The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-15 00:00:00

have deceived oe--aad General
will look to that—we fear

-....111111111 eat the survivon may ,
Ilmi gaol Prince. If that is ea, their recovery
!fir be delayed for a period painful to contem-
plate, since there is no reason to suppose that
the people at Pekin have the least control over
the Tartar General, or that he would be moved
by any sufferings inflicted on them.

The 13th of October was the term allowed by
Sir Hors GIANT for the peaceful surrender or the
assault of Pekin, and on the morning of that day,
the siege guns being all in readiness to breach the
walls, and the plan of the assault issued, a
Chinese official whom we had known as the Hoppo
of Canton, came out and announced that all our de-
ssands--that is, our demands on the city—were w-
eeded to, that no resistance would be made,
sad the gate would be opened to us.
The outer and inner gates and the ramparts were
occupied by the Allies, and the flags of England
and France waving aloft announced that Pekin
was ours. The taking possession of Pekin is the
last event in the narrative of this most extraor-
dinary campaign. The city is now completely in
our power, and we can do what we like with it,
short of coercing it to the point at which the
people would withdraw and leave us without sup-
plies. And now that wo have got it, what
thoughts are transmitted to us from the camp?
It is the old story. " Diplomacy," says
one writer dating from Pekin, " must
" now take the place of war, and we shall watch
" with great anxiety and doubt the successful
" result" Another writer, who strongly insists
on a " firm policy," says Whether we shall
" treat before the release of the other prisoners is
" not known. If SA-wwuxs►N remain obdurate,
" notwithstanding the defeat of his army at all
" points, we may have to do so, or the end will
" never oome." We have taken the north gate,
but the west we must sot touch, because it is
hoped that by that Prince lirno, the PI-
Roe's brother, may be induced to return to the
city from which he has been frightened.
So again of the Palace of Pekin ; we
have destroyed one outside, but the En-
=SOWS city residence must be spared,
lissaine its destruction, though deserved,
would not only bring down the present Govern-
ment but prevent the organization of a new one
under our protection, should it be desirable to
take that course. We at home may talk glibly
about destroying Pekin, temple by temple, palace
by palace, and house by house, but soldiers in the
field are obliged to look at facts and keep close to
common sense.

The state of the case is shortly this. Having
taken Pekin we have nothing further to threaten
the EXPIROII with. We cannot go in pursuit of
the Tartar army ; even if it were otherwise
desir►ble we have not the force. We can
hold the capital as long as we like as a
material guarantee—of an augmented English
income tax. To leave Pekin, we must either
make terms with the old EIIPAKOR or set up a
sew one, whom we must then protect. In any
Gees we shall have to come to a treaty, and trust
once more to Chinese faith. If we delay to do one
of these things, that which is said to be happening
in a province next to that of Pekin may teach us
what we have to expect. Chinese Governments
will start up on all hands, the empire will be
broken up, and we way have to deal with five
Emperors, make five treaties, appoint five ambse-
seders, resent five broaches of faith, and carry on
five wars.

(De Court.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Doc. 14.

The Duchene of Cambridge mad Prime.. Diary,
sanded by Lady Geraldine Somme. sad Lirat,Ookmal
Purees, arrived yesterday afternoon cm s visit to her
Majeity. The following visitors Mamie* arrived at the
Oaeth 2b Duke of Atka. the Marva' of Chandos,
Visecisat Sydney, Lad sad Leidy Chinehill, the Right
Hon. We O. C. Lewis, sad the Right Hoe. Lieut• General
and lAdy Alice Pi
Is the *reeling her Majesty's dinner party included
Primers Altos, Prhme Allred. the Princess of Leiningen,
Priam Louis of Hems, Lord Melees Paget, Baron Vet
Weaterweller, ad the vidtere wherarriesd in the sftersoas.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private teed afterwards performed in the
drawing.r men.
The tjuees, accempaaisd by Princess Alice, and Princess
Mary of Canibridepe, drove out in an open carriage this
morning, attended by Lord C. Fitsßoy.
The Duchess et Cambridge also drove out sad visited
the Duchess at Heat, at Frogmen.
The Prince Consort, with Prince Alfred and Prins Loris
of Hines, went out shooting.
The Marquis of Cbandoe, Viseount Sydney, Lord
Churchill, and, the Right Hon. Sir William Hayter, had
the honour of sccompenying the Royal party.
The Countem de Flahault was presented to her Majesty
by the Duchess of Atholl, Lady-is-Waiting to the Queer.
Lord Clarence Paget left the Castle far London.

