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consuls declared they had not au
adopt. A good deal of discussion
course of which several resolutions
but not all of a very practical mature. In the
place, a better surveillance over members of unre--
pre3ented nationalities is hoped to be attained, by
requesting the Chinese to delegate to the Municipal
Council thcir right to deal with such. But this
masure is not liLely to ba of much cfr,ct, GICE.II6
are Llimust the only unrepresented n&tioaals in Shan-
ghai. An injudicious proposal was made by the
English Consul, and, I regret to say, adopted, viz.,
that the Chinese should be requeitell rigorously to
arrest every foreigner discovered in tho interior
without a passport. At a first ;lunge this may
appear lituely to he efflctual in preventing the wan-
derings of improper charactere, but this will not be
its only affect. It encourages the Chinese in the
maintenance of that exclusiveness which it is our
great interest to break down. Every useful purpose
would be served if the Mandarins arrested any
foreigner found committing crime in the interior,
and handed him over to his national representative,
and this they are not likely to neglect to do. To
authorise them—nay, to request them to arrest any
traveller not provided with a regular pass is at once to
re•establish barriers which had been partially broken
down. It is by destroying its root and source that
the evil of rowdyism must be attacked, not by lop-
ping away its offshoots. So long as a low-class ma-
employed population is allowed to accumulate at
Shanghai, crimes will be of constant occurrence.
Some supervision should be exercised over these,
and all who can give no satisfactory account of
themselves or their prospects, requested to " move
on" to some other port. Acting on tais principle,
the Spanish Consul informed the meeting that he
had already written to Manilla for a Spanish frigate,
to convey away between 200 and 303 Manillamen
who are infesting the settlement. It was ultimately
resolved that a general meeting of foreign consuls
should take place every month; that a committee
should be appointed consiting of several of the prin-
cipal consuls and the Chairman of the English and
French Municipal Councils, to frame such regula-
tions as they might deem suitable for the mainte-
nance of order among the foreign populations ; and
lastly, that such consuls as were not satisfied with
the extent of their powers should write to their
respective Governments for an extension of them.
The intelligence which has been received during
the past fortnight from Japan is much more satisfac-
tory than any which has arrived of late, and affords
hope that war may yet be avoided. The Prince
of Satsuma has at length become convinced that
it is useless to protract his resistance to the Eng-

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CHINA AIM JAPAN.

(From the Special Corrc6pondemi of the TinuB.)
HANGHAI, Nov. 26.
The hope that all cause for spprebension from
the foreign element in rebel interests had ceased
has been some what rudely eissipated. The steamer

Firefly—next to the Hyson the most meful boat at
Gordon's disposal—was seized last week by a body
of foreigners while lying at anchor in the Wongpoo,

and carried off in triumph to Soochow. The Firefly
came down on Friday afternoon, and was to have
left again on Saturday, but was detained at General

Brown's request, as he desired an interview with

Gordon, and was unable to leave till the following
day. At daylight on Sanday morning, however, her
quartermaster made his appearance at headquar-

ers with the announcement that she had been car-

ried off during the night, that the rest of her crew
had been made prisoners, but that he had escaped
by jumping overboard. The Firefly had on board

;he armaments for the Tsatlee, another small steamer

which has just been chartered by the Futai for ser
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vice with Gordon, and it was feared that her captors

might by a bold stroke succeed in carrying off this

vessel too; that her change of masters being un•
known, she might run through the Imperialist lines
alongside the Tsatlee, as though for the purpose of

discharging the stores destined for the latter and

overpower tho small crew. A mounted messenger
was despatched in all haste to warn Gordon of his

danger; but, as it turned out, the apprehension was
unfounded. The captors of the Firefly were satisfied
with one prize, and took her directly to Soochow,
where no doubt they were welcomed with enzpresse-
nzent by the Mowang and handsomely rewarded.
Suspicion at once pointed to Burgevine as the in-
stigator of the deed; it was like one of his bold

strokes, and no one else could be thought of who pos-
sessed the ability to plan or the courage to carry out
so daring an enterprise. Whether or not he were con-
cerned in the affair is likely to remain a mystery for
the present, as he of course will not confess it, and

his only confidants, if confidants they were, are now
iafely under the walls of Soochow. The next day a

rumour got abroad that he had in person endea.
voured to seize another Chinese steamer, the Fel.
loong, but it was not till Tuesday that the story as

sumed a definite shape, through the receipt of infor-
mation that Burgevine was a prisoner in the hands
of the Futai. Immediate steps were taken to obtain
his release, but in the meantime his Excellency had
become frightened at the breach of treaty of which
he was guilty in detaining an American subject, and
sent him, under a strong guard to the American
consulate. The circumstances which led to his
arrest are very differently narrated by Burgevine
and by the Chinese. The former says that he wished
to see Gordon, knew the steamer was getting up
steam to go to Soochow, and went on board to ask a
passage; that he had been on board an hour or two

