CHINA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 344, 5 March 1859, Page 1 (Supplement)

CHINA.

Wo have papers from Hongkong to the 30th of December.

Another fortnight has elapsed without a woid oenig heard of the Earl of Elgin's voyage up the Yang-tzse-kiang.

Sir John Bowring is at Manilla, where, it is said, he will lemain until his health is fully restored, or the expected recall leaches him.

The insunection about Ningpo is reported at an end — out out with the executioner's knife.

At Canton matters continue peaceiul. General Van Straubenzie has relaxed his restiiction on officers leaving the ganison for an houi's run in the snburbs. On strictly formal application, thiee officers, in uniform and togethei, may now go a distance of thiee miles fiom the walls.

The season's tea ciop is scant, and for the 8 oi 10 chops of second-class congous that left Canton this week, the holders are asking extremely high prices ; the scarcity of tea is not confined to the Canton district only, but the expoit from all China will be twenty-five per cent, less than last year. Not that the crops are less but that they have been bought in advance, by Jhe agents travelling for the Russian market. Euiopean fabrics aie in good demand. The schoDiiei Mazeppa, belonging to Messrs Jai dine, Matheson, and Co., had been totally lost off Swatow, and all hands perished. She is supposed to have capsized in a squali.