Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-27


Thursday, 10th inst, and 1868 passengers.
Among the latter are Rev Drs. Bethune and
Hardenburg Capt. S. J. Comstock, and Maui
rice Strakosch. The latter is accompanied by
an operate troop of twenty two artists, and
also Manager Sage of the French theatre, with
twelve Partisan comedians.
The China Affair,
The China mail had reached London, bring
ing full details of the conflict near Peho. The
Times prints full list of the killed and wound
ed The proportio of officers among these is
very large. Rear Admiral Hope was wounded
very severely.
A correspondent from the allied army in Chi
ma writes :-"The belief is universal that
Europeans manned the batteries as well as Chi
nese. Men in gray coats with closely cropped
hair and with Russian features were distinctly
visible in the batteries. And the whole of the
fertilization was evidently Of European de-
sign. The men fought for their guns
with courage of British sailors. But in
an hour and half the gun boats had surged
so severely from the fire that there were sunk
or sinking. The admiral had been obliged to
to shift his flag twice and from each vessel he
bore fresh wound. And orders were sent to
the depot vessels for the reserve. But the
tide was now running down like mill race
Minute after minute revealed banks of the mud
below the fort, deep, Shiny and glistening
In very few minutes after l:30 the opposition
had several of her crew killed or wounded
In the Plover the admiral was severely hit
Her gallant commander Rason and Capt. Nc
Kenna, of the LIST royals doing duty on the
admirals staff killed and almost every man
of the crew disabled. While the Naughty,
Broad, LIE Jones, Kestral and Began were SO
severely crippled that they were in a sinking
state, Still they fought on, laying well up to
the forts, and plying them so sharply with the
shot that they appeared to have sienced at
least some of their guns The sailors and
marines previously embarked in the boats re-
ceived the signal to land and take the works
by assault
And here begins another sad episode,
which may be fairly called tragedy The
boats touched no land, but brought the troops
up to a bank of mud AS they struggled to
gain their legs in the sticky treacherous mass,
the guns which seemed to have been silenced
opened from all the forts with terrible energy
on our troops. Still those who did not sink
down to die a horrible death in that slough
of despond, advanced through mud so deep
that it always took them up to their knees and
often swallowed them up to their waist. But
they went on, struggling through this horrid
bog, swept by artillery to which was added
as the approached the walls, musketry, MIME
rifles, and arrows. They passed over quar-
ter of mile in this glacis, when they arrived
at the first of three wet bitches, of which no
thing was known, though they were each ten
feet broad and five feet deep. Imagine such an
obstacle to a man who had got through the or
deal of the mud. And yet they faced it. In they
went up to their necks, where the water is torn
around them by incessant showers of grape and
musketry. They emerged with sodden pouches
and useless ammunition, but with untiagging
courage, ifwith diminished numbers. to struggle
another drnarv interval StilI cnorfhod Nv
incessant fire. Another deep wet ditch lies
before them The enemies fire is redoubled
intensity The second ditch is passed bv
those who have strength of life for the task
There is another oasis of dubious soil but it
bears them on. A third ditch lies before them
close under the walls Is it so wonderful that
of the thousand men who landed only 100 are
said to have reached the last of these deadly
trenches
Is it not all but miraculous that fifty of
them got as far as the opposite bank of the
third ditch, and were ready to assault the fort
if they had had scaling ladders But, however,
all scaling ladders were gone or broken. The
covering fire is falling, darkness sets in and
the retreat was ordered. 1t is effected from
ditch to ditch in the dark and in the mud, but
still under fire. BY the light of fire works the
Chinese threw their flights of grape and mus
ket balls on the very men who were stagger-
ing through the mud and were crouching
as they returned for their wounded comrades"
The Times of Thursday says the govern
ment had decided on dispatching Immediately
to China several additional steam and sailing
frigates, together with large reinforcements of
troops. Orders had been already dispatched
to the naval rendezvous for enlisting men, and
in order to expedite matters, the coast guard
were to be called on to volunteer.
The Times Paris correspondent says it is
rumored that $4,000 French troops are ordered
to be held in readiness for China. Gen. VIM
pin is spoken Of as commander.
London, Wednesday euening.-The funds
opened with renewed firmness this morning,
closed at further improvement in consequence
of the notification that France and England
will act in concert against China.
Mercantile letters from China generally
concur in the view that renewal of hostili-
ties will not cause any material interruption of
trade.
The natives of Shanghae were much an
noyed at what had happened, and consequent
ly no ill feeling was anticipated there but
still it was supposed that England would have
to send out very large naval and military
force, and perhaps blockade the various ports
in order to bring the emperor to submission.
The Damage to the Great Eastern.
A London paper says that the repairs of the
commenced, Mr.. Russell having contracted to
restore the whole for five thousand pounds If
it should turn out that either of the forward
boilers had been injured, five thousand pounds
will scarcely suffice for the entire restoration.
From the fact of there having been no escape
of steam from either of the boilers at the time
of the explosion when there was pressure of
twenty-five pounds on each, it was believed
that they have escaped without material in
jury. The mere joining of the cabin fittings
and the re-decoration of the grand saloon can,
and doubtless will be, completed. With the
iron work, however, it is different affair. All
this must be executed in London from the
working downs of the vessels, and sent down
piece meal by rail to Weymouth, where it can
be put together on board the ship. Mr..
Scott Russell contracts to finish the whole ship
in her former state, as she left the river, within
three weeks.
Madrid journals publish articles on the ne
cessity of taking Gibraltar from the English,
no matter by what means
1t was stated in London that Spain had re-
turned an evasive reply to the question from
England touching the concentration of troops
in the neighborhood of Gibraltar.
The Florence correspondent of the London
Times says it is reported that Pope Plus had
received the extreme JUNCTION or sacrament adj
ministered to the dying.
Advices received at Madrid from Tanger,
state that in consequence of the agitation caus-
ed by the death of the Emperor of Morocco, all
foreign consuls at that place had barrcaded
their houses and armed their dependents also
that all Christians in the empire were leaving
in haste Another account says the families Of
the consuls had taken refuge on board Span