REBELLION. We have to regret the omission, in our last number, of some particulars which we possessed concerning the suppression of the rebellion in Hoonan. In the 3d number, page 111, we gave some extracts from a Peking gazette of the end of May. A gazette of the 11th June, since received, contains further details, derived from a second dispatch from governor Loo Kwan, of which the following is an extract.

After having forwarded the previous dispatch, concerning the victory over the rebels on the 15th May, the governor joined general Yu Pooyun, the commander-in-chief, and advanced with him, to repossess the small town of Pingtseuen, which had been the last stronghold of the mountaineers in Hoonan; and to exterminate the rebels from the surrounding country. On the 20th, 21st, and 22d of May, the troops were chiefly engaged in throwing fire into the town, by which means multitudes of the rebels were destroyed. On the 23d, a strong force was ordered to march in at once, and every place occupied by the rebels was set fire to, many of them perishing, with their houses, in the flames. On each of these occasions large numbers of prisoners were taken, both men, women, and children; till at length, no more rebels were to be found. On the 25th, therefore, inquiry was made for the chief rebel Chaou Kinlung; when it was universally declared, by his relatives and followers, that he had fallen in the streets of Pingtseuen. Parties, with individuals who had known the chief, were then sent to turn over and examine every corpse, in order to assure the go

vernor of the truth of what was said. This was done;-but unsuccessfully, and with great difficulty, on account of the vast number of putrid, halfburnt bodies, which lay unburied.

The governor, however, is inclined to believe the assertion of Chaou Kinlung's death, and the emperor agrees with him in thinking, that, as it is so general, there can be little doubt of its truth.-The emperor greatly laments that, instead of having "taken him alive and sent him to Peking, there to be punished according to the fullest extent of the law, -that so the authority of government might be luminously exhibited and men's hearts rejoiced,-it had been found impossible to obtain possession of his person, he having been slain in battle; and so the imperial hopes had not been accomplished." -A fine specimen this of the civilization and tender mercies of the Chinese!-During the whole time of the siege of Pingtseuen, which lasted from the 29th April to the 24th May, there were 3 officers and 158 privates killed; and 23 officers and 593 privates wounded.

It will have been seen from previous numbers, that, on the suppression of the rebels in Hoonan, as detailed above, governor Le set out for Leenchow, the seat of the rebellion in this province; and commenced a campaign against the eight principal tribes called Pǎ-pae Yaou. He had not dared, according to his own account, to make any attack previously; but had only preserved a strict lookout, during the continuance of rebellion in the neigh boring province; for which he has incurred the imperial displeasure, and has been degraded from his rank, and deprived of the honorific ornament of a peacock's feather in his cap: being suffered, however, to retain his of fice.

Since the defeat which he met with at the beginning of this campaign, on the 20th of June (and which was the immediate occasion of his degradation), his excellency has been

joined by the imperial commissioners Hengan and Hoosungih, with Yu Pooyun, appointed to take the temporary command-in-chief of the troops; and has met with a little better success. In a gazette of the 6th August, the emperor, however, expresses his displeasure on account of the governor having attempted to enter the hills after the rebels, by which means the troops were in danger of being entrapped. His majesty wishes all the mountaineers to be enticed into the plain, and driven together into one place, as at Pingtseuen in Hoonan: then he says, they can be surrounded, and entirely cut up without one being suffered to escape (or, in Chinese phrase, to slip through the meshes of the net)!

Another subject of imperial reproof is the want of attention to the military force in Canton, in consequence of which the men are mostly so feeble-bodied and incapacitated for action.-that, although in their own province, many of them get ill from want of strength to bear the necessary labor and change of place.

The commissioners and governor are directed to draw supplies of grain from the districts in the neighborhood of Leenchow. Le, with Choo, the fooyuen, and the poochingsze or treasurer, are commanded to draw up estimates of money requisite to defray each item of expense, and to employ just as much as is requisite, but nothing more.- -We are told, that the sums which have already been issued by the provincial treasury of Canton to defray the expenses of troops, weapons, and ammunition, during the last five months, exceed two millions of taels.

SECRET ASSOCIATIONS.-The weakness of the Chinese government is in nothing more plainly evinced, than in its fear, not only of large bodies of men combined for secret and political purposes, but also of small religious sects, headed usually by men of feeble ability, whose sole object appears to be gain. This fear, we think, is a far more convincing proof of weakness, than any real or imaginary inability of ministers to put a stop to such associations.We express ourselves doubtingly of their inability, because we are of opinion, that it is owing rather to

the want of will than of means, that societies, like the San-ho hwuy or Triad society, combined for the unequivocal purpose of overthrowing the dynasty now occupying the imperial throne, have been suffered to attain power, so formidable as to defy the authority of the government, when it suits the purpose of the associates to do so. We believe, that the principles of the society or brotherhood which we have named in particular, are, to wait the time when heaven, earth, and man shall all appear joined to favor them, in the subversion of the government (which time, according to some, will be when the future Budha appears on earth);-and in the interim to exert all their efforts to hasten forward that wished-for period.

We have been led to these remarks by observing the frequent recurrence, in the Peking Gazette, of imperial edicts against all associations; and the severity with which ringleaders are punished,-some being condemned to suffer the slow and ignominious death,-others hastened to immediate execution,-and numbers transported for life, without the possibility of being included in any, even the most general, pardon.

In a late number of the Gazette, there is a long paper from the emperor,-occasioned by a memorial from a member of the Censorate,wherein the subject of the hwuy-fei, or "associate banditti," is connected with the rebellion of Chaou Kinlung, which, says his majesty, "could never have been commenced but by the intervention and instigation of those associates."-After considerable detail, from which it appears, that the supreme government at Peking is not wholly ignorant of the unjust and unprincipled manner in which the local officers, at a distance from the capital, transact business; and that cases of appeal from the provinces, with regard to lands and property plundered, have of late become exceedingly numerous, his majesty concludes with declaring his anxiety, on the people's account, that such illegalities should be prevented: and requiring the higher authorities in all the provinces, to "make the imperial mind their's; and to attend to the people's good as their chief occupation."