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fro -1e more we reflect upon the news received
clisgt China, the more indignant we feel at the
kl.--raceful, mean, and pusillanimous conduct of
att:ltiPatentiary ELLIOT. Why such a man,
ttqd the proofs he had given the Government
V4t wt% country of his utter incapacity, was ele-
, 4t( to the rank of a Plenipotentiary, is only
H tolMally to be accounted for by supposing that
I'd PALMERSTON had no choice in the matter
that. ,`he First Lord of the Admiralty and his
kthily Were able to dictate their own terms to
„1* SOVEREIGN. Captain ELLIOT was not an
111 tried man. He had been weighed in the
ilance and found wanting. The public
Igment respecting his incapacity was nei-
let suddenly formed nor rashly pronounced.
`bWas the deliberate result of a calcu-
,ed series of blunders, in which the fee-
elless of almost every high and noble faculty
sftrle mind was successively exhibited. Phy-
lie4l courege is so common to whatever breathes.
ktiftish air, that there is little merit in attributing
tillaair proportion of it to Captain ELLIOT. A
horses
which Englishmen share with their I
Hearin
and dog's is not to be denied to any officer.
co:ring her MAJESTY'S uniform. But of moral
bit Captain ELLIOT has throughout exhi-
ant
the most deplorable deficiency. The pre-
ila h generation will never forget the circum-
'ees under which Captain ELLIOT consented
4,4,11iver up the opium. We need not now
at ell upon them. But surely they ought to have
Ql3llee deprived him of the confidence of the
ctPrnment, and produced his immediate re-
-4,h4 Why, after that disastrous exhibition of
i4erity and tame submission, was he permitted
,`ther to degrade the British name ? For it
oOld not have escaped the penetration of Lord
At'kEnsTort that the Chinese themselves must
ki„v,e a' contempt for a nation represented by
it a nincompoop as the British Superintendent.
Pi r°lll the tone of an Edict of KESHEN, and
to a report addressed to the EMPEROR relative
111 find
occupation of Chusan, which our readers
find in another part of The Sun, we have
Edina doubt that another expedition against
h will be necessary at no distant period.
e edict which was written after the capture
b$ the forts proclaims the English " rebel bar-
-1,,„,,44115"—a style of denomination somewhat at
fiance with the article in the ELLIOT Con-
, If' ion which recognizes the equality of Great
ill44in and China. The repo:t demonstates
Isie folly of our abandoning the fine central
' arid of Chusan for the contemptible Islet of
libTllg Kong, and absolutely recommends the
Ilost jealousy of us, and the wheedling us
Itilt of the country. It is impossible to read
Ilese documents and not be convinced of the
l iladerino• tendency of our whole policy, and
bhow completely we have been - baffled and
p,-41boozled by the Chinese. This conviction is
k°!lreral among the British merehantS at Macao,
'4 •
Is shared by the mercantile community of
th'itish India. In a letter from Bombay, dated
14 Ist of March, a correspondent of. the Times
Tit,:
es as follows :
1%00 terms accepted by the British Plenipotentiary are
Cs upon as unworthy of England. Hong Kong may be-
trer:• agood military and naval station ; but 1,000,0Q0 dollar:
tki,e' Year for six years are considered insufficient even for the
''tiro es. The opium compensation appears to have been
overboard altogether. 6,000,000 dol:ars every year for
ip :„`I. }ears ought to have been obtained to do justice
prties.- The preliminaries do not speak of
ftlter redreass for injury, or of any security tor. the
except, indeed, the liberty of official inter-
-1141:;" be considered suet. There are no commerc'al arrange-
,lo tariff, and Hong Kong is to be opened to all nations.
httt Dtelirninarit s may not have been sufficiently explained,
tio44 far as they are known, they excite general dissatisfac-
tato; Captain grotesque imitation of European &plc.-
'l:;fraseology has thrown an air of burlesque ,m the whole.
'Oll4 ulends of Captain Elliot say, that his orders were to
the eleace at all risks, and he has made one which will have
c,eueet of prwucing anoiher war in a very short tine.
':.th''llllilar. opinions are expressed in nearly all
. ,'lndian Journals we have received. China
' for not made the shadow of a reparation for
t 11( ti!e past,. nor given the slightest security
tit luture. On the contrary, KESIIEN openly
in ~rOssly insulted Great Britain by the way
ecl4l:ich. he announced the convention to his
N-er r3rlnen. The English barbarians, he said,
doce noW obedient. to orders—that by an official
.01 cillillent they had restored Tingliae (the capital
'64,111,15an) and Shaheo, and that they had
kra tstly invoked him to be for them Imperial
poten°7l and favour. Its fact the Chinese Pleni-
-110 tiarY, so far from acknowledging our na-
tial
rebt, equality, treats us as a pack of barbarian
. 's reduced to obedience, but whom it might
e
InPolitic to punish too harshly. Poor ELLIOT

