The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-25 00:00:00

CHINA AND JAPAN.

It is reported from Japan that Admiral Keppel
has taken the Governor and Vice-Governor of
Nagasaki under arrest, and sent them to Yedo in
the Basilisk, to be dealt with by the Shogoon.
Sir H. Parkes and Admiral Keppel have gone to
Osaca, for the purpose, it is said, of demanding
satisfaction. The statement apparently rests upon
a letter to the Friend of China, dated Nagasaki,
August 17, of which the following is an extract:
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Admiral Keppel arrived last Monday in the Salamis,
and Sir Harry Parkes next day in the Basilisk. Both have
entered strongly into the case of murder of the two men
from H.M.S. Icarus. The governor return to give any in-
formation. It is supposed to have been done by Toss's
men, who escaped the same night in the Nancai. The
admiral has, I hear, taken the governor and vice-governor
under amid, and sends them up to Yedo to-morrow in the
Basilisk, to be dealt with by the Tycoon. It is further
the intention of the admiral to demand satisfaction from
the prince, of whom the men were followers.

On the 27th August a seaman of the United
States' ship Shenandoah rode over a Japanese at
Yokohama, and so severely injured him that he
soon afterwards died. The Dutch minister has
also been assaulted at Yedo ; and several attacks
on foreigners have occurred. Trade is spoken of
as improving. There is no additional news respect-
infrtite reported abdication of Stotsbashi.
i Shanghai Recorder learns that there is dis-
tress in the neighbourhood of Pekin, in conse-
quence of the failure of the rice crops. The prices
of all commodities have fallen considerably, and
many of the pour people have already pawned all
that they possess. The rumour which was men-
tioned in the Hong Kong China Mail, that a
foreigner was there buying rice for the imperial
government, proves to be well founded, Mr. Wright,
formerly deputy-commissioner of customs here,
being the gentleman deputed.

The China Mail is informed that the Chinese
imperial government have emphatically refused to
hold themselves responsible for any future loan or
loans made upon the security of the customs
revenue ; and that the Taunle Yamen having in-
structed the inspector-general to intimate this fact
to the various commissioners of customs, a despatch
has been sent down on the subject. With respect
to the loan already made, the imperial government
pronounce no decision.

A terrible typhoon swept over Hong Kong and
the neighbourhood on the night of Sunday, Sept.
8, with moat disastrous results. The China Mail
of the following day thus reports the visitation :

The typhoon, which virtually commenced last evening at
about ii p.m., gave sufficient warning of its approach. The
afternoon sky betokened wind, and at about 7 p.m. a
tremendous gust swept over the town, accompanied by
a pelting rain. It was not, however, till nearly 10
o'clock that the storm burst in all its fury. The
first to suffer were the native boats, numbers of
whose crews would have been drowned but for the exer-
tions of the water police, who did everything in their
power to afford help. As the night wore on the force of
the wind rose yet higher, and numbers of vessels either
sank or were wrecked and seriously injured. To commence
with the former, the Minerva, Spanish barque, sank in
midchannel just ahead of the U.S. ship Hartford. Her
crew were with one exception (the steward) saved. The
Eagle, American schooner, also sank; the crew being
saved. Two water boats, belonging to Messrs. Bowra and
Co., have also sank, and several of their crews were
drowned. The chop of Mr. Mitchell, carpenter, has also
sank. The vessels driven on shore at Kowloon are, so far
as we can yet learn, the Danish schooner Alexandra
and the Siamese three-masted schooner Maria, the
two vessels having their rigging locked together,
and both, it is believed, utter wrecks. The British
barques Omar Poch*, Canton, and Fortitude, and
'the ship Aden are also ashore, and the unfortunate
government junk Proposterous has run on shore, and is
little more than a wreck at Kowloon. The British ship
Regina (arrived same day), the Wartburg, Young Greek,
Senator Webb, Bengal, and Heather Bell, were this morn-
ing all jammed together ahead of the Fort William, and
1 moat of them are seriously damaged. The steamer Liotin
and the police junk at Sowkewan have both been clean
swept, while an immense number of junks have been
wrecked or have foundered. Ott the village of Yoma-ti an
immense number of sempruis were lost, and seven or eight
junks are on shore at Sowkewan. The yacht Re•echo bats
been knocked to pieces, and several other yachts have
sunk. On shore, on both aides of the harbour much
damage has occurred. The small houses known as
" Wohang's houses," at the end of Kowloon peninsula,
are blown into fragments, and look as if they had
been destroyed by lire. Three men were wounded and
two killed by the falling debris, and an inspector
of police slightly injured. At Sowkewan several
houses have been blown down, while others are so unsafe
that the police have compelled the inmates to remove.
The mint wall bas " started," and the bathing-house is
simply • complete wreck. The scaffoldings of the City
Hall, and Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation's
new buildings have fallen across the Prays, quite obstruct-
ing the way. A culvert has burst in Shelly-street, and
the roads in the upper part of the town are cut up with
gullies wade by the torrents of rainwater, and leaves and
branches of trees are scattered in every direction. A large
loss of life hes occurred amongst the native boating popu-
lation, but there are no means of arriving at absolute
statistics.

