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had also a twelve-pound howitzer, with which at four o'clock it cominenced throwing shells into 

 the encampment. This was continued for some fifteen or twenty minutes, when, no return 

 being made from the entrenchment, Commander Kelly ordered the firing to cease, with the view 

 of charging into the camp. The men advanced accordingly, when they found themselves sepa- 

 rated from the encampment, at a di.stance of about thirty yards from it, by a creek twenty feet 

 wide and seven deep. Here the Chinese opened a smart fire of musketry and gingals from 

 behind their mud walls, while our men were totally unprotected. The fire continued here 

 about ten minutes, when Commander Kelly directed a flank movement to the left, where were 

 numerous mounds, which would afford the assailants some protection, and whence they could 

 also throw their shot into the enemy's camp. In about eight minutes the Chinese fled in great 

 disorder, leaving behind them a number of wounded and dead. 



Wliile these things were passing on the left Captain O'Callaghan had assaulted them on the 

 right, captured their entrenchments on that side, and set their encampment on fire. He then 

 marched up to the rear of that entrenchment which Commander Kelly had attacked in front, so 

 that it was between the two detachments, and set fire to that encampment also. The English 

 and Americans then retired for the night. The next morning at daylight they were again on 

 the spot, when a hundred Chinese coolies were set to work, and soon levelled all the embank- 

 ments. The casualties to the English and Americans were equal ; each had one man killed 

 and three wounded After this the Chinese behaved themselves quietly. 



Our artists, as usual, busied themselves in sketching scenes and objects of interest on this 

 their last visit to China, and directed their attention particularly to the manipulations connected 



Chioese Rice Hulling Machine. 



with the preparation of agricultural products for market, 

 beliind t'lnt of the Japanese worked by wafer. 



The rice hulling machine falls far 



