New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-09-23
Twenty-Four Days Later from China
INTERESTING AND IMPORTANT, ..

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By the arrival at San Francisco of the bark
Mermaid, Capt. Smith, intelligence has been
received from Canton to the LIST of July, "a days
later than previous advices.
The China Mail gives the particulars of
number of captures made by Chinese pirates
around the island of Hong kong. Rumors of
immense pirate fleets occasionally reach the
ears of foreigners. On the 10th of June, Com
mander Ringgold dispatched the U. s. brig Por-
poise on cruise among the islands outside
Hong kong, but she returned two days after
wards without having fallen in with any of the
pirate junks. HIM s. Spartan, however, which
started on the 9TH of June. in pursuit of a feet
which had committed great depredations on the
market boats, proved more successful. The
Spartan was pioted by one of the crew of a
vessel just pillaged by the pirates to a spot
about 35 miles from Hong kong, where she
found and captured a junk with crew of fifty
men. A number of smuggling boats have re-
Gently been captured in the Canton River
THE HoNa- KoNG VOLUNTEERS. The English
residents Of Hong Kong are organizing COM
pany of volunteers to provide against any dis
turbances among the natives growing out Of the
war with Russia. They drill regularly, and
are said to be an efficient body of men.
BREAKING JAn.-Four European prisoners
escaped from the Hong Kong Jail on the 2lst Of
| June, but two of them were recaptured.
The China Mail says Hong Kong is at present
| remarkably free from crime. The better class
| of Chinese were somewhat alarmed at first by
| the preparations going on for the defence Of
| Hong Kong, but their fears subsidized on aseer-
tanning the cause of these Warlike movements
REINFORCEMENT FOR THE ALLIED FLEET N
CHINA The French frigate La jeanne dare
Captain Jaures, bearing the flag of Admiral
| Lagurre, reached Singapore on the 18th Of
june and was expected abeut the last of the
month at Hong-Kong The allied feet on The
China station we're distributed, June 9th, as
follows: At Hong Kong, the Spartan, 26 guns
Hercules, 10 guns, and hospital ship Minden
At Canton, sloop Comus, IA guns. At Annoy
brig Bittern, II guns. At Shanghai, flagship
Winchester, so guns; war steamers Encounter
| ID guns; Rather. IL guns; Barraconter,
guns; Styx, guns, sloop Greeian, II guns
and French steamer Colbert, = guns; and fri
gate Constantine, SO guns, oil under the com
mand of Rear Admiral Sir james Stirling.
ExEcuTIoN AT HONG KoNG.-Ghun- cheun- tai
a Chinaman. was convicted and executed a
| Hong. Kong for the murder of Mr.. George Per
kins, an American gentleman on his way t.
| Macao in a boat.
WRECK OF 500 PASSENGERS. bark To
paze, CAPT. Swinton, having on board upward
Of 500 souls was wrecked on the Pratas Shoal
within a days sail of Hong Kong. Some 0
the passengers had been landed, but many still
remained on the wreck. Although the fact
had been known for severaldays in Hong Kong
no stems were taken either by the Government
or citizens to rescue the unfortunates from thei
perilous position. A subscription was attempted
but no money could be raisea.
i SERIOUS OUTBREAK NEAR CANToN.--The Chin
Mail of the 22d of June says:
The disturbance in Pwan- Yu, bordering o.
Whampoa River. after considerable bloodshed
| has been referred to the literati and elders G
the district for adjustment. The outbrea
originated in q dispute about water course 70
supplying the paddy fields
i But n more serious affair has occurred a
4 Shih-lung. a large market town andsugar mar
some ten or fifteen miles to the eastward {
lWhampoa, and which has been plundered by
band of several thousand malcontents unde
three LEADERSHIP of Shun-teh district, an
Yuen and Chan of Tung-kwan. They defeate
the troops sent against them, killed the highe!
military officer in the station, wounded til
district magistrate, burnt many houses, an
pillaged the bankers and pawnbrokers shop
4 Growing holder from success. they proceeded
invest the district city of Tung ,kwan, near IL
Bogue, to the relief of which 1900 soldiers wei
dispatched from Canton on the l4th of June.
| is also said that with increasing numbers the
now threaten to storm the Bogue forts and aftel
wards march upon Canton. But that of cour
must be mere bravado.
The Hong Kong Register, of June q, fl
days later, says that the foreign community
Canton were greatly apprehensiye Of an attas
upon the city by the insurgents mentioned aboy
Several vessels of war were lying abreast of Il
foreign factories, and would be able to prote
the lives of the foreign community in the eve
of an attack, but the factories themselves al
vast amounts of property therein contain
would be placed in imminent jeopardy.