CHINA AND JAPAN.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 402, 25 April 1871, Page 3

CHINA AND JAPAN.

The Straits steamer Don, which arrived via the Canal, bound for Shanghai, was lost on Ocksen Island on the 12th Februai-y. She had a general cargo. The Hongkong Bank dividend is 10 per cent. The Belgium Minister sent a despatch strongly condemning negotiations about the i Tien Ism massacre, when twenty Belgian subjects suffered. The ship Andromeda, from Shanghai, is lost. The Shanghai cable is buried at Ocksen Island for the present: as a deeper channel over the Krosung bar has been discovered. Disturbances have occurred in Shum Shaw province, Japan, and troops were dispatched from Yeddo. Latest accounts state that the insurrection was quelled. Sir Henry Ord'e, Governor of tha Straits, has gone home on leave. Colonel Anson is acting. In the Volga and Black Adder case, at Hongkong, the Court decided in favor of the latter, each party paying costs. The Marquis of Salisbury, in the Lords, said that English influence abrp-v 1 "< be regained aa guarantees to the ti\ . \ :,c. ."russiaand

Russia, at the commencement of the war, viz., if French successes threatened Poland, Russia interferes; if Austria made a demonstration against Prussia, Russia demonstrates on the Austrian frontier ; should the European Powers assist France, Hiissia assists Prussia.

Cl litt Conference terminated its meetings on the 13th March. The Powers, including France, have signed a treaty advocating the neutralisation of the Black Sea. The treaty permits tiie Ottoman Porte to allow the passage of ships of war through the Dardenelles in time of peace, and provides fur a prolongation of the Danube Commission for seven years. A protest was also signed whereby no power can liberate itself from treaty engagements without the consent of the others.

Paris journals consider the London treaty most humiliating to the policy of the Western Powers for the last forty years. Sir Henry Bulwer and Sir William Mansfield are raised to the peerage. Obituary.—Sir Cunningham Stirling. Three per cent. Eentes in Paris were quoted at 51^.