The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

OFF Ti!

Scotsman, from Demerara ; I
Shanghai; Houghton, Fleetwc
Cuba; Courier, Maracaibo; an,
SAI'

Jan. 12.

Joseph, Phillips.

.Rio Pongo

Ben Adams, Chase... New York

Jan. 14.

B D Medcalf, Stetson,
Gulf of Mexico
Island Queen, Bolstho,
Santander
Magries, Rocha Lisbon
Sovereign, Blampied Lisbon
J S Harris, Harman... Havana
Sam Slick, Varwell,
St IV chacl's

Boadicea, Roberts,
St Nt chael's

FOREIG,
Bencoolen, from Bombay at
Egeria, Gyater, hence at Galie, and left for Bombay
Star of the South, Renner, hence at Galle, and sailed for
Kurrachee

PORTS,
,den

Nepaul, Muir, itente at Madras
Cambula,User, from Foochoo at Woosung
Spirtdiett hence at Shanghai
cypress. Blake, hence at Sydney
'toward, Stanwood, hence at Ilavana
lanthe, Angors, hence at Matanzas
Luna, Anchoda, hence at Cardenas
Jobnanne, Sanders, hence at Trinidad
Maude, Taylor, and Plantaganet, Cochran, all hence at New
Orleans

Warhawk, Simmons ; Neptune, Peabody ; Dating, Simon-
son ; America, Salter ; Australia, Toward ; Wild Hunter, Bal-
dry ; Dreadnought, Samaels; and Fidclia, Beselling, all hence
at New York
Karnak (ss), from Nassau at New York
Thames, Anthony, and Energy, Doane, both hence at Roston
Laconia (ss), Haram, from Salonica at Smyrna
Christina (ss), Mansfield, from Alexandretta at Alexandtia
Mecander (SS), from Messina at Palermo, and left Jan 4 for
Liverpool
Balbee (ss,, hence at Havre
Idas, from Manilla at Bontaaig Bay, Celehca
Hurricane, Look. from Hong Kong at Priho
Kleber, from San Frantisco at. Melbourne
Lavinia, Pali, h'enet at Lisbon
SPOKEN.

COnstimtlrit, from 'Havre, Nov 26, 4N, 30W
Marian, off Tuskar
Talisman (ss), Dec 20, 42N, 30W
Commonwealth, New York for Liverpool, Dec 25, 43N, 59W
A Danish ship, hence for Honolulu, Oct 2, 535, 81W
Wacousta, bound north-east, Dec 21, 33N, 74W
Empress Eugenie, bound south-west, Nov 24, 7N, 21W
War Chiud, Jan 2,49 N, 12W
Milan, New Orleans for Liverpool, Dec 16, off Gun Keys
Hermine, Oct 16, 578, 70W
Evangeline, hence for Calcutta, Nov 26, 4N, 30W
Siccardi, for Cadiz, Nov 30, BN, 31W

