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London 1st January.-—Yearly re- venue most satisfactory. Expenditure less by a million than calculated. In- come two millions more. Mr. Maule, recorder of Leeds, and Mr. Roundell Palmer added to complete Jamaica commissioners.

America 21st December.—-The President informs the Senate that the work of reconstruction is progressing favorably. Grant reports his belief in the sincerity of the Southerners progressing in loyalty. Sumner (?) impeaches correctness of statement, asserting that Southerners are cons- tantly perpetrating atrocities against freedmen.

America 29th Dec.—-Carolina has, by a decree of the Constitution, abol- ished slavery. The President has res- tored the habeas corpus act throughout the country except in rebellion states.

London, 3rd January.-—Fair Dhol- lers 17¾d. Market steady Sale. 20,000 bales. Bengal Cotton, 13d. Indian drafts on Calcutta and Madras, 1s. 11½d. twenty-four—on Bombay 2s. 2⅖. twenty-one per cent. Consols, 87½. Discount 7 for sixty days on Calcutta. Exchange 2s. on Bombay 2s. 0¼. The Spanish Correspondenzia says that the Governor knows of the revolutionary projects of those who mistake forbearance for weakness, and will certainly defeat them. A special despatch from Washington states that the French troops will be withdrawn from Mexico within three months.

London Jan. 5th.—-Fair Dhollera, 18½d; market ready. Bengal Cotton, 13d. Manchester nothing doing. 7lb, shirting, 15s. No. 40 Mule Twist, 2s. 2d. Consols, 87,. Moderate enquiry for discount—rates fully maintained. Money abundant. Military revolt in Madrid and Bayonne. Minister of Marine pursuing insurgents. Caho retired to the mountains. Prim re- ported as instigating insurgents.

London January 6th.-—Cotton market dull. Sales 8,000 bales, stock 442,680 bales. Bengal Cotton 13d. Consols 87½. Military revolt in Spain spreading. Perim [?] and Cados La- tore head insurgents. Martial Law proclaimed at Madrid. Treaty of Commerce ratified between Austria and England,—all probability duties abolished — goods admitted on protec- tive duties not exceeding 25 per cent Mexican advices report revolution broken out against Maximilian.

London 9th January.—-Fair Dhol- lers, 17½d. Market flat, but firm. Bengal Cotton, 13d. Manchester market depressed and heavy—-fluc- tuating. 7lb Shirtings, 14s. 6d. Mule Twist, 2s. 1d. Consols, 87¼ stock and share market dull. Discount accomo- tion active in consequence of amount of Indian bills maturing. Rate barely maintained. Banda Kirwee Prize money case commenced before the Court of Admiralty.

Manchester 10th January.—-Goods and yarns quiet. Money tight Ex- ports small.

London 12th Jan.—-Cotton—-little doing. 7lbs Shirtings 15s. 3d. No. 40 Twist 2s. 2d.

From Penang Argus Feb. 9th.

Fair Dhollera 17½d., more doing and prices strong. Bengal Cotton 13¾d. Consol's 87⅜.

American news to the 30th Decem- ber.

The Radicals are dissatisfied with the President's reconstruction policy. Senator Wilson notifies his want of confidence in the Administration. The President is sustained by the Demo- crats and the Conservatives. The Re- publicans have expressed their deter- mination to thwart his policy.

Bank of England discount 8 per cent.

Telegraphic communication be- tween London and the provinces is interrupted owing to a heavy fall of snow breaking the wires.

General Prim defeated Command- ant Spanish General Concha.

A state of siege has been proclaimed at Arragon.

At Barcelous a demonstration a- gainst the Government was dispersed by the military firing on the people.

Fair Dhollera 17½d to 17½d. Bengal Cotton 13d. Consols 87.

The ship Simla, from Bombay to Liverpool, has been destroyed by fire. The cargo was lost, but the crew were saved by the Star of India.

No vessel named the Simla was due at Liverpool from Bombay, but a vessel of that name was due at London from Calcutta, and in the Home News of Dec. 26 is reported to have been seen bottom up. The de- tails of her loss may have reached London on the date of the telegram, and thus been forwarded. Unless this supposition is correct, the name of the vessel must have been incorrectly transmitted.

Fair Dhollera, 17¼d., fair demand ; market healthy and a steady business doing. Bengal Cotton 13¼d. Stock, 390,200 bales. Consols, 87⅖. Exchange on Bombay, 2s. to 2s. 0½d. Do. Calcutta and Madras, 1s, 11⅞d to 2s. Gold, £ 3. 17s. 9¼d. per oz. Silver, 5s. 1½d. per oz.

The following amounts of specie were forwarded to Bombay by the Southampton steamer yesterday.— Silver, £ 430,000; Gold, £ 567,075.

A Chilian corvette has engaged, de- feated, and captured a Spanish gun boat off Papada, which was conveying despatches.

The Speech of the new King of the Belgians to the Chambers has made a favorable impression in foreign coun- tries, and been received with enthusi- asm in Belgium.

It is stated that the French govern- ment intends to withdraw from the Extradition Treaty with England when it expires in June, 1866.

The Italian Ministry have resigned. General La Marmora has undertaken the formation of a new Cabinet.

Both Houses of the American Le- gislature are occupied with the Mexi- can question.

The Fenian President in America has issued an address refusing to ac- knowledge the Senate held in New York, and announcing a Fenian Con- gress to be held in January. The Senate subsequently deposed the Pre- sident, charging him, with misappro- priation of funds.

The cattle plague is still on the in- crease in England and Wales.

Earl Cowley is to receive the garter vacant by the death of Lord Pal- merston.

