The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-03 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The Curacoa has arrived with Lord Lyons, thus quiets
log apprehensions which had begun to be freely el-
pressed for the safety of this vessel. She had very heavy '
weather, and was obliged to put into the Bellow-los.
Lord Napier is getting himself ready for her return.
Before he leaves, however, it is in contemplation to give
him • testimonial of the goodwill of the resident
British towards him, and a moveinent is on foot in Now
York for that purmise.
New York is alive with building, and other signs of
reviving business. Many old landmarks upon Broad-
way will go this year to make way for se marble
structures. In the upper part of the Wan is also the same
activity. The new houses, apparently, cannot be built
fast enough to supply the demand. Whole streets of
handsome residences are springing up amongst the rocks
and &gels of the upper part of the town, and yet houses
are sold and almost occupied before they are finished,
and rents advance. From the interior the accounts con-
tinue most encouraging. The Western wheat crop, now
pronounced almost out of danger, is more promising
than it has been for many a year. Owing to the short
, crops of last year and year before last, the farmers have
, put more in seed than ever before, and the general
yield promises to be unusually large.
The Hannuonis arrived at Southampton, on Friday.
She left New York on April 15. The New York Herald
says that the American minister at Nicaragua is to de-
mand the restoration of the steamers of the Transit Com-
pany, and an indemnity for the damage done by the de-
struction of property on the route. If these demands
are not acceded to, San Juan is to his bombarded. A
revolution had broken out at Tainiico. A great quantity
of sugar had been destroyed at liasannah. At New
York the cotton market closed tamely. Flour without
change. Wheat and cc.rn heavy. Freight engagements
moderate. At New Orleans cotton had advanced

CHINA.
HONGKONG, hisxch 15.

Lord Elgin has left on his return to England. It is
asserted that the Court of Pekin opposes the admission
of an English Ambassador. A new secular Emperor
has been crowned at Japan. Trade dull. Exchange on
London, 4s. Nil. to 4s. Bd.
Political news is of • more peaceful character. The
Pekin Gazelle of the 3lst of January contains an
Imperial edict repudiating the despatch which was
intercepted at Shecksing, and proclaiming, in somewhat
unusual and significant terms, the determination of the
Emperor to keep faith with foreigners, and to observe
in it. full integrity the Treaty of Tiensin. The edict,
which is very unlike former proclamations from the
same source, even goes no far as to enunciate the
possibility of the British and French retaining temporal,
possession of Canton, without endangering peaceable
rel thins. .

Tile gunboat expedition returned to Canton on the 3rd
inst., after a successful journey of 195 miles up the
western branch of the Pearl river, as far as the large
town of Wee-chin, in the pmvitice of Kwangai. No
opposition wax offensl by the Cliitivie, but. 00 the
contrary, great politeness was shown in some inatances.
The river is described as easily navigable, and flowing
through a fertile country; but the IlevaAtation. of the
relicts have almost annihilated the native trade. Banda of
time banditti appear to be infesting various parts of
Southern China. Amoy was threatened a short time ago,
and they en now cotrunittingdepredations in the country
around Swatow.