The Str. Ottawa arrived on Saturda inst. bringing the London Mail of December 4th and Telegrams to the 28th, The following are the only items of a later date than those brought on by the Let iny, and vhich appeared in our last issue.
GreatBrrrats.—London, December 20th. The Iforning Post denies the widespread rumour that the Government has decided to recall Earl Mayo, and to apint the Marquis. of Salisbury, Governor-General of India. December 24th. Parliament will reassemble the Gth February. Gilford has been appointed censor,' Sir Richard Stages tardond.
Tustice, and Mr, James has been appointed his suc-
The Coxtixest—December 18th, Latest advices from Paris state that Mons, Laveletie hax superseded Marquis de Moustier, andr! x6 2!-us, Laroquette has been appointed Minister of ie 1 orien December W8th. The Turks blockaded steamer been ordered to lees" treated at anc Tarkey remains 0°; tint the Powers of Burnpe conti favor of conciliation. Latest ailvices state raised the blockade of the Pi The expulocks from Moumania and Ser has been declared impracticable.
Upon the intervention of the French Commander masses of people have been permitted to proceed to Athens. December 23rd. Latest conti telegrams announce that Russia and Prussia have proposed yo hic a conference for the purpose of settling the diflicut at present existing between Tarkey and Greece. period fixed for the expansion of the Greeks from Turkey has been tended to thirty days. December 20th. Latest xd state that the Sublime Porte has informed th t European Powers that Turkey is prep: join the Conference on certain conditions. ~The led the surrender of the steamer Huossis, the Greeks had refused j to do so, and sunk: the vessel.
Latest advices from Spain state that the Elections have commenced, and that tranquillity prevails.
Mr. Burlingame and the ' Associate Envoys" bad Deen presented to the Queen at Windsor, and about the same time the news of the Yangchow outrage and the measures taken by the British Consul to secure the punishment of the culprits arrived in England. seems to have excited more interest them is taken at Home in Chinese matters; the Times and other daily journals condemning the action of the missionaries in preaching against the religious belief and cereraonials of the Chinese, The "tinghai Recorder takes some. what the same view. It says "The Yangchow ¢-se has, in our opinion, been a source of weakness rather than strength to the missionary cause. {ft has shown that cireuinsteaces may involve us in hostilities and probably in was, where the great majority of foreigners are satisfied that their own countrymen were at least half in the wrong; and the bare possibility of our Iwi pelled to go to war for the purpose of our prestige, and of upholding acts of whi guralves disapprove, is ul lent to show missionaries the delicacy of the ground o" which they tread. The derstand the isan, and em thin ques tarlingame awl the Ta-jing oaty has created much aurprine heer, which Just found expression in the local journals, The N.C, Dity News remarks "Chih and Sun were suppencl to Leave China attaches, th grew into associate envoys at New York, but the Standird chronicles th introduction the Queen of the Hon. Anson Burlings kang and Sun Chiako, high ministers extraordin ary and plenipotentiary.' Clerks of the Eh—oi whom a high Chinexs mandarin was lately to remark that' no respectable man would accept the post,'—presented to the Queen of England aul Empress of India, another Eastern realm Jarge i China, as high ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiary. What more could Peking wish, to in its traditions of superiority? What more oot of the gratitude of Western nations for the privileges of intereuurse The Honykony Daily Press says:—The hopelessness of anything short of actual bloodshed awaking our authorities at home to the state of affairs in China, la evidenced ina manner that must cause bitter disappoint—it to residents in this Colony and at the Treaty Ports, iny the news brought by the: ail just in. The presenta-tim of Mr. Burlingame and his suite to the Queen is con-blaned, and the London and China Heralit states that it believes' Her Majesty has claimed a suitable reception for the Duke of Edinburgh at Peking, and that noconon inthe Treaty will be made wail after the Prince's temporary joking, or is it possible that Her Majesty had been ily advised to capthebsuring a couple of nobodies in London, by the Duke of Eslinburgh to Peking? A son of Evgland in return for an expectant Tou-china the way things are drifting is also enced by an article in the Ziimes upon the Yang-outrage, in which the change in public opinion is in fully apparent. Will it be believed that the leading journal in England justifies the animosity' of the Literati, upon the grounds that every man in China is educated upon the system of his country, that his expectations depend upon his proficiency in it, at he must, therefore, feel the greatest possible m. Upon this the London and ly says, Let the propagation of Christianity in Chi be forbidden'—and may it not added, if he cant of the Comtists is to p vail, let everything in China be forbidden; let us give up every principle of national honor and self-respect, let us grovel before an insolent Viceroy, yield to Chiese encroachinents—till, for very shame, we can yield no longer; lo us save the country a half-penny in the income tax, and, after three parts ruining its trade, plunge it into a war which will cost ten times the amount ever gained by the present nearsighted and A letter from Mr. H. N. Tay on the text of the Yangchow'disturbance, has appeared in the Times, on which the Recorder makes the following comments "Mr. Lay cannot be ignorant of the policy recently adopted of exacting reparation for local outrages on the spot where they were committed, hence his warning against another war with China,' into which we are drifting' is in reality meaningless. With the act. ual right or wrong of that policy we are not now concerned. Suffice it to say that it has hitherto served its end, and if persevered in is the very thing to prevent another war, But Mr. Lay raises another issue, and basing his argument upon the assertion that with: out the bidding of the Court of Peking no provincial governr can move hand or foot, and upon the assumption that Tstng Kwo-fan was in reality at the bottom of the Yangchow disturbances, he draws the conelusion that the Chinese Government has set its old Canton policy in motion." Of course Mr. Lay is at liberty to make any assumption he pleases, and so long as it is merely an assumption we are justified in making one of an opposite character, But as a matter of fact, there was no reason whatever te believe-that the Viceroy had anything active to do with the perpetration of outrages on the missionary party, although he was acoused, and perhaps justly, of being in no way guxious to bring the perpetrators to justice. A iis.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.