The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-15 00:00:00

CHINA.

The further delivery of the overiand mail enables
us to extract from the Canton papds a few interesting
items of news from the Celestial Empire.
CHINESE STATE. PAPERS.
(From the Peking Gc4ette.)

SUPPOSED CASE OF THE; NERBUDDA.
"The Imperial will has been reoiVed as follows :
" Ta Hungho and others .have tent up a document
memorialising in relation to their'llaving sunk a bar-
barian ship, seized barbarians, and captured their great
guns. From the 9th moon to 'the present (10th
moon) barbarian ships have been coming and going
to and from the Formosan oftings,;;hicoherently wan-
dering about and then casting anchor; regarding which
the said high officers have' already repeatedly given
orders that rigorous measures be adopted for prevent-
ing such proceeding.s. At five o'clock on the morn-
ing of the 11th of the present moon is barbarian ship
sailed into the port, and when opposite the Sha
Wan Fort commenced an attack ,with her great
guns. The AdvisaryGeneral . Yen Chinking and
others having made ready, straightway opened
fire, and being opposite to the said ship their
shot with thundering roar *took effect and overwhelmed
her in the water. In the firing he was aided by Tso
Kin and others who were also at Shawan. When Yeu
Chinking with his own hand had fired off the gun,
he forthwith beheld the masts of the barbarian ship
split, and her ropes part, and on her retreating out of
the port she was dashed against the rocks and broke
to pieces, and a vast many of the barbarians falling
into the water, immense numbers were drowned.
Those who reached the shore got into, a boat and
attempted to escape, but our high officers made ready,_
took soldiers, and proceeding in a boat in pursuit
caught alive and put to death a great many black
barbarians. Another officer- was also employed,, who
stationed himself in a vessel and proceeded out to sea,
and putting forth his exertions seized alive many
black barbarians, and beheld the white barba-
rians plunge into the sea of their own accord. At
this juncture also the high officer Chin-tae opened
fire from his vessel and sunk a ship's boat, put to
death all the white barbarians, and brought off alive
very many of the black barbarians. Tso Kin also
returned from his cruise to another island, having de.
stroyed a ship's boat, put to death the white barba-
rians, and seized alive many of the black rebels, and
having dragged up the guns, and found a valuable chart.
" Thus, then, the civil and Military officers, and the
patriotic among the people have made a pane nume-
rical statement as follows :
°CKilled—White barbarians,. five men; red
barbarians, five men ; ditto, black barbarians, 22 men.
"Captured Alive—One hundred and twenty-three
such like articles.
black barbarians ; ditto, 'ten, large :,arbarian guns ;
ditto,
thet,oibarbarcioanndburtiki:s,
acid 6
of this -,affair that such rigo-
were pt,tt. forth
rous exertio: . -is matter for highest

