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      as volunteers , scaled the great gate of . lieu-sin , kicked the Tartar post before them , and let in . a hundred marines who were in march upon the city . This force marched through the city with-. a couple of howitzers , and quieted Tien-sin for the rest of the English occupation Keying next entered into strict relations with the Americana and Russians . The latter were said to be doing the utmost to prevent any Europeans but themselves being tolerated ' at Pekin ; and the Americans were loud in their expressions of a virtuous horror of the opium trade . . ¦ i A communication from Keying to Yeli , which had been found among the latter ' s papers , and which displayed the deceitful game which Keying was playing ,

      caused Lord Elgin and Baron Gros to declare that they ¦ would hold no communication with him . The other two Chinese commissioners communicated this intelligence to Pekin , with the information that the confidence of the barbarians in Chinese commissions was now so much shaken that there was much danger they would soon believe in nothing but the sign manual of the emperor himself , affixed in their presence . The terror caused by this Avas great enough to induce the emperor to rccal Keying to Pekin , and to authorise his commissioners to sign a letter promising a treaty in the terms of Lord Elgin ' s demands , and couched in language dictated by Mr . Lay . knowledof this official

      The Times correspondent ' s ge dpcument is necessarily not exact , but it is believed that the conditions which this letter promises as the basis of a treaty are as follows : ^— . First . — The residence of a British Minister at Tiensin , with access to Court , and direct communication with the . Ministers . An official yatnun . for him during his visits to Pekin . All official documents to be written bv him in the .-English language ( to be accompanied by Chinese translations until the Court of Pekin has procured interpreters ) . An English college similar to that kept up by Russia to be ¦ allowed at Pekin . Second , —China to be opened to all the world ; persons to go whither they please , and do what they please , under a passport system .

      Third . —The Yang-tze to be opened to its commerce from its mouth to its source . Fourth . —Christianity to be tolerated . Fifth . —Indemnity for the War and" losses at Canton to be paid for by the two Quango , the amount to be agreed on by special commissioners at Canton . ¦ The tariff to be corrected , the custom-house system revised , and the English to aid" the Chinese in the suppression of piracy . Sixth .- ^ In proof of the friendship and goodwill of the Emperor of China towards the Queen of England a special embassy shall be sent to England forthwith .

      There is every reason to believe that the treaty containing these provisions was signed at Tien-sin on the 28 th June , seventeen days after the signature cf the letter .

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      EGYPT . The telegram about a plot against the Viceroy turns out to have been littlo more than a fable founded on the arrest of Aballah Pasha , ex-Minister of Finance , who jg imprisoned in the fortress of Aboiikir , and of some notorious Mussulman sheiks , who play upon the credulity of the " fellahs . "

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      WEST COAST OF AFRICA . Tun Ethiopo hag arrived , bringing nowa from Sierra Leono under date of the 10 th August . In conaoquonco of tho rains , trade was dull along the ££ SSa » S . "ft M ^ ffftwXeone ^ t ^ y-a 3 Hikoi 3 ' ^ o ^ iotrfi ! TuT slack for some time , on account of the King of Tootah having stopped tho intorcourao with tho Moria country . ruowUooftho Bishop ofSlorra Loono died on tho 4 th of August , after giving birth to ft eon . Dlatiirbiuioos have occurred in the Port . Looho and Ko Pott distriots j sovoral Hvos wore lost , and many natives carried off prisoners . At Bompatook , in tho Sherbio , hostilities had brokon out , and it is reported that tho whole of tho property of tao traders had been destroyed . A largo number of tho

      natives had been killed and made prisoners . The origin of this war was unknown , but the Bargroes were supposed to be the aggressors . Her Majesty ' s steamships Ilecla and Myrmidon , and a Spanish war steamer , with the Governor on board , were at Fernando Po ; the brig . Childers , the steam-vessel Trident , and the gunboat Teazer were at Sierra Leone . The Sardinian brig-df-war Colombo was there on the Gth of August . The merchant barque Genevieve has been totally wrecked off the Island of Matacong . The brigantine Neophyte , which sailed . July G for Liverpool , returned on the 20 th to Sierra Leone , having lost the master and alt the crew ( several persons ) from jungle fever . She was brought back by two native seamen , supernumeraries .

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      conceivable kind , —here men are casting conical Mmie bullets , in matrixes twelve at a time as fast as if another Congress were sitting at Vienna , and that an infuriated Continent were about to submerge France in fire once more , and that this was her final preparation for the death-struggle . What is it for ? Metz , be it observed , is only one of several fortresses of the same rank ; and though called the Woolwich of France , there are several other Woolwiches — Vincennes , La Fere , Tculon , Strasbourg , Besancon , Toulouse , Rennes , and a dozen lesser ones , in each and all of which the same sort of thing is going on , hammer and tongs , night , noon , and morning . — Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion .

