The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-12 00:00:00

THE CRISIS WITH CHINA.

We him been requested to give publicity to the
following:
(Cort)
Red India end Chine AJODCMISCC, Cowper's-court,
London, bravery 6, 1867.
The Right Honourable the Hart c Clarmdee, ber
Majesty's Principal Beautar7 of State Ire Foreign Af-
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Load,—The members of this Assodstiost beg hove to
address your toadish* on the wanton of the present oriels in
China, many of es having personal ecesneskes, and a large
mount of property et Make in that cottnn7, and being
deeply Warded in the uninterrupted maintensnee of our
meamereld intercourse with its people.

2. W therefore hope, If Admiral Seymour should not
have succeeded in offectuelly end permanently establishing
oar right of free ingress end °gram into and out of the city
of Canton, ornfornahly with the treaty, her Mail:etre
government will adopt prompt and effectual step to secure
that important ccaditka In order to preclude say future
collision with the local government at Canton.
9. Your lordship will be aware that the enforcement of this
stipulation of the treaty woe Indulgently postponed nom time
to time at the solldtatlon tithe Chinae authorities at Canton,
' end this indulgence, instead of conciliating, bee only en-
waved the obstinacy and hostility of the provincial govern-
' rant and populace.
' 4. If free intercourse were insisted upon end established at
Cent= we have no doubt that animosity would gradually
' subside, and our commercial transactions there be caned on
with the sane mutual addiction sat the northern ports,
evesielly at Shanghai, where the Increase of trade exceed'
all evaded=
5. It may be memory to sake a conciliatory but power-
ful appml to the Emperor at Pekin, either by Great Britain
singly, or in concert with the other treaty Powers.
6. In fart, a new treaty will now be required, and we are
quite willing to concur in the soma liberality which was vo-
luntarily accorded on the former occasion, by allowing to
other Powers all the advantages which we may obtain for
our own country.
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7. In the arnmsement of any new treaty it will be Demo-
nary to rev is the tariff of teleran rates for the easseanont
of duties, and it would be dateable to obtain percents' ice to
trade at any other in addition to **live poets, permitting
in return, Chinese vessel@ hoe aII pub in China to trade
with Haag Kong; and for British subjects to pars into the
interkw of the country, to which no objection seems to be
beds by the population in the vicinity of Shanghai.
It would be a greet sibrantage, both to Chinese and all
other merchants, to base the free navigabon of the large
rivers.

If s drat-clam repreeentative and plenipotentiary from her
Iligeety could be lent out to negotiate a new treaty, and to
be permanently accredited to the court of Pekin, the deplora-
ble provincial ooMaions which bare pertdically oorwred,
would in ell probability be hereafter avoldß.
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8. Many mania ben of *hie maw: alien have been /wildest in
China, and would at any time be ready to give local informa-
tion derived from their own experienoe..

And when a sew treaty is is enure of formation, we hope
we nay be allowed, ea on the former ocamion, to submit such
farther suggestions es may occur to us for the maintenance
end extension of our commerce with Chins.

O. We may observe, in conclusion, that our trade with
China has become one of the greatest national importance.
The impost of tea at the time of the treaty was in
1842, 42,000,0001 b., and baa been in
1856, 87,000,00016.
Of link in
1842, 30M bales
yearly average
1856, 66,000 bales.

10. String the magnitude of this trade, we have to doubt
your lortichip's powerful mind will be anxious to place it
yennanently, according to the let article of the Treaty of
Nankin, upon the basis of " Peace, amity, and protection
1w pawns and property."—l have, itt.
(Shoed) 8. Garrosorr, M.P., Chairman.
Annexed is a copy of the reply to the aboro
address: •

Foreirn-ofnce, Jan. 8, 1847.

am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acknow-
ledge the remipt of your letter of the ith instant, with refer-
ence to tho events which have lately occurred at Canton;

and, to thanking you for that

I am to •ware

you that it shall receive from her Majesers government all
the attention which the importance of the subject demands.
I have further to my that Lord Clarendon will have much
ratisforction in receiring from the East India and China Asso-
ciation any suggestions or advice with respect to the new
treaty which it is desirable to negieiste with China.
I sum sir, your moat obedient humble servant,

(Signed) E. liAintoxo.
S. Ciregoon, EN., M.P.,
But India end Chino Aroeintion, London.

