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MILITARY ESTIMATES.

On the motion for going into Committee of
Supply,

Utptain VIVIAN wished to have some fuller infor-
mation that had as yet been afforded respecting the
army estimates.
Mr. DRUMMOND commented upon the tendency,
which he believed to be the general case, of Europe
to enlarge the dimensions of standing armies. Eng-
land, be observed, amidst all her professions of peace
and commerce, was not less bellicose than other
countries. While our Governments persisted in pro-
voking and insulting their neighbours, it would be
most essential to observe the precaution of keeping
our shores in a constant state of defence.

Colonel Swan drew attention to the recent deci-
sion of the Government relative to the disembodi-
ment of the aizteen regiments of militia.
Colonel Krim )Ir. Rica, Colonel NORTIS; F 24
other members hsving spoken,

Lord PALMERSTON oonfessed that the militia had
behaved well, were highly useful in periods of emer-
gency, and had supplied a large number of recruits
to the line. There were, however, many objection
to the maintenance of this force when the period of
crisis had passed away.
General PEEL said that within the last few weeks
the number of soldiers in the regular army had
increased so much that it became necessary either
partially to disband the militia or to increase the
estimates.

Lord A. V. TEMPEST complained of the injustice
inflicted upon the officers of the Land Transport
Corps, and moved, as an amendment, that a select.
committee should be appointed to inquire into the
case.

After somo discussion, the amendment was with.
drawn, upon a promise, given by Sir J. Pakington,
that the Government wou:d grant the select com-
mittee.

The house then went into committee of supply,
and the remainder of the sitting was chiefly devoted
to a miscellaneous discussion upon different rotes
belonging to the naval and military estimates.
The house resumed shortly after midnight, and
then adjourned to Monday.
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will sloes happen in a free country when the national
feeling is bruught into play—popular passions no
longer knew any bounds, and the political situation
into dominated by those passions. Thus, while we
thought we had to complain of the disposition of
our allies towards us, the English people, on its side,
thinking itself deeply wounded by France, no longer
obeyed any sentiment but that of its irritation. This
'saltation naturally provoked in France another quite as
stormy, and which might have been dangerous hail not
the Emperor's elevated reason and spirit of justice been
there to appreciate the true cause of our neighbour's at•
titude. But, gentlemen, whatever may have been those
deplorable miatunlerstandinge, the recurrence of which it
at least is easy now to prevent, they have changed nothing
in the position of the two nations. What remains indis•
rumble is, that the new instincts of England laid her as
naturally to draw closer to France as they formerly did to
keg) at a list from her; that oars ((Mow a like direc-
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reciprocal umbrage, and in spite .if the intrigues of parties
which make the most of them, the great Engtish public
sincerely desires the friendship of the Emperor and of
France; that, in short, there is really between cite two
cuuntnes no interest, no serious question, in which the
simplest good sense cannot put the two Governments in
accordance; and that thus it depends only oil ourselves to
maintain an alliance so advantageous to the two nations.

It is said that the Turkish Government has com-
plained to the English Ambassador at Constantinople
Mike bombardment of Jeddah at a moment when it
VMS known that Ismail Pacha was on his way thither
with full powers to punish the guilty. Also that the
Divan has addressed a circular to the governors of
all the provinces of the empire, desiring them to
make known to the Maliamedans that the report
spread of the approaching destruction of Mecca by
the Western powers is totally unfounded. This
inkehievous rumour has, it appears, obtained wide
credence in the East, and, as may be supposed,
tends greatly to keep alive the flame of fanaticism
that has lately burst forth.
London, England, 1858-08-28

TII E PRESS, AUGUST 28, 1858.

Is not their simple duty to discover what the facts
are? We are perfe3tly well aware that the
constant practice of these juries at the present
day is to go beyond this ; but we sincerely doubt
whether, in doing so, they arc not exceeding
what is in reality expedient We think it
desirable that this subject should be ventilated,
and we have accordingly thrown out the above
suggestions. For, to judge by the results, there
certainly seems to be something wrong in the
mode of conducting these inquiries at present.
London, England, 1858-08-28

AUSTRIA.

-----
The newborn Imperial Prince was baptized on
:Monday, at the Chateau du LuAeinbourg. The
,
nuee is christened Rodolphe Francis Charles
Joseph. By an imperial decree the infant Prince is
Ippointed proprietor and colonel of the 19th Rep-
sleet of Infantry.