OUTPORTM.
Deal, lan. 14.—Arrived and passed : Otnii, from Calcutta;
Waverley, New York ; Epsom, China; Omar Pasha, :Carde-
nas; New Orleans, New Orleantl, all for London; Moshwa, for
Bombay; Nile,lS,ydney; investigator, Honduras; Dromo,
Cape C,ast Castle; GoVernor M'Donald, Bathurst; Rangoon,
Liverpool, all rrom London.
Gratesend, Jan. 14.—Arrived : Flown, from Valencia ; Pan-
dora, Terciera ; Persus, Prince Edward Island; Prompt, Lis-
bon ; Jeune Hirondelle, Maran.; J W Page, Portland ; Aptut
Catherine, Rochefort ; Elfida, Gijon; Edward O'Brien, New
York ; Dreadnought, Demerara ; Hawthorn, Singapore ; Leva,
Oporto; Ann Warren, Lisbon; Epsom, Hong Kong; Morning
Star, Boston; Argo, Villavieitsa; Bonne Mere, Nantes;
Imperatrice. Demerara; NoW Orleans, New Orleans; Waver-
ley, New York,
Greenock, 14.—Arrived : Dione, from Mauritius ; Dor-
cas C tekton, and .7 W Lovett, New York ; Contest, St John,
NB; Catherine, Rotten.
Queenstown, Jan. 14.—Arrived : Mary Cures, from Ra
Bay ; Oquenda, 3latanzas ; Pioneer, Richmond ; Mangerton,
Callao; Johanna Hendjrika, New York; Majestic, Demerara,
went to Portsmouth; Kearsage, New Orleans, went to Havre.
Belfast, Jan. 14.—Sailed: Victor, for Ostend; Landrath Von,
and Hector, Cardiff; Betsey Susanna, Swansed.
Dublin, Jan. 14.—Arrived : Mary Anne, and Catherine, froth
St John. NB; Mazaphy, Maaagan; Ocean Bride, New York
Adam Clarke, Miramichi.
Kingstown, Jan. 14.—Arrived t Vizcaya, from Venice; DAM.
dalk, Dundalk for New York, Sailed Elizabeth, and Sprite;
for-Newport.

31ARIT11 tXTRACTS+
LinnPooL, January 14.
The flat EWAN', of Chester, with coals, in proceeding down
the rivet yerterriay, got in contact with the ship Saratoga, from
Mobile, towing up, and sank immediately. She was afterwards
seen afloat bottom up. The Saratoga'was not i.jured.
The Young Mechanic, from New York, was aground off the
King's Dock, but came off at two this afternoon, and went into
dock. _

A large round-sterned ship, with gilt work on her stern,was
passsed in lat. 44, lon. 41, on her broadside. with her three
lower masts standing. and a large number of casks, supposed
to be flour, floating around, by the Wabash, arrived here.
The Anne Powell, arrived here yesterday, pasta tltelve
large icebergs, from 150 to 300 feet In heights bOtwten Oct. 18
and 21, and between 575. 62W. and ti5S. 53W., which were
from three to fifteen miles distant from the ship. On Oct. 26,
in lat. 505., lon. 47W. passed within a mile of a low ,flat ice-
berg; and en Jan. 2, in lat. 48, lon. 17, passed a derelict
barque, painted black, apparently some time abandoned.
The Marmion barque, of and from New 'York for London-
derry, was abandoned Dec. 31, in lat. 42, fon. 45, with loss of
rudderhead, knees all started, and four feet water in the hold ;
crew taken off by the Canova, arrived here.
The Cunard screw-steamer Jura passed Queenstown harbour
this afternoon, bound west.

The Avondale. of Hull, apparently timber laden, was passed
a derelict off the Western Islands, by the W. V. Moses, arrived
here.

The Fidelia, hence at New York, with skylights stove, loss
of boats. &c.

The Pioneer, from Richmond and Crookhaven, at Queens.
town with rudder gone.

The ship Mangektn, in coming to anchor at Queeistown on
Sunday evening, got foul of the brag Lucy, and did her slight
damage. _ _ _

The-Virginie from Maryport at Belfasti lost lbretopmast in
a heavy sea off the Mull of Galloway.

The liar y Anne, from St. John, Ncß., cut away foremast and
sails on the 4th instant, during a gale of wind.
The Katherine, frbbn St. John, LB., also arrived at Dublin,
has on board the Crew of the Grace Gordon, of Boston, with
which ves.et she fell in with Dec. 18, in 'at:46N., lon. 47W.,
disntasted and sinking. She passed the Frigalton, of Hartle-
pobl. waterlogged and abandoned, in lat. 48 20N., lon. 33 30W.
Calcutta, Dec. 8 : The Ravensworth, hence for Dull, NVO
spoken Nov. 28, with a pilot on board; her 'S aritO hid shifted
from being thrown on :her beam endP. The 'Ship Blanche, for
Juddah, with rice, grounded, Ipnt p?oceeded without examina-
tion.

