The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-08 00:00:00

INDO-CHINA.

"I, the undersigned, Rear-Admiral, Comman-
der-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of his Majesty the
Emperor of the French in the Chinese and Indian
Seas.

"After having consulted the High Commitsiry
of his Imperial Majesty on the dtilicultte§ peu(i_
ing betwesn, th', G.,vernments of France and alioa,
on the means to put a stop to them ou the resolu-
tion of the Governments of France and England to
act in concert in procuring the satisfaction due to
them, and in virtue of the powers intru.ted to me
as Commander-in-Chief, do declare :•

"Tt,at from the 12th inst. the river and poet of
Canton and its tributaries are placed in a stats of
effective blockade by the naval forces placed under
my command, acting in concert with the naval
forces of her Britannic Majesty.
"Any vessel attempting to force the blockade
will be acted against according to the terms of in-
ternational law and of existing treaties with neutral
States.
"Done on board tha frigate of his Majesty the
Emperor of the French, the Nomesis, in the Macao
'oads, on the 10th of December, 1857.
"lIIGAULT DE GENOUILLY."

THE RIVER PLATE. .
We have rece.ved the folloWing telegram from
Li bun :

N FEB. 7.
The Avon has arrived withLISB 283,0000, livres ?)
for England.
Civil war had brok€n out in the River Plate.
Revelon had defeated the tzorlps of Aloattvideo
and surrounded the t,
At the lags; date (he sth of Janu try) tip Eng_
lish, French, Bnizilln, and American Mantles had
lauded.
Advices from Rio do Janeiro of the 14th of

January state that the Ournberland, Admiral Wallis,
had left for Muntevid,o.
Exchange at Bahia, on the 18th of January, 24.
At Pernambuco, ou the 21st of January, the
exchange was 24.

THE BLACK SEA.
A serious disturbance 1.1!4, been occasioned at the
Turkish port or Tr-bizood, on the Black Sei, by the
refusal of the Russian Consul to allow a party of
Circassian slave merchants, who had touched at
Trebizond with a cargo of women and children from
their own country, to continue their journey to
Constantinople, where the slaves were to have been
sold. It is said that the Circassians, with their
armed followers, attacked the Russian Consul's
r ouse, and threatened to kill him. The other
European residents, headed by the French and
English Consuls, armed themselves to the number
of three hundred, and surrounded the Russian
Consulate to protect it against this violence. After
some delay the Pacha of Trebizond interfered, and
order was re-established.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PLYMO UTH, &WILDA:Y.
The screw steamer Celt, Captain Brown, arrived
here to-day with mails, dm., from the Cape. Her
mails are Cape of Good Hope, December 30 ; St.
llelena' Jan. G ; and Ascension, 12.
She brings a full cargo, valued at .10,000/.,
consisting chiefly of wine and wool. She has two
cases of specie Twenty passengers came in the
Celt, including Lady Grey, the wife. of Sir G. Grey,
the Governor-General of the Cape ndony.
Six eastern members of the Legislative Council
resigned their seats in disgust, on the passing of a
bill providing facilities for the construction of rail-
roads in the western provinces.
The only vessel that has touched at the Cape
during the month with troops for India was, on
Deo. 10, the Malabar barque, from London to
Madras, with 132 men Royal Artillery, under com-
mand of Major Lawford. She reported all well, and
left for India on the 14th. •

The steamer Himalaya left Table Bay on the
2d of December, with 2UO horses for India. The
Euphrates also left Alga Bay with a part of the
80th Regiment, and the Lodore with a part of the
6tb. The Blue Jacket sailed December 29th for
India, having taken on board in Table Bay 225
,lorses, with a large supply of forage.
The ship Lady liennaway arrived at East Lon-
don, with Irish female emigrants, and went ashore
:shortly after entering ttie port and became
a complete wreck. The passengers had been
previously lan,ted in safety, and a number of them
have already been comfortably "settled." About
70 proceeded to Graham's Town, where it is said
they were also well received. A commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the circumstance attending
the loss of the vessel has attributed it to "groat
mismanagement, or neglect, or bath."

The steamer Bombay GAS' le, with a portion of
the Queen of Oude's retinue, arriYed at the Cape, on
the 14th December, and has left again for India.
They landed in Cape Town and lodged at one of the
principal hotels nuritig the vessel's stay.
Lieutenant-Colonel D'Urban, the new command-
ant of British Kaffraria (and son of the late Sir
Benjamin D'Urban), had arrived from England
uy the Ida Zieglar.
The richest man in South Africa, Mr. Jonas
ran der Poel, died on the 14th December, leaving,
t is said, some 400,0007. or 500,0001. to be divided
equally between six relatives, cne of whom is the
wife of Lieut. Jamieson, R.N., the port captain.