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serve. The dil'er. wen material respect, the

“previously peblilbe‘d. We make the following are i ' Welledey. Chases, rat a. teas.

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- , the proceeded to an anchorage ofl' of Chem, and I dispatched Captain

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the Ct- {aceotnpenied b the master of t: Atalanta ates , to recon- harheu and sound the paesage,hnd barin so returned in the evening; and on the fol ow- Mh inch.) I went on in the Welleeley in la followed the whole fleet. ‘

making, anchored in the Well:

town; the Conway and Alligator took and flank ofa rugged hill, sur- , and which is a very strong posi- ofthe afternoon the Rattlesnake

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in ‘encliored, and the rest the b above the town. Twelve r-jtsnke had followed us from the lower an- eleven others were in the port, and had a' sort of line of battle, and the Chinese

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i ‘ I “aided the strongest hope that the display ofa force an Wane as ours, would have induced

ls . be Chinese Vice Admiral. who is Commander-in- Chief of all the forces and garrisons in the district, was , t in hiajonh, and the summons was conveyed to

ill by Commander John Vernon Fletcher, of the "My, and Lord Viscount Jocelyn, (who has done me the honour ofattaching himself to my personal stafT,) W by the Ber. M. Gittzlafi', the first Chinese interpreter to her Majesty's Superintendents of Trade. Thy _ntemed at the expiration of about an hour, ac-

, by the Vice Admiral, the Flag or Port Captain. several other naval and military persons of rank. the chief ch“ magistrate, and others ofthe au- theritb. A coeferencb of some length ensued. l en- deavoured, lltrou h Mr. Gutzlafi', to make them clearly understand that bruit and aggression, on tho part of their ofllcers, to an extent no longer bearable, had her Britannia Majesty to seek redress; that my order! weveb take military possession oftliis island and its dependencies, and that as the forcel had with me precluded all possible chance of their successful resis- tance. learaeetly enweated them to spare the great effu- sion of blood and yield at once. ‘ They departed about 8 p. n..with the fullest understandlrr ‘ ofthe terms, and said “ the fault would lie theirs ' ifde ay in returning an answer should be productive of'hoatilities'." No answer was’given during the night, and the sounds of gongssnd other warlike Wallabies, were audible throughout.

“the day dawned en Sunday the 5th instgLI found theqeeye and shore lined with troops in considerable force, while from the mast head, numbers were seen on the plain between the suburbs, and on the city walls, situated about “00 yards in the valley. They had placed a body of troops on the Temple Hill, together with three gone in position;21 guns were in line on the different wharfs, and on a round lower of solid masonry, they had five goes. The war~jutiks were hauled on shore in line, with the rudders unliung, and presented 34 guns, and 45 large gingals. A quantity ofsrms of all iods were collected, which the mandarin: were annoyed the whole morning in distributing to the troops a others ; in~fact, the waving of their flags and every other demonstration evinced a determined spirit of hostility. , -

The flood tide at noon brought the mass of tratisports in, and I still entertained a hope that when the Chinese saw the troops preparing to land iii full force, they would negociate; but having waited till 2.} p. m., ljudged that further forbearance would be useless, and therefore, at that moment a single shot was fired from the Welles.» ley at the round tower, falling, as I had intended, at the foot .ofit, without doing the slightest injury. This shot was instantly answered by the whole line ofthe Chinese feeble defences, and caused a return from the squadron, the whole of which were now present, as noted in the

margin! the Cruiser, Algerian, and Queen, steamer, having just anchored. cannonade lasted only seven or ei ht minutes. The Chinese troops had fled; their batter? on the Cus- tom House Wharf was destroyed, four junks shot to pieces, and not poo person remained visible, in the town. right wing of the [8th Royal Irish Regiment, . the command of Major Adams, and the Royal Marines of the squadron, under the command of Capt. Bllu, of the Wellesle , forming the advance, then land- ed, and were "it iater followed by detachments of M_UIjuty'a 96th» and 49th Regiments, the Madras Artillery. and Sappers and Miners, and the Bengal vo- luptear corps, and the residue of the troops; and at 50 .lltutfl’flfl’ 2 p. m., I had the satisfaction of seeing her hysety s colours hoisted on the first military position in the Chinese empire conquered by her Majesty’s forces. The mandarin, and the whole of the Chinese troops, had now retired within the city in the rear of the suburbs, from the walfeofwhich they kept up an occasional fire when-soy our force appeared on the plain. ' By has p‘.‘ m., two nine-pounders were landed, in m within 400 yards ofthe wall; and in the Cow}. 0f the‘night six other nine-ponnders,'and two “Wm. Icrpin battery. together with two mortars. - From the display of" flags, the beating of gouge, and 5" hf“ “P by the troops in the city, a vigorous resist- IIIM 90 be threatened, and myself and Brigadier Barrellsiitwipaiad cir folly would ferce on us the ft?“ "m"! 9' l' " b and ,escalade; ’fortanate- .1 m the the case; for as this n3 "I d‘Mt l oflcer discoveth tho were doatroycd, an the. the city had been evacuated. ‘ In the night a tempo ’

