The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-04-02
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Thursday Morning. April 2. 1857.
THE WAR WITH CHINA.
Setanons of the Ercnch with the Chinese
--Csmnion Cnuse With England Neces-
sarfty Made, &c.

"e'"t'"hs OF the %rench with the Chinese
--Csmnion Cnuse with Ensian nd Neces.
sarfly MADE, Nc.
The Hong Kong correspondent of the Paris Mon
iteur, wiring on the IA b January. SAYS;
Fhe Chinese no longer restrict themselves I,
mere self defeace at Canton and upon the river
they hsve issued proelamations and pamphlets ex.
citing the inhabitants TO hatred and to the murde,
Of foreigners they prohibit them from serving ths
barbarians, and we have had reason to apprehenf
an issurrection st Hong Kong itself Sir Johr
Bowling has come to an understa ndng with Adr,i
raj Guertn, the commanders chief of the French
division, and they have decided in concert upou
eheeiuaI measures for keeping down the Chinace
population. in ease of need. Fifty men of tbs
French crews have taken up position In The ga
part OF me town and every arrangement has been
settled for landing, at the first signal all the land
lag companies and four field howitZsrs
Il would appear that this attitude tsk a, br H.
French is 10 be ascrihed to the instructions rcne.v
ed by the last nsi Franco and England had cnn
certed, we are assured, before thew kneyy even .,
The recent events at Canton, to obtain from, the
@ CH'1eS H'Feshihent the revision Of their trea-
ties "aieh expire forthwith. and their represents.
lyrs are said to have received DISPATCHES which
whilst prescribing TO them the identical condrrt
lueF via nave 10 observe for the attainment Of
M" ooJect oy common accord, authorize them to
AFFORD mutual support in all eventuaIities Be that
as 1t may, 1t is time to have a Reinforcement
sent to US, and should fresh forces fail TO como
10 ctlna, all Europeans iadscriminately would be
exposed to most serious dangers
fHVa'e correspondence from Canon mentions a
iaet "hich has not yet been reported and which
slows how deplorable is the feeling entertained
towards England by the Court Of Pehin. since the
bres&ing out of hostities. On the 5th December
me MaufarIn Governor of Ling Ting seized in the
"a hong warehouses; an the merchandise belonging to
tae East India Company, and to English suh
jects. The town of Ling>Ting Is the princinaI
depot tor The clandestine opium trade Independ.
emily OF opium, Ling Ting contains considerable
sores of goods OF every description the principal
part of which belongs to Epyiish merchants .nd
was destined for exporai to Europe
The Non5tetr Dc la F2Otte publishes the following
proclamation from the Maudarin Governor of
Whampoa: "
Infamous foreigners have presumed to raise tho
STANDARD OF revolt asainet the sublime aud yener.
ated authority of the Emperor. They have At.
tackled the city of Canton in order to burn it, and
already have they received the punishment thew
merited, tor our invincible troops have repuised
them and Killed great many of them Let them
oe attscked from every part If the empire Lei:
every Inhabiiant OF China who shall meet an
Engllshman tnfiict on him the fate he merits
Already Do cur inEumcrable fleets and our mighty
armies, which are dreaded by the whole world
aGv nee to drive them away Les everybody
unite with that army; t'every one take part in
the war, and teach foreigners TO tremble before
The will and before the anger of our Sovereign
whose gaze is as burning the rays of the sun
acd whose power is immeasura He who shajl
not act in conformity with these orders, shall be
considered as traitor, and may expect from us
chastisement as prompt as terrible
You hearl Obey!
The Mandarin GoveTno-, LYNCH Too
Done st NharpOa, the 9th day of the 18th
moon
The Moniteur de la Flotte says, cn the ptiblica-
tion Of the preceding document the Foreign. ships
anchored IN the roads Or in thu Tchou Kiaug sail
ed away, taking with them the few Europe ans in
thetown lie utmost excitement prevailed
CANTON, Jan l3 The only active movement
that has beed attempted was on yesterday Tue
day before arGang ciuents were made for firing the
whoe of the suburbs of the city on the north bank
Of The river. Our orders were to fire the suburbs
from The west corner of the city wall in O direc-
ton westwards.
All the bullets / saw were made of iron very
unsdapely, and like what would call s!ugs 1t
with difficulty we could prevent the men
from shooting every poor devil they surprised il
the houses and bad not exerted the greatest
attention, every Of them would have beer
murdered. This burning proceeding is very hor-
rtb!e, and l wish we were done With it, which, /
am happy to say, think is the case, at least for
the present The admiral had great forbeGrance
n not attempting it before, which he might easily
and perhaps justly, nave done. The extent which
has been Destroyed is iae Of perhaps TWO miles
along the north back of Tie river and penetrating
inwards from 200 TO 400 yards 4 considerable
part OF the city has also been burned by the firing
from the fort, which is held by US
The ire lasted shout t~e3;y- four hours. Th, ad-
also expect 500 men from Singapore. We have not
yet heArt what Hect these proceedings have had on
the CbiLese gsrrison he extraordinary thing hac
whst we do here DOES Eot in the ieest affect the
otEer poTis Of binG with which We trade All se
counts show that they gate Indifferent to this
gee, sEd rather GLAD than othsr-igs that the Can
toEeae- whom they hate are getting touched up
The so-catied rebsls gu close rs, and made
overturss to Uo 10 become allies, but the
eral is tha they only band of thieves
we have not entertained their advances or kstensd
TO them in any way. 1t ia extraor5lnary that tee
c9nstsnt pressure does make the Chiceas cover.
nor give IN, these rebels playing the devil with
the whole Of the neighborhood burning ana de-
stroying villagesip every direction
DEAD LETTERS.-During the quarter of the
year, which expired Tuesday, sbout 1000 dead
letters were opened which contained money
amounting il the aggregate 10 little over 8 0O0
and seven eighths If this amount had been restored
to the owners. The nupber of letters, as well as
the amount Of money, shows a considerable falling
OF over the returns Of previous years The esti-
tAa.eS Of the department of the whole number of
dead letters received in former years, under the
nigh postage system, three millions and