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London, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1860.

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CHINA.

HONG KONG, APRTL 21.
The mail is advertised to leave on the 25th, four
days before the usual time, in expectation of the
change of monsoon, which ought to occur about the
end of this month. You must therefore be satisfied
with a shorter letter than usual, which is of the less
consquence because there is really nothing to write
about. Nothing of any interest has happened
since I last wrote. The Commander-in-Chief is
till at Shanghae. The French vice-admiral has
gone thither. We have not yet heard of the occu-
pation of Chusan. 1,800 French troops, principally
of the 101st regiment of the line, have arrived in
a man-of-war steamer and transport, and are now
in Hong Kong harbour. Many of the men
land and roam about the town daily. They are
smart good-looking fellows, but the majority
appear too young and slight for this climate. "hey
have had a very prosperous voyage, and have had
no sickness to speak of. They have with them a
general of brigade. They will leave this for
Shanghae in a few days, and are, I believe, to dis-
embark and occupy a position at the entrance to
the Woosung, the riser that leads from the great
Yang-tse river up to Shanghae. Having once
established themselves in that locality, it remains
to be seen whether they will ever again quit it.
The French nation has the credit of hankering after
a colony, or at least a pied-a-terre in China, and
the situation I have indicated might perhaps suit
their purpose. It is favourably placed for trade,
and may be expected to prove healthy. The
climate of Shanghai, which is about 15 miles up
the Woosung river, is considered better than that
of Hong Kong.
The organisation of the expedition proceeds, and
the preparations are assuming gigantic proportions.
The harbour is full of transports, fitted up for
infantry, cavalry, artillery, stores, &c. The quarter.
master general's department ceases not night and
day from its herculean labours, which seem daily to
gather more and more thickly around it. Strong
must be the frame and clear and wise the head of
any man who can preside over the multifarious
duties and direct the varied operations of this re-
sponsible department. It seems to be well repre-
sented in this force; and the long experience and
untiring energy of its chief may fairly be taken as*
a guarantee for ultimate success. Of commissariat
officers there seems to be a small army. Under the
names of commissaries, purveyors, storekeepers,
and other denominations, their name, in the aggre-
gate, should be " Legion." You meet them at
every corner, in pretty uniforms and faultless shirt-
collars, and new comers turn in the street to stare
reverentially at the stars on theirjackets and spurs
on their heels, and speculate whether the pro li
-
prietors can be generals of division, or only briga-
diers or high staff officials. However, we are not
disposed to cavil at their gay plumage, but are pre-
pared to speak of them with the greatest possible
resped, for they not only feed us but pay us too ;
and an' failure on their part in the discharge of
either of these very important duties would result
in most serious personal inconvenience ; therefore
we wish them all success. Land transport is still
a subject of frequent conversation, and I doubt
not of considerable anxiety. Of tonnage there
seems to be a sufficiency. 225. a ton, with a cer-
tain engagement for six months for every trans-
port, would hardly fail to ensure this ; but means
of carriage by land are not to be had to any extent
for love or money. As far as I can gather, the
state of affairs is somewhat as follows. We
expect in all about 5,000 baggage animals—of
these some bullocks are coming from India, and
some ponies from Japan and anilla ; but it is
understood that neither Spaniards nor Japanese
will allow any natives to accompany them, in which
case the animals must be entirely entrusted to
the Military Train and Chinese coolies. The bat-
talion of the Military Train recently arrived from
England has been divided into three battalions, and
each of these into four companies. Each company
is to be providt d with 375 baggage animals. It is
said that they have come out quite unprovided with
gear of any sort, and that their first demand on
arrival in Hong Kong was for 5,000 sets of horse
clothing and 2,000 pack saddles; their second, for
an increase of pay. Horse clothing in a country
where there are no horses is rather a difficulty, but