Hong Kong, NO. 26 : The Thetis has been lost, with nearly
all hands.

Swansea, Jan. 11 : The Harry Herbert, of Liverpool, that
Was sunk near the Mumbles, was floated off this afternoon's
tide, and will be repaired here.
The Dreadnought, hence at New York with loss of sails, &c:

E% C
A ,VINTIAER OS
I 0 R

" They made a graven image, and set it up on high
- And there it stands untothis dayw to witness if I lie."
• Macaulay.

;Icene--Williamson-square,

• Time—Any evening since Christmas.
The shadows of night were coming down swift,
And the dazzling snow lay drift on drift,
As thro' " the Square" a figure did go,
Carrying a flag with this motto,

O'er a forehead pale came copious hair,
His nose retrousse, complexion fair
O'er his ti htish eye on auburn lash;
His chin was clone shaven, and no moustache.

Ycllow ho I

Yellow ho

He stealthily looked "the Square all round,"
To see if " a peeler" was there to be found.
At the big gas lamp he made a stop,
As if he meant placing the flag on the top.
Yellow ho

As upwards he clambered, he thence did see
A number of families sitting at tea ;
He eyed the dishes and plates very keen,
To see if his " Yellow" was there to be seen.
Yollow ho !
" Oh 1 don't go hp," said an old woman, " stop
Ys freezing 'like blazes' up there on t top,
ou'll tumble off on t'other side ;"
But the spectacled stranger loud replied—

" Yellow ho !"
Oh! pleitse don't go Up zilch a shocking night;
Come sleep on nip box, said a cabbie bright ;
tit his pallid cheek a tear-drop come,
But still he remarked, as he Npward clomb,
Yellow ho

Look out for the branch of that high cross-tree,
Dodge fulling ice if any you see.
'With that "the Party" went home to bcd,
And a singlar voice replied overhead,

Yellow ho !

At a quarter-past six that same afternoon,
An astronomer, taking a look at the moon,
Heard spoken above him, as often as twice,'
The very same words, in a very weak voice,
Yellow ho

When " the peeler" came round at h 4thirter past seven,
He was slow in "his beat," the road being uneven,
Found the stranger dead in the drifted snow,
Still clutching the flag with this motto—
Yellow ho :

"lies! lifClcss, dellinct, Without any 'doubt,
The "lamp of his being" dedidedlk out;
On the dreary fiagstOttes " poor Kelly" was lying,
And 'twat; no more use for him to be saying—
Yellow Butter ho!

RESURGAM!
All ye who lament that poor Kelly is lost,
Just call at the " Butter Place !"—look at his ghost !
He sits iu the window, and looks safe and sound,
And will sell you some " Yellow " at Bd. the pound.
Yellow Butter ho

lIIGII WATER, THIS DAY, AT LIVERPOOL.
Hour. Height.
MORNING lh. 55m. )
EVENING 2h. 17m. 16"' Ain.

paitß (into.

TUESDAY, JANUARY, 16, 1861.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The King of Prussia has made another speech
—on this occasion at the opening of the PrUssian
Chambers, His Majesty again makes marked
allusion to the army, its new organisation having,
he said, become necessary for the defence of the
integrity of " the German territory," to which
it was his first duty to attend. His Majesty
indulged in some hopeful remarks on the pros-
pects of the completion of satisfactory commercial
relations between the Zollverein and France ;
adding by way of reference, primarily, no doubt,
to the recent interview of the Sovereigns at
Warsaw, that political relations between the
Great Powers had " become still more friendly
by the personal meetings which have taken
place." The Schleswig-Holstein question must,
and should be, settled forthwith ; for the rest, his
Majesty saw in the principles of government
which he imposed on himself on assuming the
regency, the only safe guarantee against the
revolutionary spirit spread abroad in Europe.
One of these principles of government is, we know,
the keeping up of a larger armed force, and it
does not seem very unreasonable to suppose that
the extensive military preparations in which the
Prussian Government has for a long time past
been engaged in making, are organised rather
with a view to a possible war with France, than
to any apprehension of a serious complication
with Denmark. We may as well, therefore,
make up our minds without further delay, to have
ere long a confirmation of the previous report of
the existence of a Franco-Danish convention.

