The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1857.

these words could be taken aa being well weighed,
it would follow that if France should obtain by
negotiation what she wants for herself, she would
not join with England in a war for any such
general purpose as that of introducing civilisa-
tion into China, or even for the more specific object
of establishing European diplomatic mimic= at
Pekin. The French government would then be
acting according to the policy advocated by the
Assemblle, which has lately repeated several times
that beyond protecting its own subjects and the
catholic religion France has no special interest in
China, and that whatever commercial advantages
England may obtain must of necessity tend to the
benefit of all other European nations. The Assemilh
founds the latter opinion both upon the general prin
ciples of England's recent commercial policy, and elm
upon the fact that an attempt to obtain exclusive
trading privileges in China would provoke a coali-
tion against her. It is, however, argued by many
that the Ifonitenr, when it speaks of Baron Oros
having received an " analogous mission" to that of
Lord Elgin, and says that the two plenipotentiaries
" will mutually aid each other in the negotiations
confided to them," must mean to say that they are
acting with a view to attain a common purpose. It
may be, however, that they are oily going to a cer-
tain extent along the same road, and that one
L e.
..
rt.ytay diverge sooner than the other. The
of the Meniteur is cautious, and I am
fa 7 ..5.-sure that it means at bottom anything more
than what the Coosatitutionsel says. It ermines,
indeed, a belief that "a new field will be opened to
Christian civilisation and the commerce of all
nations " by the mom of the negotiations ; bat it
does not in terms say anything about combined
action of the forces of the two countries. Still it
most be admitted that the paragraph in the Moroi-
tevr is calculated to induce the belief that France
and England are perfectly agreed in the object of the
demonstration in China, and it was doubtless
worded with the intention of producing that impres-
sion. It will be well, however, not to lose sight of
the explanation of the Coeutigutionsol, which may
possibly be an indiscreet revelation. English states-
men cannot moon forget what happened in the Rue-
gen war, and must be prepared, in all future joint
enterprises with France, to find themselves left alone
ell at once.

ROMAN STATES.

A letter from Rome of the 28th ult., in the Riaor-
pimento, says —" The Sardinian frigate Oovernolo
has arrived at avita Vecchia, at the disposal of the
Empress of Ramie. The Italian colours displayed
by this vessel caused some excitement, and on the
following morning the police found a number of re-
volutionary placards stuck up at the street corners,
in which the aid of Piedmont was invoked for the
liberation of Italy."

A grand banquet was given at Stockholm, an the
18th ult., in the great hall of the Exchange, to Y.
Schiran, vice-president of the Chamber of Citizens,
140 perms sitting down to table. A toast in favour
of

was drunk with enthusiasm. M.
&chino, in the course of a speech which he made,
asserted that a great common enemy (Ruda)
menaced alike the three northern kingdoms and Ger-
many ; that it was in the interest of the latter to
favour the progrees of Scandinavian ideas. lie con-
cluded by stating that the greet battle between
liberty and despotism would be fought—net on the
Beephorm—but on the fields of Germany.

BERLIN, M4T 8.

The Upper Chamber in its sitting of this evening
has rejected article 1 of the bill pared ►y the
Chamber of Deputies, making modifications in the
law of 1820 concerning the tax on patents. Pursu-
ant to the wish of the Finance Minister the debate
on the law continues.

OPP:CIAL DESPATCHES RELATIVE TO THE
PROCREDINGS AT CANTON,

nip morning further papers were issued, in the
fors rf a return to parliament. Meting to the proceedings of
hen Jinesty's navel forces at Canton. As many es twenty
asrpanlies (exclusive of eackwares) hum Sir John Bowling
to the Earl of Clarendon see gives.

Pa:trolls,. are sent to the ha government of an sct
of middy on the part of the Mame at Whampas,
in kithupping • gentleman named Cowper; and silo copes
of corretpondosos with the Spanish Corwal-Ommel, ow the
subject .1 the supposed murder of the Spanish Vice-Consul of
Macao, in the attack upon the Thistle. On the 9th of
Decambir Sir John Bowing scads to the Viceroy
of Puh-teen, to., • mistimed of his complaints against
Comnieiceser Yoh, and requesting that the Court of Pekin
be dried of the num. In reply the Viceroy says
" Revise had, from Int to lest, no edictal communkation
from kis Sacellency Yeh, Imperial C'-'--' an. and Go-
vernor-Omni of the Two•kwang, to espiein what it we. to
the admixistratko of cemmereisl addle at Canton that pro-
duced thisrupture with your eminency, I have been with-
out a•y mw•s of informing myself thoroughly on the sub-
ject, end even now that I have received your excellency's
letter, stiii,the great distance betimes Pah-keen and Canton
conektered, it le SO out of my power to form en opinion cm the
merits of tie question, that I cannot be so precipitate m to
address the throbs on the matter.