A meeting was held at Cambridge for the purpose of passing resolutions condemnatory of Governor Eyre, but an amendment was carried declaring it unjust to pronounce any opinion pending inquiry.

A congratulatory address will be presented to Dr. Colenso on his arri- val at Natal. The local bishops have declared him to be out of the pale of the Church.

Count Eulenburg has been sentenced to imprisonment for his"share in the affray in which M. Otto lost his life.

The Princess Ann Murat was mar- ried to the Duke de Mouchy in Paris on the 18th December.

Mr. Grey, secretary of the English embassy at Paris, has died of cholera.

A project is in course of develop- ment for the union of the whole of London under one municipality.

A terrible colliery explosion has taken place at Merthyr Tydvil, by which 30 men have been killed, and many others injured.

America.

The Message of President Johnson seems to have had a very salutary ef- fect throughout the country. It is regarded as an able State paper, paci- fic in tone, and calculated to contri- bute materially to the restoration of good feeling between the two sections lately in conflict, and to allay much of the apprehensions of foreign compli- cation previously felt. Its effect upon Congress is said to have been impor- tant, and the Conservative Republi- cans seem to have been in many cases influenced thereby to adopt a more conciliatory course towards the South. South. It is currently reported that the joint resolution prescribing the test oath of having never aided the re- bellion as a requisite for admission to Congress will be greatly modified. Its enforcement would have excluded from that body nearly all the recently elected members from the Southern States. It seems possible now that their credentials may be received dur- ing the session.

Both Houses of Congress have re- quested the President to furnish all correspondence touching the French occupation of Mexico, Maximilian's decree ordering armed Republicans to be shot without trial, and the estab- lishment of Peonage. Another reso- lution, strongly pointed against Mexi- co, was introduced in the House and laid over.

The Charleston correspondent of the 'Herald' asserts that General Grant, in the course of conversation at the dinner given by General Sickles, stated that now was the favorable moment to drive Maximilian from Mexico, and that such an opportunity might not occur again. General Grant has re- turned to Washington, and reports that the negroes are in comparative idleness and refused to renew their contracts. He believes that the pro- fessions of loyalty expressed by the Sothern masses are sincere.

A bill had been introduced into the House of Representatives, providing for the payment to Mrs. Lincoln of the sum of 100,000 dollars, being the salary of her husband for the four years' term for which he was last elected. The bill was referred to a committee of one from each State.

Provisional Governor Perry, of South Carolina, recently received the follow- ing telegram from the President:—

"I do not think it necessary for the members elect from South Caro- lina to be present at the organization of Congress. On the contrary, it will be better policy to present their certi- ficates of election after the two Houses have been organized, which will then be a simple question under the constitu- tion of the members taking their seats. Each House must judge for itself the election returns and qualifications of its own members. As to what the two Houses will do in reference to the oath required to be taken by members is unknown to me, and I do not like to predict. But, upon the whole, I am of the opinion it would be better for the question to come up after Congress has been organised. I hope that your legislature will adopt a code in reference to free persons of colour that will be acceptable to the country, and at the same time do justice to the white and coloured population..

A circular of the Freedmen's Aid Society states that, unless some special provision was made for them, 70,000 negroes will probably perish during this winter in Georgia and Alabama alone.

General Logan, it is said, has re- fused to accept the Mexican mission unless the United States government will give material aid to Mexico. The President had refused to give such assurance, Mr. Seward adding that the Mexican policy of the Government would for the present remain un- changed.

News from New Orleans to the 8th Dec. states that cotton receipts at Shreveport are falling off. At Jeffer- son, Texas, the head of the Red River navigation, there were 12,000 bales on hand and 20,000 more to come in.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

Advices from the Southern States are generally satisfactory.

Three-fourths of the States having ratified the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, it is now the su- preme law, and the great end for which the war was fought is practi- cally accomplished. Four Southern States—North Carolina, South Caro- lina; Georgia, and Alabama—have ratified the amendment.

Mr. Cowan, of Pennsylvania. sub- mitted a resolution requesting the President of the United States to fur- nish the Senate with information of the state of that portion of the coun- try recently in rebellion—whether the rebellion has been suppressed, United States courts restored, post-offices opened, revenues collected, and whe- ther the people of those States yield obedience to the laws and government of the United States. Under objection of Mr. Sumner, this resolution was laid over.—In the House of Repre- sentatives, Mr. Blaine, of Maine, in- troduced a bill which was referred to a select committee, providing for the reimbursement of the loyal States for all expenditures in support of the war.

The Legislature of Mississippi has reported against the constitutional amendment on 'account of the second clause, which reads,—" Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." Such a division of the amendment is, it alle- ges, of the Legislature is tantamount to a rejection.

The 'New York News' of Dec. 12th has the following very unlikely story.—

In the Cabinet meeting to-day, our relations with England, which have now assumed a serious if not alarming aspect, were discussed at some length. It is understood that the President has directed Mr. Seward to prepare an ultimatum to be presented to the Eng- lish Government, and in the event of its not being complied with, our min- ister is to ask for his passports, and return home.

Latest from China

1st Feb. 1866

The northern news of the fortnight which has just elapsed is full of rumours concerning rebel movements. The Nienfei are said to be on the neigh- bourhood of the Grand Canal, about 300 li, north of the Yangtze. They are described as pushing steadily south- wards and as having inflicted defeats on the Imperial troops. Very late news from Hankow, brought by a steamer which left that place on the 21st, relates to further rebel movements. A large force was within 30 miles of the city, and one of the chief imperialist generals had gone over to the enemy. The Taoutai had applied for help to all the foreign consuls. The gunboat Algerine lying at Kewkiang proceeded immedi- ately to Hankow. The French gunboat Fardif was already at Hankow. Re- fugees were flocking into the foreign settlement from all directions.