I raryjbrid over the canal, and the southern and the giiittispiillgiivt:

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, .,_ g 1“ :xarr bed are“ - ‘ ' ' lIa‘est 's 49th reg-moot on" in, "Physic-1%. author! were iron after dgpllle,‘ “firming? population, it is almost im‘possiblimltf form an estimate ofthe number of actual soldiers,ilfi , am inclined to think that from 500 to were 0' suburbs, on the hill, and in the rear of it, mm"; whilst probably as many more were in the city. e mm of whiCh were fitted on the whole chentof . . “It is a source of great gratification to inc, to thin: that so few lives have been lost ,on this occasion. « L liev. did 25 may be the ettreme numbing”! J were all soldiers. This may be ascribcd to t the ships being directed _soley to the junks Myst-

res. , ' _ . . “The only casualty in 'the squadron 'eonststs of one seamen wounded on board'tlie Conway." Thd) pt were struck repeatedly, but no damage wasdo to them of the slightest consequence. . I

Respecting the proceedings at Amoy, Admiral Elliot sayez— . '

In passing Amoy, on the 2nd.tnst., [stood into the mouth of that port, and sent Capt. Bourchier, in her Majesty's ship Blonde, in with a letter from Lord Viaount Palmereton, ‘forthe Chinese Minister anelttn,

to be delivered to the Chinese authorities ofthe place. .

For a detail of Capt. Boorchier’s proceeding, I would refer you to the accompanying copy of his letter, under date'of‘the 4th inst., by which it appears that ofiicer had no chance left but that of returning the wanton attack on an unarmed boat, with only four boys, and Mr. Thorn the interpreter (who had a very narrow.escape).,in her, and on his ship; and I am happy to add, that lit: sit-i. ation permitted him utterly to , .every gun and» fortification without injury to the It: inhabitants.

0n the same affair, Capt. flour a :-- .. ‘

I now made another attempt to communicate throu h Mr. Thorn. the gentleman attached. to this shipaem- terpreter (who very handsomely volunteered his services at great personal risk), in the jolly-boat, unarmed, and bearing a flag oftruce, but the troops were‘brought to the beach. and he was repulsed with abusive language and threats. and, contrary to all usage, a fire commenced upon his boat, the batteries opening at the same mometit her Majesty's ship. I instantly hauled the flag. of truce down, and returned the fire; our first broadside dismounted the greater part of the guns in the eastern battery. and the second silenced both, putting to flight the troops formed in the neighbourhood. I then con- fined the fire ofthis ship entirely to the fort and armed junks, and continued till the former was in ruins, and the latter had' disappeared, excepting one, whose crew having abandoned her, I sent an officer to throw her arms- ment into the sea, and set her on fire. During this affair the rieighbouring hills were crowded with specta- tors, and the inner harbour with trading vessels, both of which might with equal facility have been destroyed;

but I considered that in confining the bhastisenient to ‘

those who had insulted her Majesty’s flag, and outraged a law acknowledged by all civilized nations, I should beet follow out your views ...... am happy to say, this service was performed without the lots of a map on board her Majesty’s ship; but that ofthe enemy-bust have been severe, as the dead were slrowed‘rupon the beach in numbers, where encamped.

