The Press. — London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

DECEMBER 3, 1853. the stagnation of business consequent on the mar kets being glutted, and the winter season having set in, preventing commercial communication with the diggings. At the time of the departure of the Indian Queen the price for conveyance of goods front Mel bourne to the diggings ranged from Wt. to 100/. per t)11. Great dissatisfaction was manifested by the digging clmmunity in reference) to the licence for digging gold. Numerous meetings were being held, and very threatening language used, for the purpose of olotaining a reduction in the existing rates from :II )S. t ) per month. The Government had despatched a troop of soldiers to the Bendigo diggings, for the purpose of suppressing an attempted rescue of dig ivrs who had resolved not to pay the September licence. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The colonial estimates presented to the Legisla tive Council exhibit for IKlt a serious decrease of revenue and illitrelimP of expenditure. The revenue is estimated at 225,511/. ris., and the expenditure at 275,0111. Oa. 6d. Difference against the revenue, 40,2701.11 x. Od. THE CHINESE REBELLION. THE last overland mail brings no accounts of notable occurrences in connection with the movements either of the Imperialists or the rebels in China. It is ma►ifest, however, that. the latter are gradually making head, and nonou►lidating their advantages. 1)f the hero of the rebellion and his grand army no. thing had been lately heard, exeepting from stray reports of some new town having been taken, or some advanced point being reached. Much the same ig norance also prevailed regarding the movements of the old Court at Pekin. According to► the Oyer . /and Friend of Chino, indeed, many - of the latest so-called Pekin Gazettes hail been Mode:nett at Soo-Chow, a town midway between Canton and Pekin, and now in the hands of the inburgents. The Friend says:— "At Shanglute the aspect of affairs is very bad. On the eighth day after the capture of the place the rebel leader hoisted the flag of the Nanking dynasty, and it was sop. lusted that ' the header hail been waiting for permission from Nanking' betbre so hoisting it. Since then, how ever, it has become known that the Nanking Men; will not promise to ttetßord to the party in possession of Shang hae any kind of support, and have intimated that as they have anotAsl hitherto on their own rrsponsiltility so mud they *mimic to do so, and be prepared to give up [meows. Rion (if able to keep it) directly the Tae-ping Wang re• solves on its occupation by his officers. This having be elute known to the general conuounding the large body of Imperialist troops encamped between Ching-keang-foes turd Nanking, he has valiantly resolved on doing his best to get Shanghae again under the control of his royal master. If money can be raised it is not improbable that he will at tempt Go buy such poasession ; but money is a scarce com modity with the ltnperialists, and it is more than likely that them will be Rome lighting, and, in the prospect of an evacuation, a ransack, before Shanghae's custoneltottse is again superintended by the Tatoutae-woo. Alreatly there have loeen several encounters, in one of which, at but a short distance from the waUs, the rebels were worsted and driven in. This took place within sight of several foreign. ers, who hail a pointed opport *ty for observing the total want of faith exercised by the Imperialists. After firing away at one another for tome tinw, the chief of the r e b e l party MAN seen to give his sword to his followers and to walk forward, making giomun% indicative of a desire for a parley. lint his good intention met no similar response ; a party of the Imperialists rushing on seizing him and cutting hint in pieces before the eyes of his comrades, who did their utmost to revenge his death, but with little effect. " From Ningisi,the next consular port south of SI ianghae, the news is very threatening, the eountry all around, by advices to Sept. 2(), being in a disturbed elate, and arising daily expected. "Amoy is still in the possession of the rebels, and likely to remain so, although their ill-equipped fleet, it is pro bable, will be destroyed in detail by their opponents. The possession of the water frontage, h o wever, is wit Itossessii in of the town, and there are but few prospects of an early resumption of the usual trade of the phiee. " The island of Formosa is also the theatre of an incur• rection. Her Majesty's steamship Hermes. es rode from the Madjieosinialis to Amoy, called at Tai-wau•fry and fiiiind the inhabitants battling with the soldiery, Captain Fi s hb o oth e Is•ing begged most earnestly to supply snow gunpowder. This request was refused ; lint only on hand ing them Is cartridges was he allowed to take sonic , eiials he had requested might he furnished. " !Between Cantos and llung•Kong there is still conti nued fighting. "In Canton all is at present quiet. The period for northerly winds and incendiary fires, however. has coin• nienetsl—that period which the peaceably-disposed inhabi• tants have so notch reason to dread." THF: SANDWICH ISLANDS. TUE annexation