" The dotantant forwastisti to no being in English, its eon-
tents it. liaisons to me, and I have no inseam at deelpheting
than.

" In coadulon, It Is my daty to add that oar two canoes
laving been at frisatUy terms for away yews, I ara still in
hopes, that b: dos observaaos on either ale of the Treaty of
Pesos that wo to last for ever, It will be their good fortune
to strragthen the makable relations heretofore 'sleds( be-
tween theta."

The replies of the Mowry of the Two Kean( end the
Governor of lioang-seo, to whom a similar letter from Sir
John Bowrinewas mat, en fornithed. The meaning of the
let* front the dm, Is mad by Mr. Wade, the Chinese

wry, to be as fellows:
"I rejoice in your academy's professions of peace ; but It
wend only do harm to the iseensts of peen, to which you
prods@ nand( so friendly, wen I to tell the Emperor that,
become of Yeh's act, you have precipitately broken the
peen that the treaty gnawed to lan forever. Another ninon
nano my addrossing the throw is, that Telt, end Y alone,
is competent to deal with neemereld qmstkas ; end this one
be nothing else, being a weeks with fcceignen."
Upon the two replies fir John Bowing remarks:
"I think it is to be inhered from beth, with tolerable
certainty, that then le no yeemet disposition is intend the
Add of hostilities ; sad tat the i•sperial 031111MUSIODIt will
be left aka* to settle his edinsidersindiage with se, eater,
Indeed, soy advantages ►e might obtain should agate a
prestige In his favour—a sot very llkely result."
A variety of documeaterelative to the potent's( at Hoag
Xing, including protests tenon from the reprseatatives of
France and America to Commissioner Yeh than
Yee, In his reply, anpuess denotation of the set:—
'• To poison people in thieunderhend manner" b• mays, " is
an act worthy of detestatim : 'tidos it all weaned in Hong
Hoeg, it is thinesible for me to namine into all the then,
The act is owing to the annumband evils which have been
indicted upon the Chien by the English ; and the natives of
the ennotusding &Mete have taken this way of revenging
their private wrongs.'•
We then !ad to the ppm, a copy of an Impeeial edict
kneed on the 27th of Tecenther last, forming the Inset in-
structional for certain novincial authorities relative to the
!twinkles with Englani.

In this doctunenitla Emperor eye
" With refewooe to be ammoriel of Yebmilevehin, re
presenting that the Leah Imbrium had picked a quarrel
with ma, end that ow troops had been victorbos in two
actions with them : the coulee of the 9th moon (October)
some of the Coates wine having seiasd some *Wee ea
board a teethe, the English barbarian chief, Pa-boa-bo
(Henry Pukes), attempted on pretence that this art wee
metier of complaint, n revive the questies of admiados into
the city, end vented, in foe, to open toe apes the city sad
to born the shops, Sc the lot sod 9th of the 10th moon
(29th October and Ott November), our troops engaged (the
endoy), and were *axiom in both actions, billed sad
wounding above 400 g the barbarian villains and slaying
their adming. The parted= and mambos) displayed by
the gentry and volscabore of Canton had Andy dispirited
the barbarian'. Land sad atria' from, numbering 20,000
and more, regalia sad militia, had been moved up, sad the
berbariana, who have hien Wigging is the gannet arro-
genee sad frowsmbess, lewd, it le to be presumed, otter
the check they have recelvd, meta" on any nuttier displ►y
of lawless violence. The Americans, Freon, and other
Weston nation, being emdbie that the Esigliale barbarians
are wrong in this usenet do not chows to emeperitte with
theta, end ea they module wholly salupported se well (as de-
feated) there is a nowable possibility that suffering will
induce repentance, sad net they will theist from hostilities.
" We have this day neirsdied Yoh, that if the English
barbarians turn nom their present course of their own
motley and (or bar) seed sot be carried to extremity;
but if they due to moist to their extravagance and ob-
elloce, peace is ad to be negotiated by a cowillatory
movement en our put, as this would open do way to de-
seadefor other cononions of importance. Yak-minychia
has been very loco in chirp of the Kwang Provinces
and Ise° thoroughly cognisant with barbarian affairs, the;
he will be able in all possibility to devise a proper course of
proceeding.