From Chinkiang there are accounts of a new canal on a large scale which is under construction. It is on the South Bank, just above the British Concession, and is intended for the shelter of native craft from the north winds when the proclamation ordering them to quit the north side shall be enforced. About 2,000 men are kept constantly at work, and though the canal cannot be thoroughly finished un- der two years it will, it is said, be ready for partial use in a month's time. The idea is to connect Nankin with Chinkiang. At Nankin the authorities have issued an edict taking off all duties from silks woven there for five years, and a great effect has been produced. No fewer than 2,500 silk looms have been established in the place in six months. Six or seven hundred extra looms are at work at Chinkiang and the number of junks on the north side, has increased marvellously. They lie all along the river bank for more than a mile, in tiers 18 to 23 deep.

Piratical operations have been very active during the past fortnight. A French brig the Jeanne et Joseph which left Hongkong for Takao on the 16th instant, came to anchor in the Ly-ee-moon passage off Tamtoo for the night and was attacked by three junks at about 8 o'clock in the evening. About two hundred men boarded her and overpowered resistance. Every- thing of value was taken from her; but the pirates, before they had quite completed their work were interrupted by the accidental appearance of a Spanish war steamer, the Circe. They made off, and the Circe lay alongside the brig all night. Next day the Jeanne et Joseph returned to Hongkong hav- ing lost two of her men in the attack. On the 21st another successful achieve- ment of the pirates was announced by the reappearance in the harbor of the American schooner Alma. The previous day she had sailed for Japan and was attacked outside the Ly-ee- moon. Her captain and crew escaped in boats having the pirates at leisure but after robbing the vessel of all she contained, they turned her adrift, and she was brought into Hongkong by the crew of a passing vessel. Not content with these two feats, the pirates at- tempted a still bolder exploit. They actually boarded a German barque, the Albert Fures as she lay at anchor in the harbor, near Stone Cutter island. This was done during the night of the 23rd. There were a few chests of opium on board, and the intention probably was to kill the anchor watch, —one man,—before he could give the alarm and carry off the plunder without the knowledge of the crew. The man on watch, however, though severely wounded, defended his life, and the noise aroused his shipmates and also excited the attention of the next vessel. The pirates took themselves off there- fore this time unsuccessful.

Macao is gradually loosing its old character for orderly propriety. Kid- napping Chinese for the coolie trade is carried to a fearful extent. Boat loads of men are being brought in from the west coast almost daily. In the town itself rowdyism is beginning, and respectable Europeans go about armed. The China boys employed in steamers visiting the port are afraid to go on shore for fear of being kidnapped.

How to keep Poor.

Buy two glasses of ale every day, at five cents each, amounting in one year to $36,50; smoke three cigars, one after each meal, counting up in the course of the year to $54,75; keep a big dog, which will consume in a year at least $15 worth of provisions; and a cat $4 more—-altogether this amounts to the snug sum of $110.25—-sufficient to buy six barrels of flour, one hundred bush- els of coal, and a barrel of sugar, one sack of coffee and a good coat, a re- spectable dress, besides a frock for the baby, and a half a dozen pairs of shoes —more or less. Just think of it.

—-Love the work you are doing and must do; but when it is done, train the rose-vines over your door!

-—Josh Billings says: If a man is going to make a business of serving the Lord, he likes to see him do it when he measures out onions, as well as when he hollers halleluier.

Bangkok Recorder.

Never would we forget when we write, or see, or think of the date above given, that it points to the anniversary of the birth of the immortal GEORGE WASHINGTON one hundred and thirty four years since—-a name that will ever become more and more illustrious while the principles of free government shall continue to deepen, and streng- then, and expand, until, as we, firmly believe, they will, like Nebuchadnez- zer’s mountain, "fill the whole earth."

The arrival of the Siamese Steamer “Chow Phya” on the eve of the 17th inst, brought for our small foreign community here but a meagre European Mail. Our latest dates from London are to Dec. 26th, and from the U. S. Am. to the 6th of Dec. We think that we have in the late news both from Europe and America peculiar reasons for uniting with the sweet Psalmist of Israel in the sentiment—-“The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof” We see Him at the helm of all the governments in Europe guiding them to his own praise and glory, and con- tinually assuring them that He will cause all things to work together for the good of His people. Most signally did He interpose and arrest the rising of a rebellion in Ireland, which, had it been left to expend and strengthen a few months more, would in all prob- ability have done infinite damage to England, to the U. S. Am., and to the world. We rejoice to see, as we think we do, among nearly all the nations of Europe the principles of liberty and freedom in human governments rapid- ly gaining ground over oppression and absolutism. Peculiarly glad are we to notice the great expansion and power and blessings of Republicanism in the U. S. While we are pained at seeing that many of the bitter and dangerous roots of slavery are still living in the hearts of men at the North and in the great majority of the South we foresee a day not far off, when they shall all be erad- icated, and the coloured race univer- sally acknowledged to be in the fullest sense citizens of that great Republic.