of the Sandwich Islands to the United State , is beginning to be regarded by the American iwoplo as a matter of course. It is quite apparent that the project is seriously entertained, not only at Washington, but by the King and his Minis ters at Ilawaii. It seems, indeed, according to the latest adrices, that the matter had progressed so far that fortual protetts and replies between Frame, THE PRESS. England, and the riiited States had been published anti Presented to the island Court by their minimal tatii es. The consuls declare that they have liven in formed that certain American residents had intlueei the king to alienate his sovereignty by negotiating for annexation with the United Statism, and they pro test against such overtures, as eontrary to this treaties entered into with England and Fnutee, especially that of November 28, 1813, rissognising the islands as an independent state ; also that, according to the Ilawaiian constitution, ho etitild not alienate his ao vereignty and people to a foreign state. Mr. .eve ranee, the United States' commissioner, says that the Fnited States' 6ovennuent has made no proposition to his Nliojesty to 411111 , 11, 1 nt that resident inereliants could not NI to likely(' the advantages of annexa tion ; that annexation was and hall 111.!1`11 practised most nations, and that when 'girded by petienble means it was preferable to annexation by conquest ; and that he thought, should an oilier tot' made by the Ilawauiant titNernment, it. would be listened to re spectfolly at Washington. In the United States the French and English protest is considered as a mere matter of official duty and routine, and that 'wither nut will interfere to prevent annexation, as neither has any interest in the Sandwich Islands so tenito riallY near as even Russia, and the Czar has newer made any objection, while it is argued that the elan inertial interests of Furor.' in the Sandwich Islands would be as well proteetedi after annexation I ts at the present time. The distance from San Franciaeo, California, to Ilawuii (Owhyliee) is 2,340 genfraphical From Hawaii to Manilla is 3,3:di mile s . Faun Ma mho to Canton, 700 millet'. Hawaii lie' mostly he. tweet' 19 deg. and 20 deg. north latitude—the whole group extending over about 31 deg. of latitude and about It deg. ot longitude, viz., from !Mt deg. to Ills} deg. west. The I'M'S of the group is 11,tain square miles, or about. equal to the states of Comte(' tient and Weide Island. The population, which dr creases rapidly, amounted in 1 8 19 to 7m,sr4 natives ;toil 1,787 foreigners---in all, to 80041 ; whereas in 1831 the population was 130.313. The foreigners are now believed to number nearly 3,0n0; an d th e natives to hale diminished still more. The distribu tion of population in 18411 stiksl thus 27,104; Oahu, '2:1,144; Mani. 18,11711 ; Kaithai, 0,941 Molokai, 3,119; Nuhua, 7•2:1; Lanai, 511. Total told nub Instion. 111:u MAJESTY and the Prince Consort have re inaitl44l during the week at Osborne. The Duchess of Kent is expeete4l to arrive in 1114.1.104 Wight this (Stalinlay ) evening 4)11 a visit 10 OW THE I Ikv 41F BRABANT alTiVOil ut Osborne on Tuesday from Dover. THE Qi•EEN lots bestowed the vacant garter upon the Earl of Carlisle. 'political anti ()total. Sin EDWARD PARRY, the veteran voyager of the Arctic Seas, has been appointed Deputy tiovernor ireenwich Hospital. A Dert:TATlos OF LICENSED VD TI ALLERS had an interview with Viscount Palmerston on Monday to induce his lordship not to abolish the lotteries held at public houses until after Christmas. The Home Secretary has since at molnlaal (lint the " sweeps " will be permitted to come off this year, but this spe cies of gaining is henceforth to be dimeontitmed. Jr is reported jit Paris that a projeet for an al liance, defensivMtill offensive, between England, France, Piedmont, and Spain, is in contemplation. Tur.tuffiv was 01040114 as a flay of humiliation and prayer in Edinburgh on account of the visitation of cholera, and the present aspects of tiogl's providential dealings with us as a nation. The churches were open in the forenoon and afternoon, the same 144 411 1 Sunday, and were well attended. 'flue day was also observed in Glasgow by the different denominations; and threughout the country by the Free Church. THE ISlETaorol.erfof W 141.1411 ( . 11141CII, in Ely place, Holborn, was opened on Sunday last by the Bishop of London. Service was performed in the morning in Welsh by the Hey. .1. Evans, M.A., the incumbent, after which an appropriate serultwa was preached in English by the bishop. In the evening the service was wholly in Welsh. . - AT A I . 4•I'ILT IhRF.rTIAIS livid at the Eioit Inilir house Ins Wedneaday Janie! Grant awl appointed priAiiiionally • tut nilwr ot coun c il a t Inankay. TUE BoART or el'AT( , 111 1 1 have 'Dimwit it notice announcing An Opel] 0.110 601' the of hearing and ileeisling complaints, Haul I * . ir investigating matters relating to the customs revenue. A nail,' in the 'ustotn -house ha» been set apart for the purls me, and the new court is to sit ou Ittestlapi and Ifraltqlt‘tay week, when uveeblary. 729 'Fur Ftxrrs IN rim Tritutsu WArt:its.