The announcement that Francis 11. has agreed
to the terms of the armistice proposed by the
Emperor Napoleon is confirmed; but it is added
that the commander of the besieging force de-
clines in the meantime to suspend the siege works.
There is a short reference in a telegram, to the
new proclamation of King Victor to the Neapoli-
tans. This document seems to amount to little
more than an introduction of his relative to the.
viceroyalty over them.
The correspondent of the Times in China, in
his very interesting letter given elsewhere in full,
describes the looting of the Summer Palace,
which, in fact, consisted of forty-two palaces,
occupying an area of several miles. The esti-
mate of the amount of 'property pillaged and

destroyed exceeds £6,000,000 sterling. Every
soldier who was present is replete with loot. On
entering the Emperor's particular residence no
one knew what to take, silver was thrown away
to take up gold, and gold to take up jewelled
watches and gems. The Emperor's washstand
basin and ewer of gold, studded with stones, were
sold for £2,000 by the captor. Lord Amherst's
watch was sold by a French soldier for twenty
dollars, it was worth £200.* Many men have
thirty or forty pounds of pure gold in their pos-
session; and others have pearls „and. precious
stones of unknown value.
The Globe announces that the Admiralty sent
out letters on. Saturday, calling upon Messt's:
Napier, Laird,. Scott Russell, Mare, Samuda,
Palmer, Westwood and Co., and the Thames-
yard Shipbuilding Company, to send in tender's
by the 24th inst. for building two: ships, of about
4,000 tons each. The vessels , are. to be very
similar in construction to the Resistance and
Defence, now nearly complete. They are to be
280 feet long, 56 feet broad, and plated with iron
slabs fore and aft. The angular principle will
it is said, not be adopted in this instanee,.notwith-
standing- all that has been done and said upon the
subject. It appears, however, to be considered
that the question is still a moot one with the
officers of the Comptroller's Department, and that,
consequently, the instalment made to our iron
navy is at present only a small one: The report
made by Captain Hewlett, of the Excellent, last--
August, was -understood to be decidedly favourable
to Mr, Josiah Zones' invention ;And he is supported
in his statement by the openly expressed opinion of
all the principal scientific officers in the royal vavy.
Rear Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker has just had
a pension of £6OO per annum conferred upon him
for his_ services as surveyor and comptroller of the
navy ; and it is evident that our authorities are
at length fully awake to the necessity of
strengthening the defensive resources of the coun-
try. in- the above direction. There is no little
need for such exertions, if we look across the
water and see how busily employed our neigh-
bours continue to be in similar undertakings.
According to the Havre journals, there is a talk
of experiments lately made at Cherbourg, with a
new sort of art's° invented by the Emperor him-
self. A new steel cannon of extremely long
range, also invented by the Emperor, is spoken
of. It has been already stated that four new
iron-cased frigates have been put on the stocks to
complete the Emperor's programme, it being his
intention to have twenty iron-cased frigates at
sea this year. At the present moment there are
six afloat, ten are just ready for launching, and
the four above-mentioned will make up the
number.

