Year: 1859

The mails of the steamer Indian reached Nor


York early yesterday morning:


The following is the official account of the action
at the mouth of Peiho:


1t was sanguinary engagement, which lasted
all day, from two in the afternoon till ten at night
tne oaroarian troops having pressed right to the
very foot OF the WALL where they obstinatelv foupbt
without retiring Looking upward he pravs for
the Sacred Glance thereon


he cannot bear to speak infinitely of the insolent
bearing Of the rebellious barbarans during several
days, suffice it to say that when vour slave Han
guh had fastened to Peitang and vrittnn IN their
envoy upon the subject OF proceeding to personal
conference, they paid no attention to him hut re-
lterated their demands for the complete removal
OF all oostructions within a specified time


On the night of the oath instant tbev came in
one OF their small boats within the iron stakes and
burst asunder with shell two of the LARGE iron
chains which crossed the river and one LARGO 90
coa-fbre cable, when they fell in with our gnard-
boat and retired Not shot was fred at them
from guns or small arms by our men, who at once
proceeded to reconnect firmly the iron cables and
stretched them as before athwart the stream so as
to bar the passage up.


Early on the morning of the 25th upwards of ten
barbarian steamers having taken up their position
outside the iron stakes and just below the fort on
the southern bank, three of them came close up to
the stakes, the foremost prongs of which WERE bv
the agency OF several swimmers, bound round with
ropes and the ends of these made fast by the sterns
Oh the vessels Another steamer then wheeled
OAlu auh uIdSSeu Jnem up, and, after interval
ol more than SIX hours upwards of ten of the stakes
We're pulled away whilst the vessels in position all
holsted red tags, thus showing) a determination
to commence hostilities


To put up with this proud rebellious baor;ro WAS


indeed dlfhcult but the reflection that the measure
OF paclhcaton, which was now in its second wear of
process, would be utterly deranged were fire once
opened, induced the memoralist7 to submit to II
In silence, and quietly to abide his time Tins en-
couraging the barbarians in their pride and feed
ing the Jury OF our soldiers Just as the action
was ABOUT to commence, an officer with commu-
nlcation from the Tantal of TIen-tsnp was sent
once more to warn them. The barbarians would
not permit the letter to be handed in, and their
vessels advancing like swarm of bees right up to
tt tne SECOND tort upon the southern bank, bore
straight down upon the iron chains twice, but be-
ing all brought up by these, they opened fire upon
our batteries. Our soldiers, pent in as their fury
had been for long time, could no longer be re-
% strained, the guns OF every division, large and
small, opened upon all sides, and at evening the
firing had not ceased


More than twenty boats now came alongside the
panH OF the Southern Fort, and the barbarians,
landlng IN body, formed outside the trench Our
gln-gall and matchbox divisions were then hrongbt
up to oppose them, and fired several volevs, The
barbarans did not venture to cross the ditch but
threw themselves down among the rushes and fred
on us from their ambush. Such murderous feroctv
was indeed calculated to make ones hair stand nm
T. e. with rage,) and to vindcate the honor of the
STATE and fulfil at the same time the expectations
OF the Government, your slaves were obliged to
bring forward their troops to oppose them with
their utmost strength. Your slave Hangub. who
had been stationed on the New River, put himself
at the head OF his cavalry and infantry as soon as he
heard the cannonade, and returned to Taku bring
ing up his men as reserve bv a road from the
rear. At the same time Wan Yu, the Commissioner
of Finance arrived also from Pauting


our Slave has now reverently embodied in this
memorial circumstantial account of this fierce
encounter OF our infuriated troops with the rebel
llous barbarians, who disobeyed our reasonable in
functions forwarding it at the rate of 600 Il. (per
fa ha lr,tra
sacred glance and instructions


respectful memorial. Forwarded from Taku on
the 26th June, 1859.


STATE OF ITALY.


The most important news from Italy is the arrival
of Gen. Fanti at Florence. This officer, whose
celebrity lies entirely in his skill in the art of or
ganlzng detences, is looked upon with suspicion by
many who remember how narrowly he escaped be-
ing comprised in the sentence against Ramorino in
l649. Victor Emanuel even to this day, cannot be
made to accept him frankly, and is well known to
have given a reluctant consent to his being en-
ployed. Marmora in vain calls to mind the bril-
liant conduct of Fanti during the Crimean war;
Victor Emanuel bids him take Fanti on his respon-
slbllity, but says nothing more.