RUSSIA,
Letters at Paris from St. Petersburg give some
details concerning the journey of the Emperor
Alexander. Accompanied by the Empress, he was to
leave bib capital on the 22nd for Moscow, whence
they are to proceed to Nishni Novogorod, where the
great fair, which usually attracts more than 100,000
fers°46! is pow being held, 013, thOr return 14?
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THE PRESS, AUGUST 28, 1858.

to be taken, in providing against its abuse, not
to create other evils of as bad a character as
those which it is sought to remedy. A more
strict and efficient supervision of private asylums
is which ought to be secured, but against the
cruelty, both to the sufferer and to his tinily,
of unnecessary publicity, we here emphatically
protest.
London, England, 1858-08-28

duplicity. Any want of open, honest dealing on
our part they will impute to some sinister design.
They know us well enough now in our institu-
tions, in our principles, in our religion, in our
own country, to know what to expect of us. By
attempting to impose upon them, we shall only
impose upon ourselves. Our policy with them
ought to be as open as the day. Anything like
mystery, or ambiguous expressions, or half avowals
of our intentions; are specially to be avoided in
our public action with such a people. Suspicion,
distrust, cunning, weak artifice, are indigenous
qualities in Asiatic minds. Such minds always
despise those most who exhibit the same infir-
mities as themselves. All weak nations, indeed,
as women, are best controlled by, because they
most respect, the strong and manly qualities of
frankness and decision. We must teach our
Indian subjects to trust us; and to teach them to
trust us, we must have the manliness to be per-
fectly truthful.
There is a third ground—and obviously by
itself a sufficient one—on which we advocate
a bold course, and that is, because a different
policy has failed, and always, we believe, will
fail in India ; whereas a bold course has in re-
peated instances succeeded. In proof of this we
have only to call to mind what CLINE, and
DUNCAN, and BEXTINCK, and NAPIER, and other
worthies of past days, achieved by daring yet
prudent action ; or what LAWRENCE, and En-
wAnus, and MosToommtv, have accomplished in
the way of government lately, without any
suppression of their Christianity. Would Bengal
be now a British province if Cuvr. had faltered ?
Would infanticide have been put a stop to if DUN-
CAN had listened to pleas for respect to age-long pre-
judices ? Would Sutteeism have been put down if
13F.NTINCli had been deterred by the threat of
insurrection ? What brought Scinde so soon
into subjection but NAPIER'S sternness ? Would
the l'unjaub be still our quiet possession if Sir
JOHN LAWRENCE had exhibited indecision ?
But what is most worthy of remark is, that
almost all of these governors innovated upon the
religion of the natives ; they more or less aban-
doned a dishonest "neutrality," and made the
religious principles of England to be the govern-
ing religious principles of India. The fear, then,
that a bold avowal of our Christianity would
risk the loss of India appears to be only the
bugbear raised up by our own unbelief. A
Christian system of government—that is, a system
of government based upon Christian principles—
is what we ought to resolve now to establish in

India.
But we shall be expected to explain more fully
what we mean by a Christian system of govern-
ment. This we will endeavour to do.
First, the Queen of England is, we presume,
to be proclaimed as the Queen or Empress of
Hindostan. Let this be in her Christian, and
not merely in her Sovereign capacity; that is, let
London, England, 1858-08-28

for fatal results is scarcely equalled by any remit railway accident, and which is an occurrence which
has created the greatest possible sensation
neiithbourhood and district where it occurred.
KILLED.—Joseph Pitt, scrap merchant, Priam,
End ; Frederick Th,ims, of Shaver's End, Dudley:
William Shavere, Dudley, Prince's Eud; Benjannia
Skelding, baker, of Prince's End. Died under an
operation. His wife and son also lie dead. yobs
boatman, of Worcester; Francis Mills, of
Prince's End, mill furnace man ; Richard Moor, of
Tipton, killed by splinter from a curie.ge manic;
through his heart.