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Erra'c‘rs or Taureaaucc.——Wc entered orsefl'y a cottage in a suburb of Cork; a woman was knitting slick- iugs at the door; it was as neat aiid'comfortsble as‘any in the most prosperous district of England. We tell her brief history in her own words, as nearly its-we can re- call thcm. " Myvhushand is a wheelwfig‘ht, and always earned his guinea a week; he was a good workman, and neither a bad man nor it bad husband, but the love for the drink was strong in him, and it wasn’t often he brought me home more than five shillings out of his one pound one on a Saturday night; and it broke my heartyto see the poor children too ragged to send to school,.to say nothing of the starved look they had out ofthe little I could give them. Well, God be praised, he tookithe pledge; and the next Saturday helaid twenty-one thil- litigs upon the chair you sit upon. 0h! didn't I give thanks upon my bended knees that night? Still, Iwas fearful it wouldn’t last, and I spent no more than the five shillings I was nsetl to, saying to myself, maybet money will be more wanted than it is now. Well, the next week he brought me the same, and the next, and the next, until eight weeks passed; and glory be to God! there was no change for the bad iti my husband; undo” the while he never asked me why there was nothing bet. tor for him out of his hard earnings; so I felt there was no fear for him; and the ninth week, when he came home to me, I had this table bought, arid these six chairs, one for himself, four to the children, arid one for myielf. And I was dressed in a new gown, and the children all had new clothes, and shoes and stockings, and upon his own chair I put a bran new suit; and upon his plate I put the bill and resale for them all—just the eight sixteen shillings they cost that I'd saved out I of his wages, not knowing what might happen, and that al- ways before weut for drink. And he cried, good lady and good gentleman, he cried like a baby —but ’tw‘as with thanks to God; and now where's the healtliier‘inii‘ti than my husband in the county Cork, or a happier wife than myself, or dacenter or better fed chilren than our own four?”_ It is most unlikely that such a family will again sink into poverty antl wretchedness. We might add largely to these cases, not only from what we have heard, but what we hare seen.-—‘-Hull's Ireland.» '

Susanna. carom or A new sort of Parana—The

Maine Cultivator gives an account'ofa new kiod'ef'

potato, Which is apparently a chance production of na- ture, not springing from seed or tubes, but grow'in fun so excrescepce from another plant. 'The origin 0 the potato now in general use, and a most important addi- tion to the food of man, is involved ‘in doubt, but‘that production is believed to have been originally an cures- cencegrowing upon a plant in South America. The attention of scientific minds to this new production might settle the question. The following is its history as given in the paper referred to. ' i ' “ Can any ofour naturalist contemporaries inform us whether the_potato,is an original tuber, or whether it is the production ofa freak of natural 'We circled-unite foregoing enquiry from the following fact, which is be- :3] i1:, and which we, venture to communicatp lathe ' 9‘ Year before last, nbzthhe’v? part of Augusta, sta so the illiflovver, which th ' family had cgltivated in a flowerejfsrale mambo" m” cm'excresc‘ences like warts.

. about the ' "f, ‘ The! al’l’mlt’efl'perfectly formed “no Peu'

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itig spring. he or them a . up and attain . d v peck-of good siged .anl wereipreservedf and, p an vigorously, and the resu sort of real potatoes. smooth face, mostly wh‘tte, Mr. Hutchlngs ort ' and prolnouno: ‘ cu tivatit . be a “new “ills; should gliave b Was that title way porta ‘ " ' on or our , The, following few years ago, i but' had purc I left Denierara in

le. Ishine ofthem.

mind is, that gilliflower.

~7Mr. John-Smileypafarmciiiii the M noticed upon

some :proiiiber’an-

and living substances, at

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were not the na

Demerara papers-

sons who harl'been slaves,

' .'ned their ifreedomh “use Ohm lieve,by themselves,

ladd to tginconsiderable ga s avocations, they itude.‘ They reach d for some time

chartered, we be their native country,

the enjoyment of the po honest industry atvgarrou in the land off their serv

b'a in so et ; an Erilgbnnet of its riumerous towns, g breaking out, and evrdently the ob r to them.'one atvleast of their num e , Friday Van Berckel, died. Th ployed an American skipper to Leone. The American, probably a them only about half the way, Rio Grande; where th African slave-dealers, \v intotlie Foulah kingdom. of Captain 'Park” have polished and lioapitable man antiquity of their nation. . leased the poor people, (who, property,) and summarily cut their captors. After some. tron way to Sierra Leone, wt! 1 widow, who, somehow or other, had or detained. Catherine Timmerrnan, children, made her way, lent and honest gentleman, Leone to St. Thomas, and thence erara. When we saw Missor" had a difficulty in expressing tongue, but was evidently having got back to the haun ' ofthe protection afforded her ll 1 ‘ f in her selling her signature to a power of anqmey f". the recmeryol‘a certain amount of money lyunder aBrIt-

ish’ statute.’f

ted .with the. gillifiower, lant' resembling th led him to prese " rural seeds-.— One of the neighbours nd did the same. ed maturity.

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lxcrescences" ' m the full?“-

The product was 0 er! handm'e .. . téd the if”! Sl’nllgt lf‘w'as about 3~~b he potato ls {3 mixed occasroua

mitt'e‘e on'Eie‘irtigg a “nee 9 ' ' .. liming-lam)? reported the following r e to . it satiation if is ’éiipediem V the enco gifhools, and to repeal

fl‘h’sx gun:

by with pure House, has cooke or. 'They may

But the. my nglewg,zrhar itborifeeonimcldedtd the .

