HASZAR[)'S GAZETTE. DECEMBER 7.

‘FBI CIVIL WAR IN CHINA.

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4... , e oountr around a inovfln 6 sh of partial rebellion : w on V inc‘ open and general we know

303-. the arrival at Pckls of 'l‘aipl

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5'.’ ' ‘ll VI! . news has not reached us, but 5 0 ‘fingrqgver soon that the capit- a s on." enews fl-om Ainoy is brought

up to the Is’ instant. The long threatened ut- taek by the imperialists commenced on the 25th ultimo, but the triots were still in possession of the town when the clipper schooner Maaeppa

_ Qnthgjad. The fo lowing is a report of

s most recent operations. At daylight of the

of August. a nest. consisting of 2.) Canton

'and M Anio junks were seen entering the bar- -*‘ u » 0 uses ran in battle array . Jtofuge the long battery-a risk cannouading - e9u_tin_uiu . for several hours, when the lia- pettalist. t, hauled ed‘ out of unshot reach, and anchored for the iii ht. V ilst the firing another Of some 50 junks . , west side of the island, landin -Ill!!! crews, and destroying seven villages, as to have been cccu ied rincipall b insur nt families. On the 6th lint very little was one

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was going on, earns

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on either side until about thre m.,w the lmperialist fleet, which had been augment- ed in numbers during the night. weighed and ‘passed round the south side of Kolungsoo, ex- changing shots on the way with the batteries, both the island and the main. The patriot fleet, said to he tly inferior in numbers and equipment, also weighed from the inner liar- bour, and kept up a continual interchange of s _ About sundown, the imperialist fleet having foriueda junction, anchors within a rails of the town. and close to the foreign ship- ing. The triot squadron took up a position in front ofths foreign factories. The 27th pass- ed over quiet! ; the Imperialists apparently waiting the advance ofn body of 6,000 of which had elicctcd a landing at the back of the island durin the two previous days, and had ot within Four or live miles of the city. The st land battleu pears to have been opened by the patriots, as t e tightin , on the morning of the fifith, is admitted to avc been in the vicinity of the imperialist camp. from which, having retired to breakfast, the lm inlists, asn matter of course, reportcd that they drove them back into the town (and which appears to have been believed by souie pcople, ass. matter of course). In the after- noon the imperialists squadron wei lied and stood towards the upper end of the iarbour, with the obioct, it appeared, of destroying the western su urbs of the town, well defended, however, by two batteries bclongin to the patriots. Agrest many of the shot from the canton junks on this occasion, as well as on the 26th, appeared directed at and over the houses, breaking a great many tiles. and frightening people from the roofs, where, at the commence- meat, the inhabitants had placed themselves to witness the light. The firing ceased about six p. in. the Mandarins retiring to their anclior- age. The patriot junks did not weigh. On the 29th,early in the morning, the Im pcrialists, effected a map do main, capturing, it is said, a body of400 of the triots, the best partol‘ whom were beheaded instan ter. llaving fright- ened the main body of their opponcntsinto a retreat on the town, the Impcrialists then he- took themselves to the business ol'dcstro ‘ing the villages where the enemy had rosidcd,liill- ing every man and male child to be found, cutting oil‘ the breasts of women who had given nourishmcntto the dctestcd brood, with other sanguinary and brutal ccds. Port of the Im riallsts’fieet also weighed at high water, on , with boats, proceeded up the creek runn- in half way across the island from the west

Triads, who are reported to amount to fully 8000 men, and who we bclicvc could take pos- session of the city any moment the

at then is no danger to he uiyr" reign ctllliuuity is co provided Of. course that we are not left unpro- tected by our own ship's ofwar. As an iiutancc of the weakness of ‘the government. we may mention that a few days ago a bod of the Triad: nlsad all the arias at one ‘oft o gates of the city, kept them for some time, and ilu-n gave notice to the authorities tliatus they did not require them they were willing to dis one of them at it certain ll'lt‘0. Also the ciicl‘ magistrates of Shanghai has been chungml io

lease the inoin rs of t said society. The fleet of foreign vessels formerly fined out here has been romunn , the navigators being Euro- peans. and the lightingmcrew Chinese, and ; several have sailed ilir we suspect has been done more for the sake of - a rance than in the hope that any good will result from such a measure."

The Pelrin Gazette continues publishing dc- I‘ cross, in which the Emperor makes known his wrath at the non-success of his general .

