'The prisoner charged with wounding man, striking him onthe head' with brace Ina report on the case of the Carisbrooke, Mz. Hayllar mentions, as an instance of the uncertain action" of the Chinese Government, that it has come to his knowledge that, since the seizure of the Carisbrooke, two steamers clearing from Singupore were' permitted to Ind large number of passengers with their cargo at Hainan, one of them doing so unto. ested under the eyes of a Chinese Imperial gunboat.
'The first China war was not, as has been often stated, caused by coiaia, 'The dispute was not whether it should be admitted, but with regard to the price of its admission.' Sir G. Balfour said in the House of Commons that she was present when an offer was made by the two Chinese Commissioners in July, 1843, to Sir Henry Pottinger, that if the British Government would agree to pay the sum of 3,000,000, British merchants might introduces 6 into China any quantity of opium they liked, This accords ill with the constantly repeated assertions that the Chinese Government are strongly opposed to the, drug, and have fo biden both its cultivation and use, They have shown themselves, on the contrary, indifferent on the question, save in considering the best methods of drawing the largest pos. sible revenue from it, It is tolerably evident from these proofs that the opium is not forced either on the Government or people of China,—Overland Trade Report.
It is stated in a telegram of the 30th June from Calcutta, that the King of Burmah has positively refused to allow troops to through his territory to the Chinese frontier, and that Sir Douglas F Rangoon, Thisstate firmed, and means that the make any amount of profession up his claim to invade the Karen country, britis determined not to allow the Chinese mur of Mr. Margary to be punished. No hint a to the Viceroy's course has yet transpired, but it would seem clear that as the operations in Burma is passing, anna fort of steamers has been collected, and as Mr. Wade, our Minister at Peking, has bound us to avait the result of a Chinese investigation into the attack on Colonel Browne, the final decision will be postponed until next year, If that is the case, the King, encouraged by our delay, and relying on the forces which the Chinese will have time to collect, will probably us the trouble of deciding whether we shall act, by some aggression which will rentiation impossible. For the present, he is enjoying a diplomatic victory.—Th Spectator.
Coorre Trareic.—At a meeting of the Com mittee of the Aborigines Protection Societs, held at Cavada Building, Westminster, on the '30th June, Mr. S. Gurney, president of the society, in the chair, it was moved we Sir Charles Wingfield, K.CS.L, seconded by Mr. R. N. Fowler, Late M.P. for Falmouth, and resolved unanimously, That in rejoicing at the extinction of the Macao slave trade, and in anticipating ultimate deliverance for the enslaved population of Cubs—whether African or Chinese—we desire to record out galt thanks to Sir John Smale, Chiel-Ohina Mail, aad of the. North-China Dal justice of Hongkong; to the editors of News; to Mr, De Souza, of Hongkong, for the Valuable services they have rendered to the cause of humanity, in connection with the abolition of the traffic in human beings be tween Macao and Peru." The Committee also desire to add an expression of their sen? of the able and undeviating support which in this country the editors of the London a China Telegraph, and of the London and Chins Express have given to the same good caute-
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