From the Palladium office, Boston, July l6l

 FROM CANTON.
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Extract of letter from an officer of an American merchant vessel, dated at Lintn, March 20, 1897. "On the lst inst there was battle between five boats of the Americans and English lying in this port and two Chinese Mandarin boats, and one of their men of wars launches occasioned by a pass boat coming down with orders for the ship Citizen, of New-York to proceed up to Canton. The Manda- rins took the pass boat and towing her towards the Chinese vessel of war-when the Americans and English manned their boats and went in pursuit. In about half an hour the foremost boat came up with them---muskets were fired and stones were thrown from the Mandarin boats but other boats coming up, they began attack and succeeded in re-taking the pass boat and orders, and proceeded to the Ct- zen. heard on the 2d that two yiandarines were killed and two Chinese were wounded. There are three four Chinese vessels of lying here now, and there are said to be thirty nfore coming down from town, distance sixty miles. We now lie with all our guns double shotted ready for battle. The vessels that here I think more than match for them. It will probably put stop to business for sometime at Whampoa, where the vessels lie that are bound to Canton. There were two men slightly wounded with stones, being the only ones injured on our side in the affair.""

 