The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-01 00:00:00

CHINA.

Mr. COBDEN moved • decleastary recielation to the
effect that the policy of aominterveatioa by foroe of arm
is the trauma political affairs of foreign coestries, whisk
we professed to observe is oar mistime with the states of
Europe end Smirks, should be observed is oar intmociaree
with the empire of China. In reviewiag the state of our
relatiorie with that country the ham amber iselsted that
it was of the most essatielactory character, especially so far
es our commerce was seaweed. Chios, he remarked. was
the rely torsion country where we bad eye en-
deavoured to force • trade by Vi 0111•00 and war ; and, cu-
riously *Dough, it was the oaly coustry which farmed an
exesption to the general program which was apperest every-
where else. In coulee of about 20 yeses we bed bad three
wars with China, the object of which was to epee up, se it
was called, trade with that country; but the result had
bees that, wbeeever there wee a war, our iserehants,
stimulated by anticipations of extended markets, mat oat
large quantities of produce and reaped troth* bat dimp-
pointaient, °oily's, mid nadir. Is fact, daring the hot
thirt7.five years, China was the only "Gantry that hd dis-
appointed us ; for at the sad of that period she stood only
twelfth in the reek of our customers, and eves below Egypt.
The moral of all was that we could not extend our oem-
menu by mew of war and violence, and he recommended
se the best method of getting oat of our clitScalties in
China, the establishment of • number et free
ports at islands on the coast, in the same manner
as we had doe* at Singapore. He objected to per-
sisting is • policy that was most costly alike to our
nodon character and mar tosimisi interests ; and
he urged that the goverameat ought to restrais their re-
pressetativee at the Antipodes, revert to the policy
mated by by the Duke of Wellingtoe, and terminate oar direct
relations with Chivy for it was the (*Wks of the duke
that we bad so bashiem to faros oar politicel connexions
upon that eountry. Is essolusica, the ham inesaber re-
commeeded that the siert course far the home to adopt
was, at the commeocement of the east samba, to ypeint
• select committee to inquire into oar mmmeel role-
*kw with China and Japes ; and impressed upon the
house and the commercial ecenmwaity that it was eraTillz
their duty and their interest to show to them
'otiose the seperier brightseas of oar Christianity and oar
eirdimatiou.

The motios having been ascoaded by Ifr. &COCHRANE,
Mr. LA YARD said the policy of Sir F. Bruce received the
approval of bar itapisty'sgoveranient, sad it wee enbdeatially
the policy which had bees accepted by boa. patients.' op.
posit.. The differences between them were move qoastioce
of delves. The sabetsatial question was whether our peal-
don in China was improved or not. He imeteadell that
it was greatly improved, because diSealties were now
attled by diplomatic egeacy which formerly would have led
to war. Liaised, therefor% of oosidemniag Lord Frio
having instated as the esliehtnent of a mission at
he held that it wee the most imparted eanceesice we had
obtained from China.

Lord NAAS contended that we ought to maintain • policy
of absolute neutrality between the two ooetesding parties
in China, and that this policy ought to be enforced epos all
our employes. Our pokily in China bad hitherto been
exactly the reverse of this. It wee impossible therefore to
my that the differs's°e between the opposition sad bees
Majesty's goveremeat was a mere question of dagree. They
bad always ecietudail that we ought to defend British pro-
perty in China, bat they also held that the policy of her
Majesty's government placed that property is periL The
three great features of the government policy had failed.
The Englishmen at the bead of the Chinese inspectorate of
customs had been ignominiously dismissed ; the flotilla
;toiler Ct Sherrard Osborne had been ignominiously
disbanded ; and the force seder Oaptain Gordon was
at present in a very critical state, and its cootionsace would
be a source of danger to oar relation. with the Chinese.
He (Lord Naas) contended that the Chime government
was in reality is total ignorance of the east, isinatkia, and
object of the form seder Captain Osborne, and that
Mr. Lay had Dos the authority in this twitter which
he imagined himself to possess. The Chinese being
' jealous of foreign interference, they should show
them that they had no plumes of conquest or I
samodisement, but that all they desired was to
protect their trade from injury and their fief from insult.
There were three powers besides oar owe which had direct
and permanent interests in China—France, Asessies, and
Russia. The interest which America took in Claim might be
karst from the despatches of Mr. Burningham, the Ameri-
can minister at Pekin. As to France her connexion with
China was sot connected with trade and commerce bat was
strictly ecolesiesticel; but it wall not os that account the lees
important. France took good 0/ifs of her interests ; end so
well did the French miesicsaries understand what they had
undertaken that they were actually engaged in preparing
Chimes people for the educational examinations. Roam
had, however, far muter interests they France. She bad
recently acquired a seaboard of 900 miles, and she was
raising • new Sebastopol is the Pacific, which would boa deed-
ing menace to &Withrow:wee is these NIL By means of
the telegraph St. Petersburg was already within fourteen
days' communication with Pekin. Under these Mr-
cucestatices it behoved this country to set as example of
complete neutrality to those three powers • for if she went
on acting... she had done, there might Maims loss be e
French contingent, • Russian contingent, and even as
American cootingat With regard to the able remarks of
the hos, member fur Rochdale, be believed is win *et de-
sirable at present that British subjects should be handed
over to the Chinese authorities, to be dealt with as they
pleased ; but be thought that the application of the prin.
owl* of extraterritonal jarindistirm ought to he limited as
mach as possible. The time for paining resolutions respect-
ing our policy in Chine appeared to bun to hare goes by.
Soros of the evils to which the hon. gentleman alluded had
cured themselves. He imegioad that the order in council
authorities officers of the British tinny to take service ander
the Chinese government was to be revoked.
Load FAL/lERSTON—It is revoked.

Lord NAAS would like to know whether the Masers who
had boon employed would be allowed to rotors to their
weginmate. He hoped that the pokey of which the how.
gentleman (Hr. Coteles) mid was now at an wed
tar he mold set soassimmay wersime• Wove ithAtimbmi