it might be supplied from India. 2,000 pack saddles
could perhaps be made up in Hong Kong in two
years. But I question whether the ponies of Japan
and Manilla ever saw a horseeloth, much less had
one mta and if we bad pack-saddles and all the re-
quisite furnishings they would be of little use un-
less we had also animals trained to carry them and
men trained to load and drive the animals. It is
not an easy matter to do either, Any one who has
seen in India a refractory pack bullock, or rampant
baggage tatoo, will quite appreciate the difficulty ;
and with untrained men and animals there would
be innumerable sore backs and unutterable chaos at
the very first start. It is therefore in contempla-
tion, I have heard, to abandon the idea of pack
animals, and to harness them all into carts, which
are expected from England.
Of the capabilities of the military train we have
as yet seen nothing, but from their splendid appear-
ance I should doubt very much their powers to
manage a bullock. The very idea of one of these
magnificently attired dragoons twisting the tail
and otherwise combating a wrong-headed and ob-
streperous ox makes one shudder. Certainly they
look very well, and I should imagine are tolerably
expensive. They have beautiful long sabres, and
long burnished spurs, and handsome uniforms, and
elaborate, belts and pouches, and it is really quite
a pleasure to see them promenading the streets, and
to listen to the martial clank and rattle of their
polished steel scabbards. But it strikes me that a
coarse smock frock and leather leggings, a pith hel-
met and good stout whip, with a short sword and
revolver in the waist belt, though not so pretty,
would, perhaps, be more useful in contending with
the obstinate little animals on whom they are soon
to expend their uniforms and their energies.
However, John Bull is a complaisant creature and
likes to pay well for an article, and does not in-
quire too particularly as to its adaptation to the
work for which it was intended, and in this instance
he certainly has plenty to show for his • oney.
Supplementary to the military train we have the
Chine Coolie Corps, or the " Bamboo Rifles," as
they are facetiously called, from the circumstance
of each,carrying a stout Bamboo, on which to hang
his burden. Of these we may perhaps succeed in
taking five or six thousand to the north with us.
They are strong able-bodied fellows ;_ and each
should carry seventy pounds at least. Each coolie
is paid nine dollars per mensem, and gets his food
and a suit of clothes gratis. The average pay of a
Chinese coolie here is six dollars, without food or
clothes, so this high rate must be tempting to a
race quite as fond of amassing money as their
neighbours.
They are somewhat prone to desertion here,
especially after receiving an advance of pay on en-
listment ; but if we once get them away from Hong
Kong, this inconvenient practice will probably
cease, as in the Gulf of Pe.chi-li we are
taught to believe they Will be quite as much
foreigners as ourselves. You see then what we
have to depend upon for the land transport of
the whole force. If the country is found suitable for
wheeled carriages (a rather important condition,
which, by the way, seems quite uncertain—though
I have heard on good authority that it is practica-
ble, at all events, for the wheelbarrows in which the
Chinese in these northern latitudes are accustomed
to travel), and if our bamboo rifle friends can be
kept together, we shall be able to move a portion
ct least of our army by land, though it will never
be safe to get far from our water communication.
In the seas and the rivers, at all events, till the
frosts set in we have constant allies, of which the
enemy cannot deprive us.
The Armstrong guns have created quite a furore,
and Hong Kong has been down to Cowloon, en
masse, to see and to criticise them. They are cer-
tainly very beautiful pieces of mechanism, and to
all appearances are as highly finished as one of
Purday s best rifles. Those that have arrived are
12-pounders, and what strikes one most at first
sight is the lightness of their appearance and small-
ness of the bore, after having been always accus-
tomed to associate a certain calibre with a corre-
sponding diameter_, of tube.
I believe, myself, that at first we shall all be dis-
appointed with them, and for this reason. We for-
get that the astonishing precision that has been
attained with these guns has been under the most
favourable possible circumstances, and that the
accuracy of their fire at long ranges depends in a
very great measure on a commensurate accuracy in
judging the distance of the object fired at. For,
where you can measure to an inch the exact distance
from the muzzle of the gun to the target, the ne-
cessary elevation can be determined with mathema-
tical precision, and the result of the shot is certain;
but in field practice against an enemy it is a very
different affair. Then the nature of the ground,
the state of the atmosphere, the smoke and dust
in action, the inexperience or inaccuracy of eye of
the gunner, and, not least, the unpleasant whiz
of the enemy's shot through the air, are all so many

disturbing causes which militate materially against
great accuracy in judging the correct distance.
If then we expect, as I believe that most of us
somewhat irrationally do, that the Armstrong gun
is. to pick off a Tartar general or a Chinese man-
darin at every shot at a range of two miles, we
stand a very good chance of being disappointed—
not from any defect in the guns, but from our own
unreasonable expectations.
We have no news from Shanghai yet, but the
mail will arrive before I close this. The latest
shave from that quarter is that the Chinese Em-
peror, in replying to our ultimatum, stated that lie
had no objciction whatever to an English Ambas-
sador at Pekin, but that he must come by the same
route and be received in the same manner as the
American Ambassador who went there recently.
The reception is understood to have been not a
very dignified one. It is said that Mr. Ward was
carried through the streets of Pekin enclosed in a
sedan chair of approved construction, closed in, all
round, like n box, but with a round hole cut in
the roof, through which he made some interesting
observations of the heavenly bodies. The condi-
tions upOn which he was to be admitted to " the
presence" being that .he was to knock his head an
indefinite number of times on the ground, he came
back again with the unratified treaty in his pocket,
and a whole skull, neither much wiser nor much
better for his excursicat.

