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and pe,Dpie ; u even the battering down of Canton, the oc-
cupation of any of the islands on the coast, or the destruction
of several of the seaboard cities, would have no influence
whatever on the Emperor. It is only by entering directly on
negotiations at Pekin that any good can be expected to re-
sult ; and this, even supposing everything were to go on as
prosperously as could be desired, must be the work of time;
meanwhile the protracted interruption of trade must be pro-
ductive of the most injurious effects both to India and Eng-
land. Already is the market of Canton swept of its teas,
which were being bought up at most exorbitant prices, and
the defalcation in the English revenue from ihe short supply
of the present, and the entire stoppage of the next year, will
be severely felt in England.

Accounts from Canton to the 12th of May state that an
edict had been issued, offering a high rate of pay to every one
willing to join the celestial army. The women of the coast
had been sent into the interior, and the paucity of our num-
bers was a standing joke in Siam as well as in China.
Government have chartered a number of additional ves-
sels to convey troops from Madras eastward.

The intelligence from the north-west provinces, if not
more satisfactory than before, is considerably less loud and
alarming. Colonel Wallace is administering very salutary
chastisement to the ferocious Belloochies, in capturing their
towns and blowing up their strongholds. The chief post of
the rebel leader Marron has in this way been levelled with
the dust, while his nephew remains a prisoner in our hands.
Still the utmost vigour and caution are requisite, where not
a store can be brought in, nor a company of men moved
from one point to another, but they are watched, assailed,
and harassed, by a force ten times as numerous as their own.
At Herat all was quiet down to the 3d of June, and an
excellent harvest of the crop just then ripening was speedily
expected to be gathered in. Intelligence of the Russian de-
feat had reached them, but they were still doubtful of its
authenticity.

Dost Mahommed had at length beeu liberated, and his
daughter received into the Harem of the Ameer.

The failure of the Russian expedition, which would appear
to have been for some time perfectly well known in Europe,
begins only now to be believed in India, and seems only to
have been conjectured even at Herat. Statements as to the
advance of the Russian army, its numbers, strength, and ar-
mament, its route, its conflicts with and defeat of all its op-
ponents, and attending its final capture, subjugation, and de-
tention of Khiva and refusal to admit the Khan to the terms
formerly offered him, had filled the columns of every news-
paper in India for months together, and turn out now, in
every particular, to have been wholly without foundation.
Alarmed, it is said, at so extraordinary a thing as the appear-
ance of vigour and determination in the councils of England,
and assumed by our foreign minister, that any advance to-
wards our Indian frontier would be viewed and punished as
sweet of aggression against England, the Czar. for the pre-
sent, has thought fit to arrest or withdraw his armies.

(From the Times.)

CHINA, MAY 19.—The intelligence from China possesses
no peculiar interest. The English merchants continued un-
molested at Macao.

This Americans were making every preparatiou to expedite
their business before the arrival of our expedition. In the
course of next month we may expect to hear at least of its
arrival in China, if not of its doings. Prospects of the early
resumption of the trade must necessarily be very doubtful.

There are rumours of an intended expulsion of all foreigners
from Canton, but we know not whether they deserve atten-
tion. It is now confidently asserted that an imperial edict,
addressed to Lin, has been received, in which the imperial
displeasure about some of his acts is made known to him.
The taou-tae, or admiral, is said to have a share in this re-
primand, which probably is on account of the affair of the
Bogue, and the false reports forwarded to Pekin regarding
it. It is also said that the true state of the affairs of the
Bilbaino has reached the Imperial ears. Lin is said to have
been degraded three degrees in rank. A Chinese boat, laden
with raw silk and silk piece goods, destined for Macao, has
lately been seized by the mandarins, on the pretext that her
cargo was intended for the English.

Mr. Snow, the American consul, has left Canton, and ar-
rived at Singapore.

Of late several vessels have experienced difficulties in en-
tering the Bogue, the Chinese refusing to allow them to pass,
on the plea that they have taken in their cargoes at Tongkoo.
In some instances these difficulties have been overcome, but
several vessels are still waiting outside.
The rumour that some especial utessen,gers are to be sent
to Singapore, in order to institute an investigation into the
state of trade, has given rise to many surmises. Still it

might have been considered one of the'many tales of which

Singapore is always full, if the Mandarins had not yet com-
menced operations. Two merchants dealing in silk were
seized without any charge being brought against them, ex-
cept that of having traded. "We trust that this is merely a
rumour. Considerable consternation had spread tar and wide
among the native dealers, for none know whose turn will be
next.• We hope to report soon more favourably, for after the
assurances of the Provincial Government, it is not to be ex-
pected :that the short-lived tranquillity of the industrious
people will be disturbed so wantonly.