The intelligence from Canton shows no improvement of affairs there.
The Bombay correspondent of the Morning Post says- The intelligence from Canton shows no improvement of affairs there. The Bombay correspondent of the Morning Post says- " The accounts from China were as bad as ever : the trade continued, stopped. and a monerons fleet of merchant-yessels were accumulating in Hong Kong Bay, were they would be obliged to remain until some arrangements were made for .thaehaming.their cargoes. There was not an English ehip of war in the Chinese waters., anti the merchant-vessels were all muored in a line ready to repel any attack from the Chinese.. The Cambridge, merchant- vessel; has been taken up by Captain Elliot no a guard-ship. Thin will cost 4,0001. or
5,000/. for a service which ought to have been performed by her Majesty's vessels of war on this station. A most unprovoked and disgraceful outrage was committed by a party of English sailors on a defenceless Chinese village at Hong Kong, which terminated in the death of a Chinese ; whose body was exposed by his own countrymen on the shore abreast of the shipping, till Captain Elliot arrived front Macao and paid 2,000 dollars to have the matter hushed up ; but it had come to the ears of the Imperial Commissioner, and great fears were, by the latest accounts, entertained that it would lead to serious consequences. "The Americans still continued at Canton: they had no hesitation in sign- ing a bond of extreme severity to be allowed to trade."
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