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AIRES every allowance has been Lade for the
exaggerations el fear or sniff, the neccants we re-
ceive of the state et Ware in the Canton river are
of a nature to awaken grave appelhernions. The
Admiral hod onepended opwatione against the eity,
and it was understood that he coal& net name
them nail reinfweencests in seen and warble stems
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'hold have been received. The inhabitants of the
province bad risen en mama against the Iterigners.
All the foreign residents had left Canton; and at'
Hongkong and Macao attacks from the natives
wore daily expected. At the former place, the
Governor, apprehensive of the resident Chinese, bad
loud an ordinance copied from those proclantatioos
17 which la the olden tiros Irish cooties mod to be
plated ander martial law. Many passage boats
had boa cat off by the Chinese, and one by one
the river steamers had been compelled to cease

plying between Hongkong end Canton. The
Hagfish were compelled to stand on the defensive,
and were painfully conscious that they were bat a
heedful among an irritated nation, arrayed for a
gamins warfare, mailing them lukewarm ander ell
forma, and determined apparently to give no Tarter.
In these circamstanoes our oonntrynken bare them-
selves with the indomitable resolution of English-
am, yet were their eyes emstantly tanking to the
West, whence acme they could look for effectual
aid.

And these are the first fruits of the intemperate,
domineering language for which the miserable dis-
pute about the crew of the Arrow was made the
pretext, and of the wanton sad unjustifiable bom-
bardment of Canton. Up to the day on which war-
his opt:Mime were commenced by the Ad-
miral there had been, indeed, the usual amount
of

_ wreagtiae, and eteddisi be-
times the Chinese sad the Amiga residents Ist
bade was carried on as anal, and the lives and p.
petty el the ibreigners were as secure at Cask..,
Maginot, and Masao se they meld have bees at
Leaden or Paris. Now, rated Wails are bolsi
doily indicted by the =tier and the lareissw% the
passions el the eoetendieg parties we idly beaming
seers brims and kelowdrn—en istearebe war is
waging between the: This has been the debt, net
el the Eagtish ar ether /mica reekisatedial el the
week sad pessampteses man win ha Ines de-
legated to wield the might st &shod in
these regions. The bpi ilawassimbiasoatehoor
bat defied the inmost odlooolootihompetudios
to vial they love bees ammipme et
the makes glissimr, airline Mb lira Is
ether weeds, do agile amoomaili II elver ‘lll
Mao. Asa Ms moo_ duet than Ask et
1841. la that par ROW lob st war with the
Chime Oweloo homaie somber et tte
eoljeolo Wm as moo to is et con-
Wawa' Lt as.lhellse".. at

woe with the Chinese people, juetly indiiftent et the
wanton aid unprovoked attack upon Canton. The
gentry, with whom Englishmen rarely come in eon-
tact, teal their national pride (vanity, if you will)
outraged try that amardt ; the ignorant rural population
LT. their prejudices goaded to madams ; and even

the aserebaisla and sh;pkeepers, the most friendly
elan to the lberkeners, have been exasperated by wit-
seaming the destruction ot their shop, and dwellings
and the slaughter of their friends and relations. We
are told that it is only with the people at the Two
Kemp that we have to des' ; bat it mask be
. _ . _ _

kept ii; naiad that the territery and popedstion of
Here }melons alone exceed those of England; that
dr Wine an eltome their own time and mode of

Sighting; and that the country which is the imme-
diate drone of war is a labyrinth of creeks and
mob UM extensive and more perplexing than that
whisk losidei ear Beet is the Baltic. Nor can we, in
ewe utter ignorance of the internal politics of the
Mare ire, conjecture what amount of support
the leutisra provisoes are likely to receive Dom the
Csedral and Northern.

To subdue that Tromeuee empire would be the
watt of years, and would require huge and wady

