The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-22 00:00:00

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" wars words are used as names, and mods to °olive'
" gross and offensive oonments." This last re-

park Ours to • the impudent and almost in-
hiredildir&ture of the wards Snooze, Mosp,
7ecz, and similar slang vocable*, to
the requisition, as the names of traders. Mr.
ALccs‘ proceeds to obeerve—" Mete ye some out-
" rages against society and the common interests of
nations only to be fitly dealt with by giving them
" publicity, that the reprobation of all honest and
" rational men may overtake those who permit them-
-0 leaves such lioninee, even where the law may fail
•is reach them." It is for this purpose that his
circular has been prepared, and we can only hope
that, notwithstanding this recant display, there
may be found some latent seem of shame in its
authors, which the Minister's words will stimulate
and develop. Such utter disregard of decency and
even prudence in • strange country is astonishing,
They must have imbibed the foolish belief that it is
impossible for an Englishman to forfeit the support
of his country in any quarrel with Oriental,, how-
ever unjust its origin.
The extravagant and farcical aspects of this maul-
imtation at Japan will serve some purpose if they
draw public attention to the causes which hinder our
commercial progress in Eastern countries with which
our connexions are more extensive than with Japan.
Astonishing as these extravagant*, will appear to
many, there is reason to believe that they mused
Mr. ALcOCk regret rather than surprise. Lord
&ones Blue-book contains a memorandum by this
able public servant, in which the carom that neu-
tralise our endeavours to cultivate a larger and freer
intercourse with the Chinese are investigated and re-
ferred mainly to the abase which a portion of the
European community invariably makes of new privi-
leges from the moment they are granted. It is this, we
are told, which keeps us oat of the inner waters and
great inland marts of Chinese produce.
The worthless character of a numerous gathering of fo-
reigner' ut all nations, under no effectiveoontrol, is • national
reproach ea well as a public calamity. They dispute the field
of commerce with honester mm, sod coseert privileges of
acmes and trade into means of fraud arid violence. Ia this
career of license, unchecked by any fear of their own govern-
ments, and protected in a great degree by treaties from the
action of the native authorities, the Chinese are the fleet aid
greeteet, but by no mess■ the only valferere. There is no
government or nation of the great European (amity that does
not stiffer in character, and in so far as they have any in-
terests at stake in China, in these also, both immediately
and prospectively. This is the danger which has long
e.lreatened tLe worst consequences, in wide-spread hostility
and interrupted trade.

If we look back over the fifteen years, sines the
beginning of the epoch formed by the Treaty of
Nankin, we see these general statements abundantly
confirmed. We gained relief from the system of
cohongs and monopolies, and arbitrary taxes on
trade; but Mr. ALCOCK tells no, from long oonsular
experience on the spot, this gain brought with it an
attendant evil:
Foreign merchants, In direct custom-house relations with
Chinese authentic', all more or less venal ►nd corrupt,
kunched Into a wholesale plateau of smuggling and (meda-
list devices for the evasion of duties. Chinese awe and
treaty atipuletiona were alike disregarded, sometimes by one
party with forcible infractions of port regulations; oftener
by bribery and collusion between the native authorities aad
the foreigner,. The imperial revenue wee defrauded by
both, end foreign trade was demoralised and converted into
a game of hazard and over-reaching. Some, at least, of the
promised advantages of enlarged facilities of trade were lost
to no by such courses ; and, beyonl all doubt, a aweless of
obstacles to any further edemas in that direction has been
created; that is, three facilities precisely which are now
most ardently sought, end am, rightly enough, considered
of paramount importance, if our import trade to China is
ever to be enlarged, are placed further out of reach than
thay would have been if the more limited facilities secured by
tke last treaty had not been granted and abused.

We acquired exemption from territorial juris-
diction.

This was wither great step in advance, and no one ran
say it was not a very necessary ototaursof security in China.
But It, too, by the same inexorable law, brought with it an
evil progeny, requiring both strength and vigilance
on the pert of foreign govarnmmte to prevent their growth.
to t►e danger of ell good understanding with Chinese go •
vernment and people. Contempt foe all C►iwe authority,
and disregard of intorsot rights, habitual infraction of treaty
etipubstiooe, license and violence wherever the Uric= of
the European nations found scans, and peaceable people to
plunder—such were the first-frtuts of this important comae-
sloe, and time only served to increase their growth. In the
absettst of adequate provisions for salutary control, the evils
and dant re which, in the Chinese interest and our awn,
we were called upon to face and bring into subjection, were
left in possession of the field, with scarce a serious effort, ex-
cept on the pat of Grant Britain ; and the penally, the
never-failing condition, has been pail. Oar whole inter-
enure/ since the treaty has been carried on under a perpetual
mangos of hostile oullielon and interruption of trade, and we
are now in rums, with a costly and protracted struggle on
ea► hand.. The trade of the second largest port has been
bet for a thee at least ; and in the event of any negotiations
to gain scam into the interior, to canoes under this head
moat fairly be attributed (in conlanotion with one other next
go be mentioned), the chief and all but insuperable obstacles
such propositions may be expected to coconuts:.

