CHINA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 843, 31 August 1853, Page 4

CHINA. [From the Sydney Morning Herald.]

The insurrection in China has been attended with so much success, tbat there is now every probability of the Tartar dynasty being expelled. The rebels have taken Amoy and Nanking, and were marching on Canton. Their army io said to be 80,000 men, well-disciplined, and it is cvii dent they have the bulk of the people with them, as Nanking was captured with the loss of one man only, who was killed for refusing to give up his master's horses. No plunder is allowed, and the greatest regularity prevailed. It ban only been recently discovered that the insurgents are Christians of the Protestant form of worship, and anti-idolaters of the strictest order. They acknowledge but one God, the Heavenly Father, the All-wise, All-powerful, and Omnipresent Creator of the world, with him, Jesus Christ, as' the Saviour of mankind, and also tbe Holy Spirit, as the last of the Three Persons of the Trinity. Their chief on earth is a person known as " Tae-ping-wang, the Prince of Peace," to whom a kind of a divine origin aud mission is ascribed. Far, however, from claiming adoration, he forbids in an edict the application to himself of tbe terms " Supreme," " Holy," and others constantly assumed by the Emperors of China ; but which he declines receiving, on the ground that they are due to God alone. Their moral code the insurgents call the " Heavenly Rules," which, on examination, proved to be the Ten Commandments. The observation of these is strictly enforced by tbe leaders of the movement, chiefly Kwang-tung and Kwang-see — men who are not merely formal professors of a religious sytem, but practical and spiritual Christians deeply influenced by the beI lief that God is always with them. The hardships they have suffered, and the dangers they have incurred are punishments and trials of their Heavenly Father, tho success they have achieved i are instances of hie grace. In conversation they i " bore " the more worldly-minded by constant recurrence to tbat special attention of the Almighty of which they believe themselves to be the objects. With proud humility and with the glistening eyes of jratituds they point back to the fact, tbat at the beginning of their enterprise, some four years ago, they numbered but 100 or 200; and, that, except for tbe direct help of their Heavenly Father, they never could have done what they have done.' Sir G. Eonham, in one of her Majesty's steamers, bad bscn to Nanking, and had interviews with the rebel chiefs, who assured him of their desire to open the kingdom for foreigners.