c°":2atulatiort. r.
" Ta Hungho, the Comrnaniler-in-Chief of all the
Formosan divisions, is rewarded. by his Imperial Ma-
jesty with being allowed to exchange his peacock's
feather for a two-eyed -flowery-gm ;And the Formosan
Intendent of Circuit is rewarded with being allowed
to wear a plain flowery; feather. Let the merits of
the other officers and brave men be represented to
the High Ministers at Peking, and I, the Emperor,
will make the awards: And: let the wounded and
killed be'clearly enurnerafed,,', that out of commisera-
tion their families may,be rewarded. Let the same
officers retain their stations *Formosa, and let tho-
rough preparations be -,everywhere kept up. Re-
spect this.
DEFENCE OF SHANTUNG PROVINCE.
" To Kwanfoe (Lieut.-Governor of Shantung pro-
vince) kneeling, memorialises Andbeseeches the sacred
glance. It is palpably evident that encampments and
military stations on the'gesAoard for the keeping out
of the English barbarians,the
,lection of able-bodied
recruits, and the disciplining ,lOf the troops, are now
matters of highest import. And still more is it de-
cidedly necessary for the general officers (up to the
highest of them) to be on theirguard, that they may
be able to take charge of the men, be always ready.
thoroughly to explain.military,taetics, and being in a
state of preparedness andhaving their plans laid, vic-
tory may be definite and certain. When I, your
Minister, was in the department of Tongchow, every
encampment upon'the'seasboard was under the most
careful inspection of the general officers. The
commandant of Wantung has under his charge
the military station of Kingshing, which, as
it borders on the eastern'offings (or Shantung pro-
vince), is a station of the very first importance. Hav-
ing, in person, seen the sea entrances put into state of
defence, the said commandant, sided by an Adjutant-
General, removed the troops. to Kingshing—his origi-
nal encampment in Wantung being also near the sea-
port. ,It was difficult for the said high officer to
govern both stations; but he held his subordinates re-
sponsible for drilling the troops and keeping up pre-
ventive guard on the coasts. Inow, however, memo-
rialise his Imperial Majesty that the high officer,
Lowshe, may be tranSferred to the sea-board
efor
e. set oeffi-
se
fortifi-
cations, and that the high officer, Le Chankang,
n be
ordered to the interior defences;
asexperience bothinee of
cers are best qualified by long
said stations. Then will errors be avoided in the
arrangements, and every territory of Shantung be
properly guarded.
" And I, your Minister, herewith present this me-
morial, praying that the Imperial will may be recorded."
CONDITION OF HONG-KONG.
In consequence of the bad conduct of the Chinese
police at Hong-Kong, his Excellency the Plenipoten-
tiary has discharged the whole body, and only a few
soldiers are now doing duty as police; the result is,
that a great many daring robberies are constantly
committed. It is an utter misnomer to say that
Hong-Kong is, as yet, an English colony. Eng-
lish colonies have, or ought to have, local legislatures.
At present we can only consider Hong-Kong as a
military cantonment or garrison. It thus becomes a
question how far the appointment of civil Magistrates,
having power of exercising authority overßritish sub-
jects, is legal. The Chief Magistrate's warrant refers
to the natives only, but the Marine Magistrate's
warrant refers to all persons not subject to the
Mutiny Act ; and by that warrant the Marine Magis-
trate is empowered to inflict imprisonment, with or
without hard labour, for one calendar month, penal-
ties of 400 dollars, and corporal punishment of 36
lashes ; thus any Englishman in China, for "breaches
of
any regulations issued from time to time by the
Government of Hong-Kong" '" may be punished by
the Marine Magistrate in the degrees as stated. above.
hi s
acannot t bi
invested
ee
sgtaeld.
withe Eng-
landpsonleihceplVotgri—streaotnesldinnotb.e,
and corporal punishmet is abolished in our native
country. We are told Major Caine joins his regi-

ment, and we trust advantage will be taken of his de-
parture to revise these warrants.—Canton itegister,
Ala.), 31.
ON DlT.—The expenditure on the fortifications of
the Canton river has been defrayed by the British,
Feting that the legal duties have within the last twelv
months been so greatly augmented. It is certain on
tea alone to the exter4 of 6,000,000 dollars has been
disbursed, i.e., the amount of the Canton ransom.—
Hong-Kong Gazette.
CHA-POO.

The following account of the town of Cha•poo and
its neighbourhood, will probably be interesting to our
readers at the present moment. It is taken from the
journal of the intelligent and devoted Prussian mis-
sionary, Charles Gutzlaff. It is not a little'extraor-dinary that no mention is made of the plebe in the
large map of China, published by the Society for tl.w
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, although its situation
is so precisely defined in the following account :
"January sth, (1833) we sailed from Shang-has,
shaping our course for Cha-poo, a harbour on'the
north coast of Chekeang, in lat. 30 deg. 37 min..
Until you come to the high lands which form the
harbour of this city, the whole boast tram the Yellow
River is very flat, and scarcely visible, even 'with the
ship close to the land. The sea is every where re-
ceding from the land, so that the flats formed along
the shore, which are dry at low wafer, constitute a
barrier to the whole coast, and are gradually becom-
ing- arable soil. We tried to reach the shore a few
miles north of Cha-poo, but even alit joily.boat got
aground, and we must have waded more than a mile
through the mud before we could reach the shore.
But from Cha-poo the country becomes hilly, with
undulating ridges, and continues so for a long dis-
tance with little variation.