      Curtailment of JLiberty in France . —The most serious practical attempt yet heard of to carry into effect Count de Moray ' s doctrines of de-centralisatioh is seriously stated to have occurred at St . Quentin . The subprefect located in that town has , without referring to Paris , and on his own responsibility , authorised the police to keep a " crinolinometer" at the door of the public ball-rooms . Every lady who , from Tier appearance , strikes the eye of the officer on duty as likely to occupy * more than a reasonable portion of room is compelled to submit to measurement , and to pay , according to a graduated scale , for every inch in excess of the regulation standard .

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court .- —The Queen left Osborne at nine o ' clock on Monday morning , accompanied by the Prince Consort , the Princesses Alice and Helena , and Prince Alfred ; and , crossing the Solent in the Fairy , disembarked in the Clarence Victualling-yard , where the special train appointed to convey the royal party to the north was in waiting , under charge of the directors and officers of the South-Western Railway Company . At the Kew junction the Prince of Wales met his illustrious parents . Prince Alfred here took leave of the Queen , and joined his brother . The royal party arrived safely at the Great Northern terminus five minutes before the appointed time . Her Majesty stopped for half an hour at Peterborough , and arrived at Leeds at a quarter-past six in the evening , and proceeded to Woodsley House , the residence of the Mayor of Leeds , where she passed the nigttt . After the inauguration of the Town Hall on Tuesday , about half-past one o ' clock , amid reiterated cheers from the spectators , her Majesty , accompanied by the Prince Consort , the Princesses Alice and Helena , the members of the household , and the Earl of Derby , started on her way to Balmoral ., The royal cortege reached Darlington at three o ' clock , where the royal children , who had not accompanied her Majesty to Leeds , had arrived . The Queen ' s train reached Edinburgh at

      halfpast seven , and her Majesty proceeded to H ' olyrood Palace , where she entertained several of . the Scottish nobility and gentry at dinner . On Wednesday , at nine o ' clock , the royal party took their departure-from Holyrood , and arrived safely " at Balmoral at six in the evening . The Prince of Wales will leave London for Balmoral to-day and Prince Alfred will arrive there at the close of the month , after a visit to his sister at " Potsdam . It is understood that Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice will not for the present visit Balmoral , but will remain at Osborne .

      Illegitimacy in Scotland . —The second quarterly return of the Registrar-General for Scotland confirms the fact that the proportion of illegitimate births in Scotland is very high . The southern counties are , next to tho north-eastern , the worst in Scotland in this respect , and the stewartry of Kirkcudbright stands at the head of the black list for the second quarter of all the counties of Scotland . The proportions for the first quarter were : —Dumfries , 15 . 7 l > er cent . ; Kirkcudbright , 14 ; Wigtown , 8 . 4 . For the socond they arc—Dumfries , 12 . 2 ; Kirkcudbright , 15 . 9 ; Wigtown , 9 . 6 . The

      favourable contrast for Wigtownshire compared with the adjoining county of Kirkcudbright is maintained in tho second return , and the causes of this contrast arc well worthy of investigation , We believe that there are no hiring fairs for farm servants held in the county of Wigtown , the only gathering of tho kind being an annual one for the engagement of harvest labourers , while the number of such fairs in Kirkcudbright and Dumfriesshire is very great . This fact , coupled with those disclosed by the returns , seems to show that the allegations made ns to tho injurious character of those hiring fairs are well founded .

      A BoNAi'Airnc at Inverness . —Prince Louie Lucien , Bonaparte iras boon slopping in ' this town . Ho is . son of Lucion Bonaparte ,, mid coufin to tho Emperor of the French . Ho travelled incognito , and made hinm'lf known in town only to tho Uov . Alexander Maegregor , to whom ho whs introduced for tho purpose of acquiring information relative ( o tho din'oront dialects of tho Scottish Gaelic . Ho i . i an enthusiastic philologist , and l"O « - scssos dxtensive knowledge of tho Celtic in nil its brandies , such ns Scottish and lii * h Gaelic , Manx , Welsh , Cornish , Breton , vtc . Lnet Friday ho wont to Lochabar . llo left on Tuesday on a tour to tho North and Western Isles , j \ fi or having expressed his

      admiration of tho beautiful scenery around lho Highland capital . —Iiicvrnctis Qritrni ' . \ .. u ""¦^ V ' rr . VT tuky' auiJdoi . nu at" JUktz . —Mot / ., as every ono knows , is the strongest fortress in Franco . It is an out-of-tho-way place , wvy littlo vicitod by thoso not having actual businosa there , being exclusively a military town . Well , lioro in this pocludod spot—in Motss , which already contains arms , all of tho very last make , in tho very highest state of flnUh and roadinesa * , for n quarter of a million of men , with mountains of sholl ol ovory t » i / . o , countless { flittering- brass mortars , quite now , nutn ' borloss now brass cannon of tho Emperor ' s invention , for throwing small hollow balls , projectiles of ovory