- chat 3 Special .Com iher any or what Comi- into in con House of Assem

' tion I a Isotefli: gigtaillgncy’the Lieut. Governor, far m :

five is given “1 a party 0f Per‘ based or other-

Le anheur,

) ointe ‘llllllgFll‘St' of the above rep

vening of life with ins which, by bad amassed

ed me fiver Macdofi‘ald and

tee for the purpo l .severe‘ sickness Resomfions’ , being nowz‘iiew the well known alarmed..em- transport them .to Sierra slave-dealer, carried d ran them into the to theiliztiids, of some d them into thejinter‘ior, i'n‘ce the time

Roads and Bridges, or for any object of n

ture be received at ' . H w I . gfiblicmofice thereofbo given in the public p.

‘ J t . . .. £335,231; auspicious event of the Bin g”, ,-

Presuniptive to t H ) r sitiou th’c Honse agreed, and thereupon I. W

mittee to join the Committee of the Council same. , v y

The Foulahs s . been as distinguished for their

ours as for the extraordinary The King immediately. re- however, lost all their little off the heads of seven of ble. they all found their h the exception of Friday’s been lost sight of

' the Journals of'this House, of the 16th a'fia

fiiilsttjflrliamely, that certain gvords spoken by Edw ‘ . be taken down—an ‘

Higher, were taken down, and are as follow; I c

' . of this House, aided tindfiquu ' . - {affiliilibrll/Iiltni‘ebglferifi'iti the :‘xvcntionlnfvtltnt spam; by lhTafgsmnc: 0:»: [£6813]: —be now read; and the said entry liavin been late ‘ ’ cease- , r ytoBzii'btidries‘rtrid Dem- Mrs. Tim‘me‘rrnan, she herself in the English happy at the thought of is of civilized men; a proof i which, was exhibited

next, resolve itself into a Committee of Privile‘ ' subject into consideration. . . .

motion— . , House believes that the lion. mei'nher who rung“; ‘ I,“ ( has been misled by erroneous evidence—and tl'ene‘fhfl. House‘ does not Consider it necessnr'y to, enter In

matter,”

draw the proposed amendment, which

opened by 'His Excellen following Speechto both

Mr. President, and Honorable Gentlemen of the ofthe House offlssembly; ‘ In meeting you, amensbled in your Legislative capacity, I have the highest satisfaction .in being enabled 'to congratu- late you,»nd,flelr Majesty's loyal subjects in this Island, on the Birth‘ ’of an Heiréss Presumptive to the Thi'oiie.‘ This auspicious event, both in its immediate and prospective advantages, ‘is so fraught with importance ‘to the beer and dearest interests _of' every British subject, that I am convinced it will call forth your warmest sentiments of devotion and ' loyalty towards our most gracious Soverei ment towards Her Majesty’s Royal Consort. _ I avail myself of this opportunity, to remind you’that the School Act will expire with the present Session. advantages of a good education must be obvious to every reflecting .minil; for it is; a ‘well established fact, . that whatever the means of education are most: widelyn-difi'used, and 'made accessible to all classes, the communi bly found to be the most industrious, thriving, obedient to thejaws. , The provisionnli’itherto made Legislature of this Island has been so liberal Inna praiscyvoré . tliy,'that I cannot entertain a doubt that you will 5458‘ the propriety of still encouraging. this great object, by ‘11"! renewal of the present Act, or, if

7 Council ,-

Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen

efl'icient measure.

The interests of Agriculture are so intimately and insepa- the future destinies of'tliis' Colony, and the welfare of the great majority of its inhabitants, whose labours Divine Providence has a ' bless with a most abundant harvest, that I deem if. m to point out the great benefit which maybe derive aiding tliedevelopment of the resources ofthe soil Legislative assistance as it ma be in your pnvver t Inm gratified in being enab ed to inform you, that it - withstanding the unprecedented increase of the' Revenue be which I had the pleasure of nnntitutcin tnencenient of last Session—an incre open the receipts of ~ anv‘for‘m post ear exhibits an almost 6 ‘ r.-Speaker, a'nd Gentlemen I shall direct the Public A Estimates for the current year, confidence that you will vote me to carry on the Government.

Mr. President, and Honorable Gentlemenng Legislative ,

rably connected” wit

Council ,'

Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of

I regret that the Bill for erect not received the Royal Assent. pended until certain alterations are in n D'eqiatcl'i from Her .Mnjestyls Se QQIODICB, which I- shall take an early ting to you. The necessity of establi refuge for those of our fellow ci'ea inscrutable wisdom, the Almighty, reason, has given peculiar claims to 0 that I fiscl satisfied you will cheerful

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