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THE —EXPRESS, TUESDAY ElkrifislV, AUGUST 18, lB6B.

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TM, I.ANCAS)IIRE by floury J. Byron. h..wina boon
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LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to H.
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Til E LANCASHIRE LASH.
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THE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a tinarter to 8.
"The piece throughout was elfrvtively acted, and the sen-
sational nature of the plot keeps the sudienor m • perpetual state
of earttilnent."—lllustrated London News.

TliE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8.
The plot U. ethictlre and simple. apieed with highly dramatlo
incident% which create intense interevt, heightened hY
wooer) ."—Weekly
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E LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8.
TH.. One were, when a river steanier appears to Soot bodily
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the stage. ereat.,l a nor of arplatme. The' Lannaahire Lima' will
enjoy a lengthened run."—lllustrated Sporting News.
riiiik; LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8
A. -Mr. Byron was recalled, and bowed his aarnowledgrnent•
amid vnr,fermw cheers from all parts of the theatre." Standard.
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TIIE LANCASHIRE LASS, at a quarter to 8.
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n ',planar than on the evening of produetion."—Daily Telegraph.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18.

CHINESE AFFAIRS.

THE state of matters during the last few years
in China has not been of that exciting kind which
calla for frequent comment, but it has been full of
interest to those who take any special notice of
the concerns of a great country which, we are
constantly reminded, contains at least a third
of the human race. A short time ago
that empire was in such a state of disorder that
almost every mail brought home accounts of
stirring events, and people in this country were
on the qui rice as to whether its peculiar institu-
tions and its ruling dynasty could survive the
shock of the destroying forces to which, for
nearly a quarter of a century, they had been ex-
posed. Now, however, there seems no doubt
that affairs have settled down pretty quietly in
the Flowery Land, and that it has entered on
a period of comparative order and prosperity.
The Taiping Rebellion was the great issue on
which the future of China depended. Very soon
after the demands of England and France were
granted in 1860 it became apparent that the Celes-
tials were both able and willing to accommodate
themselves to the foreign influences and relation-
ships which were forced upon them, and any
doubt on this subject was set at rest by
the result of the Prince of RUNG'S coup delta..
in 1861. It still remained a question
whether the Imperial Government would be
able effectually to repress the formidable re-
bellions which cruelly devastated the country ;
and it is probable that had they received
no obbietence from foreigners they might have
been unable to do so. But the training of
Imperial troops by French and English officers,
and more especially the assistance given to the
Government by Colonel GORDON, together with
the rise to high positions of the very able, purely
Chinese (not Tartar) mandarins, TSENG ICWO-FAN
and Li BUNG-CHANG, led in 1814 to the fall of
Nanking, the Taiping capital, and, in the follow-
ing year, to the complete suppression, even
to its last vestige, of the rebellion which had devas-
tated sixteen provinces, each almost as populous as
Great Britain, and destroyed six hundred cities,
not a few of which contained as many souls as
Manchester and Glasgow. After this there still
remained other rebels about whom a good deal of
noise was made, and especially the Nienfei, the
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oregin of whose rebellion lay in the distress caused
in some of the North-eastern provinces from the
Yellowßivcrbeing allowed to overflow its embank-
meats. No one who really knew China ever sup-
posed that the Nienfei represented a political
movement or that they placed the Celestial state
in actual danger; but their depredations gave
much trouble and caused immense misery, so it is
satisfactory to know that they have been,
at least for the present, completely suppressed.
The operations against them were committed

need) two y NIPS ago to the hands of Li II i•Nu-
Ariti. who had previously acted so suovriaftilly
against the Taipings in the province of
Kiangroo ; and in the beginning of this year ho
contrn•ed to hem them tip in the north-ewit
corner of the• province of Shantung and destroyed
them altogether. Unquestionably during his
operations against these marauders much was
done from which humanity Night to shrink, and
which is revolting, judged by the ideas of
European civilisation ; but as a choice between
two evils, and in a country so thickly
populated as China, his success may be regarded
as fortunate. There still remain active, or at
least unsuppressed, the Mohammedan rebels of
the north-west ; but as the question between
them and the Imperial Government is mainly one
of frontier ; they are not to be regarded as affect-
ing the condition of the great masses of the
Chinese Empire. On the whole, it may be said
that China is at present in comparative enjoy-
ment of the blessings of peace and prosperity.
This improved state of matters, however, has
not been followed, and does not promise to be
followed, by any extraordinary increase of our
trade with the far Bast. That trade has gone
on steadily exPeading, but gradually ; and •as itr
has not done so to such an extent as to satisfy the
eager ev-

