Tus last English mail arrived on the 17th instant, with advices to the Srd July and telegrams to the 2ist idem. Later tole-grams to the 7th August have been received vit Kinchta, The French homeward mail loft on the 20th instant. The English mail leaves tomorrow morning.
The arrivals during the fortnight have boon the Borealis, Slar of Indiay Fairy Queen, and Atma, from Sydney 5 Sir Merry Parkes and Minnie, London;, Golden Slate, Now York; Teaser, Hamburg; Victoria, Antwerp; Arlington and Imari, Castit Pal: Wan, Neweastle, xs.w.; Rollo, Iindostan and Stanly Castle, Sunderland; and the following vossela have sailed -—P. Reck, Weymouth, Ioabella Ridley and Marcellus, for London; Jenny, for Batavia.
A case illustrating the " security" question has been heard before the Mixed Court, The U. 8. Assessor distinctly ropiidisted the doctrine Laid down in the Alcock-Medhurst Notification; and the Chinese Magistrate acquiesced in the view that security chops wore unquestionably ing in the full senso of the term. Indirect attempts ato' being made to ox-plain that the famous Notieation in question was only intended as a ' warning" to English subjects to uso ecution in the acceptance of security. But the wording of the Notification is unfortunately antagonistie to this view. It says distinctly that the "Chinese ro in the habit of regarding 4 surety rather asa person who comes for-wand to recommend his principal than '8 an individual who binds himself fulfil all his obligations with and for him." It is exactly this theory of recommendation which the U. S. Assessor ropriated, with the assent of the Chinese Apropos of "Security Chops," we may mention an instance that has come to our knowledge in which a Chinaman,, secured Uy another, contracted to deliver a certain quantity of tea to n Foreigner who advanced Is. 8,000 on the contract. The market went up; the Chinaman failed to Acliver; and the Foreigner came down on the guarantor, who not only refunded the advance but added the difference in price the profit which the Foreigner would vlv had the contract boon fulliled.
An informal meeting of bund lot holders was held at the Club on Tuesday evening, to ascertain if common ction was possi lo in the matter of extension of the bund. nothing can be dono at prosont for want gt of sufficient authority from the absent owners to th The jority of the were decidedly not ready to say that they would enclose and pay for any reclaimed land abutting on frontage, nor vas there even unani-inion as to whether the bund id yield up their beach rights favour of ship wharves and pontonns, or in favor of cargo bent wharves and pontoons, or whether they would yield then on any consideration, As, plainly, nothing can be done in.the matter of extension by the general community until some undorstanding is come to with that. section owning the bund lots, this important Provement will probably. be deferred w the pressure of an increasing edmmerce forees the bund lot holders to take the initiative in proposing and carrying out some comprehensive plan, "A. merchant" continues his corres ondenco with Fairplay" about the right Of residence in the interior, We do not think however, that ho moots the latter fairly. "fairplay" assorts that China is pen to us at present, if we choose to trade Which shall give us an ailvantago over natives of the country, "A. merchant" ignores this view of the question. "His argument i that foreigners should get every advantage they can, that the object of the treaty was to secure those advantages, and that it is the Look out of the Chinamen to keep thenasolves on a liar footing with us. These are vlr views which are hold by the most advanced members of the school of force,"
An attack has boon made on missionarioy at Yaacuow, instigated itis said by the literary class, Particulars will be found another page, This in striking ins tion of a paragraph in one of Fair-play'y" Focont Letters, a to the amount of discord who on ronytnng effort into indent. gives us particulure of the attempt at gold-digging which we mentioned Last week; but which the interfermee of the Tuotai brought to untimely and. The diggers have sunk other hole and intend, this time, to keep guard over their pit. We do not force will be wed to dispossess them, The onder forbidding natives to supply food to foreigners, in the gold dist ict, his boon wisely withdrawn, again rumoured that Trong-kwo-fan in Tikoly to assunio ofice in Partsa and that i-chang, now Futai of iangau, will succeed him at Nanking, Wo have news from Sitaxzuwa that the Imporialits have succeeded in gaining a dacisive victory over the robela, and in kill ing the Chief wang, an Auhivoy man named Chang-tean-yi, toyothorwith a largonumbur of his followers. 20,000 is the number of slain given out; but this report must be taken for wht it is worth, The Chinese over kill Jess than 10,000, Li, Taoh, and the Tartarsarv anid to have all participated in the event.
A-summary of HoxeKoxe nows will be on another page, we Jango fires have occurred; and a rather interesting question regarding picea goods contracts n the Counts, ion tion, which our Yoxouama correspondent mentioned last week, of Comptrollerof the Japanese Navy ay Oficor with similar powers, Mr. Grinnell of the U. 8. eon offered one, and General Paul Frank, the other office. The parsee tion of Nagusski Christians is denied. [the Northern pact are making undoubted headway, amd Prince Mito-is reported to wed them; and Chosiu to have ro-signed ofice under the Mikado. 1 made inv impression at Yokohi worms eggs plentiful, and prices declining.
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