" hams to us that the seaboard of Hang-soo, Che-
keen, and Fab-lean, is ground with which the staaare of
these barbarians sa, by long expatetes, well acquinted ;
end aspreoaution should be takes to defend (that coat) slap
*gains the berberians, who, when they end themselves
unable to work thdr will In the Csnton province, may at-
tempt to disturb ether ports aloe( it, we command Elan&
Chem; and Ito, to give leitmotivs privily to the beat
aothonties, in he event of terberian ships approaching
(their jurisdiction), to take such step, so will reader them
aerate, without stand or sign (that may attract attention.)
If they oome to captain the circumstantial of the rupture at
Canton, they most be so silenced by Tameable arguments
that no loop-bole be left them; and seeing this, they may he
minded to fall beck from their undertaking se hopelau [But
(the autboritiee Deferred to) are not in say way to take the
Wane, as this would disturb and perplex the public mind.

" Let this be firwanied at the ;ate of 400 la a4ty for tha
private information of every crSoer Whom it may CODOIPM.
" Reaped thn :"

Sir Jihn Bowing forwards this decree to the French and
Americas legations, the heeds of which in reply com-
ment upsn the assocumey of its statements.
Deepetthes tom Admiral Seymour to the Admiralty ma-
ts& an account of proceedings in the Canton River, already
known our restders.

On tfr 2bila of Febrnarf, Sir John Bowring writes to the
Earl of Clarendon as fellows

"Hong Hong, February 20,1837.
" MyLord,—l have received, with peculiar satisfaction,
your ladship's despatch dated the 10th January, advising
me thither Majesty's government entirely approve of the
comae adopted by Sir Michael Seymour, Mr. Petite', and
myself, a reference to the late operatione in the Canton
river.

I love the comfort of believing that, notwlthstatidieg
the loam, privations, sufferings, and disquietude. which
these ennui have produced, them exists en almost una-
nimity if opinion among her Majesty's 'abject. In Chins
as to the opportunity and necessity of the WYNN that
have been taken, and a conviction that the crisis which hes
oecurtet was an inevitable one ; while the councils of the
Cantonauthorities were directed by inch intolerable pride,
presumption, thithlsemese, end ignorance, se they have long
exhibited. And it ham greatly added to my gratification to
know that the representative, of foreign powers in China
have generally concurred in approving of the course which
has been pursued. _ _ _

Inched I may safely elate that I have rather had to
straggle against demands for more violent and destructive
meanura, than to fear commits for those which hare beat
adopted

"It W. been, throughout, my desire, and that of the ad-
miral, to spare, ae much as possible, the innocent and un-
offending people of Canton ; but I grieve to my the ferocious
and barbarous element dispoecd to avail itself of means, how-
ever atrodons and savage, is widely spread among the fierce
population of that place.
" It is not a reputation acquired only yesterday or to-day,
bat one of long standing, recognised and feared wherever
the Cantonese are ]mown throughout the vast extent of the
Chinese empire, and made a topic of very frequent observa-
tion is the representations to the court from the vicaroya of
Leung-tang. "l have, &c.,
(Sighed) "Joan Ilowaiwo."
On the 20th February Vitte-Cann] *WOWS ibrwards lo
_ _ _ _ _

ner Jolla &erring a meM'arial Irma • Claws prernar,vidnk
I lea mom into hie beads, 'embodying another imperial dent.

" Tour lordship," lays Sir John Sotering, "will not fail to
remark with whet persistent saandecity car proceedings,
and those of the United States and French minis-
ters, Sc. misrepresented at the oourt of Pekin" "The
edict," says Consul Meadows, writing from Ningpo,
"shows that at the date of its being issued, about the 15th
of last month, the Emperor was not inclined to listen to any-
..

thing adverse to the Imperial Commissioner Yeh, though
communicated by other high provincial authorities ; and that
his Imperial Majesty speculated on hostilities not being
finished at Contest at the tints of the spring rains, yet, at
the mine time, amused that the relations between us would
still be so amicable at this poet and Bhaoghae as would
leave it in the power of the provincial authorities of the
two Owes to and a foreign Ammer up the great river to
act splint the Tee-ping rebels.'•

This ettkt is also forwarded to the American and French
legations by Str John Booming. " Such infatuation," says
the Frio& raFewsentatiee, referring to the attitude of the
Court of Pain, "only renders more desirable than ever the
doss mace of the three powers which have demands yet
tutsettled."

