The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-16 00:00:00

CHINA AND JAPAN.

There is little news of importance from China
or Japan. In the latter country, where the posi-
tion of foreign residents bits not been at all satis-
factory for some time, matters are proceeding is
their usual manner. More warnings have been
issued with reference to danger from lawless bands
of " lumina" who have left their masters' semis,.
The following notification issued by Colonel Neale
shows the posture of affairs to be auspicious :

Yekokama,Jim. 3.
A governor of foreign affairs Cams at a late Doi:test
night to her Majesty's chargé d'affairee. end oonahonledal
to him that further reports had reached the Oaroglo, *Mei
had oocesiorted them much anxiety eedoi lawless pm.
sons meditating &sonless in Yokohema. A lientl d kasha
are reported to be seeking in the first place an opportunity
of samasinsting the foreign representatives. The 'sputum
government, is making this eolunianieatieni, eau* that
they are occupied is trashes tkis threatened &leer to its
source and in adoptuman other ewes in Om, power to
restart; wearily • II the seeanterile they tat that peat eau-
tine aad diereetiMt may ha totilreleed hr the eike•
amity ha rasped to swig timmems ea Mks Tehido
nis Use Amish
or
t!are.=,,ii... •
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ITIVOPENCE

affairs, and sdoollisushiesemos efressisties wllh the
mead sail sailiagy asiopolaiskate.aigpaissa preetsesble,
sad whielfwill seesiel le the sersapelliniellelNlDOUSeld in
the wrier soliissilsa at thebturtii
mirrel H.B.Y.'s Merge gala's. ta-
Ansx./.. °ow=
3t fa understood et Hong Kong that by the next
men from Eughind the admiral on the Mins eta-
!ion will receive instructions as to the fame to be
.pureued with reference to Tapszt. wee in Boos
Kong harbour with the Zombis, but gergerstiono
Were being made for going to the north.
General Burgevine has published the followin
account of the recurrence which led to hie •••
by the Chinese authoritim from the oomensesd he
held :

-- • .
Os Frlday, i.e. 2, I mane to Shanghai froMfkog-
Ides, for the purposed "series money promised cet this
• day for thy payment of the men. On Labdiag I we is-
fennel that it we at nods ; la fact I supposed it de kat
sociesS on beard east of the ateusers about to suet. I
went et owe to Takee• to thank him for es punctually
keeping hi peonies boa was met with language so almesi,
that I doeormired to return at ones to Sanglriam and haw
ad More pommel dales with hint. Mood thet Ohm 1w
almost a Ate of mutiny ; pros boas polled ft* the
men wool./ to,. She bed@ of the mandarins that they WWI
starving, that tarry would dispose of their arms and elolltim
to proems feed, and were ripe for an eniceste. I ordered r
Lieridairs at 2:Dew1:61., k the e purposed asplisuou why
Pros' to *is, berweves I reared a letter free Tabas
alloying the mosey was all ready sad urging se tomcod for
ft ispesedhady. (*Mae Renaud mend a lotto" to ther
same eked Om thesZ el this • I gasaetsedi
Until* hoops should' be • ha We ye.
I lift at was for , bat em my *reel dew next-
wee sooty tabard that Talmo had not oily de—
eded wrhmgthe letter, het stile retard to send the mosey.
I immediately premeds* to his beam with a small'
Iklaaa of Mi sturl *be rnaliesY
mi me' Thar.
. was no forcible entrance, so 'me ro• starelier-
- irday •11" *viler aims '' AIM Si essprsehr removed
rig:
the la/my. I we swam of cis 'Sky of, the
mews I adriog but hat , M so doer by
the ISM of;
at in
.•There wes-sw
tines lbe del
; emotenly r • • •Cl miner or
the azistasee of the foes and 'the • lif tie Beropeen
Akira. The mosey bed hem for Ihe ,um of
thoe%asd Ina fmniediatedy elli lie arrival
atetr e* The only pared Inapt h lavlav
The dismissal of Gemmel NIMIMMI, lthe !•0 11.
•ootritdiste inuipeuidOn ' it the liiiiiiirstions sparest.
Nanking, wtiteti bad bees lii raimilinee hi -
Thirteen demurs had been diartered by loan-
darn:. so oquvey **operas ibis Mpsdnion. •• It is
I supposed, however, that the movement. is merely
postponed for A
7)4119,.
j smut Bisrvevioe is but
little demurral by.the . ournals for the harttwins-
played in this idrair.
•

