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. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.
No. 142, Strand, London, W.C.

I informed Prince Kur•.g of my resolution not to
accept any provincial authority as Imperial Com-
missioner, to correspond with him or the Foreign
Minister at the capital, and of my readiness to pro-
ceed there at any amount of inconvenience, should
business of importance require my presence.—l
have, &c.,
(Signed) FREDK. W. A. BRUCE.
The Lord John Russell, &c.

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French head-quarters, Tien-tsin,
Nov. 17, 1860.
My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your
your lordship that their excellencies the Earl of
Elgin and Baron Gros, finding
.it necessary to
delay their departure from Pekin for some day s,
Sir Hope Grant requested General de Montauban
to remain with his force until the ambassadors
should be ready to proceed to Tien-tsin.
General de Montauban declined stopping
after the Ist of November, on the score of the
uncertainty of the weather, but signified his inten-
tion of leaving a battalion of 500 men of the 101st
Regiment, with two guns, as an escort for Baron
Gros.
On Sunday, the 28th ult., the bodies of the unfor-
tunate French prisoners were interred in the
Portuguese burying-ground, outside the north-
west gate bf the city. Almost all the English
officers off duty attended. The Roman Catholic
Bishop of Pekin and the bishop's coadjutor were
present.
On the 29th ult., at nine a.m., the ceremony of
re-opening the French Roman Catholic church in
the Tartar city was performed. Baron Gros, the
two bishops, General de Montauban, with their
staffs, and most of the French officers attended.
The Bishop of Pekin, in his discourse, expressed
in grateful terms his acknowledgments to her Ma-
jesty Queen Victoria and the English army in
China, for the assistance the latter had rendered to
the cause of Christianity. The ceremony was much
marred by therain which fell, theroof of the church
being in a very dilapidated condition.
On Thursday, the Ist of November, General de
Montauban started with his force, leaving a bat-
talion of the 101st Regiment, with two guns, as an
escort for Baron Gros, and after a prosperous, but
very cold march, reached Tien-tsin on the 6th inst.
His Excellency Mr. Bruce passed us during the
night of the sth inst., en route for Pekin.
On the 12th inst., his excellency the Earl of
Elgin and Sir Hope Grant arrived from Pekin, and
M. de Bourbillon from Shanghae. Mr. Bruce
returned on the 13th.

Translated by

HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary.
Jan. 7, 1861.

(Signed) THOMAS WADE, Chinese Secretary.
(1) Yih Sin, properly Yih Su, but the last sylla-
ble, according to usage, has had its sound changed
in consideration of its present honourable employ-
ment.

Illustrated with exquisite wood engravings by the brothers
Dalziel, from designs by John Gilbert, Harrison Weir, John
Watson, Duncan, Wolfe, and other celebrated artists. An
excellent Likeness of the Author, from a Photograph by
John Watkins, engraved by Frank Moll, forms the frontis-
piece.
" It is a real treat to see a volume so rich in beauty as this
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Illustrated London News.

URGENT APPEAL.—At this inclement Season
an overwhelming number of destitute Sick Persons
seek refuge at the ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-
road, and the medical officers are frequently compelled, by
want of funds, to refuse admission to many deplorable cases.
Unless timely AID can be given numbers of these poor suf-
ferers must perish.
This was the first Hospital established on the principle of
free admission to the destitute sick, by their own application,
without letter of recommendation, and it relieved during the
last week upwards of 2,000 of the afflicted poor.
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on
voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by
the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also
by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and C 4, ; Herries and
Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith.
Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and
Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-
street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital from 10
till 5.

The undersigned has the honour to acknowledge
the despatch of the Prince of Kung, under date the
25th ultimo, enclosing copies of the letters his
Serene Highness has addressed to the high
authorities of the coast provinces, apprising
them of such provisions of the convention signed
on the 24th ultimo as require their immediate at-
tention.

tVesers. Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon-
street.

On Saturday next, in ? vols., Svo , with Portraits,
MEMOIRS of the COURTS and CABINETS
of WILLIAM IV. and VICTORIA.