.1* expectations and the calculations of the
foreign merchants on the coast of China, they
have for some years suffered considerable losses.
Indeed, it is questionable whether any expansions of
trade whatever could have brought them anything
but loss on the whole ; and though this year pro-
mised to be more fortunate for them, yet we ob-
serve that the English merchants had already
begun, in the eagerness of competition, to pur-
chase teas at Ilankow at prices which pro-
mise to be anything but remunerative.
And it does not follow that the restoration of
internal order will greatly increase our trade with
China. Such a state of matters is on the whole
much more favourable to commerce than a state of
disorder can be: but the latter, (though it be the
destruction of the bird which lays the golden
eggs). presents more opportunities for making un-
expected fortunes.

In this quiet state of affairs which the Chinese
have fortunately arrived at after so many years of
turmoil, the only subject of pressing im-
portance which they have now to deal with is the
revision of the articles of Tientsin. When these
documents were agreed to in 1858 it was arranged
that they were to be revised after ten
years of their working had been experienced,
so now we have our merchants on the one side
and the Chinese Government on the other, through
its representative, Mr. BURLINOIIAME, putting for-
ward their respective views as to what the lessons
of the last ten years have been. Judging from
the memorials of the Chambers of Commerce in
China, the foreign merchants have no very serious
fault to find with the treaty of Tientsin, or with
its working, but they think it has not been pro-
perly carried out, and especially desire an
improvement in their position as regards the
right of residence and travel in the in-
terior of the country, which they say was
granted them by the treaty, but has prac-
tically been unavailable. Their chief complaint
relates to the levying of illegal transit dues on
foreign commerce as it is passing into, or out of,
the interior. The Chinese, again, have shown
themselves fully alive to the importance of the
crisis by appointing Mr. ANsON BURLINGUAME,
who was formerly the United States' Minister at
Peking, to be their representative at this junc-
ture to the Treaty Powers. Judging from the
speeches of that gentleman in America, the posi-
tion he takes up is that treaties are not re-
quired between the Chinese and the Occidental
Powers. He says that the Chinese have unre-
servedly entered the comity of nations ; their
country is quite open to foreigners for trade, or
for any other purpose, and treaties only
do mischief, being an encouragement to turbulent
foreigners to put forward claims which no inde-
pendent people can tolerate. This view, we ap-
prehend, goes a little beyond the facts of
our relationship with China. If all existing
treaties were abrogated it is at least doubtful whe-
ther China would long continue open to merchants
from the West, and we are hardly prepared as yet
to submit them to the jurisdiction of Chinese
courts of justice—a result which would necessarily
follow the abrogation of all existing treaties.
Still it is interesting to notice the new position
assumed by the Celestials, and their claim to stand
on the footing of other civilised nations. Even
the appointment of a Minister to represent China
to the Treaty Powers is in itself a step in the
right direction, and one which can hardly fail
to have ninny important consequences.

TEE - CONSTITUTIONALISTS" AT THE
CRYSTAL PALACE'.

