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LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 3.

TO OUR

A DOUBLE NUMBER of tits EXPRESS will
bo published TO-MORROW as •anal, and daring
dm Parliamentary mono

Tire news from China is vague and fragmentary.
The report, transmitted from Malta in the Admiralty
despateb, that intelligence had reached Bombay of
Tga's having been ordered by the EMPICIOI to COt
elude peace, is not confirmed. On the contrary, the un-
derstanding at Hong song, on the 17th of Febreary,
the day when the Fiery Croce sailed, was, that the
EIITEROI had expreesed the highest confidence In
Ten's ability to deal with foreigners ; that be bad
recommended clemency ; bat that his Imperial
Majesty had given ceders, in the event of lenient
measures proving unavailing, to "drive the bar-
barians Into the sea." This conveponds with the
news from Shanghae and the other northern ports. On
the 17th of January it wee stated in the North-Ckina
Herald:—" We learn on most reliable authority
that, in consequence of the rebellion of the foreign
barbarians in Canton,' the attention of the Govern-
ment in Pekin has already been directed to the
defences at Tientsin, the port of the capital'—an
incident that shows clearly enough the temper and
disposition of the EMPEROR and his cabinet." In
the issue of the same journal for the Slat of January
it is added :—" We hear, upon unquestionable autho-
rity, that an Imperial edict has been transmitted to
the Governor-General and Governors of the pro-
.

vines. of Keang-ea, Che-keeng, end Fa-kien, giving
orders as to the treatment of the .11arharians,' in
the peseent difficulty. They are to make defensive
premetions, bat quietly, sou not to alarm the
people, sad if foreign steamers come they are to be
met adtit reasoning. Yea is ordered sot to push
sate= to extremity, but to avail himself of
cliembedtiee to re-establish peace. He is not told
be aide them into the atty." There is a verieiroili-
tale &eat "hese sat--- is which induces us to be-
low ties They en narked by all the impertur-
bable
they to
of the Chinese eharac-
tee. They to wish to plunge into a general
war het they tc preparations for resistance
in the event of beetles spreading beyond Use die-
trills is the imediate vicinity of the Canton river;
at rig" OD dityention to were& even the
he the edwieden of foreigners into the city
of Canton.

It appears to as that we are warranted in infer-
ring from these symptoms, that we are as yet only
at the beginning of the Chinese troubles. We do not
mean to imply that there is the slightest chance of
the Chinese being able to resist the English in actual
conflict, either on land or on the water. The un-
warlike character which centuries of isolation have
impressed on the Chinese, and the infericaity of their
arms to oars, render this in the last degree improba-
ble. But it is apparent that the Ooverument is deter-
mined to resist ; and it is equally apparent that in
the districts round Canton at least, the people are
resolute to rapport the Government

AMONG the signs of the times, few are more note.
worthy than the present attitude of the Conser-
vative party when brought face to face with the
people on the hustings. We trust and we believe
that the profession of " progressive improvement,"
as the present phase of what wee once called Toryism
by its Mends and obstructiveness by its eugenics, is
something more than " the homage which vice pays
to virtue." We trait and we believe that the
landeeracy bare learnt something from the past, and
are at length convinced that if they Wilk to in-
fluence the future, they must identify themselves
with the present. " What is Conservation'," Irks the
veteran Derbyite, Mr. Ittalow, at the eieetais
ef South Nottinghamshire, " bet a gradual adop-
tion of all improvements which the &deem-
ing intelligence of the times renders neeessars ?"
That definition would hardly have done five years
Lek. " Protection !" exclaim, the juvenile Tory,
lard Hexer TIITNNY., in South Wiltshire t " I

thought the very name had long since expired."
Sir Fruiter KELLY (if anything from such a
quarter could astonish any one) must have amazed
those electors of East Suffolk who recollected
the spirit of his electioneering addresses in 1832, by
declaring last Wednesday that " he was sae of
those who had always thought thee einnid be no
finality In the ward lishrws, mad that be was pre-
pared at once, if no ewe she would tubs the initia-
tive, to bring before the new Parliannet a ocespee-
bemire aims for =trading the Ilitive to these
hundreds of thousands of rums of esespelease,
intellect, and education," who wire new &Owed of
the privilege of voting. Beam Dlr. Denisitu, at
Beekinghess, had ao argaisnle M edam against
the Ballot and an Equalhotha of Mental Districts,
except those whose traneparesd Macy was leniently
seem through and mined even by the shrewd
though untrained intellect of the agrkaltnral
andiener he was addressing.
It is, in het, suciently manifest that the interval
which hes elapsed since the death of the Pseernien

my bee Um ii period of very easeiderable imeel
peer& mem the eounty eosstitneasie• It is the
eppeiated retribution of a fhb,* erg—wbethee it be

"DERBY and Protection " (sr " PALNUATON end
Cltina"—that it is followed by aeomsspoudioi re-
vulsion of feeling the moment ha falsehood le ren
diced too plain for dock Ti 1E67 the teitartt-
farmers throughout the country feel that the Free
Trade which was to have involved their ruin has
secured themprosperity,andthat the Protection whisk
they were led to clamour for as a bleeder would
have proved a bane. Englishmen, however We
given to speculation on what dam met eeesens
themselves, are the clearest and shrewdest ci
thinkers on what does; and the English eget-
- . ..

