The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-17 00:00:00

(From the Or.rivoi Frtnod of CAoda.)

Matters hare settled down at Shanghae again.
Three of our men-of-war cruise urniulested in the
Galt of Picheli, and at all the consular ports matters
are quiescent. At Canton we could not be on more
amicable terms with the Chinese government, as
thus told by oar corrsepoodeat
Entry thing hwe appears to promise s continuance of
pewit Ihe ea monatioas we going ea quietly: the difficulty
iraystnenio ti to getting "Divests hay disappeared ; no
ollmaivy Laudiolo hare been published as :night hat. bean
eapectoi, sad to damiraita say remaining floating remoter,
Lao (Lai not 840, has brought out a proclamation, ailutow.
lodging the tesatis wrought by foreigners since their wary
eta the sty, pr.claioing that hie amicable mistime with
them are mattered, and forniddiag the fabrication or enter-
tainment of idle taw Tea comities.' to doe down in a
Wrcmg coattnuous but it le mid thin is CAW.
quests of the wino rouy etoppagen to w►ich it lam
been ttitrirtol an to nay, much extraneous matter
has got wailed with it, sad that if tee tutees me sot rely
4 awful, ths good 8.1. at hose may bare the pleasure of
pay tag freight, duty. It., en 'yaws which they might se
essay haw got at Mew Asil while Whin of what has
come down, e. snow oat forget to ineatien that imperial
edicts mot lb. Twat-ales affair ars said to ham atrieedi
stating that it orlon" aupernieditatal,.ind solely the wadi
of the earemoseble saw lu tof the }lsabel ist refiraing to
await istetwattioas horn Pekin . and Rot only donating Lao
to inaiatein his former amicable relation', but declaring that
11.1. M. will, eh al4 they retest, adroit thew even now, and.
la woofs( kW elacetity, that he has ordered the AllielLiins to
be snorted up.

The American Minister, Mr. Ward, ha. succeeded
in reaching Pekin ; and will, it is expected, be &Wee
to send home hie h °ally tanned treaty by the next
mail. As one c.anse in this treaty gives the United
States liberty to tender their good offices in any
difficulty between the Chinese government and the
Western Yemeni, we may be sure that Mr. Ward
win not be lcng la platting that liberty into practice.
A correspondent of oar northern contemporary,
writing from on board the American chartered
steamboat Toey-wan, at anchor in the Peh-tang river
stream, to which the Chinese wished Admiral Hope
to proceed be r;re the Taku affair—tells of the arrival
there, from Pekin, on the let instant, of a Russian
courier, with despatches for General Moravieffi Go-
vernor of Siberia; these despatches being from the
Russian Minister at Pekin.

Count Muravi.ff turnself reached the l'..h-tang
raver om the 14th ult. in the Russian steamer
America or rather he reached the Gulf on the
14th, and was afterwards conveyed into the l'eh-
tang by the American steamer Toey-wan, kindly
placed at his tusposal by the United States Com-
modore " far the purpose of communicating with the
Chinese." Of American movements he says:

TO. Ask had masdartse os booed who brought letter
from the ObVtlllo, of the prorate. M Cbikli,appohmlag uhe
fitla for u Warrior with lir. Wird; aramdlnili as the
morning of the Bth we west in t 3 the rime width we had
ass on oar lama tt is Moat .it rails to the north-
ward of the Nike, sod is ameti the Pebtong, stew the vil-
lage at the skew. Then is • '.. ir at the wouth with hos
YE to twelve Mt of webs on it it high was, but the fiver,

dmensas to her mad eve fathoms Wide ; Mem is a seta tea
eldn mad s few tamps stationed here Sweral sisionlas
sem on board ware we got Inside the bat. sad dished on to
estakee, who b we did about two mile Labs the Iowa; end
Mr. Weed, the commodore, sad Mae ben of the Ingeekra
went op in junks, tined ap kw the omega Dirlag the fa.
le relay the goottator several times alluded t the betty at
We Pak, aid appeared to be desirma of style( memething
In sitesuatloe of the memo pursoad by time, by mid no-
' thing gent ow brim then; he oleo asked why the Maglish
sad Free. la tumid/re had left the Gill, aid watt they M-
r...did doing. Ite. Mr. Ward told him that he aims bin to
attend to his own baminme, and knew nothing ahem the
Realise sad Preach. The sweet strived from Pattie on
the 14th, giving our relaters pert:Mutat to go there. Ar-
rangements woes mode for totalling, by the Chinese to the
satisfaction of Mr. Ward, end he started on the 20th with
the insembers of the legation, and Ws following Alan of
the Powhattan - -Lientmeams Trenchard std Helsinhans,
Surgeons Fox sad Sanford, Capt./Ma (M. C.) Taylor, Purser
Gallaher, Epeeist Stock, Chaplain Wood, and Becretery

Another correspondent writes :
On the very day the lest English vessel took Its de-
parture s Chimes diktat requested um to inform the English
that two prisoners IMO mixed on the night of the beide, nets
of whom wee wounded, sad to request them (the Englledi) to
seed their patron LA-tah (Little) to visit hint. Our
enamutoesueot that the French and English bad all taken
their departure teemed both to surprise end alum them. We
offered to rendre the two mem or to mend our surgeon to
visit them, but alter a great deal of pretended willingness but
actual evader, they refused to accede to either of our pro-
positions. The wounded man, seconding to their statement,
is an caw, by name Chili-Make-ahem, the other quits
yews& by name Elsorshi-p'tt. Such are the Chinese
sounds. Perhaps the friends of them poor fellows might be
Web identify them. The wound is not severe. It is the
indention of the Chinese to take good card of them and return
them to the Emboli when a good opportunity offers. My
own opinion u that they wished in this way to open treat
communications with the English, in the hope of averting
by dipkwascy that retribution which they have emery reason 11
$0 Sipa.

Reverting to Shanghai, the headquarters of the
French and British embassies, when the last mail
left, the settlement was in a state of turmoil and
anxiety, consequent on the stabbing of Mr. Lay,
the murder of an ex-policeman, and other atrorritess-
The cause for this bloody-minded feeling in a gene_
rally well disposed community, had originated, it
was understood, in the attempt of foreigners to kid-
nap Chinese, and send them on board a French ship
lying at Woosung, bound to the Havannah. Bat
the most searching investigation has failed to sub-
stantiate a singlechargeof kidnapping; andalthough
tee fact of forty Chinese being drowned or shot when
attempting to escape from the Gertrude was ample
horror for even a Chinaman 's feelings, still, without
some propelling spirit which we cannot see, it
is insufficient to account for the form in which
the demonstration resulted. A correspondent, for
whose opinioc we entertain much respect, says:—
" I am satisfied that the Chinese authorities have
had more to do with this matter than is generally
supposed. As for Lay, he has long been • marked
man, and ccrald he realise his position, should live
as though a sword hung continually over his head
by a single hair."
To end the coolie matter, M. Bourbonaon ordered
the Gertrude to discharge every Chinese os board,
nearly all of them, as it transpired, being Ningpo
men, volunteer emigrants ; some of them even asking
to be received on board again. Uctil the Chinese
government can be induced to supervise the business,
and appoint emigration boards such as we have in
England, the shipment of a single coolie in bond to
work in a foreign land should be dealt with as we
would deal with slave-dealing and piracy. Ttte
lives and fortunes of the mass of foreigners in China
may not be jeopardised for the advantage of any
section of the world's community.
Notwithstanding the non-arrival of S',r Hercules
Robinson, it is understood that Lieut• Colonel Caine,
v4o, since Sir John Bowring left, has filled the poet
orGovernor here, proceeds to England.