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

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his Majesty's decree may be expected in a day or two.
Penes between the two oountaise hawk* become matter
,at negotiation (or negotiations being already on foot)
• • Certain amount of indulgenee, they think, may
Ibe allowed ia rti deliberation.. It is their duty
;to state 'this to his Excellency the British Mi.
; sister, end to request him, notwithstanding what
has heppened, at least to wait three days or
Iso et Tten-tein, sou to stable everything to besettled mai&
faetortly, to the more perfect re-establishment of friendly
relations. This will be beet. They accordingly address
I this communication to him.

A oineveary communication, &c.
Hipp Fang, 10th year, 71141 moon, 220 d day-7th Septem-
ber, 1860.
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Translatod by

(Signed) Tiox&i WADE, Chinese Secretary.

(Inc!cows 4 in the Earl of Elgin's despatch of Sept. 8.1860.)
The undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the com-
munication received but evening from their Excellencies
the Imperialeommisiioners, Kweiliang, Hang•Fuh, Hangki,
lug* him to delay his departure from Tien-thin for a few
days•

The undersigned begs to state, in reply, that ha ham no-
thing to add to the despatch which he had the honour to
address yesterday to the commissioners.
(Signed) ELGIN AND KINCARDINE.
Tien-tsin, September 8, 1880.

Septemb;r, 1860.1
lien-trios, September 8, 1860.
Sir,—l regret to say that I have been compelled to break
off, for the moment, negotiations for the re-tatablishmeot of
paw with China, in consequence of its having been unex-
pectedly intimated to .my secretaries, Mews. Parkes and
Wade, by the Imperial Commissioner'', that they have not
the requisite authority to treat with me.
As this is evidently a aerie° to gain time, I have thought
it ro,y duty to inform them that negotiations are closed for
the present, and that they cannot be resumed until I shall
hare ruched Tang-Chan.
(Signed) Brea morn KINCARDINE.

LORD STANLEY ON THE VOLUNTEER
MOVEMENT.

The distribution of the pram to the successful
competitors at the recent county. rifle contest at Mightown,
took plsee ou llonday evening, in St. Georges-ball, Liver-
pool. in the presence of a most fashionable,
assembly of
ladies and gentlemen. His worship the Msvon• (S. R.
Graves, Fag.) presided, and the following noblemen and
were also on the platform : Lord Stanley,
rf."A en .
Lord Elcbo, M.P., Colonelit'ilbraham, C. 8., Lieut.-
.I.=..._Bonsfield., Lieut.-Colonel Brown, Lieut. -Colonel
Jf_ajor Vi'alter, Major Tinley, Captain Bushby,
(Main Faulkner, Major Buchanan,
Hallett, William Preston, EN., J. B.
sad J. H. Turner, Pim.
mane of the ball there wale guard of honour,
amps* of tan men from each company of the 2nd Latta-
ban under the command of the following officers : sth, En-
, did Newton ; 19th, Ensign Todd ; 39th (Welsh), Ensign
Gibson ; lard, Ensign Bathgate ; 64th, Limit. Powell ;
416th. Lieut. Format; 71M, Lieut. Fraser; 14th Lieut. Jonas.
42nd, Lieutenant Cunningham. The prism were exhibited
on the platform, and the plate wa• very much and justly
admired. This consisted of a silver cup of the value of 50/.,
given by Mr. William Preston, which was a very handsome
and massive richly chased vase, gilt inside, and having
several figures of riflemen in a kneeling position ; Messrs.
BMW= and Mallett's cup,wbich was a chased silver tankard ;
tips Lord Lieutenant's prim being a very handsome shamed
tankard, claret jug, and waiter. The tankard was shard
with a subject from one of lAnilimer's Highland pictures in
relief, and upon the lid theta was a neat figure of a riles=
kneeling. The second pries given by the Lordailontanant
was an engraved Hebe Yam The Mimic Exchange prim
immisted of a massive ailversep and large silver salver. The
elabmstenos expressly designed for the esession, and was almost
form, sad the tendrils Id • vine almearod mead
the handles sad the body addled wee to the alissiseasa of
iitec=mitoa. The 1141 wren eamemnited by as azeniallity
liars of • Memo " Awed* a$ eass.• The
wily* wee also a very awe yendasties, and bars a mittibie
111;AThe plate. we babies. we the 'manufacture of
: asfillemn. Elkingioneet On
Hie asehip the ILtrosß.,
to Mir itgened the m-
a oisedleadistriliote the
0., next ai=sed the amiably,
and pasts& est the iwat impassion of saidahm seek as
had tains pines at H htown, not only for esenplating their
slideary as gobbles, M. what was of area leers leper-
etele. es Weikel to .amore the permanency of the volunteer
moten by anarmaagiag a love of rifle shooting amongst
the
_teen.