The undersigned has also received his Serene
Highness's later dispatch of the Ist inst., enclosing
copy of an Imperial decree of the 28th ultimo, by
which his Majesty the Emperor of China has been
pleased to acquaint his servants and subjects
throughout his dominions of his entire acceptance
of the treaties and conventions concluded with
England and France, and directs that full opera- 1
tion be given to their provisions in &very particular.
The undersigned has learned with pleasure that
ix the capital every publicity has been given to his
Majesty's decree, as well as to the.important instru-
ments to which it refers ; also that copies of both
have been printed in the form of a Pekin Gazette
for general distribution.
The Imperial Government having so far satisfied
its obligations, the undersigned begs to inform the
Prince of Kung, that, in accordance with the terms
of the convention, her Britannic Majesty's forces
will at once be withdrawn from the vicinity of the
capital. _ _ _

J. B. OWEN, M.A., Chairman of the Weekly Board.

From Original Family Documents.
By the DUKE of BUCKINGHAM, K.G.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

SOCIETY for the RELIEF of DISTRESS.—This
Society derives its origin from the following cause :
That, notwithstanding the operation of the poor law and
the numerous existing charitable associations, human
beings, although within a stone's throw of the plenty,
luxury, and refinement of this wealthy metropolis, die
miserably of 'hunger and the want of the common neces-
saries of life.
To prevent as far as possible the recurrence of an evil so
disgraceful to our social system, it is proposed in the first
instance to establish a co-operative system of visiting the
Poor, by aiding and increasing the power of existing local
institutions which have this object in view.
To bring to the notice of parochial authorities such cases
as legitimately Wong to them alone, Lo aid the police and
the Mendicity Society, to detect imposture, and to bring to
the care of hospitals, refuges, penitentiaries, and existing
charitable associations those cases for which their several
institutions were established.
Special and urgent cases of distress indicated by the
elergY—ministers of all denominations, medical profession,
or agents of any existing Society, will be relieved as far as
possible by the judicious application of funds entrusted to
district committees and local responsible persons appointed
by them for the purpose.
No cases will be relieved by money or otherwise at the
central office.
The promoters of this movement now come forward, not
in any spirit of opposition to existing societies, but, on the
contrary, with the strong desire to co-operate with and assist
them in the arduous task in which they, with such praise-
worthy zeal and perseverance, have been so many years
laboriously engaged.
They now claim to be met in the spirit in which they
advance, with the sole purpose of furthering, by friendly
intercourse, the great Christian object which all charitable
associations have in view.

NEW WORK ON PORT-ROYAL.
On Wednesday, the 23d instant, will be published, in
2 vols. post Svo.,
PORT ROYAL: a Contribution to the History
of Religion and Literature in France. By CHARLES
BEARD, B.A.
London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts.

This Day, Cheaper Edition, in One Volume, Crown
Octavo. 68.,
MADEMOISELLE MORI : a Tale' of Modern
Rome.
London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand.

This Day, Foolscap Bvo.. price 2s. 6d., Second and Cheaper
Edition of

TALES FROM THE GERMAN OF TIECK,
containina. THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN,
THE LOVE CHARM, and PIETRO OF ABANO.
London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand.

This Day, Two Volumes, Foolscap Octavo, 125.,
HOPES AND FEARS ; or, Scenes from the
Life of a Spinster. By the Author of " The Heir of
Redclyffe," "Heartsease," &c.
London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand.

It is the sincere hope of the undersigned that
there may be no more occasion for their employ-
ment; that in the words of his Serene Highness,
the shield and the spear may indeed be laid aside
for evermore.

On the 15th inst, the allied naval and military
commanders in chief, with the sanction of their
excellencies the plenipotentiaries, agreed that the
Shantung promontory shall be held in terms of the
convention of Pekin as follows, viz. :

It was with much regret that the undersigned,
ever the advocate of peace, found upon his return to
this country, that the policy recommended by evil
counsellors to his Imperial Majesty rendered a resort
to hostilities inevitable ; that they have proceeded
no further he is willing to attribute to the counsels
of his Serene Highness, in whose hands it will be
gratifying to him to be able to report that the ad-
ministration of foreign affairs is to continue.
The objects of his special mission accomplished,
the undersigned has no further part to play in China,
He will be replaced in his ministerial functions by
the Hon. Mr. Bruce, who arrived in Pekin only
yesterday.
Mr. Bruce proposes leaving an officer in the resi-
dence which it has been agreed he should occupy,
and until this be in proper order for his reception
he will himself reside at Tien-tsin.
It but remains for the undersigned to request