It will be seen from an interesting article in
another column that Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.}.;
had a long interview with the Emperor Napoleon
at the Tuileries, on Thursday last, when he
submitted to his Majesty doctinientary proof of
the importitwe of abrogating the Monopoly of the
coasting colonial trade by French ships. The
Emperor, it is said, has been much struck with
Mr. Lindsay's statements on this and kindred
subjects. It is not unreasonable to conclud6 that
Mr. Lindsay, in thus introducing the question of
the Navigation Laws, as lately altered, and the
unfairness and inequality of their operation to
the Ruler of the French hatiolii is acting under
indiredt instructions from our own dovernment,
which cannot appear to get over its preference
for the employment of amateur diplomatists to
attend to the interests of the country abroad.
We regret to have to record another accident
which happened on the North-Western Railway
yesterday morning, to the up limited mail train
from the north, which was due at Euston-square
at 4.37, when the train was within a short dis-
tance of the narrow station. According to ati
account received sitbseqtent to that which appears
in another colinn, the results of the present
accident *ere of a very terrific character. The
engine went off the line, a great part of the train
was entirely demolished, and a number of pas-
sengers and post-office guards were shockingly, and,
it seems to be feared, fatally injured. The arrival
and delivery of the mails was greatly- delayed in
conseqUence.tWe obser-Ve that the directors of
this line hate just isstled instructions for an
increase in the time of the fast trains, so as to
admit of their more frequent stoppage for the
purpose of having all the wheels and general
machinery examined by special inspectors, who
throughout the continuance of the frost will be
stationed along the line for that purpose. This
regulation will meet with general approval. It
will be iiotibed that this last accident ocdiirred
through the giving way of an axle of one of the
carriages. The Marquis of Chandos has been
succeeded in the chairmanship of the line by
Rear-Admiral Moorsoom.

As was to have been expected from the severity
of the weather and other obvious causes, the
accounts from the manufacturing districts are
generally unfavourable. 'theme is a. marked
falling off in the niimbet or continental buyers,
whilst those from America ate aliiiost entirely
absent. There is not, however, anything .like
widespread distress in the country. The cotton,
woollen, and other great branches of manufacture
continue satisfactorily busy; and the statement
continues to be reiterated that, go far as Liver-
pool is concerned, there is no cause to apprehend
any greater evils from want of employment than
those which can be met by the ordinary machinery
of relief already in active operation.
It is gratifying to observe that the clergy of
the Archdeaconry of Ely are setting to work in
earnest to inducoa sound feeling- oti the Church-
rate qUestion, We iindttstand that petitions
against the abolition of Church-rates are in course
of signature at various places in Liverpool.
The adjourned inquest was held yesterday in
the case of the man killed by a lion at Astley's.
The jury retiiriied a i'eidiet nif tteidental death,
but expressed their opinion that the cage was not
sufficiently strong for the security of such animals.
The Coroner remarked that a recurrence of sue;)..
a catastrophe would involve a charge of man-
slaughter. It is rumoured that a " terrific" scene
with a tigress occurred one day last week, in one
of the extensive menageries at present exhibiting'
in this town, on the occasion of the usual exhi-
bition of the power Which the keeper has acquired
over the annuals 1 but, 6ti fur d 9 can learn; the
encounter was not followed by any serious result.
It must be obvious to the directors of these
establishments that they have the greatest interest
in preventing all displays of unnecessary rash-
ness towards the animals.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND MR,
WI LINDSAY, M,P,

...

Mr. Lindsay was received at the Tuileries on Thurs-
day morning last, and had the honour of a long and
interesting conversation with his Majesty. It is said
that Mr. Lindsay showed to the Emperor, on documentary
evidence, that during ninety years of strict protection
the increase of English shipping was 1,170,000 tons;
that in thirty years bf only partial free-trade, the
increase Was 3,dob,tlbo ; while iti orilY eight rears of
free-trade the increase was 1,740,000 tons, or about
600,000 tons more than during ninety years of protec-
tion ; that on a comparison of the tonnage in each coun-
try for the last twenty years, the increase of French
sailing vessels was 370,000 tons, and in steam vessels
2,800,000 tons, and in steamers 400,000 tons.
France has not shipping enough to carry on her com-
merce, and Mr. Lindsay showed that the total entries at
French ports in 1858 amounted to 4,162,000 tons; and
that of this amount there were of foreign ships 2,550,000
tons; that France pays large sums every year to pro-
mote her shipping, but without effect, for it does not
increase like that of other countries, and that the existing
differential duties yield no revenue.
It was also submitted that the results from the com-
mercial treaty with England will not be so great as
anticipated without a change in the navigation laws of
France. The products and manufactures of France
bought by England would be oftener paid for by colonial
produce, and yet that produce cannot be imported to
France in the ships of the nation that buys her produce
and manufactures. The insufficiency of French shipping
to convey to France the material for her industry must
affect injuriously the labour of the people. Great
changes are seldom effected at once, and as a beginning
what is proposed is to treat the trade with the English
colonies in the same manner as the direct trade with
England itself is now treated.

