The English In China

We have received by the Cambria the Hong Kong Ovorland Register of May 24, which contains more particulars of the state of affhirs at Cantón ihan was furnislied us by tho English newspaners. The Emperor, it seems, acquiesced in the concessions made to the English by the Commissioner fKeyingJ upon the laie expedition of Sir John Davis to Cantón, it was feared that it might be otherwiso ; that, at least, according to the custom of ihe country, the Emperor might hold Keying responsiblo for the neglectof the Governor of the Bogue-forts in allowing them to be so completely unprepared for defencc, and so might recall him and appoint another Commissioner frotn the party hostile to foreigners and advocates for war. The Emperor's answer to Keying is said to have been lhis, in his own handwriting: "The sheaf must bend to the blast." Thts populace, however, nppear to have abated none of their virulence or their contempt for foreigners. So far from it, tlieir hatred seems to have been stimulnted and increased by a singular sort of management on lire part of the English. The Register slates ïhat the English troops were twice marched against the populace, eaclr trme, after having assumed a threatening attitude, withdrawn in such a manner as to lead the Chinese to believe that they had driven them away. As a result of this management the Chinese were emboldened in their opposition to the The leaders of wbat are called tlie Patriols and Schulara were raising nsesstnents ot a monlh's rent upon all the houses ir Cantón to supply funds for prosecuting a war with the English, and parlicuiarly fcrr supporting the braves" who assume the merit of having twice driven the barba rians from before the walls of Cantón, The piece of. ground alíotted to the English for building (by the late compul-ory arrangements between Sir John Davis and Keying) is at Honam, on the opíosite sido of the river to Cantón. Itis said to be a mere swamp. Some of the English, however, had cho&en lots there ; jut the Honam people manifested a nined spirit of opposition to tbeir bnildng, and some of the boat-houses close upon houses occupied by foreigners had een set fire to and burnt. The native nerclmnts had removed their families and valuables, fearing their own people more erhaps than others ; for, in case of vioence, they might be plundered by the pariots as vvell as by foreigners. Meetings had been held at Honam, at vhich resolutions were passed against lermitting the English to take possession for build upon the newly ceded ground, nd declaring that parties possessed of iroperly would neither sell nor lease it to