The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

the Royal Geographer's map of these fields of
tion by the name of San-sien-wey!

The conclusions drawn by ourselves in the columns
before yesterday, that is on Mon-
ay afterno6n, the conclusions at once drawn by us
from this entangled web of contradictions are already
borne out entirely by the despatches published last
night in the London Gazette—from the perusal of
ich none can rise but with the conviction that
diplo tic negotiation had been indignantly
dropped soon after the commencement of Septem-
ber, and that long before the close of September
the Allied forces had marched onward within " easy
distance " from the city of Pekin. The telegrams
in their bewildering entirety, as first given to the
public in the columns of the Post on Monday morn-
ing—telegrams which we reproduced in another part
of our impression of Monday evening with all due
acknowledgment, but without accepting them, in
our remarks in our leading columns as in any way
conclusive as indications of the happy close of the
Chinese war—these telegrams elicited from the
Times of the following morning a few very simple
and ingenious words of explanation. Eliminating
one of the telegrams alone from the cluster given
on Monday by our Ministerial contemporary—the
telegram mainly intimating the prospective return
homewards of our forces, and announcing, even
under date the 24th of September, that Sir
HOPE GRANT had ordered two regiments to
retrace the line of their march for
immediate re-embarkation—the Times observed, in
regard to that telegram, "It can hardly be doubted
that at the time this telegram was despatched the
commander of the expedition looked upon the cam-
paign as closed. The question, then, is, when was
it despatched ? It had no date of place, but simply
began, Twenty-fourth September.' To reconcile
it with the other despatches of course is difficult ;
but if the above date were correct there could be
little doubt that the negotiations had succeeded.
Unfortunately, however, the telegram, on being
repeated from Marseilles, ran as follows Tien-
tsin, Fourth September,' an alteration which ex-
plains everything. The word ' twenty' had been
erroneously substituted for ' Tien-tsin.' It is plain
that this is the correct version, and that the tele-
gram is an old one of Sir HOPE GRANT'S, sent off
when the first negotiations were in progress, and
when he thought that an expedition to Pekin
might not be necessary," As we have said—a
very simple and a very ingenious explanation !
But one nevertheless that the Post of this morning
will by no means accept as conclusive. Our con-
temporary, however, only rejecting the explanation
suggested by its censor and critic, so very feebly
•
and fa intly that it can mere find heart to observe
—" We have yet to learn that the very plausible
hypothesis by which twenty is supposed to repre-
sent Tien-tsin has any more solid foundation
than the facile supposition of a Maltese tele-
gram being repeated from Marseilles." The
upshot of all this, in truth, being, as we main-
tained on Monday evening, that all we have
to do now is to wait as patiently as we may until
the gaps yet remaining in our intelligence from
China shall have been filled up by later advices.
Content in the meantime with the knowledge, a
knowledge now perfectly assured to us by the de-
spatches printed last night in the London Gazette,
the certain knowledge that the pen has been long
since flung aside indignantly by Lord ELGIN at
Tien-tsin, and that the sword has been again drawn
in earnest by Sir HOPE GRANT, then (when our
last advices left) at the head of his troops, in a fair
way to lead them shortly up to the very walls of
the Chinese capital.
A little while longer now and we shall, in
all human probability, learn that the Allies
are fully in possession of Pekin, and that
then and there only, as we anticipated, and
as we insisted in plain words from the
very outset, the terms of a satisfactory,
because resolute and conclusive Treaty, may be
dictated to the faineant Chinese EMPEROR and his
Tete Government. Humanity even dictates alone
this bold and determined course. Half measures
we have already tried with these Chinese just a
trifle more than once too often. With what result
upon the last occasion is only, alas, too painfully
borne in remembrance at this time beside many an
English hearth, where surviving relatives yet
mourn the loss or the life-long anguish of
those four hundred gallant tars treacherously
maimed or murdered by that infamous am-
buscade, prepared with such devilish art and
deliberation for the reception of our peaceful
ambassador ! Remembering that one deplorable
event alone, we have felt from the first,
we have insisted again and again, from the
time of the fitting out of this expedition
of ours against the Chinese, that one result,
and one result only, could prove in any way really
and expeditiously effectual—that result being, of
course, nothing less than the capture of Pekin
itself, and the dictation at Pekin, and nowhere else,
of the final terms of the pacification. Reading
these last despatches of Lord ELGIN, we can, hap-
pily, exult in the conviction that, still to the last,
the noble Earl is there as the Right Man in the
Right Place, that he yet fully realises the full
weight of the responsibilities devolving upon him
as the British Plenipotentiary entrusted with the
no doubt difficult and delicate task of wringing an
expiation from the treacherous and flagitious Go-
vernment of the Chinese, and of placing our relations
at length with that Government, for once and for all,
upon solid and secure foundations. Their Excel-
lencies the Imperial Commissioners, KWEILIANG,
HANG-Fun, and HANGKI had—we know now—by
the Bth of September, been distinctly informed by
Lord ELGIN that "for the present" (that is, until
the allied army should have advanced just a little
nearer Pekin !) there was an end to negotiations.
Wherever those negotiations shall afterwards have
been resumed—whether in close proximity to the ca
pital or better still within the walls of the Imperia
city itself—we may rest assured that Lord ELGIN wit
not allow himself any longer to be trifled with, but
that the Treaty he may negotiate eventually, will
be one worthy of his signature, and that the indem-
nities he may demand will be worth while ship.
ping to this country, and dragging in waggon-
loads of silver to be poured into the coffers of the
Bank of England.

GARIBALDI has retired, but with a demand on
Italy for a loan in the Spring. A million soldiers,
and the requisite equipments for war, is what he
asks. The literal number may be somewhat
chimerical, but what he intends certainly is not.
The Italians have yet two serious tasks on hand,
in both of which they can succeed only by showing
themselves strong, although their very doing so
may preclude the necessity of their employing their
strength. The cost pecuniarily, and in the abstrac-
tion of men from pursuits of industry, will be heavy,
but the money will be well spent. It will save
much heavier expense, and better still, it via
secure their new-born liberties from risk.

The French EMPEROR has to be dealt with .
He is their very jealous friend. They ha.,e
preferred union to confederation—preferred, that
is, strength to weakness. Louis NAPOLEON has
published to all the world his opinion that it is for
the interest of France to have Italy divided, attd,