The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-11 00:00:00

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place, a better surveillance over members of unre-
presented nationalities is hoped to be attained, by
requesting the Chinese to delegate to the Municipal
Council their right to deal with such. But this
measure is not likely to be cf much effect, as Greeks
are almost the only unrepresented nationals in Shan-
ghai. An injudicious proposal was made by the
English Consul, and, I regret to say, adopted, viz.,
that the Chinese should be requested rigorously to
arrest esery foreigner iiscovered in the interior
without a passport. At, a first glance this may
appear likely to be effectual in preventing the wan-
derings of improper characters, but this will not be
its only effect. It encourages the Chinese in the
maintenance of that exclusiveness which it is our
great interest to bre'.k 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 then 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 es a low-class un-
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 satis!actory account of
themselves or their prospects, requested to " move
on" to some other port. Acting on this principle,
the Spanish Consul informed tle meeting that ho
had already written to Manilla for a Spanish frigate,
to convey away between 200 aid 300 Manillamen
who are infesting the settlement. It was ultimately
resolved that a general meeting of foreign consuls
should take place every monti ; 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 sould 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-
lish demands, and has consented to accede to
every request we have made. He deputed several
of his high officers 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.
bama, which was made a few weeks ago to the
American and Datch 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.
In the meantime trade has slightly improved, though
complaints are still made of the short supply of silk
brought into the market.
Since writinf, the above I 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 theupper por-
tion of the province. It is believed the bombardment
of the city will have begun at the time I am writ-
ing this.