CHINA.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 427, 18 May 1850, Page 3

CHINA.

[Fiom Uic " Sydney Herald," Apiil IC] la accoidance with the request of the Governor, the magistrates of the colony had assembled and chosen Messrs. David Jardinc and Joseph Fiost Edger to be thefirst non-official members of the Legislative Council. The Chinese authorities had lonvarded to the Provisional Government of Macao a despatch containing a confession said to have been made by one of the murderers of Governor Amaral. The Macao Council evidently considered this despatch to be a mere onsc, and bad published a lengthy manifest, charging the principal Chinese officers with complicity in the murder, and with having instigated the murderers.

Se u to the Macao Council, Seii, Viceroy ot Kwangtung and Kwangsi, &c, &c. I have to communicate, that I received a report from the Mandarin Yih of Kwaii-chow, stating that an informer had secretly acquainted him that some of the accomplices in the murder of the Portuguese Governor Amaral had fled to Hu nan : that he offered himself to go with the people to seize them. In consequence, ahle soldiers were immediately selected secretly, and with them he went in pursuit as fur as the town of Lo-cbange, in the department of Shan-ehow,*where the informer pointed out a small vessel, baying it belonged to the accomplices in question, and that there were really on board one named Ko-Ahon, and another

Li-Apao. Upon this, the soliiieia fell" upon the saitl vessel ; and as those on board offered resistance by filing, the soldiers fired also upon them, the result of which wus, that Li-Apao fell wounded overboard, and was drowned. The soldiers tried to get up hi 3 body, but they could not find it. Ko-Ahon was apprehended, and conducted to Canton to be examined, and as he was severely wounded with a cutting instrument, was sent to be cured. The annexed copy ia the confession of Ko-Ahon. This is what I have to communicate In answer to the Council of the Portuguese Government. Taoukwank, 29th year, Bth moon, 29th dny. filth October, 1849). ""In Canton dialect Siu-ehao.