .
year
1857 £13,861 6 11
TCootrmalsPofotnhdine half-eyeekarlastot this date, 1857 351,235 10 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 356,764 7 6
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