Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-04-17

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.pls 81 Hong Kong had been entirely throNnAnay.
4 traversed the whole city With my trunk and ehow.
chow baskets, myself the only escort to my four ]
coolies the great east and west thoroughfare
q closed shop was become rare exception, and the
only difficulty was to push our way through the /
crowd. The people were cutting up their pigs and
their fish, 1.-THE abundance of immense carp, tench,
and roach in the streets Of the city is wonderfully
and cooking their comestibles in foil business like
security Iders were playing at Chinese hazard, and
exhibiting their piles of coins upon the board The
curiosity Shops in incredible numbers, were spread
with curious antiques of the newest fashions and
were victimizing credulous lieutenants in way
which Mencius would not have approved. The
crowds not afraid to manifest curiosity at
the clothes and features of their European guests,
and the shopkeepers invite you into their shops with
polteness that proves they have no misgivng that
you will exercise any right of conqnes: except a
conquest by purchase. Yet the spirit of insolence
has departed out of them. Neither in word nor
gesture is there any symptom of hostility even of
dislike I have seen two people frightened very
much by scolding for using the word tan.queS,
Foreign devil; but believe they used it in all nno
cence, having never heard it called by any other
name. I would neglect no precautions, for the neg
lect of precautions would revive hopes now aban.
doned and the neglect Of precautions nearly proved
our destruction at Nngpo during the last war but,
far from there being any notion of retaking this
city, believe that no ten Chinaman within sight of
Canton would dare raise a stick in the presence of
British or French soldier or sailor.
The commercial parts of Canton have been much
over.estimated. We have believe that there must
be some grain of truth in the bombast and brag of
the Chnaman. Canton is big and populous that
is all. In other respects it is very ordinary China
city. Its temples are numerous, and the Confucian
temple and the temple of Five Hundred Gods are
good of their kind but most of the others are mis-.
cradle and dilapidated. The stored pagoda is
in ruinous a condition that the General the 9TH
day forbade the attempt to climb the fragments OF
its broken staircase. Major Lizard, whose success
at the escalade seems to have inspired him with
mania for climbing had previously risked his neck
in getting some way up. Yet this pagoda is the
great boast and lion of Canton. The Chinese boast.
ed of because foreigners could not get near enough
to see what miserable ruin it is. What can you
think of people who will not afford few dollars
to their monuments from mouldering?
POLICE ARRANGEMENTS
found the yamun of Peh-Kwei in much more
busy state than when l left it. Through the open
doors crowds Of Chinese come and go. The Chinese
tribunal of Peh Kwei and the tribunal of the three
Commissioners, Colonel Holloway, lie Capitaine
Martineau, and Mr.. Parker) are aur petits SONS.
Thanks to the energy of the triumviri the streets
of Canton are SAT. from European violence as the
streets of Paris from Chinese exactions. Col.
Holloway's court takes all the mixed cases; and
finding the other day that Chinaman was in the
wrong he was sent over to Peh- Kwei with state
ment of the circumstances. The Mandarin was so
charmed with this compliment that he had the poor
wretch bambooed nearly to death. The new court
has also established new Canton police. Captain
Pym is the Colonel Rowan of Canton. He has one
hundred soldiers under him armed with swords and
revolvers and the French have separate body of
thirty men. Associated with the European police
are an equal number of Tartars. Five English and
two French stations have been established in con-
venient parts Of the city and suburbs and the shop
keeping community are likely to obtain under Brit
ish and French rule security they never before
hoped for.
The three Imperial armories were in high state
of efficiency. The double-handed swords were i'm
in numbers and terrible to look upon.
There rooms full of those fear inspiring shields
which, in some quite modern period of Chinese
history, probably gave to some piratical Greek
the idea of the shield of Minerva. There were ar
rows in thousands very carefully finished and pre-
served in cases, but the Mandarin bows very
Great stores Of quilted jackets filled the
presses, and there were many complete suits Of
Chinese armor. The swords and pixies, the gi"ga!s
and matchlocks were nnumerable; but the chief
attraction was five brass guns, which were followed
by covetous eyes as they walked off by the
cd all the shot that could be recovered after the last
years bombardment, and also some unexpoded
shells, which had been fred upon the city on the
2Sth December. There was also great depot of in.
fernal manchines in form like dark lantern made
of tin many flags and banners also carried of.
LOSSES CHINESE.
l have taken some pains to ascertain the loss suf-
fered by the Chinese during the bombardment and
the storm. We have all the official returns of the
first day in possession and account that have
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higher than two hundred. Some distrust the Chi
nese accounts, but am inclined to put faith in them
Unless you surround Chinese soldiers you never kill
many of them. You never catch them upon an is
land or in an isolated position They fire very fierce.
ly upon you as you are coming up to attack them
near. Our escalade was a complete surprise upon
them. They fancied were advancing under the
fire from their walls to attack Fort Cough: they
never expected that we would turn aside and jump
wooden legs" over the wall. Howqua's Comprador,
| with whom some OF us talked the matter over, de-
clares that it is impossible that the numbers killed
could be greater than is stated. The people, III
says, knew perfectly we'll the line the fire would
take, and got out of the way The troops who were
obliged to remain on the walls kept very much un
der cover and great quantities of the missiles missed
the wall and fell into the dich. The dead must b
buried outside the city, and the western gate only
was open, it was easy for any one to calculate how
many carried out 1t says little for the de
! structve power Of our warke engines that SO small
| loss should have been occasoned by so large al
expenditure of shot and shell, bnt the probabilitie
are that the fact is as the Chinese state it. 1t il
| placed beyond doubt now that the loss of the Chi
nese during the bombardment in 1856 was not NOR
than forty three and vute believe in the probable
ty that the recent list of killed does not exceed tw
i hundred.
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