been claimed of
the
The bodied of two women andahmavaenb,ee
on
former in an advanced state of pregnancy, lie in
honses in the neighbourhood, and
Mt the time we writeEnd,head
INJURED.—Richard Wassel, Prince's End,
inj re,i severely; Joseph Webb, Bradly-lane, Coaeler,
broken leg and toe amputated; William Hrter,
tailor, of Dudley, injury nut ascertained; William
Kindrick, Prince's End, leg broken; Sarah Ann
Whitehouse, slightly injured ; Miss Bevan and Ms.
Wycherley, of Bilston, severely bruised, toe of
former amputated ; Ada Smith, Coseley, right arm
broken, and back ba sly bruised ; Heury James,
forgeman, Coseley, back badly hurt; Samuel Starkey,
Dudley, badly bruised, back supposed to be broken;
Lydia Causer, Prince's End, seriously hurt about Me
head ; Mary Soames, Prince's End, collar bons
hr3ken, chest badly bruised ; Edward Jones, NMI
Port, leg fractured ; Elizabeth Hyde, severely
bruised ; Thomas Brett, Daisy Bank, collar bone
fractured in a dangerous state; Charles Tamer,
blacksmith, Daisy Bank, side cut upon, an l let lung,
protruding, cannot survive ; Ann Fisher, Prince's End,
chest bruised, and arm injured.
A number of people, exclusive of these, who were
injured, were conveyed to their homes.
London, England, 1858-08-28

meneed upon the publication of the intelligence of
having been made with China upon advantatveous tlkle°
although the fsct was doubted for some time hemari"'
confirmation of it WAR pnblished by our tnwn Govern: n"
and it has been sustained since by the inherent strenenal'
of the market—the Bulls being sanguine and the liegius
discouraged.
Consols, which left off this day week at 961 ouch
advanced to 90i to OS; and to-day they closed at Utif to,.
The Governent broker has been a daily purchaser to
the
In of about 10,0001. e
In the Foreign Market there was much ateadineis up
to yesterday, when some stocks, stud' as Brazilian, pea.
vian, and one or two others, obtained a marked advance.
There was less activity today, but quotations wile 'bunt
the same, and nearly us firm.
Railway Shares have advanced from One to two per cent.
and there is no prospect of any substantial reaction.
Atlantic •Telegraph Shares have been dealt in 'Must
daily. The present quotation is tie. Red Ses Telegrspli Ito j prem. firm.
Exchequer Bills have improved about 2s. since oar list.
The present prices are :11s. to 343. prem. far March, sisi
22+. to 255. fur June bills.
The Board of Trade Returns for the month ofJuly, pals
lished yesterday, are favourable as indicating a growing
increase in our exports. They amount in value to Vitlasit
more than in the previous month of June; and there ha
been a very large consumption of imported commodities.
The Southampton Dock Company have declared a
dividend for the halfyear at the rate of three per neut. per
annum.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, on Tuesday, Messrs.
Calvert and Co. were ordered to give a bond for loom,
aotchreertwhitoser. If
satsfill4te
ipmennddinbge annot agctivioenn
,fioirr
itillieatelaalouhnetnboyt
within seven days, an act of bankruptcy will have 'Neu
committed.

The wool sales, which commenced on the 15th July,
closed on Tuesday, with the exception of those fur low woola,
which closed to-day. The quantity offered comprised
709114 bales. Of this vast amount the whole was taken by
the home trade at an advance of from Id. to' d. per lb.,
except about 2(J,000 bales purchased fur the Continent
principally France. This is a less proportion than mat;
while the proportion taken by our own manufacturers
much greater. As rates have advanced from the bona•
fide character of the demand and not from speculation, of
which there has been literally none, the woollen trade may
be regarded as in a sound and progressively prosperous
state.

The Provincial Trade Reports are very favourable. The
exceptions to improvement still proceed from the iron mat
hardware trades ; but even these are advancing, gratuttlly,
towards prosperity.
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the proclamation run, " Her Christian Majesty,
" the Queen of Great Britain, hereby makes it