April 23.—The Shanghai mail arrived last night,
but brings us no news of import. The English
Commander-in-Chief was to proceed to Chusan
on the 18th. As I told' you before no opposition
was expected there, and the next arrival will pro-
bably bring intelligence the quiet occupation
of the island by our troops. Kin-tang, where
they were to rendezvous, is a small island to the
west of Chusan, and not a to*n in the south of the
island, as I told you in my last.
24th. I will now finish this for the mail, which
closes this evening. The arrivals of troops since I
last wrote have been :-300 of the Ist Seikh Ca-
valry; 100 of Fane's Horse (Seikhs) ; Mowbray's
battery of Royal Artillery ; a detachment of Madras
Native Artillery, with a mountain train attached ;
the rest of her Majesty's 31st Foot ; head-quarters
and detachment of 60th Rifles; 87th Royal Irish.
Fusiliers ; remainder of 21st Madras Native Infan-
try ; head-quarters and detachment of the 15th Pun-
jaub Infantry.
The only departure has been a battalion of the
Military Train to Japan for horses. The 60th
Rifles have landed at Stanley, on the other side of
the island, and are living in the barracks there.
The 87th have gone to Canton to relieve the 3d
Buffs, who will accompany the expedition to the
north. All the other troops have been landed at
Cowloon, where the camp is daily extending. Gen.
Napier has gone over there to-day to take the
command of that portion of the forces in the mean
time. The Seikhs are objects of great curiosity
to the Hong Kong people, and Cowloon is be-
coming quite a fashionable lounge in the after-
noon for idlers. The man-of-war steamer
Magicienne arrived yesterday from Singapore with
a transport in tow. On her way up she put into
a bay on the Cochin China coast for some
purpose or other, when one of her boats was fired
upon by a fort on the shore. A flag of truce was
sent in to demand an explanation, and that too was
fired upon. British navy officers have a rough
and ready way of returning such compliments, and
in acknowledgment of this eccentric proceeding the
gallant captain of the Magicienne ran in to within
good shooting distance, and having quietly demo-
lished the fort with his broadsides, proceeded on
his way rejoicing.
For the last few days the wind has been blowing
moderately from the south, and transports have
been coming in with a rush. To-day it has changed
again back to the north-east, and while it continues
in this quarter we need not look for many arrivals.

THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

The 'following letter from Palermo supplies us
with details respecting the close of the combat be-

tween the Sicilians and Garibaldi's volunteers and

the royal troops, and describes the first interview

between the general and General Lanza's delegates :
" At the termination of the fight on the morning
of the 27th, in which Garibaldi, at the head of his
cacciatori, drove i n at the point of the bayonet the
post that defended the San Antonino gate and
penetrated into the centre of the city, the roy'tl
troops, abandoning the San Antonino Barracks,
the central square of the Four Cantons and the
Macqueda gate, then concentrated themselves at
head-quarter. They thus formed a line extending
from St. Francis .of Paul to the barracks opposite
the state prison.
" In the course of the evening this line was again
forced, and General Lanza, compelled to fall back
on the King'o palace to the south of the city, found
himself thus cut off from the citadel by the entire

insurgent city. Such was the situation of
the troops on the morning of the 28th.
During the day they further evacuated the prisons,
the Bagnio, and the barracks before mentioned, and
they then took refuge at the extremity of the Mole,
where they cried out loudly for the boats of the
Neapolitan men of war to come and take them off,
which was done.

