Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-30 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA.

CALCUTTA MAIL.
The dates received are to April 22nd, being four
days behind the news last received from Bombay.
The ship Lady Clarendon, of Liverpool, had sailed;
the Levant had arrived ; the arrival of the Hydaspes
at Canton is announced.
The English advices of March 18th had had a de-
pressing effect on some of the markets at Calcutta.
The advices trom Hong Kong are to April 13th,
and have been partially anticipated.
The Russian Minister at Pekin is said to have
refused to communicate officially except with the
Emperor.
A system of kidnapping coolies for Havannah had
been discovered. The Portuguese are chiefly impli-
cated.
A rumour of the evacuation of Canton by the
allies had caused great dismay amongst the Chinese,
as it was feared the rebels would make an attack.
The Polly, of Liverpool, left Shanghai March 29.
The _Englishman says :
The condition of the, rebels still in arms becomes daily
more desperate and more wretched, as they are hunted and
their resources cut off from them; but though beaten, they
are still numerous enough to be troublesome, and from the
mistaken course pursued with them, many of them are by
no means hopeless of another chance. They fight only when
compelled, but plunder at every opportunity, and oblige us,
at great cost, to follow their movements, and when at last
any number find themselves hemmed in, they give themselves
up,with arms in their hands yet hot from their last exploit,
and are received under the terms of the still open amnesty.
Literally such was the case with a party of about 75, who
looted a factory near Buxar, and when they found themselves
cnt off from escape, next day gave themselves up as we have
said. Officers coming down assert that the Sepoys are often
heard to say : " Yes, we are beaten ; the Bengal army has
lost its chance • but you have got the Madras and Bombay
armies, and the time will come." We should be glad to
have ground for saying the struggle is at an end. The
country is settled ; but a glance through our columns will
show that, though approaching that consummation, there is
yet work to be done, and the worst season to do it in.
From Hong Kong intelligence is to the 13th of
April, The Overland China Mail of that date gives
the following in its summary :---
Baron Gros, the French plenipotentiary, left this on the
7th instant in the Audacieuse for Singapore, from whence
he returns to Europe. M. de Bomboullon, at present at
Macao, is now the French Minister, and the Legation will
be removed to Shanghai next month. The Bishop of
of Victoria has also left, on a visit to Australia.
From Cochin China there are more particulars of the
taking of Saigon' which does not seem to have cost a single
life to the allied French and Spanish force. The booty is
said to have been immense, both of arms and of copper cash.
From. Shanghai there have come rumours which may
possibly have some influence on the course to be pursued by
the British Minister to China. It is said that the Russians
have established their Legation at. Peking, and that their
Minister has been attended there by a large retinue, but
that he has already had a difference with the Chinese
government, from his refusing to communicate officially
with any one but the Emperor himself. It is also reported
that Ticn-tsin (where the treaty was conclnded) has been
occupied by a large number of Chinese troops, and " diffi-
culties " are apprehended when our Minister advances to
Peking with the ratified treaty.
At all the ports business has been dull during the last
fortnight; but the resumption of the iminigrarion of Chinese
to California has slightly increased the demand for shipping.
The continued dryness of the spring has caused a consider-
able rise in the demand for rice at all the ports and at
Macao.
There have been lately many and gross instances of kid-
napping Chinamen in order to send them as contract coolies
to the Havannah. This slave trade has not been carried on
i at Hong Kong, but on the mainland, especially in the