The opinion which is promulgated in the Italian
journals of the understanding which exits between
the Emperor of Austria and Louis Napoleon, con-
cerning the feasibility of throne of Etruria being
created for Prince Napoleon, son-in-law ofthe King
OF Sardinia, having met with contradiction in
the Government papers here, people are bepiuninp
to renew their belief in this arrangement Times
are altered. LegOuve and Henri Martin, as official
representatives of the French Press are appointed
to attend the funeral service, which is to be cele
brated with great pomp, the anniversary of
Manin's death, at Milan and Florence as well as
every large town in Italy. The article in the oni-
teur seems to have wrought an immense change in
the feelings of Italy towards France, a change of
which Mazzini will have, long, the full and en-
tire profit.


GREAT EASTERN.


Correspondence Of the London TYnlesl


WEYMOUTH. SnndaV thar Thn
repairs necessary for the fitting the Great Eastern
for sea are daily going forward with the utmost
diligence and rapidity. The fittings of the ship
and all matters connected with her sea-Ooiup eouin-
ment are now entirely in the hands of the marine
department of the Board of Trade With pas
senger-ship OF such gigantic magnitude, and which
when complete, will go to sea literally with pop
uiatlon equal to that of many towns, il has been
felt that no possible precautions which the greatest
experience and most jealous vigilance can suggest
should be neglected. In this matter the Directors
and Capt. Harrison are entirely agreed, and have
we believe, asked the Board of Trade to make any
such suggestions which they think can in any way
conduce to the safety and convenience Of the vessel


The Great Eastern will always carry the bast
w esh Goals, which, even when slowed in large
quantities, have seldom if ever been known to heat
The Great Eastern, however, will carry no less
than 10000 tons-a quantity which, need not
say, has never yet been put into anv vessel and
therefore it has been thought right to guard
against even the possibility of accident from this
source. Another matter which will probably be
altered is the means Of feeding the boilers with
water Until the present massive engines were
constructed it has always been the rule to make
them selt-ieeding, the auxiaries being used merely
as standby in case of any of the pump breaking
down. The machinery of the Great Eastern was
made entirely dependent on its feed water being
supplied by the donkey-eugnes-a rather objection
able arrangement, as in of the donkeys getting
out of order, which it has been they may do,
the machinery must come to a standstiil. Feed and
bilge-pumps will most likely be fitted to both
screw and paddle engines, and the donkeys retain
ed only as precautionary measure The passage
round from the Thames showed that the heat in the
stoke holes of one or two of the small auxiliary
gines was too much for the fremen. Sliding iron
doors will therefore be cut in the bulkheads in or
der to give them the most complete ventilation.


Now that the wreck has been cleared away from
the lower deck in the immediate vicinity of the
scene of the explosion, the amount of damage
which has been sustained by the boilers and more
fittings of the ship can be readily as
The massive iron main-deck beams
which were so curiousy doubled and torn by the
force OF the explosion have been cut away, together
with the tattered remnants of the lower portions of
the funnel jacket which still remained attached to
the upper part of the boilers, and altogether the
space has been cleared so as to allow the work of
to proceed with all due celebrity. Upon
minute examination it was found that the forward
boilers had not been injured to the extent which
was at first imagined, nor vet escaped en-
tirely without damage. The copper plates
OF these two boilers, upon which the
funnel and casing rested, are very much dnted in,
and many OF the iron stays in the interior either
broken or very much bent. Some of the hot air
tubes have also been damaged, but not to serious
extent The replacing of the stays and such Of the
tubes it will be necessary to remove will be
accomplished, but the restoration of the two dam
aged boiler plates must occupy time. A few days
will suffice to restore the injured iron supports of
the main and lower decks. Thus it is to be hoped
that the substantial portions Of the ship will be
refted in the course of comparatively
few days.


1t is not improbable that in few days the Great
Eastern will leave her present moorings, and go
round under easy steam to Southampton Water
Nothing on this point is yet finally decided, but
both for the convenience of receiving materials from
London, and in order to crafty the thousands of
excursionists who, even in this remote part of the
country, daily visit the ship, it is not unlikely that
such move will be made in response to the invita-
taton received from all the chief towns along the
south coast.


STRoNG WoRDs IN 3ELGruM.-The following re-
marks appear in a Belgian liberal paper, the Jour
nal de Gond, in reply to the sneers Ofthe UramoE-
tame journals, notably the Bien Public which had
ascribed the sympathies expressed by the liberal
press of Belgium for the people of Central Italy
to the Vaccinations of the Red Republican sects:


"The liberal press of Belgium applauds the pop
ulations of the Duchies of Parma, Tuscany and
Modena, and of the Legations, because it has not,
like the Catholic press, lost the memory of the ori-
gin of our own nationality. 1t remembers that
the Belgian nation has arisen from similar re-
volt, though more violent one, than that of
which Central Italy is the theatre at this day In
fact King William reiunad in Ral0i,,o