" During the evening, a brisk firing of musketry
was directed against the King's palace by the insur-
gents, who succeeded in entering the Archbishop's
palace, whence they fired on the soldiers, who were
compelled to abandon the Finanza Palace, and the
Ospitaletta, where they had hitherto kept their
positions. In the night numerous bands of armed
peasantry and mountaineers incessantly harassed
the royal troops, who had quitted the heights of
Monreale, and were encamped between the Capu-
eini and the village of Olivezza, thus preventing
them from coming up to the aid of General Lanza,
who was closely besieged in the King's palace.
" May 29.—The troops continue to maintain
themselves at the palace and in the citadel, whilst
Garibaldi, established at the Hotel de Ville, is tak-
ing various measures for organising and carrying
on the contest, Amongst other acts he decrees the
formation of a national guard, and the opening of a
subscription for the objects of the war. Moreover, an
ordinance signed by him and countersigned by the
president of the committee for the interior decrees
that " persons guilty of theft, assassination, and
robbery of any kind will be liable to the penalty of
death. They will be tried by the council of war."
Another decree prohibits all persons from passing
with arms in their hands through the streets unless
under the direction of a chief. Orders are likewise
issued that the police are not to be molested. A
provisional war committee is charged with the duty
of enlisting. Dr. Vicenzo Macalessa is appointed
commissioner of the province of Girgenti. A letter
received from the last named town announces that
the troops stationed there had fraternised with the
inhabitants.
" The insurgents take possession of four pieces of
cannon and a 12-pounder, which they found in the
prison barrack abandoned by the Neapolitans. The
five steamers that had left on the 28th for the port
of Termini return to Palermo without having been
able to land the 1,000 men they had on board. Boats
bring them back to the citadel. During the even-
ing these troops make an unavailing attempt to go
to the aid of Gen. Lanza. Some sisters of St. Vin-
cent of Paul arrive from Naples during the day, to
nurse the wounded ; they cannot enter the city, and
go back on board the French steamer, the Mouette
in order to return to Naples.
" At nine o'clock p.m. the citadel re-opens its
fire, and an immense conflagration ensues near the
square of St. Dominick. The number of shells fired
at the city since the 27th, at six a.m., is calculated
at 3,000. More than 100 of them fell on the mar-
ket-halls, every shop of which is destroyed.
" May 30.—The troops, announced by the Official
Journal of the Two Sicilies to be in pursuit of Gari-
baldi, return from the Parco, and are received at
the Porta Reale by the baud commanded by La
Massa. Notice from the President of the Commit-
tee for the Interior is given that the postal service
will re-commence on the following day. A procla-
mation by Garibaldi summons all Sicilians to arms.
" At two o'clock a carriage surmounted with a
white flag arrives at the landing-place of the Quar-
antine. Gen. Letizia and the Brigadier Christiano,
delegated by Gen. Lanza, alight from it, and repair,
accompanied by Garibaldi, on board the English
ship Hannibal, where, besides Admiral Mundy,
there are the commanders of the Vauban and of the
American frigate Iroquois.
" Gen. Letizia declares that he has been sent to
demand an armistice, and proposes the following
conditions :—Retention of the respective positions ;
power
poor-house. He further demands that the munici-
pality ear
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shall address a petition to the royal commis-
sioner to solicit the granting of reforms and insti-
tutions necessary to the country.
" Garibaldi grants the first items ; but on his re-
fusal to entertain the last-named proposal the nego-
tiations are broken off.
During the armistice, the wounded of the royal

Pjj 41) ST,idt,ED, SD.

army are taken out of the citadel and conveyed on
board the vessels in the roadstead.

" The preparations of defence continue in the
city. The streets are barricaded, all the men are
armed ; priests and monks, mounted on the barri-
cades, appeal to the courage of the people.
" On the 31st, at noon, hostilities have not yet
re-commenced. There is a rumour that a truce has
been concluded for three days.

THE LATE GALES.

GREAT YARMOUTH, SATURDAY NIGHT.

