China (Various News, 1845)

Source: The Friend. Honolulu: February 1, 1845.

The Natches, which arrived here on Saturday, has completed a voyage round the globe in nine months and eighteen days, having left this on the 14th January last. She proceeded by the Cape of Good Hope to New York, in 95 days, where she discharged, took in a new cargo and sailed 20th May, returning by Cape Horn to Valparaiso in 71 days, the shortest passage ever made. The run from Lima was accomplished in 65 1-2 days. Her previous voyage by the same route occupied nine months and twenty two days, or four days longer.— Hong Kong Register. 

The wife of the Rev. J, L. Shuck, Baptist Missionary at Hong Kong, died about the first of Dec. 

Capt. Engle, master of the American bark Valparaiso, died in China about November 10. He will be remembered at the Islands as having commanded the American ship Hopewell, Philadelphia. Mr. S. W. Williams, printer and agent of the American B. C. F. Missions in China, sailed for the United States November 26th, but expect to return.

The French Commissioner to China, has concluded a treaty, similar, as report says to that between the U.S. and China.