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DU 14A RltY' s i nvaluable HEALTH-RESTORING REVA I,I4INTA ARAI3ICA FOOD led to an investigation,. and, Ipon application in 18.54 for protection, the HMI Court, of Chancery granted an injunction restraining Alfred Hooper Nevin, and his agents, under a penalty of £5,000, from selling Any article resembling or being a colourable imitation of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, of ,which we are the sole pro prietors. Now, therefore, this tuto give notice that the above reward will be paid, upon conyidllon, to anyone giving Infor mation of any breach of the injunction. An intelligent public requires no admonition to shun all shopkeepers who may attempt impositions. London:TABARRY DU BARRY & CO, NO MOILE SICKLY OR ILL-CONDITIONED HORSES OR OTHER CATTLE . OR RA REY'S HSE and CATTLE -IMPROVING FOOD restores the efficiency, vigour, endurance, and muscle of ill :onditiolled or apparently worn-out Horses, Cows, Bul c Sheep, and Pigs. 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London: Barry Du Barry & Co. 77.1Zezent-atreet; WOLVES IN FRANCE.—A grand battue of Wolves took place in the arrondissement of 'rennet-re (Yonne), under the direction of Textoris, Lieut. de Louveterie. Little or no snow having fallen during the last two winters in that neighbourhood, those destructive animals had taken up their quarters in great numbers on the hills which skirt the right bank of the Armancon from Tonuerre to Flogny. M. Textoris returned with four large wolves which his party killed, and after mortally wounding two others. taking in her boilers under the steam crane in the steam basin at Portsmouth. The four boilers weigh 107 tons. Tho Rhadamanthus, Master-Com. Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday with machinery, &c. A letter written from H.M.S. Lynx, dated at Zamibou, Oct. 23, says :—" On our arrival here we found a war going ou between the Sultan and his brother, the latter having possession of the town. The Assaye steam-frigate, lying here, landed 100 men, and we landed 50, with a gun and rockets, Under Lieut. Barclay, the whole forming a field de tachment. The rebels were driven out of the town, and the Sultan's brother taken prisoner. He has been conveyed in the Assaye to Muscat." . A court-martial assembled yesterday morning on board H.M.S. Victory, in 'Portsmouth ha r b our , f or the trial of Lieut. T. W. Simeon, of H.M.S. Perse-' verance, cn the following charge :—" For that he, the said, Lieut. T. W. Simeon, a lieutenant in full pay on board her Majesty's ship Perseverance, did, on or about the 2d November, 1859, on board the said ship, act in a manner unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in falsely stating to Mr. W. T. Wilson, Surgeon of the said ship, that a claim which Mr. Watkins, landlord of the Commercial Hotel, Port sea, then had upon the said Lieut. Simeon, was a claim upon him by a creditor in London, from whom he had not expected so sudden a call, as the debt was of recent date, which statement he at the time knew was false, but upon the faith of which statement the said W. T. Wilson consented to become responsible on behalf of said Lieute nant Simeon in respect or account of such claim." The Court was composed of Captain George T. Gordon (second in command of her Majesty's ships and vessels nt Portsmouth), President ; Capts. R. Harris, A. Farquhar, R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., C. F. Hillyar, and C. J. E wart ; with Mr. W. F. Hellyar, Deputy-Judge-Advocate. Mr. Hoskins, solicitor, of Gosport, acted as the prisoner's " friend." The Court, having heard the evidence for the prosecu tion and defence, found the charge against the prisoner Not Proved. The Admiralty have ordered a trial of Coston's night signals on board the Channel Fleet, and Ad miral Sir Charles Fremantle has appointed a board composed of the following officers to report on it: —Capt. IL Caldwell, her Majesty's ship Mersey ; 'Capt. J. N. Strange, her Majesty's ship Mars • and Capt. 11. J. Lacon, her Majesty's ship Royal Albert. These signals have already had a preliminary trial at Woolwich before Commodore Drummond,• and were favourably reported on. They have for some time been in use on board the United States' squad ron, by order of the United States' Navy Depart ment. The signals consist of a firework, or com bination of two or three coloured lights (white, red, or green), contained in a small case. They arc held horizontally at arms' length, on a stick or handle, and when lighted burn with great brilliancy and distinctness, the change of colour being instantaneous The smaller sized signals may be distinguished at from four to six miles, and the larger size from six to ten miles'. distance. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : --- Capt. G. E. Matey to the Cumberland, vice Capt. Halsteg whose period of service has expired ; Capt. H. D. Rogers to the Centurion, vice Capt. Matey ; Lieut. Frederick W. Wilson to the Mersey ; Lieut. William B. A. F. Paterson and Lieut. John J. Gregory to the Alacrity; Lieut. William Jardine, Lieut. I'. W. Chapman, and Lieut. J. S. Trotter to the Nile; Chas. J. Polkinghorne master to the Nile ; James Rusden master to the Mersey ; Thos. Pounds master to the Alacrity ; Algernon Yockley and John Osland, assist, clerks, to the Marlborough ; An trcrstein A. Lyne, assist, clerk, to the Centurion ; G. Robinson, assistant clerk to the Fiso-ard ; W. A. Stevens, as sistant clerk, to the Wellesley ; Arthur S. Ramsey, assistant clerk, to the Hawke; George E. Alarcon, Edward Robinson,. Richard Harris, and Henry George Stembridge, assistant clerks, to the Chesa peake. THE ROYAL NAVY OF 1860. By the official Navy List for the present month aid quarter we find that the British navy consists of 518 vessels, including screw steamers of every description, exclusive of which there are 152 gun boats, 121 brigs, hulks, Sc., employed in harbour service, and 47 coast-guard tenders. Of