This evil to which the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce alluded in vig language at the annual meeting on the 30th ultimo still continues, Int the Viceroy is taking steps to repressit, which I hope may prove effective.—On the 3rd instant there was n public execution of pirates. at Chao-shan, the recent centre of pit other day ab Canton seven heads fell from the shoulders of pirates on that notorious "potter's field." Li Hung-chan I hear placed four gunboats, six armed Inunches, and x score of mandarin junks on the West. River, and they ave in theer atony rate patrolling it between the Wang-moon channel and Kongmoon, With the assistance of the British flotilla, which ought to be materially increased, this force should be equal to the suppression of the piratical scourge.
Hongkong, fth May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.