China News.

Colonist, Issue 15, 11 December 1857, Page 3

China News.

By way of Sydney, we have news froiri Hongkong tjp.theiiSth of September.'. The Earl of Elgin returned' froiri Calcutta" oh; ! the 20th" of^ Septbmber.; vl ' :; '- -. ' ■: The' Blockade.—Several Chinese' vessels:have j been taken lately. ; ;Tyvo ; prizes. to H.M. steamer : Crmzer, and consorts turn out to be very valuable, haying besides dollars' to extent of 48,000^ other goods which will come to upwards of 30,000 more'; H. M; steamer Esk ciaptiire'd thirteen salt junks, the returns ;from which are not likely to be heavy* Both lots have been ordered .to be sold by the' Captors.,. _.'.,',' :' 1/"''.,'"";/"•''-i-'1.. /■; '. '. r An'Extraordinary1 Narrative.—-A gentleman Writing to .his ibrother says:—' Now,! my dear fellow,! am going totellyouhow I got out of Delhi. - Nothing "but my strong'arm and determination to escape or die could have pi'evehfed, my beirig either shot of mercilessly robbed, stripped; and then: stabbed; but. they,,roused myiteriiper-— that,temper .which allfmy life was myhane, but this time, was; the .means of saying my life.' ; If a man with all the corirageiii the> world'haid been in my situation i';db;not thihk' he would have at-tempted-what I did;; arid T' should not had my passions mastered by;;reaspn. But. to begin, When thealarm was first given that the troops in Delhi had mutinied I was enjoying my meal, but frOiri the atrocities that 'a; frierid of mine came in arid told'me had been committed, I left my eating, and; looking.outy saw.?even or, eight men dragging a female down the street by the hair of her head, which was very, long arid black. I could not look upon that without a feelirig of horror, riot of what would become of myself—l ■ was a riian4^but for the other poor women who. wei-e in : Delhi at the time,, jI went,intp the.,house, and ;Sopn returned with, a rifle, intending to inflict punishment oh one at least,1, of the .miscfeahts^ but I no sooner appeared in the : verandah 1 than I Was shot _t hy a black; but! he missed me; and for which kind consideration I: shot lum through the heart. About a dozen ruffians now .made, an attack upon my house, and begari battefing at the dodri I; called hiy friend, rwhc) had* given me the neys, ariel giving him a revolver -pistol, together with my two : servants,, . each armed with a gun,and thyself armed with a revolving pistol in one hand'and a sword in the other, (these were the r arms of poor Harry), I walked boldly "down to the door and let thenr in; as I;,opened the door JL retreated behind it. The blacks came rushing in pell-mell, and were rushing up the passage, when ihy friends-arid'two. servants cairiel from5 their' coricealirierit' arid fired at them steadily, which brought three:of them down; ithen clubbingi their guns,- they rushed pn{ the; surprised blacks. At the, moment the.attack was;- maae, by riiy coup de main 1 stepped put 'from my hiding place,' behirid the door, and shot the' liindiriost vilr liah- doWri with my pistol,; and, then with all the fury of ten'ithousand- devils,l went to wotk r with my :sword, wounding, here, :killing .there,, and shooting those that' stabbed at' hie. At last there were but:five:blacks sleft,,and" they forced by me and- gained the street, ■_ following: close behirid them', shut;the, door;-violently, thereby shutting them out.. I went back,and foupdrthatT all tlir^ee of my assistarits had been so:mortally wounded that I despaired 6f their lives,' and-ihy fears: wefe quickly-: dispelled' by- two of them dying shortly after! in the. mosifrightful agony j the other— -rAy dear-friend Hancpck-^dying.shortly after.; After pur killing so manjof their meri I knew : that the house would be1 attacked anxl no mercy shown, so I'discbldiired my- face, and assumed the garb of one of the;;.dead blacks, ■'and,' as, I ;cpuld^^rspeak their language, ,1 thought I should^ pass : for .a , i?lacl?.'. .1 ■ got out .by a. back.'way arid' began Kalpoirig.arid hppting'i arid funning; arid goirig about where' the other blacks; were; and so: by these means avoided siispicion,-incurring: the greatest danger of being recognised.. v I .met, two or three' .times with a single black iri'a lonely place, arid such wai my hatfed to therii that/ I "could hot restrain iiiyself from killing them-. > Onetime, after Idiad killed a man and, was \ looking oyer him; a body of blacks came up and wpuld have struck me to the.earth, diad I not called out fiercely in their lariguage that I would averige him,and, sudderily starting frbrii my standing place; i called oiit to an -imagiriary fellow to stop, swearing he : was the i< murderer, j I bounded away,,the others, with me, but failed to catch the fellow.'' When the blacks made a sortie, % Smuggled riiyself in with' theni, ■ arid cariie over to theside-of my friends: where I was warmly re- , ; ceiyed.iXgot wounded) in" the engagement, but revenged- my self, upon them, for I fought,with, all the despai'ation of madness." ' - <;■;, ", ■<■ ,' "--• - " -'■■■ -■ - ■-■:■ ■' • ■•

(Contimiefatfrom our' first page.) high spirits at our success, at.six o'clock. Our loss was estimated, 'altogether, at about 120 failed and wounded." Thirteen guns were captured, and great loss was in-, flicted.on the enemy."— Lahore Chronicle.