" 1. That the ports of Chefoo shall be held by a
French force, naval or military, as convenient.
" 2. That the Mia-Tau Islands shall be held by
an English force, naval or military, as convenient.
" 3. That such occupation shall cease when the

The following noblemen and gentlemen having combined
to form a Guarantee Committee, by whom the entire ex-
penses of management are to be defrayed, the Society now
call upon the public to entrust it with the requisite funds,
Which shall be applied, without the smallest deduction, to
the relief of genuine distress.

indemnities due by the Chinese Government are
paid, or sooner if the French and English Govern-
ments shall so determine."

It was also agreed that the French flag alone
shall fly at ChefOo, and the English flag alone at
the Mia-Tau Islands. »

GUARANTEE COMMITTEE.
Rig Grace the Duke of W.Devonport Bromlev,Esq.
Marlborough M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P.
The Right Hon. the Earl of C. E. Boothby, Esq.
Chesterfield A. H. Davenport, Esq.
The Right Hon. the Earl of J. H. Reynell de C astro,Esq.
Lichfield Richard Gibbs, Esq.
The Right lion. the Earl of H. A. Hankey,lEsq .
Sefton . R. Stuart Lane, Esq.
The Right Hon. the Earl of D. Meinertzhagen, Esq.
Darnley Admiral Meynell
The Right Hon. the Lord W. Wells, Esq.
Ashburton J. N. Murray, Esq.
The Right Hon. the Lord Charles Whitehead, Esq.
Raglan Martin Ridley Smith, Esq.
The lion. A. H. Vernon
The Rev. W. Davenport
Bromley

It is General de Montauban's present intention
:o proceed about the 20th instant to Shanghae,

leaving about 2,000 men and two batteries of artil-
lery here. The rest of his force is embarking as
fast as possible for Shanghae, where he intends it
shall winter, and await further orders from the
Minister of War.—l have, &c.,

(Signed) ST. GEORGE FOLEY,
Colonel, Commissioner at French head-quarters.
The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, &e.

that the Prince of Kung will do him the honour to
name an hour at which he may take leave of his
Serene Highness. The undersigned will avail him-
self of the opportunity to present Mr. Bruce to his
Serene Highness.

BANQUET AT THE DIANSION-ROUSE.

(With power to add to their number.)

The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor gave a grand
entertainment on Saturday evening to his Excel-
lency the Governor-General of Canada and a select

WORKING COMMITTEE.
The Earl of Lichfield
Lord Charles. Bruce
Robert Barnett, Esq.
Rev. T. Beames
W. Davenport Bromley,Esq.
T. H. Reynell Decastro, Esq.
William Gilbert, Esq.
Wm. Bevan, Esq.
Colonel De Bathe
C. Sartoris, Esq.
St. Leger Glyn Esq.
Henry tilersliankey, Esq.
R. Stuart Lane, Esq.

Hon. E. Chandos Leigh
J. N. Murray, Esq.
Rev. W. Rogers
Martin Ridley Smith, Esq.
Hon. A. IL Vernon
Colonel Haygarth
Hon. Arthur Egerton
W. Ewing, Esq.
Rev P G M'Gill
Hugh Astley, Esq.
Rev. W. Mayd
Capt. °unlitle Owen, R.N.

(Signed) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE..

party. There were present the Lady Mayoress
(Lady 011iffe), his Excellency the Governor-Gene-

(Received Nov. 8, 1860, three p.m.)

ral of Canada, Lieut.-General Fox, the Hon. Col.
French, M.P., the Hon. Butler Johnstone, MY.,
Sir Frederick Rogers, Bart., the Under-Secretary

The Prince of Kung, Imperial commissioner,
makes a communication in reply.
The Prince has read with pleasure the despatch
he has just received from his excellency the British
minister. Time does not permit of his replying to
it more detailedly.
In answer to his excellency's question regarding
the hour at which he-and his excellency Mr. Bruce
could have an interview this day with the Prince,
the Prince has to state that he will await [their
excellencies]• at the liwang.l-Iwa-Sz, at 4 o'clock.
A necessary communication, &c.
Hien-Fung, 10th year, 9th moon, 26th day
(Oct. 8, 1860.)
Translated by
THOMAS WADE, Chinese Secretary.

