The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-10 00:00:00

THE CRINESE REBELLION.

The Moniteur de la Flotte has some news of the pro-
gress of the rebels in China, which had not come to us
with the last mail.' On the 6th of November the insur-
rectionary army fought another battle with the troops
of the government, and the Imperialist? were obliged
to evacuate the city of Shanghai completely, and take
refuge on board the junks and other vessels of their fleet.
The prince of the rebels, Tien-Ti, has given himself out as
the last direct descendant of the dynasty of Ming, which
was overturned by the Maatchou Tartars, in 1644 ; and
the generalissimo of the insurgent army has put forth a
curious proclamation, in which he says :

" By acting as we are now doing, we are obeying the
orders which have come to us from Heaven, and we are
likewise complying with the desires of the people
assembled around us, to exterminate the Mantchou
Tartars and make them vanish for ever from the earth.
When we carefully study the emperors of the great Ming
dynasty, we see that their outward countenances and
attire were so beautiful and imposing that the memory
of their features and appearance has been transmitted
through a hundred generations ; whilst these hideous
Tartars, who are as ugly as they are ignorant of the
principles of justice, have caused us also now to
resemble brute beasts, by which they prove that they
hemselves are not men.

"These obstinate Tartars have impressed upon our
nation a stamp of misfortune which still continues. We
have lifted up the standard and the sword of justice to
exterminate them ; in a few days, when we have received
the supreme Orders; we shall come and tell the people in
what fashion we ought to be dressed ; meanwhile let us
take care of our victorious troops, that they may go on
joyfully with their great work.
"At the-present time Shanghai is but a decaying city,
find.produces not enough for itself. Our duty then is
to provide not only for the wants of our soldiers, but
to see thatthe people have what is necessary for them.
When a ship came into the port formerly she brought
much rice. Why is it not so now ? •
"I, who am nowsuperier magistrate of Shanghai, feel-
ing afraid lest ,rice should become as scarce as pearls,
and firewood as scarce as cinnamon, and no more pro-
visions be left, do, therefore, issue this proclamation,
copies of which shall be diffused as numerously as leaves
on the trees, to induce the nobles and the people to
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" Shanghai, in the first year of the restored dynasty
of Ming, in the tenth month, and on the seventh day."
A book, professing to be the biography of the pi etender
Tien-Ti, bas been circulated, in which it is stated that
his ancestor, the last of the Ming, the virtuous
'Ychang-Ti, who was dethroned in 1644, and pursued
'by the infamous Chountchi, the chief of the Mantchous,
took refuge with his family in the mountains of Kimang
Si, where he dwelt obscure and poor. His descendants
lived on quietly, till the time when the present head of
the family, having had a divine revelation informing him
of his divine birth, yielded to the solicitations of the
people about him, and came forward as their champion
against the oppression of the Mantchous.