The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

CHINA.

Wo take the following from the Overland Chum
Mail of February 15

" Our dates from Shanghai are to February 8,
and from Japan to February 6.
" The past fortnight has been marked by no pro-
minent incidents, but the slow current of events is
not without significance. That portion of the pro-
vince of Kiangsu which is south of the Yang-tsze,

and which includes Nanking in the east and Shang-
hai in the west, is, over half its extent, again under
the sway of the Imperialists.
" From Pekin we have no news, the cold weather
' aving closed up the usual access to the capital.
" From Japan the news wears a decidedly pacific
aspect. Ambassadors are again opi,the point of
Betting-out for Pnrespr, st haat wiach may of itself
be accepted as a guarantee against hostilities for
some time to come. The Prussian treaty has at
length been ratified, and the Swiss are said to have
obtained a treaty. The American Minister has
procured several important tariff reductions, and
the French Minister has availed himself of the same

privilege.
" In Shanghai settlement the prevalence of crime
is arousing the serious attention of those in autho-
rity, and we hear that arrangements are in progress
for the punishment of native criminals by foreign
authorities. This is an important measure, and it
is to be hoped that it may be successfully carried
out.

" From the ports on the Yangtsze river we have
no news of importance.
"From Foochow we learn that the district man-
darin is about to be degraded for his inefficiency in
quelling the recent anti-missionary riots.

" SHANGHAI, Feb. 8.

" Imports.—The pressure in the money market
last reported appeared to increase as the day of
settlement, China new year, approached, keeping
all Chinese dealers out of the market. The decline
in exchange has not led to any further speculative
purchases, and the few sales that have been effected
are principally forced ; but now that the holidays
are over a better demand and improved prices may
be looked for. The transactions in English manu-
factures have been exceedingly small, and prices
cannot be said to have varied from our lest. Ameri-
can goods have not been in demand, but stocks are
considerably increased. In metals tinplated have
been inquired for at quotations, but metals gene-
rally are dull; quotations unchanged. Nothing has
been done in rice ; but, as stocks are very small,
both an advanco in price and an active demand may
soon be looked for. Sugar has participated in the
general dullness; the few sales made have been at
our quotations. Coals—Sydney has been in demand ;
other qualities generally inactive."

Two More Shocking Deaths from Excessive
Drinking,

On Saturday Hr. John Humphreys, the Iliadleles
coroner, held an inquiry touching the death of James
Hooper, aged 47 years,
Henri. Saver, 5, Anchor-01(2y, St. George's-in-the-East,
said that the deceased was a mariner. On Wednesday week
he returned from Melbourne, Australia, in the ship Sussex.
Upon his arrival in the East India Docks the deceased re-
ceived .£lO. He spent the whole week walking about the
streets from public house to public-house drinking rum.
During the whole of that time'lic had not been sober for a
single bcur. Oa last Tuesday night two men brought him
home to witness's house drunk. He had not even a half-
penny left. out of the £lO. Deceased was what was called
a " quiet soaker"—he used to drink by himself, and never
ask any one to joia him. During the night he kept calling
out, " Give me more rum ; I want more rum, more rum."

In the morning he suddenly pulled the clothes over his
head, fell forward, and died. Witness had offered him
coffee, but he declined it. _ _ _

Dr. Brookes deposed that the death of the deceased arose
from effusion on the brain, caused by excessive drinking.
The jury returned a verdict of death from effusion on the
brain arising from excessive drinking.
The same coroner held a second inquest on the body of
Hugh Bordner, aged 45 years.
Deceased was a bootmaker, residing at 2, Spencar-road,
Hornsey New Town. On the 3d of March his wife died,
and since that time he had not been sober. On last Satur-
day evening he was fcund lying on the floor of his room
insensible, and his head covered with blood. He had fallen
from the top to the bottom of the staircase while drunk.
He was conveyed in a cab to the London Hospital, where
he expired on Wednesday last.
Mr. Hughes, surgeon, said that the deceased died from
delirium tremens brought on by excessive drinking.
Verdict, "Death from delirium tremens, brought on by
excessive drinking."

THE STEAM RAMS.—On Friday the commission
to examine the Pasha of Egypt, in the case of the Attor-
ney-General v. Laird and Others, was despatched to Cairo.
Sir Laurence Palk has given notice of a motion in the
House of Commons, on the re-assembling of Parliament
on the subject.
A MARRIAGE WITHOUT A MINISTER.—At Glas-
gow, on Monday, says the North British Mail, a
long-betrothed couple intended being joined together in the
"holy bonds," but at the last hour found themselves em-
barrassed by the fact that the bridegroom had not resided
the legal period in this country. He had. ignorant of the
requirements of the Scotch law, left England last week, and
arrived at Glasgow, anticipating no difficulty in the way of
being at once married. The want of domicile qualification
appeared, however, an insurmountable barrier, and business
preventing t
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lawyer was applied to, as being the most likely person
to solve the dilemma arising from the law; and though, as
Shakspeare says, "marriage is a matter of more worth
than to be dealt in by attorneyship," the perplexed bride-
groom found that the assistance of a shrewd lawyer was
everything on the occasion. The friends of the
bride and bridegroom having assembled at the dining
hall of the Bedford Hotel at noon, the bride, accompanied
by Mr. W. M. Wilson, writer, was introduced, and the
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stances of bride,
the occasion, and on seeing the who was
gifted with a more than ordinary power of beauty, looking
all the more engaging from the natural timidity arising from
her unusual position, he gallantly consented. The previous
contract of marriage having been formally attested by two
witnesses, Sir Archibald, by sign manual, certified the fact,
and that the registrar of the Blyswood district was entitled
to register them as married persona accordingly. The mar-
ried couple with their friends thereupon proceeded to the
office of Mr. Struthers, and having been duly registered,
shortly afterwards started for London.
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