" known to her Indian subjects, &c:'
Second, as to the principles of government

that shall be avowed, let it be declared that the

moral law of England shall henceforth be the moral

law of India—that is, in all questions of crime, or
of social right, or of justice between man and man,
or of civil order, or of religious toleration, let the

same principles be applied to India as are applied
to England. By thus establishing the law of
England, the question (one of extreme difficulty
iftiniidly dealt with) of the public recognition,
within the provinces under our sway, of
Ilindooism or of Nlahometanism, as the State

religions, would be indirectly yet decisively
resolved. All open demonstrations of idolatrous
worship, as of Popery in our own country, in the
forms of public processions, licentious festivals,
and indecent exhibitions, would become unlawful,
and would in due time cease. It is not the com-
pulsory adoption of Christianity, be it observed, or
the adoption of Christianity at all, except upon
conviction, that we advocate, but only the State
patronage of Christianity, so far as regards Go-
vernment approval. To attempt to make con-
verts of the natives by force or by fraud would
indeed be as futile as it would be foolish.
Let it be distinctly proclaimed that it is no part of
Christianity to propagate itself by the arm of power;
that it has respect to the rights and feelings of all
men, and will constrain none ; that it will impar-
tially protect all, while it can patronize no religion
but its own. Such a policy as this the natives would
' understand, and, we believe, appreciate, because
it would be honest. They never believe us
if we profess absolute neutrality, or adopt a
reverse line of policy, in what may be termed
political coquetry. We cannot help thinking,
too, that it would add greatly to our influence
instead of a Governor-General, a Viceroy were
appointed, to be aided by a local Council, pre-
sided over by a Lord Chancellor as the highest
legal adviser. The pomp, and splendour, and ce-
remonious circumstance of a Viceregal Court—

representing to Eastern eyes the majesty of the
absent Sovereign—would have a prodigious effect
upon the Asiatic imagination, and tend power-
fully to secure contented submission.
The hold policy which we advocate will, how-
ever, involve something more than negatives.
Schools and colleges, for the inculcation of sound
knowledge and correct morals, should everywhere
be established, gradually ,
silent work of sapping and
perstitions of the native
these should, of course,
neither bribery nor force
The State should here act
the Ruler. This would,
truly merciful course.
with injustice, even if
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THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES.

The Constitutionnel gives the following semi-
official account of the result of the Paris Conferences
relative to the Danubian Principalities:—
The Conference char;ed with the organization of the
Principshties has finished its task after three months of
labonuus sittings. But the result of its labours will, as
hes beau announced, only be published when the ratifi-
cations have been exchanged. Meantime, we are enabled
ti give a brief summary of the more important points of
the new organization.

The fundamental principle of the union, .s understood
by France, has irlt prevailed. This is a result which might
easily have been foreseen, as the views of the majority of
the signing powers wen well known. Ifut if the Govern-
ment of the Emperor has not obtained what it desired, and
•hat it still maintains to be the best basis fur the new
state of things, that is to say a complete union, it never-
theless appears that what has been done is a step towards
that union, and even that the new organization sanctions
it and realizes it in many respects.

The two Principalities, if we are well informed, will re-
ceive perfectly identical political institutions, and this
identity prevails throughout. Thus, equality before the
law, taxation, personal liberty, property, privileges of caste,
admission M public employment, are identical in both
Principalitles.
A sort of Council of State, permanent and common to
both Principalities, is invested with considerable powers,
especially as regards the institution of laws. This council
will be nominated by the Hospodars and Assemblies of the
two Priticipalities.

high court of justice and of appeal, the members of
which will be appointed for life, will be instituted in com-
mon for both Principalities.
As regards the elective assemblies, each Principality will
hare its own, elected, not by universal suffrage, but ac-
cording to a fixed census. These assemblies will have an
important part in the mechanism of the Government.
For instance, they will elect the Hospodars, hitherto ap-
iminted by the I'orte. They wi:l be selected by the As-
sembly of each Principality, bound under certain condi-
iimm of candidateship dovermined by the Convention. The
Sublime Porte will simply perform the act of investiture
of the Huspodars.

No let of the Hospodar will be valid unless counter-
signed by a Minister.

The responsibility of the Ministers towards the Legis-
lative Chambers is clearly and severely defined, and these
Chambers will possess a serious control.
The question of the conies has also been considered.
London, England, 1858-08-28

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FIFTH DAY.

The inquiry was resumed.
Mr. WAINWRIGHT, the solicitor, was recoiled, and
in answer to certain questions put to him by the jury,
stated that he requested Mr. Ruck not to comnntni•
cute with any on 3 except in his (Mr. Wainwright's)
presence, or in that of a medical man. He did that
because he knew the medical gentlemen who would
examine him held strong views on the subject of his
insanity, and he thought it advisable that notes
should he taken of any interviews that might take
place. It was merely as a matter cf precaution that
he adopted that course. _ _

Mr. ISer,teant PETER,,DORFF then addressed the
jury on the evidence adduced on the part of Mr.
Ruck.

