The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-30 00:00:00

CHINA.

The English mail ofit4lo reached Hong• Kong
August 25. The Lancefield, from Calcutta, arrived
with intelligence from London of July 25, just as the
homeward mail left.

The great floods over the country bordering the
Canton river have subsided. Canton imperialists
admit that their forces have sustained serious and
repeated defeats by the rebels in the adjoining pro-
vince of Kwang-si' and reinforcements were being
sent daily. In the Canton estuary. a yellow flag has
appeared, with the characters "Tapping-teen-kwoh"
(the flag of the Tai-ping dynasty). The vessels bear-
log it were served by the police with a notice to quit
Hong Kong.
The British merchants at Shanghai had petitioned
Sir John Bowring to help to abolish the system of
foreign inspeotorships at the Chinese custom-honee
there.

The North (luso Herald of August 18 thee sums
up the present position in China:
Three points appear to be established by a variety of ton-
earreat testimony.
1. That over a region, equal in extent and pspulation to
some of the most powerful states of Europe, the people have
discarded the Mancha costume, and d to that of the
Ming dynasty.
2. In • portion, if not the whole, of that extensive terri-
tory, the people pay taxes for the support of the Nanking
government: and
3. That, by the establishment of examination', the
have the privilege of competing for literary honours and civil
case. _

Whence it is obvious that the revolutionists an, and have
a right to be, regarded as a government de facto. In its
administration the military code no doubt predominates, but
there are greedy diatiact trans of a civil organisation ; and
having existed for more than three year., from the time it
pleated itself in the capitals of Hung-n, Anhwity, sad
Hoopih, as an organised montane of the Chinese to the
Maschu sovereignty; and having too in the meantime
greatly extesded it boundaries and consolidated its strength,
if the way of access to its capital were not blockaded by an
imperial squadron, we might even now acknowledge its in-
dependence, without violating neutrality, or tranegreesing
the limits of historical precedent. The land force besiegiag
Chin-kiacg has of late been almost annihilated. General
Hiang his been compelled to retire from N ,raking, and if
the insurgents could only succeed in expelling their an-
tagonists trom the waten of the Yang-tne, or in working
their way to the seacoast by some other route, foreign trade
would find a freer vent than it would be possible to provide
by any other expedient, and a magnificent field would be
thrown open to tionuancial and diplomatic enterprise.

A letter is the Presse from Cooetentinople says
a The Aquila-Imperials, coining from Trebizond, has
brought news from Kan. The Turkish government has
availed itself of the unites and advice of the two French
stiff ahem who have just visited the country. In their
opinion, the best thing to be done is to destroy the ezisting
fortifications. They serve only as a make•believe protec-
tion, and p the building of really valuable works.
In the vut atelenge of the citadel of Kars two pants only
were unfit', and these the Kaunas destroyed. In the
spring a system of earth work, will, doubtless, be con-
structed, which will prove of much more service than the
old citadel."

The approaching arrival of the Empress of Russia
at Nice has given rise to a great number of speeulstions,
bated on the expectation that it will attract a great number
of wealthy foreigners. Amongst other thine•, the boxes of
the theatre have been pat up to auction, and they have
produced 69,0001 r.; If they had been let at the ordicere
rate they would only have produced from 12,COOfr. to
15,0001 r.
A letter from Alexandria, describing the effects of
the late earthquake, sap:—" All the Europeans abandoned
their houses, and rushed oat into the public square, wrapped
up in the first thing they could lay hands on. Some gen-
tlemen were sees covered with their wife's dress, ►nd the
wife with the husband's paletit. Some ladies had even
cashed oat in merely their night dress, and among these
were Mlle. Rachel, the actress, and her sister. After re_
maining for two hours is the square in the greatest slum,
every olio returned home. On Sunday night many persons
went to sleep on board the vessels in the pnt, and other(
pitched tents in the public square."
The committee for the erection of a monument to
Marshal Noy in the town of Mets has just received the
statue of the Marshal from the heeds of M. l'ettc, the artist
entrusted with its execution This work of art is atatid to
have received the full approbation of the committee.
"For some nights put," says the Courrier dee
Rom, "it bas frozen sharply in this ncighbouthotd. The
lumen consider such a description of weather at the pre-
sent season so most favourable for their crops. At Rouen
also, for the last few nights, the whole country round hue
been covered with hoarfrost."
The monetary conference which assembled lately
at Vienna has adopted the following conclusions:—Silver
will continue to be the monetary unity of Germany. Austria
will adopt the thaters of Prusla. A coin of the value of
one tholer will be adopted for alt Germany, and likewise •
gold currency for commercial purposes, the vain of which
will be established periodically.
A letter from Naples in the Presse of Brussels,
ewe.—" M. Thomas d'Agloat, a Frenchman, who has been
'enthralled in this city for the loot eight years, and editor
in 1848 and 1849 of the joureal fl Tempo, has been sent to
Paris. Re is a man whose advise the limg stoke by pre-
ference in momenta et difficulty. It is acid that he bat
been sent on • secret mission." _

A singular jubilee has just been celebrated st
Dresden. Litutenant.Colcnel von Kockwitz, a we'd. nt in
that eity, received at the battle of Jena a ball iv the brert,
which penetrated through to below the shouVer, and
when it remained, notwithstanding repeated attewrte of
the surgeons to extract it. Oa the 14th inst. it was tut
fifty years that M. von Kockerits bad lived with this all
in his 7, and on that day hie comrades invited him to a
brilliant ete, and presented hien with a film M y ball ai*,
the Wm ption, " 14th October, 1806 and 18.56."
A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne aer_etts,
sere The Kent treaty between the Pore and 'Aestris,
et weich mach has been lately 'pekes, dlesrsr',,ymut;
bat it comma the reorganisation of the Prinei•eititia, and
I sot their ocenipatioa."