We have read the message of Pres- ident Johnson with much satisfaction and see good reason why the first tel- egraphic reports of it to all parts of the world represented it as being very generally commended in the U. S. and commanding the high regards of nearly or quite all the European powers. It is indeed “an able state paper” being another grand proof that its author is an extraordinary man and that he can and does grace well the Presidential chair. But there are a few paragraphs in the message with which we cannot coincide. The one in which the President apologizes for not hav- ing taken any steps to extend the elec- tive franchise to some, at least, of the more worthy freedmen of the South, appears to us strangely weak. He seems to us to have utterly failed to prove that the constitution stood in his way of taking any such steps. And his reasoning to show that the south- ern States will ultimately give the freedmen the right of suffrage, is as “chaff before the summer threshing floors.” While the old spirit of slavery is but smothered in the bosoms of at least three-fourths of their old mas- ters, as is but too plainly manifested, it is vain to think that they will allow the blacks to stand up with them as their equals at the ballot box. And such is the nature of this accursed spirit that it descends from the fathers to the children, and if the question be left for the whites at the South to set- tle for themselves, we may look in vain for their sons or their son’s sons to give suffrage to the coloured race. Nothing short of another terrible struggle like that through which Slav- ery and Freedom have just passed in the U. S. will, in our humble opinion, ever do it if this glorious opportunity, opened by the most signal interposi- tion of the Almighty be neglected.

President Johnson certainly had the power and the right to elevate the status of all the freedmen to at least the grade of the poorest and most illiterate white men, giving them the best of guarantees that an ordinary education and loyal behavior will bring them all to the ballot box, and allow them to vote for their own ru- lers with privileges and honors equal to their white neighbours. But since President Johnson has lost that op- portunity, Congress now assembled, we are happy to hope and believe, will embrace it, and promptly do the freed-

men that justice which the U. S. gov- ernment has solemnly promised them, and which Holy Heaven will insist upon.

It did our hearts good to read the report of an Am. correspondent to, the London Times of which we give an extract below. The writer seems to speak of the Radicals, much in the sense of the old slang "Rabid abolitionist." We glory in belonging to the radical party. It was the radi- cals that elected and re-elected the illustrious Lincoln and placed by his side Andrew Johnson, and that sus- tains him in his most responsible po- sition. The war for subduing the great Rebellion, and for the glori- ous work of destroying slavery was a radical work, and was waged by radical men. And the same radicals are called of God now to eradicate all the remaining bitter roots of sla- very, and we have lively hope in God that they will do it quickly and in it well.

Philadelphia, Dec. 4th.

The Federal Congress, which assem- bled in Washington to-day at 12 o'clock noon, began a Session that will no doubt be among the most impor- tant in American history. The Pres- ident having gone over to the Radic- als on the question of admitting the Southern members, the Republicans commence their long winter's work with apparent harmony, and have laid down their plan of operations upon the reconstruction question in the following resolution:—

"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, that a joint committee of 15 members shall be ap- pointed, nine of whom shall be mem- bers of the House and six of the Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be repre- sented in either House of Congress, with leave to report at any time, by Bill or otherwise; and until such re- port shall have been made and finally acted upon by Congress, no member shall be received into either House from any of the said so called Con- federate States, and papers relating to the representatives of the said States shall be referred to the said committee without debate."

This resolution was unanimously adopted in a caucus of 124 Radical and Conservative Republican members of the House of Representatives, and was concurred in by a large majority of the senators. It has not yet been finally acted upon by Congress, and, although strenuous opposition is made to it by the Democratic members, its friends, having so large a majority, it must ultimately pass. The President may or not sign it, but the pro- babilities are strong that in his pre- sent temper he will sign it. The resolution is a complete disposal of the case of every Southern member. It permits no debate and no alterna- tive. No matter how strong the claims of any Southerner, it removes him at once from the halls of Congress to a close committee room, where 15 men can vote him in or out of Congress. Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, a Radical Republican, is the mover of this resolution, and will be chairman of the committee, and the majority of the member ap- pointed upon it will be as Radical as he is. There is little chance of the admission of any Southern members for weeks to come.

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Bangkok Recorder.

Sir,-—Your last issue contained two articles the one signed Penelope Brown, the other unsigned, which having com- menced and laid aside as more full of words than good matter, I was in- duced to read through on hearing that they contained an assertion most in- jurious and insulting to this commun- ity, which ought not to be let pass without reply.

The two articles in question are so similar in tone that I shall deal with them in connection.

The one written immediately after an excellently managed Ball at the British Consulate, at which almost ev- ery European and American of any standing in this town was present, complains of the evil of “promiscuous” dancing. It does not argue against the practice of dancing or give proofs of its alleged immoral tendencies, but assumes the wickedness and condemns those who indulge in it, condemning at the same time all those nations dwelling in temperate climes, who find the pleasant harmonious action of the dance a relaxation from dull routine constitutional walking and riding. If Penelope Brown will resort to argu- ment in support of her tirade I should like her to shew that the races among which dancing is not a general and popular recreation are more moral, or in any way better, or in most things so good as those among which it is. I must however protest against her using ambiguous adjectives such as "promiscuous" for while her use of that word may only refer to gentlemen dancing with ladies instead of by themselves, it may be taken and in, this case has been taken, to infer an unsuitable association of persons such as does not occur at any of the Balls given by the ladies or gentlemen of Bangkok.

It is very kind of Penelope to hope that some other means may be devised of bringing harmoniously, if not prom- iscuously together this little commun- ity. We can join as we did before in a social meeting, with perhaps a cup of tea and a speech by some orator unknown to fame on liberty or any other of those fine subjects which ev- ery talker can get impassioned about. But if we join in such things good- humouredly for the sake of good fel- lowship, we in return shall expect Penelope to smile on our way of amusing ourselves. Probably the mu- sic which excites us to dance might not be disagreeable to her; she must have some music in her, - though moved but little she surely is not akin to those of whom Shakespeare wrote

—'The man that hath no music in his soul, And is not moved by concourse of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons, plots, conspiracies'

And now for the other letter that quotes a proverb that eight years ago a sober European after dinner was a curiosity. And adds that the statement might now be applied with more truth than poetry.

