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CHINA. ; '.‘IThe attention of the European inhabitants of Ilong Kong was chiefly directed to means for Iheir protection against the Chinese. Accounts received from the northern ports were more satisfactory.It is very generally credited that Com-1 missioner Yeli has received the Imperial commands as to his policy and conduct for the future. It is said that the Era- j peror has expressed the highest confi-! dence in YelTs ability to deal with for-cigners, and although recommendingclemency, yet that failing, the barbarians j are to be driven into the sea. Yesterday accounts were received from Canton to the effect that under YelTs direction the plowshare had traversed the site of the late factories which the Commissioner tad sown with salt. - . JjjH. B. M. steamer Hornet and the small Bteamer Hong Kong had had an engagement with two divisions of imperial junks below Powder Island. The attack of the first division of junks was sustained by , the Hornet alone, which forced them to; retreat up the creek from which they bad emerged, with some damage. One of die junks blew up. In the attack of the, second division one junk was captured, with 13 guns, two of them being English pounders. The remainder retreated j with much loss. The English vessels’ sustained no loss. These fleets emergefrom the shallow creeks in the Canton |%river, up which the steamers cannot follow them. Against them gun-boats only ! can offer an effective opposition.1 lie Hon. Company’s steamer Auck-lt; *uhd Lad a smart brush with Mandarin jon which occasion !
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Barton Orleans Independent Standard
Barton, Vermont, US
Fri, Apr 24, 1857
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