armaments. And in what manookaro we to Win
our arms and diplomacy to wigs the antral
authorities so as to yuwkipata lea la a peace ?
The prospect of toeboitakodurbe, mai costly hoe-
talkies lies hire ie. The 11111111 MO• Cl the last
few yeses teadra It 010 sois a gimped my TM"
brawl Cl p&p's(' the aregies ot Irstand.
Illtatreir soy be thought of tho t of
tae DEW= war, the aegesura ad aieau with
tibia ow sabers road wades& is biloblie.
hal es civilian midis mat eolgr loss teeper•
My So taxes import Ily at loshiatare bat
vetrittak taxed thsombill to Illtarestat of addi-
fkMal UMW to yap* of Govera-
sr& id this spirit wee am& aribis alive by
*0 ar Aria that the man von engaged in
a jolt veer, ant aim*, be a great
and borsable AO& Mt Arlin b utterly
wadi fi &be monied Slim Win Even
Omit do ulna popular *NMI teiwb st the
mirk Ile isms paw whisk Maim seen dig-
ging to dell milb sera to Chloe. that passive
aspiaresee w 1 men be disturb& lsy the continuanoe
Cl the war abseirse, by the imasod price of tea,
ly the swan et dot ingigrompat for oar sei-
sms Imishatir *0 dam& it Gift foe the pro-
anulo ditirbionr. The Weibel and the moral
awe litho orbs are .Lady arrayed against a
Chimeieerl rat if veal a war be misted in
fir a her mood& even the are eerie gni ben
wok indict. of the nabs will be mild on
tL awe Mo. Lit to • eardwirmee d this troth
OM we me to ambers Led Paiirsonotes sip.-
rat moire to agoto i otooky as Ma we-
wise art rider IMbeneeintrop t Dees he inked
feel that bow= me a step ray be now
while the woo is rep pumps& it would be
emboolbe elm Oa Ibmison easesqueneee of the
voboi boom% be Mt to

Houma amelt the despetims of the Continent
(that of Naples always onsepted) y had it conve-
nient to proem &magus konambed ea& sobbed
by the sidelt of the time, them is one thing they
ems are le brought to regard with equanimity.
That ems Maoris • Free Press--the free explodes of
the bee thoughts ethos mem. This is the trim Inch-
elm of gentled perm The Oovenumend which
am demi this test is, whatever may be ito outward
tam minaamdelly a popular Governmsme—that
which same b the reverse. If the desgethens
were wpm= alma as they are et hem" all gab&
espresion of opinion would be stilled into sense,
anima whirrs of retest or remosoleamee mold make
Itaelflwardem behalfetthe millionewhessfhe against
the few who rule. lerespenolble statecraft, resting
on its two wiage—a stamling army that ermine re-
sidence, and a priesthood that enslaves thought,—
would are long make itself paramount is this
Europe which in the 16th century was wept by the
strong blast des religious revolutiem, and ia the nth
shaken to its centre by the mom famine' but
more terrible earthquake of a political revolutios.
The lest thieve of that great convulsion have for a
time died away, none can tell how soon to resume
their portentous activity. Meanwhile the darkness
settles down heavily again over the hopes of the
nations, and "the whole night of obscene and cla-
morous birds" that flutter round the thrones of
despotism spend their malign activity in labouring
to extinguish the last flicker of that perilous light
which has heretofore proved so fatal to the ascend-
ancy of the system ander whom shadow alone
they live.

Of all the relies of 1848 nose is so hateful to
the reastionids of 1867 as the Fres Prom of Pied-
moot. In that nook of Italy—hemmed in between
the Alps and the sea, and =stained by the life-
giving influences of both—Piedmont, the little na-
tion of freemen, in a standing reproach to the absolu-
tion that spreads on all sides around it. Piedmont is
the hope of Italy—Austria, its despair. The wrath
of Austria, hag suppressed within the decent bounds
of diplomatic reserve, has at length broken forth.
Notwithstanding the sovereign clemency of the
august Eurrane to his subjects of Milan, the free
Fees of Piedmont has still chosen to characterise the
ruler and the Government in the only teems which,
without treason to truth and right, free Italians
when writing on such subjects could employ.
Count Brat, on the 10th of February, ia instructed
to complain of this in set terms, in a despatch
addressed to the Austrian Envoy at Turin. The
Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs complains that
while "confidence is establishing itself everywhere"
—(just as peace on a certain mewed& works
"reigned at Warsaw")—there are dill a few spirits
who are withheld from joining in that confi-
dence by " inouseantly provocative action from with-
out." The Minister will not conceal from the Envoy
that " the attitude of the Piedmontese Government

