The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

IN DIA

sliding scale will introduce more certainty into
the operations of the corn-dealers, who will only
bring in free of duty the "supplemental supplies." Sir
Robert Peel's scheme then will diminish, as he says, the
protection to agriculture, -it will not confer an atom of
benefit on the consumer, but it will ensure fortunes to
the corn-dealers. If they had devised the scheme—
perhaps they did—nothing could be better calculated
for them, however injurious to the people. We com-
prehend why they praise it. Sir Robert Peel, and Mr.
Greg at Manchester, are both grievously mistaken in
supposing that because corn may be bought in at a
duty of Bs., that corn merchants will introduce it into
consumption when they know that by holding it they
will have the double advantage of both getting a higher
price for it, and of bringing it in at a lower duty.
SIR R. PEEL'S VISIT TO BRIGHTON.—Her Majesty
has sent especially for Sir Robert Peel, which the Tories
regard as a high honour. It is whispered, however, that
her Majesty has heard some truths, which have alarmed
her for the state of the country, and she has sent for
Sir R. Peel to inform him that he must be her Minister,
not the Minister of the aristocracy, and that he must
take measures to relieve the distress of the people. She
is prepared to tell him that she is more alarmed by the
consequences of their continued oppression than by the
designs of the people.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 28, 184 t..

HINA

The India steamer left Calcutta on the 11th of Ja-
nuary,
and arrived at Suez the 11th of February, at 8
A.M., with the following list of passengers :—Sir R. Co-
myn, Sir Edward Kyan, Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Dr. and
Mrs. Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. Dent, 'Mr. and Mrs. Luke,
Mr. D. M. Farlane, Baboo Devarkananth Tagore, Mr.
R. Walker, Major Carr, Mr. G. F. Browne, Mr. Leach,
Mr. Donaldson, Captain Lloyd, Captain Hill, Mr. Free-
man, Mr. Smith, Captain Fraser, Dr. Bond, Major
Ueysie, the Bishop of Goa, Mr. Small, the Rev. Messrs.
Collisti, Bruno, Captan, and Dr. M'Gowan, Baboo
Chunder M. Chuttjee, Mr. Lieshman, Mr. White, M.
Saint, Mr. Davidson, Captain-Needham, Mr. Blanc, Mr.
• Kaye, Mr. Fitzmayre, Colonel Adam, Captain Fletcher,
and Captain Anson.
The mail reached Alexandria about midnight of the
14th, and was put on board the Gorgon, at 10 A:M., the

following day. -
From China, in the Singapore Free Press, extra of
Friday noon, the 25th of November, 1841, the following

is inserted :
" Whilst our yesterday's number was in the act of
being printed oft; the Red Rover arrived from China,
with papers to the 9th inst., containing intelligence con-
firmatory of the reports that had been in circulation re-
garding the operations of the expedition to the northward.
Tinghae, the capital of Chusan, was attacked and taken
on the Ist of October, with considerable loss on the
Chinese side. On the 10th, Chinhae, the seaport of
Ningpo, was carried, and on the 13th, the city of Ningpo
itself. At Amoy things have undergone a change.
Symptoms of hostility are beginning toinenifest them-
selves. Captain Smith has written that he is in expecta-
tion of an attack upon his position. Sir H. Pottinger, it
is expected, would winter at Amoy, and the Admiral
is looked for at Hong Kong. No Chinese envoy up to
the 25th had been sent to Sir H. Pottinger. At Canton
hostile preparations were in progress ; the heights at
Canton were fortifying, and forts rebuilding and
being built.
Since the receipt of the above intelligence, a volunteer
corps, 800 strong, from the Bengal 3d Regiment of
Native Infantry, a troop of horse artillery, additional
sappers and miners, •and a corps of 500 gun Lascars,
from the Madras Presidency, have been ordered for ser-
vice in China. The force is immediately to consist of,
10,000 men, and to march on Pekin as soon as the
south-west monsoon sets in.
CALCUTTA. JAN. 9.—The Earl of Hardwicke has just
arrived from China (Macao), which she left the Ist of
December. No news except the reported- capture of
Hang-tchou-foo. All bustle here, embarking troops for
China ; 16 transports engaged, 11,000 tons.
Tile Canton Register says :—lt is becoming a sin-
gular speculation w hat will be the end of this beginning
of war with China? Our own opinion is, that the
Mantchow dynasty should be overthrown, another placed
on the throne, and China he thrown open to all the
world—this end, we think, would be infinitely preferable
than to possess any portion of its territory under the
present dynasty.
Great fears were entertained at Macao that the
Nerbudda transport, with 117 souls on board, had been
lost. A boat from her, with 33 souls on board, chiefly
soldiers, had been picked up. They reported that they
had left the Nerbudda in a sinking state, having driven
over a large reef off the north end of Formosa. The
boat had been eight days at sea When picked up. The
Nimrod sloop of war had gone in search of the Ner-
budda.
Several learaed Chinese have just become converts to
the GoTel. One a distinguished poet, another one-of
the first literary men in the empire.
(From the Chinese Repository for September.)
SEPT. 10.—An imperial edict is in Canton, said to
have been written after the desp4tch from Sir Henry
reached Peking,,and though not made public, is believed
to be peaceable in its tenor, hinting that money and
greater privileges of trade than existed formerly
might be granted to bring about an amicable adjustment
of existing difficulties, but declaring that no territory
can be ceded, and severely blaming the provincial autho'
rides for their late false reports.
(From the Canton Register of Oct. 12.)

KESITEN.-1 his eminent personage, it is now beyond
a doubt, has been doomed to be beheaded. Whether
the sentence will be carried into execution we will not
presume to say ; but•the fact of condemnation to death
of one of the imperial clan, both by blood and marriage,
we believe, evinces the determination of the Cabinet
of Peking to hold out a toute outrance against foreign do-
mination.
MACAO.— There has been a good deal of sickness
lately in the settlement, and many inhabitants and Chi-
nese have fallen victims to a kind of influenza which is
travelling about.
ItANSL ATIONS.

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PEKING GAZETTES--6th MOOD, 2d day (July 19).
The Imperial will has been received. I order Keshen to
be delivered over to the Great Council of the Imperial
Kindred, who are to meet with the members of the Board
of Punishments, arid having determined from evidence
his crime, to record. it in a duly prepared report. Re-
spect this.
• The Imperial will has been received. I order that the
already degraded from being a great Minister of State,
Keshen, according to the sentence of the Great Council
of the Imperial Kindred, be detained in prison until
Autumn (9th moon, October 15 to September 12), when
he is to be beheaded according to his sentence. Re-
spect this.
The Regis:-... • that four,
attached to English-ill-D.IS; *ere still at Cantail, and acids
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neutral merchants. It is so now, and we .think it, will
continue so to be. Any British merchant will be as safe
in Canton as any neutral. That they do not choose to t.to
and conduct their business there is their own affair. It;
indeed, the Hong merchants were to flatly refuse to
transact any business with the British merchants, then
the blockade of the port would become a new question
based on entirely new grounds ; the truce and its terms
would not then be regarded. It is not improbable that
this refusal may soon be declared ; and then her Ma-
jesty's officers will pursue that course which their duty
dictates.