The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

Produce Market—Most productions of produce are
quoted at somewhat easier rates, the tendency to a decline
in prices being caused by unsatisfactory reports from home
arriving simultaneously with more ample supplies from the
interior. Rice and jute, however, prove exceptions to the
general dull state of these markets.
Import Market—Piece Goods—There is some improve-
ment in demand, and buyers are gradually coming nearer
the prices demanded by holders. Accounts from the North-
west are still unfavourable, but dealers appear to expect
improved advices thereon shortly.
Joint-stock Shares--The prices of most joint-stock com-
panies' shares have been well maintained, but the market
is, nevertheless, dull, and the business done for cash

CHINA.
(From the Hongkong Nail, 29th July.)

The latest dates from Peking aro to the 11th
July. There is no news of importance. The healt h
of the different members of the foreign legations is
good. The rains have begun, rather late in the
season.

Our ad vices from Tien-tsin apprise nsthat a treaty
has been concluded between Denmark and China.
Negotiations were conducted at the capital be-
tween Colonel Rsasloff, the Danish Minister, and
Hang-ki, the mandarin appointed last year to
meet Senhor de Guimarens. Tsung-hau, superin-
tendent of trade for the northern ports, w as
named joint commisioner with Hang-ki, and the
treaty negotiated at Peking, and there signed
by Colonel Raasloff and Hang-ki on the 10th inst.,
was finally signed by Tsung-hau on the 13th inst.,
at Tien tsin. Its conditions will, uccoi•ding to cus-
tom, not appear until the ratifications shall have
been exchanged a twelvemonth hence; but, with the
exception of the right of ministerial rcbidenco at

Peking, for which it appears the Danish Minister
did not stipulate, it will secure to Danish subjects
all privileges enjoyed by other Powers. The
Danish flag has been excluded from the benefit
of the Provisional Rules under which the Yang-
teze kiang is open above Chin-kiang. The treaty,
we understand, concedes to the Danes this trade
on the same terms as to the elder treaty
Powers, and the Chinese Government has so far
shown itself friendly as at once t. admit all
steamers and square-rigged Danish vessels to a
participation in the river trade, without waiting for
the formality of an exchange of ratifications. The
Danes, naturally, have not gained any advantages
that are not practically within the reach of other
nati ins, but if our information be correct their
treaty has the honour of permanently recording
sundry modifications that have been adopted in tie
interests of trade in the last two years. The
opening of the bean trade, for instance, is esta•
blished by the disappearance of the old limitation
from the Tariff and Commercial Articles. The
term within which drawbacks are to be obtain-
able on Chinese produce carried from one treaty
port to another, when re-shipped from the
second to a third port, or to a foreign port, is
extended by the Danish treaty to twelve months.
The coast trade itself, at the half-tariff duty, is
also become a treaty right.
From Japan there is no decisive news as to the
aspect of future relations. Along with payment of
the 440,000 of indemnity money was tendered, as
already stated, the information, that the Mikado
was positive i❑ his injunctions to the Tycoon's Go-
vernment to drive all foreigners out of Japan.
This may be another way of stating that no security
short of foreign retirement can be given against the
frequent recurrence of outrages similar to those for
which the indemnity was demanded. There was an
apology stipulated for, but we cannot learn that
it has been given. Moreover, the destruction of the
Legation buildings at the Goten-yama, near Yeddo,
has yet to be atoned for, and the murderers of
Richardson executed, so that it is quite impossible
to report matters as settled in Japan ; it would be
easier at once to predict a permanent state of un-
settledness.

The Shanghoc Recorder has the following start
ling item :

" Tne new Port of Osaka, it is confidently ex-
pected, will be opened in about three months. The
foreigners were still quietly resident at Yokohama,
and everything bore a peaceful aspect. A civil war
was taking place, and the Tycoon was hemmed in
by the troops of the Mikado at Osaka. The Elgin
was conveying Japanese troops to the latter place."

