The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-26 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Dioniteur publishes a decree promulgating
the convention of peace as well as the treaty of
commerce lately concluded between France and
China. The treaty consists of 42 articles, extend-
ing over nearly 11 columns of the journal, and
regulating the manner in which the diplomatic and
other relations are to be carried on between the
authorities and accredited agents of the' two coun-
tries ; they fix the conditions of reciprocity which
the subjects of the two countries are to respectively
enjoy ; enumerate the ports of China which are to
be henceforth opened to French commerce, in addi-
tion to those to which Europeans were formerly
admitted ; and state the rules on which the trade
is to be carried on, and the other arrangements for
conducting the customs operations, such as are
usually to be found in commercial treaties. The
document is followed by a series of six complimen-
tary articles. One of them declares that the ma-
gistrate of Si-lin-hien, who was guilty of the murder
of the French missionary, Auguste Chapdelaine,
shall be degraded and declared incapable of ever
holding another public situation; a second states
that an indemnity shall be paid to the French who
suffered in their property by the pillage and incen-
diarism of the populace of Canton ; and a third
regulates the manner in which the war indemnity
of 2,000,000 of taels is to be paid to France in six
equal annual payments. The above documents are
followed by a customs tariff fixing the import and
export duties on sundry articles of merchandise.

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.

The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Company's steamer Kangaroo, from New York on
the 12th inst., and which touched at Queenstown
yesterday, has arrived here.
She brings the following later intelligence from
New York.

The Star of the West had returned to New York
with troops, and with her bows damaged by a shot.

The South Carolinian Secretaries of State and of
War had visited Fort Sumter under a flag of truce,
but nothing had transpired.
Senator Seward made a grand conciliatory speech
on the 12th inst., in which he said, " Mutual re-
crimination and congressional compromises are not
likely to save the Union. The constitution of the
United States and the laws made in pursuance thereto
are supreme. The laws of the land are paramount to
all state legislation. The Union can only he dis-
solved by the voluntary consent of the people of
the United States in the manner prescribed by th•
constitution. The Congress ought, if it can, to
redress any real grievances of the offended States,
and should then supply the President with the
means necessary to maintain the authority of the
Union." Mr. Seward then proceeded to point out
the numerous advantages of the Union, while a dis-
solution, he said, " will be perpetual civil war." He
concluded by saying " that when the angry excite-
ment had subsided, and calmness had resumed its
sway, and not till then, would he advise that a
convention of the people be assembled to consider
what amendments in the organic national law ought
to be made."

A prospectus has been issued of the India Cotton
Company with a capital of £250,000 in £lO shares. The
propcsal is to establish agencies in Guzerat to purchase
cotton of the ryots direct, and to use every endeavour to
improve the process of picking and cleaning, and to pro-
mote the introduction of the best machinery.
A STREET FIGHT AT NEW ORLEANS.--At New
Orleans, on the morning of the 31st ult., Mr. Victor Marot
and Mr. John Flathers, both citizens of respectability and
opulence, and both sugar brokers, met on the lev6e, where
they had been in the habit of meeting in the way of busi-
ness. Each had his long auger, with which casks are per-
forated. They met face to face, spoke a few words, and
simultaneously drew their revolvers, and commenced firing
at each other. Flathers emptied his pistol (five shots), and
Marot fired one shot, some say two—they closed as. they
fired. After the firing ceased they advanced upon each
other with their augers. Marot received a gash on his
forehead; Flathers had one of his thumbs cut in fending
off Marot's auger. Marot staggered back and fell, and was
picked up by his friends, and carried to an adjacent office,
where he expired in a few minutes. lie had been shot
twice through the right thigh and once in the stomach,
this last being the fatal shot. Flathers received no other
injury than the damage to his thumb. Soon after the
shooting, Flathers surrendered himself. There had been a
previous difficulty between them.—Boston Taper.