Mr. M. CHAMBERS, Q.C., in replying on the whole
of the case, contended that the medical evidence
offored to prove the sanity of Mr. Ruck bad utterly
failed to establish that fact, but, on the contrary, had
clearly shown that it would be ur•safe to allow that
nentleman the free and uncormolled use of his
liberty.

Commissioner Wtxst.ow then slimmed up the
evidence, and, having explained the law with respect
to lunacy, said it now devolved upon the jury to say
whether Mr. Ruck was a person of sound or unsound
mind.

The jury then, at twenty-five minutes past three,
retired to consider their verdict, and after the absence
of a quarter of an hour returned into court, and the
foreman announced that they were of opinion that
Mr. Ruck was of sound mind and quite capable of
managing his own affairs.
London, England, 1858-08-28

SECOND DAY.

The case was reauterd on Tuesday morning. The
chief interest in the proceedings of that day—and it
was a melancholy one—hinged upon the appearance,
as a witness, of Mrs. Ruck, the wife of the unfortu-
nate gentleman who is the subject of the investiga-
tion, anti on the story—exceedingly touching in
many of its parts—which she rttlateti. She is a re-
markably ladylike person, about thirty five years of
age, of a tall figure, and gentle manners. Her
manner before the court, during an examination
lasting upwards of two hours, was characterized
throughout by !Angular prapriety and self-possession,
notwithstanding she was compelled, in deference to
the exigencies of judicial procedure, to divulge cir-
cumstances in her history front which she must have
Instinctively shrunk, though illustrating only her
own patient endurance, fortitude, anti affection. Her
husband, as on the preceding day, was again present.
He smiled occasionally while she was giving her
evidence.

Mrs. MARY A, RUCK Was called, and, in
reply to questions puz by Mr. Sergeant Ballantine,
said :—I am the wife nt Mr. Lawrence Ruck, and
have been married to him for about seven een years.
lam the mother of six children by him. After the
birth of the eldest child my huNiin.l and I did not
occupy separam rooms. We continued to occupy the
same room until about two years ago. He was occa-
sionally in the habit of drinking considerably, but up
to April, 1856, it did not appenr to utfect hint at all.
In that year we residea at Pantlludw, and from April
of that year he was in a very excited suite at times.
He used to hire Sys and drive about the country in
the night as well as in the day, and apparently with-
fmt any object, lie took w with him ou those oc.
London, England, 1858-08-28

OUR INDIAN POLICY.
WHEN we have reconquered India, there will

remain a greater task behind in the question,
]low shall we govern it ? What line of policy
shall we henceforth pursue ? What principles
shall we determine to apply? This will be the rock
on which India will be wrecked and lost, or the

anchor by which she will be held fast and saved.

We have pawed a " Bill for the Better Govern-
ment of India." But the passing of a Bill, and

the applying of principles, are two very different
things. The Bill referred to rather provides the
agencies than lays down the principles by which
India is to be governed. Again we ask, then,
What is the policy intended henceforth to be
adopted in the government of our Indian empire?
Is it to be the timid, no-principle, "traditionary

policy," which has resulted in the late insurrec-
tion or mutiny? Or shall we henceforth adopt a
bold, honest, decisive, Christian policy ? These
are important questions, pregnant with great
issues either for good or for evil,—and if mooted
at all, ought to be well weighed and soberly dis-
cussed. It is in no spirit of rashness or presump-
tion we take them up, but with a sincere desire
to contribute the small fractions of our own
reasons towards their solution.
It will be only candid in us to confess at once
that we strongly incline to the bolder policy as
the wiser. We believe that timidity has been
our trap, and that, now at least, the time for
timidity has gone by. Hitherto, we have ruled
India by sufferance,—henceforth, we must rule it
as conquerors, or we shall not long be permitted
to rule it at all. Such is our decided opinion.
But we shall be expected to give our reasons
for coming to these conclusions. The first ground
that we take is, that any other than a bold, un-
hesitating, authoritative system of government
now will be liable to make us misunderstood by