TEE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND,

The latest intelligence from New Zealand is un-
mistakably warlike. General Cameron has been
permitted to assume the absolute direction of mili-
taiy affairs. The large force now under the com-
mand of the General has been recently strengthened
by the opportune arrival of the ISth Royal Irish
at Auckland, and there was at the last date (July
14) a body of not less than five or six thousand
regular British infantry, besides the volunteers
and militiamen, available for the protection of
the Queen's interests in the provinces of Auck-
land and Taranaki. By the latest advices, the
object of General Cameron appears to be to con-
stitute the neighbourhood of Auckland the centre
of the forthcoming campaign. Men and guns
have been concentrated at the northern
capital from all parts of the island. The province
of Taranaki itself it is proposed temporarily to
abandon, with the exception of the towns of New
Plymouth and Wanganui, and the fortified position
at Tartaraimaka.
The news, although of a somewhat contradictory
character as to the movements of the insurgents,
seems to leave little room for doubt that another
great rising of the natives is to take place, under
the leadership of the powerful and warlike tribe of
the Waikatos.
The Melbourne Argus says : Should the Waikatos
take the field, it is almost certain that they will be
joined by nearly all the tribes south-east and west,
from Taranaki to Hawke's Bay. The Waikatos
themselves are said to be able to muster 5,000
fighting men, but this is certainly an exaggeration.
This number would more nearly represent the total
of the whole armed force which is likely, at any one
point, to encounter Gen. Cameron. The Waikatos
themselves are certainly the most formidable enemy
we have to meet in New Zealand, and should they
be induced to ally themselves to the cause of the
Maori King, they will make this the greatest of
our New Zealand wars. By their important stra-
tegic position, on the road between Auckland and
New Plymouth, and surrounded as they are by deep
impenetrable forests,and protected by every variety
of natural barrier, they will be able to exercise a
most potent influence on the character of the war,
and will certainly give General Cameron more
trouble than any of his predecessors on the Maori
war-path have yet experienced. The report of a
contemplated attack by the insurgents on the
town of Auckland itself is most likely a
canard, the product of some Maori Seward or
Kingite Hooker. The singular aptitude for mili-
tary strategy which marks the Maori genius is not
likely to betray the insurgents into a policy so
fcolish as to undertake any such enterprise as this,
against a large town strongly garrisoned by Euro-
pean troops. Auckland, it is true, is almost de-
fenceless on the land side ; but the wide extent of
open country immediately surrounding it on the
south and west is as good a securi'y to the citizens as
any ramparts could he. No native army is likely to
venture into an encounter with British soldiers in
the open field ; and it is only British generals who
commit the blunder of fighting the enemy after his
own fashion. The insurgents, if they mean serious
war, will probably rest content with that sort of
fighting in which their genius is best displayed, and
not attempt to look for General Cameron, but force
General Cameron to look for them. The country
of the Waikatos abounds in positions almost im-
pregnable to regular troops, which can be defended
with little or no loss on the part of the natives.
The mere shelling of half a dozen paha, as has been
shown in former campaigns, has little effect in
influencing the result of the war ; for, according
to the Maori tactics, the pahs are merely held as
places of cover from whica the advancing enemy
may be securely annoyed—not as fortresses, to be
defended for their ow❑ sake. The Waikatoa, by
pursuing their traditional system of warfare, may
contrive to prolong the struggle to an almost inde-
finite period—they can only be decisively conquered
when they either venture to attack us in the open field,
or are attacked themselves by men who are able to
accommodate themselves to the Maori mode o
fighting.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—A suicide of a most de-
termined and extraordinary character was commit..
ted at Brighton on Saturday night. The promenaders of
the Junction-parade and West-cliff were alarmed at 8 o'clock
by a loud report from the beach, and on looking in the
direction whence it, proceeded, a man was seen falling from
the groyne known as " Anscombe's Groyne," opposite the
swimming baths. Information was at once forwarded to
the Town-hall police-station, and the body of a man was
with some little difficulty got ashore, when it was discovered
that the right upper part of the face and nearly the whole
of the top of the head was blown away. The body was at
once placed upon a stretcher and conveyed to the dead-
house, but up to last night had not been identified. That
the act was contemplated is plain from the fact that he had
so placed himself that in the event of being only slightly
injured by the pistol he would have been drowned. Every
means had been adopted to destroy identification, as the
portions of two letters which would have furnished a clue
to recognition had been carefully torn away, and not a
mark was to be discovered on any portion of the clothing.
An inquest was held on the body by the borough coroner
(Mr. David Black), last night, at the Town-hall, and an
open verdict as to the state of the deceased's mind was re-
turned, Judging from the portion of the head which is
left, the body is that of a young man of fair complexion,
between 20 and 21 years of age, about sft. 6in. in height,
and very slender.
DOTER SAmorhs' HOME, Sept. 14.—This mom-
ing 11 of the crew of the bark Waleria, lost in the gale of
the Bth inst., in the North Sea, were safely landed at the
Dover, and are all under the caro of the superintendent at
the Sailors' Home. Tbey are in a sad condition, but as far
as possible every want will be supplied by the institution,
and they will be forwarded to L .ndon b. a free pilsg is
the evening. This mfikes 170 wrecked crews, of different
nations, who have been received and succoured at the Dover
Sailors' 1101)1e,

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 14.

The Queer. with their Royal Highnesses the
Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise,
Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea-
trice, left the Castle for Balmoral at a quarter
before seven o'clock this evening.
The suite in attendance consisted of the Lady
Augusta Bruce, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey,
Major General Seymour, Major Cowel', Mr. Buff,
and Dr. Jenner.

Lady Churchill, who succeeds the Marchioness of
Ely in Waiting, will join her Majesty at Oxford,
and will travel with the Royal party to Scotland.
Colonel Hon. A. Liddell left the Castle this
morning far Dover, to await the arrival of their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse and the Princess Victoria, who are expected
in England to-morrow, and will join he: Majesty
immediately at Balmoral.