the num ber of vessels composing the navy no les s th an 314 are iu commi ss i on , an d doing duty in every part of the globe. The vessels in commission arc distri buted as follows :-65 line-ot battle ships, frigates, sloops, and gun-boats attached to the East Indies and China station, 18, on the coast of Africa, 6 at Australia, 13 in the Pacific, 3 in the Brazils, 8 on the south-east coast of America, 8 at the Cape of G oo d H ope, 21 on the North America mid West India station, 41 in the Mediterranean, .19 at tached to the Channel squadron, and the remaining 112 are employed on particular service or attached as guard ships to the principal ports in Great Britain and Ireland. In addition to the above, there are 38 powerful vessels building at the various Royal dockyards, many of which are nearly ready for launching. Th. names of these vessels are :—Anson, 91 ; Atl as , 91 ;Aurora, 51 ; B arossa , 21 ; Belvidera, 51; Bristol, 51 ; Bulwark, 91; Ca =Hon, 17 ; Columbine, 11 ; Defiance, 91 ; Espoir, 5 ; Glasgow, 51 ; Howe, 121 ; Landrail, 5 ; Liver pool, 51; Newcastle, 51 ; Nimble, 5; Arestes, 21; Orpheus, 21 ; Pandora, 1 ; Pantaloon, 10 ; Pelican, 17 ; Prince of Wales , 131 ; Rapid, 11 ; Rattle snake,6Royal Alfred, 91 ; R oya l F rederick, 8 Oak, 91 ; Undaunted, 51 ; olveri ne , 1 2 a ; 11; I, Repulse, 91 ; W 17; Robu s t, 91 ; Rosario, 21 ; Zealous, 91; and Zebra,l7- F rom t h e above statistics it will be observed that the navy of Eng land is in a most efficient state, both in regard to the number of vessels and the manner is which 1 those vessels are equipped. [ADVERTISENIENT.]—A most interesting recovery from a vast complication of diseases, such as indigestion (dys pepsia), flatulence, constipation, nervous, bilious and liver complaints, cough, asthma, consumption and debility, without the aid of medicine, by Du Barry's delicious Reva lenfa Atabica Food, is • recorded in the following letter : Cure 52,422. " Bridgehouse, Frinfley, 3d April, 1854. Thirty-three years discAsed lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, deafnesS, singing in the cars, constipation, debility, shortness of breath, and cough, have been re moved by your Revalenta Arabica. My lungs, liver, sto mach, head and ears are:all right, my hearing perfect, and my recovery is a marvel to all my acquaintances.—JAMES ROBERTS, timber merchant." Cure No. 4,208. "Eight years dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps and nausea, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's health restoring food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. —Rev. JOAN W. FLAWELL, Ridlington Rectory, Nor folk." Cure No. 3,906. "Thirteen years cough, indigos tion and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent food.—JAMES PORTEIt. Athol-street, Perth." In tins, at Is. 6d.; Ilb., 38.; 21b., ss. 9d.; 51b., 125.; 121 b., 265, The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London . Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly; Abbis, GO, Gracechurch.-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street; 330 and 451, Strand • 49 and GO, Bishopsgate , street ; 85, Totteuham-court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley "and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Railnes and Co.; at Liverpool, Nixon and Thew; at Manchester, Sharp and Soltt ;at York. Raines, Blanchard,. and - Co, ;at South ampton, Randal! and Son. " HON° UR TIKE BRA TW." 4* (From at , Times) ,1/4• " Palmain qui n:cruit fuat" is a' 0-otto which used to be in :highrepute, among military men, and may, for aught we know, be so still. Nothing can, be more praiseworthy, nothing more natural, than that the veterans of the British arny, , who have tarried their country's flag in triumph over many a well-fought field, should in their otl age receive' honorary—aye, and substantial re als final the bands of a grateful nation ; Surely tire can be no higher incentive to younger men to fellew in their footsteps than When we see these no . - champion§ rewarded according to their deserts. t It would in deed be disheartening if the best soldiers of the nation were left to pine in their old age, when the once stalwart arm is weak, and the eye' which once flashed over Übattle-field with eagle glance is dull and dim. . How miserable a prom-art for those who could not hope, to emulate their glory without the cemseionsneSS that a time must came when they too would be cast aside like an old garment and forgotten - ! The country will surely unite in applauding two appointments which have lately been made by the military authoriflo. It is a matter of notoriety and subject forilr* that there are so few opportunities of re yarding in their old age those distinguished officeiV who hare deserved well of their country. TholOoloneleies of regiments are some of the few Olizes which can be distributed among our worthkelt veterans. Great care therefore is taken that they - VI:ill never be bestowed upon unworthy reeipientW We have to call attention to two recent instews in which the_privilee'e ofselect ion and recommend:it ion has' been woj thily exercised atifirfrorse llfgirds. -- It was not long since the Earl of Cardigans in acknow ledgment of his valuable and distinguished services in the Crimea—more especially on the fatal day of Balaklava.