The boats which on Monday last went to the
North Sea in search. of the fishing vessels missing
from this port since the gale of the 28th ult. re-
turned yesterday and to-day, and we lament to say
that the intelligence they bring but two truly con-
firms the worst apprehensions. The exploring
squadron, we are informed, first triel the coast of
Holland for about 80 or 90 miles south of the Texel,
then proceeding north of that island the same dis-
tance, as the southerly winds which have prevailed
since the gale would have carried any wreck in that
direction. At Nicudiep they learned that a quantity
of nets had been washed ashore, ascertained by
means of the marks on the cork to belong chiefly to
Lowestoft. They discovered no further traces of
the objects of which they were in search, except a
piece of a lugger's deck rail picked up on the Texel,
which they brought lime, and which has been
identified as part of the Paymaster (missing). They
learnt that pieces of a lugger's mast and yard had
been washed ashore on the Dutch coast, but that
having no brand, they could not he identified. This,
therefore, is all that is now known, or probably
' ever will be known, of 14 fishing vessels which left
Yarmouth and of six which left Lowestoft only a
fortnight ago with nearly 200 souls on board. Not
within living memory, nor, perhaps, within the
wreck history of this fatal coast, has this neigh-
bourhood been visited by so appalling a calamity.
On Yarmouth it will not fall more heavily than on
the little fishing villages of Caistor and Winterton,
to the north, which contribute a large quota of
hardy fellows to our fisheries. A public meeting
will be held here on Tuesday, in the Town-hall, for
the purpose of making an appeal to the charitable
in behalf of the widows and orphans of the lost
crews—a step which has been delayed until the
result of the search for the missing was ascertained.
But where there are so many sufferers—some 240
destitute women and children, it is calculated—the
town itself can do little, even did not its own severe
losses in the destruction of thousands of pounds of
property cramp its benevolence, unless the general
public come to its aid. With resnect to the baro-
metrical indications of the gale, we may mention
that a fishing vessel has seldom or never a barometer
on board, as each boat generally returns after a
night's catch ; and it is very questionable whether
the master ever regulates his movements by that
instrument.

REFORM.--1 2 ()Rl' AND REFUGE UNION.

During two days of the past week the around
floor of Willis's Rooms has been occupied by an
exhibition of articles manufactured by the inmates
of various reformatories, refuges, and industrial
schools. These articles, carefully arranged accord-
ing to the departments of industry which they re-
present, have been placed about the room, sur-
mounted with the banners inscribed with the name
of the institution from which they had proceeded.
Some of the works are seen in the process of manu-
facture, and the " Maida-hill Ragged and Indus-
trial Schools" distinguished themselves by a little
printing press, from which they produced handbills
for the inspection of the visitors. The exhibition,
which was also.a bazaar, was a repetition of an ex-
periment made in a previous year by the "Refor-
matory and Refuge Union," and its results showed
a progress in the good work undertaken by the
society.

The "Reformatory and Refuge Union," as it is
called, was founded in the year 1856, as a centre of
encouragement for the reformatories, refuges, and
industrial schools throughout the United Kingdom,
having for its objects the collection and diffusion of
information connected with such institutions, the
promotion of new establishments, the selection and
training of preceptors, and a general superintend-
ence of religious, intellectual, and industrial educa-
tion. The fourth year of the "Union" was completed
on Wednesday, and a conversazione was held on the
first floor at Willis's Rooms, over the exhibition, at
which addresses were delivered by the Earl of
Shaftesbury, who presided, Mr. Hanbury, and
others. From the statistical information com-
municated on the occasion it appears that there
are now 172 reformatories, &c., in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, more than 40 of which have
been established since the committee of the

" Union" commenced their operations. No less, it
seems, than 11,000 boys and girls are now under
preventive and reformatory treatment, and these
returns are exclusive of the penitentiaries for wo-
men, which are more than 60 in number, and pro-
vide accommodation for 2,300 inmates.

Wednesday evening having been thus devoted to
the distinguished patrons and leaders of the
" Union," the exhibition on Thursday was followed
by an assembly of the teachers at the Reformatory
Schools, who took tea and heard speeches, under the
presidency of Mr. Hanbury. The gathering was
very numerous, and the worthy philanthropists
were enlivened by the performance of a variety of
popular tunes played by the bands respectively be-
longing to the " East London Shoe Black Society's
Refuge," the "Boys' Refuge," and the "North-
West London Training School." With an evident
predilection for the brazen departments of musical
practice, these little fellows, who were disciplined
in military fashion, played with surprising nerve ;
and the prayer with which the more serious pro-
ceedings commenced was vigorously ushered in by
the well-known march from " Norma." This might
be considered the conversazione of the teachers.

ROOFING THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.

