The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

THE WAR IN CHINA.

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IFOREION-OTIVICL Nov. 13.
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• despatch, dated Titia-Selo, Septet sr 8, 1860,
al which the following Is an extraat, bIIA, with its
ladostares, been this day received at thc. Ferule,
Oise from the Earl of Men, her Majesty's
Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China :
In pursuance of an arrangement previously made Mews.
Wade and Parkes waited, by my desire, on the Imperial'
Comminionen, on the 6th lad., with a draft of the eon-
viatica which it was undo:stood wee to have been signigl

ea the sth. The oorninissioesra who had airs*
swirellsially apprised of its terms, roads little objeetsi

any portion Wit, except the clause providing tiat of fib.
total indemnity of eight million tools, declared to be due
b China to Brost Britain, one million should be pakl before
Thu-ishi was crenated by the British troops. After ensue
emanation, however, is which they betrayed manifest
signs of unessime, they moneed to my secretaries that
they could not stipulate that the convention should take
allot without previous ratification, and that so far hos
berg ready to ale it on the fith inst., they could not do at
M all until it had been submitted to the Emperor far ha
approval
The intimation led to s discussion respecting the extent
al the powers held by Kweiliang and his colleagues.
It Is an very easy to apprehend the precise import el
the phraseology employed in imperial decrees on sulincts of
this nature. It was very obvious, however, from what
pined dudes the course of this discussion, that K gaining
either had not, or did not at this particular moment wish
it tobe 'apposed that be had ,powers equal to tines whiah,he
held when Its made a treaty with me here is 1868; although
in the fist communication which I received from him an.
flouncing his appointment, the title which he assumed and
the language which he employed were calculated to convey
the opposite impression.

It was impomible to attribute this departure from • pee
oechint so recently esteldished, and established is the paean
of Kweiliang himself, to anything but a deliberate drip
to meal delay which might throw us into the winter, and
thereby extricate the Pekin government from its present
embarrassmenta. To check this policy by en act of rigour
was manifestly indispensable, unless we intended to forfeit
all the advantages sectored by our advance to this polo. ;
and I aooordiegly resolved, with Berms Gres' cowmen"
to intimate to the Imperial Oommisimera that is mow
gamma of the want of goad faith 'inhibited by them in
maiming the title of plenipoteutiarkw, when they could
not inertias the authority which it implied, and of the de-
lays which the alleged necessity of constant reference to
Pekin would occasion, I bed determined to proceed at owe
to Mine Lou, and to eater into no further communications
with them until I should have reached that plass.
Inclosure No. 2 in this despatch is a copy of the LAW is
which I conveyed to them this doterniimaios, and Melanin
No. I is a copy of the report in which limn. Wade and
Parkes narrate what passed at the illierTillW to which I
have been referring.
My letter to the Imperial Commissioners praised • reply)
of which inclnsure No. 3is • copy. Bet, although civilly
worded and abounding in promise, their reply wee, to feet,
on ailuitwasi of the charge that they had been hitherto
negotiating under false pretence.. Indoeure No. 4is
• copy of my answer, and simply states that I adhere
to the resolution communicated to them in my forma

despatch.
With the infelicity which so often charreteehee the pe•-
ceediop of Chinese negotiators in such cases, tie Impala
Conuoiaaioners hotruyed their west of eandout is this
matter on the daY succeeding that on which H,jer•Uesnsl
flir R. Napier reached this place with the fad &vides d
the forte under Kr Hope Orent's command. The mew
was therefore in the best posible cendiliewi tar s seareame
in ideas... sad 1 really apprised the Commander-be
Chief, who ible been throughout fully ougniaant of the
course of the negotiations in which I have been *week
of the muse of my dears to proceed to Tenches, is •
letter of which the copy fermi inclosure No. 5 of thb
@patch.

(hideout* No. 1, in the rAzt of hlgiu's despatch of the
of September, Ma)
hiemoramlum of an interview betweoa the Assistant rapto-
rial Cumutissiouer Ilan& sod Mears. Wads sod Pomba
Tiart•iw, /Sept 1, MA
Under Instructions from his Eseeilswey the Bad of 111{b,
who had commonhated his wishes to that saes► 10 She IMM'.
missioneve in a despatch of the sumo dais, vs poussial
shout half•pest four, on the afternoon of the ha Waal" a
the yawn, of the Melt Cuturoiasioner, ia wlake the liapahl
Coonolvaionor Kweiriang is staying, and at which it hod
been unwed we should meet the Assistant treemiaionne