The late general commanding in Hu-pe l’o-le- kun -wu, was discovered in dis uise and under a fa so name in a villa in tie ouzskirts of Pckin. He had arrived t ere, having made his esca from Yochau, when that city was taken by t e rebels; and this concealment, with its peculiar circumstances, was declared to have aggravated his original crime. He was scu- tenced to decapitaton, which he soon after i

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in the Criminal Board, has been dismissed the s 0:) account of the loss of Y.-iiig-cliaii, Yang ’l‘ion-pang, director-general of grain transport, and Tan Ming-lun, salt commissioncr ofKi.ingnan, arc sentenced to banishment to Western Turtary, and to be employed in severe service. but they are to remain for the iresent with the army. A similar sentence is a iud-.2.-d to Wan-i, late lieutcnant- cneral. for the lusts

toan. governor of Ngan-hwci, and Kwci-slniu, provincial treasurer, are degraded in consc- (ueiice of the capture of Fang-yang-fu:us is

Kwei-to-fu. governor-general of the 'l.‘wo hinng, is orderm

to be sent in custody to Pckiu by I-liuug, his successor. Capital and minor punisluncnts are adjudged or approvcd agaiiist several subordi- nate otliccrs for neglect ofdutv in various mut- tors.

tone is uddrcssed to Kisbcn, lliuug-yung,am

Shin - o, the couiuiissionors. It suites that "

recovery of .\'-ankin, Chin-ki-.iiig, and \':mg:- ,,

their appointment he has heard of no impor- tant movement of the troops, or success in any of the above points—liut. on the contrary, that

Jcsty, therefore, rciterntcs the ln_]ull('.ll0ll to e retake the lost cities, reminding the 0lll('.Cl‘rl iiumcd that they are all under sentences for various misdcineanours; and he concludes by advising them to be on their guard lest they provoke the operation of the law.

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cnmnmes mom LATE reruns.

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French Government on the Eastern ques- tion. The scutiuicnts of Louis Nnpolcnn on the conduct of the L'inpci-oi- of Russia

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Ihc Russian ambassador, may think necessary before long to apply to his Govern-

publie uiind aunt session then or chins. imperfect manner of taking the su|i'rngo~,-almost any mistake may be reminded except that which relates to the franchise; but here an error is not only must lutpurluiil but most irvelriosval-le. indeed, uble to l’l‘Co|ll n l'i.ma-liiue rushly conceded. but the revocaliou was iiuun-di.iIc|_\ followed by the total loss uflier liberties, and a nominal return to the abrogated franchise by way of coiupi-iisaiion. If we place nur fraiiichiue too high it in easy In lower it; if we place it too low iijs impossible to mist! it. This is the levssuii of nll constitutional liisiury—u lesson which lll'\'D'I’ ought to be absent from our iuimls.

Tim principle of thu second would. ifcuiried to us oxiremiiy. but us to universal sulfrngn. oflhe 4-xii.-usion uftlio frnucliiso is llie cnusidcruliun

suffered; and his son, holding an appointment lunl. ofa ten-pound house in a village or moderately-

pmtllliltt of the occupant is easier, u_nd the probability of his iulclligeiicn greater. country so uul'.i'irly treated at ibis nioiusnt as the occuptiuii of lionscs between the value of tiny um] ls,-ii-pounds per anuuni noi situated in I'nrliuincninry bouiitgllil. confession ofihc Lcgislaiure, should entitle tlicni to the |l(\.~'a'i'.~'Sl|‘n ofa \orrc;| but, because that property ' o ' no uirln llocounlr iis . o‘ 0l‘KlD8'k“-“y “"3 PW‘ °fth_l"'kl“"F- Ll Km‘ lliv:|l*lll‘tloflilliulif fuiualiigciice and {hllllBfitigllclyfillailfitzl is sulllclul for others. is of no avail. uud they are ll.-pi'li.2-.l oflliu siillinge, not from nny tIl‘llil'|l! or umim¢_--_< of their own, but from the wish to preserve uh Kicn-yin , governor of llonun, for that of I-ullit: Illc ngriculiunil cliuruclcr of the couniy consti- §'ang \\'ung-ting, latcly llL'llll r I-It-Mics. _ ' ' 1? lilo objuciion can e.\isl in any unpri-judiccd mim] to the flxlellsl-Ill of the county cmi-atilucncics lo the some point us has been already conceded to the boroughs.

