missionaries of the Society returned, having been away from their station a year, a month, and a day. The members of the Alliance Mission have not yet returned. The city is quiet, and the officials have been more attentive than previously. The second edition of the Imperial Proclamation is posted in several places, though the knowledge of events in the North is certainly not common property. The most noticeable effect of last year's scare is that all the old guns on the walls have been mounted on rather rickety stands. Some of these guns are old George IIT and George IV twelve-pounders. Also. the grass on the wall has been cut. so there is now better fodder than there used to be.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.