CHINA AND JAPAN.

Evening Post, Issue 91, 25 May 1865, Page 3

CHINA AND JAPAN.

The Overland Trade Report of that date supplies a resume of the month's i news : — 11 The events of the previous fortnight had heen nearly a blank: the altered arrangements concluded by the British Government in relation to their land forces to be stationed in this part of the world, were that two battalions of infantry and one company of artillery should be quartered in Hongkong, and one battalion of infantry and one company of artillery at Japan. The Taeping rebels still held the city of Changchow, the Governor-General of the Fuhkien Province being unable to take the field and cope with them. The rumour was prevalent that a Colonel in the French army had been lent to the Mandarins, and would arrive shortly for the purpose of organising a force to operate against the insurgents. It was possible that the British radical scheme might provide the provincial troops with an asylum during the progress of organisation, but it seemed improbable that the troops thus raised would he ahle to take the field in sufficient time to prevent the insurgents over-running the Fuhkein province and levying contributions on the tea districts. " A system of robbery by means of saps from the drains had become prevolent in this colony, and had resulted in the rifling of the treasury of one of the banks. "From Japan we learn that the new year festivities and the cold weather combined to put a check to tradal operations. Nothing was known of the expedition sent by the Tycoon and loyal Daimios to chastise the Prince of Fagato."