Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-04-05


LATE AND INTERESTING FROM CHINA.--By
| advices from China to the 10th of December,
via California we learn that piracies frequent
in the neighborhood of Hong Kong; and that the
| China have been visited by one or two severe
| typhoons. At Ningpo the cholera was very pre-
valent and fatal among the Chinese. The rice
crop Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather
was very abundant and prices lower than they
have been for years. The revolution in the
north is making fearful strife, although the
government has hundred thousand troops in the
field The rebels had taken possession of the chief
city OF the \ oung-gan district, after desperate
battle, IN which the government troops were de-
feated. The insurgents subsequently beheaded a
large number OF the citizens. Various other
defeats OF the government forces are recorded
In fact the whole country seems to be in n state
OF insurrect1on, attended by rapine and murder.
Mr.. Walsh in letter to the New York Jour-
nal OF Commerce from Paris, states that the sto-
ries published in the English papers about the
massacres in Paris by the Soldery, are not true.
He says:
''The French soldiery have been under my OBJ
servation, in the of the fifteen years past.
IN nearly every garrison town in the country in
the largest parties, and single; and it has never
happened to me to witness single instance of
brutality or any misconduct whatever. Taken
en- maSse-as a body or class, they are the best
behaved people l have KNOWN
TYPHOID FEvER.-The GAINESVILLE (Ohio)
Courier of the 3Oth ult. says:
We understand this disease is prevailing to n
fearful extent, in the neighborhood of Elizabeth
town. village near the northwest corner of this
county. The physicians are of opinion that the
disease has been producedf from the decomposition
OF some five or six hundred sheep, which have
died of the rot i'll the immediate vicinity during
the past winter.
LIBERATION OF THE IRISH STATE PRISONERS.
The N. Y. Tribune is indebted to the Editor of
The IRISH american for slip from The Dublin
Freeman's Journal of March 20, containing the
| following important announcement, which is be-
leved to be reliable
| 1t is reported that orders have actually been is
sued from the Colonial Office or shortly will be is
sued directing the immediate release of the Irish
| Exlles, subject to the condition that they are
| not to return to any other port of the British
Islands. Mr. Whteside had been an active in
tercessor for liberation.
| According to the arrangements lately made on
the subject the holy places at Jerusalem, the
Ottoman Porte has decided on restoring to the
French: L. The key of the outer door of the
great Church of Bethlehem and those of the side
doors, so that with the Greek monks, they will
be henceforth able to enter and 90 out freely:
2. Two gardens belonging and adjoining to the
church, and which the Greeks had taken NOS
session OF. g. In the Church of the Holy Sc
pulchre at Jerusalem. the French will receive a
portion of the lower part of the seven arches of
the Holy Virgi in. For more than a century the
French have not had the use of the gallery
built over them. 4. The Franks and Latns
will be admitted to a share in the tomb of the
Holy Virgin, placed under the brook of Cedron,
| Ill the valley of Jehosophat.
CAPITAL PUNIsHMENT.-The Legislature of
Michigan, some years since, abolished capital pun
ishment and sufficient time has elapsed to test
fairly the operation of the law. At the court re-
Gently held in Detroit, the Grand Jury in their
| presentment say:
The increase ofthe crime of murder and man
slaughter since the abolition of capital punishment,
not only among us, but throughout our State has
become most manifest and alarming. The records
OF the courts OF this county, show that each of
the four TERMS there has been at least one aggra-
waited case of murder and at one term two cases;
whereas, previously to the existing law, and since
our State organization, conviction of murder
had ever been had by any of the courts of the
State. The facts were regarded. as proof of
an alarming disrespect FOR under courts of hui
man life, legitmately referable to change of the
| legislation upon this subject.
The Yacht America.-A letter dated Malta,
Feb. 6, says: ''The America, the wonder of the
day among yachts, arrived on the dinst. She came
in beautiful STYLE after laying for four hours in
heavy gale from the N. N. E. Her owner,
Lord de Banquiere is loud in her praises as yes
sci of remarkable speed aud buoyancy. She will
lie within four points ofthe wind and do her fifteen
knots an hour with ease. Since leaving England,
she has had fair share of heavy weather. and
had there been any truth in the pfognostics of her
detractors, that her masts would be carried away
in bad weather. and other similar folles, there
every possible opportunity for their being rea-
liked. But the pretty craft noby did her duty do
ing fourteen knots for whole night when run
ming with her but jib set, and setting all bad
weather at defiance. During her stop she has
been visited by numbers of persons. The America
will proceed Tomorrow to Alexandria.
For LIBERIA.-The New York Colonization
Society propose sending vessel out from the city
of New York in all this month.
The next expedition for Liberia, under the aus
plces of the American Colonization Society, will
leave Baltimore on the LIST of May.