A resident since the beginning of 1857 I probably know more about this place than our unknown accuser, who must be a later immigrant, and my testimony is, first, that I have never heard of such a proverb and believe it to be either the writer's own coining, or the dictum of a peculiar set I do not associate with. Secondly, with re- spect to the charge I say it is an un- just one. It is true that some of the younger men in the place have been at times wild and noisy, so young men are every where, and it is undeniable that in the old time there was a set of rowdies here much given to intoxica- tion, but they were not the communi- ty, they were only a bad part of it, which very quickly got weeded out. They were the exception, not the rule, and their presence did not justify such an accusation against the community as a body. So much for the first part of the charge, which the writer, it is presumed, got from others; for the sec- ond part he is himself responsible. Let him go night after night from dining room to dining along the East Bank of the river (not the west Bank where he will find few but missionaries, whose habits I am unacquainted) and he will learn that drunkenness is now very rare indeed among our residents; and even the hotels, are quiet and re- spectable. If he will only observe facts, and try to curb his nasty unpoetical imagination, he will, perhaps, one day see that this is not such a bad com- munity after all, though it occasionally indulges in dinner parties and Balls, but that it contains many very worthy men and women outside that little circle where he and Penelope have been nourishing their unkindly feelings

Mr. Editor.

During the Chinese holidays we enjoyed a little respite at this end of town, from noise, dust, and smoke: but the rice mills have started up again, and things have assumed their usual activity. John Chinaman however was again triumphant, which is another evidence that, in a certain sense, he rules Siam. We are certainly very much dependent upon him here as a "hewer of wood and drawer of water." Indeed he is the great producer of the king- dom. Feeling conscious of his im- portance, he was not going to be cheated out of his holiday sports, and when he sets his mind upon play it takes a pretty good force to change it. Some of the rice mills had a kind of hope that they would be able to keep going during the holidays, and had secured a quantity of paddy ahead, but even then they found it impossible to run without John's assistance. The noise of exploding fire crackers, the loads of pork, and sweet meats continu- ally passing along, proved clearly that he was determined to have his feast, and fun, and let the rest of the world jog on as best it could without him. Still, if he would do nothing worse than play, we could not complain. When he does work he works well, and we must give him time to play. True, he will not hang on as tenaciously as a Euro- pean, but still he makes an excellent coolie. Whilst Paddy is so taken up with Fenianisim in the Eastern ports of the United States, John is gradually working him out of business in the great West. A late paper states that there are at present some ten thousand Chinamen at work on the new Pacific Rail Road.

The following extract translated from a government document prepared for our Siamese paper and published in our last issue on the 15th inst. indicates pretty clearly which way the wind blows and whence it cometh. It is manifestly in- tended to cramp the freedom of our press.

A Government Document.

In cases of litigation in the city or out of the city where the lawyers and judges adjudicate not according to justice, and either of the parties feel aggrieved he has the privilege of ap- pealing to the court of the deputy governor or governor of the province in which he lives, or to the court of any high officer in the province. And then, if he think any such court has not done him justice through carelessness or neglect or through some misunder- standing, the king in great mercy has been pleased to provide another mode of redress which is as follows.

Whoever of the people or subjects of the kingdom, without respect of per- sons—all whoever they may be, that are engaged in lawsuits, and feel themsel- ves oppressed by lawyers and judges in whatever court, let them make a written complaint and present it to the king when he comes out to his seat called Sóót-t'ie-sa wán (on certain days every waxing and waning moon —-about 4 times a month) or he may send the written complaint by the hand of any relative, or by any lord or noble or less honorable personage out of the royal harem or within it, at any time above indicated. The king will then attend to all such complaints, and cause the matter to be truthfully investigated and justice done.

But to reject this course, and go and publish the matter in the “papers,” causing odium to fall upon the judges and upon their antagonists is the same as placarding such persons. There- fore whoever hires his complaints to be printed is a transgressor, and he will only defeat his own cause. He is like one who beats his own legs until they are bruised and broken.

The Newspapers are continually murmuring complaints of wicked con- duct at Máaklawng. There is proba- bly much truth in them. The govern- or of that Province has within his juris- diction many bands of lawless men, who oppress the people and disturb greatly the peace of the community. Very many cases of litigation have come up from that quarter—some of murder, and some of the violent seiz- ure of young women and the conse- quent crimes. Complaint of such crimes having been made in due form, the cases were long under adjudication, first in the court of the P'rák'lang in this city and then in the court of the Lord Mayor. But when appeals were made directly to the king, thorough trials were instituted. Judgment ren- dered, and punishment inflicted upon the offenders in front of the throne Sóót-t'ie-sa wán. There have been many such cases.

Concerning the case reported in the papers to have been adjudicated through the influence of bribes, the report is true. The old judge who was bribed was connected with the court of the P'rá-k'lang. His title was P'rá P'ep'aksá. He came before the king and testified that the man and the girl truly loved each other —-that the man did not take her for- cibly from her parents, and that subse- quently, the girl, changing her mind, testified before the court that she had never loved the man. This testimony of the judge was found to be false, and that he had indeed been influenced by bribes in deciding the case as he did. Judgment was accordingly rend- ered in favor of the girl, and the man who had forced her away from her parents was imprisoned and the old judge was degraded from his office.

