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Show Western Noles-ltlore oi the Cliiuese ucsiSod. San Francisco, 29. A. Roman & Co., booksellers aud publishers, have made an assignment in eu?pension to Joseph L. King 6c Co., stockbrokers, stock-brokers, and announce as the cauec, the break in Union and Sierra Na vada. King Kalakua, of Hawaii, has knighted Glaus spreckles, of this city, for bis service in developing the resources re-sources of the Hawaiian islands. The Bulletin, thia evening, publishes pub-lishes an interview with General C. V. Legendre, formerly United States consul at Amoy district, China, in which he takes the ground Ibat moat of the Chinese emigrants to the United States come under contracts made with emigration brokers in evasion of tho regulations of the Chinese authorities for suppressing tho coolie traffic; tbat to check such immigration, which comeB almost entirely through Hong Kong, it is necessary simply to counteract the operations of the Chinese immigration immigra-tion houses there, in which British authorities would undoubtoJly lend ready aid, and that a revision ol the BurlinEtame treaty is not uco?s?arily involved in stopping such immigration. immigra-tion. He draws a strong picture of tne neiarious practices 01 uir.eae immigration brokers who, he considers, con-siders, pracliciilfy littlo hitler than kidnappers. |