The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-21 00:00:00

GRAHA m, in a pamphlet on this question, that " The
immediate objects of the ulterior measures adopted by
t':e Chinese authorities—viz , the surrendering of all
opium consigned to the imprisoned residents at Canton,
whether lying in the deposit ships anchored ia the nearer
offings of ere outer waters, or on board the trading
craft at a distance from the Chinese coast.; as well as
the subscription by all foreign residents of joint bonds
to abstain in future, under penalty of death all for each
other, from all dealings in opium—were such as the
Government of no country had a right to demand from
the subjects of another. Although opium was certainly
a contraband article, and the Chinese authorities were
entitled to go and seize The drug wherever it could be
found within their Custom-house jurisdiction, it by no
means follows that they were entitled to require gener-
ally that all opium which might possibly be on board the
deposit ships in the offings of the outer waters, or else-
where, should be delivered to them. Still less were they
entitled to make such a demand upon all foreigners,
not only for themselves individually, but also as
held responsible for each, without any regard to
their actual connection or disconnection with the trade
—or to their distinction from each other as sub-
jects of different nations." This Is so evident that it
hardly requires illustration. Most certainly, were any
European Government to attempt to supply the ineffi-
ciency of its Custom-house force, by a promiscuous
seizure of all foreigners within its territory, offering them
the agreeable alternative of death or the delivery of a
fixed quantity of goods at sea, an instant would not be
lost by the Sovereigns of subjects so coerced in Inakit.g
war upon the Government so offending. Th., act in
the case of China was the more unjustifiable and atro-
cious as the Superintendent, Captain ELLIOT, had ful-
minated a proclamation against the opium traffic, jointly
with that of the Govet nor LIN ; and as the merchants
at Canton, only seven days after LIN'S edict, had
pledged themselves in writing to abstain from all further
dealing in the prohibited drug. " The foreign merchants
of all nations resident at Canton," said they in nn address
to LIN, " beg to represent, that being now made fully
aware of the Imperial command for the entire abolition of
the traffic in opium, hereby pledge themselves not to deal
in opium. to attempt to introduce it into the Ce-
lestial Empire " This was all that the merchants
could reaso ably promise--all that the Chinese Go-
vernment could lawfully demand The Chinese are a
Their commerce with Siam, Cochin
trading people.
China, Burmeh, Muscat, and nearly ail the States of
Western India. is very extensive. They are not there-
fore an isolated race, claiming to be exempt front all the
advantages of the law of nations—as some of our coun-
trymen ignorantly suppose—and therefore it would be
little less than to hand over our countrymen to every
species of torture practised upon natives, to admit the
principle implied in the toleration of the Governor's
conduct towards the merchants resident in Canton.

A correspondent calls our attention to what he deno-
minates the " high encomiums" passed by the Times on
a very common-place memorandum of the Duke of
WELLINGTON on the subject of our relations with
China, forming a part of the correspondence just laid
before Parliament. Our correspondent completely mis-
takes the drift of the Time:, by whom the Duke of
WELLINGTON is intensely hated. The Times knows
quite as well as does our correspondent, that it was the
adoption of the policy of the Duke's memorandum by
the present Government that really led to our present
rupture with China ; and in publishing that memoran-
dum, with its recommendation of leaving our trade with
China to be protected by the presence of a single " fri-
gate"—(ilie Volage, for example)—our apostate con-
temporery had no other wish than to render the Illus-
trous Duke as contemptible for his statesmanship as
the world knows him to be matchless for his heroism in
the field of battle. The praises which the Times has
claimed for the unfortunate policy of the Duke with re-
gard to Turkey, Portugal, and Spain since his Grace
exchanged the sword of the warrior for the pen of the
statesman and diplomatist, ought ere this to have re-
moved every doubt from the public mind as to the real
design of that Journal. But the Times, like MACHIA,
VEL, has the misfortune to address dull satires to a dull
age, and; not unfrequently has to witness what is in-
tended for keen invective regarded as fulsome panegyric.
The celebrated Florentine wrote his " Prince" with a
view to ridicule the policy of Kings ; but as he himself,
in his correspondence, says, he beheld with horror the
greatest statesmen combining to understand him lite-
rally, and that the maxims he seemed to ridicule were
really recommended by him. The Times is not a jot
more fortunate. Of this our correspondent nosy rest
assured, that he does not look with more contempt upon
the boasted memorandum than does the writer in the
Times; and what is more, that had it been calculated
to redound to the gioiy of the Duke of WELLINGTON,
not a line of it would have appeared in the Times.

Madrid papers of the 12th inst. have reached us,
but their contents are unimportant. The election rt.-
turns, which threaten to consume the whole time of the
Session, still occupied the Chamber of Deputies. In
the Senate, on the 11th, the Address to the QUEEN
REGENT, in answer to the speech from the Throne,
was under discussion. Tnc funds had considerably im-
proved ; the Five per Cents. were at 29 1-16 for cash,
and 291 for sixty days.