of the frniichiso may be ndvisible. nliliougli tlinl Auotlicr edict in a rather thro-itciiinn "“l"°“"" “"“‘ ''‘‘'''“‘'“‘'‘l "" " r‘”""~" “°"-"5l"" '0’ “"5 ‘ ' lll

. , ri~ lllll uf his ll uyesty had several times comuninucd tho c,,$,,,.,,,,-,,.,,,.,._ d,.,,,...,n,.g on i|n- firm-ss of the lower

chnu, but that in the two inouths clupscul siiico .-,...-. mu vary ..c¢.m|i..g in the .]m'c,..,,; ,,.m,, ,,,,d ' lII'‘llll‘llli\llS uftlto-‘c who liivu to tlcciili-. it. Some nuiy llllilli that we czuumi unlike the lin-is ofour con. slitiilioii too broad, uud may use in favour of further the rebels have ll(l\'llIl('C(I tvcstwurd. Ills .\l:i- culcur-_;i-inrnl the very sauna urgunn-nts which were

Against lliis opinion, liowcvcr, we iniiyopposn many,

the evidence that those to whom we are naked in inuusi the fr:ln¢lllrIt3 nre able to discharge that duty sulisfziclorilyi

ignorant or too vcnal for the iln-irdiit_v,we do the greatest Injury to the bed politic. and ihiough it to those persons themselves.

- liberal and enlightened consiiIuency—not to throw A determined attitude is assumed by the the representation ofllie county into one class. but to give each and all their due woiglit and prominence. l Now, there is this pcculiurily in lowering the fvnn- l . cliise, that ilii: class llim we should iidinit by iiuyl it _ considerable reduction is so numerous that it would l are so little concealed that M. do Kissclelf, swamp all the othcrs, and virtually monopolize the ' ' representation itself. Ils nnmbcrsnrc so large I ‘ll all others would be insignificant in comparison.

nxrnnsion or run rnssciiisc.

Among all the subjects which will ougetgs the sons so important. maps so ditlicull, as that of the elective fran- A faulty di-iriiiuiiou of electoral dipuicts, an

I"nmcu wail,

Willi reference to Iho uloolive fntncliisu. there are» two questions and two ws a of increasing the numbers

ing-keang; but this cniiiled to us excn:l:4e,—l ie one by in extension, the other by its reduclion. 'I‘he principle of the one. carried out to its exIremu_resullI. would be to lake the lowest existing francluse as a -niiuimuin. and lo

educu all existing qualifications down to that level”

In fuvour

hut, iiotiyitlisluinling all the _propliecies of its evil

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working, the ion-pound frnncln-is has been found a ,.,,f,, m.,,..nng at the capacity of voters for the election of lllttllvhefl uf l’oi'liaiim-iiI.. in n iown exlciids lo a iin:cli lower class than in the country, nod, as it has been found safe to give the yighv, of ruling to the tenants of liigli-rviitcd ll|llI\'('Il 01' our llirlvl-vg bornuglis, ll seems reasonable to conclude

'l‘he ten-pound fr.-mcliise

lnit it will be equally safe to eiifrnnnliise the inhabi- ized .,.,,,:;.-i-iown, ishcro, rents being lower, the

There is no class in this

'l'lie_v port.-‘ens the propctly which. by the

\V3 tlicrefoni npprelu-nd lluit no nauseou-

li is not, however, equally clear that ll reduction

gliniuboiiiy of Lord Jouiv llussi:i.i.. This is no bstruct queelion to be decided by urgumenls on the iuun, but ii rm.-to point of wlsdmn and

l'\l8IS for the receipt of tho clcciivu riglit. Its uci.

inplny Pll in favour of the increased franchise in 183i.

\Vherc is

iid those very pracficul, considerations.

‘Vs udmit that the basin of represent- iion should be made as wide as possible, but if, in rd»-.r in be comprehensive, we intrude persona ‘too faiilifol discharge of

'l‘lu-. object is, not to find the largest, but ihe must

be properly tlcsrri ‘d, not 1]; 1|“,

lrlvuin-o for laying an insulated wire along the ground by the more lm-uiuutioii of the vehicles, the lire heiu so protected that it ,renisins uniniuqd us or the pressure of the heaviest artillery passing over it. By this mean] wders are to be instantly conveyed from the Elpetofs station and thatqif the chief commanders,to

troops at almost any distance on the lick of the manoeuvres. We are living in a progressive

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CANADA AND 'l‘lll~: UI\'l'l‘ED' s’l‘A'l‘lZ-ls. THI snuinisrnrion vs. orricui. note.

