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1841.

Journal of Occurrences.

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them the same variety, or each taking a different one. Ten, twenty, and more men, are often seen around a table, different members of the group exhibiting all the passions of the gambler-fear, hope, success or disappointment, as they win or lose alternately. A clerk on the in- side of the table holds the stakes, and keeps the accounts, remunerat- ing himself and his master from the winners by a small percentage. The petty officers of government also receive a sum from these esta- blishments for connivance, the amount of which depends altogether upon the arrangement the parties can make, since the laws strictly interdict all gambling.

ART. VIII. Journal of Occurrences & new plenipotentiary and ad· miral; their rapid traveling; their line of policy; British forces in China; second expedition northward; manner of con- ducting the war; Hongkong; H. Rustomjee's donation for sea- men; departure of capt. Elliot and commodore Bremer from China; visit of the prefect of Canton; affairs at Canton ; Yihshan and his colleagues.

THE new plenipotentiary and admiral. During the night of Tuesday the 10th, the H. E. I. Co.'s steam frigate Sesostris arrived in Ma- cao Roads,—having left Bombay on the 17th ultimo,-bringing as passengers-their excellencies sir Henry Pottinger, baronet, &c., &c., her Britannic majesty's SOLE PLENIPOTENTIARY AND MINISTER EXTRAORDINARY to the court of Peking, charged also with the duties. of the chief superintendent's office-sir William Parker, K. C. B., rear-admiral, and commander-in-chief of the British naval forces in the East Indies;-major G. A. Malcolm, 3d It. dragoons (a regiment now in India), secretary of legation to the special mission-Mr. assistant-surgeon W. Woosnam, medical attendant to sir Henry ;- B. Chimmo, esq., naval secretary to the rear-admiral, and C. E. Tennant his flag-lieutenant.

Wednesday morning, at daylight, the Nemesis went out to the Sesostris, and by 8 o'clock sir Henry Pottinger and sir William Par- ker had landed,-which they did under a salute from the battery on the Praya Grande. They immediately met the major-general, sir Hugh Gough, coinmander-in-chief of the land forces of the expedi- tion (who happened to be for a few days in Macao): after which, ac- companied by captain Elliot and Mr. Johnston, who had gone off in the Nemesis to receive them, they proceeded to wait upon his excel- lency the governor of Macao.