—was presented with the Oolonelcy of the sth Dragoon Guards. The reward was cumu lative, for this illustrious warrior held at the time, and still holds, the office of Inspector-General of Cavalry. But what 'honours could be equal to his transcendent merits ? His military career has been distinguished by a happy union of valour and pru dence above all praise. Scarcely had the Cavalry in the British service been gratified by this appointment when an oppor tunity occurred of stimulating the ardour of the In fantry. The Colonelcy of the 82a. Regiment fell vacant, and it beCamO a question, where all were so brave, who was the bravest among_so many dis tinguished officers,—who had earned the highest distinction ? The doubt Was but momentary. An instant's reflection sufficed to convince the Horse Guards that when such a question was raised Gene ral Ashburnham's elaiMs set all rivalry at defiance. Omitting all mention of the previous incidents of his career, had ,he not in a recent instance, when the fate of British India was trembling in the balance, by that sk;lful retrograde movement upon the deck of the homeward-bound steamer struck terror in!o the minds of the foe? Had he not—so burning was his patriotism, so Overpowering his love of native land—hurried back to the shores of England, without regard to those rigid rults of military service which are only binding on the-lien dant and the martinet ? Whatever difference of opinion may have existed at the time as to the pro priety of- this step, the authorities at the Horse Guards have at length proclaimed it as their deli berate opinion that General Ashburnham is the officer whom, above all others:, 'the British nation should delight to honour. It is only a pity that the givers of these two appointments cannot go one step further than they have done. We now know that the Earl ofCardigan and General Ashburn ham are England's two bravest soldiers, but of the twin heroes who is the better man ? L LT.I 11 1" OP GA NIZ TION. (PROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT LATE WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN ITALY.) At this moment, when the martial spirit of Eng land has been aroused, when every one is thinking of national defences, increase of the army, organiza• tion of volunteer corps, and when all those who have something to say on the ma INT are coming forward to promote this work, I hope you will like wise, accept's mile remarks which I have to.offer, in this respect, and which may servo to illustrate this .all-absorbing subject from a different point of view. 'I present them not as a system, but as stray thoughts, suggested by obseryhtions made during the two. great wars of our times—namely, the war in the East. and the late Italian campaign. We see on these two occasions the four most powerful nations of Europe, i)esides two second-rate Powers, display thei: military resources in the field after 40 years of peace. Each of these nations had had, indeed, one or more smaller wars during that long period of peace—England in India, France in Algeria, Russia in the Caucasus, against Turkey, Persia, and in Hungary ; Austria against Piedmont and in Hungary ; b u t i n eac h o f t h ese cases the strength between the two combatants was so dis proportionate that it does not offer a fair compari son as to the real advantages and shortemnitti , s of their military organization, which could only be judged of in a trial where the forces were more equally balanced. The result of this trial was evinced by the fad that, before even the Crimean war was over, com missioners were sent •by England to inquire into the causes which produced the failure, and the country itself took up warmly the subject of military organisation. Immediately after the Eastern war the Emperor of Itussia also appointed a commission to inquire into the abuses and maladministration of his army, in consequence of which almost all the officers in high commanil were either dismiss(d, or at any rate fell into disgrace; and now, a few months after the short. Italian campaign, we see Austria intent on re - organizing altogether her army, even to the uniforms. That is, three out of the four great Powers found their army not " up to the mark" the first time it was called upon to show its efficiency in the field. The only Power which stood the test on both oc casions, and under entirely different circumstances, Was France. Ifer organisation proved goodin a long siege, carried on at 2,000 miles from her s h ores, and it proved itself efficient in a short and brilliant cam paign in the open field. These two occasions offered almost every species of trial to which an army can be subject—camping out in a severe winter on an inhospitable shore, subject to all kinds of privations, forced marches under un Italian sun, tedious trench duties and roadmaking, brilliant attacks, and ob stinate defences ; and through all these trials the French army p asse d succ essfully enough to insure ultimate victory. In the face of such facts, and with such an ex ample before us, one of the first things seems to me to be to inquire to what the superiority of the French organisation is owing. Indeed, this thought is so naturally suggested that it must occur to every one. Your own columns in the years 1855 6, afford sufficient proof that the expediency of such an in quiry was understood by the BritiSh public, and by the - pressure of this latter it was communicated like- Wise to the military authorities. The press was teem ing with correspondence, letters, articles an d remarks on the subject, making; comparisons b e tween the Military organi sa tion a France and England, sug gesting improvements in the latter on the model of the former in some points, and showing the impos sibility of applying to the British army the French system in others. It may be supposed.that the sub ject was likewise taken into consideration by the War Department, for divers changes since made show traces of the influences of such a study. There has been no occasion as yet to show whe ther this inquiry has practically produced salutary results or not, but I hope to be able to show that it ha 4 not been followed .by all the advantages which might have been expected from it, and : that the great lesson which the inquiry ought to have taught has been altogether overlooked. By an effort which England had made her army at the end of the War was, according to outward appearances at least, in as•fine a condition as any army ever has been. Sceptics, indeed, suggested that if it took the field the results would be mot much different from those attained before ; but most people contented themselves with the idea that it has always