Since our last we have had no telegraphic news from home, and local events have been of slight interest.
The expedition to the Upper Yangtsze has been recalled, Sir Rutherford Alcock considering that owing to the recent hostilities to missionaries shown in Szechuen it is not expedient that a man-of-war should present herself in that district. We doubt, however, if the despatch will reach the expedition before its arrival at I-chang, asthe Oposenm left Hankow on the 19th inst. and Mr. Consul Swinhoe and the deputies from the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce were to leave on the following Monday, the 22nd inst., without waiting for the Faust, which only left Shanghai on the
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