The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-03

interesting ffou CHINA.
ruH DEPARTURE or TN. UNITED STATES COMMISSION
IN pOR H0MB-THR PR00RBsS or III. REVOLUTION
THE RUSSIAN SQUADRON.
from the China Mail, Jan. q.
Amongst the passenger. from Chin. X the Z and ..
Marshall the United states Minister, whose career 10
China has been short the ordinary operation Of the
Y % often sseas.S to tie the tyranny
party The period Of Col narshals service has been
little more than DSs nss eeen
China was competent to deal out Of which more
advantages might have been obtained But having sent
an able Minister to China, the great republic left
him helpless for action; though doubt not his de-
spatches, than the few papers from his pen
which have reached the public evince unusually clear
views Of international and commercial Justice, which,
honestly and wisely followed calculated to exat the
character Of his nation with the Chinese The principles
he laid down. and the he thereby compelled to
adopt created great cutlery and active opposition and
small misrepresentation from those whose individual
interests affected but the time will when the
able discharge of his functions will be admitted and it
win be found that under the circumstances could
have achieved for the true interests and reputation
Of his country than Humphrey Marshall.
Beyond the little news extracted from weekly is
there is nothing real to communicate but among
That the northern army of the rebels is not making
much progress and has captured neither the capital Of
Picking nor the port Of Ten tsn so that the reports
originated in China, and circulated by the home papers
months ago, were very premature, and do not seem
likely to be speedily realized.
2. That the reception of the French at Marking
aueurs i'll for improved intercourse with foreigners in
the event Of the rebels being ultimately successful
8. That Shanghae ia likely soon to be retaken by,
restored to- the imperastthe latter perhaps the more
probable conspiracy for surrender having been re-
Gently discovered and two hundred of the conspirators
put to DEATH but the actuang spirit is sl alive and
waiting convenient opportuni to manifest ITSELF and
while foreign confidence in the city rabble Is waxing
faint the following paragraph, copied from the North
China Herald of the 21st January, shows how little de-
serving they are OF sympathy
city
apparent cause Why these shots should BE- ared Dr.
therefore went into the city and inquired At Lewis oos
y s sa Il battery sed the
Of impsraiists soldiers lying there
that energetic has been made to the rebel
in the cywho have promised to be more cautious
TO these rumors we may add the facts, that Canton
queter and that the exports from China
never on larger scale.
ITrom the China Mail, Jan. 19.]
1t would appear the Gar does not anticipate very
pressing occasion for his ships of in Europe while in
these where before they unknown the Russian
squadron promises soon to come little short Of the Amer
lean or the English
At Japan, somewhere not very far from II, the
50gun ship Palas and the steamer Vostock, BESIDES
perhaps corvette time ago reported at the Cape
for Sydney, thence to Japan The rigate Aurora and
the soop Navarin according to the Danish papers, des
Portsmouth in October and the Java Bods of the
18th December, among it's October English states
that the frigate Diana and brig Ncman formerly re-
ported for China, were daily expected to follow.
From the China Mail Jan. 10
On the night of Thursday, the 7th, an entertainment
gwen board the United States steamship Misss
sippi, similsr to those that have afforded SO much
qualification board the Powhatan and Susquehanna
On this last occasion Captain Lee made material ad
don to the and supper-by fol-
lowing the latter with dance on the starboard main
deck of his magnificent vessel. Most Of the fair
and all the higher officials in Hong Kong present
and none Of them seemed in q hurry to leave.