The British have ocoupied. Ava. The King of Burma is suing for peace, The British Government has demanded unconditional surrender, a possibility of Bf. ferred to Amoy, where Mr. Tong Ki the due here tery shortly.
'The residents' at Tientsin' appear to this, that, the" Peis, will not close till about'the 16th or 17th'Dacember, We are informed that the mercantile community of Ningpo have addressed H.B.BI, Consul, Mr. Cooper, animadverting on the apparent indifference to: local British me terests and the general welfare of the foreign residents at that port evinced by the British Legation at Peking in connection with cor-tain measures for the municipal improvement'of the Settlement. It appears that about twelve months ago a scheme for improving that bundles Settlement by constructing a road embankment along the anchorage was approved locally by the Consul, and than sent to the Legation for confirmation; but there the affair soams to have been pigeon-holed, as, so far, the community have been left in ignorance as to whether this much needed improvement to the port in likely 10 be attended to by H.B.M. Charge d'affaires. This lamontable dilatoriness is all the more annoying as it is well known that if the Consul were empowered to arrange this matter with the willing local Chinese authorities, the work would have, boen put in train mouths ago, It is to be hoped that the energetic Britiel Consul at Ningpo will not allow the. in. forests of the community to be overlooked by the Legation for want of remonstrance ow his part, Tuappearsthat'T'ang Chiung, ex-Governor of Ydunan, now lying at the Board of Punishments under sentence of decapitation after the Autumn Assizes, is not likely to suffer death during the present year., {eis during this year that the Empress-Regent has attained her fiftieth birthday, which alone renders the time "auspicious sides, this is the eleventh year of the reign of Kuang Hoi, and informed that, for some inscrutable reason, the eleventh th years of " sovereign's reign also "auspicious." For this reason there will be no executions at the Capital, and consequently Tang Chiung cannot possibly be beheaded until next year. - We hope, therefore, that by that time the rancour of the Empress will have become somewhat assuaged, and that she will be induced to spare t ofa man who is certainly entitled to rank among the most able and devoted adherents to the Throne.
Owing to thie death of the King of 8; the ball which was to hav Saturday night by the French as pone A 1m Mass for the repose of soul of his late Catholic Majesty Alphow XU, King of Spain, was performed this morning at half past ten o'clock at: the Church of St. Joseph.
Dr, Gulick's lecture at the Masonic Hall on the Caroline Islands on Friday night was ry fully attended, and proved remarkably.
teresting and instructive, The chair was~ taken by Dr. Yator, and a vote of thanke ropered to the lecturer by the Rev. A. J.
ford, We understand that Dr. Gulick's was only the firat of a series of lectures to be given during in the winter in aid of the Union Chapel Building Fund, If each one is og well attended as the first, the Fand. will profit very largely.
We learn that Dr. Yates has boon asked: to give s Jocture on his personal reminisconces of Old Shanghai. We trust the rev, Doctor will see his way to comply. We are sure his experiences will prove moat Correspondent at Ngankin, under date: 29th'November, writes as follows waiting here for some mandarins, we saw a sight which will long be remembered by us. A fow minutes before noon yesterday, the: walls of the houses wear the river began to give way, here and ere, and as tha clock strick twelve, thio'wliole of the b considerable" diataiice feo sotik" in the river aad towards the Fuyeid, which. was at sichor, about two haridted yards off the town, in' fiftesa fathoms, making her give a heavy'
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