The Globe of Thursday gives, in a private letter, the
following intelligence from China. The letter is dated Lintin, December 22d. The Globe of Thursday gives, in a private letter, the following intelligence from China. The letter is dated Lintin, December 22d.
" The quarrels with the Chinese have at last induced the Governor-General of India to interfere ; and your old acquaintance Admiral Sir C. Owen, who is in command of the Indian station, is now on his way up the Chinese Sea with the Southampton, 54, Crocodile, 28, Wolf; 18, and Satellite, 18. Perhaps a few more vessels belonging to the Bombay marine, or, as it is now called, the Indian navy, may also come on. We have already here the Challenger, 28, and a 20-gun sloop of the Indian navy. This will be his force."
The Challenger was the bearer of a letter from Lord WILLIAM BENTINCIC, which the Viceroy refused to receive, unless through the Hong merchants, and which the captain refused to deliver through that medium. It was subsequently arranged, that an officer should receive it outside the city. The Chinese are de- scribed in the letter as making a display of defence should any at- tack be made on Macao; but the fortifications are said to be use- less, and the soldiers wholly incapable of facing English guns.
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