key.
The Jedda claims have been definitely settled.
They are to be paid in full in Turkish consols at 53.
China.
The text of the Chinese treaty is published.
It contains a reference to Mr. Ward's agreement to pay sovereign homage to the Emperor, but the telegraphic summary at Liverpool makes the sense obscure.
The English indemnity is nominally three millions sterling, which is considered too small.
The United States steamer Hartford and sloop-of-war John Adams were at Hong Kong, and the gunboat Saginaw at Shanghai.
India.
The London Times says Nana Sahib is still alive, with 3,000 or 4,000 followers in Tibet, and has plenty of money.
Sir Hugh Rose's prompt measures had stopped farther insubordination in the army.
Cape of good Hope.
Commercial and monetary affairs at the Cape of Good Hope had improved.
Letters have been received from Zanzibar and from Mr. Moffett.
Commercial Intelligence.
London Money Market.--The bullion in th
inally agreed to.
Spain.
The Spanish journals publish advices from St. Domingo that tranquility and enthusiasm for the Spanish Government reigned throughout the island.
India and China.
The mails from Calcutta to May 8th, from Hong Kong to May 1st, and from Melbourne to April 25th, were forwarded per the Europa.
The United States frigate John Adams was at Hong Kong, and the steamer Hartford and the gunboats Dacotah and Saginaw were at Shanghai.
Business was very dullHong Kong, and the steamer Hartford and the gunboats Dacotah and Saginaw were at Shanghai.
Business was very dull at all the Chinese ports except Tien-Tsin, where there was a fair demand for imports.
The season's exports for tea was drawing to a close and the stock was very small.
Commercial Intelligence.
London Markets--(Baring.)--Wheat downward and declined 1a2s.; red 54a60s. Flour 25a30s. Iron dull for rails and bars; Scotch pig dull and declined 6d. also.
Tea dull — common Congo 11d als. Coffee dull.
and declined 6d Rice dull.
Tallow dull at 53s. Spirits turpentine dull at 44s. Linsee
An American steamer taken by Chinese Pirates.
--The particulars of the probable loss of Mr. Thomas Coit, the second son of the Rev. Dr. Coit, of St. John's Church, Bridgeport, Conn., are given in the following extract.
The Hong Kong Daily Press, of April 25th, publishes the following from the Hong Kong Shipping list:
The Wilawete brings the sad news from Canton of the American steamer McLee on her way down last, evening, about 8 o'clock, having been taken possession of by her ChineHong Kong Shipping list:
The Wilawete brings the sad news from Canton of the American steamer McLee on her way down last, evening, about 8 o'clock, having been taken possession of by her Chinese passengers, near the Second Bar, run ashore, and plundered.
It appears she had on board a full cargo and a quantity of treasures, and that she took on board one-half her passengers at Canton, and the other half at Whampoa.
Mr. Coit, the purser, was in his cabin, and seems to have been the first attacked, having received a moral wound about the breast or shoulder.
He managed, however, to clamber on the deck when Captain Ricaby made a rush below his arms, and either jumped or was knocked ov
st to engage, General Johnston, and, that being impossible, he was then ordered to get between General Johnston's force and Manassas; it both were impossible, he was then directed to harass Johnston's rear; and, failing in that, he was ordered to repair to Washington and form a junction with General McDowell about the point of time that Johnston joined Beauregard at Manassas.
Washington, August 3.--Letters have been received here from Commodore Eagle, who was ordered to bring home the Hong Kong fleet, (which was under the command of Commodore Stribbling, of South Carolina,) stating that the fleet was not there, but it was supposed it was not far off.
Secretary Cameron goes to Pennsylvania to recruit his health.
Thomas A. Scott will act in Secretary Cameron's place.
The special correspondent to the New York Herald says that it has been observed for some days past that the Confederate engineers have been making observations near the Chair Bridge. General McClellan has vi
ght of Italy to enter the Italian territory.
Turkey.
Omar Pasha has been ordered to act against the Montenegrins.
The fall of the Minister of Finance was expected.
China.
The United States steamer Hartford had returned to Hong-Kong. Officer Lanly had organized the expedition up the Yangtee, and made arrangements with the Nankin rebels for the protection of American property.
The Saginaw and Dacotah were also at Hong Kong.
The John Adams was at Suatow.
The firstHong Kong.
The John Adams was at Suatow.
The first teas from Hankow had reached Shanghai.
The rates for the new teas at Foochow continued extreme, and were relatively much inferior to the previous crop.
