Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-07 00:00:00

NORTHERN DAILY TIMES.

THE AMERICAN MISSION TO CHINA.

The China papers rgive accounts of the reception of
the American nassion. at Pekin, from which we learn
that while the Powhattan was anchored off Pei-tang,
there arrived an Imperial edict ordering that the
American .I_4linister, and suite of twenty, should be
escorted with all konour to Pekin. Mr. Ward and
suite accordingly landed at Pei-tang, where they were
received by the escort, and conducted to Pekin with every
show of respect. They first travelled forty-five miles
across the country in covered carts, striking the Peiho
at a village called Pei-tsang, some ten miles above
Tien-isin, and thence proceeded in junks to Toong.,-
chau, distant twelve miles from Pekin, of which it is
the port. There they again took carts to the capital.
The entire trip occupied eight days and a-half, five of
which were passed upon the river. They passed not
less than six or eight barriers between Pei-tsang and
Toong-chau; none of them; however, being in repair,
or backed by forts. The boatmen Said they were partly
to stop the English, and partly to affordshelter to junks
when the ice is breaking up. The legation remained in
Pekin fifteen days, during which time they were con-
fined to their quarters—not, however, as prisoners, for
they were at liberty at any moment to walk out ; but
the commissioners refused the use of horses and guides.
On a day fixed, Mr. Ward, attended by only three of
his party, went to the public hall, where the Imperial
Commissioners met him, surrounded by a great crowd
of officials of every shade of button, all dressed in their
easy summer +costume. Kweiliang looked hale and
vindicated the late acts of his government in respect of
its plans for the exchange of the three treaties. He de-
clared that the Emperor had a right to obstruct the
channel of his own rivers, and had done so at the mouth
of the Peiho to prevent foreign ships ascending to
Tien-tsin; that he would have'been blameworthy if all
ingress had 'been closed, but, on the contrary, every
arrangement had been made for conducting all the
foreign ministers to Pekin by way of Pei-tsang. The
English Envoy, however, had not gone to that place,
but had tried to force his way through the barriers of
Taku, even when warned of the consequences ; and that
by so doing the English had broken the treaty and not
the Chinese, upon whom the responsibility of the viola-
tion did not rest. He concluded his harangue with the
remark that the hostile feelings of the English were also
seen in their bringing as large, if not a larger, force to

exchange their treaty than they had to make

the peaceful designs of the Americans were proved by
their coming in only one vessel.

The Commissioners then proceeded
the Emperor had a regard to the America.
to do them honour by granting them an audience, ar
it only remained for the parties then present
upon the manner of approaching the throne
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ANOTHER TRADE OUTRAGE AT

SHEFFIELD

ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A HOUSE

'About six o'clock on Friday morning, Mr. Joseph
Wilson, saw manufacturer, who occupies a house adjoin-
ing his works, at the corner of Milton and Headford
streets, Sheffield, was aroused by the noise of a violent
explosion, which shook the house. Mr. Wilson
instantly proceeded down stairs, but found such an
accumulation' of rubbish and smoke in the passage
unable at first to get into the "living".

that he was

some little delay he succeeded in
getting into the room, when he found the door blown
up. In the cellar he found that a tin vessel,
which had evidently contained combustibles, had been
let in under the living room, and there exploded. A
serious amount of damage has been done by the explo-
sion

In the cellar there is little mischief done beyond
the tearing off of a large quantity of plaster, &c
explosive current passed in great violence up the cellar
stairs, blowing down the shelves of crockery, &c., at
the cellar bead, and tearing down the partition, partly
of wood and partly of brick, which separated the
passage leading from the kitchen to the cellar from
the- front' passage between the rooms. The 'hearth-
stone and boarded floor of the " living" room, which

is over that part of the cellar, where the explosion
occurred, . were torn up almost the entire breadth
of the room. The marble mantel-piece was broken
in twain; and all the...ornaments standing upon