Dr. Parker, the American commissioner, forwards to Sir
John Bowring a copy of n dispatch which be has sent to

Commiadone;Ya,lieclaiminithe interpretation put by the
latter upon the course taken by the Americans. Dr. Parka•
writes

" Were the undersigned culled upon to pre judgment
upon the question who is right and who ia wrong in the pre-
sent controversy, he might wish to Inquire if it had not been
right, when the occasion for serious, complaint arose, for the
high officers of the two governments to bays met fees to
face, sad according to mum and justice have settled the
matter, and thus have prevented the vut destruction of pro-
petty mid stain at Hood which has been in consequence of
peer Ilei~e Mktg to do so. He might also, per-
iling, beim kin Ss truth of the statements regarding
end bee lennyhee k former men in relation to the sob-
jest lift inns Inks city of Ceara, which differs widely
ern min the enereigned, who has long resided in China,
*prank le be the fins of the ms.
"')le emientese my be alksred, in the spirit if ten
frieseihipt r gene to peer Excellency his belief that met
founds lie 11111selese between China and foreign MAIM
b the enilllngems if China to acknowledge Ensheml,
Fromm Annie, Bete aim greet nations of the west se her
Kuehl cue nee kink, eel to treat them accordingly. Se
far es nerds Oki pen matter, the American goverment
is seatikthet r Sneak ere in the right, and does cheese
to or spine melt diem."
A dupla if ek John %wring, dated the 10th March,
matins in Mowing remark
" I am &peen to think that the imperial commiraioner
will maintain Ids present position se long as we are males
to raft him with any serious molestation, trusting to the
chapter of accidents kr some turn in his favour."
The remaining papers include oommuniestions
the capture of the steamer Queen, and further despatches
from Admiral Seymour, the latter observing on the kith
of Huth :
"As repads the Imperial High Commimioner, from all
that I can laam,his excellency is still animated by feelings of
the deeper hostility, and has increseed his garrison at
Colston ; nothing but an adequate military tone an, to my

relative to

opinion, replace our relations on proper &tine, and ulti-
mately mom the due fulfilment of nasty stipulations. I
am in daily aspeetation of the arrived of the stmun.eloops and

(IRON LAST SIGHT'S QATITTE.)

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 6.—Thia day the
Right Hon. John Evelyn Denison, the Speaker of the Home
of Commons, the Right Hon. Su- John AP Neill, G.C.8.,
and the Right Hon. Frederick Peel, were, by her Majesty's
command, sworn of her Majesty's Moat Honourable Privy
Council, and took their respective places at the board 'mord-
ingly. Her Majesty in council, upon a representation of the
Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Coun-
cil on Education, wee this day pleased to anoint David
Middleton, Esq., A.M., to be oneof her Maje Mys inspector'
of Schools in Scotland; and David Munn, Req., Mathema-
tical Master in the Dumfries Academy. to be one of her
Majesty's AndMant InapecOms of Schools In Scotland.
- _

WAR
W OTTICE, MAT 7.—The Queen has been
greeici.l to give or for the apointment of the
.d==Meer of the Marine of hie- Imperial Holeity
the limrsc,cif the French, to be an bosomy useesher of
the Division of the First Clam, or Knights Grand
Cross, of most Honourable Order of the Bath, viz.:—
M. l'Amir' al Hamelin (Ferdinand Alphonre), hauteur,
Minietre Secritaire d'Etat an Department do In Marine et
dm Colonies.

FOREIGN Orrin, MAT 7.—The Queen hes been
Wgto approve of Mr. M. W. Pitcher as Consul et
for the Free Henna& city of Hamburg.

Dorm VO GOOD Lecc.—The St. Louis Leader
tells the following story • Not over a dorm years ago a mer-
chant of this city, well known and highly respected, failed
in bunasse, and, after Pealing up his affairs, gave to his
principal creditor a deed of trust on orrtain real estate to
secure the pa t of 12,000 doh. At the time the pro-
perty wee harsh yoked at that, so the creditor put the deed
us his sad% and thwe, so far as be was concerned, the
matter ended. The machete% broken down, disappointed,
poor but yet
America,
south, visited California,
Ilene% and &nth made half • dozen
fortunes and lost them write. illy weeks since he
returned to the city, sick, travel worn, needy and dis-
heartened. By chases he met his old lawyer, • see-
thes= high in hie penances, and who is deservedly I
. After the first greeting, the lawyer re- 1
" I an gled to Ns you back, and, as you seem
m be want et hada, the isle will be just in time."
The merchant looked hard at him friend, and finally mid,
" Bale I what sale ? I',. got nothing to sell." " Nonsense,
my der fellow, you an richer than you imagine. Don't
you remember the deed of treat I drew up for you some
twelve years sgo "Ido ; what of it I," Well, at that
time the property would not have realised that sum, so it
was let lie, but it le now in the market, end I expect to close
• contract for its sale this week." " Yon amaze me ; what
pries do nu aspect to get I've asked 86,000 Boilers,
sad shall get it, too. Your old debt and interest will amount
n 21,000 dollars, or thereabout% so you will hare 6.5,000
dollarsto go upon." The eenestions of the party may be
" more sadly Imagined than described," as the penny-a-
liases have it ; but one thing is eats* Yr. A. went home
a happier men than he had been for ten non at leam.
Rel what we have here named ia simple fact ; and more,
the occurrence Is not yet • week old.
—-- - -