of State for the Colonies, Sir James Elphinstone,
Bart., M.P., &c.
The usual loyal toasts having been drunk,
The LORD MAYOR rose to propose the toast of the
evening. To our colonial system, he said, the
greatness and prestige of this country were largely
to be ascribed. The enterprise of British merchants
led them to different parts of the world, by which,
combined with individual enterprise, our colonies
had one by one been established. As trade ex-
panded, and as distant regions were peopled, the
duty devolved on the government of this country to
take those remote dependencies in charge, to see
that law and justice were administered, and that
safety to life and property. was secured. We have
now had long experience in colonisation; in some
of our colonies we have brought the system of go-
vernment to a high degree of perfection ; in all
great ameliorations and improvements have taken
place from time to time ; and generally speaking
our colonial empire is in a condition of which the
mother country might well be proud. (Cheers.)
One of the most important dependencies of the Bri-
tish crown was that which was under the immediate
rule of his Excellency Sir Fdmund Head, who sat
that evening on his right. (Cheers.) He felt he was
speaking the sentiments of every Englishman when
he said they were greatly indebted to his Excel-
lency for having administered the Government of
that great colony so as to maintain the attachment
of all its inhabitants towards the mother country,
and that spirit of loyalty and brotherly feeling
which now existed between Canada and England.
(Cheers.) The rapid growth of the population of
Canada had been most marked. He was not quite
sure, but he believed he was not far wrong when
he said that 3,000,000 of people were spread over
that fair dependency of the British crown. (Hear,
hear.) The population, too, was augmenting at a
prodigious rate, which necessarily involved con-
tinual changes to meet the increase of numbers, and
the exercise of an extraordinary amount of ability
to preserve, and, if possible, to increase the senti-
ments of loyalty and affection towards the mother
country, thereby imparting to it additional strength
and importance. (Cheers.) Ho could not refrain
from making those few observations in reference to
so fair and promising an apanage of the English
crown ; and he felt sure the company would parti-
cipate in his sentiments. (Hear, hear.) His lord-
ship concluded by asking them to drink as a toast,
" The Governor-General of Canada." (Cheers.)
Sir EDMUND BEAD, who was cheered on rising,
in the course of his speech said, his lordship had
ascribed to his (Sir Edmund Head's) rule much of
the loyalty- and attachment towards the parent
state which characterised the people of Canada in
an eminent degree. But it was not to any services
of his that that attachment on the part of the Cana-
dians was to be referred. On the contrary, it was
to be ascribed to the people themselves and to the the
principles and ideas they had carried there from
mother country. (Cheers.) The people of Canada
have and enjoy their free institutions. -TheY e Yed
mother a
constitution similar to that of the
England grew also.
'tien increased so their love.
coun-
try, and enjoying that constitution, as the popula-
(Cheers.) He might
ptyreossf Ledonodnonth,
ethmait.ntdbseroef
say wthpeouhar appropriate-
ness, speaking
was one feeling strongly in3P
and that was that all true
the people of editsCan
• roots to the bottom of the
within the
freedom must strike
municipal institutions. They had
00frganisation of municipal institutions.
ifnerctialneadsoaialn
It had its faults, but on the whole it was successful.
It was well known and understood in England that
those institutions were the substratum—the base—
on which freedom must rest ; and those institutions
were spreading as well in Upper as in Lower
Canada. He said, therefore, standing where he did,
it was peculiarly apposite that in that, the first
commercial city in the world, of which the Lord
Mayor was the honoured head, he should allude to
the fact that the principles of municipal govern-
ment were understood in the British colonies, and
regarded as the bulwarks of liberty. They all knew
from the history of their country that when a help-
ing hand was wanting, it was to the City of London
that men looked to help in the cause of freedom,
and that they never looked in vain. (Cheers.) For
those reasons he appreciated the honour that had
been conferred on him ; conferred, also, in terms
far too flattering, and he could not sufficiently ex-
press his gratitude for a compliment paid him by so
distinguished a company. Sir Edmund concluded,
amid renewed cheers, by proposing the health of
the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor.
The toast was drunk with acclamation.
Some other toasts having been given, the com-
pany separated shortly after 10 o'clock.