hr hurt the Eurzeoz's feelings." The Piediao

press, " faithful to its abject habits and to its syr
tematie hatred against Austria, has endeavoured to
represent recent events at Milan" (the gracious
amnesty, so rapturously extolled in the Voles) " in a
light diametrically opposed to the truth." The
Pied:boatels Government, by not imppressing
three attacks, is guilty of complicity with
their authors, and the feelings of " our august
muter are accordingly hurt." But this is not all.
" Piedmont is not menaced by any Power," and yet
subscriptions have been opened for the purpose of
strengthening her dedissess. Deputations have been
received from the Austrian dominions, expressing
sympathy with a Government which Austria disap-
proves. A monument has even been offered by sub-
jects of the Esteinon to emsumemorate the deeds of
the Sardininn army. Bach are the grievances met-
plained of by Count Bros.—inch the proceedings in
regard to which the " EMPEROR owes it to his own
dignity not to leave the Sardinian Government in
ignorance of the displeasure they have caused him."
Count Carom's reply is at once straightforward
and de:teams. The press of Piedmont, be tells the
Austrian Minister, is free, and it is an essential
principle of the Piedmonts= Government that it
should remain so. As to personal attacks on the
Er reams, the law courts of Turin are open to him
if he chooses to prosecute, though, for that matter,
the scurrility of the press of Milan, in comment•
log ea Piedmont and its Rego, is at least equal to
that of the press of Turin in commenting on
the Emerson and his system ; the dill:ewe being
that the press of Milan is under a strict coneonhip,
and can publish nothing but what the Imperial
Government pleases, while that of Turin is free,
and may publish what it pleases within the limits of
the law. Yes, there is another dilierenes. The press
of
Turin cannot penetrate beyond the Ticino—that
of Milan circulates freely in the states of the Xing
of Sardinia. And yet his Majesty hes never dreamt
of making a complaint on this more. There is one
ether obessmation. The press of Turin, at any rate,
is not more free spoken then the liberal press of
England, and yet this has not prevented his Majesty
the Eureaon from " sceldng, when it suited his
interests, an alliance of friendship with Eng-
land, and hem shelving his satisfied= and
Ode at the good relations established with
that Power." Parsing from the prom to the
ether tyke of eemplant alluded to by Count
Bros., and especially to the demonstrations in favour

of Piedmont &fa Other parts of Italy, the Etudiniaa

Minister dtslares that Inch demonstrations were but
a natural and spontaneous tribute of acknowledg-
ment for the part taken by the representatives of
Piedmont at the Paris Conferences, in calling the
attention of the assembled Powers to the necessity
of political ameliorations in Italy. " There is
nothing in this," proceeds Count CAVOIIII, "to en-
title Austria to complain. She herself, though not
agreed upon the means, feels the necessity of modify-
ing the present state of things in Italy. But she
does more than recognise this in words. By the acts
she has just done, by those which are announced
as likely soon to take place, she has proved by
facts that the statements of the Sardinian

Plenipotentiaries were not devoid of foundation, and
that the approval which crowned their efforts can-
not be imputed to them as an act directly hostile to
Austria." It is to be hoped Count Beer. and his
Imperial muter were gratified by this courteous
retort. The meaning of the whole thing is plain.
Sardinia, its free Government, and its free press,
are felt by the Imperial Government to be a nuisance
that cannot too speedily be abated. That spark of
future independence must, if possible, be trampled
under foot ere it grows into the broad clear blaze of
national regeneration. It is but fear which pre-
vents the attempt from being made—the fear of that
free opinion of which a free press is the only organ.
Let, then, the free press wherever it exists do its
duty ; for in the energy of its protest, in the faith-
fulness with which it represents the deeply-rooted
convictions of all thinking men—in this, and not in
the action of Governments—lies the only hope of

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I

THE NEUFCHATEL QUESTION.

The Neufchatel journals lately anon Alea the ye.
turn of tho councillors of state, MM. Not end Hum-
bert from Paris, and added thu thee, gentlemen
brought back with them the most satisfactory im-
pressions. M. Paget, spa, however, published a
statement in which he declares that, so far as he is
concerned, his impressions have been most unfaith-
fully described by the said journals.

CHINA.

The Pays says:
We learn by the latest news from China, under
date of Dec. 13, that the Court of Pekin had pub-
lished a decree prohibiting all subjects of tho Celes-
tial Empire from trading with the English. Dien.
bedience will be punished with death."

RUSSIAN CIRCULAR.

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 20th, in the

Caastitatioaael, says :
The Romisa govonunsat has sent a Memoir to the Great
Payton, to which it auntines in detail the quarks of the
maim of the Principilities. Tide dont:mat goes back to
1828, when the Rambla troops occupied the Principalities,
sad makes karma the darts of Rosins at that period to pro-
pas the union. It sets teeth that Ramis, at of ell, ea-
&avowed to establish a mimes yaks basics the two Prin.
cipelities, in order to promote their matarial davolopment,
which was makensseed by reatrictioes. At the rase time, it
woe tleired to *co the sober end peasants crack province
to an saalogous position, and to unite the Noldo-Wenachien
Wads under one esaisrader. All than pregoots, the ens-
ratite of which would todoebtetUy have led to a complete
• fined completely la pomace of that opposition of the
Porte sad the intrigues of Austria—the latter power hating
that her projects in the East would be compromised by the
creation of a strong lioldo-Wallechima slate. At length,
however, orgsaic regolations, banedicial to the Poincipolities,
were wrens' from the Sublime Pate end the Court of
Inseam. It is metro that greeter digereacee exist in the
meanies, eagles, aright, sad language el the Inhabitants
of porthole of certain groat Europese, dates than between'
those of Wallachia sad Moldavia, end that a mime of the
two would be of es peat interest to Europe as to the pro-
vinces themselves.

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