(From the Foochow Daily Echo of 4th Feb.)
M.S, Linnet arrived here on the Ist instant and will remain in port for days.
The U. S. Frigate Lancaster arrived hero on the 2nd instant. "She is to stay here, we understand, until Wednesday next, On Thursday last the fishermen of Sharp Penk picked up a boat containing a man, hand and foot, who reported that junk had been pirated the night before, His two mates are loissing. The attacking. pirates are reported to have Innded at Quantow on Wednesday night.
Although the original reward of $200 for the arrest of the cooli i from a bank over the bri tai, as reported in our last issue, has been raised to $1,000, no arrest has yet been made nor any clue given as to where the thieves are to be found. The man in charge of the treasure has committed suicide by swallowing opium, leaving a widow and four children in a state of destitution.
The Ningpo Guild has been informed by the Viceroy that two gunboats have been despatched in search of the reported piratical fleet, and H. expresses the wpe that the coast will soon be clear of every craft belonging to it. In his de-spate to the Guild, His Excellency recommends that, while the earch is going on, it will be prudent for the junk owners to their junks in companies of twenty to thirty together, so that, in of attack, one may render the other assistance, Hight men, long known to the natives a gane of rascals, have at last been taken by surprise and arrested by a body of soldier Their tactics were to pick a quarrel with respectable citizens and after wards ree to settle it for a consic They were carrying on quite a lucrative,
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