The MATO* here aeionneed that letters of apology for
nonettendenee had been received from Lord Sefton, the
lord-lieutenant of tie county; from the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, from the Hoe Algernon Egerton, M.P., Colonel
Wilms Faqirs. Liestemant-Genenl Sir George Wetherell,
T. D. Anderson, Fog., the late mayor; Major Bourne, and
Mt. Whitworth. He than called upon the Hight lion. Lord
Ritato move the first resolution.
Steamer, who was received with loud cheering, said
—Ladles and Geoilemen,—Yea have just witnemed • very
interesting ceremony, and you hare heard from Colonel
hnhani a piece of sound and practical advice which no nen
had a better right to offer. The resolution whirl, I have to
propose Is to tide effect—" That, is. the opinion of this
meeting, it Is desirable that • county association be formed
for the encouragement of the volunteer movement, and the
promotion of rifle shooting, by annual matches to be held
within the comity at a dose or places to be hereafter de-
cided upon." Now, ladies and gentlemen, there ate few
=us who arelees entitled than I am to speak with an-
yon this volunteer movement, for my personal share
in it, I am sorry to my, has been but small • and I menet
i look around theroom—indeed., leannot look around thisplets
form—without wieingsome who have given to its promotion
their tirno,theirenorgy, and their pecuniary means to an extent
that makes one proud of English pereevermace and of
English patriotism. (Applause.) Now, we are all of VA
apt toeierate the importance of thiop that are passing
immediately before our eyes. The occurrences of to-day
look larger to us than they will to our successors, or even
to oureahree some fifteen or twenty yams home ; but
making all allowance, al due allowance, for that liability
to exaggerate, I believe that when the history of the pre-
seat generation is written there are few events in connexion
' with it that will take • more prominent place than this
maimed armament—this arming of the people that has
taken place in the kat and in the present year. It ha.
been, as we all know, a popular and a spontaneous act—no
government and no individual can claim more than a limited
share of credit for promoting it; no one, probably, in Um
Ant instance, dreamed of the extent to which it would
spread—and in whatever point of view you consider
it, the more clearly you will see the advantages and
the benefits whieh it has conferred upon English society.
(Applause.) Financially, although • volunteer fore* mu
never be • substitute for • regular army, yet it is impossible
to doubt that the extent to which the arming of the people
has been carried has to a grmt degree done away with the
necessity which public opinion would otherwise have
im-
posed upon the government of the day of • large awn.
tation of the regular force.. Politically, it is equally im-
possible to doubt that the volunteer movement has greatly
increased the power and the influence of England in the
councils of Europe. It has done that fez more than any I
action on the part of government could have does, be-
eawie it has shown that in this country, whatever It may I
be elsewhere, the government and the people are cme
in their determination to maintain inviolate the
adety, the honour, and the influence of this country.
(Applause.) Socially, I believe that the volunteer
niovencut has done more than anything which has taken
place in our time to bring together classes which are usually
separated by a difference of habits, and by • difference of
ides.—(applause)—sad if we are to look at it in a point of
view to which, perhaps, some will attach less importance—'
if we are to look at it as it affects the individual unite of 1
which the volunteer force is composed, we see many
I thousands of young men brought up In the great towns of
the country lead a sedentary life ; leading • life which Is
often unhealthy ; living, many of them, without that
&mould; of air and exercise which is indispensable to •
sound condition of lardy; growing up, therefore, unhealthy,
and because unhealthy, therefore discontented and dk.
medalled with themselves and things around them—we see,
I may, thousands of men placed in those einommtanese to
whom this movement his furnished • pursuit which eau.
bine' to them • sensed publicness( ulnae, the advantages of
health and strength which they could not otherwise
have aoquired, and that peculiar attraction that
exercises appear to possess for those who have one.
• taste for them. (Applause.) And lastly, I believe that
this armies of the people is in its essence • movement in
favour of the continuance of European pesos. (Applause.)
It is so, not merely in the sense in which that expression is
often used, because It has a tendency to deter other nations
from attacking us, but it is so likewise because it has • ton-
dos°, to render us less willing to engage in • quarrel with
other countries. That may appear at first dght a
but I can explain in very few words what I mean. pabelieveradox,
that whenever a cry for war spreads through this country—
and we have known such aW before, and may possibly
hew them node—ono of the motives which scat powerfully
ineseness the pablie in favour of war is an uncomfortable
suspicion that people abroad believe that England is not pre-
pared to eater into • wax,
_and • still more •uncomfortable
Zlthat in that ballet it is possible people may be
.4(;last.) It is in the body corporate as in the physical

[TWOPENCE.