A meeting of the Connell of the Duchy of Cornwall was
held yeiterday at the Duchy-001os, Buckingham•gate, St.
Jamm's.park. There wen present the Keeper of the Privy
Seal, Sir William Dunbar ; the Attorney-General, Si
William John Alexander ; the Tromnrer, Colonel the Hoy.
Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps ; the Duke of Newcastle ;
sad the Secretary, Mr. James Robert Gardiner.
Sir Charles Grey bad an interview with the Duke of New.
castle yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester-
day. An appeal from the Admiralty Court—" The
Schwalbe" (part beard)—was concluded. Judgment was
postponed. As appeal from the Admiralty Court—" The
East Lothise—wee commenced.

Inpnebes win received et the Colsola-office from the
Goverson of the West India Islands.

Caws= COIIWCIL. --13Etm mouses have been iasual
for • Cabinet Osisacdl this afternoon, at Lord Palmeraton's
affil rssidsass, is Down ing.street.

His Royal Highuen; the Duke of Cambridge
visited, es Genera Commanding-ia•Chiet, the Wellington
Coflap yesterday._

Their Serene Highnesses the Prince awl Princess
of Leiniagen have arrived at Howediile Hotel from visiting
the Duchess of Kest at Frogmen.

The Karl of St. Germans comes to town to-day
from Port Ehot, OesearalL The noble sari gems to Windsor
Cattle on ,Mosimy, to attend the Chapter of the Order of
the Genet, am Lent Steward of her Majesty's Household.

The Bed and Countess Stauhope have left town
co a Olt to Lad and lady Harry Vase, at their seat at
Batt* annex.

Lord and Lady Colchester entertained a select
elm!, at dinner lAA evening, at their mitlence in Berkeley-
OVUM.

Colonel and Lady Henrietta Ogilvy have arrived
in town from Northamptonshire.

Colonel Kemeys-Tyute, IL P., has arrived at
Tonton's Hotel frogs Totten Ham, Somenetahire.

The Hon. mud Rev. !Doug,las Gordon, together
with his brothers t►e Has. Colonel Gordop and Mr. Arthur
Goedoe, constantly attended the late Lord Aberdeen during
his late Moots Rim lordship's only surriving brother and
the ether members of his family in England were also pre-
sent at his decease.

The screw ateamahip St. George, SO, Capt. the
Hoe. Francis Egerton, from Portland, arrived yesterday at
Plyinonth. It im reported there that his Royal Highness
Prince Alfred, who recently returned from the ('ape of Good
Hoye in the frigate Euryalus es midshipmen, will join the
et. George at Plytnonth on the liah of January, and that
prvtioat to her cli port,,re all the ofikeri of his new ship
will haws the honour of being ra..eLted to her Majesty the
Queen id WiLdeor.

CHINA.
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We have received this morning by the regular
mail a further batch of China papers.
The following, from the North China Herald,
refers to the northern rebellion :

Great expectations have arisen with regard to the
reported revolt in the province of Shan-hai. There seems
to be no doubt that a serious outbreak has really
taken place in the provincial city of Tia-yuen, which
is fast spreading over the whole province. The
extortion and cruelty of the mandarins was as usual
the muse of the rising, and, if report be true, no few of
those official gentry have met the fate they richly
deserve. Unheard-of oppression and most wanton
cruelty must indeed have been practised to induce
the inhabitant' of the next province to Chili to
brave the imperial displeasure, while such an immense
army of Tarter' is near at hand to punish them as soon as
some patched up arrangement with the barbarians affords
them time and opportunity to do so. Probably the success
of the allies induced the people to take the law in their
own hands ; but be that sa it may, there can be no doubt that
the revolt in Shan -hei may be made of most valuable assistance
to us at the North, now that things look so utterly bad,
that every straw must be clutched at. Chinese down here
assist that it is the intention of the Shan-hsi folk to elect
their lender Emperor, and as soon as mosso warrants it,
and when they have a large enough army, they intend
searching on Pekin to gain possession at the imperial seals,
to which the Chinese attach a veneration that we can form
se idea oL So that the urdertunate Tartars, could the
fillen-hed people be kept up to their intention, and some
little aanietenee be granted them, will find themselves
between two armies, one of which will effe :Welly prevent
any supplies main from the north-west provinces from
reaebiag the imperial camp.