" Cha-poo is the only place from whence the Im-
perial monopoly with Japan is carried on. It has a
tolerable harbour, with considerable overfills. The
rise and fall of the tide is very great, so much so that
the smaller junks are left high and dry at low water.
Together with-its suburbs, the town is perhaps five
miles in circuit, built in a square, and intersected by
numerous canals, which are connected with the Hang-
chow river. Nothing can exceed the beautiful and
pictureque appearance of the surrounding region. We
may say that, as far as the eye can range, all is one
village, interspersed with towering pagodas, romantic
mausoleums, and numerous temples. The adjacent
country is called the Chinese Arcadia ; and, surely, if
any territory in China is entitled to this name, it is
the tract around Hang-chow and Cha-poo. It seems
that the natives alio are sensible of their prerogative
in inhabiting this romantic spot. They have tried to
improve upon nature, and embellished the scenery
with canals, neat roads, plantations, and conspicuous
buildings. • We found nowhere so much openness and
kindness as among them. Their intelligent inquiries
respecting our country were endless, and they seemed
never satiated with our company."
BRITISH EXPEDITION TO CHINA IN 1842.

NAVAL FORCE.-Cornwallis 74, bearing the blue
flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, K.CM., Captain
Richards; Agincourt, 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral
Sir T. Cochrane, C. 8., Captain Bruce ; Blenheim, 74,
Captain Sir T. Herbert, K.C.B. ; Vindictive, 50,
Captain Toup Nicholas,
,C. 8.; Cambrian, 36, Cap-
tain Chads, C.B. ; Thalia, 44, Captain Hope ; Blonde,
44, Captain Bourchier, C.B. ; Endymion, 44, Captain
the Hon. F. W. Grey; Druid, 44, Captain H. Smith,
C.B. ; North Star, 26, Capt. Sir J. E. Home, Bart. ;
Carysfort, 28, Captain Lord G. Paulett ; Dido, 20,
Captain the Hon. H. Keppel : Calliope, 28, Captain
Kuper, C.B. ; Herald, 26, Captain Nias, C.B. ;
18, Captain Napier; Hyacinth, 18, Commander
Goldsmith ; Modeste, 18, Commander Watson ; Co-
lumbine, 10, Commander Morshead ; Hazard, 16,
Commander Bell ; Syren,l6, Commander W. Smith ;
Ringdove, 18, Commander Sir W. Daniell ; Harle-
quin, 18, Commander the Hon. F. Hastings ; Wol-
verine, 16, Commander Johnson ; Serpent, 16, Com-
mander Nevill ; Childers, 16, Commander Halstead;
Nimrod, 18, Commander Glasse ; Cruiser,-16, Com-
mander Pearse ; Clio, 16, Commander E. Trou-
bridge; Pylades, 18, Commander Tindal ; Algerine,
10, Lieutenant commanding W. H. Maitland ; Ca-
meleon, 10, Lieutenant commanding Hunter; Royal-
ist, 10, Lieutenant commanding Chetwood.
SURVEYING Surrs.---Starling, 6, Commander Kel•
lett; Bentinck, 6, Commander Collinson,
TROOP Snirs.-Belleisle, Capt. Ringeotnb ; Apollo,
Sapphire, Jupiter, Rattlesnake, Alligator, armed en
flute. Minden, 74, Capt. M. Quin, hospital ship.
H. Co.'s STEAMERS.-Queen, Sesostris, Auckland,
Semiramis, Akbar, Memnon, Tenasserim, frigates:
Nemesis, Pluto, Ariadne, Medusa, Phlegethon, Pro-
serpine, iron steamers; Hooghly, her Majesty's ships
Vixen, Ardent, Driver, Growler, Geyser, and about
fifty hired transports.
LAND FORCE.-Under Licutenant-G4eral
Hugh Gough, G.C.8,, and Majerf-Orbilbiai Lord Sal-
toun, C. 8., G,C,H., her Majesty's 18th, 26th, 49th,
55th, and 98th1 regiments of the line, say 5,300
bayonets; royal marines of the fleet, 1,100 ditto •
marine brigade of blue jackets, 2,800 ditto; royal
artillery, 170 ditto ; one troop of horse and three Will-
panies of foot artillery from iiidia, 430 ditto ; the en-
gineers, sappers, and miners, 340 ditto ; rifles, 120 ;
seven Hon. Company's regiments from India, 6,000
ditto; camp followers, gun lascars, &c.., say 1,500
men. Grand total, say 18,000 men. •