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Tientsin, Nov. 15, 1860.

My Lord,—l have the honour to enclose the copy
of a letter from Mr. Adkins to Mr. Bruce, written
three days after our departure from Pekin, and
showing that the state of affairs in the capital up
to that period was satisfactory.—l have, &c.,

_
ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
The Lord John Russell, &e.

Pekin, Nov. 12, 1860.

Sir,—l have the honour to report that imme-
diately after your excellency's departure on the 9th
inst. I took possession of the building which has
been chosen for the residence of her Majesty's re-
presentative in this city. I was assisted in every
way by the local authorities, and, one of the magis-
trates of the city accompanied me to the spot.
The disposition of the people seemq to be friendly
enough, and in my rides and walks about the city
I am as free from molestation now as I should have
been while the allied forces were before the city.
Report says that San-kolinson has within the
last few days been summoned to Jehol, to wait upon
the Emperor. 1,
Several days must elapse before his 14ajesty can
return to the capital, as the memorial advising him
of a final settlement of the foreign business was
only despatched yesterday.
The city gates are most of them open now, and
the inhabitants who fled on the approach of the
allies, are returning in large numbers.—l have, &c.
(Signed) T. ADKINS.
His Excellency the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce, C. 8., &c.

Tien-tsin, Nov. 16, 1850

My Lord,—l have the honour to report that, in
consequence of the dispatch addressed to me by the
Earl of Elgin, I left Shanghae in her Majesty's ship
Furious, and reached the mouth of the Peiho on
Sunday, the 4th of November. Finding that the
unfavourable reports of the state of affairs, which
had arrived at Shanghae before my departure, were
without foundation, I proceeded next day to Tien-
tsin, where I was informed by Admiral Hope that
the army was to leave Pekin on the 7th or Bth, end
by starting immediately on horseback I was able
to reach Pekin on the morning of the 7th.
Lord Elgin will have informed your lordship of
the grounds on which it was decided that the Mi-
nisters should not take up their residence imme-
diately at the capital. I was, however, presented to
the Imperial Prince Kung, as her Britannic Majesty's
Minister in China. He returned the visit next morn-
ing before our departure, and I took that opportunity
to press strongly on his consideration the situation
of the province of Kiangsoo, the fact that the pre-
sence of the allied troops alone preserved Shanghae
from falling into the hands of the rebels, and the
impossibility of our occupation being prolonged inde-
finitely. I urged upon him the necessity 0f
imme-
diate steps being taken to restore the authority of
the Imperial Government in the province, and repre-
sented to him that he was misled in supposing
our interest would lead us to hold Shanghae for
.the
Imperialists, if the province and the principal marts
in it remained in the hands of the rebels. I pointed
out to him the anomalous, position in which I was
placed in upholding the
andtt authority of a government
which pursued a hostiledefiant course of policy
towards us against the insurgents whose professions
and declarations, at all events, were couched in a
friendly spirit. I hinted that the best means of
counteracting these impressions, which could not
fail to act unfavourably on opinion in England,
would be to send an ambassador as a pledge of the
intention of the Chinese to conduct their foreign
relations in a different spirit.
The Prince listened with great attention and
interest. He expressed himself as greatly obliged
for information, much of which was new to him, in
terms which certainly seemed to recognise the bene-
fit his Government would thus derive from direct
personal intercourse with foreign ministers.
After the interview we left for Tung-chow, and
arrived at Tien-tsin on Monday, the 12th inst.,
where I propose staving for the present.
Before quitting Pekin it vas arranged that a
house in the immediate vicinity of the Russian esta-
blishment should be taken for her Britannic Ma-

" WILLIAM," said a teacher to one of his pupils,
" can you tell me why the sun rises in the east ?" "Don't
know, sir," replied William, " 'cept it be that the east
makes everything rise." Teacher fainted.
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why did you name your old hen Macduff ?" was asked °f
sentimental lady who kept poultry. ,6 Decease, air," she
replied, " I want her to lay on.'"

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