been, and must always be so—that England must needs sacrifice her first army before she can create a second efficient one. The spirit of inquiry was by degrees allayed by this consoling thought, and the general convict:on produced by it was that England is England and France is France; each has her own genius, and must have accordingly her own organisation —a result, I believe, 'which might have been obtained almost without the trouble of inquiry. ' If this result was so small, it is owing, according to my opinion, to the circumstance that the inquiry was not undertaken in the spirit in which it ought to have been pursued; that it started from a wrong principle, and lost itself in details. It began where it ought to have ended—namely, by the question, " What is there in the French organisation that • • might be conveniently rxdopted in En edam d instead I rent the military systems ought to. take advantage of beginning with a study attic history ►and spirit ►. of all the newest improvements in this respect. of the French military organisation, taking it in That in this age of easy communication and, rapid It: ensemble first before it descended to , details, • intercourse between nations eaeli ought to look It pulled to pieces the nrehinery,.and examined about and profit by the skill or follies of the others. wheel by wheel and spring after spring, while the That this ought to lead, not to 'imitation, but to success of the machinery lies not in one or another emulation ; it might to stimulate invention, .and part, but in the fitness - of the whole - engine. and thus develope the particular genius of each - by the . consequently it did not comprehend the true prin. proper application of the improvements devised by ciplcs of it. the others. With your permission I will endeavour to place That in a system, military or any other, there this Ixelure your readerss , must be harmony,,and that if one essential part be. 11rhett the great European war was brought to a changed the others must be Modified likewise. close, in 1815, the victors, great and small, lay down I These. are . the principles the application of which on their laurels, full-of the consciousness of their hive secured to the French military organisation superiority, and lulled by the sweet hope of having ita:superiority, and these are the principles which attained the greatest amount of perfeetion in their ought to be 'followed in the national defences of military organisation. They had beaten doWn the England. Whether this has been. the.. ease, and legions of the. modern conqueror of Europe, and all how far; [ hope you will allow me to develope that nsw remained sculled to be to keep .up the another letten . system which had done such wonders. While•this was the case of the victors in the rest of Europe the very. reverse cif it took place in Franc e , the vanquished. Iler great military or - railisation had br o k en d own , and left only the debris of that powerful machinery which made Europe tremble so ofte 9 , but which had been .used up. Even under, ordinary circumstances it would have been Clan-, cult, nay, almost impossible, to come back to the past ; but there were peculiar political co - nditiona which not only were in the way of such a course, but which propelled altogether in an opposite direc tion. •It was not only the imperial •legions which had been destroyed) by the battle of Waterloo, but the empire likewise, and the. Restoration which sue. - ceeded came baCk With a feeling of hatred and .irk • ge.ance against anything connected with the empire and with revolution. So high did this spirit run in the beginning that, had it been possible, these Very names and ,everything which reminded of them would have been eliminated from France. Like Sultan 'Mahnioud, who, after the destruction of the Janissaries, had the tombstones abraded which bore on them the distinctive turban of these tested Pretorians, • the powers that ruled then in. France were ready to do anything to efface the 25 years which had preceded. The result of this disposition was a complete re organisation of the French army; all the Bonapar tist elements were carefully eliminated from it, and every effort made to break the thread of tradition. It was -a hard struggle, but as by degrees the olsl dropped off and 'new men succeeded the purpose was, in the space of a decennium, effected . Fortunately for the French army, there were some principles in its organisation dating from the • revolutionary epoch which were so aleeply e rooted that the reaction in all its .omnipotence, supported as it was by a foreign occupa tion, did not dare to touch them.: There were, besides, many parts in the military organisation and administration introduced by the genius of the First Napoleon so adapted to the purpose and suitable to the ideas of the French -people that therwere kept up in principle, modified in details, and changed merely to be improVed. The men charged with this tusk were most of them the gene rals of the great captain, but who had rallied round. the new dynasty ; they studied now to combine their own experience in military 'slitters with the new state of things in which France found herself. The result of all this was - that at the time when all other nations almost of Europe were only intent on keeping - upher old traditions, France remodelled, and in many respects improved, the Napoleonic system, bringing it into harmony with the necessi ties of •the situation. The Military prornenale in Spain in 1823 was not - an occasion to show the efficiency of the new system ; but those who saw it might have already brought back the conviction that France had entered a new road in her military organisation—that while else where people dwelt with delight on their old vic tories, France was preparing for new ones. This tendency to progress, this endeavour to adapt the military institutions to the wants of •the times which manifested itself already, received new stimulus after 1830, the year of the