The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

THE SEWS FROM CHINA.

(From the Timm.)
What may have happened during the two months
which hero ei•ee elapsed who can toll t It is evident that
the Chinese who have petered out of their own country over
all the mulementa of Mow regimes, who are to be found in
midland. In Singapore, Borneo, Penang, and Ma/acea,WhO
may Le numbered by tens of thousands in our Australian
colonies, are by this time thoroughly roused into a war of ex-
termination against us. foie n, tire, and the knife me pre-
pared for we by thousands of barbarian fanatim; and any
' day we may learn the destruction of our meet flourishing
aettleocente, with the slaughter of every man, woman,
and child of European blood. How deep has been the plot,
how terrible the danger, we may now perceive. It in often
surprieing to find how complete is the communication among
barbarous races, and how strong the common instinct which
governs them. In this .1.0 the fact is strongly exemplified.
In places remote from each other there is evidently the same
spirit of hatred and the same treachery and cruelty in the
gratification of it. Yeh was right in saying that
be acted in accorelenee with the demands of the popu-
lace. It ie plain that for a long time there has
been growing up among the Chinese a feeling of hostility
which baa been encouraged by our own lamaes toleration of
insult. The opinion of all persons connected with China,
that vigorous immures were armoury in the late dispute,
has been principally founded on a knowledge that this ran-
corous spirit existed among the Chinese, coupled with •
belief that it could be displayed with impunity.
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Things have now come to a crisis, and nothing is left but li
to punish the outrages of this faithless moo by the use'
of the whole strength of the empire. We must recognise
the present as no " little wsr," for we are fighting three
hundwil millions of people distributed over the half of halo,
and abetted by multitudes in some of the most important
dependencies of the empire. Happily, the news of the peace
with Persia seems to have arrived at Busbim, and there an

no accounts of farther hostilities.. Ae soon, them, aa the rati-
fication is completed the force under Sir James Outruns
might at once be shipped for Chinn, where it
would arrive king before the troopa from Portsmouth could
complete their voyage. At the preent time it only takes ten
days by telegraph to communicate with Enable., so that the
order might be received and acted en almost immediately.
As to the mutiny in India, which looked so alarming, we
trust it say he considered at an end, for the moat unruly
regiment his been disbanded without bloodshed. With the
war in Penis concluded, India tranquil, Europe at peace,
end our snenala and ports choked with warlike stoma and
ships, them is every facility for carrying through the Chinese
wee with promptitude and success. Vigour in the com-
mission 'Ed e&ntive support from home are, however,
needs& embus we would see the prosperity, mid even the ex-
istence, at as Asiatic Empire seriously endengered.

Tug BLACKBURN MECHANICM' INNTITUTION.—
On Thursday evening the annual soirns of the members and
friends of the Blackburn Mechanics' Institution was held in
the large room of the Town-hall. The room was well filled,
and Sir R. Peel, Bart., occupied the chair. Amongst those
upon the platform were Mr. J. Plikingion, H.P., Mr. W. H.
Hamby, M.P., Mr. W. Pilkington, the Mayor, Mr. Jonathan
Peel, Mr. J. Fielden, Mr. J. C. Ainswertk, de. About SOO
eat downto tea. Sir It. Peel, on rising, was loudly cheered. He
saki that although, comparativt4y speaking, he wm a=
in that town, yet he believed that he bore a name
to them sea household word. (Appian...) He telt grate-
ful for the kind reception they had given him; bat whilst
be Wad there in that mardacest edifice, he could not
refrain from reflecting that the time was when emerging
from a back street in this very town hie pride...ors set
=enterprising example to the whole trade of this district.
(Loud applause.) And that whilst on the one hand the
acknowledgments of a grateful nation had done ...tice to
the patriotism and enlightened policy. of his Cap.
plaww)—on the other band persevering industry and sue-
oeoeful enterprise in trade had through another channel irre-
vocably an/mind hi. name to that town and district. He
should be ungrateful if he did not feel some interest, and a
warm interest, in the main) of the industrial dames of
Blackburn. (Applause.) The meeting was afterwards ad-
drafted by several other gcntlomen; and Mier the badness
proceedings were over, the none was clewed for dancing,
which was entered into with murk spirit, and continued un-
til an early hour on Friday morning. The Sot Fir Robert
Peed was born in Fish-lane, Blackburn, and before Sir
Itobert left the room he was presented with a kilograph of
the humble residence of his ancestor.