THE BISHOP OF GLOUCEaTER'S CHARGE.,—Yes-
terday morning the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol held
his visitation in Gloucester Cathedral. Morning prayer
was said at 8 o'clock, and the mid-day service was conse-
cuently the Holy Communion alone. The Bishop, in his
harge, regretted the prevalence of dissent, but believed
that the beet remedy was by showing greater earnestness
is church work, and in greater fidelity to our
own church doctrine and system. That trimming
creeds would bring dissenters back was he thought,
a delusion. With respect to ritualism, he had
no objection in itself to a distinctive vestment
for Holy Communion ; but be deprecated, on the
one hand, Lord Shaftesbury 's Vestment Bill, which would
have led to a schism, and on the other, what he seemed
to think the wanton extravagance of the more advanced
ritualists. He rested his hopes on the moderation and
sound sense of the great Anglican party, on whom the
future depended ; and proposed certain moderate limits of
ceremonial observance. He advocated the revival of
diocesan synods, and with respect to the Lambeth con-
ference, he thought the time bail come to draw a distinct
line between " two things essentially different—a church
in union with the state, and a church professing a state
religion." He denounced, in conclusion, as a fallacy and
heresy, the assertion " that the English clergyman receives
his pay from the state, and is a minister of state as well as
of the Gospel."
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—On the
leonine: of the 21st inst. a lodging.houso keeper of Ep-
worth, Lincolnshire, named William Daniel Webb. at-
tempted to murder his wife and then take away his ewn
life. It appears the man doubted his wife's fidelity, and
in order to be avenged he, About 6 o'clock on Monday
morning last, commenced an attack upon his wife, beating
her about the head and other parts of the body with a
hammer so severely that he left her for dead. He then
walked up the road leading to Iturithem, and there delibe-
rately cut his own throat. Not bleeding sufficiently, how-
ever, to cause death, he walked to the police station awl
gave himself up to Mr. Superintendent lieneon, stating
that be had killed his wife and hail attempted to bleed
himself to death. He was locked up, and Mr. IL W. Pul-
len, surgeon of Epwoith, was called in to attend to his
wounds. He was afterwards taken before the lion. and
Rev. C. Duodsa, who remanded him until Friday, the
25th Jesuit. It appears that Webb and his wife have
always lived unhappily together, and about nine years ago
he ran away, leaving her and her family chargeable to the
parish. He returned about nine months ago, e hen lie was
sent to prison for neglecting his wife and family. The
poor woman's injuries were not fatal, but she now lies in
a very precarious state.
SH IPPINO Dieasenta.—lntelligence was yester-
day received in Liverpool to the effect that a hurricane
passed over the Antilles on the 7th October,and 11 easels
are reported to have been lost. This news is brought by
the French steamer Imperetriceßugenie which has wired
at Nantes with the French West India mall. The Vortex,
bound from Quebec to Waterford, timber laden, was
spoken on the 4th October with ft feet of water in her hold,
and bearing up for Sydney, Cape Breton. The Dutch
barque Krinopemvaal, bound from Batavia to Rotterdam.
is reported to have been wrecked on the '-':trd September
in Alcoa Bey. A large number of spruce deals have been
washed ashore at Portmailoc. The steamship Osiris, Cap-
tain Connolly, bound from Liverpool to Alexandria, his
been compelled to put into Lisbon, with machinery till,.
abled—it is said the blades of the screw have been carried
away.