A correspondent of the New York Herald, signing himself "Canadu,” fur- nishes llie appended statistical criticism, comprising matter of lunch interest, con- trnsting Canadian progress with that of the United Stutes:—

'I'lio progress of Canada compared with that of our adjacent Stntes,'m¢y be seen by inspecting the following table showing the advance cfthe population in {be two coun- tries since the year lB30:—

I830 I840 I850 Cuymdn 268,885 5l2.855 572,l95 N. York I,9I8,ti08 2.428.921 8.091.89b Michigan 3 ' .25 307.554 Wisconsin 30.915 30 I91 Iowa -— 43,111 19 ,2l-I

The one is the progress of II free, intelli- gent race of republicans; the other, of a race of men of the same Anglo Saxon stock, dragging alon with them, the heavy car of nionni-cliy.—l§e Ban-’s Rcvicw, Indus- trial Resource c!c.,s./iug. l853,‘pp. 200 and "OI

Such, according to the above, is the com- parntive position in regard to population in the two couiiti-ies——Ca-vtidii and the United Stules——und tho deductions of Mr. Do How from these premises. lfti-uc, it is lunicnt- able,‘ ifuntruc, what are we to think nftlie iiutlior oftlic comparison and deductions? l)e Bow now occupies it high position, being no less than Superintendent ofthc Census Bureau; uud hence we might expect that he would not pervert his figures, “ which cannot lie.” But let us refer to official returns on the poi-‘itioiis he has given to the countries represented. Neither in I830, 1840, nor [850 were censuses taken in Canada; they were taken in Lower Canada in I83! and l85l, and there were also esti- mates made of the population of that province in I811 an(lJl-MB, mid in Upper Canada in I830, ldll and lS5l. The results of these ccnsuscs were as follows:—-

I830-3|, I3-ll--fl IBBI. llppcr Cnmulu 210,-I37 465.357 962.004 Lower (‘.un.1ilii M1 922 690.738 890,26|

I,l56,095 I,8»l2.265 —'I‘lic lottcr sum, an aggregate of 1,970, 070 more than shown h De Bow‘.-' table. The figures rcfcriug to the Stubs with which ll0 compares Canada are not far from a corrcspoiidcncc with the official returns. Having exhibited the delinquency in rcler- once to Canada, and having accepted the statistics rcfering to the American States, let us c-xaiuinc their relative bcni-in ,uiid

will be seen that in each decode the inovcnients were as follows:

Total 72251;)

Canurlur Increase I830--to Increase I840-50 433,736 or 60 0 per ct. 68(5l70 or 69 3 per ct.

of. .,-o Ill‘ ‘—' ........:°,".'i'..l.l’ SIC iil.'i'I....", 3'..3'.?fJ.§‘$;‘;; the 4th inst., by the tremendous explain. *° '°f8‘."'r°Wdsr. Evet ' "ref klsh with I piling‘ of the scene der- “"“'5"°l“‘". bm.g,$I"IIIIIdQIy. no lives were si. _ I ' .

W0 Ire sorr toll i h 0 Gazette‘: that «’iJa..l:,l'iioi:’,'.lii..°n‘.l,l°.l§§ formerly commanded the ./Illiance together -to. his wife were drowned in in. Anus. -éunragel,"::centIy lost on her passage from

A’ fiir for the Exhibition of Farm Pro- puce and DoInest,ic.Manufactures, is. to -b. ll)f‘£ge"l|l:,e’I.’lcl0|.l, In the early part pf

Quebec has lately lost by death, two of her distinguish--d citizens, namely Mr Stevcnson, proprietor of tho Cft7'0lltt‘I¢ and F ‘X. Mcthot formerly M. M. P. for Quebec,

HA8ZARD'8 GAZETTE. Wednesday. December 7..1hll;.m

_ . TOWN AND COUNTRY. wflll we discontinued this article, we ' fo give the subject of a Public Market House a so ii. |’l?I consideration. Every one will allow that there a isls an almost imperious necessity for such an eree-' ticn. The population of the Island increases much timer than most people suppose, mid the amount of produce raised every yrr multiplies itself in a ratio not only corresponding wiili the increase of ol populn. tion, but with the eiilasged urea of cultivated land and the great superiority of tillage cnmpnrad win; . few years back, combined with the improvement of stock, and above all_ the great though gradual seen- muhiiion of capital. Much -larger quantities ofevory kind of agricultural production is every your brongh into the metropolis, us being the place where not only the best price inviy be obtained. but where the farmer nuiy provide liiuisclf at once with all the articles of foreign produce or rnunufncturc that he niny stand in