OXFORD WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL INSTI-
Tcsion.—The Rev. J. W. Bergen, M.A., Fellow of Oriel
Collage, has announced his intention of giving readings in
the hook of Genet& in the committee-room of the Town-hall,
Oxfoal, on Sunday next and the following Btandays
throughout the term, at 6 o'clock. The clans is open to an
who chrom to attend it. Mr. Barges ie a genneman of eon-
Mderabk literary attrinments and well qua Med to make his
subject eseerningly interesting. Mr. Dorgan in 1845 ob-
tained the Newdegate prize (verse) entitled Petra." In
1647 he chained Dr. Ellerton's prize for the hest English
essay on the importance of translation of the Holy Scrip-
ture.; and in 1851 wee the successful competitor for Mrs.
Denyces theological prize "On the necessity of the two
sacrament,. retained in the church of England and that they
only are secerrary to be retained "
TRAININO REFUGE FOR DEATITCTE GlRLB.—Yee-
terdny the friends and supportem of this institution held
their seventh annual meeting at the establishment in Lioson-
street ; Mr. W. J. Maxwell in the chair. The object of the
institution is to provide r home for destitute girls, where
they receive education and training in come useful business,
till employment is found for them. It appeared from the
report that there were 33 girls in the institution at the ern,
mememeat of the yea; admitted during the year, 29; left
for service, 15 ; transferred to another refuge, 1; returned to
their friends, 10 ; in horpital, 1; died, 1 ; leaving 34 in the
horpital at the close of the year. 184 were admitted since
the opening of the institution. The girl. who went to over-
vim from the Refuge paid back out of their wages 11/. 16a.,
on account of the outfit with which they were supplied on
fearing; 6L 17a, eg, realised by bonnet-maktrig, and
16/. Ks. 104. by needlework daring the year. The institution
remived 1671. as a government meat, which severed about
one-fourth of the expenses. The Ito:manta showed a balance
in fax' tir of the Refuge to the amount of 145/. 10s. The
meeting wee addressed ley Mr. Oliphant, Mr. Mm gzegor,
Rev. Mr. Patch. and others, who strongly nixed the claims
of the Mstittifion on the attention of the charitable.

I'OLITIC..4L GOSSIP.

Ili,. Royal Ilightiess the General Commanding•in-
Ch;e(wlll hold a levee at one o'tlock on Tuesday Inst.

Mr. G. Romaine, late deputy, judge advocate to
the Forces in the East, and who recently unsuceeesfully
eontested the borough of Chatham, has been appointed
Second Secretary to the Admiralty, vice Phinn.
It is rumoured in professional circles that the
appointment of Commander-in-Chief at Devonport, in sue-
million to Admired Sir William Parker, baa been offered to
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
The United Service Gazette states that Captain the

Hoe. J. R. Drummond, C 8., has been appointed private
secretary to Sir Charles Wood, First Lad of the Admirslty,
in the rooms of Mr. T. G. Baring, M.P.{ resigned.

Aire ( United Serciee Gazette) are happy to an-
noun,e that a very important step has been taken toward@
the promotion of education in the army. A "Board of Edu-
cation" has been formed, at the bead of which im the Com-
mander-in-Chid (nt-ojirio), with Major General Cameron,
42u.1, for site president, and Colonels Portlock, R.E., and
Addison, Asnivtant Quartermaster General, for members.
Everything in relation to the suital.le preparation of Akers
fur Brat communions and later advancement will be under
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the government of thin board. Tho examinations will no
longer be conducted at Sandhurst, but by competent pro-
femurs, holding their appointments temporarily, an recom-
mended by the CVIOIIIII,IIIOdCIII who lately returned from the
Continent.
On Thuraday last, a public dinner was given in
Highworth to Charles J. Monk, Eati., the late liberal can-
didate fur the borough and hundreds of Cricklads.
" It will intermit numbers of our readers," says
the Leicester Mercesry, "to learn that, at a meeting of the
ladies' committee, held In the mayor's parlour, last Monday
afternoon, it was reported that the ladies had received 7,000
signatures from the women of Iscieeeter to the sddrers to Sir
Joshua Walnisley, and that the subscription to the testimo-
nial exceeds 1241. It was unanimously resolved that the tee
timonial should consist of a silver centrepiece. The other
sddmsa from the electors end non-electors still lice at our