tantalite will not soon forget/his lessen, that ea the
matter which of all others most nearly eueserre them,
they were on one momentous osserien misled by the
country party, either ignorantly or wilfally, for the
ipurpose of increasing the political pewee of a Parlia-
mentary chit It will not be quite se soy to deceive
them again. This practical warning against implicit
reliance on party cries is not the only veinal* heeen
that the English agriculturist has learnt nab the
reign of Free Trade. He has learnt in a thousand
ways to move with the times. He travels by express
train ; threshes by locomotive machinery; works the
telegraph diligently, to gain the earliest informatics
as to the state of the markets; has learnt the virtues
of draining deep and manuring high; and in a word,
L in a fair way of conducting the tillage of the soil
in much the same spirit of enlightened enterprise
and applied science that the millowner employs in
the management of his factory, or the merchant in
the regulation of his adventures.
A tenantry of this stamp ma no longer be
hoodwinked as their predeernore were. It is
lapsible that the improvement can all be on
one side. The squirearchy mesa more with these
they represent. The country gentlemen cannot
afford to fall in the rear of the intelligence that is
growing up all around them. Like their tenantry,
or even in advance of their tenantry, they have
made great advances in agriculture, and in many
districts have shown a laudable eagerness to act up
to the hill msasare of their duties as landowners.
They must not lag behind in politics. They must
he prepared to display on the disarray, and in the
Home, NM parties at all events of that intelligence
which is begising 40 favourably to distinguish them
in agricultural meetings. And to do them justice, the
staple of their resat addresses, after making all rea-
sonable allowance fee the necessary presence of a few
worn-out party miss, is, on the whole, creditable to
their political progren. At all events, it is felt
that some pehedsa of mono advanced views is ab-
solutely requite even in districts the wet remote
hem the nand Masa= of enlighteners; and that
se eonstiteeney is sow-a-days to he wen by the sort
if tese-bles nonerre which was alas toisrated is
the days (trotter boroughs and the tread tax.
It is, perhaps, owing to a coneekernem of this
change that some of the reerialne veterans at the
old-hakes& Toryism have taken the mosaics pre-
sented by the pending election to retire awhile into
privacy. The lasemparising men of narrow views
and broad urea lad Ameba thrown on an altered
time. The tors to skid' they had vowed them-
/11M are makers* shishred ; the watchwords
whisk ewe thew *miss thunders from the
bug tie* it SW Isp-boot interest are new
tit dumb tar spa ; above all, they have
es essamihelehhe Ml* that even the narrow basis
daunt plied* en which they can still contrive
to bake a stand to king rapidly undermined, and
list their nemise had.. are prepared to plunge
belay into go fairlisalin stream of innovation as
BM as it pa when to conduct them to any vantage
wand of gditleal power. It is without surprise,
therehre, that we already miss from the county
repremnilibla serain staunch and venerable names
bat lest bag shown a brave front against the
hol frellsg strum of tendency." The champion
• Paslodka who began public life as Lim-
an/ to °occluding it as Maser, but who
is better hewn to fame by his intermediate style
of CIMITOTHEB, retires from the representation
of North Lincolnshire; Mr. BAGGE no longer sits
for West Norfolk ; and Sir JOUN Tv DELL resigns
his seat ear North Essex. It may, no doubt, pro-
Sped from other cause, but till we hear worse
motives assigned, on good authority, we shall venture
to give these honest gentlemen the credit of having
lest all farther desire to represent a policy which
they feel to be hopeless, or to serve under leaders
whom they suspect to be untrustworthy. Upon the
came, however, of this phenomenon it is certainly
no province of ours to speculate ; enough for us to
congratulate ourselves upon the fact, as to which
there can be no shadow of doubt, that there is at
least as much improvement in the tone adopted by
the Conservative orators at the hustings in 1857,
when compared to their addresses of 1852, as there
has been within the same period in the constituencies
whose votes they are soliciting. It would not be
easy to scram the difference in stronger terms.

SPEW= At NOMINATIoNB.—At the does et Mr.
Haeberf • Arm et Brooked yesterday, ere skoreedo•
took pre beelbp, the Irak et the Merl crib
rho dr my dorsal lid • right to risk, aid
the Made 'I LE!' Choler roodlos dr the marry re
rembhol he • areas defrost% dame ime kod • ifyli
Ober Se direr mien he bed • ordliole rrepose sr
arieriles le rk d the esteddletsr The drib sp-
rier ri kil dr hire 'godly, sal r
Uses bed lea hood ea re of
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suerho le be iris by roes !WA d Lei Chi km ea dhe
edam des berews, 11.11111.111rdbod, rink. Mier=
Who MI ler• elb bee eel yes err it Aber die
real Is the rimed et Leal M. Oreerear Ar Mr. Mow
hwyk yr es or le mom bake aid le est
eyek S. erle, us
wlr seri
bet Irk tred eerier asese• are be die *fru=
Me husigege, Ar kreprei bermes Mr. Ahherra Wire
tal the reelleg. ibe Mar billed tom bie right,
mad rib ore —ii amarte Mei to per Immo&
ha Rile filhe &We aderlei fight . mod apeedary
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mirk det el lie lakerreme. Pam le pis •
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porn, mil MI sierelary Mr. Aliramot Wbe
rawer era, odi-1 to,. err the arherke
say erre bee • dill le rerea the raft Irderra
ke show fibril. dire ay k • dirk mei eller libel
it r rt. I bar eredood all the Wert wiebeddr art k
to,. rid le beer or ea rob Ni.. dr the ear die
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right to be head The aril reeeerd to ad tot •
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sore vas ht. Aleseiettre Dow.

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