Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1856 — News from China. [ARTICLE]

News from China.

\ FrigfitJid buteheriei in Caiiion —defeat of pirates—victory over the Rebels—the allied fleet. - ■. ~ Our Hong Kong dates are to Sept. 15. ! According to the Friend of China, Canton was the scene of frightful butcheries.. On the 10th September a rteble chief was cut into two hundred pieces, and five hundred poor ! wretches were executed with him. The correspondent of the China mail, from Canton, says: “By a report obtained from good t authority,itappcarsAhatover 70,00 ft [have been publicly executed in Canton since Feb, 15, or Qhincse . New Year. About 27,000 were put LiflLd£al.h at Shan king-fu, and 35,000 at the taking of the fort at Blicnheim i Reach. In many plac es houses have i been erected, where suspected per- [ soils are allowed to commit suicide, and protect their posthumous repui tation. Oti the Oth of September one of the leaders, named Kane Sim, I was put to death by a lingering projiaiHST—UaviUtf"beefl pieces. This leader threatened the northern part of the city last Autumn and Winter. Afore than 500 others were executed on the same day. In the Norhh China Herald, of the Bth September, there is a detailed account of a cruise against the northern pirates, in which the British sloops • Bittern ans Paoushun destroyed ele- : ven junks —six they set on fire, four [sunk, and one surrendered without ! being fired into, and was handed over ' to the mandarin at Tang-chow-foo, : the. Captain of her giving most important imfromatibn.” The Pekin Gazette reaches from July 27 to Aug. 2, and reports repeated victories over the rebels at Sha-ou-chow, Fung-chfcun, on the borders ofKwang-se at Iloomen, and Lung-chu-en in the northeast of Kwangtung; the rcovery of Poh-10, a district city east of Canton, and the expulsion* of the Rebels from Kwang-sang, who seized upon Tung-ugan, where the Imperial troops are besieging them. 'l'here is no intelligence from the Allied Fleets in the North, except, that*Admiral Sitting has detached a force under Com. Elliot, sufficient to cope with the Russian fleet, should he again have luck to fall in with it; while the Admiral himself fortunately, perhaps, winds up another season in the niazesbf Japanese diplomacy.