Now this is but an illustration of the proper mode of procedure, in all cases of complicated litigation where justice is long in being executed and the party aggrieved finds no redress. It is to go directly up to the throne with the complaints stated in writing and substantiated by suitable witnesses. It is customary for the king in such cases, to press forward the necessary trial until the transgressor be taken and justice executed upon him.

Concerning that case which the Newspaper reports that the prisoner had escaped through the influence of bribes—that is also true. The base man Koolâp, a son of an officer in the court of the P’râk’lang, having forced the daughter of a plebeian went and sold her as a slave. The case was a long time under litigation at M’râklawng, and was swaying from side to side when at length it was brought to Bangkok for trial. And here for a long time, having balanced one way and the other, a written com- plaint was carried up to the throne. The king commanded that the case be speedily investigated. There were certain individuals who influenced the P’râk’lang to write a letter to the king with the view to prevail upon him to look upon the charges as being in many respects false, so that the trans- gressor might escape the severity of the law. There was so much of error and wrong action in this act of the P’râ- k’lang, that the king became quite displeased with him for it, and order- ed the man Koolâp, together with his father and mother, to be publicly flog- ged, and then had Kool’âp thrust into prison. He was in prison but a short time, however, when he made his es- cape. A report of this was made to the king, when a royal command was given to have him captured forthwith; which being done, he was again flogged and again imprisoned.

There are persons called Mâw-p’rn (doctors of quarrels) who make a business of instigating quarrels and cases of litigation. They are contin- ually entering complaints against others, having ranges of them in their neighbourhood. They go and pick up little matters, which seem not to be truthful, or they take up the quar- rels of others not at all their own. There are many such persons.

M’râklawng is a province more sub- ject to cases of litigation than any other. The king believes this to be a true character of the place. But those persons who continually murmur com- plaints of it in the Newspapers with the view of having the king take no- tice of them, and cause them to be investigated, shall not accomplish their wishes. Because there is another way to do this, a way appointed by the king, and they will not walk in it. That way is first to make complaint of offences to the court of the gov- ernors of the Province in which they have occurred. But should the case fail of being satisfactorily tried in the lower courts of the Province, it can then be carried to the sub-deputy of the place, and then to the deputy, and then to the governor. Should after all this, the case fail of getting a fair trial, appeal can be made to the royal court in

Bangkok, or to the court of the P’râ- klang. And then should the matter fail of a thorough investigation, a written statement of it can be carried up to the throne. The person desiring this may do it personally, or he may do it by proxy: but let the name of the plaintiff be appended to the complaints rendered. This is the proper way of procedure in all such cases. But the practice of placarding complaints, or casting them about, or publishing them in the Newspapers, sometimes naming the so called offenders and the place of their residence is improper, and will not meet with the approbation of the king.

The Newspapers are prone to credit the reports of parties that have been legally vanquished. Such parties, see- ing that they cannot get their own way, go and report their views of the case in the papers. Then if they shall seem not to have enlisted the atten- tion of the king, they will gather up lots of foul matter and heap it upon their opponent and upon the place of his residence. Now the king under- stands this matter full well.

White men think white men like themselves are really men, and that black men are not men. And although they can become so much pleased with black men as to say they love them, it is all the same as when they pass up and down on the river, and seeing monkeys, become pleased with them, and throw out bananas and sugar cane to to them. They do not love them as relatives and brethren.

[And then having no less than four times discribed the way to the throne and to certain justice, a regular royal edict is brought forward by which all doubt is to be dissipated and all re- remaining weakness of law made strong. It is as follows]

There is an edict of the king on this subject. It is this. When com- plaints against others are flung about, or placarded, or published in the pa- pers of the English Doctors, such complaints shall not be accounted as reliable, but shall be regarded as strong evidences against those who have them published. Because they who do this give palpable evidence that they are not able to withstand their opponents face to face, but dissemble and charge them falsely for the purpose of mak- ing a great noise about it. Such re- ports are not truthful. Even if they be, it is an improper way of procedure. The proper way is to make such com- plaints to the regular courts of the land, and then, when they have failed, to carry them up directly to the throne. This is a way open to all, none can forbid it. The king in great compas- sion for his subjects has opened this door to his presence, so that whoso- ever will may enter it. Should the aggrieved person, from any cause, not be able to present himself before the king, he may send in his complaint by some officer of government, or by some relative—any one may present it. Complaints within and without the royal harem can all find access to the king in this way. Now since such a way has been opened to the throne, and certain parties refuse to take it, and go and publish their complaints in the Newspapers, or fling them about the streets, or place them on the gates of the city and temples, these acts shall be accounted as strong evidence against their honesty. Let them not think that they will ever obtain the favorable regard of the king. They shall weary themselves in vain. Let none who read their complaints in the Newspapers regard them as being true. Let all read and understand this royal soon late.

LOCAL.

The time for the cremation of the body of H. E. Chow Phya Kalahom's sister, lately deceased, we learn is, fixed to the 5th proximo.

We hear that His Majesty the king has determined to take a pleasure trip to P'etchaburee about the last of next month. We earnestly wish the king could see the necessity of improving the inland rout to that Diamond city. He always goes in his royal yacht steamer across the gulf, and does not experience one of the many trials of patience and comfort which his sub- jects do by the inland route at Ban- lawng, and crossing the arm of the gulf at Maaklawng. In the former the ca- nal is so narrow and shallow and the crowd of boats so great that not only common traveling boats but also boats laden with merchandise and in great haste to get to Bangkok are often hindered for days. And in crossing the arm of the gulf they are always obliged to wait for early morning when the sea is calm ere they dare pass over. Hence much precious time is lost—often twelve hours on a trip. Now this could be avoided if there were but eight miles of canal out from the Maaklawng river over to the Esan creek, and the canal thence to Bangka- boon widened and deepened. Thus would that very uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous gulf be aban- doned to those only who would prefer to have some farther experience of the nauseous sea.

