Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-13
TIE NEWS BY THE PACIFIC.

nounced long since.
TIE NEWS BY THE PACIFIC.
By the arrival of the Pacific, We have cur
files of London and Liverpool papers to the
31st ult A Hong Kong correspondent Of the
London Times, under date of April IL, writes
as follows:
1.-THE mail of the oath of February is over
due, and the outward steamer has been de-
tanned twenty four hours, as DR.. Bowring is
expected to be passenger in the one to Or
rive.
The most prominent and interesting intel
ligence we have to communicate by this mail
is the authentic account Of the successful ne
gotiat!Ons of his Excellency Commodore Perry,
Of the United States Navy, in Japan; and there
is great reason for believing that we may
shortly have particul ars of the treaty and the
ports to be opened, as on the 9th of March
Commodore Perry was to have grand meet
| ing near Jeddo with the princes and ministers
of the Emperor of Japan, appointed, it is said,
for the consideration and conclusion, and most
probably the ratification, of the treaty. From
! all We learn, there can be no doubt that Japan
will be opened to all nations, and each have
the faculty Of making treaty. The United
States ship Saratoga was to be despatched
| after the 9th for Panama, to convey the
important news to Washington.
The Unite't steamer Susq uehannah arrived
here on the % instant, having left the bay Of
Jeddo on the 25th ult., and is to be held at
the service of the United States commissioner
Mr.. M'Lane.
"The ports selected ere said to be Ozakain
"a As north latitude and 80 Is longitude, and
Mat mai, in the Straits of Sangan.
''The Emperor Of Japan was dead. very
old man, but new Emperor was enthroned.
1.-The report given of the Russian Admiral
having made treaty with the Emperor turns
out to be unfounded.
1t would seem from the following which We
copy from the London Press, that the British
cabinet is far from being united on the war
question:
1t appears that negotiations for peace were
in active progress very shortly after the dec
laraton of war, and that, although that mani
festo seemed to indicate conclusion of these
| endeavols, the efforts have been since renewed
| and only few weeks ago proposals on the
part of Russia were made % the British Cabi-
net of so conciliatory nature that the Rus
| sian party in our Cabinet were anxious for
| their acceptance. 1t was even intimated. in
order to further this result, that the feelings
Of the Emperor Napoleon conceded with those
of Lord Aberdeen. We have reasons to be-
| instance involved, to say the least a virtual
| concession of all those conditions which had
been insisted upon by the allies previous to the
declaration Of war. The anti Russian party
in the British Cabinet, however, succeeded,
though with difficulty, in the rejection of these
propositions; and On opinion was expressed
| that the time for settlement on the status
qao had passed.
The following extract of letter from a
house at Newcastle-on-Tyne in the Russian
| trade, furnishes an instance of perplexities
still prevailing regarding the alleged blockade
of the Baltic:
s'The blockade in the Baltic is farce. The
Customs at this port refused to clear Neither
lands vessel with Goals for Riga. The Dutch
Consul General in London then applied to the
Government, when orders were sent down th at
all neutral vessels were to be cleared for Rus
sian ports, provided they had no munitions of
war;
WEsT.END RUMORs.
An English journal states, with great Sc
robustness, that an emigrant with q wooden leg
is not allowed to land in any port of the United
States. 1t adds, that the regulations here are
also very strict with regard to the "lame and
blind"
1t is o curious circumstance, that while
we are here complaining of The dearness of
provisions, in Widdn, the seat of war in Tur
key, with armies all around consuming the
products Of the country, they were sold at the
following prices On the 18th of March last:
Wine per quart, one penny sterling.
Bread loaf of 2 lbs. 3 qrs., one penny
Best beet, best CUTS one penny per lb.
Eggs, very dear, farthing each.
A fat duck. eight pence.
A chicken, three pence.
goose, six pence.
lib. turkey, twelve pence.
"A roasting pig of 10 lbs, two shilling and
eight pence. Other things in proportion.
Fifty miles of the Egyptian Railway have
been opened for traffic; the last passengers
from India travelled on it.
The late Emperor Alexander used to call
Cronstadt ''the lock Of his street door, Adj
miral Napier is about to attempt picking it.
The celebrated DR.. Rafles, Of Liverpool.
was recently arrested. while travelling in Italy,
because he wore white hat. and for having
in his writing-desk a pen-wiper that looked
like cockade.
The direct taxes in Austria are about to
be raised Is per cent