The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-05 00:00:00

The Affairs of China,

Minister of the Emperor
Official correspondence between Sir F. Bruce
has been just published, including a copy
of
dchPinrian,ce Kung, Prime
of Prince Kung's answer to Sir F. Bruce's memo-
affairs of China. In a
memo-
randum re
despatch
daltaedtivjeanteo hel6t,sir
F. Bruce details the
complaints made of the entire indifference of the
Chinese authorities to the provisions of the treaties
affecting transit duties, ,e,
—O., for which no redress
could be obtained. Relative to the employment of
Britisher officers
Sir
F i.
n
Brthuceeservice
e cannot authorise the
, of the Chinese Go
v
employment of them, except under the following
conditions ....4. 1. That the Imperial
mperial Government
take into its own hands the customs revenues as a
means of ensuring the regular payment of the force,
in order that discipline may be preserved. 2. That
these forces bs directly under the Imperial Gover:.l-
- from which alone they are to receive their
orders, and to which only they are to be responsible.
They will thus act with the provincial authorities,
but will not be under their
Control. It is for your
Imperial Highness to deciak: whetheryou will make
use of British officers. It is for the to point out the
conditions on which alone their services are to be
had." Prince Kung, in his reply, dated Jane 19,
states that the treaty is identified with the law of 1
the Imperial Government, and is 60 considered in
all dealings with the British Government. In refe-
ference
to the employment of British officers, the I
reply of Prince Kling to the despatch of Sir F.
Bruce contains the following statement of the
views and intentions of
the Chinese Go-
vernment; ti Where British troops are engaged
in protecting the mercantile Community at one
of the ports, these being troops Placed there by the
British Government, which objects
to their moving
away from the port, the co-operation of such troops
against any rebels that may aPProach the port rests
entirely with the foreign Government. These troops
not being in Chinese pay, nor subject to Chinese
control, the Chinese Government has certainly no
right to direct their movements, nor has it anything
to say to their discipline. This there can be no
question about. But when the Chinese Government
purchases vessels and guns, and
appoints a high
officer to take command of them, the foreign mili-
tary officers whom it may engage to assist is the
instruction of its forces, inasmuch as these are ia
the pay of the Government, cannot limit their ser-
vices to action against the enemy only at ,the ports
of trade. Their movements and the distribution of
them must be entirely under the direction of the
Chinese Government."

NIAGARA FALLs.---An accident occurred on Goat
Quartermaster's De•
Island, Niagara Falls, on the 22d ult., near the Biddle
pao nfa
rdtt
the
it he
eenhwto,
horses
eeasosPrecipice iu consequence
ately a shelf in the
Stairs. A carriage containing the wife of Captain Webster
rock some 30 feet down broke their fall, and the ladies
p itaftr
fright,
hotv, Hunt,er
Ft ofho
ert hpuerte
lodged in the trees. ' Otis was seriously and the other
fP
takingreCaptainei
slightly injured.
The Court of Assizes of the Ardennes has just
tried a man named Perin and his sister on a charge
of having murdered the newl3 -born. infant of the latter.
After strangling the poor thing, they boiled its body, gave
the flesh to the pig.,.and burnt the bones. The jury found
the male prisoner guilty, but acquitted the woman. The
furmer was accordingly sentenced to hard labour for life.