race fur signature."
Sir William Russell, Bart., M.l'., has paid a visit
to his constituents during the past week. The honoiusble
bexonet left on Thursday evening for Charlton Park, Glou-
cestershire. We (Darr Chroroirk) hear it is likely that Sir
William end Mr. Bernal Osborne will both be present at the
entertainment about to be given in celebration of the progress
of the tunnel now making under the Heights fur the Eat
Kent Railway, at which Lord Sondes and the directors will
be pre.. rd.
" On account of his personal character," says the
Siwelafw," there ban been the strongest disposition not to
premn hard upon the present Lord Chancellor; even in Lord
Pareersion'e government, however, there are individuals
who have not concealed their own impression ; end if the
Premier will make inquiriee among some of his most eclair-
, Mg supporters, who ere not in the law, and ere not in
the government, but are in the House of Commerce, he
will find no expectation that law reform will be restored
to the progress which it enjoyed even under Lord Derby's
government, until the work shall have been placed in hands
more congenial to it than those of the respectable judge new
upon the woolsack. This would be done without offence,
and most appropriately, by appointing a Minister of Justice.
That would be • key to the whole range of the subject ; end
the minister who adopted that measure would in the single
art surpass the last government which stands foremost in
the mord' of law-amendment—the government of Lord
Derby "
The Press says that some singular circumstances
owe their origin to General Ashburnharn's recent appoint-
ment. "Just previous to the Dissolution one of the most
severely-contested elections occurred in a southern county.
The powerful influence of • relative of the gallant General
was upon that ocassion given to the Conservative candidate.
Meanwhile arose the China debate, and then came, rapidly
following the vote, the Dissolution and • Chinese war. A
secondthe
influenceeenles ta.a...ceurria
as tihne
honourthe amo
of county, sod
General this
limo
relative was thrown into the opposite scale, end the ministe-
rial candidate as warmly supported as he hod bean previ-
ously opposed. General Ashburnlism had been appointed
to the command in China."
The Record by no means regrets Sir John Dod-
son's decision in the owe of Archdeacon Denison. On the
contrary, "We ere glad of it, becsua all the trouble and
expense of long pleadings in the Court of Arches are thus
saved, and the case is carried up et once to the Court of Final
Appeal—namely, the Crown, as represented by the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council. That the decision of the
Court of Arctic* will be there rearmed there can be little
doubt."