In the event of our occupation of Pekin during the
winter nothing can be more fortunate than this outbreak in
Shan-hsi. Once convince the insurgent. that we sympa-
thise with them and they will take care that supplies of all
kinds, especially fuel, reach our quarters regularly. The
fame of the afire as payers in hard cash and at remunera.
tive prices has spread far and wide, and the Chinese people
are only too anxious to have dealings with us if they eon get
rid al Mandarin supervision. We shall be terribly hard
premed for various supplies, especially firewood and char-
coal, during the winter campaign in the North, unless we
mu by hook or by crook make friends with the Chinese.
With a very alight posh the dissatisfaction now pervading
Shan-d would spread over t►e provisoes of Chili, where
the people have groaned for some time under the sway of
the Tartan. Forced unremunerated labour has undoubtedly
bad the 'renal effect on the patient people. Could they but
me any ewe way by which they could overthrow the im•
portal yoke, and be protected against the consequences of
such a =ware, they would rise to-morrow, and people near
the allied camps who now keep aloof from us would
speedily corn* to our assistance, the conveyance of material
to the front would be no longer difficult, and supplies of
all kinds to any amount would reach us.

The North China Herald has also the following
statement :

There are in the outlying countries to the north and west
of China proper, vast muntries inhibited by Mongols and
other tribes who are ruled by some forty-eight wangs or
kings. These kings are feudal nasals of the Emperor of
China, and the Tartars reigning at Pekin. The forty-eight
waags are constantly, according to rotation, in attendance
at the capital, when their sons have granted unto them the
daughters of the Emperor as wives, and are further fa-
voured by the presentation of °floes of trust under the
imperial sway. Of course the real object of all this is
to bold the sea in honourable bondage at Pekin as a
hostage for the fidelity of his father governing a district in
Manchuria or towards the mountain boundary of Thibet.
Wham the danger of a foreign attack ceased to be a joke
at Pekin, and it was diesovered by the translations from
English newspaper' and other documental constantly sent to
the high authorities, that England had determined on send-
ing an armed forte to China, these eight-and-forty tributary
kings were ordered to send every one of them ten thousand
armed soldiers for the protection of the sovereign. They
pry:sniped to obey, but reasoned justly with themselves that
probably the troops so seat would never return, and
that then their territories would be left defenceleu, so they
sent a few men end massy promises, and the Emperor was
compelled to send the most urgent and commanding
despatches to them ; for when the forte were taken not one-
fifth of the proper number of Tartars had joined. In order
to enable reinforcements to come up, the defence of Tien-
tsin was abandoned, and Ewell/sag wee seat down with
orders to delay the barbarians by all the means in his
power. He did his work beautifully, the reinforcement, la
part arrived, the road to the capital was thought impreg-
nable, and the Chinese commissioner declined to seal the
treaty be pretended to have made.
nap ghee have near Tu'rg•ehow already astonished some
of them nomadic Tartar soldiers, and if ever they get a
chance to attack and defeat the army of San•ko-linein, the
resources' of the Emperor with regard to an army are at an
end, and the treachery of Kweiliang and the Chinese om-
riala have failed la its results.

The China Mail observes that San-ko-lin-sin ix a
Chinese hero :
There is name in China at present about whom velum so
much, and really know so little, as San-ko-lia-sin, the com-
mander of the Chinese force, in the north. Some people take
refuge in flatly disbelieving that each a man exists ; and we
have more then once been purely asked if there was any
truth in the camp " shave" that he is an Irishman, ori-
(Melly called Sea Collinson, who deserted to the Chinese
from our army some time ago, and has obtained high power
amongst them. Among the Chinese, both south and north,
he is r popular idol—the Wallace or William Tell of (shins.
The Lawler in the streets of Canton is delighted with
the rumour that "Chung Wang" has become Emperor;
and the peasants on the banks of the Peiho speak of him
in terms of the highest praise. Even the merchants of
Tientain, whose trade be has ruined, speak of him with
admiration, awl make only the qualifying remark that he
is ignorant of the power of foreign arms. flan.ko-lin-sin is in
no way connected with the ruling dynasty in China. The
ruling race is Manchu, sod be is of the Mongol, between
whom and the Mancha' there bad always existed jea-
lousy, enmity, and differeooe, • state of matters fruitful
of complications as regards the government of China. The
Manchus have now the upper hand, and in order to secure
their supremacy they intermarry with the Mongols, giving
the sisters of their Mougol second wives to Mongol princes.
flan-ko-lin-sin is the cousin of the Emperor, because he
married the sister of one of the Emperor's Mongolian second
wives. This does not give San-keslin•in any position in
the Emperor's family, but it places him in a position where,
according to Chinese customs, he can exercise a greet indu-
core ; and, in fact, be is the man who determines the posi-
tion which China shall assume towards foreign nations.

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