The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-10 00:00:00

died upon as only pdtiaily true. All the' Imperial.
Guards arc Tartars, the great Officers of State are
Tartars, nor is there any public office of trust from
which the native Chinese are not rigidly excluded.
Before the accession of the reigning Tartar dynasty,
the Chinese delighted in commerce, which they
took every opportunity of extending ; but since the
Manchows obtained the dominion of the finest
portion of Asia they have cut off all trade to the
utmost of their power, for fear of affording the
Chinese an opportunity of rebelling against them.
At no period of their history have the Chinese
people been indifferent to commerce. Its sole ene-
mies are the Manchows, who when they found
that they could not entirely stop all foreign trade,
confined it to one city of the empire, and loaded it
with such heavy imposts as they hoped would deter
foreigners from engaging in it. These imposts ex-
ceed in amount what any but merchants trading to
China have the least conception of. Thus the
charges on vessels of SOO tons burthen are equal to
8001. sterling each, -nd so on in proportion, exclu-
sive of various items which privately find their way
into the pockets of the Mandarins in the river.
These imposts are ruinously exorbitant; and one of
the objects of the present expedition is to insist upon
their reduction. This will prove no less advanta-
geous to the British tea-drinker than to the British
merchant.
The naval expedition against China consists of
eighteen ships of war of all sizes, a troopship
ami sixteen transports—forming altogether the most
powerful squadron that ever appeared in the
Chinese waters. As the Admiral has instructions
to negotiate no treaty unless directly with the EM-
PEROR, it being impossible to place reliance on any
statement made by the Mandarins, we by no means
expect that the question will be soon settled. Every
scheme of procrastination will be adopted, in the
hope that either by stratagem, or the fury of the
elements, the Barbarian squadron may be destroyed.
After the first brush, the war on the part of the
Chinese will be purely defensive. The inhabitants,
along the coasts will be commanded to retire into
the interior, taking with them their provisions and
moveable property, and every device resorted to.
with a view to harrass and starve the invaderv.
For this mode of warfare, we doubt not the
British Admiral is well prepared. If resorted
to, it will at least enable him to make a
permanent settlement on the coast of China,
which shall serve as a check upon the future ag-
gressions of that faithless Government. Should
the EMPEROR, to avoid all intercourse with the
British Admiral, retire beyond the great wall
among his native tribe, the project of a revolution
will be tried ; and, from what we learn of the public
feeling in China, with the prospect of complete
success.

We can readily credit what the Indian papers

tell us of the excitement which this expedition has
created at the Courts of Burtnah, Cochin-China,
Siam, and Japan. The Chinese Resident in Siam,
and more particularly in Bankok, the capital, are
confident that the English cannot succeed, as the
entire population of Great Britain, if sent to
China in their youth, and employed in cutting off
the heads of the Celestials, would be grey-headed
before one-fourth of the Chinese would be decapi-
tated ! Such are the simple ideas of the Chinese
with respect to European warfare. But their au-
ditors are not so ignorant of the results of British
prowess; and of the Native Princes of India sus-
pected of disaffection to England, there was not
one upon whom the news of such an expedition,
directed against such a formidable Power, had not
produced a profound impression. Partial success,
much more defeat, in C Inna,would raise a host of ene-

mies against our dominion in tbeEasl. THORAWAD.
DEE would take the fiPld at once, and, perhaps, ii

imitation of his ferocious father, would command
his armies, after sacking Bombay and Calcutta, to
march on and burn London ! This Monarch
does not like to do even mischief for nothino. ; for
having on a late occasion made the ex-Queen,
her brother, four Ladies of the Court, twelve
Officers of State, and some twenty more obscure
individuals shorter by the head, the Governor of Ran-
goon was i,►structed to apprise the British Resident,
which he accordingly did, that it was usual on such
occasions to make handsome presents to his M
JESTY ! Now, if he expected a present from
Colonel BENSON for decapitating thirty•eight of
' his own subjects, what might he not be expected
to demand for burning London

We have borrowed from the Herald of Tuesday
a letter descriptive of the present state of manufac-
tures in Ghent. It contains nothing very new, but it
is right to have a confirmation of the fact, that other
nations are becoming equal to Great Britain in '
manufacturing skill, on Tory authority. The Anti-
Corn-law party have been labouring for some time
to make that fact extensively known, and have exhi-
bited at Manchester and in London specimens of
• various manufactures made i❑ Belgium, Saxony,
and on the Rhine, at a cheaper rate than equal and
similar goods can be made in England. We may
Oleic!' ore, now assume that it is established to the
complete satisfaction of the Corn-law advocates,
and they are only required to attend to the conse-