the natives—it will be interpreted into fear on our
Part. This will encourage to fresh conspiracies,
to fresh combinations for our overthrow. But daunt
them by our decision, awe them by the signs
of our power, and they will crouch submission.
There is nothing so impresses a Hindoo as
authority. It is the ideal before which he has
always bowed. lie reverences nothing that does
not wear the outward form and aspect of Des-
potism. It is the form of Despotism—not, of
course, its spirit—we advocate for India. By a
stern, prompt, decisive course of action in the
Government at this crisis, the Mussulman will
be overawed, the Ifindoo will quietly acquiesce,
and all the Native Princes will feel that they are
muter the rule of one who must be obeyed, and so
will submit. A fearless course, then, it is that
will be far more likely than any other to have the
effect of permanently quieting India.
Our second reason is, that it is in the nature
of all Asiatics to despise moral weakness; to
uspect treachery in others ; to double upon
LATEST EDITION.
London, England, 1858-08-28

CHINA.

The following is a translation of a despatch which
appears in the ltloniteur respecting the conclusion of
a treaty with China :

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug 20.
TILE FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THIS MINISTER OF FOREIGN

A.7IfAIRS.

A courier who left Tiensin on the 27th of June, over-
land, has brought the news to Prince Gortschakoff that a
treaty has been concluded between China and Russia
identical in its general bases with those concluded be-
tween China and the other powers. The ports are open,
the free exercise of the Christian religion allowed, the
establishment of consuls admitted, as also the sending
(!'envoi) of diplomatic agents to Pekin if necessary (en
eat de besoin).
France and England ha, moreover, obtained a con-
siderable pecuniary indemnity. ve
Dula: OF MONTEBET LO,
(Froash AT at St. Yetersburg.)
London, England, 1858-08-28

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THE CHINESE TREATY.

ltv,announcedandt
hteh ertient7i
tion
A f RUSSIANthe telegram
Chinese
has
cu difficulty, has
at once proceeded, agreeably to the law of the
Printing-house-square platform, to " improve
the occasion " for its own glory and the confu-
sion of national logic and morality. The homily
put forth with these views, which many of our
readers must have seen conspicuous in large
type
on Monday last, deserves some notice as showing
the lengths to which reckless partizanship can
carry even a clever writer. It commences sonic-
what modestly, with a confession of some surprise
both at the manner and the matter of the intelli-
gence. This confession might be startling from
its novelty, the usual line of that oracular print
being that of COBBETT in the " Rejected Ad-
dresses "—" I prophesied that, tho' I never told
anybody." But there was a special motive tar
" assuming a virtue" on this occasion. The
Times had unluckily been leading the public to
believe, that, owing to a series of blunders which
its " Own Correspondent" would have set right
in half a paragraph, our Chinese operations were
likely to be indefinitely protracted. The delicate
avowal of " some surprise " was to disarm hostile
criticism on this head. Avowal the second was
perhaps less discreet, though not less true. To
have frightened the Emperor into complete sub-
mission was doubtless " too easy for glory"; but
this admission is a singular introduction to 3
column and a half of most unmitigated bragging.
The attempt to build up for Lord PALNIEHSToN!z
Chinese minority a reputation for comparative
political foresight is simply fraudulent. A single
phrase used by Sir JAMES GRAHAM is a poor
ground for misstating the real bearing of the
memorable debate in question. The opponents
of the Bowring aggression did not question that
we were strong enough to destroy, not Canton
only, but Pekin also, if we chose ; that we could
compel the Celestials to alter their laws at our.
dictation, and to pay us "compensation money
for transactions in which we were more to
blame than they. Even could Lord PALx
TON have proved (what, by the way, yet re-
mains to be tested by the statistics of future
trade) that the extorted admission of " ouv
barbarians " to the its and rivers of t e
flowery land would tend greatly to our
orit n.a:
tional advantage, the position of the inaj
who censured the Bowring war would not have
been shaken. They stood upon right, not exile
diency. They said that there were nobler con
:
siderations than £a. d.—a higher law than
law of the strongest. By a full and fair investiga:
tion of the facts of the case, as far as they mket' l'a
then known, they showed that we had pic
ands
quarrel on most discreditable grounds—go
unworthy the honesty of a commercial Re° ir
the justice of a Christian nation, or the