Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-11-18
FROM THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE.

that SirJ Ohm BowRING, Mr.. BoURB0ULoN, and Mr..
McLANE, the English, French, and United States
Commissioners, had had several consultations on the
subject of the revisal of the Treaties with the Chi
nese Government, and that they were about to pro-
ceed to the North in the British steamer Rather
and United States steamer Powhatan. The Mail !"
adds that it should not be surprised learn that they
had attempted to proceed to Pekin.
The "Mail" contains the address Of all the Ameri-
can merchants and residents in China to CON- PERRY
the Of his departure for the United States The ad
dress expresses the high entertained by the gers
of the pursued by the Commodore in his late
mission and their admiration Of his success together
with his reply The addressers conclude with asking him
to accept durable memorial Of his visits China
testimony Of their estimation of his public services,
which is stated to be handsome service Of plate to be
manufactured in New York
The operations of the Surveying Squadron had been
somewhat nterfered with by the demands Of the
ships for other service The command of Com. Perrys
squadron devoved his departure, upon Capt ABDorr
The Mall gives the following programme Of the future
movements of the several American vessels:
"The soreshp Supply sailed the I'd for the United
States via Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope. The
steamer Susquehanna with the storeshp Southampton in
tow left 4h for Japan The Susquehanna proceeds
to San Francisco and from thence for Philadelphia via
Cape Rorn does also the Southampton after the Mis-
sssppi relieves her Of the coal not taken by the Susque
hanna The Lexington sailed the 9th for the States
touching at Mauritius and the Cape The Mississippi
leaves for Japan to-day and having coaed there from the
Southampton will go home via the Sandwich Islands and
San Francisco The steamer John Hancock and schooner
Fennmoye Cooper have been temporarily detached from
the Surveying Expedition for the service Of the United
States Commissioner and sailed for Shanghai the 9th
to be followed the 10th 18th by the Pow
hatan leaving the soop Macedonian at Hong Kong The
Vandalia is at Shanghai and the sloop j. P. Kennedy
Queen q In
Porpose leave to-day for Corea and the Bonn Islands
surveying cruise" .tA
We make the subjoined extracts from the Hong
Kong Register of the 1lth September:
COMMODORE PERRY AND THE JAPAN SQUADRON
Commodore proceeds to the United States via England
in the outgoing mail steamer having brought his mis-
sion to these Eastern Seas to an emneny successful
issue In his country he will doubtless be received
with oil the honors due to successful dplomatist. In
former issues have extended to Commodore PERRY
faint note of applause for the humane and statesmanlke
in which the negotiations with Japan were
menced, and his departure would congratulate him
their happy issue The general conduct of the
of the feet believe to have been exemplary One un
fortunate took place at Loochoo by which
man lost his fc Since last issue courts martial
have sat upon two prisoners. We have learnt the
particulars Of the cases. but have heard that both
were cases Of Observation-Disclosures aggravated
than the other In the Of who had kicked
an officer the sentenced him to the loss of all his
Of pay and dismissal from the service the
first American port which the vessel to which he be-
longed should touch The second was Of a more
serious character: it was that of man presenting
loaded musket at officer. The court sentenced the
prisoner to DEATH but the Commodore in virtue of his
prerogatvo transmitted this sentence into that of mpr
sonment for life This leniency, regret to learn,
caused some bad feeling arise between the officers who
formed the court-martial and the Commodore. The
Susquehannd, Captain BUCHANAN, gentleman of whom
the service may well be proud left for the States via the
Sandwich Islands and California the 4h September
in which vessel Commodore RrNGooLD was passenger
The Mississippi will leave for the States this day. taking
the route.
CANTON NEIGHBoRHooD.-Durngth tho last few days
the dread which possessed the minds Of the respect
able class Of the people has been somewhat aayed The
various attenpts made by the insurgents to gain the city
have proved rutess Our last accounts inform that
the fighting which had been daily going to the norhward
and westward OF the city had ceased and that the BAN
dit some people call them patriot had retired from its
neghborhood whether with the hope of increasing their
strength and again returning to its attack deter
minedy, whether having given up all belief in their
ability to take il, no one can determine. We believe
would not speak confdently-that the disafected
spirits in China confined to the seaboard and the
country adjoining the great rivers Perhaps not out
of twenty of the inhabitants of this province know Of any
disturbances existing in it. With all this it must be
confessed that the Government shows lamentable
weakness it has been able to regain from the in
surgents Fat-shan, and the country Immediately
rounding the city still remains in state of dread
fusion, and anarchy
The YANG.Tsz KIAya.--A most interesting account Of
this magnificent river is given in the North China
Herald of the 18th August is from the pen Of the
Rev. L. G. BRIDGMAN We extract from it the follow
ing passages:
Well he's this river been called the Grde of China,
and rich and magnificent grde it s-connecting to-
gether all the central provinces of the empire situated be-
tween Tibet and Koko Nor the west and the Pacific
Ocean the east Its entire length through all its
windings under its various Names hardly be
less but rather more than three thousand miles And
if regard be had to its tributaries and to the cities
which its waters give access to the richness of the soil
and the variety Of the its banks and above
ALL to the vast population scattered far and wide the
Valleys and pains and hillsdes drained by it and its
confuents this Child of the Ocean has equal
globe This great river and its branches, natural and
artificial form inland communication with by far the
largest and the richest portion Of the whole eighteen pro-
vinces of China proper.
ssThs Child of the Ocean has no equal the face Of
the earth. The Amazon, where it disembogues, may
present greater bulk of waters and the Mississippi may
travel through longer Those may rival this
also in the variety but not in the abundance OF the
productions found along their extensive banks Were
the valley of the Yangtsz well explored that of
the Great Western Valley those Artesian wells
and golden sands and btuminous strata &C. known to
exist in Szchuen and other provinces duly examined,
there would be found in all probability Of the rich
est mineral localities in the world
But, whatever may be tho abundance richness of
these productions they nothing in value when