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LONDON:
SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841.

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was not the man to convince the Chinese of our
equality with them. That is reserved for the
commander of some future expedition, in which
the ill-starred name of ELLIOT will not figure in
a higher rank than that of Lieutenant of Marines,
or Boatswain's-mate. And now that Great Bri-
tain has been for years kicked, and cuffed, and
reviled, and spat upon by the Chinese, we sup-
pose it will be at last Idiscovered by her
MAJESTY'S Government that the SOVEREIGN
might be more worthily represented in the
Celestial Empire, than by LIN'S officious
coadjutor in the work of suppressing
the opium trade. Lord MINTO must by
this time have had a sufficient dose of the
laurels with which his relative and protege the
Plenipotentiary is likely to adorn the family
escutcheon. The best thing the family could do
would be to make the Emperor of CHINA a pr&-
sent of the Plenipotentiary. " CHARLEY FRO-
THY," as the Middies call him, would make an
excellent Mandarin, most of whom he at present
rivals in the composition of that grave inflated
bombast which so tickles the ears of the Orientals.

The Church Extensionists, we see, are again
actively employed in getting up petitions in flu-
your of their plan of levying additional taxes on
the public. Sir R. Ixams, " whose ardour in the
cause of true religion" it is said, "no temporary
defeat can extinguish," has informed the House
of Commons that he hopes, after Easter, to at-
tract its attention to the subject. In the mean-
ti:ne the clergy and the friends of Church Ex-
tension throughout the land are to exert them-
selves, and pour in petitions to both Houses. In
one House the prayer of such petitions will no
doubt be favourably listened to ; but, fortunately
for the public, the subject involves a grant of
money, which must proceed from the House of
Commons. We are not, indeed, sure, from the
manner in which that House is now constituted,
that it would not listen to the prayer of the Ex-
tensionists, were the Exchequer as overflowing
as in the days of Mr. Prosperity ROBIN-
SON ; but the urgent wants of the State
and the deficiency of the revenue will now
effectually prevent the House of Commons from
listening to the demand for more money to build
churches and endow priests. We would not,
under such circumstances, recommend the public
to meet the Extensionists by counter petitions,
if they be disposed to address either House of
Parliament, but rather to petition for a redress
of some grievance connected with the Church.
We see for example, according to the provin-
cial papers, that a considerable number of per-
sons in different places have been summoned for
Church-rates, and in some cases have been called
before Ecclesiastical Courts. In the majority of
the cases the people paid, and on that account
the Tory journals have set up a cry of triumph.
The Anti-Church-rate party, then, are mocked
at and insulted for obeying the law. If the Dis-
senters have in them the spirit of men that
ought to rouse them unanimously to demand that
they should be relieved from the payment of
Church-rates, and from the jurisdiction of Eccle-
siastical Courts. Here are great grievances to
which the Dissenters are subjected, and for the
abolition of which they ought to petition.
Let them not petition for the abolition of Ec-
clesiastical Courts, because the members of the
Church and the clergy may wish to preserve
them, but let them petition to be relieved from
the jurisdiction of those Popish tribunals, and
from the payment of that Popish exaction,
Church-rates. If the Churchmen like Ecclesi-
astical Courts and Church-rates, let them
be gratified. The Dissenters can have no
reason to prevent them indulging in so
rational an enjoyment. All that they
have to do is to protect themselves. It is
no business of theirs to break the yoke
of priestcraft for the members of the Church.
To get relieved from the payment of Church-
rates and from the jurisdiction of ecclesias-'
tical tribunals is their proper business, and
seems to us a nobler object than to petition merely
against the extension of the Church, which their
wily opponents describe as petitioning against
Christianity.