frente—weakner and irritability go together. (Rear, hear.)
It is with editions as 'WWI inch those who are Won(
awl who know themselves to be string can afford to he
good-humoured and hither* and to per over petty
annoyances and bilging. It is these who are distrustful of
their own position who are diatomite& d the opinion which
is fonned of the by other who ln enter to vindicate that
doubthl position ate erre reedy to rook into a marvel
at a moment's notice. (Applause) Bohemia( to the de.
airebility of keeping up the of the fora, the noble
lord said no volunteer free could efficient without the
collective discipline of the corps which compose it, and the
individual skill of the men in the use of the weapon which
they handle. The former of thee* requiaites—discipline—
ought to he provided for by frequent drills, by occa-
sional reviews upon a larger scale, and by inspection by
experienced and competent officers. The best means
of ssouring the other requisite—individual skill—he be-
lieved would be found to be by bri rag into play
that principle of competition which in found no largely effec-
tive m many other branches of human attainments. So far
all would agree that rifle matches were desirable. Then the
question arose, under what conditions and on what princi-
ples such matches should be conducted? In the first Once,
it was clear that they ought to be local and limited within
a certain ant of space, and at the lame time that the area
should not be too limited. The result of the area being too
extended would be that none would compete for the prizes
except a few crack shots, all the ordinary performer. being
dincoursged, and the general interest and general spirit of
emulation would not be excited; whilst by limiting the
area of competition too much, a sufficient amount of pub-
lic attention would not be attracted to the contest, the
prier would not be sufficiently valuable, and the di4inc-
i ti..22.‘thev conferred would not be 81114 great. Lulta:

..1•10.4 annumauga lowa ow animal WI mover, miens -re-
have • county rifle association of its own— (applawie)—and
he should be sorry if, from local jealousies or any other
cause, the single association projected should fall through.
(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to exclude m.debes being
held from time to time in different parts of the county ; be
thought it would be better that they should be held ; and
he thought that a county rifle association might do as agri-
cultural societies de in the habit of doing—hold He meetings
DOD at one place, now at mother, the only limit of that
being that of course it would be necessary for them to have
provided suitable ranges. ("Hem-, bear," and applause.)
He thought the society ought to be placed under the con-
stituted authority of the Lord-Lissitenant, and that trained
and experienced officers should be secured to act as judges.
As a general rule he thought it was desirable to connect the
rifle notches of the comity with the volunteer corps, though
it would bee well enough to have • few prima open to an
comers ; and, lastly, he thought it would be advisable that
the regulations should be so framed as to give every com-
petent eandidate • chance, and to guard against the danger
of all the falling into a few hands. (Hear, hear.)
He it was essential that they should bear in mind
that their object was not to show in l.aowshire merely half
a dozen of the beet shots in England, but to produce • high
average of good shooting. (Applause.) Be believed they
might look forward to an association of the kind he had de-
scribed being formed at no distant day. It only remained
for him to say one word as to the circumstances of the late
Hightown contest. He thought they had every reason to
congratulate themselves upon the manner in which that
contest bad been carried on. He heard that, upon an
average at all the range., one shot out of three went so near
the mark that had the mark been a human figure it would
have killed its man ; and with mierd to the artillery
practice at the range of • mile he beard that
every single shot was pet within such • distance of
the target that it would have struck a vessel of ordi-
nary use conning up the river with • hostile pur-
pose. All be could hope was that the future of thews meet-
ings should correspond with the beginning, and that no local
jealousies or rivalries, which were morn apt to occur the
more zealous men were in the cause they hail taken up,
would arise to interfere with the progress of • movement
upon which, in no common degree, the honour and the
safety of the country depend. (Loud applause.)
Lord Fiklio expressed great gratification in being able to
second the resolution, which, he mid, he hoped would have
• very beneficed effect upon the rifle movement in this
part of the country.
His Worship the !Caron put the motion to the meeting,
and it was carried by acclamation.
The proceedings terminated with a soil* danaante in the
large hall, the band of the sth Lancashire Volunteers,
considerably augmented, being in attendance, and the peo-
perms contained • selection of the most popular dances.

