Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-09
FOREIGN MLsCELLANY
We have some interesting no,e

We have some interesting news from
pan. With the increased facilities f., j.
afforded by the treaties recently mad adj asd.
other nations, lucrative trade wa VIII
ing up. The French and British .prls
China were obtaining their princin.i b
plies from Japan, including horses up
tea trade of Shanghai with the iptsv;.is
China being interrupted on account 80
troubles with the rebels, the japanese as
doing handsome tea trade also IT.. "as
Of kanagawa, the principal trading No. .',s
represented to have nearly doubled in s;,a's
population within Il year, on account g aug
increased trade. The japanese merch.a We
of course, under these circumstance a
much in favor OF continuance of tho ~. s''
ent state of things, but the mass Of Tho f as
pie are represented to be more preinals's,
than ever against foreigners, on accnns,
an advance In the necessaries Of life Co... CIV
quent upon the trade with them. An eas.'
quake was stated to have taken place in y
interior, about two hundred miles from Y''
agnwa, which swallowed mp an entire ,a~ ss
containing eight or ten Thousand ipbs,o
tants.
Donald Mckay writes some Of the res,,
of his observations in the British nayy.va,a'
The government is now building ffr.,h,s
steam war vessels of various kinds Care.
1888 guns, or nearly as many as the wb@ss
United States navy. By the middle Of No.,
year, when the ships now on the stocks -
completed, the British feet will coun, ~
vessels, with 1909 guns, and 1872, 7S6 hon.,
power, Or about eight times as many guns,.
our navy. Over two hundred thousand M,
will be required TO man the vessels. In.
French navy is, in guns, only little oy,,
half as strong as the English.
We learn from the London Econon.,
that the French Government bill for iend,,
&c, O0O, 600 francs to manufacturers to chstc..
and improve their machinery, 50 as to en-,
BILE them the better TO resist English CON-
petition, encountered considerable oppo,i
ton in the Legislative Body, and had to }.
modified before it was adopted. A commit.
tee pointed out, in somewhat decided term.
that for the Government to lend money /,
private persons, causes many serious incoa
venienceS il altogether bad in principle.
In the British House of Commons, on h,
Goth, in reference to Sicilian affairs, Lo,l
John Russell said that the Neapoltan COS.
eminent had requested the mediation Of
Great Britain for the purpose of stopping
Garibald, on the condition that if Garbsldi
refused the proposed truce, the forces .:
France and England should be used to con.
pei him. To that proposition, he said, gov.
eminent had declined to accede.
From China, we learn that an attack d
the Rebel force was anticipated ut Shang
hal, on account Of which the foreign mer
chants had fed to Somehow. The rebel,
were reported to have been recently sery
successful They had taken the large city
of Somehow, which gave them the control d
the entire country in that direction.
A marriage recently took place at St.
Georges Church. Hanover square, LondOu
between Lieut.. Col. John Campbell, of be,
Majesty's Indian army, and the Princes,
Victoria Gooramma, daughter Of the lat,
ex-Rajah of Coorg. The dusky damsel, No
doubt, was well ballasted with rupees.
The larch forests of Scotland are threaten
ed with destruction. OF twenty eight mil
lion of larches, planted by four land owner:
in Scotland within century, scarce y ans
remain alive. The failure is important, s,
no other timber is 80 well adapted for sleep
ers on railways as the larch