We have long been surprised at the patience
with which Protestant Dissenters, who have a
conscientious aversion to Popery, submit to ec-
clesiastical tribunals, and to ecclesiastical taxes.
The Dissenters must remember that Mr. Nicnoi.
lately informed the public from his place in Par-
liament that the Ecclesiastical Courts are not the
QUEEN'S Courts, but the Bishops' Courts, and
were not affected by an Act of Parliament
restraining the Queen's Courts. To obey them
is, therefore, to obey the Bishop in spiritual
matters; and we cannot reconcile the consis-
tency of the Dissenters in deserting the Church
for conscience sake, incurring all the guilt of
schism, and still submitting to the Bishop's
jurisdiction, as exercised in the Courts which
were established by Papal Bishops for Papal
purposes. Such conduct is neither consistent
nor conscientious. At various periods the Dis-
senters have stood out stoutly against the
Church and State combined ; and it will be dis-
graceful to them, when the State will not take
an active part against them, if they now submit
to the Church alone, and humble themselves
before the enthroned Bishops or their repre-
sentatives, when, by one spirited and unanimous
remonstrance, they might cast off this remnant
of the Papal yoke from their\necks for ever.

As to the Extensionists, the !House of Corn
mons will probably think it their duty to in-
quire before they grant money to build churches,
whether or not they are to be filled with that
ingenious race of sophists who reconcile their
consciences " to hold the tenets of Rome with the
endowments of the Church of England," or by
" those low-minded, bitter race .of priests," ac-
cording to the Post, who persecute the High-
Church Angels. As Church Extension is
advocated by Sir R. INGLIS and the Standard,
we presume that the Low-Church party is the

most active in the chase after the public money,
and that their ism will find most favour with the
patrons of the new churches, should any more
be built. It is, however, for the Legislature to
reflect, in so applying the public money, that
they will either encourage mysticism and insin-
cerity, or bitter, persecuting, theological malig-
nity. Far better would it be to throw the wealth
the law will take from the people into the sea.

We are reminded, by seeing a brief notice of
Lord ASHBURTON in the Anti-Corn-law Circu-
lar, that we have lately said some harsh things
of that Nobleman. We have accordingly taken
our conscience to task, and if we could honestly
retract them we cheerfully would. But while
our Parliamentary records prove that Mr.
BARING, the merchant, having then much to
gain by enlarged commerce, was a strenuous ad-
vocate for free trade, and a determined opponent
of the Corn-laws, and that Lord ASHBURTON,
the landowner, having left trade and in-
vested his gains in the soil, is the for-
ward opponent of free trade, and the sturdiest
advocate of the Corn-laws--while our Parlia-
mentary records prove these charges against Mr.
BARING, become Lord ASHBURTON, we cannot
recollect one instance by which his private mu-
nificence has redeemed his public character.
Europe has heretofbre had princely merchants,
and many of them, both at home and abroad,
have conferred honour on their country by
employing their wealth in improving and
I adorning it. The palaces of " Genoa, the Superb,"
built by her merchants, would confer honour
on most of the Princes of Europe. The
merchant Medici having first enriched their
country became its sovereigns, and placed their
descendants on the Papal throne. In like man-
ner our own GRESHAMS and BECKFORDS have
conferred renown on their country by the muni-
ficent employment of their wealth or their de-
fence of our liberties. Lord ASHBURTON, as far
as we know, has done nothing for the arts but
build an ugly house in Piccadilly, and nothing
for the national liberties but betray them.
The name of BARING, WO, is associated in the
public and Parliamentary records with one of the
meanest pieces of petty oppression that has made
much noise in modern times. In the pages of the
• late Mr. COBBETT and the Times it will be handed

down to posterity with anything but applause.
We venerate the name and character of a true
merchant. It is his great business to equalize
the variations of the eusons and the diversities