lish demands, and has consented to accede to
every request we have made. He deputed several
of his high cfficers to visit Colonel Neale, with
whom they had three long interviews, and in the
last agreed to arrangements of a perfectly satis-
factory nature. A high officer of the Tycoon was
present during the interviews, and distinctly under-
stood and approved the result. Atfirst the envoys ex-
pressed a strong feeling that the Prince of Satsuma
had not been well treated by the British fleet in
seizing and burning his steamers without warning of
Admiral Kuper's intention, but they confessed that
the matter assumed a different aspect after Colonel
Neale's explanation—that the steamers had been
seized in the first instance, without any intention
of burning them, on account of the Prince's dilatori-
ness in replying to Col. Neale's despatch, and had
subsequently been destroyed when the Japanese
commenced hostilities by firing on the English ships.
So friendly has Satsuma now become, if appear-
ances may be trusted, that he expressed, through
his envoys, a desire to send some of the young nobi-
lity to England to be educated.
The Jeddo Government has recalled the edict
which was issued some two months ago, decreeing
the expulsion of foreigners from Japan, but the re-
quest that foreigners would withdraw from Yoko.
hama, which was made a few weeks ago to the
Arne/inn and Dutch Ministers, has been formally
communicated to the English and French. The
Japanese seem to be awaiting a reply from the seve-
ral Governments before carrying the matter further.
Ia the meantime trade has slightly improved, though
complaints are still made of the short supply of silk
brought into the market.
Since writing the abovel have learnt that Gordon
has crossed the Tae-ho, to the west side of Soochow,
where he has captured some stockades on the grand
canal, and effected a junction with some Mandarin
troops who have marched down from the upper por-
tion of the province. It is believed the bombardment
of the city will have begun at the time I am writ-
ing this.

waiting for her to start, when a posse of mandarin
soldiers came on board, seized and bound him, flung
him down, spat and jumped on him, and robbed him
of all his valuables. The Chinese, on the other hand,
say that shortly after Burgevine's arrival three other
Europeans came alongside in a sampan, refused to
answer when hailed, were fired on, and sheered off;
that Burgevine, directly they appeared, attempted
to stop the firing, caught up a hatchet, cut one
man down and split another's face open, and endea-
voured to sever the Feiloong's hawser, and cut her
adrift. However this may be, Burgevine was at
once set at liberty by the United States' Consul,
greatly to the disgust of the Chinese, and took to
his bed in consequence of the injuries he had re-

ceived at their hands. The following day, however.

he was again arrested, this time by the United
States' Consul himself, and is lodged in the Con-
sular gaol until his health will permit him to be de-
ported from China. Nothing has, I believe, been
proved against him, but the feeling is general that so
long as he remains in Shanghai captures of Firefiys
and despatches of boatloads of arms to the rebels
are always to be dreaded. Besides, the Chinese
regard him with suspicion, and permitting him to
remain at large will certainly engender ill-feeling
on their part toward both the English and American
authorities, for they do not discriminate very
lucidly between the two nationalities in such a case
as the present.
In the meantime Gordon has captured another
stockade, after one of the sharpest actions that has
yet taken place. The rebel position was not far from
Sikow, the scene of his last encounter, and lay be-
tween that village and the city, from which it was
not far distant. Early on the morning of the 11th
he set out with about 1,200 disciplined Chinese and
some field pieces, with which he opened fire shortly
before noon. The shell did not seem to have their
usual effect on this occasion, and an assault was
ordered so soon as a breach had been effected in the
earthworks, without the defenders having shown
any symptom of wavering. Capt. Gibb fell, shot
through the heart, while leading the stormers ; and
Lieut. Parker was badly wounded, besides a num-
ber of Chinese put hors de combat; but the position
was eventually carried at the point of the bayonet,
and the rebels driven with heavy loss under shelter
of the guns of Soochow. It is reported that Gordon
has now extended his lines as far-as his limited force
will permit him, and purposes soon to commence
to bombard the city itself. I am inclined, how-
ever, to think that he will await the arrival of
further bodies of mandarin soldiers whom it is
hoped the Futai will be persuaded to send.
Macartney has been cruising through the Tae-ho,
or Great Lake, to the south west of Soochow, with
2,000 men and 50 gunboats, and has effectually
cleared it and the numerous islands with which it
is studded of rebels, capturing several stockades
and receiving the homage of the inhabitants, who
seem perfectly indifferent as to who rules, pro-
vided they are allowed to attend in peaco to their
silkworms and mulberry trees. They offered to
shave their heads, but Macartney deferred exacting
this mark of submission to the Tartar until he
should be in a position to permanently occupy the
district.

In Ningpo, the Mandarins and Franco-Chinese,
on the one hand, and Colonel Cooke on the other,
seem to be resting on their laurels, acquired at Foy-
ang and Wantaquan respectively. Cooke, however,
is on the point of starting for the former city to
endeavour to arrange with the Fanti for an attack
on the departmental city of Hangchow, formerly
one of the richest and most beautiful in China, and
at which an old saying of the Chinese affirms that a
man ought to have passed a portion of his existence
in order to enjoy life thoroughly.
A meeting of all the foreign consuls was held on
the l'lth at the British Consulate, her Britannic
Majesty's Consul in the chair, to deliberate on the
best means to be adopted for suppressing the row-
dyism, which has lately been increasing to an alarm.
ing extent in the settlement. England, France,
Russia, America, Prussia, Portugal, Denmark, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Spain, and
the Hanse Towns were all represented. The Ameri-
can settlement has of late became a perfect nest of
loafing, unemployed vagabonds, whom the necessity
for earning a livelihood, apart from any natural
proclivities, drives into all kinds of crimes. The ab-
duction of the Firefly was a climax to the robberies,
murders, and piracies which have of late been com-
mitted with grave frequency, considering the com-
paratively small number of the foreign population,
and forced on the representatives of the several
treaty Powers the conviction that it was due
to their own nationals and to the Chinese,
who are jealously excluded from all
diction over foreigners, to endeavour to place some
check to the evil. The matter, however, is diffi-
cult to deal with. It is easy enough after a crime
has been committed to punish the culprit if he be
caught; but it is far from easy to bring any preven-
tive agency to work in the case of a host of loafing
ruffians who have no legitimate means of livelihood,
and ore known to be capable of any villany that may
be practicable, but have not no yet brought them-