On Friday morning the French fleet appeared off Sheipoo Roads, when three of the Chinese mon-of-wae ran away, leaving the GRigt Yi Yuen and Oh'éag Ching, one of these being n23-yan frigate. The French sent in torpedo boats the ships repulsed them four times, On Sanday morning before daylight the French sent in their torpedo bunts again wder cover of fishing bouto, and suc ceeded in exploding torpedoes under the counters of the ships, which caused them to fill, All the crews escaped to the shore with the exception of the second engineer (Chinese) who was drowned, A considerable amount of excitement and flutter was caused Wednesday by ironclads and four corvettes about si ff Gutzlaff. It appears from what been able to lat these formed part of the fleet of men-of-war of which we have lately heard; six having been sent up here in search of Chinese squad while the seventh remained on guard outside the inlet where some other ships had pu Directly the Chinese heard that the French were at Guizlaff, they prepared to block up the Woosuny Bar, and an energetic despatch was thereupon sent, by British Vice-Consul in charge, to the Tao-t'ai, him that if any such step were taken without the proper twenty-four hours' notice being given by the authorities he, the ai, would be responsible for any loss or d might occur. down to Wooaung to hold a conference with the Commandant of the Forts there on the subject; but there is every reason to believe, now that the French have left and the panic hus subsided, that no further attempt il to block the channel until arises, As most of simply ofa row of piles dri the channel towards the Shanghai side of the bar, with a gap left in the centro up. wards of 250 feet wide, through which ships pass. A number of junks, loaded with stones, were to be sunk at the foot of these piles; but at present we believe only one of these has been sunk, the others, nineteen in number, still lying moored on therightbank of the river. It was intended, if occasion should arise, to block up the entrance left by the gap in the row of piles by sinking there old No. 3. frigate, which, being three hundred feet long and ly built, would, if properly sunk, form a very effective barrier. As however, it is built of light teak wood, and contoing ficient amount of ballast, itis that if an attempt were made to sink it in its present condition it would simply float about water-logged, and perhaps dea goud deal of damage to the rest of the barrier. Where the frigate at present lies it would be impossible to bring her to the gate of the barrier except at the height of the tide, and it appenra to have atruck the authorities a few days ago—long before the French at Gittzlaf—that in a position from which it could without delay at any tide be brought to f the barrier ready fur sinking. We believe an order waa actually given for tug-poate to proceed to Woosung and tow the frigate into i newly assigned position; but it appears that the order was afterwards counte mauded, and the frigate is for the present to remain where al It is no doubt this circumstance which gave rise to some absurd rumours which were circulated in ettlement on Thursday morning. So wus was the alarm that all the Indomera and some others got on Thuraday afternoon to proceed to Woosung.
The four Chinese mon-of-war which were at Kiang Yin.on the Lich instant appear to have loft, as they were no by the Kiang Yii on her down trip this tim The following telegram was received on Friday by Capt. Bisbee from the Commi sioner of Customs at Ningpo:—"Diatriot 0 the lights were extinguished on the 13th inst., the Sesutris Rock and Seaou-yeu Spit Buoys, at the entrance to the Yung River, have been removed.
Tt appears that the Whaon, while on hor way to Foochow, met the JPismar, and asked if she had seen anything of the French fleet. On b din the affirmative, the Whaon steamed for Ningpo, Her commander, Captain Stout, came up to Shanghai on Wednesday in the Ichang for instructions and returned to his vessel the same day When the JWismar was anchored off Matson on Friday night, there French linen-of-war and an American vessel in company. Some of them wore large vessels, but it was impossible to make them. out, owing to the weather, At Go'clock on Saturday morning one, of the French ships flashed her electric search light on the Wismar, and being satisfied with the scrutiny' paid no further attention to hor.
We believe that the compradore of o is the charterer of mer Wismar which ha ployed recently in carrying arms and ammunition to the South, The Daily Press heara that the French intend to leave Formosa and merely garri son Kelung, at the same time blockadit several points on the China coast, po the Canton river first. Their. men hi died off at a terrible rate at Kelung, as they cannot stand the climate and exposure. Rumour has it that mutinied, but this to leave for that place on the 23rd ult., and expected to arrive there by the 27th dr 28th, but it is evident that he has encountered a stubborn resistance and it is reported that ho has met with a severe check, However that may be, it is certain that Jarge num-bors of wounded have come down from the front, from which it is apparent there has been heavy fighting.
seema now that French ships are for-hidden by the Neutrality Act to make a conyenjence of Hongkong, some merchant
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