New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-14
IMPORTANT FROM CHINA.
From Our Own Correspondent.


Frem Our Own Correspondent
CANTON, April IL, 1860.
Up to the latest moment at which it is possible to
write by the mall there is no intelligence from
Shanghae respecting the reply to the ultimaum
upon which the question of peace or war apparently
depends but the Chinese rlunOrs in the city, which
may be well founded, many such reports often
are, have decidedly pacific tendency. According
to some of these however, while the Court of Pc
king is inclined to peace the war party, headed by
the Monaghan Prince Sung are very DESTROYS of
meeting the barbarans, and it is possible that their
influence may prevail.
Whatever the result may be, the force that is now
gathering at Hong Kong, and gradually moving of
10 the rendezvous at Chusan, will be sufficient for
any bellgerent operations that may be necessary.
The Chinese here, who have very accurate intelll-
gence of what goes on at Hong Kong, are filled with
surprise at the successive accounts of the arrivals
of tIoops-whose presence is brought home to them
emphaticaly by the occupation of the peninsula OF
Ow-loon, on the main land opposite Hong Kong,
upon which European regiment is now stationed.
This peninsula has been long desired by the nhab-
itants of Victoria, as q necessary complement TO
their cramped-up city; and should the present tenn
porary occupation be rendered permanent, the bar
ren rock, which, however, s far more healthy than
the opposite island, being open to the Summer mon
soon, viii doubtless become the site of large set
tement.
While the Chinese are still doubtful here on the
question Of war or peace, they have cause for the
utmost anxiety within the bounds of this Province
alone. Accounts have gone from China during the
last month or two respecting the rise of another
rebellion" in Kwang- tung, and the movement Is
! at present of a most alarming nature. Some
two three months since, it was known that
certain predatory bands in the interior had
coalesced for the purpose OF rayagng the
wealthy districts upon the West River, and
| the standard of disorder speedily attracted
thousands of wretches who have in the last few
weeks carried devastation to four or five of the
most fourishing and important districts. We have
thus brought home to here the counterpart OF the
movement which, in the neghbOrhOod of the Yang
tse-kiang, has now existed for dozen years, and
which ignorant missionaries have called upon the
world TO admire as fermentation Of the heather
" with the leaven of Christianity the
plunderers for year or two massacred, pillaged,
and outraged their cOuntrymen and cOuntrywOmen
in the name of the Savior. This pretense has not
been adopted here, and the avOwed object of the
present rebels is plumber alone. Their number is
little more than 1000, as | am informed on the
best authority, but they complete masters of the
districts they overrun. The unwarke people fly
at the mere rumOr of their approach, and the few
soldiers whom the Mandarins could bring against
them undoubtedly follow if they do not institute,
the example. The main army is now besieging the
City of Shao-ching on the great West River, and
the ultimate fall Of the place is certain. This city
is but so mhes from Canton, and considerable alarm
is felt among the Chinese lest the enemy should
approach the walls; but so long as foreign troops
form the garrison there is little reason to fear any
thing Of the kind. The mischief done to foreigners,
however, by these marauders is enormous. They
have completely parayzed the trade of the port, by
seizing the main adt to the interior of the cOun
try-the West River. One of the native hong mer-
chants informs me that if they remain three months
longer in their present position, there will be no tea
this year from Canton and that, it is an incacu
liable injury is OccasOned by the stopping of remit
tances into the Interior this being the usual
for forwarding the annual supplies, which are of
course not sent forward now
In the North, trade appears to be at stand-st,
from almost the same cause. The Marking rebels
there have ravaged the silk districts near Shanghai
and the last intelligence received by the Chinese
thorities the sad news of the fall of Hangchow,
Of the greatest empOra and finest cities in the
empire.
The only hopeful point connected with these fear
fui troubles is that they may incline the Imperial
Government TO accept the moderate terms offered
them by the Allied Powers, and thus prevent fur
tber useless boodshed.
The disturbed state of this Province is doing
good turn, also, to the emigration agents. Two
emigration houses, duly authorized by the Allied
Commissioners and the Chinese authorities, ut
present open here for the purpose of engaging free
labOrers for the Island of Cuba. One of these
houses is conducted by an American. kidnapping
having been abolished at blow, in January last
By the Joint action of the Allied Commissioners and
the Chinese the establishment of emgraton-houses
under the authorized system and under joint
inspectOrate, is encouraged to the fullest extent.
and has proved successful. The British and French
houses which were closed for the season. about the
middle Of March, dispatched respectively 900 and
400 Chinese emgrants, with large proportion of
women among them, to Demerara and Martinique,
after being open scarcely three months. Engra-
ton to Cuba is not such fayorite, the people
being well aware of the character Of that island,
and only the lowest class, in general, are found
willing TO venture the experiment. The most
stringent regulations have been put in force TO pre-
vent the slightest approach 10 kidnapping in the en-
gagement Of emigants, and il is 10 be- hoped that,
before the Allied nations give up Canton. voluntary
emigration under the sanction and inspection OF
the native authorities will have become an institu
ton not to be- oyerthrown.
The American clipper Gov. Morton Is now
taking the Cuban cmigrants on board AT Whamp0a,
and will sail about the beginning of May as all |
operations of the kind are ordered to cease the
Both inst, not to reopen until the middle Of Sep
tember, when The Y. +. monsoon will again set in.
IL ~ satisfactory 10 be able ~ add that the POr-