TIM LAU DL MEDlll7Rat—We understand 11
that Dr. Madirrig Ira ha a widow and einsined daughter
without any prwebles Istt Air fatale sewn The Bishop
of Vittoria (IllogWleLla • brat to the Secretwy
of the honks fluerdery:—" It la waroely
WI
I shield yew lire oar lanatatad Mend
misfit,ile Ls lied chasm hew Lb ble eAdow In CiTCUM-
*Wow dialegaga He deand the tor of the British
premien *dß • sheath% with newly 1,0001. a year,
I as tetershr, amil prebend Ishredias se • rihnimary OD
tit. VEDA lima
by your asehity. A few
hinds, elm hen la the IWilret harm sod esteem his
chareshr end and whe Ord the beaks debts of his
widen/ ad haw's/ hew balembel taw their
Mum i nisbg • area/ *an ea imitaity
=rkr the erwilidelis nipped et Kra Weiffmn To-
he esemplidimar this eijese the dbense• of the
Limbs Iliabasay Sad* bon esenftwled dm as at 200
the erwmithe et the Brklids Ned Pbrdrit Bible
eon-
mitts* of the -..-.--.l.B6ll=ibt:tetiMlysnaeo-othe
by a dangles e'''..i.W.Z;ll ramter-4d
motile pumas Ebbw wheel: istenr_
_MELO, and
highly vansd bis importent owl dbialerensd labours, have
likewise made libirefeontribedoes.—BererrE

INDIA Hot:reg.—A deputation from the Madras
Irrigation and Cana Company, consietiug of the Ron. Philip
Ploydell Boaverie, M.P., Colonel Philip Anstritther, C. 8.,
Lieut.-Colonel Onlow and James Th9mson. Beg., directors,
accompanied by John Mackrell, Esq., the tollritor, and John
Westwood, Esq., the secretary of the company, hod an Inter-
view yesterday with Rees Donnelly Mangles. Esq. M.P.,
the chairman of the East India Company, and Sir fiederiek
Currie, the deputy-chairmen.

EXAMINATIONS AT TUE INCORPORATED LAW
Soctavv.—Ereter Term 1857: At the examination of can-
didates for whatedon on the roll of attorneys and solicitors of
the mortice watts, the assodnes recommended as deserving
of equal bassanry &stifled= the following Featlemen
Henry If Hebb, of Lomb. who /erred his clerkship to
Mr. losuplX•on, of nod Memo. Scott, Tabooed*
and Saw, at IllealerMs• Welter Buller Rom, of
[meta, who amid his eisdnidit to Mr. Simon Batley
Jackaman, of Ipawlek awl Memo Aldridge and Bromley, of
South-square, Orserviwn • WHlra Henry Welsh, of
Oxford, who mesh his eisAwlit.Le
illtr. William Sale, of
Manchester, sad Mow& Bo; and Cm%
of Staple-inn, Selleox. The council of the In-
corporated Low eseisty have accordingly awarded •
puns of boob Is bpommeled to each of those candidata.
The examiners have dee wellisd that the following can&
data weed esswieetioss very Me inferior to those who
have bees reported flammgik. L Henry Brirawl,
at Wasta%iv vbe mewl lds clerikablp to Mr.
Jura T , mod Nemo Clams, &Amain!
Ifielder, at s , Toasts;
&loin. et . Tesiadre, who mead =hip to
Jams Haber af Bevaisy, sod Hr. UM Kir
Devedvy Gel H sod Xr isms Sim Nargrore,
el Uossiesdeowileis• el MINI ow.
12 74 0 amid tit" j•lik.
et Weald%
Graf S islet Lira Ifter.illeslimidicia.ke6ll4
who revel Me animates Mr. Mimed Prism
Wymmihrt, M. Joh" Vl* of lhogoisrd Chow
berg, lholdsisbory.—D7 • emir et ihs cowmen, Retort
Nesighszi, esaetozy. Low aceisig's Hell, Mil 7.