We would beg His Majesty to con- sider well the expediency of such an improvement, not only for expediting the great amount of travel and busi- ness transacted between Bangkok and the Diamond City, but also for having a pleasant, direct, and safe high-way to His Majesty's beautiful mountain pal- ace at Petchaburee.

Since our last issue rumors have been received by the Siamese govern-

mant of serious disturbances having taken place in the Teak forests of Cheang-Mai, between two parties of natives under English leadership, and that some lives have been lost in the affray. The authorities here seem to have learned a good deal about it, but keep it all to themselves, so that no degree of pumping in this dry time can bring any thing from them.

The Siamese Ship "Kiun Eng Bee" which arrived here from Hong Kong, on the 18th inst. reports that after sailing from Hong Kong she was fol- lowed by pirates and had to put back to port, and sailed the second time in company with two other Ships, for mutual protection against the pirates.

It is a time of remarkable quietness in this great emporium. The business of buying and selling rice must be brisk, but there is scarcely the least noise made about it. Rice is most abund- ant, but the holders of it seem firm in the belief that they can keep the prices up yet a long time without danger of becoming loosers by their obstinacy in the end. The shipping in port has diminished but little though many vessels have recently left.

Besides the Foreign vessels in port according to annexed list, there are 54 Siamese square rigged vessels.

We have been informed that Mr. Buius, the brother of the late R. Burns arrived a few days since from Maul- main, whether by water or by land the authorities profess not to know, nor whether he brings any reliable inform- ation from the teak forests or not.

Arrivals of Passengers per Chow Phya Capt. Greig.

The Chow Phya, sailed from this about 10 A. M. this morning, having on board as passengers, Messrs. Henri and Howetson.

Prices Current.

RICE—Common Cargo Tie. 65½ P coyan Good " 69 do Clean " 77 do White " 90 do Paddy " 64 do TREESED " 104 do SUGAR—No. 1. " 10½ P picul. do 2 " 11 do BLACK PEPPER " 10 do BUFFALO HIDES " 11 do do HORNS " 12½ do COW HIDES " 15⅓ do GUM BENJAMIN—Mixed " 210 do TIN " 39 do HEMP—No. 1. " 22½ do do 2. " 20⅓ do SILK—Korat " 332 do GAMBOGH " 56 do STICKLAC " 13⅔ do CARDAMUMS—Best " 185 do Bastard " 25 do SAPANWOOD—3 @ 4 " 3 do 5 @ 6 " 2⅚ do 6 @ 7 " 2½ do TEAKWOOD " 10 P rok ROSEWOOD " 256 P 100 pt. MAT-BAGS " 8 P 100 GOLD-LEAF—Tic. 16⅔ P ticals weight.

DIED

H. R. H. Princess Chdàng, the 13th daughter of His late Majesty the se- cond King of first reign of the present royal dynasty, born in the year of the Christian era 1790 living with her elder half sister H. R. H. “Tarawati” the princess consort of the late second King on third reign, at palace of he- highness, son of late Prince Chaufa “Is- sarabongs” at upper part of the sed cond King's palace during last 30 years, became sick of a disease occurer for her decaying or advanced age, and sunk gradually during last three years and expired on 12th, Jan. last, five days after the second King, aged 76 years. Her cremation and funeral ser- vice took place on 12th February.

H. R. H. Princess “Ying Suwanna” the sixth royal daughter of his late majesty the second King on first reign, the elder half sister of the aforesaid deceased, was born on the Christian era 1785, living in second King's pa- lace since her birth until the present year, when she was 81 years of age.

The accident unfortunately occurred to her on the night of the 13th, of Feb., She went to sleep on her bed at upper story of her brick house. Her few servants went to sleep, without any one watching her. At about 11 P. M. she, being wakened without any noise, rose from her bed and walked for the door to get down from her room; but alas! she mistook the door and opened a window and got out, thinking it was the door, and fell to the ground from a height of about 10 feet, and a large vessel full of earth for planting shrubs or herbs placed at her window, became disturbed by striking of her legs against it, and falling, with her, struck her left leg and broke the bone. She had great pain and suffering for two days and nights, and expired on the 16th, inst, at the age of 81 years. The second King of first reign had several sons and daughters, but now only his son and four old daughters are yet living.

Benares.

