The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-09 00:00:00

CHINA.

The following docurneflt; purporting to be a
despatch addressed to the Viceroy of Canton by
the Chief of the Council of the Emperor of China,
has been received in Paris from Macao
Yeh—l have serious news to announce to you.
We have read with attention the account you
have given us of the attack by the English bar-
barians. The Nuy Ito were unanimous in their
indi4gnatio.N2at it, and we determined that the
Emperor should be informed of it, notwithstanding
the pain it4iccasions his magnguimous heart, and
these are the commands of his Mighty Mill :
" Yeh, you.are to carry on a war of extermination
against the foreign barbarians who have attacked
you. They must receive from you an exemplary
chastisement. Yet, after the vengelince shall have
been deemed sufficient by you, and if they mani-
fest sincere repentance for what they have done,
the Emperor, our magnanimous Sovereign, who is
inundated with floods of light, consents that
hostilities shall cease; and that coMmercial affairs
shall be resumed with these foreigners AS they
existed-previous to their fault.
" Yeh,-you will take heed, and you will communi-
cate the preceding to the mandarins placed under
your orders.
" Pekin, the 10th day of the 2d Moon.
Tskeu TOHIN•YONG, Head of the Imperial
Nuy to."

WEST COAST OF AFRICA.

PLYMOUTH, WEDNESDAY

The African Steam Navigation Company's mail
'packet Candace, Commander Hawkesley, arrived
this morning.
Her homeward dates are :—Old Calabar. Feb. 24;
Camaroons, 26 ; Fernando Po, March 2 ; Bonny, 6;
Lagos, 8 ; Accra, 10 ; Cape Coast, 11 ; Liberia,
15 ; Sierra Leone, 19 ; Bathurst, 24 ; Gore, 24 ;
Teneriffe, 30 ; Madeira, April 1.
She brings 1,241 ounces of gold dust and a small
amount of specie; and her cargo includes 437
casks of palm oil, 64 pieces of ivory, 3 packages of
skins. I cask of gum copal, 68 cases of arrowroot,
6 bags of cochineal, 5 hogsheads of wine, and
sundry pepper, argol, pineapples, &e.
Among her. passengers are Colonel Clarke and
Captains Macully and Hingston, 3rd West India
Regiment.
The Governor of Sierra Leone returned on
the 6th of March from a successful tour up the
river, where he arranged several treaties with the
chiefs.

The war continued in Mellicourie, to the advan-
tage of the Moriahs, which tends to the progress
of trade.

The country round Cameroons is quiet.
Trade is brisk at Calabar. •
An expedition to open a large palm oil country
is contemplated.
The River Bonny is unhealthy. The doctor of
the Ferozepore died on the 4th of March, and the
Charles Horsfall has lost several hands.
Lagos is quiet, and ample preparations are made
for any possible attack by Kosoko..

A rumour prevails that the Dahomey nation
intends making a descent on Abbeokuta.
Owing to the scarcity of rain provisions are dear
at Accra.
The disturbances between the Ashantees and
Fantees being settled, gold is arriving at Cape
Coast Citstle, Ex President Roberts, with 110
men, has been successful in quelling a disturbance
at Cape Palmas, which is proposed to be annexed
to the republic of Liberia.
The steam sloop Prometheus, 5, Commander
Charles W. Hope, and the screw steam vessel
Taazer, 2, Commander Walter J. Grubbe, were at
Old Calabar.
The steam vessel Myrmidon, 3, Commander
Edward W. Shaw, left Lagos on the 7th March for
Fernando Po.
The steam vessel Antelope, 3, Commander John
Pike, left Lagos on the 6th March.

The steam vessel Merlin, 6, Commander Cecil
W, Buckley, and the steam ship Heels, 6, Com-
mander Elphinstone, left Sierra Leone on the
18th ; and the steam ship Aplin on the 19th, for a
cruise.

The screw steam troop ship Megzera, 6, Com-
mander George T. Purvis, touched at Sierra Leone
on the 13th of March.
The steam frigate Retribution, 28, Captain
Charles Baker, was at Teneriffe on the 28th of
M arch.

The screw steam ship, Sanspareil, 70, Captain
Astley C. Key, arrived at Madeira on the 27th of
March, and sailed again on the 28th.
The steam vessel Dover was at Sierra Leone.
The United States corvette St. Louis was at
Liberia on the sth of March.
The French frigate, Jeanne d'Arc, the steamer
Tonnante, and the corvette, Recherche, were at
Goree.
The French Packet, Bresil, arrived at Madeira
on the 20th of March.

The mail packet, Ethiope, arrived on the 13th at
Sierra Leone, and sailed on the 17th of March.
The screw steamship St. George arrived at Sierra
Leone on the 17th of March, with boiler out of
order.

The troop ship Perseverance, from the West
Indies, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 28th Feb.,
and sailed for the Gambia on the 9th March, and
left there on the 21st for Goree, whence she sailed
on the 22nd for the West Indies.

The merchant brig Columbine, of Bristol, was
ashore at Old Calabar, and was seized and plun-
dered by the natives. The steamship Scourge, 6,
has released the crew, who are come home in the
Candace.

Spoke, April 3, lat. 37 30 N., long. 13 49 W., the
Hamburg brig Elice.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

The annexed circular memorandum was issued
yesterday to general awl staff officers and officers
commanding infantry regiments, depot battalions,
and depots, relative to instruction in musketry :
Horse Guards, March 28.

" The General Commanding-in-Chief, having
reason to believe that rifle practice is impended in
consequence of soldiers not beir°i sufficiently
practised in the platoon exercise before being
handed over to the instructor of musketry, finds it
necessary to remind commanding officers and others
that this, as well as other portions of the company
drill, should be taught by the Adjutant and
SeljeAnt Major ; that the present system of platoon
was promulgated so far back as June, 1854 ; con-
sequently that every regiment and depot ought to
have been long since proficient therein, and that
general officers will be expected to bring to notice
every instance which they may have observed of
continued neglect in this particular, to which they
will be pleased to give their especial attention at
the ensuing inspections.
Captains and subalterns are requested to attend
rifle practice with their companies, and to make
themselves equally acquainted with the instruction
of musketry, as well as battalion and company drill,
of which indeed it is a component part.
" Field officers should also render themselves
conversant with the theory and practice of mus-
ketry, and it is more especially incumbent on
commanding officers, who (and not the rifle in-