The following letter was written the day before our correnpondeat despatchel the telegram which appeared in yesteriay's nan, aving that Tchang hal fa Tchang, Oct. 18, Wo are in the rather undesirable position of being shat off from the enter world at present, There are many ramours of wha and Hank mont antrastworthy, broke out our regular steam left for Hankow, bat they do not retura, The telegraph wires are broken and messages, if accepted, are going roand by Srechoan and Shensi, Bat the telegraph authorities are very anig to accept any messages, British community is at present noreprosented by either a Consol or a gunboat., and, considering the fact the foreign residents of this port are eighty per cent, British, such a state of affairs naturally calls forth " good desi of criticism of those in authority.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.