The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1861-01-01 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

HONSSTE AUD.4I.  Br the Overland Mail we have received important news from Pekin to the Slat of October. The Treaty of Tien-tsin was ratified, and a new Con,rention signed in that capital on the 24th of October by Lord Elgin and Prince Kling. The same formalities were gone through with Baron Gros on the following day. The new Conveution provides that the Emperor of China shall make an apology to the Allies for the atAir of the Taku Forts last year; that British al al French Ministers shall rend° permanently at Pekin ; that the indemnity fixed by the Treaty of Tien-tsin shall immediately be opened to trade ; that the interdict on the emigration of C hinese to British and French colonies shall be i rt•nerved ; that the peninsula of Kowloon opposite I to Hong Kong shall be ceded to the British Crown ; that the Treaty of Tien-tsin and the Convention of Pekin shall come into immediate operation and be published throughout the Chinese Empire ; and that Chosen shall be evacuated by the British force. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros had taken up their residence in Pekin, and would remain there till November% The bodies of Lieutenant Anderson, Mr. De Norman, and Mr. llowlby, with those of one European and eight Sikh soldiers, were given up on the 14th and 16th October, with marks of the most cruel treatment upon them. They had been tied up in the brutal manner in which the Tartars are accustomed to treat their prisoners, and being scantily supplirA with food, had died from the severity of their sufferings. They were buried on the 17th with great solemnity in the Russian cemetery, the funeral being attended by the two Ambassadors, the Commander-in-Chief, and numbers of officers of both armies. Captain Brabasou and the Abbd do Luc were beheaded on or about the 21st September, after the battle of Pah-li-chow, and their bodies thrown into the canal. Sir Hope Grant, the British Commander-in-Chief, issued a proclamation on the lfith October, announcing that as the Chinese authorities were alone responsible for the murder of the prisouers, and as the barbarous usage to which they had been  subjected WU first inflicted in the tanpernes Summer Palace, he has decided nta the eumplete destruction uf that palace, anal on the cane ion of a sum of money "to be pail in emnpensathan to the marvivors of the parties Beixei, or to the families of those who have lost tic,ir lives in captivity." In accordance with this proclamation the Summer Mot of the Fniperor was burnt to tht ground by the British army on the lath October, and the sum of £lOO,OOO was exacted for tho families of the British who had been murdered. The French Commander-inehief anbscapiently exacted the sum of nearly 1:70,000 for the families of the French who had beau murdered, namely, the Abbe do Luc, Colonel Grandehamps, Lieutenant Dubust, and M. Aden. The French army retired from Pekin on the bat November, but the English force Were to remain till the departure of the Ambassadors. A large force, however, was to remain at Tien-tsin till all the conditions had been fulfilled.  The Vienna Oinette of Sunday published a circular addressed by Baron von Schulerling to the governors of the provinces, explaining the leading principles of the policy. Them principles embody the resolutions and intentions of the Emperor, RS expressed in the Imperial manifesto of the 20th October, 111111 include freedom of religions worship, the free developement of the nationalities, the indepei 'dunce of the communes, the liberty of the press, the ',poling of the law courts, and the extension of electoral rights and publicity of debates. Subsequent accounts from Vienna state that the Emperor has already sai cHoned the resolutions of the Conference of ;ran, and hasresolved upon convoking the Hungarian Diet for February next. It is also stated that the Council of Ministers has decided on demanding from the Pope the complete abolition of the , Concordat.