News from Teheran of Nov. 27 has been received
by way of Trieste. At that date the court of Persia
bad received no official declaration of war from the
English government. Very great difficulties existed
between the twocountries,but there were no open hos-
tilities, and Persia appeared to reckon very much
upon the presence of Ferukh-Khan in Europe.
A courier from the army had arrived in the ca-
pital. The Persian troops had occupied without op-
position the fortresses of Oonrian Lach and Djouv-
rem. Operations were expected to be suspended
at the end of November on account of the season.

THE TWO SICILIES.

(mom aux owx

NAPLES, ha. 5.
There is a fact which has invited public attention
this week, which is that the openings of the letter-
boxes have been closed, and a sentinel placed before
them, the order being that all letters should be con-
signed to the hands of an employe. Various reasons
are assigned for this measure, all of which I give
you, as I am unable to distinguish which is coned.
It is confidently said that lucifer matches, with ether
combwitibles, have been thrown into the bay, and that
since the execution of Milano, letter of a threaten-
ing character heralds° been sent through the post to
persons high in office, to the Inteudenti of Provinces,
warning them that they will be made responsible
to the country for their acts, and also to the Zing,
enclosing a Licences of Milano, adding that them
were seventy others bent on the same mission, and
that if any evidence of their pow er was needed
the body of Milano moat be sought for ; in fact, the
report has prevailed for some days that his body hie
been removed. It is possible that not all of these
reports are true; some portions, however, un-
doubtedly are, and the truth and the conception
united show a most deplorable state of the
public mind.
I have now to record the fact that the list of 42
political prisoners who have been amnestied has just
been psased to the Grand Criminal Court, an act
which precedes the carrying into effect of the mea-
sure. Of these 28 are of the class of the Popolani who
have been in prison ever since Sept. 5, 1849, and are
amnestied for what is called the =nice of St. Lucia. The
amount of indulgence granted to these, however, is
their being transported to the Isle of Ponu— of the
others, two are to be exiled from the kingdom—and
the remainder are condemned to a dornicilio
forzoso," in the provinces. Such is the amnesty of
these men.
_ . .

From Palermo my letters state " the late outbreak
is wrapped in darkness. No account has been pub.
Hailed by government, or by the insurgents. Renti-
tengs (Baron, who was recently shot) is looked upon
as a martyr by the public, why I know not." Thse
both parts of the kingdom have now their martyrs,
the memory of whose acts and sufferings fires the
imagination of many thousands. I can give you
another instance of this sympathy, in the
fact of a mass having been ordered by g
lady, at the church of " Purgatorio Arco,"
for the repose of the soul of Milano-100 ducats, I
am told, were paid for the mass. The police have,
of course, been anxious to ascertain by whom it via
ordered, but the rector of the parish refused to de.
dare. From the employes in the arsenal we hear
that the government is extremely anxious as to the
state of Sicily, and that the officers of the steamers
have orders to hold themselves in readiness for start.
ing at half an hour's notice. The Calabria', as my
last letter informed you, arc in a worse state even
than Sicily, and, with a folly truly Neapolitan, young
men pursuing their studies in the capital, and others
long established here, are sent back to the pro.
winces—fuel to fire. I may add that six vessels are
now particularly under orders to leave Naples
to deposit arms and ammunition in different patio(
the coast of Sicily.
Another calamity ! I had no sooner recorded the
fact of the preparations for sending steamers to
Sicily than an awful explosion shook the room in
which I was sitting, lifting. me from my chair and
shattering the windows in the neighbourhood.
This happened about 11 o'clock at night. The gas.
lights were extinguished by the shock, and a
suspicion directly occurred to us that the gasometer
had blown up, but it was quickly known that one of
the vessels in readiness to go down to Sicily had
exploded. She was moored outside the military
mole, and was laden with arms and twenty-six
cantari of powder, and was to have left this
morning at 4 o'clock. Her name is the Carlo
Terzo, of 300-horse power ; she carried six guns, and
was built at Castellamare, in 1446. Her equiptigo
' consisted of 100 men, 20 of whom were sleeping
ashore, whilst ten, together with one officer, were
rowing towards the vessel. The others, it is sap.
posed, were all blown into the air, and perhaps some
soldiers and congediati. The amount of the loss is not
completely ascertained as yet, and I deem it wiser to
reserve all further details for the present. It is a
most mysterious affair, and, following so closely
upon other events of a similar character, awake=
suspicions of the most painful character. I have
been this instant informed that the boats of the
English frigate, the Malacca, stationed not far from
the unfortunate vessel, put off on the moment, and
were so fortunate as to pick up 23 men.