The Sun. — 1862-11-27 (London, England)

CHINA.  The Overland China Mai/ says :  " The past fortnight in China and Japan has been marked by one or two incidents that may affect the future current of events in some degree. "At Yokohama one of our countrymen was murdered in cold blood and two others wounded while riding along the high road from Yedo to Miako. [Particulars will be found below.] It has, we ought to state, always been the practice for the Japanese authorities to intimate to us a few dayS previously the particular day on which any nobleman with his retainers intended to travel along the road to a foreign settlement. Our authorities have then made the matter public, and advised those under their care to avoid giving cause of offence by going in the way of the procession. On the present occasion there had been no notice given on either side. The tendency of events like this is to confine foreigners more and more to the particular spots conceded to them for the purposes of trade. " From Peking there is no intelligence of importance.  " From Ningpo, however, we learn that Genera' Ward has been killed while operating against the Taepings in the neighbourhood. In our last summary of news we spoke of a lamentable catastrophe, brought on by a French officer, at Yu Yoau, a town up the river from Ningpo. The Cantonese, who then deserted and went over to the rebels, appear to have conveyed to the latter an erroneous impression of our force and intentions, for the Taepings began to move about the country more freely and burn down the hamlets as usual, plundering and murdering on all sides. They came to the town of Tszehee, but were completely repulsed by the shells from the Confucius and the Hardy, and by Ward's Legion. Here the Taepings left 700 killed on the field, and all their flags. Ward was viewing the fugitives through his glass when a bullet entered his belly just above the navel; he was brought down in the Hardy, and died the following day in Dr. Parkes's Hospital. He had his senses to the last, and made his will, leaving Sir James Hope and the Hon. Mr. Burlingame as his executors; he leaves some two or three hundred thousand dollars. His loss is perhaps to be regretted, as he bad great influence among his troops, who are said to have reposed the highest confidence in their leader. No successor to Ward has yet been named. "A correspondent writes us from Ningpo, stating that some of the gaudily dressed boys who abound among rebels are reported to have appeared about 10 miles from Ningpo ; he h idea was, that between had not seen anybody who had seen them, but his Ningpo and the rebel ena:P there was still a renative drilled troops at spectable distance 2. T , 500 bayonets, and the Taepings Ningpo amount tobe believe that consular ports are no longer to be taken.to M. Giquel, of the Customs, has been ePoken °f as a successor to Ward, but the idea is probably unfounded ; nevertheless, this gentleman has shown considerable activity in a military direction for some time past. The party who went over to the rebels, in consequence of French mismanagement,prove to be the contingent of Apak, the ex-pirate. Attempts continue to be made by traders to supply the enemy with munitions of war. "At Shanghae, all is profoundly quiet. .‘ At Tien-Thin cholera has almost • disappeared. A considerable rising of the IVlaho d me an population in the province of Shensi was authentically reported soon after the departure of last mail. No further intelligence has reached us as to its progress or character.  "From Anoy, Fuchau, and Swatow, there is no news of importance. "At Canton three officers and 42 men of her Majesty's 99th and Royal Artillery are at present quartered at the Heights ; their business in Canton is to drill Chinese troops for the protection of the city against the Taepings, who were lately found to have conspirators at word to produce disaffection and internal disorder in Canton, and so, probably, prepare it for easier capture. The Chinese troops II are said to take kindly to their drill ; the present