-,

of climates. He brings the abundance of one
clime or place to supply the wants of another. He
enriches himself by conferring benefits on all
with whom he deals. The wealth obtained by
our commerce is not, in the eye of humanity,
of one tithe so much importance as the
civilisation which follows in its train, and
as the friendly relations with which
it binds together nations politically and

historically hostile to each other. It was left
for Mr. BARING, become Lord ASHBURTON, to
degrade, in our estimation, the name and station
of a princely merchant to the level of a money-
scrivener, seeking wealth at the expense of
others by nefarious legislation. From creating
employment, conferring wealth, multiplying food
and conveniences as a merchant, to arresting
trade, stopping subsistence, and starving the peo-
ple as a Legislating Peer, is one of the saddest
instances of degradation from true nobility
which the annals of mankind can afford. To
have lost his fortune and become a pauper would
have been a less degradation for Mr. BARING
than the change from a useful merchant to a
mischievous landowner.

The French Journals of Thursday have
reached us. The following are the observations
of the National on the news from China :
" The most important clause of the new treaty is that
which stipulates for the cession of the Island of Hong-Kong
to Great Britain. England thus realises her dream of two
centuries. In 1760, after several fruitless attempts in the
Chinese seas, she established a factory at Formosa. She
then attempted to dislodge the Portuguese from Macao, and
to create an establishment in the Island of Amoy ; but this
project failed. The authority given to England in 1689 to
establish a factory at Canton did not satisfy, and, come-
quently, she never ceased intriguing at Pekin in order to
obtain permission to instal herself more solidly on the territory
of the Chinese empire. In 1755, the English appeared at
Ningpo, and, in the course of the same century, they set
foot on the soil of Tchou-Chan (not Chusan) but they were
soon compelled to abandon both. From that time they
were unable to succeed until they called opium to their aid,
and now they triumph. Hong-Kong, or more properly speak•
ing, the archipelago of Hong-Kong, is situated in the bay of
Canton, opposite the river of that name, and about three
myriametres (rather more than six English miles) to the
cast of Macao. This group occupies so small a space in the
possessions of the Chinese empire, that we only find it in very
large maps, and even there only the two largest islands are laid
down. The largest of the two, that which gives its name to
the archipelago, is only two myriametres long, taken at
its longest part, and its mean breadth is about a
myriametre and a half. These islands are barren, and
are scarcely inhabited; their position constitutes all their
importance. The English are not the first to appreciate
the advantages which they offer in a military and commercial
point of view. They have long served as a nest of smugglers
and pirates. We can easily conceive the value of this new
acquisition. In future the English will be no longer com-
pelled to place their ships under the protection of the Portu-
auese guns. Whilst nominally within the dominions of the
Emperor of China they will be at home ; this is all they
wanted. In 1611, they obtained permission from the Great
Mogul to found an establishment at Surata. This served as
their point d'appui for the conquest of India, and the Em-
perors of Delhi soon learned to their cost, that to surrender a
single inch of ground to the English, is to furnish them with
the means of stealing an entire kingdom. What the English
did on the Banks of the Ganges, they will do in China. They
know, to use the words of Lord Napier, that they have to do
with a people who are without the means of defence, and they
will lay hold of the first favourable opportunity for throwing off
the mask. In the meantime they will continue to gain ground
and strength according to their praiseworthy custom, until some
fine day the anger of the Emperor will break forth, and give
rise to a new war and new concessions on the part of the Chi-
nese. This is the history of all the invasions of the English.',
We are not quite so sanguine in our views as
the National, nor would that Journal, did not
the occasion afford an opportunity of strengthen-
ing French prejudices against this country.
The France has a sensible article on the oppo-
sition of the English press to the fortification
of Paris, but want of space prevents our quot-
ing it.
There is no news of general interest in the
French Journals'.

