The Imperial Court and Council, in which the latter (the Peace party) has gained a triumph. The general opinion on this whole subject of well-informed persons in this Colony may be fairly gathered from the enclosed article extracted.
Enciona 512 appears to have caused something like a panic in the latter City, which it was reported would be seized by the French as material guarantee for the payment of a war indemnity. Chinese numbers of the inhabitants have fled up the country. One of the local news papers mentioned.
3. The recent arrival of the French Admiral and his squadron of ironclads from Hong Kong at Amoy appears. As I have previous occasions mentioned, the French authorities in China have always declared that there was no intention on their part to attack.