20 OCTOBER 1860, Page 2

The news from China is so far satisfactory that it

brings the Allied forces face to face with the Taku forts. They landed at Pehtang, twelve miles to the North, on the 1st of August, dis- persed the Tartar army on the left bank of the Tien-tsin-ho on the 12th, and were to carry the main forts on the right bank on the 15th. While we attack the Imperialists in the North the rebels assail us in the South. Heretofore we have not been in collision with them.