There is no news of general interest in the Paris
Journals of Thursday. After a world of intrigues, the
prime mover of which was no other than King Louis
PHILIPPE, a section of the " 221 " have consented to
support the Secret Service Bill, and thus keep TRIERS
in office during the present Session of the Chambers.
From Saturday last till Wednesday evening, the KING
left no stone unturned to oust TRIERS, but neither
Count MOLE nor M. DUCHATEL, the present props of
the Court, could be prevailed upon to take office. See-
ing there was no help for it, the KING yielded, charging
the courtiers, however, to keep secret from the
Premier negotiations already known to every person
in Paris. The Legitimists, too, are said to have joined
THIERS'S standard, so that the little Premier is quite
safe, and in a condition to look abroad at what it is his
boast to contemplate, and his pride to comprehend—
the external relations of flit, Great Powers of Europe.
It is reported that General BUGEAUD, who, a few
days ago in the Chamber of Deputies, preferred the
honours of war to free trade and cheap beef, is to
supersede Marshal VALLEE in the Government of French
Africa. Can there be nobody found but the concocter
of the Treaty of Tafna to undertake the command in
Africa ?

The following extracts include the only paragraphs,
in the way of news, in the French Journals :
Lieutenant-General Count Guilleminot died at Baden,
on Sunday last, in the 66P.6 year of his age.
HErioEs OF MAZAORAN.—The Minister of War has just
decided that one of our most esteemed artists shall be
sent to Mazagran, with a commission to execute, at the
expense of the War Department, a picture representing
the new triumph which illustrates our military history.
The picture will be placed in the Museum of Versailles,
vtith those glorious records which our occupation of Al-
giers, has enabled us to add to so many others. —lllnniteur
AFRICA.—We have received a letter from Aigicrs,
dated the 11th. Marshal Vallee set out on the 10th with
his staff, escorted by a strong detachment of gendarmes.
On the 9th and 10th, almost all the disposable troops
reached the plain; a convey is gone to Bouffarick ; there
were no fewer than 600 waggons laden with provisions and
ammunition.

It it from Bouffarick that the expedition was to set
out on the 12th, to proceed in the first place to Blidah,
then to Kole;,h, and lastly to Cherchell. The eapeditioc
consists of 12,000 men, and is well provided with artillery.
T‘to steam boats were to depart in the night to attack
Cherchell by sea, while the army under the command
of Marshal Vallee will attw k it by land. It appears
certain that the town will be completely destroyed. It is
affirmed that the place is deserted, and that our troops
will take possession of it without firing a shot. Alter
hiving destroyed Cherchell the army will go to revictual
at Koleah, thence to Blidah, and lastly, it is said, against
the tribe of the Iladjouites, in order to destroy every-
thing, and if possible to take from these bol- robbers a part
of their flocks.—Le C'onstitutionnel.

SPAIN, —The Eec de Aragon of the 14th states that
Espartern marched trom Oh. to on the loih for Aleorisa.
The first division occupied Lis Olmos and the second E.
Mas, preparing to march to attack Castenote. The third
division was at Egalve and its vicinity. The Ero has
letters from Alcorisa of the 11th, stating that the Carlists
had retreated from Molinos and occupied Seno, Dit
Torres, Santa Olca, Ladrunesu, and Luco. The Ciri•z-
,
ttn, s Were at 13erg Los Olmns. lids de las Matt, Ju:v,.,
and La Malta, Z rlmno
at. Cahi a and Pamm,r.
tedlote, it is in7cncleci, will he the next Ca. t fort to be
attack, d.

CONSTANTINOPI E' Fan 28 —lt is stated that Lord
Ponsonby has just' received accounts from London, which
are unfavourable to the propositions of Russia on the
Eastern question. During rho last month four English
couriers have left for Tabriz, and accounts arc anxiously
expected. A le-ter !Tom Trebisoßd of the 19th, states that
the Russians have been defeated on the frontiers of Kliiva ;
but nothing
agents of England. The Charge d'Affaires of the unitedhas been published on this subject by the
States has just concluded a treaty of commerce with the
Porte, based on that of the 16th of August, 1838. The
fi man, authorising the rajas to wear tho Fez, is daily
looked for.'

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David Dundas, the
'REPRESENTATION OF SUTHERLAND.--Mr.
English barrister, has published an Ad-
dress to the electors of Sutheriandslure, on the understanding
that Mr. Howard, the present Tory Member, is about to retire
from Parliament. Mr. Dundas is a well-known Reformer,
and will, if returned, give bis cordial support to the pre.
cent (3(tvernment."—Gtaspopo Chronicle.