It is said that the Emperor has been much struck
with Mr. Lindsay's statements. His Majesty, whose
great desire is to increase .the material wealth of the
country, must have perceived the evil effects of a system
which excludes all other but. French ships from
the coasting trade, which exchides all but French
ships from the colonial trade, and the result of which
is that, whereas in 1787 the shipping was 114,000
tons, in 1858 it was only 102,000 tons. The
effect of a partial relaxation of these restrictions
he will have seen in the increase in the direct trade
between England and France, open to French and Eng-
lish ships ; while in the direct trade between France and
the English colonies -'l.lh. eic.Ethips only are eMploYecl.
A French Sovereign cannot be insensible to the state-

ment that France offers many facilities for a large mari-
time trade, and would obtain it if the shipmasters trusted
to their own energi4s rather than to the aid of the
government. It was shown that France has in the
Channel 150 leagues df coast, on the Atlantic 130, and
on the Mediterranean 90, with harbours commodiously
situated with respect! to the great marts of the world,
and easy of access ; t:hat the produce and manufactures
forming the staple h.* of France are also very large,
and are on the increase;' and that her special commerce
—her own produce and manufactures—increased from
1827 to 1836, 10,000,000 f.; from 1837 to 1846:
15,000,000 f.; - and from 1847 to 1850, 22,000,000 f.
That France requires a large amount of shipping to
carry on her trade is shown by the fact that the total
-*entries at French ports in 1858 were 4;162,000 tons, of
which more than half were foreign ships. The fact is
mentioned of a French company working mines in
Algeria being obliged to have recourse to English ship-
owners for the means of transporting their minerals to
two French ports—Marseilles and Dunkirk.

IMPORTANT SHIPPING ARRIVALS.—The ship Canova,
which arrived in dock yesterday from New York, has a
large cargo, consisting of 3,506 barrels of flour, 42,000
bushels of wheat, about 350 tierces of beef, and some
cotton. She picked up, in lat. 45 VT., lon. 42 N., the
crew of the barque Marmion, Captain-Adams, bound for
Londonderry with Indian corn and flour. As the
last boat left the Marmion, when she was abandoned,
and the men got on hoard the Canova, the ship bell
announced the new year. The Canova encountered very
heavy gales during the whole of Christmas week. The
ship Albert Gallatin; which also arrived in dock to-day
from Mohile, brought a cargo of 2,700 bales of cotton.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Jan. 12 and 13, 1861.