The resolution of the British Government relative to privateers, was expected to materially remove the objections to shipping from India by American vessels.
Commercial Intelligence. Liverpool Cotton Market, Aug. 16th
--The sales of the week amount to 46,000 bales, and the market closes quiet but steady, with a decline of ½a1
The John Adams Homeward bound.
--The U. S. sloop-of-war John Adams sailed from Hong Kong, July 6th, for New York.
She brings home the captain, first officer and crew of the American ship Saracen, which vessel arrived at Hong Kong about three months before, and afterwards departed on her return to the United States.
The captain of the Saracen is charged with the murder of one of his crew.
The John Adams Homeward bound.
--The U. S. sloop-of-war John Adams sailed from Hong Kong, July 6th, for New York.
She brings home the captain, first officer and crew of the American ship Saracen, which vessel arrived at Hong Kong about three months before, and afterwards departed on her return to the United States.
The captain of the Saracen is charged with the murder of one of his crew.
at Britain.
Count Deporis and Duc De Chartris had arrived at Boston, from Washington.
The steamer Vanderbilt had arrived at New York with a cargo of cotton from Port Royal.
The British steamer Australasian was supposed to be wrecked.
She had on board one thousand men, and a large quantity of ammunition.
She passed Cape Race on the 23d ulto.
Utah desires admission into the Federal Union.
The steamer Bohemian had arrived, with Liverpool dates to the 27th ulto.
Hong Kong was reported to be invested by rebels, who threatened all Europeans with extirpation.
The news from Japan is unimportant.
There was great excitement in Madrid, in regard to the death of the late King Be, whose body had been disinterred and analyzed.
In Liverpool, Cotton had advanced; stock in port 555,000 bales. Fair, 12½ Middling, 11½.
Sales for three days 31,000 bales, including 500 to speculators, and 1,000 to exporters.
Breadstuffs quiet, and declining.
Provis
h dates to the 26th ult., and advices by telegraph via Londonderry to the 27th, has arrived here.
Londonerry, Dec. 27.--Advices from Canton, China, of the 15th of November, say that Mr. Burlingame, the American Minister, had been well received there, and that he subsequently left for Shanghai, en route to the capital.
A few foreigners had been invited to visit Pekin.
The rebels were near Ningpo, and the inhabitants were fleeing to Shanghai, where the alarm had subsided.
Hong Kong was reported to be invested by the rebels.
It was also reported that the "braves" there had attacked the foreigners in the streets and houses, and that placards were posted up threatening the extirpation of the Europeans.
Londonderry, Dec. 27.--The advices from Amercia are unfavorably construed in London, and the funds are drooping in consequence.
In Liverpool peaceful hopes preponderate and cotton is rising.
A number of gun-boats have been ordered to the Mersey.
It i
interesting particulars
The East India Squadron was commanded by Commodore Stribling, and consisted of the steamship Hartford, (flag ship,) the sloop John Adams, Commander Berrien; the steam sloop Decotah, Commander Racford; and the steamer Saginaw, Commander Schenck.
The principal officers were nearly all Northern men. Commodore Stribling is a South Carolinian; Commander Radford, a Virginian; Commander Berrien, a Georgian and Lieutenants Parker and Forrest, Virginians.
While at Hong Kong, in the latter part of June, news of the secession of Virginia was received by the squadron, producing a prest sensation.
Not very long afterwards, Commodore Stribling and Commander Radford were relieved of their commands and sent home.
Captain Engle, of Pennsylvania, succeeded the Commodore, and Commander McKinstry, of Michigan, succeeded Commander Radford.
They are both succeeded Union men, and Captain E is one of the most obnoxious of Republicans.
Of course this change in the office
vine appointment to this high equality, and promulgate his political religion accordingly, safe among the rebels in life, servants or property.
He told me soon after I arrived that if I did not believe in him I should perish, like the Jews.
for not believing in the Saviour.
But little did I then think that I should ever come so near it by the sword of one of his own miscreants, in his own capital, as I did the other day. Ean Wang, moved by his Coolie elder brother (literally a Coolie at Hong Kong) and the devil, without fear of God before his eyes, did, on Monday, the 13th inst., come into the house in which I was living, and then and there most willfully, m icicusly and with malice aforethought, murder one of my servants with a large sword in his own hand in my presence without a moment's warning or any just cause.
And after having slain my poor harmless, helpless he jumped on his head most fiendishly and stamped it with his foot, notwithstanding I besought him most entreatingly