Silt ALLAN mAciVAB.
(From the Areiihititin gazette of Sept. 5.)
tThe following is a more full account of the return
of Sir Allan Macnab to the Gore district, than that
which appeared in The Sun of Oct. 6 :—]
The men of Sore, with whom the Gallant Knight
is, from his loyalty and his exertions in the cause of
Ills country, inseparably connected, were 'delighted
to itUitOkile upon Friday evening, his return among
them. At the loyal village of Oakville, upon his
entrance into the district, he was received with dis-
charges of cannon, and with the cheers and hearty
congratulations of the inhabitants of the town and
neighbourhood, assembled on the wharf—some of
whom proceeded to Hamilton. Long before the
steam-boat which conveyed Sir Allan had made its
appearance in Burlington Bay, crowds of well-dressed
persons covered every height and promontory, and
turned their anxious glances to the canal to. watch for
its approach. Cannon were discharged, and no sooner
had the vessel touched the wharf, than the cheers of
thousands rent the air. We do not recollect . having
ever seen here so large a concourse of people as were
assembled upon this occasion, to greet and welcome
Sir Allan Macnab ; nor upon any occasion haVe we
seen in this part of the country, such an assemblage,
so uniformly well-dressed, orderly, and seemingly all
animated by one feeling. Report states their number
at from 2,000 to 3,000 persons, and we ourselves
think that the latter number does not exceed the truth.
Among them were many ladies, and the waving of
their handkerchiefs, and the smiles upon their faces,
were not the least interesting part of the sights and
scenes of the afternoon. The excellent band of the
st Incorporated Battalion was in attendance, with
their accustomed civility, and welcomed . Sir. Allan
with a hearty "Rule Britannia," as the boat came up;
a tune particularly appropriate to the welcome of a
person whose exertions have been devoted to preserve
this colony from foes both within and without.
Sir Allan, upon his landing, entered, accompanied
by Lady Macnab, a carriage drawn by four splendid
grey horses, in which we observed J. M. White, Esq.,
and W. B. King, Esq., and lady. The procession
then proceeded, passing under two triumphal arches,
and so numerous was the attendance that the dense
line of carriages extended from the Town-hall very
nearly to the wharf, a distance of a mile.
We confess that we were much delighted to see
him return among his constituents apparently in such
excellent health and spirits. And, as we have already
stated, warm and heartfelt were the congratulations
which he received. From all parts of the town and
neighbourhood, in carriages and in waggons—on
horseback and on foot—vast numbers of persons pro-
ceeded to greet him upon his arrival. Upon his ar-
rival at the Town-hall, Sir Allan and Lady Macnab
appeared upon the balcony, where the address, which
we subjoin, was read to him by D. C. Gunn, Esq.—
to which Sir Allan returned the very neat and ap-
propriate answer which we also present to our readers
in this day's impression. Sir Allan read his answer
in a tone of voice by no means weakened by the fa-
tigues of his voyage and by his subsequent journey,
and with an energy of feeling which was responded
to by long and hearty cheers from the assembled
numbers. Shortly afterwards Sir Allan was con-
ducted with the same enthusiasm through the prin-
cipal streets of the town, the band playing " Auld
lang syne," to his own house, there to find, in the
bosom of his family, that repose which, after his un-
tiring exertions in England for the good of this his
native country, he so much requires. The procession
left him at the entrance of his mansion, the band
playing—" There's nae luck about the house."
The following is the Address, with 817 signatures
attached:—

" TO THE HON. SIR ALLAN N. MACNAB, KNT., &C. &C. &C.
" SIR,—We, the inhabitants of Hamilton and its
vicinity, eagerly avail ourselves of this the first oppor-
tunity of offering to you our hearty congratulations
on your safe return to your native province, and to
the bosom of your family.
" We beg to assure you, Sir, that during your ab-
sence in England, you have not been forgotten by us.
"We have, from time to time, learned with the
highest gratification the reception with which you
have been honoured at the Court of our beloved Sove-
reign, and the courtesies you have met with from all
classes of the great and good of our Fatherland.
" Whilst rejoicing in the marks of respect thus paid
to you, we have felt that in your person a high com-
pliment has been conferred upon the whole of the
loyal inhabitants of this noble province.
" We beg also to express our gratitude for the ser-
vices which your visit to England has enabled you to
render to the colony at large.
" Your high-minded avowal of the unalterable de-
termination ofher Majesty's colonial subjects to main-