A number of interesting particulars are appear-
ing from time to time in the French journals,
respecting the prospects of the Roman Church in
China, to the re-establishment and extension of
which in that Empire, the Commander-in-Chief
of the French expedition in China appears to have
received instructions to devote special attention.
In fact, it would seem as if this object rather
than any other, had occupied almost the principal
place in all the arrangements which have taken
place, in reference to the treaty concluded be-
tween Baron Gros and the Chinese authorities.
The Atoniteur de l'Arnie'e, in which one looks
rather for the last interesting episode in the pro-
gress of the siege of Gaeta, or for the list of the
latest batch of French colonels who have received
decorations corresponding to the zeal which they
have shown in offering to combat for some new
idea of the Emperor, has just devoted a consi-
derable portion of the space of one of its latest
numbers to an account of the history of the Catho-
lic cemetery of Pekin. The foll&wing details are
given respecting this now famous cemetery, which,
according to this journal, has " just been restored
to France by our arms :"
The Jesuit Fathers took possession of this ground in
1508; and the first among them; to whom it afforded a
place of sepulture, was Father Ricci, an Italian Jesuit,
born at Macerate, in the States of the Church, in 1548,
and who died, in 1610, in the capital of China. Later,
when the Emperor Kang Hi succeeded to power, he
displayed a profound taste for the sciences, arts, and
literature, and sought by every means in his power to
spread instruction among his people, and with this object
he pa hiniseif inecininittnication with the then head of
the Catholic mission; whd was d native of France.
This ecclesiastic wrote to Paris, and pointed Mit the
importance it would be to France to be represeqted in
China by some men of note. Lotris,XlV. approved of
the idea ; and, after having consulted with the Academy
of Sciences, he selected six Jesuit Fathers, who were
all distinguished mathematicians, to proceed to Pekin,
where they arrived in 1685. Among them was Father
Gerbilion and Father Bouvet, whose tombs are still
intact. These eminent men were not long in acquiring
the favour of the Emperor. The first became his pro-
fessor of mathematics, and eanlpdsecl for him, In the
Chinese language, a Treatise on Geometry and Algebra.
the Emperor attached it as a scientific supplement to his
work of "Les Maximes peril- le Gouveinement des Etats,"
one of the most valuable works in the Chinese language.
In reward for the services which these illustrious men
had rendered to his country, Kang-hi, by an edict issued
by him in 1692, authorised the free exercise of the
Christian religion throughout the whole extent of his
empire ; be extended his protecticn in a special manner
towards the missionaries, authorised the Jesuits to build
a church, a school of stipefiOf instruction, and a resi-
dence within the interior of the gardens of his palace.
He also made over to them the property of the Cathode
Cemetery, with permission to erect thereon a chapel
and a raison de retraite, which still exist there.
This large piece of ground, when it was officially
restored to us by the exertions of General de Montauban,
was nearly in the same state in which it was when
Father Motily, present Bishop of Pekin, visited it
in 1835. It forms a vast square, &frig about 20 metres*
in length and the same in breadth. It is planted with
trees of large growth, and surrounded by high walls,
all in a very good state of preservation. The Chinese
have such a respect for the dead that, in spite of their
fanaticism, they have never desecrated this burying
place. The symptoms of decay which are observable
are owing entirely to the ravages of time, and are of no
very serious extent. The necessary repairs are about to
be made, and the two buildings erected in the interior
of the enclosure ate dbout to be restored to their original
condition.

The graves of the Frenchmen who itete Massacred
by the Chinese have been placed in the centre at the
Cemetery, near the monument erected in honour of
Father Jean Damascene, who died Bishop of Pekin
in ifk
From the inforniatioti which has reached us in private
letters, we learn that Mgr. I-401'11.1-f after an audience
with Prince Kong, obtained the restitutiori 61 tyro other
buildings, situated in the capital, which formerly be-
longed to the Jesuits, besides that of several other
possession of the same kind, and of similar origin,
situated outside the gates of the capital.
Upon the foregoing interesting details, the
Moniteur de rin4 Insikel the following obser-
vation, on the part of the French nation, It liich one
really ought not, in the circumstances, to grudge Mir
allies :—" These facts have a moral importance by
no means inconsiderable ; they insure the increase
and develotithetit of French influence in that part
of the extremity of Asia. They are due to the
initiative of the government of the Ettiveiar, and
also to the bravery of our army."