THE LION and Unicorn party are not successful
in their public demonstrations. A public meeting
which has been in course of organisation
for weeks, and in aid of which the fares and prices
of admission to the most popular place of enter-
tainment near London have been largely reduced,
can hardly be called a success if it only increases the
ordinary number of sight-seers by a couple of
thousands. The Crystal Palace directors are
wise in their generation, and display perfect
catholicity of taste and sympathies in their
dealings with the public. The most ven-
turesome acrobat, the latest hero, the singer of
the day, and the electioneering tactics of the
hour, are all welcomed in their turn. It is a little
remarkable, however, that with railway fare and
admission-money reduced to one shilling there
was no more marked increase in the numbers
present yesterday and those of the preceding
Monday. Exactly 2,238 more people were
at the Palace yesterday than on the corresponding
day last week, and the nett result of their
proceedings is that the public learnt this morning
that Mr.NEwnenare andthe Duke of PORTLAND—
the one by his presence and the other by his purse
—were the only representative men whom the at-
tractions of the demonstration drew from their
homes. The gentleman, who after expressing his
dislike for strong language, compared Mr. GLAD-
sToNE to Judas Iscariot was not much more
inconsistent or indecent than some of the
other speakers. Lord PITZWALTER wandered
into weak diatribes against Ritualism; Mr.
HABDINGE GIFFARD presumed to speak of the
Coronation Oath as binding her MAJESTY " by the
" most solemn ties that could bind men to Heaven,"
and fervently called upon his hearers " to
" fight for the faith once delivered to
" the saints;" a Dr. Cowart spoke conci-
liatingly of the faith of the majority of the
Irish people as " the spawn of hell ;" the repre-
sentative of the Orange lodges of Ireland
asked mildly and constitutionally if " the
" standing armies of Great Britain would be
" allowed to act as the mere tools of an arbitrary
" majority"—whatever that may mean ; the
Bishop of PERTH testified, on the strength
we suppose, of his episcopal experiences in
North Britain, that voluntaryism did not

reach " the very poor" ; and Mr. NS:census/2
naturally PLLW in the Liberal lesder's polio, a brief
dray. n by. Dr. MANNINO. Btich were the args-
milts put forth by theme bulwarks of the Consti-
Mien and buttresses of the. Church; such the
demon.strations towards which the Dtdce of PORT-
LAND- unctuously described to the meeting as one
of the princes of the laud -has in a moment of
enthusiasm given 2,000/.

OUR, CONTEMPORAIUM.
(rats DAY.)

IHE PROTEETANT I,IOIOt.ETHA tION.

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The Times says that after all exeiners are taken
into account, the success of the Crystal Palace deorm-
stiatiini in support of " the throne, the church, and the
constitution," has been so negative that it will probably
not he repeated. Without imputing to Lord Pitzwalter
any C0118601.011C88 that he was acting a part ins show
which was not meant to produce any result, it is im-
possible not to avoid the conclusion that the secret
manager who organised and got up the meeting were
perfectly aware that it was to be nothing more than a
Bash in the pan.
The Poe says of this demonstration that from beginning
to end the whole proceedings amounted to nothing more
than a terrific shaking of the red flag which has already
more than once frightened John Bull out of his propriety.
The Act of Settlement, the Bill of Rights, the British
Constitution, and our wives and daughters, were all
knocked over like so many ninepins, and at the end of the
affair the Popo of Rome was the only creature left stand-
ing in the field engaged in organising a ritualistic Tr
Drum to celebrate the forcible conversion of Mr. Whalley,
the burning alive of Lord Pitswalter, and the final ex-
tinction of protestantism.
The SW thinks the pitiful failure of yesterday is an
indication that the people are well able to distinguish be-
tween the cries of the period'andthe true interests of those
institutions which are asserted to be in danger.

THE LATEST LOILLBIAX OUTRAGE IN
The Deily Fetrs says of the recent outrage at Tip-
perary that it is no new secret organisatiln which has
inspired this act of bold defiance of the law—it is simply
the old open feud of Irish society. It merely shows that
the same evils still exist, and that so long as the present
relations between Irish landlords and Irish tenants

remain unchanged, so long will agrarian murders con-
tinue to redden the soil of Ireland. The real
explanation of this outrage is that the law
came armed, and the people armed to meet it.
They looked upon their arms as assumed in self-
defence, and fired at the officers of the law as invaders of
home. Theirs was the blindness and unscrupulousness of
passion, which was ready to resort to any violence, and
which did actually resort to murder to resist what they
felt to be a legal injustice and a social wrong. While
expressing profound sympathy with the officers of the
law slain in the reluctant execution of a most unpleasant
duty, the Daily News still thinks that this deplorable re-
sult might have been avoided by • little tender respect
for the prejudices, and consideration for the feelings of
these ignorant and misguided peasants.

FOREIGN NEWS.

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