first occupation of Algeria. As it would have been wrong to see in the army of the Restoration the continuation of that of tho Empire, so it would be wrong to see in that of today that of the Restoration. The year I‘3o is the starting point of the present French army, and that since that time there is scarcely one single thing, tither in gulls, accontiements, manoeuvres, system of promotion, organivation, or achninistra tion of the different branches of the service, which has not been thoroughly remodelled or altogether ehangsd. These last 30 years were one continual study to make the single soldier, as well as the whole system, efficient. Inventions were made to supply deficiencies, chance discoveries were applied to use ful purposes; the great advance in mechanics, in dustry, and manufacture was put. into requisition ; improvements made by other nations were studied, adopted, and perfected. It would be too long to go through this lift of changes one by one ; it will be sufficient to bring forward some, in order to show the true reason of the superiority of the French army in its org,auisti, - - tion. The fatigues, heat, and bivouses of Algeria soon convinced the French military authorities of the absurdity of encasing the soldier in clothes which do not allow the free action of every limb, and we see the result of this conviction in the loose trou sers and the comfortable capote of the French sol dier ; marching in sand or mud for long hours ne cessitates light shoes, easily taken off and put on, and the soldier has them, and light leather gaiters besides, to protect the ankles, at the same time to tuck the trousers in. All sensible people have come to the conviction that cheap things arc not the most economical in the end, and you see the French soldier's uniform made of a stout but rather elastic cloth, something like light pilot cloth ; every ar ticle of his uniform not only lasts twice the time it did before, but his-health likewise is better. Means, of transport is a great difficulty in all campaigns. but nvire especially against Arabs and Kabyles. Instead, therefore, of starting from the premise that such and such means of transport were required for the soldier, the soldier has been taught to carry everything which heswants. The lode d'abri was invented to dispense with this encumbrance, and the soldier accustomed to depend upon himself even for his food for several days. It required no great acumen to see thet a human being stiffened accord ing to the practice of the old school would succumb under the load, and paces were accordingly adapted to this self-evident truth. It was found that the rift ordinaire of La Belle France was injurious in the climate Of Algeria, and that the natives used coffee as a stimulant. It was tried, and found to answer, not only in Algeria, but everywhere else, being the most harmless stimulant, and enabling the soldier to fight a long day at Sol ferino or stand a wet day of Crimean trenches. The Arabs were no match for the regular French soldier, but it was often difficult to reach them. They made up by quickness what, they wanted in steadiness. Well might the War Ministry shrug its shoulders at the poor ignOrant beings, but it did not; on the contrary, it stoopedsdown to learn from these poor benighted creatures how to tight in loose order and make the most of individual strength and agility; as well as of the obstacles of the ground. One Captain Minie, invented a new arm, or, if you like, adapted an old one to the par pose, and the two together have reformed the man ner of fighting. Some of those who had seen this loose warfare in Africa were put together to devise anew system for the new arm, and the Chasseurs de Vincennes were organised. It was found that this new mode of fighting required net less but rather more qualities than the old machine system, and that in an army raised by conscription this could not be applied, thus the Zouave Volunteers were imagined, and the Tirailleurs Indignes. But if all that large army could not be made into picked troops, it was not necessary that the great majority should remain automatons, especially after the more general introduction of the rifle, and in sensibly, without changing the onion/twice of 1831, all the French army adopted - more or less this looser, or more properly freer, order of fighting and march ing of the picked troops. It was a necessity engen dered by the arms of precision. One Lancaster in England succeeded in making a rifled gun which did not prevent the French army, four years after, having their whole artillery on the model of a rifled gun, which answered ex tremely well. It would he too long were I to continue to enu merate all the changes, but those already adduced will show the real reasons of the French superiority, which lies in the application of a very few principles applicable to all countries. The first of these is that the military systems of standing armies, lira everything else, have to follow the spirit of the age, and that the race n tins matter belongs to the swiftest. That our age, which is so often accused of mate rialism and egotism, has given a value to the indi vidual, as such, which he never possessed before ; that consequently it would be folly to keep up the machine system, which was formerly the pattern of standing armies. That in this age of wonderful material develop- Much correspondence has recently been pressed upon us in reference to this third Chinese War, for rawhich we are now fitting out our ships and trans -liorting our troops. ,As happens to us in all these cases we are addressed by people who know much, people who.kuovi little, and people' who know no thing. One correspondent contends that we ought to chastise the CoUrt bf Pekin for the slaughter of our sailors and rate loss of. our ships by taking the city of Nankin from the rebels, and holding it as a material guarantee until the Imperial - Milularins shall come to terms. Upon the principle. of return ing good for evil, this