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London, England, 1857-01-12 00:00:00

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It te the halos is sane quartets to talk

of the Odom se Barbarian,. 'Their civilise.
lien may be inferior to onrs—me believe it is—but
Botbariens they ere not. They are an eminently
shrewd and observant people. They recognise a
system el morality which, in he broad outlines, does
not osterially differ from oar own. The question
new le, not whether they conform their own actions in
all respects to this system, bet whether they will
judge al our actions by it? We often And that
those among ourselves who are the most lax in their
own embed, are the most rigid in their judgment of
ahem. When we speak of Chinese shrewdnees, and
of the weal cede of China, oar object is to show that

the Chinese are perfectly competent to judge of oar
otiose, and that if we wish to gain their respect and
aostidemo oar conduct towards them must be rep.
Wad by a high standard cif morality.
. . .

Beijing this in mind, let is review the late pro- I;
endings of the British in the Cantos river, as they
mast appear to the Caine,.. A knite arrives at 1
Canton from Macao, sad =shoes at the Dutch Folly
—a sale from the shipping and sonsaist& Re is I
Cl nom-built, hes a Chinese owasr, sad her new, !
with the empties of on. Eragliiimen, a Mine
',Chin& Timm is no proof that she had a British ,
!nag lying, err any other indieatioa of her claim to
the shmetar of a Bntlek vessel. The owner of a I
• Chimes vowel, which had some time before been
ensiled by pirates, recogaises, as be is paring this
liras, one of his piraacal assiilants. He gives
islimetion to the Chinese police, who repair to the
beats =ad arrest twelve of the new, leaving two to
take charge of the vessel. The owner of the
Massa vessel which had been attacked Mistake
two ef the pinks among the new. One of their
sea mats desires that one of the two had cealemed
to him that they had been pirates. This is the cue
Of the lorcha and crew whom immediate and =eon
Mama liberation is demanded by the British Con-
sul. The plea upon which the Cana rests his claim
to interfere is as follows. The lathe is no doubt
Chinese-built. Its owner is • Chinese Bojo& The
new, with one exception, were Masse subject.
It bed not been chartered or freighted by any
British subject. But the British authorities at Can-
n& on the receipt of a Ise, sad the appointment
an Englishman as " nominal miter • (" nominal
master " is the =premien at Mr. Consul Paws in
bi letter to Sir Jon N Bowater° el the 10th Oct.), issue
a limn under which this entirely sad exelseivaly
Chinese trailing vessel is entitled to clam for
a term the privileges of a British veseeL This
Bearffle, however, is obsolete when the mime is made,
the term foe which it was sweated having them
largibed. The result of Mr. Conant PAWS% inter-
brews is that the two pirates are set at liberty i and
that Canton is bombarded under the pretext that
Commissioner Yea has refused to grant the English
Mobil • personal interview. All these facts and
siremstances an as well known to the inlishitents
Canton as to ourselves I and they ea may be un-
derstood by them as an asswasa on the part of the
&Oat of • right to sell tetras el peened= to
pirates, and to batter the walls and he... of any
city shoot the ears of the inhabitants, whole
governors den to question the junks of seek • mon-
strong easamption. Will the Chinese shipowner
who bes seen the acarderers ends servants set at
Marty without madam= in aseesqueure of Eng-
lish interferes., be lately to entertain friendly seer
tisane for the English P Will the citizens el Cantos
wham houses have been burned in the attack upon
it he thereby rendered friendly to the English? The
lateral and neessem consequence of such proceed-
ings will be to strengthen the wall of separation
whisk mane events INA beat up between the
Emilia sad Chinese. In • city his Canna, to
whisk indiabals of the English ram sometimes at
the most questionable chasseter—loafen from Cali-
fenis, fugitives from the junks el oar Australian
ealanies, deserters from the innuassabie mats=
vowels and whalers which plough the Paean—
have free accesa, it milli ander any cleanliness,' be
•allealt matter to prevent the natives from con-
tenting prejudices against the English. What,
then, ant it be if Beef* megistratek plesipoten-
aeries, sad naval commanders are to present then-
selves to the Chinese in the character of partners and
abettors of pirates P
We are as anxious as any one can be to see an us-