The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-29 00:00:00

CHINA.

We have news from Hong Kong to June 12 ;
Shanghai, June 3. The following is from the sum-
mary of the China Mail

The state of affairs in Japan for some time back has
been such that the absence of news implies a maintenance
of those friendly relations with the powers of this almost
newly-opened country which were resumed upon the recall
of Mr. Alcock from Yokohama, assuming those to have
been suspended at the time of that gentleman's flight from
Yedo. We have no information regarding Japanese matters
at present, beyond the facts that a newspaper has long been
on the eve of establishment at Nagasaki, and that a work
entitled " The Elements of Japanese Grammar" has been
published at the London Mission, Shanghae, with the name
of Mr. Rutherford Alcock as author. We do not attach
much importance to the rumour that the Japanese will
send embassies to the treaty powers for the purpose of beg-
ging off that article in the various treaties which opens Yedo.
from Jan. Ist, 1862. The matter is of some importance,
and until the facts are correctly ascertained it is unneces-
sary to comment upon them.
We are informed that all is tranquil at Pekin, and again
it must be admitted that no better news could be desired.
The totally new circumstances of our ambassador's presence
in that city are apt to produce a little anxiety, not less for
his safety than for his behaviour ; and it is something to
know that affairs in Pekin have in no way been disturbed
since the date of, our last intelligence. From Tientsin we
learn that everything goes on smoothly, that trade is mov-
ing, and that our friends, military and civilian, are happy
and comfortable. Tho heat has been considerable there,
about noon reaching 89,deg. on the thermometer, but this
high temperature has much less of what is unhealthy about

it than the heat of the tropics has. We reported some weeks
ago that the insurgents were approaching in the direction
of Tientsin; it now seems that they have disappeared from
the Che-li and Shan-tang provinces, and are supposed to be
in Honam. Their movements, and the reasons for those
movements, are a subject of very vague speculation at the
best.

The following account, which we find in the
.11corth China Herald of Ist June, is the first shadow
of a misunderstanding between ourselves and the,

rebels :
On the 24th ult. Captain R. Dew and one or two other
naval and military officers went up the river in her Majesty's
gunboat Flamer, to deliver a letter to the commander-in-
chief of the rebel force in this neighbourhood, intimat-
ing that any interference on their part with boats engaged
in conveying silk for foreigners irom the producing districts
to Shanghae would be treated as a hostile step, and warn-
ing them that if they approached within two days' march
of Ningo they would come into collision with the British
forces. They proceeded about forty miles up the river in
the steamer, and then in ship's boats, by creeks, to Tsingpo,
when a small party, consisting of Captain Dew, Mr. Ala-
baster, and a boy carrying a white flag on a boat hook, left
the boat and advanced towards the gate. On their ap-
proach the walls were manned, and a fire from the gingalls
and guns was kept up upon them. They exhibited the
letter, to indicate the object of their visit, but the firing
continued. No other course was left than to retire ; this
ltheya ewhere
en did
khi afterre
git in
the
the letter in the cleft of a bamboo
and
oground. This occurred at the, same
p
Imperialists were lately repulsed and
s sticking
placing
the
twenty-two of the Chinese Foreign Legion killed or
wounded. They then returned to the Flamer, and arrived
here late on last Saturday night. The French steamer
Contest, with a small iron steamer having on board the
French admiral and other officers, accompanied the British
party up the river, but returned without proceeding to
Tsingpo.

We believe a party will go up again nexi, week to demand
an apology, on which occasion the gunboat will be taken
within range of the city wall.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

HONG KONG.--It would be false to say things hail not
improved in this colony, and yet the improvement is of a
very dubious character, and does not proceed from this
market, but rather from those of the recently opened ports.
Stocks of all piece goods are considerably reduced, and are
now by no means so excessive as they were a month since.
Still the local demand fails entirely, settlements being con-
fined exclusively to those of damaged goods at auction.
SHANGHAI.—There was rather less actual business doing
at Shanghai in piece goods, which seems as if it were to
become more of a distributing port than it has hitherto been,
in consequence of the establishment of branch European
houses up the river and in the Gulf.
of last
TEA.—The settlements of tea since the departury
mail were inconsiderable, with small stocks;
the latter were,
however, very firmly held. The former comprise 1,000
chests Ningchow, at Tls. 24 to 25; and 200 chests of very
inferior flowery Pekoe, at Tie. 20, leaving 6,000 chests con-
gou, and 700 chests flowery Pekoe in stock. Greens, as far
however, where stocks were held
as Shanghae was concerned, were inactive. A good business
had been done at Ningpe,

for higher rates. d noticed in our last had somewhat
SILK.—The &man
in
consequence of the recent advance in exchange,
subsided,
political news from home, and the risks of
aconndvdeiysincogursgithe:tans of purchase into the country, which
has been so forcibly exhibited, as above alluded to.
Exchange has advanced ; closing rates being, on London
Bank six months' sight, 6s 41-d to 6s sd; credits; Os 5d to
6,51 d. On India three days' sight, 309 rs. to 310 rs. per
100 taels.

THE POTATO DISEASE.—In several of the gar-
dens round Bristol the potato disease has manifested itself
with considerable virulence
'during the last few days. At
Stapleton a whole crop went in one day, and, though the
owner had them dug up in t'ae hope of saving the tubers,
the latter were found to, be affected, so rapid was the spread
of the disease. In rpotato fields the ravages of the blight
have not been so bad , and it is generally noticed that gar-
den crops are the fiest affected.
[AnvEnnsnati2rr.l—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—
Weakness—Warsting.—When the weather is warm the de-
licate in constif ,ution lose their appetite, their sleep is dia.
turbed, and tb eir spirits depressed : when the weather is
hot, the robin A and vigorous constantly require some cooling
medicine to 'preserve their health. The stomach in both is
the erring organ, which Holloway's Pills at once correct
and invigorate. In weakly women and young children it
is better treatment to trust to his Ointment, which should
be diligently rubbed over the stomach and right side till
consul erable absorption ensues. It penetrates and speedily
Ices a specific change for the better in the digestive
Pfdt I iri; estitiOnsn'beOol:4oß perfect,
by mainting their improved action for a time,
and health and stroatax returus

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Reproduction of the great drama of "The Dead Heart."
THIS EVENING, the great Adelplti drama. THE DEAD
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too, Eburne, Smith, Romer ; Miss Woolgar and Miss Kate
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To conclude with (12th time) THE PRETTY HORSE-
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Mrs. Chatterley,

Doors open at half past 6—Commence at 7.

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Verdi's New Opera, UN r,m,Lo IN MASCHERA,
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the best Negro Delineators of the day. The extraordinary
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the most grotesque performance in London. Mrs. Lawrence
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Admission, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is.
RETURN of SAM COWELL to ENGLAND, \ill() will
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years.
RE-DECORATION of this Magnificent HALL, executed
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This
direction
of Samuel Field, Esq., architect, is now comp.
popular Place of Amusement now surpasses its former
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SPACIOUS PROMENADE, forms the MOST ELEGANT
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LIGHTING.

F 0 R D,