We are threatened with another Chinese war, and
it is right that the public should know what its
moot experienced and most trustworthy servant,
have to say about the reasons why we cannot live in
peaceful, commodious, and extending intercourse
with distant foreign nations. We believe that Mr.
ALCOCK has thrown much light on this matter.

We hare reason to believe that Lord Palmerston
has submitted the name of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan
to the Queen as the new Bishop of Rochester. Dr.
Vaughan was lately Muter of narrow.

A 101212108 OF SAVOY AND NICK.--Tee Mar-
quis of Nermenby bee obtained • wars of the dates of all
cominunicationa betwern the Secretary of State and bee
Majority's Ambeasador at Paris on the sutijoat of the annexa-
tion of Suoy end ?floe to France, from the aoorstion to
odes of the present winlotry up to this time. Communice-
dome /rem Earl Cowley beet reepretively the dates of July
4, 1860, July 8, December 9, January 24, 1860, Jonutry
26 (two), January 27, February 6 (two), February 6,
February 7, and February 10. The oo•notunlmtlons fe hie
azeelleacy are dated respectively July 6, 1869, July 9, July
16, Jemmy 28, 1860, February 6, Feilrurry 7, February 9,
end February 13 (two). A oonnausic akin nom Mr. Grey
been dive January 9, 1860, and one addramed to him the
date of the following day.

The Bishop of Buster moved lately for a return
of "copies of aoy addresses which may havu been presented
to her Majesty by any perishioners of Bt. George's In-the-
Neat us (megaton of the late tumults is that pariah." The
return, weiell was issued this morniag, Is ountaioed in the
siogle word "Nil."
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Mr. Wyld, on Friday, will ask the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, If her Majesty's government Lave
received any information of the decree of bar Mum Catholic
Majesty the Queen of Bpeln, by which the title of Duke of
Totems has been conferred uOOO Marshal O'Donnell, together
with the territory of Moroooi upon which the victory of
Tetuan was gained.

Mr. MacEvoy has given notice of hie intention to
set the Secretary of State for Foreign Affair., on Friday.
whether her Majesty's government has pr Timed to the
French government that, In the event of the revolted pro-
vince, of the Pope declaring their wieb to be annexed to
Sardinia (is accordance with the plan suggested by her Ma-
jetty's government) the two governments in moan should
bind themeelvee to uffrr no objection to the entrance of Sar-
dinian troops into Owes procure., "by which the Holy
Father 'alight be deopoilul of those portion, of his do-
miaiosa."

Oa au early day Captain Etmonde will move :
That this house do rewire 'Welt into a committee to era-
eider t►e Ain 10 Geo. IV., o. 7, is relatioew the oath thereby
required to b takes and subscribed, beaked of the oaths of
allegiance, supremacy, sad ahparatloa."

gOe eteun.
Her Majesty the Queen, scootapealied by the
Prisons Ilialsca, reds on bombs& yesterday morning, Is
the Riding-home of Buriciaghasn Pekoe.
The Prim» Consort, atteeded by Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hoe. D. do Ron, mat to the Booth Keeniegtoe Kamm
yesterday morning, meld presided at • meeting of the Coned]
of the Horticultural &misty, when Mr. Neafield explained
hie pleas for the laying out mica new garden at Kensington.
Gore.

The Queen and Prince Ommert, accompanied by the Prin-
t:mem Alice and Relay beneured the performance al
Coyest-garden Timbre in the evening with their prawn
Tim royal adte conabeed of the Countess of Debit, Lord De
Tabby, Lord Charles Pitsrey, and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Boa. D. de Boa.

Lord De Table, sad the Ban. Mortimer &Amine West
hi he enceeeded Lord Cesar sad Colonel the iloa. A. Lid-
dell so the Lord sad Choose in Waiting to the QOM.

• deputation on the subject of a Harbour in Risk Bay
had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson end
Mr. Hutt, at the calm of the Board of Trade, yesterday. The
deportation °maimed of Me Graham Montgomery, Bart.,
M.P., Mr. George Trail, M.P., the Heel of Calthneda, Mr.
Beamml Smith. Sir Roderick Mnrehison, F.R.8., Mr. Ali:-
ander Matbeeou, H.P., Mr. George Looks, liacked of
Macleod, ths Marquis of etallonk awl Iffr James Matheson.
A &mutational Irish sad 8004011dtwtllsn, ecredathig of
Mr. John Haig (PM), Mr. Graham Malaise (Edinburgh),
Mr. Robert Haig (Dundalk), end Messrs. John Jamison
and John Robertson, of Debi* had ea iatsrviaw with Lord
John Russell yesterday at the Foreigu-oilw.. The
dal was accosepsaled by Yr. Daleitek, M.P. ; Mr.=,
M.P.; Mr. Boobies Wm's% M.P. ; Mr. C. /twin,
; Sir Edward Grogan, Bert., M.P. ; end Mr. Bow-
yer, H.P.
• &potation on the subjeot of the duties on linen and
jive manufactures it I. proposed to levy under the Press►
tariff had as Weevil. with the Right Hoe. T. Mbar Gib-
son and Mr. Hutt yesterday at the offios of the Board of
Tee& The derztadon cousisted of Mr. Baines, M.P.,
Leeds ; Mr. Davison, M.P., Belfast ; Sir J. Ogilvy, Bert.,
M.P., Dundee ; Mr. Richardson. M.P., Lisburn ; Sir H.
M.P., Belfast ; Mr. Mulholland, from Belfast ; and
filtMildsm Small, from Dundee.
Deepttches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday
from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were meet to the
Governor of Canada and the Lord High Counniesionen of
the lonian Wanda.