A letter from Bologna of the 30th of March announces
that Prince Baccioehi, the husband of Elisa:(the sister of Na-
poleon )is dangerously ill. There was a report in circulation
in the same city that the Duke of Modena intended to retire
into a convent of Jesuits.

Marshal Vallee has left Nismes for Pau, where he will arrive
the day after to-morrow.
We have a letter from Algiers of the 30th of March, which
says :—" We are all in motion to-day. The expedition, which
is to revictual Medeah and Miliana, sets out this moment
under the command of the Lieutenant-General Governor.
The column consists of 10,000 men. —La ‹;azette de France.

A letter from Vienna of the 28th of March says,—" Ihe
visit of Prince Metternich to Johannisberg -will probably not
take place so soon as had been stated. The continued ex-
change of couriers and the evident press of business at the
Prime Chancellor's office, indicate the active correspondence
of our Cabinet with those of the other Powers, and the Prince's
journey cannot be seriously thought of till the political questions
now pending are decided to the satisfaction of all parties.
Meantime the political horizon is becoming more and more
clear, and on the authority of letters from Paris we hear of an
entire restoration of harmony between France and England,
as well as of the declared return of the former to a participa-
tion in the measures of the other great powers for the pre-
servation of peace.
The Journal des Debats says, it hasthe pleasure to announce
_ _

hat Lord Granville is much better, and that he is no jonger
La danger.—Le Commerce.
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WHAT IS POPERY ?—Priestcraft working out
Clnistiality to its own purposes. The Pope at
Rome, the College of Cardinals at Rome, the
whole army of priests, of whom the heads and
chiefs are in that city, which swarms throughout
Europe, are all engaged in using Christianity
and perverting it to their own profit, and. practis-
ing on the people. Disguise it how men may,
this is the life and soul of Popery. In what re-
spect and degree does the Anglican Church differ
from Popery so explained ? The archbishops,
bishops, rectors, vicars, curates, heads of houses
at the Universities, spiritual tutors, are one and
all engaged in working, and, we will boldly add,
perverting, Christianity to their own profit and
purposes. They may take different means from
the Romish priesthood, they may appeal to dif-
ferent prejudices, they may disguise, their object
more artfully, but it is impossible to deny that
all these men are engaged "in a conspiracy to
work Christianity to their own profit. That we
affirm is Popery, and we challenge the Anglican
priesthood to deny or disprove our assertion.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice PATTISON. )
MURDER.—Harriet Longley alias Harris, was indicted
for the wilful murder of her female child, on the 19th of
March last, by throwing it into the New River.
No Counsel appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Clarkson
defended the prisoner.
A number of witnesses were examined, but the details are
fresh in the recollection of the public, therefore it is wine-
cessary to repeat them.
After Mr. Clarkson had addresied:the Jury for the
defence,

Mr. Baron GURNEY said that the simple question for
tl e Jury to consider, was, did this woman wilfully throw
the child into the water, and thus occasion her death.
fie was afraid that he could hardly point out any
evidence to support the assumption taken by the
Learned Counsel, that at the time of throwing the child
into the water she was not in a state to be morally and
legally accountable. These were questions, however, fur
Them to determine, and he should leave them to their ctn..
bideration.

The Jury, after deliberating a short time, returned the
following verdict :—" We find the prisoner Guilty, but
we strongly recommend her to mercy, in consequence of
;he distressing circumstances which have appeared in evi-
dence before us."
The COURT ordered sentence of death to be rccorded
against the prisoner, and
Mr. Baron G tiRNEY, who seemed much affected, address-
ed her as follows Harriet Langley, the Jury have re-
turned the only verdict they could return; but taking all the
facts of the case into their consideration, they have earnestly
recommended you to mercy, and my Learned Brother and 1,
from a very anxious consideration of your case, trust we shall
not be failing in our duty to the public in recommending you
to her Majesty as an object for her merciful consideration.
Olr that young women would take warning by your fate when
they first listen to the voice of seduction—they little know to
what dreadful consequences a first false step may lead."
The prisoner, who had been in tears chain.; almost the
whole trial, was then removed from the bar.