The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

THE ATTACK ON CANTON.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the Sth, in the
Debats, says :—_

"The news of the attack on Canton by the Eng- I
lish fleet has produced a considerable sensation
here. It appears certain that depots of goods be-
longing to Russian merchants have been burnt,
and that their loss of property has been consider-
able. This act, which is perfectly unjustifiable,
and for which no serious motive can be assigned,
is regarded here as the prelude to the conquest
which the English propose to themselves to make
of the Island of Chusan. The Russian Government
is perfectly aware of the intentions of the English,
and of all the plans which they meditate in China,
and for which purpose they have been for some
years past very quietly increasing their naval foie()
on that station, until they have now a very formid-
able feet there. All the intrigues carried on by
English agents with a view to ruin the important
commercial relations which the Russian merchants
carry on with China through the town of Kiachta
are well known at St. Petersburg. It does not
unfrequently happen that large quantities of tea
into
Russia the finest qualities thus imported by land
Russia are purchased by English houses and sent
jealousy
the London. It is well known with what
the English watch the progress of the Russian mi-
litary and commercial establishments on the river
Amur, where we already touch, by the south of Si-
beria for a distance of more than 400 kilometres
(250 miles), on the Chinese frontier. All the tri-
angle between that part of Siberia and the Amur,
and of which Nicolaieff has been designed by the
Emperor to be the new capital, may now be consi-
dered as definitively belonging to the Russian em-
pire. The intelligent men who were sent some
years ago into those distant countries have so well
secured Russian domination there that all commer-
cial affairs with the Chinese provinces may be said
to be exclusively in the hands of Russian mer-
chants. The anxiety of the English to dislodge
the Russians from these countries may be thus
readily conceived, but they will have the more
difficulty in effecting their purpose that the diffe-
rent Russian military establishments along the
Amur are becoming every Ely more and more
formidable. It may be also remembered that the
English made a fruitless attempt, in 1855, to
penetrate with their squadron into this river, the
mouth of which has been since so well fortified that
it would now cost immense efforts and sacrifices to
force this new Cronstadt with vessels of war."

A PUNISH VENT FUR BURGLARS AN-S

GA ROTTBRS.

(From the Edinburgh i3cho, of Jan. 10,
--....—.--
This day Japhet Crooks alias Sir Peter Stranger
1729 )
stood on the Pillory an hour at Charing-cross, after
which a chair was brought up, and he bei,ngseated
therein, the hangman, with a . surgeons instru-
ment, somewhat resembling a sicllose e, cut off, pur-
suant to his sentence, one ear cto his hed,
which he held up for the view of an infinite
nostrils
number of spectators, and while the surgeon was
dressing it, and stopping the blood, the other was
in any
cut off, and held. in the same manner, after which
degree
the hangman with a pair of mars slit up his
and seared them with a red hot iron ; of those'
operations none seemed to affect him '
like that of burning.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon,
a little before 3 o'clock, a Lancashire and Yorkshire
Company's railway engine was standing at Sough sta-
tion, Over Darwen, with a ballast-train attached, while
another train was passing, when the boiler burst, forcing
out about a foot of the firebox, so as to knock the driver,
Daniell Greenwood, off the engine. He was afterwards
found on the side of the line quite dead. The guard,
Henry Young, was also seriously scalded, and died a few
hours afterwards. The stoker was under the engine, and
escaped injury. Both of the unfortunate men were
members of the excellent insurance company in con-
nexion with the company, and ;,he widow and two
children left by Greenwood will he entitled to 501., while
the widow and two children of Henry Young will be
entitled to 371. 10d.