      Representation of Greenwich . —Alderman Salomons has announced his intention of standing as a candidate for the vacanc 3 " caused by the retirement of Mr . Townsend . Several other gentlemen are mentioned as candidates . Mr . Campbell , a son of the Lord Chief Justice , has paid a visit to the borough , but as yet has taken no public step in the matter . Mr . Ernest Jones has an eye to the seat , and intends to present himself to the electors in a few days . It is doubtful whether Mr . Montagu Chambers means to stand . Mr . John Angerstein , a son of a former member for Greenwich ^ is spoken of ; as also Mr . Eugene Murray , a Government contractor at Woolwich . From some peculiarities , however , in the case of the retiring member , no election can take place till the assembling of Parliament ; possibly not till April next . The General Post Sorters . —In answer to the

      request of the General Post letter-sorters for an interview with the Postmaster-General , praying leave to explain , their hardships and grievances , his lordship appointed an interview on the part of the officers , four of whom only may be present . New Postal Guide for tee Metropolis . . —By order of . the Postmaster-General an official guide to the principal streets and places in London and its environs has been publishe : ! , probably only for the use of the Postoffice ¦ . authorities . Maps are given of the ten districts into which the metropolis'has been divided , and an index of streets easily directs the eye to the district in which any address may be found . Representation of Glasgow . - —It . is stated that in

      the case of Mr . Buchanan retiring from the representation of Glasgow city , Sir A . Orr is ready to accept the seat when it becomes vacant , and his friends anticipate that he will , be returned without opposition . Others again are determined , if possible , to get a representative who will be a more suitable colleague for Mr . Dalgleish . than they allege Sir Andrew Orr would be , and anticipate a determined contest . However , no opposing candidate has yet been named . —Paisley Herald . The latk . Ditchess of Orleans . —The will , of the deceased Princess is one of the most affecting documents

      of the kind over published . Nothing can be more tender than tho manner in which she refers to her sons ; nothing more admirable than the advice which she gives to thorn with so much motherly enrnestness and affection . The Duchess ' s will must serve still moro to increase tho public respect for her character aud memory . Visit of Prince Alfred to Prussia . —Woolwich , Sept . 6 . —His Royal Highness Prince Alfred having obtained two months' leave of absence from the naval service , is about to proceed to tho Continent , on a visit to their Royal Highnesses tho Prinoe and Princess of Prussia .... ...... ...... , - ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦

      Lord Clyde . —In a letter reoeivod from Sir Colin Campbell ( Lord Clyde ) on Friday , tho gallant Commnmlor-in-Ohiof refers to tho hope " that his sword will soon be roturncd into tho scabbard for tho last time , never to bo drawn again . " Dinner , to thjc Hadpinotos M . P . —Sir II . F . Davie , M . P ., has been entertained at Jodburgh . Tho lion , member said : — " All that ho had done was only in , tho way of his duty to his country aud constituency . This always afforded him both satisfaction and ploasuro ( cheers ) , aud IP , at any future time , ho could again bo

      of tho slightest advantage in promoting their interests , thev should not hesitate to command his services . ( j ^| Bft » tf .. )» mKWOUJW ^ tooling to incline him to givu a vote which ho did not coiusoiontioutfly boliovo was for the nubile good . Having this prinpiplo at heart , ho hoped to retire into private llf ' o when that time came , boaring with him tlio respect and good-will of all with whom ho hud boon wnnyctod , and sustaining ill-will from no ono , na ho was consciousho had ' never intentionally given oft ' ciioe . ( Loud olioors . )

      _ . , . _ , _ The Nkw AnKi . rm Tiihatkk . —TIio works oro In active progress , and tdo ruuf , wo < iro toM , will bo put on within tho iic . Nt six weeks . 'J'lio now building will

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      WEST INDIES . UA . YTI . A Madrip journal , Las Kovedades , announces that a regular government has at length boon formed in the Dominican republic . M . Joso Valverda has bdsn elected president , and M . Domingo Rojas vico-presidont . San . tana , now that he has completed his work of pacification , ¦ will probably retire into private life . CURA . The Leqii JEtijfanol comments on a proclamation published in Havannah on tho 27 th of Juno , which facilitates tho introduction of white foreigners into Cubn , and points out how easy it would bo for an American ship to slip down from New Orleans to Havannah , with arras and ammunition onough to arm tho 5000 Yankees now in tho island , and by a surprise annex it to tho United States .

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      TSTo . 442 , September 11 , 1858 , 1 T H E ; . % V A P E B . 981

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1858, page 931, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2259/page/11/