would be undoubtedly a very Christian proceeding, and if advocated upon this ground, or even upon the ground of commercial advantage s t o b e th us acquired, there would be little ,to be said against it. But, if it be proposed as a ' measure of retaliation, are fear it savours somewhat of the ridiculous. It would be as if the Emperor of Morocco were to fit out an expedition against Mexi co to punish the Spaniards for their descent upon the coast of Africa. Other correspondents do battle upon other questions of military detail, and are. at variance as to how far we should advance towards Pekin, where we should condescend to open nea. b o. , • tiations, how much'attention we should pay to the, obstructions on the Peiho, and what we shall do if we get into the Chinese capital. These letters have called forth Captain Sherard Osborn, Whose com munication appears in another column, and who has, perhaps, the very best title to be heard upon this subject, for he has bombarded and escaladed Canton, driven the Chinamen out of those Taku fcrts, tracked all the windings of the Peiho river, and explored with lead and line that great and be fore unknown Yang -tae River which washes the walls of the great inland cities, and waters the pro vinces whence we get our best teas. Capt. Osborn ought to he heard, for he has no interest in the matter but that of an English sailer and a man of science. Other people have class interests, and in the conflicting character of those interests wo may often trace the cause of the bias of their counsels. Merchants who are making great gains under the present system, and despise all articles but tea and silk and opium and excaauges, would dissuade us from tieing more than we can help. Manufacturers who produce all that is sold are not eager for a change which may draw on competition. People who are out of the trade have only a purblind notion of it, but have an indolent desire to get into it. The tea-consumers and the cloth-workers and the calico makers cannot measure what interests they have at stake in the matter, but generally think it necessary to say something, and generally act in ignorance of their own proper good. Diplomatists are committed by the circumstances of their respec tive careers to some special policy, and naval and military men have frequently their own special reasons for taking particular views of this large and distant subject. All these things concur to con found counsel, and cause a strange variety of opi nion in a country like ours, where every man has his opinion upon every point of national policy, and every one strives to make that opinion prevail. Meanwhile we are going off at once into another Chinese War. Notwithstanding Captain Sherard Osborn's consolatory promises, we cannot quite bring ourselves to believe that there is any great chance of being able to make: this war pay itself, It will be certain to have its rebound in the dis agreeable form of inflamed estimates and increased, income tax. It is, to be sure, a Chancellor of the' Exchequer's war. We are going to light for some: ten millions of revenue. It is also a tea-consumers' war. The transit duties upon tea in China have been upon the rise for some years, and, as the Mandarins have discovered that this is a simple plan for taxing the distant barbarians, they kill, of course, continue to increase their exactions. Lord Elgin may make. what treaties he can, and the Court of Pekin may issue any orders that may be dictated to them ; but SO long as tea has to be brought through half a dozen local jurisdictions and carried upon men's backs over mountains before it can be brought down to Canton, and so long as it kits to be gathered from long distant interior localities before it can be sold at Foochow, so long will it be in the power of every - petty authority in its course of transit to obstruct its passage and levy a blackmail upon it. Opening up China" means going up to the places where this tea is grown, and buying it of the 'producer, and bringing it away. We must be strangely ignorant of the ordinary impulses of human nature, or fool ishly credulous of some great difference between the instincts of a Chinaman:and an European, if we do not understand that this is a privilege which inter feres with the gains of all the bureaucracy of China, and that it is a privilege we must fight for if we wish to enjoy it. But, still, these considerations do net, make us look upon the third Chinese War with one whit more complacency. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's ten millions will be by no means• so pleasant an item of revenue if we have to spend two or three millions every year in order to keep it going. Even to buy tea cheap, or to sell opium dear, or to provide Lyons and Spitalfields with cheap silks, we cannot afford a perennial distant war. We have now seen enough of these bar barians to know that no treaty they may concede will be of use to us any longer than we nave force present to support it. It may be that this de crepid and rotten empire is near its dissolution. The Russians have crumbled away large portions of it in the north. A little circumstance which hap pened the other day in one of the Japanese islands, when the murder of a Russian sailor drew at a moment's notice twelve Russian men-of-war to the spot to resent the outrage, shows how strong the Lords of Siberia have taken care to make them selves in these Eastern Seas. The French also have come to see that they have something more than a spiritual interest in this part of the world, and that it is not impossible for them to push a barter be tween French manufactures and China silks. Hew this will end no one can tell. Russia has always shown herself insatiable of territory ; and France, although she has not been very fortunate in retain ing outlying dominions, has always had a taste for acquiring them. If either or both of those Powers should have cast an eye of covetousness upon any of the.rich plains that have silted up