_!L§o_d ofst the cheapest possible rate. Now iliere are

but two ways ccniruonly practised by tlis couiitryuiuu — one is to stand at Ilia market house will: his horse and cart or sled, exposed to the changes of the wee- iher. and wait for a purchaser; the other, and by far the more common, to linwk whatever he may have to dispose of nbout from store Io store, or from house to house, till some one is found who may lake a port, if not all of what he has; and then the lump begins nncw, nniil lll whole is sold. The same weary round is now to be undergone in search of the srlicles he may want to purchase. Boll: these modes are accom- puiilud wllh spec.-kl inconvenience to both buyer pnd so.-ller—but to the. last especially. In the first place, he is reduced to the necessity of exposing his articles for sale at the greatest possible disadvnntiigo. In the open nir in a curt or sled, under a burning sun, or exposed to wind, rain or snow, covered will a mg or straw. lie must sell, and this", those whdnrs about to purchase are‘ well aware of—knowing that as night- fnll approaches, if his goods are still unsold, he must. come down in price. “'1: appeal to our friends from the country if this be not the case. lndflpeodontly of the loss mid inconvenience, there is ii species of lin- miliaiion—sspeciully to in Irish well and decently brought up—in this peddling about. particularly when the contrast to the comfortable shopkeeper appears so conspicuous: and it must, we think, ollun strike the minds of people of this dsscripiion that this might and ought to be amended, and the vendors of indigenous

on of the town, some of the crews lauding_and innge wo

“mm for "' short leave or absence: to be ndinissmn ufthn live-pound IIOIIfl('lI(lllll,‘rsl to ilie fron-

capturing those whom they could catch in their retreat. All this was clfected before breakfast, to which the Iniperiulists were said to be going, when the rebels gave pursuit, and captured thirty-three of them. who speedily met the same fate which had en meted to the patriots, their heads being exposed as trophies in the streets of the city. . though said to have been defeated early in the day, towards evening the patriots were seen entering) the city, many of them laden with what had een left in the dc- stroyed villages; the inhabitants of those vill- ages which had been molested by the Imperia- lists also rooeedin to the city with their

iods. to to e up quarters with the insurgents, in whom the evidently entertained more confl- dence than t qy) did in their legitimate protec-

tors. On the th the Imperialist fleet weighed earl , and roceeded towards the eastern su- bur . whic they had also inclfeetnally at-

tempted to destroy: desisting at the hour of nine a.in. On the 31st ofAugust the armies arrayed themselves against each other about two miles from the town: in the evening the lm ialists marched oil’ to their "Chcbhain" _. s rebels to their “ tower.” The Imperia- Iist navy efccted a good deal of damage among the northern and western snburbs._ (_)n t lst instant all. was uiet, the Im rialists re- maining in cam . . .’s p ily has been sent u to or: the factories; and, up rcntl embolde by a reliance on the probe ility of

uiet sxistanco for some time, his Excellency gdmiral Pellew intends, it is_ reported, to pr oeed to Hanills shortly, with the Winchester

n S - . gutliexntic intell' nee reached Canton a day or two a , to t e elect that adetachment from the fiankin army had reached the be dsrs ofliwangsi, at the point where the Pearl 3;", 1;; the wangtung Province, and that the patriots only waited news of the fall of Pekin to vanes towards Canton. nna fighting is looked for about the Mciling ‘rug, to which place Viceroy Yeh has been for .03: single sendin troo

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ed is an extract froinalettcr from

the northward :--“ Shari hai, Aug. 26. The

latest 8 are that t odstschinent sent to

fig had taken possession of Kai-fang.

gpitsl of Hanan, and had marched thence

3,, 1. pl ,n place about 100 miles to the north of t snsellow River, and was graduall

but steadily advancing towards Pekin without

meeting with much op sitlon. The Man—choo

t sin had been disgrace-

o bzdllen, ah the Emperor, as a last ro- sourcr, called in the Mongol Tai-tors to

mguulstanee; should tpe he‘ unsuecessI‘u'lI in the use t e nsur ts t r "0 nee ufdigmp their bscoinidn iiiaptgrg an 31 o t s sin ire men or