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London, England, 1853-08-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 2U.

It is not the fault of the European consular ern-
cito in China if any news, respecting the internal war
now waging there, reach this part of the world. They
do their utmost to prevent their respective country-
men from venturing to the scene of hostilities. But
missionary zeal and mercantile enterprise are too
much fur them. Several nii,sionaries have approached'
more or less closely to the disturbed districts; and
Dr. Tv t.un, an American missionary, has actually
reached Chin-Kean-foot and spent sonic time there.
We are thus in receipt of information respecting
the progress of the Chinese Revolution, which we
►hould otherwise have been without ; fur the Impe-
rialist Alvin's, at all times reluctant to throw light
on the state of the interior, have now the additionl
motive to concealment that what they have to tell
would do them little credit.

One thing is certain, that an attack upon Chin-
keang-too, upon which the Imperialists built high
expectations, has been repelled by the insurgents, or
whatever we are to call them. A fleet of European
rigged vessels, consisting of three recently purchased
(armed, one with 2$ and the two others each with 12
guns), and 23 Lorchas, cannonaded the town on the
:pith of May till they Lad expanded all their powder.
The town bad been prepared fur the attack
in a way that erinced considerable mili-
tary skill oa the part of their antagonists,
and from the walls a by no means contemptible'
array of heavy cannons answered the guns of the
ships. An Imperialis: land force of some 6,000
men was close by the town during the affray, but
did not venture to make any demonstration in aid of

the fleet. Dr. Ttvt.tta, who was in the town
at the time, coultl not learn that the cannonade
had done the least harm; and the European adven-
turers who had taken service on board the Imperial
fleet have returned to Shanghai too much disgusted
with their Chinese leaders to be easily induced to
follow them again.

This failureof the:lmperialists before Chin-Keang-
foo sounds like • death-knell to the hopes of the
Mantchoo dynasty. That entrepUt commands the
great highway by which all the trade between South
and North China must pass. A force in possession
of it can starve the northern provinces in a few
months by stopping their supplies of rice. But it is
apparent that the revolutionists do more than possess
a strong position in and around Nankin and Chin-I
Keang-foo. From the intelligence received by the
present and previous mail it would appear that
the Imperialists scarcely possess • single foot
of ground south of the Yang-tie-Keang,
except Canton, and some immediately ad-
joining districts. And there is one peculiarity
about this universal revolt of the more especially
Chinese provinces that is worthy of note. The heads of
the new government at Nankin, when Sir G. Bona
proceeded to that town, were found to be ignorant of
the fact that the English were Christians. But the
leader at Chin-licang-foo was a man who had re-
ceived instruction from British or American mission-
aries at Canton ; and his followers were as well
acquainted with the character of the English as him-
self. The insurgents at Nankin and those at Chin-
Xcang-foo, therefore, it is clear, though now acting in
concert, have each stirred spontaneously at first with-
out instigation from, or concert with, the other. Again,
the movement at Amoy is obviously independent of
either of the other two. It is clear, therefore, that
the revolt of the purely Chinese provinces is a simul-
taneous, unpreconeerted renunciation of the Mant-
choo authority by a great number of local centres of
action. The universal Chinese people have declared
that they will no longer have these men to rule over
them. What kind of Government or Governments
may be substituted instead of that of the Brother of
the Sun and Moon it is yet too early to say ; but
scarcely a doubt can exist that the day of the Mant-
choo dynasty is over.

" Wait," say some sceptics on this score, " till we
see what course is pursued in the previews where
the ruling dynasty is strongest." These pro-
vinces are comprised within the region extending
from the Yang.tse•Keeng to the Great Wall; for
'rhibet is peopled thinly and by an unwarlike race;
Mantchooria has been almost depopulated since the
bulk el its inhabitants followed the first of the pre-
sent dynasty to share in its fortunes ; the nomad.
Tartars have no peculiar predilection for the Mint.
shoos, and are, moreover, no longer the warlike and
combined tribes who owned the sway of a Onx.veutz
IitIAN from the Great Wall of China to the Volga. It is
in the northern provinces of ChinaProper,ifanywhere,
that the present (or late) Emperor of CHINA NMI
look for supporters. We have already adverted to
the fact that, with the southern provinces in a state
of hostility, and the point at which the Great Canal
crosses the Yang-tee-Keang in thehands of the enemy,
the northern provinces must be starved and placed at
the mercy of their antagonists in a few months. Nor
is this all The northern prosiness are far
poorer, and less abundant in resources of
every kind than the southern: tea, silk, cotton,
all the exportable produce of China are the growth'
of the southern provinces; the manufactures of '
China, such as they are, have only developed them-
selves in the south.

It is an obvious and natural inference from these
facts that the Imperialists, backed only by the
northern provinces, can have little chance of neon-
guering southern China. And the lugubrious, half-
suppliant tone of the Emperor's maniftstoes, show the
court is swainw of this. The Chinese Government has
for many years been a mere paper Government—its

mlndateii have seemed to fOreiguers to be obeyed
merely because the passive disobedience of the popu-
lation was connived at by the authorities. Now the
whole south of China is bristling with active and
armed masses opposed to the Government, and its
unreal character becomes obvious. The shadowy
dynasty that filled the seat of, empire is vanishing
from the eyes of beholders.

The new arrivals from China add little to our
knowledge of the characters and views of the revo.
lutionists. The reception experienced by Dr.
TAYLOR at Chin-Kcang-foo, however, like the recep-
tion experienced by the attendants of Sir 0. Box.
LAM at Nankin, evinces a readiness on the part
of the insurgents to establish and maintain
amicable relations with foreigners. It is true the
more we see of the Christianity of the anti-Impe-
rialists the more questionable its character appears.
The botlj of insurgents at Chic-Keang-foo may, it is
true, pass muster fur imperfectly instructed converts;
but the leaders who have reacheJ Nankin are
seemingly bent on promulgating a new politico-reli-
gious creed, into which they have incorporated as
much of Christianity as suits their purpose; they
are, in short, scarcely better Chri.tians than the
Emperor of RIUSSIA and his military missionaries in
Wallachia and Moldavia. But, as far as can yet be
seen, their head appears rather less intolerant than
the Russian.