, 1854-12-02
Twenty days later from China.

By the arrival of the steam frigate Mis-
sissipp at Honolulu, and the Susquehana
at this port, we have dates from Hong
kong.to September llth-twenty days la
ter than previous adyices. We are under
many obligations to the Rev. f. c. Bittin-
ger, Chaplin of the Susquehanna, for files
of papers and other favors.
PRosPEcTs OF a TREATY. = The China
Mail, of Sent lth, says Sir John Bow
ring, NJ. de Bourbulon, and Mr. McLanc,
the British, Frcuch and United States pie
nipotentiarieS, have lately had several con-
situations, here ard at Macao, on the sub
ject, it is understood, of the revisal of the
treaties; and as their eXcellencies intend
shortly to proceed to the Northjin the Rat
tier and Powhauan, We should not be at
all astonished to learn, ere they return,
that they had attempted to go on to Pc
king,
ADMIRAL STIRLING AND THE british FLEET
OF Admiral Strings intentions, says
the China Mail the only thing known is
that his Excellency, in the Winchester
with the Encounter and Barraconta in
company, was at the mouth Of the Yang
tszkiang when the Lady Mary Wood
passed, waiting for the Styx, which was
coaling at Shanghae; and that as soon as
she Joined, the fleet was TO proceed to Ja-
pan, and thence, it is believed to tile north.
Admiral Laguerre in the French frigate
La Jean dare, was to have joined the eX-
pedition, but his vessel was unfortunately
run ashore on the North bank of the Yang
tsz'-kiang through the unskillfulnes of the
American pilot, and received such injuries
that it will it is said, be three or four
months before she can proceed to sea. The
Grecian is to remain at Shanghae, where
she will shortly he joined by the Rather
and Racehorse; the Spartan remains at
Hongkong, the Bittern at Annoy, and the
Comus at Canton. The Saracen has gone
to Fuh-chau, to survey the entrance to the
river Min,
MOVEMENTS OF TIE U. S. SoUADRoN.-
The same paper says on the departure Of
Commodore Perry, the command of the
u S. Squadron in the East devolves on
Captain Abbott. The store ship Supply
sailed on the I'd Sept. for the United States
ria Batavia aud, the Cape of Good Hope.
The Lexington sailed on the 9th, for the
States, touching at Maurtius and the
Cape. The steamer John Hancock and
Fennimorc Cooper have been temporarily
detached from the Surveying Expedition,
for the service of the U. s. Commissioner,
and sailed for Shanghae on the 9th; to be
followed on the 10th or 18th by the steam
er Powhatan, leaving the sloop Macedoni-
an in Hongkong Ths Vandalia is at
Shanghae; and the sloops S. P. Kennedy,
and steamer Queen (whose charter has
been renewed) are at Canton. The Vim
cennes and Porpoise leave to-day for Corea
and the BONN Islands, on surveying
cruise.
TESTIMONIALS TO COMMODORE PERRY.-
The Mail contains long address from all
the American merchants in Canton to Com
modore Perry, on the eve of his departure
for England, in which they compliment him
in the highest terms for his services in ne
gotiating the treaty with japan, and in
protecting American interests in China
/, They offered him memorial Of their es-
TEEN in the shape of q handsome service of
plate, to be manufactured in New York.
Commodore Perry made an appropriate
reply.
CANTON BELEAGURED BY TIE IysURGENTs.
We have dates from Canton down to
Sept. 10th. The Mail gives the following
account Of the deplorable condition Of the
province of Kwang-Tung, of which Can
ton is the capital .,-....t..
From Canton, the news is still very mel
ancholy, though slight glimmering Of
hope seems to break through the darkness
that quiet will be speedily restored, in the
neighborhood of the provincial city at all
events, through dissensions in the Rebel
ranks, which have grown to such height
that those to the east Of the city lately
rendered their assistance to the Mandarins
in an attack on the band to the north; but
their offer was declined They are all, how
ever, beginning to feel discouraged by their
long continued non-success, and destitution
Of supplies. On the east, they have been
dispersed, and q leader captured; in the
north, they have effected nothing; to the
west, they have been driven back by the
braves belonging to the ninety-six villages,
who some time ago banded together in self
defence; and at the south, they are fully
occupied by dissensions among themselves
In the thirty skirmishes about Canton,
the Mandarins have been victorious in all
except four There has been none since
the I'd September. The encampment of
the Rebels to the north of the city is at
Siaukiang, about IL miles from the north
ern wall; and the eastern encampment is
about the same distance from the eastern
wall, at San-po-heu. The leader of the
band on the north is said to be Ho-aluk, of
Tung-kwau celebrity The statements as
to the numbers at these encampments vary
from several thousands.
Great distress from want Of food pre-
walls in the city among the poor, and some
"soup-kitchens" are being opened by the
benevolent, to supply congee at about one
third the usual charge