Polynesian., 1854-07-15
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EY-:s Absorbed day and night by the vast occupa-
tion Heaven has intrusted to me- says the En-
peror of China, in public document, 50 / have
need of assistant actuated by the same spirit as
myself Nin-lOu- -ROu, the lady he proposes to
raise to this high position, is lady of honorable
extraction, who is highly esteemed in the Palace,
where her exemplary character is shown by the ex-
actness with which she performs her domestic du-
ties-not even shrinking from washing either fine
or coarse linen with her own hands. She is, there
fore, to be in the imperial costume, and to be at
the head of the ladies of the '' six paviions." A
sensible fellow, the Emperor of China, he is.
RA Chicago paper says that, nineteen years
ago. there were less than five thousand white in
habitants in all the vast region of the beautiful
country lying between Lake Michigan and the Pa
cifc Ocean! Now the number is between one and
two millions Twelve years ago, Chicago contain
ed a po ulatiOn of five thousand Now it has over
sixty thousand Twelve years ago, eight or twelve
days' passage between Chicago and New York was
considered quick time in then favorable
Now two days is the average; and it is soon to be
reduced to but three hours more than one day !
Six years ago Chicago had not single foot of
railroad completed. Now it has four hundred and
eighty-twO miles completed in the limits of the
State alone, and over two thousand in process of
construction.
NEUTRAL RELATIoSs-The Washington cores
agreement between Mr. Buchanan and the British
Ministry, mentioned yesterday, states that simi-
lar understanding has been arrived at with the Gov
ernment of France. For some time the French
government endeavored to get Mr.. Mason, our Min
lister to acknowledge their right to seize American
seamen if they should find them on board of any
privateers which might be fitted out under the Rus
sian flag, and trying them pirates. This posi-
ton the American Minister would not consent to,
on the ground that our Government was fully able
to punish its own citizens for any violation of our
laws. The French government have at length
abandoned this pretensiOn, and consented TO sim
liar arrangement to that which has been made
with England, namely, the protection of our flag,
etc.
RUssn.-The Emperor is extremely active, and
goes backward and forward between Cronstradt and
ST. Petersburg almost incessantly. Several regl-
ments of guards are ordered to Finland. Prince
Paskiewitch has granted permission to neutral
ships at present in the different mouths of the
Danube, TO depart freely until the 10Th of May
in ST. Petersburg war tax is levied at 300 silver
roubles on merchants of the 20 first guild, leo on
merchants of the second guild, 100 on the third,
and 10 per cent, on all house rents.
LOADING FOR new YoRK.-The barque ". 6. Lelois
is now leading m the neighbcrhocd of California wharf
with hardware and other merchandise for the New York
market Many parties around the city having Surplus
stocks, are taking this opportunity Of sending their
goods to more profitable market than California
New York shippers might themselves the trouble
of sending goods by purchasing the stocks already here
and which, for want of a market, now shipping
Eastward-ARa California.