—The fol lowing account of the 111041 force now assewhi at i i n the Sea of Marmon' is eommitnicated by an officer of the Floy. under date Nov. I; :--" We have arrived here with our despatches, after a sloshing passage, and are now anchored with the fleet at Helios Bay, a little below 'rherapia, a few utiles from Constauti 'with.. We found here the whole of the fleet, having at length made tht.ir way up from English Day in side the I tardatielles. The chief haw his own tlaic ship again. Ulla we remit% bil, formidable. although we have only yet one %hip .$l . trill' visiurovemea d -.- Halite!), the Leander, :at, Captain King, which ar. rivet, from England yestenlay. She has wade the best of her way to its. We now muster the following fume here, at Iteikos Bay, read? for any sorviee, tlw stetimets being tilled up with Ittel:—Britotsmia, 110, ('apt. Carter, nag-ship—Troia/gar, 120, ('apt. lire. ville—Rodney, 94, ('apt. tiraltain, C.ll.—.ltbion. ('apt. Lushingtott—l'engeance, NI, ('apt. Lord Edw. Itussell—Rellerophon, IN, Capt. L. I..lostes—Sana pareit (screw), 70, ('apt. Daeres— .Irethuses, No. Capt. Symonds— Leander, 50, (7614. King —Retribution (swain frigate), 22, ('apt. Hon. 11. Ihlittllllolla FUrialbt (steam frigate). 111, Capt. Luring —'Tiger (steam frigate). 111, Capt. (littard—Sains,,u (sw a m frigate), li--Niger (screw), 11, Cont. Heath— Wasp screw ), I I, foul. Lord J. I lay—Fury (swain 511s91), 0, Com. Tatlitun—kfle.ribte, 0, Com l'opplevvoll— Spitfire, 1, Com. Spratt. The Furious has gone into *lock. The Aret hum has been itgrouittl. Every • body is now anxious for the 111111'1% AI of the rodeo front Ilarseilles, for it is inpeeted that she will bring important despatches. flat French foree is 1.111111111.41.4 ill the following : Henri ijidoitre, (screw),Fric•lland,Clearic iiifi Ne (St'rvw), 3/(1/(i I /to., I . 1111111/, I /'and; steamers, Gower, letlN, llagella a, Caton, Herm., Primielldy. - to the 10th no %es sobs loud been detached by the admiral 611. the Black Sea. TIIF: Ilona SEcaatvaiv ham promptly eomplied with the request 4,f the audio brinier) of Iliac kburit have military fore.. stationed there during limiting outs. Ott Misplay it eulnpany of the :Nth Regiment front Preston marched into the borough, and have taken tip their quarters there. Tim ittit. promoted by the Mitneherter and Sal ford Koltieatioin .‘ssociation is 114 l' intnnlurrd into the ilouse of eontmons next sco.siont in a new fonts. One of the changes will be to substitute a comlnit • tee, nominated by the ratepayers, in the meme aay as the guardian') of the parish unions aro elected, for the committee which it wits pr0p1e44 , 41 by the original bill Olinda is' ohneen loy the town emitted... There are 'Other changes which IifIVO 1144, het h eel , d o th l it o ly melded, lint the allow) , will be 4411 i of tin , principal alterations. Sir.lohn l'elsington, having been invited to take charge of the bill in the lionise of Cumming, went to Manchester on Siolitrolay last, and remained until Tuesday as 1 he guest of the Bishop of Mastritemter, who int ilea some of the lending member,' of the tvotociatio,n to meet him at Seolgley. Subsequently, Sir .14,iiii hail an interliew with the eommittee of the aemociatiotti, in t inler that Ine might develop his VII`W4 441 111 e of education), and in return hear 1114 , 1 e fully extoremscol elm' are those of the )1..0 pit ion. Then. were .'sine points in which I heir scheme dill not entirely inert the wishes of the right hon. bitcoonct, the pre,tent bill Ia ing one sof a Iowa! Sir Join, Was anxious th a t thy memoir' , f.tie which f`lllllll 14* mado more 14 , 4 , 011 4 applicable, apprehending that as a purely local mea sure he was not, holding no connection with the boroughs of Manchester and Salford, in 14 11444411i4411 to 1111114111144. it tothin Ilouse fir 4*.tnimilygg.4. It wait arranged, however, before the conferenee terminated, that Sir Job,, shonhl bike charge of lite measure in the Lower a n d the Bishop of 14ktieltenter in lim I 'toper [louse, should the bill suereed in reaching the Peers. Mits. Cutsnoun Ilse arrived in Edinburgh, where she will remain fora few days, while making some arrangements for the reunion of families divided by emigration. She is the guest of Mr. It. Chambers. Tne ceremony of conseerating the bishops ap pointed to the tiewly•constituted sees of Nat.4l and (Italia:Ws 'town took place in St. NI an's, Lambeth, on Wethweday. The offiriafing prelates will. the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and the Bishop of Oxford. The church was crowded, although admission was obtained only by ticl.ets. Tl4c reverend divines eh %Mei' were the !Irv. Dr. .14 414tt William Colentio, of St. John's, ( T unbridge, and the Itev. Dr. .Hahn Armstrong, of Li:44.441n College, ixford; the former n.. 11141,0441 to the bishopric of Natal, and the latter to the bishopric of Orahate's Town. Divine sec ice was performed by the Her. Charles Dalloti, the rector, assisted by the ltr.v. Messrs. James, Ensoni, and I iregory after w hi c h the Bishop of Oxford ascended the pulpit, and ele liserisl an impressive r . ,Ifter the seniee the new bishops ern. duly Admitted to their sacred 'Aye I.) the ittlion.itiont of hatubi. The proceedings occupied hi)ttn.