Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-11-11
From the New York Express.

Confirmation of the .NerS By the .Naraganset.
The ship liunlress, Capt. Lovett, sailed from
Macon the 9TH June and arrived this morning =
We havo received letters and papers to the 9th
June.
The previous news is all confirmed The Chi
nese had paid up the ransom money for the redemp-
ton of Canton and the British fleet. except a fg
ale and sIoop of war had left. The Emperor said
he hui permitted The Burba' ianS 10 depart. gipiag
them S0ne "choW-cholo' Tor their lost opium The
British were determined TO keep posses of Hong
Kong, and 10 introduce trade there and make it
rival spot of Canton
Notice is given in the Canton Register by Capt.
Elliot that sale of the annual rate Of quit rent of
100 lots of land having water frontage, will take
pace at Hong Kong, on Saturday, the I2h June,
at II a, M, also of 100 town or suburban lots
The dimensions of the respective lots were speci-
he'd and defined on the spot by the commanding Of
hcer of engineers, to whom parties were referred for
further particulars
No man says the Canton Register, of the 18th,
knows whether England will retain Hong Kong;
she certainly will not II she does herself justice in
this quarrel; nothing short Of egaized trade with
all the ports oftha empire can now satisfy the Eng
Iish people, who will never bear to see the once
magnificent China trade dwndIe down TO the trans
actions of smuggling ehhep0t on a bare rock; the
people of England wall ask, and must be informed
why the ports Of China not opened TO their lrade
why the empire itself is not opened 10 European
science and civilization, 10 christianity and christian
morality.
The Chinese are picking up their courage. The
Canton Register English authority says that ow-
ing TO some irregularities Committed by the troops,
tie vi.Iagers Canton. TO the number o. some
thousands, attacked the 37,h Nj. v. l., on the 3Oh
uilino and other parts of the forces on the LIST 1t
is said they behaved Nth astonishing daring that
they roshcd the squire of the S7th and speared
the soldiers in their ranks While some of them were
bayoneited. One Chinese snatched mus&et out
| OF spahs hands, fred at and wounded AN officer
of the 27h,
The English in China complain much of the re-
suits of the expedition TO canton. They say the
som pad IS their own money and that America in
particular will be ch ely benefited by the state
of thing. ! he Canton Register of the Sth OF June,
says:
AFTER the public notice was issued, II. NJ $
plenipotenary was asked by some British mer-
chants wh-lher it was safe for them TO return To-,
and resume business in Canton n. F's reply
was, that such return to Canton, was neither safe
nor destaDiei Thus, the English cannot conduct
their trade in a ransomed city, but merchants of
other nations can 1t would thus seem that the city
was ransomed for the sole purpose of throwing all
the British trade into hands of ne utrais, rs in
ls39-4J and The ransom has been paid with our
own money; for about 100 600 peculs of tea have
been exported since the opening Of the trade, the
| consoo duty on which, at eight taels per pecul
am UNITS to taes $50, 0G0 or Sl,SSS, 1888 and
the duties on the import will swell the plum
der ofhe English by the Hong merchants 10 near
four millions dollars so the people Of England are
paying II. Ms peniPotentiary $4,000 year for the
sole purpose Of enhancing 10 hemSeiy the prce OF
tea-to them necessary OF life for such has been
the only result of all II, L measures.