The Queen of England sad the Prince Consort
hays piss wed to their grandchild, the son of Prime and
Princess Frederick William, an exonsdingly costly, beautiful,
and artictimlly manufs tarsi cup and cover in gold, in re-
membrance of their having been godfather and godmother to
the young prince. The whole of the jewels used as orna-
ments are valuable diamonds, and the cup bears an inscrip-
tion in Rogliah as follows Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert to their grandson, Frederic William Victor Albert,
in remembrance of the 6th of March, 18,59." This date is
that of the baptism of the young prince. The cup Is of
London manufacture, end is a worthy rpninten of the
goldsmith's art.

- Sir Cureetjee Jemeetjee Jejeebtioy has given orders
to e firm et Bombs, to prepare a splendid court robe of crim-
son velvet interlscet with gold, which he intends to present
to her Altjesl the Queen of EsgMad.

The General Commanding-in-Chief, accompanied
by the Right Roe. Sidney Harbert, Secretary of 13ta to for
War, yewerday riaited the Armstrong gars factory, and the
pattern-room where some of the guns ere deposited, in
Woolwich Arsenal.

Lord Ebringtoo, who has so recently been called
to the Up,ker House in his father's barony of Fortescue,
enif.-ra enter the most distressing deprivation, bring nearly
blind. The malady has been brought on, according to his
lordship's ph)iiicians, by over study and attention to °Sail
Mutinies Dim, yams ago, whilst holding the appointment of
secretary to the Poor law Said.

Hie Exeellency the Netherlands Minister has
returned to town trout a visit to the Duke and Bathes' of
Beaufort at Badtutotno, and to Lord and Lady Llanower at
Limner, South Wales.

Lady Trevelyan and Miss Trevelyas have left
Farranat'm Hotel fur Southampton, to embark fur India, to
join Sir Chairs Treyslytta at Madras.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin gave hie inaugural
banquet on Monday night, to a brilliant assembly, amongst
whicti wits the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Hie excellency,
in reply to the tolll4t of him health, defended himself against
an impwatiou which bad been thrown upon him. It had
beam stated that him excellency had not instate! his office
with sufficient gravity and solemnity, and in a monteloquest
speech Lord Csrliele defended his conduct, and, amidst the
cheers of the assembly, profewed his love for the country
in which be was placed as the repremntative of her Majesty.

The Right Hon. T. Sotheron-Erateourt was pre-
vented from iittroding the H,wae of COMO:VMS on Monday
night by indisposition.

A requi.itiou is in course of signature to Mr.
Cubltt, of Denbies, requesting hint to stand br the Western
division of Surrey,. is the canservativs Interest, in the room
of the late Mr. Drummond, deceased. What we the libe-
rals doing?

Toe hundred tongues of rumour," says the Poet,
"are loudly averting allover the town that Mr. E. T. Smith
has poeitively to►en Her Majesty's Theatre for the approach.
lag resea. We have reran to know that this is not yet
the case, although the report is by no means unfounded, ne-
gotiations having already arrived at a very advanced rage.
It is on—ell but the beet," r Baron Pompolino ere of
Cinderella'a fairy slipper. In the useaotime we sr certain
that Mr. E. T. Smith will again take the bald with Italian
Vera."

Her Majesty's royal paddle-yacht Victoria and
Albert is about to be admitted tato the steam built at Ports-
mouth for the purpose of being fitted with as apperstus for
superheating steam.

It is understood that the ceremony of laying the
foundation stone of the large memorial which is to be erected
at Crompton barrack, to the memory of those °Emirs end
men of the Riyal Engineer. who fell in the Crimea will
take place n Friday mazy by his liqyal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge.

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ROME.
ROME, Tune/A%
M. Theavenere despatch of the 12th was pre-
tented two days ago by the Duke of Grammont to
Cardinal Antonelli. The secretary of the Roman
States has, in his reply, confined himself to stating
that immediately upon receiving the orders of the
Sovereign Pontiff be will place the Nuncio at Paris
in a position to communicate the intention. of Ow
Papal government. The most influential 'aesthete
of the Holy College affirm that the Pope halals in
readiness a "Note proprio, already signed, realising
the promisee of Gaeta, bat that before promulgating
it, Pius IX. demands that the patrimony of St.
Peter shall be guaranteed to him.