CHINA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 226, 20 December 1859, Page 3

CHINA.

By way of Singapore, we (Weekly Age) have received intelligence from Hong Kong to the 28th .September. The' Overland China Mail of that date has. the following on the existing relations between F^ttgland, and China, from which it seems that no definite information hasreached China as to the course the English Government intend to pursue:—. ~':rr ' '■'■ '•" "■■■ ; '- It is to be apprehended; and not,-without good reason, that in-the. .event of a, new war. being determined on, the Chinese will'leafn that long before a sufficient force can be assembled ; that ; Sennkoninain and the war party will consequently gain the ascendance in the councils of the Cfui't of Pekiri; and that some general attempt, if#not by open warfare, ye.t by secret and Chinese means,'may be made on the foreigners of the&coast .of China; and especially on those at Shanghai. ■ •" '■'■•/■' . ' ; ■.; ' 1* 's rumored that, though the American treaty, has been ratified by the Empeiror,'it has beep, iibtii fied to his Excellency, 'Mi\ Ward;,that it: will hot be'allowed to come'intdr'foreVutitil'.some arrangements have been made with the 'Frenbh'.'an'd' British Ministers. If tfue, this is 'not to be wondered at; as otherwise many awkward complications' might arise. In noticing the jfefosal, to give the. Minister an audience with "the Emperof^ the groiind-that the miniate?•"^o'Uld not bend; on one. knee, we omitted to:^mention tliat. thji} Cliinese; had before them^tlie, prtfeederiir pf thife British Ministef--EarT Maci|rbey--who, m 1792, knelt on one knee tb the Emperor of China; and also, that we arei not'aware ; <it tf» American treaty containing any special provisions {Hotm la)idiela«l ..with his Celestial.HigJhmejM/;^.^^ The editor of the :^rimd^^ :o^^'lit^of&i, convicted of a criminal libel on^ Golonetpan^and sentenced to ten years'imprisbrimentV;;anci also1 a fine df ,i£sft ;;;;..^E~ \:r^ y-' :' c'-\ 'y.'::''i':^' y'l: "■"'■;' The schooner Amoy; from; Singapbre;: had been seized by the French "Admiral aVSaigon^ for twice attempting toI force the blockade df the port, r The' captain is detainejl a prisoner; jmt thecreiv havci been fbr^ard^^~H^hg;Kbng/-^ ;^ :.': j*; ;-' • The steaiiier Italian, from Shan^aF tg^Swatbws was wrecked bn-thb Diussin-Rocbin theNamoa Passage; crew;|aiyed.- ■; '[ ■■■■••,-..^ '_. "^jrr ';: ■;..'. The papers also announce the loss i of the; Ham-, burgh schobher; Macto, at Formo^a^'tjbe murder of'the captain and one of?the; crew]"whose -death had been avenged "by some, foreigners.- .o .-■•'■"