The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 24.
AT the soa sitting of the Hems of Comm.
anneder,the Wes*. sad Palatinates' Suppreesien
ea Se intim of Rs. liroosna, went tholes
• esomittee, anion a division, the prepeitson foe pro-
pesang with the niesare was alined by a majority
fB5 i report to be breeffit el Wednesday
. send.--The woad maxi the Peer Removal Act
Aaciantet Hill baffling less mend by Mr. O.
Rom" a elsoneisa asesel. et the teendoetka of
wish* do hews divided, when do soden was nega-
tived by a majority of 3 ; the umbers being 102 to
105.—At the dose of the promonner of the day,
• lord J. RUM EX (who had prodrody dud the com-
. Waal of the Reath of Towne 3W he Friday), at the
Sm request el several ken. ermaisers, postponed
semos vol# next week. acpreedwg bh hope
. Rot be Mudd ad don be met with the soortion that
roomsont did ad wish to pose the measure in the
- pond soda.

Ton woe mashed from India by this o
sell b earnsistethrown into the shade by the 111 X
China.
~. ' digroilliZigsk tomperiehts policy inherited 17114
Baia asthma" gnaws long from the agents at
,'• the East India Company at Canton has produced its
• - ashunl resalte—einewed hostilities. An expedition
ammislitig of a &Mit brig of war and a few steamers,
. lens again Istria pspounisia of the Bogue forts, landed
dthe fastorim be Cantos; and after being absent
,e (Ely mews* and Swain heere hem Hong Kong re-
- Imend with important emasessiess in the security of
•itish &Ode from the Odense authorities.
ta it mast lone bass olivine to all who have di/pa5..,..
..,.. ately omosiderod the Meat history of the English
•AM bins, that Meant Cr War aswiddog of this kind
met take place, there is weer mason to rejoice
„sat it has net bow gat of stria greater
„i; cations end initialise led arisen. The
. nanessmir- "Mb( •to the litseeltdilsgs against Mr.
IV--- 31 hw eallied,..upsii.thAlatioli- in a riot at
ar". Width were to the House
ce• • ow, arm -ihaiV=let the Chinese
- at
,k,
it pewee no real andonity over the mob
The idol which Mr. Coorrron was accused
•
lir a iwaildissandeas at
rabble
the
constantly-rthatecurring
r °Lit-
gf:ark nth their spleen whist foreigners, and
•• mile limo, en opportunity to plunder.
•
,The tustoutrute Is end their soldiers did not appear till
it was over, alt tilt reneetedl7 summoned. In the
pro
clamation ift immediately afterwards by the
district
one to prevent the recurrence of dis-
order xhortel d worderemalt hat there may be no obstruction
to the governor's de,...,mendluirreparetion from the
English conga] for wont. the Leh had done in the
• affray. Instead of I rhuldial_,___.__ the who bad
. attempted to sack an Perwe'rr the MP& &stories,
trying and acquitting, 'Jr Poefehlog lin% the Who-
lilies humbly
request ~ that the rabble well
lisp q
and premise, if they . 'shedto ffet the English—the
parties aggrieved—puril ,
_instead- The Canton
mob are the masters of ti 'e 'Anton magistrates. The
_ Canton,
at v,_14,. menu governors and councillors
Em 7,r-tie most :ndependent rabble of that
is.al;ria remain there, going through the
forms of administering jos t ice and drawing their
salaries, upon condition that to 'i sy make no attempt is
restrain the popular will. Th. • Emperor, in the i/o's.
tics of courtly flattery, heti, in W that his delegate',
govern
an
ha hairs nMhimr i hi the contrary, and
when an explosion tells him dud OHO has failed to
govern, he mods it as an exceptional case, t
and sends, not tFecesitirt r mother governor,
es helpless as his 1 'he outward forme
of government are pt up in. Can ton by en under
standing that their exercise is to. continue more
matter of form. And to this degrading ooaiwoause•
the foreign residents are made victims. pro-
vincial rulers of China know that but for the foreign ,
merchants, the mojority of the tea-growers in the ten
provinces would be reduced to poverty, and them-
selves rendered unable to obtain their saiarien The'
merchants, cultivators, and governors of South China
are alive to the importance of foreign commerce. and
anxious for its continuance. But the ignorant central.
goverment at Pekin will confine the visitations of
merchants to a few harbours; the rabble in thee& 1
ports will plunder and insult the fan guei ; and the
shadow of- a magistracy which buys state and emolu-
ment by connivance at crime, cannot prevent them.
The rights and interests alike of the Chinese and the
foreigners require that, since the Chinese government
cannot put down the lawbreakers, some otha shall.
The ease with which the late Chinese war was
brought to a close, and still more the facility with
which the late expedition from Hong Kong attuned
hi immediate object, show that this can bs done, and
(daily. The industrious inhabitants offer no opposi-
tion, and the authorities by their promptitude to come
to terms, showthat they are only coerced into doing what
they wish. %PIING, laving allowed the Bogue forts
to be taken and 879 guns spiked with scarcely a show
of resistance, waited bat the arrival of Sir JOHN
DA%IB to great him all he asked. The most im-
portant of his ooncesrions are :—That after two years
the city of thnton shall be opened to the British; that
the British may roam in the surrounding country for
exercise or amusement as at Shanghai that the
Chinese aggressors of British subjects in ten specified
cams are to be arrested, brought to Canton
' and punished in the presence of persons deputed
by her Majesty's plenipotentiary ; that the lease of a
site for dwellings and warehouses is to be granted to
British merchants and others on the Honan aide of
the river, a site for a church in the neighbourhood of
the present foreign factories, and burial grounds at
Whampoa. Precautions are also to be taken for pre-
venting collisions between the Chinese rabble and
foreigners.
'this is well. The visit from armed British vessels
will have a salutary effect upon the lawlemportion of the
Chinese, if the concessions extorted by them are firmly
and permanently enforced so as to keep alive a remem-
brance of the visit. But these masters of the magi-
strates must no longer be encouraged, as they were by
British yielding in the case of Mr. COMPTON. The
consul at Canton proposed to acquiesce in the as-
sumption of the magistrates that the English wews
in the wrong in order to soothe the Chinese.
Sir JOHN Davis indignantly refused to do this,
but declined to send up a man of war to support
the merchants. Lord PAJAMAS/ON rebuked Sir JOHN
for not sending up a man-of-war, but still more ener-
getically scolded Mr. ColterON for complaining that
he had been illegally punished. In short, the
Chinese authorities were allowed to see that the
English merchants were in a great measure left et
their mercy, and, of course, made a merit with their
countrymen, whom they feared, by wronging the
English, wham they thought they could injure with
impunity. This ramoursged to those acts of insult
and iniwo st.Poli-shan, and elsewhere, which ren-
dered the lanrhostillties unavoidable.
We wish we could feel col:Meta that this truckling
and time-arcing ipirit-on. the part of the English
alitil°4t4.B had entirely evaporated. But it is to be