The John Bull imagines that among the altera-
tions which will be proposed by certain of Lord Palmerston's
school of theology in the Common Prayer Book, some ex-
tenaive change will be deemed essential in the merrier for
the consecration of a bishop. Inatead of the words "this
well-learned man," it will bo thought sdviaable to substitute
"this ready and fluent speaker ; " a bishop now-a-days is
not to be a teacher of his clergy, but may be a person who
requires teaching himself, " as in the case of one of Lord
Palmerston's prelates, who is obliged to have recourse to •
juvenile tutor to place him on an equality in point of learn-
ing with the clergy under his control."
The new number of the Quarterly undertakes to
expound the Palmerston idea. The Premier, it says, is •
traitor to the cause of reform ; he governs by trickery sad
manoeuvre ; he tallm of progressive improvement in language
which, coming from tory lips, would bo pronounced icy;
his promises of progress would not have alarmed Lard Eldon.
Tbe Quarterly points to Lord John Russell se the trite
leader;hherd it LI respectful to the Manchester party; but
it wane the country against a minister who treats political
independence as parliamentary mutiny, and reform, to use
the words of Mr. Lowe, ea "an electoral cry."
The Lancet says that the profession must not de-
ceive itself in the matter of medical barenetcies and knight-
hoods. They are not compliments to the profession. They
are not given to reward Stair service, nor to mark the value
attached to science and scientific men. They Ws simply
personal; and they are entirely reserved for the Court Phy-
sician or Court Surgeon. Until there are medical peers, me-
dicine—the Lancet contends--has not achieved its proper
social petition.
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Shipping, observes the Economist, being that
branch of satiety which partakes most of progress every-
where, will probably now continue to increase more rapidly
than any other portion of society, and to melds tegulations
for what is Do rapidly growing is prematurely to stop its
growth. The regulations and restrictions of the Merchant
Elearnan's Act will do for it, if continued, what regulations
and restrictions have done for the population of Fresco—
dwarf and enfeeble, if they do not kill it. " The gentlemen
who are now agitating against the Merchant Seaman's Act
should rather assail its principle than its details. They
feel the operation of these, however, and go for a little
change now, which will compel them to go hereafter for still
greater changes."
HerapatA argues that the chief destroyer of good
dividends, so far as parliament ie concerned, bAa been the
permission of duplicate and competing lines of railway to
those already made. " Without apparently any considers-
lion for the expenditure which parliament had sanctioned, or
the apparent solicitude with which it inquired into the line'.
prospeeta of paying a fair dividend, it granted a second line
to cut the throat of the first. It ignored altogether its own
affected solicitude that the capital should not be unprofitably
expended, end in some cases before the line granted had
proved ressemerstive, a new one bad been authorised to take
away the little profit that it had. Is this justice in parlia-
ment? Is it aat, in fact, a mockery and violation of justice,
a wanton robbery af those wbo had embarked their money on
the faith of parthisseatary protection ? "
The Saturday Review remarks that the increasing
strength of the phalanx of director-legislators deserves im-
portance from the contemporaneous decline of so many other
once powerful sections of the house. The West India in-
terest was once able to make a stout fight against the philan-
thropic party which at last triumphed over it, and it
has utterly disappeared. The nabob clique used to be
important enough to make it worth the while of a minister
to listen to their advice, and humour their caprices.
Net: there are wavily half-a-dozen men in the
house who owe their position to the rupees, or
the experience which they have accumulated in our
Eimern empire. ipven the great company itself has
failed to maim the return of ire chairman, who has so well
and so steadily fought its battles through right and wrong,
and hoe so often defeated the attacks of discontented pro-
prietors and philene2ropic enthusiasts. In short, with the
exception of the lawy ere, railway directors form the only
section of the House whici. possesses a bond of union distinct
from the ordinary political dieleiono of the country. Even
the lawyers in parliament can seercely be looked upon so a
class interest, for "some of them are returned merely so the

apokeamon of other sectional puties and the large otekailp
enter the house to fight each for his wen bend, end to use
lelitical porition as a IMAM of edvenring their indiridnag
prof..ional Weida,"

The Irrekly Dig/Hitch aaya that the real offence
of the Manehester webfoot, in the eyes of the people, ht that et
anti-nationablon. They have been rullty of nit ivies.
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" When their country was at war in a deadly struggle with
a powerful foe, they, standing in our camp, made signals jo,
the enemy. They did that in the secure priviligo of the
senate-house, for which, hod they bum in the tent, fiji,
would, by the recognised law of nations, hare been hail*
over to the provost-inarshal. Their speeches were platardet
all over Russia, and materially strengthened tho pwitiou of
the Czar in him efforts to cripple ua, by justifying to his ova
subjects the protraction of bola Oki.. which they theinrelni
were beginning to condemn and fall sway (non. In all their
denunciations of their country, they never had • words/
repteach to utter against the imperial burglar who.,
contain eye hungered for tho inheritance of 'the sick rue:
and whose whole career wee that of fraud, cunning, agm.
'ion and spoliation."

TIER ,ilitTS AND SCIENCES.