from the debris of the mountains of Central Asia, it is quite certain that the present governing powers of that land will not leave them destitute of a good excuse, or even of a sufficient provocation. So far as we are con c2rned, we do not see that we have any interest in keeping China intact. After what we have already experienced it is quite certain that for purposes of trade, for which alone we apprehend civilians would ever wish to go to China, any change which would substitute a rule of good faith for the present rule of imbecile falsehood must be an advantage. Unfortunately, however, we also are embarked in this general crusade, and it is impertant at this moment that we should come to a firm resolution as to how far we will suffer ourselves to be carried into it. There is one thing to which all our home interests must steadily lay their account, and that is that we certainly will not continue these Chinese ,wars. We cannot afford them, either in men, or in money, or in reputation. The war in which be short and decisive. for all teach the Chinese Government t o res pect IswtfaeiTyea(lia.cnbynyoanwmegoe°unit!lat)taoil(f.)k'niplugnm-i—sulisittn indeed, it cannot be ien t we can once and its engagements, we shall not grudge the necessary exertion. But it had better be at once understood by the dwellers in liongkongrin Amoy, in Poo chow, in Ningpo, and in Shanghai that in the face of the horrible mortality of seamen and of soldiers both on the coast and at Hongkong., and with the knowledge of the expense of such an undertaking, the public at home Will never endure the mainte nance of a large permanent force in the China Seas, and will certainly never undertake the responsi bilities of an Anglo-Chinese Empire. The following is the letter above referred to : Sir,—lt would be much better, at this important crisis in the Chinese question, if writers upon the subject would sign their names, instead of putting their initials, in order that we might estimate at their proper value the information that they may have to give, or appreciate the motives which may bias their opiuions. So far as C.' is don't think Lever rend more errors with, quantity of print. Yet lam hardly pe wade through as much man tneript to refuts .1)01 may tell your readers briefly that the ides. blocking up the Peiho river, Which flows thiough an alluvial plain, 'simply folly, and it affords water carriage to within 12 miles of Pekin, to a place called Tung-chow, and that feee if intersect the province of Pecheli, and this because bet Ween the Peiho and the Great Wall the province is' not overbleSt with water privileges. J. C.' sees nothing but difficulties—nothing but errors. Why should he write down Generals Hope Grant and ;Minefield as consummate asses, who are g o in g t o throw themselves, with 20,000 men, into the cit v of Pekin, like the leaders o 1 a mere Arlie:in rezzia. without looking to their suPplies,theirsupports, &e.? 'He says Pekin is an open town ; we all know it to be a walled one, He ignores the fact that for five years, not only Nankin, but an area of 200 miles in a due east and west line of the vanes' of the Yantr tze, has- been in the hands of the Taepings, without in any way alarming the Emperor for the stability of his empire: . Oar occupation of Nankin. unac companied by operations elsewhere, would have about as much effect as the Ta.eping movement or the holding of Canton • has had. Lord Elgin was never coerced. LY home authorities-or' indiscreet individu . als' in Chitni to insert those two moat im portant clauses in his treatytnamely, the , right of visiting the interior of Chitra by our traders or missionaries, and the permanent residence of an accredited British agent in Pekin. I fancy his lord; ship knew,pretty well that he might as well have stayed at home if he could not wring these clauses from the Court of Pekin, and I have no hesitation 'in-saying that without these clauses we had better leave all treaty making alone, and trust to our Merchants and 'smugglers fighting and finding their own way to every part of China, and protecting themselves. J. and another writer, 'M. N.' —advocated drawing in our horns, and remaining where we were in 1856. I will undettake to say that any such policy will be perfectly misunderstood. by the Chieese fleas one end of the empire to the... e other, and there is not a consul or a captain of a, man-of-war who will net.. love smother.' lorcha afLir' on his hands within 12 months.- And why, may I ask, is it unreasonable for us to seek to trade honestly and fairly with every Chinaman. Why should we, who live by the sale of our manufactures, submit to lease prohibitory duties laid on them, when sucn duties are contrary to treaty? And, above all, why shovld not English merchants or political agents dwell in Pekin as well as Russian priests, students. and ambassadors? And on that head your news of to-day fully assures us. The two objectionable clauses are closely and im mediately connected. Wecannot have one without the other; yet J. C.' says we want more trade with China; he has hit that nail on the head ; but - how are we to have that without guaranteeing protection for our traders by being able to lay all grievances or give all explanations direct to the Court of Pekin ? ,Another assertion is made. lam curious to know upon what grounds Lord Elgin says that indemnity for war expenses is out of the ques tion. I reply that the seizure in the winter of 1857- 58 of the vast Imperial grain fleet, which was at one time entirely in our hands, would have realised more - than enough to meet our expenses in what has been dignified with the title of the second China war,' and an embargo upon all the taxes levied upon European exports in the open ports of China will nearly meet all our current expenses for this third war, and divert them profitably from the de fence of the capital. L. 0. says we have but to go to Tiere4sin to get another treaty.. I disagree with him, unless he is prepared to forego