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A ONDON. SATURDAY. SEPT. 17.

ilea NI if Eirei Government have resolved to and
at once a military force to China, and to send it from
India. We are glad to be able to make this an-
nonmilitant. It is of the first importazois that the
illusions which our recent check is calculated to
encourage in the minds of the natives of the East
should be dispelled without lose of time, and no lees
important that whatever operations may be required
to convince the-Chinese of the necessity of keeping
faith should be prosecuted to an early conclusion.
The hostilities we carried on at Canton against Com-
missioner Yen left the mesmerise of the rest of China
comparatively:uniejnied, but the transfer of the war
to the mortis threatens to interfere seriosialy with trade.
On every account, then, it is well that the expedition
is not to be delayed, nor must oar respect for the
f►ntastic prejudices of the rulers of China be allowed
this time to hold WI back from Pekin. It is for the
interest of the untold millions of China. as well es
for our own, that we should obtain that full com-
mercial access to their empire, of which the presence
of the ambassadors of the Western Powers in their
capital is an indispensable guarantee.
The despatch in which Admiral HOPE reports to
the Admiralty the disastrous attack of June 26 was
published in last night's Gazette. It removes one
or two doubts which had been left by the private
accounts. Thus it shows that the Admiral was from
the first informed of the existence of the ditches in
which so many of our gallant countrymen perished,
and that he appreciated generally the extent to
which the new defences had increased the difficulty
of his teak. His report, like those of the unofficial
cmirespondents, shows that the fists landing under
an unsubdued and heavy fire, and on im-
practicable ground, was the cardinal mistake
of the enterprise, but he contents himself
with remarking that " had the opposition they expo.
" rimed been that usual in Chinese warfare, there
" is little doubt that the place would have been sire-
" cessfully carried at the point of the bayonet." This.
after all, is the strongest point that can be urged to
extenuate the errors of the commander in risking his
brave men in a conflict so unequal. We trust that
whoever may command the next force sent against
the Chinese will do the public at home the juslims
to believe that it does not distrait the valour of its
seamen and soldiers, and that it is not creamery that
in a war with barbarians they should undertake
exploits forbidden by prudecre and science, to main-
tain their credit fur bravery in England.

FOREIGN journals are wonderfully busy just now
in the exercise of their wits upon the hidden mean-
legs of the latest manifesto of the Mossitass. Only
the initiated (whoever they may be) have the key to
the mysteries of Imperial journalism, and we in this
benigh..ed island are not among the initiated, and,
whit is worse, we are u happy in our ignorance
ss if "'twee fully to be wise." Oar peo-
verbial insularity of mind, which that venerable,
and devoted type of all the bourgeois ♦irtues,
M. IR vitt, deprecatingly describes as "egoism,,"
shrinks from a contest of the brain with the dark
sayings of mountain oracles, and gladly commits ha

the industry of cosmopolitan commentators the
duty of rendering the obscurity of a doubtful teat
visible to the vulgar eye through a thousand lees..
patible glossaries and coefiicting interpretation'.
Whenever the lifolsiteur speaks, so internecine war
of carefully misinformed scholiasts from all the pur-
lieus of all the Foreign Offices and all the Embassies
on the Continent is sure to fellow. VOLTAIIIII accused
us long ago of having innumerable religions in Eng-
land, but only one sauce—melted butter; and thus
it is in foreign politic?. We have only one way in
this country of "dressing" an Imperial document for
an honest public, and that is to serve it up as neatly
taw as possible, in its own gravy. As to the
melted butter, in oar day it is a sauce
more in use in the bureaux of our inspired
contemporaries abroad than among ourselves. How
can we compete with the briskness and fertility of
invention of the adepts of official journalism abroad,
when we find en eminent French lawyer, at the
lively age of seventy-six, telling an audience of
rustics in the moat matter-of-fact manner that, after
the Russian war, the Queen of EZIGLAND reviewed
a fleet of ten thousand guns in the mouth of the
Channel, and in sight of France ; that orders were
sent to our Admiral in the Baltic to husband his ships
while our 'Hies were sacrificing theirs in the attack
on Bomarsuud ; that an English garrison is fortify.
ing the Island of Perim, and closing the Red Bea to
the commerce of the world. The atrox aximus of
a veteran French jurist whose fidelity to the Ea-
I'EROR can only be quest!oced by those who question
his fealty to half-a-dozen former regimes, liberates
his feelings at an agricultural bacq'iet by giving fall
play to his imagination, and to the credulity of his
hearers. The venerable Dcrfts is but a Monitetsr
in wooden shoe►. Can we wonder at the imaginative
fertility of iuspired journalism among our neighboure,
when even a wily old lawyer, who has suffered for his
country for nearly two-thirds of a century, edits con-
temporary history in the spirit of a provincial reader
of the I-wirers ? It is thus that we are enabled to
comprehend the immense capabilities of the dfoniteur
for saying nothing in a multitude of words, and taking
everybody in. It is after listening to M. lit IN
that we Imo to appreciate that oscillating engine
of publicity which serves to blow off the steam of a
policy at high pressure. Aft this week the Mooti-
teur Manifesto of the 9:h Instant has been played
by a hundred correspondents of Belgian, German,
and Italian journals with a prodigious display of
variations, and with a marvellous facility of maui-

relation, but always in one key. The apostolic
maxim is admirably successful in the mouth of the
lfouiteur ; for not only is it all things to all men,
but all men are equally satisfied with its
doctrines, however divided in their own.
The Austrian press is enchanted with the
explicit determination at St. Banveur to timer Italy
over, to make common cause with Austria, to en-
force the provisions of the Treaty of the Back Par-
lour, and to arrest the illegitimate tendencies of the
Briiish government in favour of insurgent pope-
)n the other hand, the Sardiuian journals
are delighted with the semblance of bad temper and,