A MARRIAGE has lately taken place here which caused no little astonish- ment. A European holding a respect- able position in one of the districts under, the Benares Commissionership, throwing off the garb of prejudice and putting on the coat of unmindfulness of the world's opinion, led to the hymenal altar at the Ligra' church a native female, who was formerly a Ma- homedan. The marriage was brought about by the kind interposition of a Missionary of the C. M. S. who one evening having gone out for a drive to- wards that portion of the station where the European was a resident, saw a female in European costume taking out three children for a walk; his attention was directed towards the pretty little children, having taken her for the ayah in charge. To satisfy his curiosity he and his wife called at the house of a widow lady, a centenarian, and who has lived in that neighbourhood for the last seventy or eighty years; she informed him that the female he saw was married behind the church or in other words; was the mistress of the European in question, and that she was the mother of four of his children, the eldest, a girl, being at some school. The next step that this good Missionary took in the matter was to call upon the European, and declare to him the life of sin he was leading, and finally ended his harangue by desiring him to unite himself to the female in holy wedlock; the European asked for a day's respite to consider the momentous question and the next waited upon the Mission- ary and informed him that he had de- cided in the affirmative. At this stage of the affair some of the relatives of the intended bridegroom interfered, in trying to hinder the solemnization of the marriage: to be short, all their ar- guments having failed with their kins- man, who was inexorable in his deter- mination, they tried another dodge by inducing the woman's Mahomedan hus- band to set up an objection, but he was also pacified by the offer of the douceur to the extent a hundred rupees. Then there came another hindrance, the female was a Mahomedan this barrier was also removed by an avowal on her part to forsake the crescent and to become a soldier of the Cross, and af- ter due instruction she was baptized. As I have before mentioned this affair has caused no little astonishment as the bridegroom is respectably connected; one brother being a Deputy Commis- sioner and another a Deputy Collector. This marriage may be recorded as the first one in which a European has taken advantage of the provisions of the Con- verts' Re-marriage Act. Shortly after the solemnization of this marriage, an- other European being in a similar pre- dicament, except that he has two chil- dren instead of four, also availed himself of the same Act, and got married to his mistress.

[How could the European above spoken of have done better than to become united in "holy wedlock" to "the mother of his own children" ? If he felt sure that the children were his own offspring and that the woman was truly their own mother, and could testify before God that he had no other mistress, how could he have taken any other course than that advised by the "kind interposition of the Missionary of the C. M. S."—and hope to have an approving conscience toward his mistress, his children, his neighbours, or his God. Had he refused compliance with the counsel given him, would it not in all probability have been done mainly for the purpose of being at liberty to abandon the mother of his children whenever, circumstances might be such as to cross his pride of caste too much to have her with him as his mistress, and to cast off his children upon the cold care of strang- ers whenever it might too plainly diminish his respectability to have it openly appear that he was their father? What could be more certainly a ter- rible wrong upon ones own offspring and their mother than such conduct?

For all Europeans in a similar predi- cament the path of duty and wisdom would seem to have been clearly opened up by the example of the European in question. But there are multitudes of the European race in this Eastern world whose relations to their mistresses are far more compli- cated and sad. What shall they do?]

Table Talk.

The Paris illustrated newspapers have given portraits of Lord Palmer- ston, which are more or less good likenesses, for photography had long since made his face familiar on the Continent. The biographical notices attached to the engravings are frequent- ly highly amusing. One writer ob- serves:—-

The man who so often guided the destinies of nations was a gentleman in every sense of the word. He was a sportsman, and a beau cavalier, always making love, and getting into scrapes. At all periods of life he was a most in- veterate dancer, and would leave off dispatch writing at any time for a waltz. He introduced into England la valse a deux temps. He could talk and joke about everything, from the rise and fall of empires to a cotil- lion. He was gay even in a London fog. He had little of the sadness and gloom of the Englishmen who make life one long story of care and work, producing meanwhile numerous fam- ilies which they know not what to do with. He was fond of boxing and hunting; in fact, an Englishman, but not a gloomy Englishman.

-—An impatient boy waiting for the grist, said to the miller: "I could eat the meal as fast as the mill grinds it." "How long could you do so?" inquired the miller. "Till I starved to death," was the sarcastic reply.

-—There is no higher, nobler duty than that of work, and of all work that which elevates a fellow man, is the dearest, the sweetest, the most divine. -—H. W. Beecher.

—-"Come, go to bed, Eddie," said an anxious aunt, "you see the sun is set, and the little chickens all go to roost at that time." "Yes, aunty," said Eddie, "but the old hen goes with them."

RESCUE OF THE ENGLISH GIRL ANEE CROUCHES FROM A MAHOMEDAN HARBM.— It is not long since we noticed in these columns with regret, the sale of an English girl by her pa- rents to a licentious but aged Mahome- dan. Since then, we learn from the Bangalore Herald that this poor girl has been rescued from a life worse than death, by the gallantry of an English soldier. As the tale savours much of the romantic and will, pro- bably, be read with pleasure by most, if not all, our readers, we here reprint what our contemporary says on the subject.

It would seem that a Sergeant of H. M's 10th was roused into indignation, as we all were when he heard the shameful story; but unlike us who could only fret and do nothing. The Sergeant set his wits to work, deter- mined to rescue his fair young coun- trywoman. Being a married man him- self, he could not exactly run away with her, but what he could not do, some other man might do. So rea- soning on this hypothesis, the Ser- geant got the girl down to his house on the plea of spending the day with his wife.

And as the day was being spent, there happened the most na- tural thing in the world to come in on a visit, a Sergeant of H. M. 76th, as handsome a young fellow as ever wore a soldier's garb. Of course what took place from this casual and ex- traordinary meeting was to have been ex- pected; the fair-haired girl fell in love with the handsome young man, and the handsome young man fell in love with the beautiful girl. And as the young Sergeant was no laggard in love or dastard in war, he there and then proposed and was accepted. A car- riage was found near the Barracks; into it they got, drove to church, got hold of the Padre, who somehow or other was not far distant, were married, and off they now are with their Re- giment to Bellary.

"She is wou[?] we are gone, over bank, bush and scaur;

They'll have fleet steeds that fol- low, quoth Young Lochinvar."

Now such is our story, and will not every Englishman exult over it ? We vote an address of thanks to the gal- lant Sergeant of the 10th. And as to the disappointed mother (shall we call her by that blessed name?) and the still more disappointed Bahadur, they are served right, and over their baffled hopes we joyfully raise a hearty Eng- lish cheer! Hurrah! Hurrah!"—Ran- goon Gazette.