In the Moniteur o.fficiel I find the following
account of the transaction between the French
Ambassador and the Chinese authorities, by
which the former has obtained from the latter
the concession of an eligible site for the erection
of a ortititt Catholic church in Canton :
An important doiiCessoti lids been obtained at Canton,
in conformity with the spirit of the liberal clauses which
are inserted in the treaty of peace signed at Pekin. The
Viceroy at Canton has granted to our missionaries, for
the erection of a Catholic church, a magnificent site in
Canton itself, on the spot where stood the palace of the
famous Governor Yeh previous to the occupation of the
city by the allied forces.
t'br t*d years the trench authorities have been de-
manding the restoration id the bishop of a part at least
of the grounds previously attached td certain Catholic
establishments, and of which the possessors were driven
away and despoiled at the time of the last persecutions
carried on in the Celestial Empire against the Christians.
Although the Chinese authorities had admitted in
principle the propriety of such restitution, they were
always iiairtg feedntsd to expedients to escape it; our
successes in the north babe happity put an end to these
disinclinations, and the church *hien Will not be long of
being erected will soon testify in a glorioda triatiner to
the solicitude of the government of the Emperor for
the welfare of the religious interests placed under the
traditional protection of France in the extreme East.

The establishment of our missionaries on this spot
will, besides, be of benefit to everybody at Canton, for
it will establish and maintain the right, always hitherto
refused to foreigners, of haring free access to the interior
of the city.
A letter in the Nord, from St. Petersburg,
dated the 10th inst., gives the following outline
of the new treaty which Russia has succeeded 'in
inducing the Chinese Government to agree to :
" General Ignatieff and Prince Kung signed and
ratified, at Pekin, on the 2nd November, a con-
vention supplementary to the treaty of Tien-tsin.
This convention confirms the privileges previously
acquired by Russia on the confluence of the
Amoor and the Oussouri. Trade is free upon the
new frontier. Russian merchants may go to
Pekin. Trade is opened at Kachgar. Factories
and Russian consuls will be established at Kach-
gar and at Ourga. There will be, a monthly
postal service between Kiatka and Pekin."
A long conference has taken place between
MM. Thouvenel, de Kisseleff, and Lord Cowley,
on the affairs of Syria. In alluding to the
Eastern question, it is said that the Emperor, at
the last council of his ministers', declared that
while he had no objections, if necessary, to
modify his views upon the Italian question,
which affected only considerations of general
policy, he was not prepared to alter in any
respect the views which he took of the state of
the Syrian question, as the inflnence of France
was there directly,concerne:d.

It is announced that Sl.YerSigy will shortly

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issue a circular on the subject of the electoral
question, in which he will renew the assurance
that there shall hereafter be freedom of election,
at the same time stating that the government
does not intend to part with its right of present-
ing a government candidate to the electors.
The reported retirement of M. Thouvenel is con-
tradicted. A member of the Ministry, who was
at the opera on Thursday evening, stated that he
was authorised to declare that the rumour to the
above effect; Which had been circulated during
the whole day at the tourse, had not the least
foundation. This means, I have no doubt, that
political events have now taken that particular
turn which renders a continuance of his services
indispensable. Had the political horizon presented
fewer clouds, M. de Peisigny would almost cer-
tainly have taken M. Thou venel's place. -„

The attention of the French " Horse Guards"
is very much taken up at present with the consi-
deration of a project of law relative to the new
system on which it is proposed to place the army
of reserve. The evident object of this measure is
to enable the executive to command at any
moment, and without the necessity of obtaining a
special vote of the Corps Legislatif, an effective
force of 750,000 men. It is understood that the
new plan will be organised upon the principles
on which the system of the Prussian army is
based, but the project meanwhile meets with a
very frigid reception from the Council of State
still, as the .Emperor attaches the greatest impor-
anee to the success of the measure, he will, no
doubt, find means of having it carried,
I am told that the Germans living in Paris
recently expressed a desire to forrii a club, but the
application made by them to the Prefect of Police
for this purpose, has been refused, at the instance,
it is said, of one of the foreign Legations.
The sudden activity which manifested itself
at the close of the Bourse yesterday, was not
maintained, and business to-day has again fallen
into a state of almost complete stagnation. The
Rente was down so low as 67f. 10c.