AUSTRALIA.
hi= Oos ow' ocauercox

1.) •

lIELSIOURNE. Jarr. M.
Until within the last fortaight,whieh has brusgbe:
us two or three refreshing rams, we have been sub. -
tering from the very severest drought the colour
has known for many years. An almost unpreoe-
dentedly dry summer has saoceeded to as unpiece-
deatediy wet a winter. Unlike previous visitationa•
of the ism kincl,„whish have almost invariably.
been merely partial in their operation, this
drought has more or less afflicted the whole of.
Anstadasia. Very decided symptoms of its break. -
ing up have; however, shown themselves in Queens.-
lpsid and. in New South Wales, is both of whisk.
colonies some fins rains have fallen, but,
not before the live stook had eaffernd
from want of water, Tbe arops is; Victoria and in
South Australia are much lighter than usual from..
the same cause ; miners' operations have been re-
tarded .; the fruits even in our suburban orchard*.
and lindens are shrivelled up, and our vintage,
itself will be but acuity tinkles we are soon Idlest.
with *opium rains. • Our "hot sad sopperttity'r"
has been frequently overcast,, a deluge of gar* as..
frequently seemed impending ; but, se is ebarso•-
teristio of these droughts, the Clouds have pared
away, the steady sky has resumed its sterna/ bluer.
and we have been again and again remitted to.
patience and hope. Perhaps there is a good even..
in this evil. A drought comes to us with a, ceirtaia.
regularity on the average about every ten Font
and bad we not this drawback, so much would be
(mind done to oar hand, that, like some of the South
American communities Mr. Darwin describes, we
might be liable to fall into a too indolent
acceptance the bounty of nature, and do next to
nothing for ourselves. It a an ascertained nes.
teorological fact that the rainfall here is greater
than in England, but it is too irregular, and much
of it runs to waste. Here is something for human
iad wary to master and correct. Water =e,
which up-conntry people are now so eueric
discussing, Would make Australia the most pro-
ductive country in the world—a fact already proved
by the strikingly successful experiments in ittigs.
Lion already made in different parts of the colony.
General business at this holiday season is affray&
languid, and tranesetions in the commercial world

view from the published reports to be of ► very
desultory character. The liveliest part of soca-
merce still consists of shipments to New Zealand,.
and as the most glo • amounts continue, to.
come from various newly • vered gold feeble in.
that colony, the departures of diggers for' the-
ater El Dorado continue to outnumber the-
arrivals from it. Marry vessels are laid on hem for-
Dunedia—a fact which must be taken as iadisatine
that their owners expect to fill them, (*.day would.
be taken off the berth. But that horses are some-
what in request for that country just now they
would be elmart unsaleable in Victoria, as they
already ate in some parts of New Soath Wales.
At Braidwood, in the western distriet of the sister
colony, several serviceable horses Tete the althea-
' day knocked down at auction fur 1.28. U. &whom&
out, cult at 9d. A yin/many colt no doubt sounds
strangely ; but the ridiculous price shows, not
scarcity of money, but superabundasce of horse-.
flesh. When a community like ours yammerer:Mar
more animals of any kind than it can either kos-
mune or export, they become little better this a
larger and more expensive kiud of vermin Da
pour Richard says, "What a man does poi visa& is
dear at a penny."

Mr. Howitt has well performed a foolish, tack im-
posed upon him, and arrived in XsMonona as the
81st of December with the remains of poor lb
and Wills, which have in the went taithet=
dragged about the country far many bodes& of
miles," sewed up in amain." The lying he state
lasted several days, sad like any Gahm "stet* ap-
pealing to vulgar curiosity, attracted thousands of
spectators, many of whom oomplaituid'at act tieing
able to see "the real bones." The found was
attended by • few of the Legislative Council and
Assembly, by many of the usual mid. by some un-
usual materials of a • ooksial preesasiosi, namely,
*minion* oauucillors, members of benefit socie-
ties, Odd Fellows, several cabinet 'insistent,
and Burke'. nurse. The nurse, to whom 301.
• year for We lad been voted by the Assem-
bly, was appereetly expected to give value
far the money, and to grieve up to the parliamen-
tary grant, su she was made the most prominent
item of the meant. The grief of the respectable
old person was assumed as of "so loud au em-
phasis," that nothing less than an entire mourning
welch could contain it ; so she had a coach to her-
Iself aimordingly, and was made sadly conspicuous
to the pubho eye.

TBs Fox CLE —The second meeting of the Fox
Club this reason Wok place WI Saimaa! cvegginat Blocks's.
These *ere pewees the Earl oi &Wand, Bight Hon. Manisa
hushing**, &el al Filo, Lewd Llano**, Visaing; Biqa-
bun, M.P., Viacouut i
Falkhusdkagbe Hoe, Weems&
Coke. Frederick Dust**, Fin.. Lord Illostys.
H. Hamilton Donnas. X. A. fon%
gain, Jim.. Esq.. 111. P.„ fie Janes Magiane, park, ICE,
Lord term., hung enceinte, John Aitga, Lord
Omni" J. H. reale Wiesre.vietha. V.P., Wee* A.
, A. te Adair, fibissel J. Y. Nola J.
W. Viewed* Letts Tuns

the entreol.

UOTFI" °ARMIN,

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EVIISMO, Till LEV Of RILMENEY. Xlii Low.
Type and Mt. W. Hantsoo.—YßETA'S GIFT. MY Lords. Trim
—And the DO Act of THE PURITANS DAUGHTER.
Parepa.—C,ooductor. Mr. A. Whoa - Ccesuaeoce at T.

EA n/A2illr..

re a ETIOMO, 01Yr 'AMKRICAM COVWIN. Meowa
bribers and BrAkriror ; ItIL I MiswiIUera.—RARSKLAS
?BMUS ON ABYMINIA. Mr. Compton and 'Mar L Leek?.
And OUR MARY ANNX. Mr. Clerk and MIA Lafleur.

TEM BVIIIIINO, LEW v. LOYM—AITHOZA noyD. Herm
loalp,lVastn, and Babson Mimes A. Sad/wick and Henderson.
AM THI HONEYMOON. Mown Hoeg, YMa. Stephens,
)Owes, sold Cathcart ; Mims &O mar. Jena", and M. Oliver.