the two clauses, and, in fact, make concessions to the Chinese, instead of forcing them to adhere to their engagements; and I do most earnestly deprecate any idea of partial hostilities—petty war. If we are in earnest, let us b.l so, or the Chinaman will soon see through the imposition, and the third war will drag on as the first one did, for many a long year; or we, shall get a worthless treaty, and have that chronic irritation perpetuated under which China and England have been living for some years. " We must teach the Chinese from one end of the empire to the other that peace is far preferable to war with us outer barbarians.' The force that will be there by Mey next is ample for all purposes. Lord Elgin's policy of war in one quarter, peace in another, has resulted in a blow-up of our treaty within 12 months, for it is folly to tell those who know anything of China that we are merely fighting the Court, Council, or Emperor. There is not a Chinese merchant who has not voluntarily contri buted, and who will not contribute, to keep us out of the interior of China until they see we are teeny in earnest about it, and then they are far too practi cal a race to persevere in opposition to the point of ruin. It was the great commercial guilds of Nort here China who supplied Prince-o 7 losin with. the funds and means to meke one more effort on their behalf to preserve the enormous monvolies Nvhit h fall to the groand the day the Elgin Tleaty comes into force ; and I do trust that this treaty, and not one jot less than it, will he insisted upon, together with ample imdemnity for all expellees. Impoverish the Emperor of China ! impoverish China ! Not while there. arc 400,000,000 of people in it who have but one object in life, the acquisition of wealth. " The first war with China lasted from 1839 to 1842, because we attempted to carry on a petty war in one corner of the empire. It was only after Sir W. Parker's arrival, in 1841, that we went earnestly into the work, and then nearly one half the empire was so severely shaken that a peace was obtained that lasted 14 years—a very fair duration for any Asiatic engagement, whether pecuniary or commer cial. The second war commenced in 1856 and lasted until June, 1838 ; it was first a petty war in the South of China, then an equally partial one in the North. We were juggled, and shall be again if we merely undertake a military expedition to Sght .for the possession of the forts at the entrance of the Peiho. I advocate that the' executive be given the means and ordered to operate judiciously and ener getically against all the seaboard of Northern China, and to select a good base with a view to an advance upon Pekin after a winter of starvation shall have told Court and people what. it is to war with us; that an expeditionary force ascend the Yang-tze-kianz, to intercept supplies from Southern China ; and that the Quang provinces be thoroughly kept in hand, so that when a treaty is really being signed by a submissive Emperor and Council in the North we shall have no Cantonese braves shouting defiance in the South. • Our diplomatists might dis port themselves wherever they pleased until the Court of Pekin was ready, without argument or correspondence (for they are sure to beat us in lying and knavery), to sign, seal, and carry into execu tion upon the spot every clause of the Elgin Treaty, with improvements, such, for instance, as an abro gation of our engagements to keep English men-of war wherever a consul flies his flag, and other such drains upon our exchequer, and, above all, to in sist upon in lemnification for all expenses. The Government of Pekin will screw the commercial -guilds and gentry of Northern China to pay it. Let them do so ; for they are really at bottom the cause of the Emperor and Court repudiating the treaty of 1858, and we can always at any rate re ceive the Custom duties collected at the open porta until the charges to which we have been put are defrayed. " I am, sir , yours, Sc., , . "I.4ondon, Jan. 3. " SUERAD OSBORN, Captain." STATE OF TRADE. BARNSLEY, Jan. 2.—The linen trade of this town and district, which was rather dull during the greater part of the past year, has lately shown some signs of improvement, and the operatives of the trade are tolerably well employed. There is a better demand for yarns and goods, and hopeful expectations of a prosperous trade for some time to come are entertained. The coal trade, which was a good deal depressed in the past summer, is also more active, and its prospects are deemed to be satisfactory. LEEDS, 3d.—The opening cloth-market for the new year has been of a satisfactory eltaracttere. There has been a fair attendance of buyers in h cloth halls, the tone of the market has been firm and healthy, and, the time of the year considered, a good bulk of cloth has changed hands. The deliveries direct from the hands of the manufac turers to those of the merchants are increasing, so that less quantities of goods arc offered in the public markets, - the stocks in which were rarely lower at this season of the year. MANCHESTER, Jan. 3.—The attendance on 'Change has not been numerous today, and the business done is but limited ; nevertheless, the tone of the market is somewhat improved, and higher prices are asked for some sorts of yarns and cloth. llocrinat,E, :Tan. 2.—The wool and. flannel mar kets are very firm, but there has been a rather thin attendafice of merchants to-day, which may be ac counted for by the fact that many of them are en gaged in stocktaking and balancing of accounts. Some advance on recent prices for Lancashire and Welsh imitations has to bex given in order: -to secure goods to order, and more money is asked for Saxony and some sorts of Yorkshire goods. The flannel trade altogether has been very good for the last half of the year 1859, and it opens well in 1860. The machinery is fully employed, and the malltl• facturers hare many orders on hand. 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