A notice of motion has been given by Alderman
Rose for the consideration of this subject in the
forthcoming meetingef the Court of Aldermen,
feeling that the applic tion of a number of the mer-
chants to have the building covered with glass for
their better accommodation has not been treated
with the respect it deserves. Some controversy
has arisen, both in the Court of Common Council
and the Court of Aldermen, as to what had become
of the memorial addressed by the merchants on the
subject to the Gresham Committee. The present
Lord Mayor, as Chairman, ex officio, of that Com-
mittee, has declared publicly more than once, that
no such memorial has ever come before him or the
Committee, for consideration. It was broadly
hinted by Alderman Allen, at the meeting of the
Court of Common Council on Thursday, that pro-
bably the late Lord Mayor received the applica-
tion, put it in his pocket, and took no further no-
tice of it. The alderman afterwards retracted that
observation, and the matter still remains a mystery.
The attention of the council was called by Mr. Per-
kins to the fact, that in September, 1838, before
any steps were taken as to a plan for the new Royal
Exchange, the Gresham Committee endeavoured to
ascertain the wishes and opinions of their fellow-
citizens as to whether the building should be en-
tirely covered, or partially open as before ; that cir-
culars were issued to most of the leading merchants
and brokers, requesting their opinion on the sub-
ject, the result being that an Exchange partially
open as before was chosen by a very large majority,
and even, he said, the judgment of some who pre-
ferred a covered hall was qualified in many in-
stances by the suggestion that it ought to be entirely,
covered only upon the condition of the freeest ven-
tilation being secured, and the inconvenience of
noise, so much complained of in the Bourse at
Paris, obviated. Mr. Perkins also observed that
the merchants of London never contributed a single
shilling to the restoration of the Royal Exchange
after the fire, and that the city side of the Gresham
Committee was obliged to borrow £BO,OOO towards
rebuilding it, which actually remained as a debt at
this moment to the Court of Common Council. Deputy
Farrer reminded Mr. Perkins and the Council that
in February, 1850,. a memorial, signed by Messrs.
Rothschild and 116 other gentlemen frequenting
the Exchange, was presented to the Gresham. Com. -
mittee, complaining of the draughts prevailing. in
the area, praying that it might be roofed in with
glass, and adding that should the cost of the sug-
gested alteration be deemed of importance they be-
lieved the commercial community would cheerfully
contribute to it. A year afterwards, the matter
having been in the meantime referred to a sub-
committee, the Gresham Committee informed the
memorialists that their request could not be com-
plied with. Alderman Challis sought to defend
the Corporation from the imputation that they had
no sympathy with the merchants, which he believed
was an entire misrepresentation. On the contrary,
he said the greatest anxiety was manifested by the
Gresham Committee from the very commencement
of the building to consult the comfort and conveni-
ence ,of the merchants, and he believed that the
same feeling still obtained among them.

QUE
61ATURDAY, JUNE 9.
The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch,
arrived here at 8.40 p.m. She brings 81 passen-
gere, but no specl. She left Boston on the 30th,;:,
ult., and Halifax. on the Ist inst., and was detained 0,
10 hours off the latter port by' fog-.
The Europa landed all mails except thon for
Liverpool, and proceeded at 8.50 p.m. for that
place. All well.
The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Cana-
dian,.Captain Graham, which left Quebec on the
26th ult., is nsaring the port with one engine,
cylinder broken.
The Arabia, Glasgow, and Saxonia, had arrived
out.

Advices from Vera Cruz are to the 16th ult.
The civil war and the disorganised state of affairs
continued in Mexico. Another battle was daily
expected between the contending factions.
The French Minister to the city of Mexico was
at Jalapa waiting an opportunity to reach the coast.
The United States frigate Wyoming had been
ordered to Lima to sustain the claims of Minister
Clay against the Peruvian Government on bchalf
of the injured American citizen 3.
NEW YORK, MAT 30.
Illinois Central, 811; Erie, 20:,-2,-; Illinois Bonds,
91 ;'lllinois shares, 601. Money dull. Exchange
on London, 10n- to 1091. Cotton dull; sales, 800
bales at previous quotations. Flour in good demand
for export ; prices unchanged. Wheat 2c. better.
Corn firmer. Sugar quiet. Freights firm.
NEW ORLEANS, MAY 29.
Cotton easier. The prices have undergone no
quotable change. Sales 5,000 bales.

QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 10.
The Royal Mail steamship Asia arrived here at
11.3 Q a.m., embarked mails and passengers, and
proceeded at 6.20 p,m. for New York.

QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 10.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Kangaroo, Capt. Brooks, from
New York on the 26th ult., arrived here early this
morning. She brings 290,000 dols. in specie.
The Kangaroo experienced easterly winds and
heavy head seas. Her news are anticipated by the
Europa.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING.
The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Capt. Leitch,
from Boston on the 30th ult., and Halifax on the
Ist of June, which touched yesterday at Queens-
town, has arrived here. Her news is anticipted by
telegraph via Queenstown.