YOUNG HMI'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
-*--

The sixteenth winter course of lectures of the
Young Men's Christian Association was commenced last
evening at Exeter-ball, with a lecture from Lieut.-Colonel
&r Herbert Edwards., on the subject of "Our
Indian Empire," Mr. B. C. Bevan occupied the chair.
Sir Jobs Lawrence was sodas the audienee. The lecturer
gave a rapid sketch of the history of India, and of the acci-
dents by which the commmciel enterprise of Europeans
who went there was converted into a conquest. He re-
marked that it was not by design, or as an object coveted
by our ambition, that we had obtained this empire, but it
bad been foroed upon us piecemeal, and taken in seff-
defame. Inquiring next bow it had been used by
us, he described the improved state of the country sine*
English rule supereeded the Mohammedan, and concluded that
upon the whole our government bad very largely benefited
the people. He censured, however, the exclusion of the
Bible and Christian teaching from the schools and colleges,
and the indifference with which the religious coalition of
the natives had been viewed by their English rulers. He
then asked what was likely to become of our Indian empire
in future? It could only be retained by the willing submia-
sion of the Indian people. We had defeated in 1e67
rising of the native army, but not the native population.
lie confessed that the probabilities were against a Pro•Pe-
roue and abiding reconciliation of the subject races with
their English rWers. But the only way of effecting this
object wee is promote morality and true re-
ligion, and it was by spreading Christianity
that we should lessen the danger of rebellion. It
was possible for us to give up the empire of India in one
or the other of two different ways. We might throw it up
splenetically in disgust at the horrid mess it had got into,
or at the bidding of a party who measured all questions by
mossy standard. It-might be conteuded that India waa •
bore in parliament, and that India did not pay. But be
treated that the Englishmen who had governed India for a
eentury would never, like cravens, declare themselves unequal
to the teak, andgettiug into their ships, abandon Oust nut con-
tinent to anarchy. The other alternative was that, feeling the
poor • of India a sacred Memos:blip, they should en-
our to supply India's greatest wants, and by communi-
cating religious truth, prepare the natives of India for self-
government. Thee some day, as we now cried "Italy for
the Italians," we should exclaim "India for the Lichens,"
and gladly, frankly, proudly leave them to work on in
freedom, when they had become fitted for its enjoyment.
lie sincerely believed that this was not a glorious dream,
but a medial es well as a noble policy. The lecture was
much applesded. The next, by the Bev. W. Landelb, on
"The &pettish Commies, will be delivered on Tuesday
next, and others weekly till the end of February, by clergy-
men and ministers on various subjects of interest.

Hrtstrg OP LONDON.—The weekly return leaned
by the Refilstatr-General states that the deaths in London
in the week that ended last Saturday exhibit a small in-
crease on the respective numbers of thu two previous weeks,
which were 1,026 and 1,049. In the present return they
are 1,084. For the oornepotaling weeks of ten ,previous
years (1850.9) the average number of deaths is found to be,
after correction for increase of population, 1,192, compered
with which the return for last week is less by 109. This
satidactory result is obtained notwithstanding the temce.
raters of the air has been considerably lower than it usually
is in the Ara! ten days of November. In the corresponding
week of 1853 the deaths rose to 1,349, when the mean
temperature was 39 deg., which is only one degree lees than
it was last week. The deaths from " developmental
diseases of children," which were 29 in the previous week,
rams last week to 42 ; those from atrophy and debility
nearly ell amongst children, also rose from 41 to 33 ; the
deaths from all causes of portions aged 60 years and
upwards declined from 206 to 183. }looping-
cough, which was fatal in 34 cases in the pre-
vious week, rose to 44 last reek. From scarlatina
47 deaths occurred last week,; and from diphtheria, 12.
There were IS from smallpox, all amongst children. A
widow died at the age of ski years. A 000por ago' 42 years
did from "ulceration of the stomach accelerated by lambs
and powders administered by a herbalist," according to the
finding of a coroner's jary. In reference to the death from
phthisis of an assistant in a chemical factory, it is added
that his health had been impaired by the grinding of colours.
A child, 3 years old, was poisoned by "menial exhalations
from the green paper of • breakfast-room." That the use
et paper, thus psrepared, in covering the walls of apart-
ments, especially bedrooms, is highly dangerous, is • fact
which by this time should be universally known. The
=ter of a tailor, aged 3 years, was burnt by her clothes
fire from Lucifer matches with which she was play-
Waiteon of a wharf labourer and the &tighter of •
also died from their clothes taking lire ; • fourth
died from "hum op the chest." A boy aged 1 your was
fatally scalded by drinking hot weber out of a teakettle.
Last week the births of 890 boys sad 801 girls, in all 1,691
children, were registered in In the ten torte-
spondisiv weeks of the years 1850.1850 the average number
1.831.
lla 1371iNSON'S WATCHES. —" We hsvu seen seve-
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fidence of their exquisite workmanship and artistic finish. They
keep time with very great preelaton. an I have been declared by
competent imbue to he well worth the 410401. Parties
them eats be supplied eunuch the pwt oMee."— Oisanow *ra-
mbler, May loth, Iwo. Bemon's Must aid Pam; hkt, post t• •
for two stamps, Is descript.re of cv rye instruction of watch now
made. Watches sans by post to all par s of the globe.—.l. W.
Beason, 33 sad 31, Ludgate-hill.—isdvsmissnuoid