CHINA.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 85, 23 May 1843, Page 3

CHINA.

(From the Hobart Town Courier.) By the Ann Loclcerby, from Canton, we have intelligence from thence to the 2nd February. All was quiet again at Canton. The second instalment had been paid, and the Plenipotentiary was busily engaged in arranging a new Tariff. Sir Henry Pottinger in his letter to the British merchants, dated Macao, 28th December, 1842, informs them that he had reason to expect the Imperial Commissioners would arrire at Canton in the ensuing month, for the purpose of negociating with him upon and finally adjusting the Tariff, and the duties to be levied at the five ports to be thrown open to British commerce, under the second article of the treaty, and calls upon the merchants for their opinion in writing. He observes, that it had been his intention to have published the treaty which had been concluded with the Emperor of China, in full, for general information; but that there appeared objections to that course until it had been formally ratified by the Queen. No allusion is made in the present documents to the ticklish subject of the trade in opium. Sir Henry Pottinger, however, observes, in his correspondence with the merchants, that he has not overlooked it, and that he indulges a hope (he admits a very faint one) that it will yet be in his power to get the traffic in opium by barter “ legalized by the Emperorthis arrangement was left to the next meeting of the Plenipotentiary with the High Commissioners. In consequence of the loss of Tinghae, Chinghae, aridNingpo, the Emperor has ordered Yihshan, who was appointed the Rebel-quelling General; Yichking, the Awe-inspiring General and Wanwei, an Assistant Great Minister, to be degraded and dismissed from the public service, confined in prison, and their heads to be cut off next autumn.

The Emperor of China, in one of his Imperial Edicts, confesses that he was (for the good and happiness of his people) forced to ratify the treaty made by Keying with H. M. Plenipotentiary. Thus runs the passage : —“ I, the Emperor, because of thinking that the blackhaired people were in the midst of mud and ashes —calamities and distress—could not but bend my will and constrain and force myself to accord with that which Keying and his colleagues had requested; and promised free trade to the English barbarians.” The Commercial Report from Canton, 25th December, is as follows : —Here every, thing is quiet, although the. Chinese soldiers are still encamped in front of the factories. Business generally, except in opium, has ' not been affected nor and teas are being shipped largely. Preparations are making to rebuild the factories: already they have commenced restoring the Company’s garden walk We have some fresh arrivals, and it is expected* in a day or two, there will be more residents than before the outbreak.”

guardsman, armed cap-a-pie, can rule with ease under the belly of the animal. A new studio and pit for casting the various portions have been rented near the artist’s residence, at Pad- i dington, and the completion of the work may be confidently expected in the course of&tjk ensuing summer. The effect of the modenoir entering the studio is grand. The ment chosen by Mr. Wyatt is that in which the duke is supposed to be giving the memorable words—“ Up, Guards, and at them! The horse is standing in a quiescent attitude, but the distended nostrils and eager gaze beautifully display the feeling of excitement with which the animal may be supposed to have been agitated amid the roar and din of battle. The duke is attired in a field marshal’s uniform, with a military cloak thrown over his shoulders; his face slightly inclines to the left, while in his right hand he holds the baton of command by which his directions are made known. The head is already cast, and, if the other portions be equally successful, the whole will indeed be a triumph of art. The metal used is chiefly, if not altogether, formed of guns captured by our countrymen in various parts of the world, and the weight of this latter (the head) alone exceeds 3001bs. The boots are also cast, and jointly weigh 5001bs. The whole statue, when completed, will exceed 40 tons in weight, and the metal required for the purpose of its production, owing to waste, &c. will amount to 50 tons.

Intoxication. —On Thursday last, an ironlifter at Dundy van, of the name of John Black, undertook, for a trifling wager, to swallow a mutchkin of whisky without taking it from his head. A previous allowance had quickened his appetite for the undertaking, and, all things being ready, John swallowed the mortal dose, and one glass more ! when he hied his way home from Coatbridge to Dundyvan in a state of utter stupefaction; and, though one of the most hardy and powerful men at the work, the poisonous potation wrought so rapidly on his constitution, that, in less than four-hours from swallowing the draught, he was found- a lifeless corpse, leaving a hapless wife and numerous family to lament his intemperate and murderous folly.- — Glasgow Chronicle.