The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

ROYAL PRTNCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Man. weraent of Mr. Charles Kean.
THIS EVENING will t e presented Shakspere's Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICB : Shylock, by Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, by
Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded t,y the Farce of DYING FOR LOVE.

ROTA.; STRAND THEATRE.
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, the Comedy of COURT FAVOUR supported by
Messrs. Emery, Belford, Poynter, Turner, Mi•ses M. Wilton, Hughes,
and Mrs. C. Melville. After which, HUNTING A TURTLE by
Messrs. Belford, Burt, Turner, J. Clarke, and Miss M. Wilton. To
conclude with RAISING THE WIND: by Messrs. Belford, Turner,
J. Clarke, Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss E. Wilton.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo-
calists are engaged for the performance of Selections from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS , CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, Bse.,
a
viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brusell,
nd Miss
3lrs. Ray, Madame
Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, Anderson ;
Herr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker,,
Mr. W. MCozenselling,
,
enor Antonio, E. L. 'lime. Mr. Badzey, &mot Tiroll
Mr. Bell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. AlbYfl. Ur. John G. Forde,
and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, M. Cecil Hicks
Commence harmonium
slum,
Mr. Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr F. Jonghnians. at
'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.
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THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 21.
THERMOMETER, Ili TUE SHADE.
69—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at
BAROMETER, 29.83.
WIND, North-Westerly; rather fresh, with heavy rain

THE SUN.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1858.

CLOSE OF IH.E WAR
WITH CHINA.

Glorious news comes to us at the moment we are
going to press—from the East, from the West—
almost simultaneously.
Our seemingly interminable war with China is
suddenly, completely, and most satisfactorily ter-
minated. And while a new guarantee is thus afforded
us from the remotest extremity of the old hemi-
sphere, that peace will aid, as peace alone can do, the
advance of civilisation—there comes thrilling to us,
through the all but sentient core, of the submarine
telegraphic cable, intelligence but an hour old from
the far-away borders of the great North American
Continent ! Events like these are auspicious surely,
whether viewed in reference to the interests of the
Anglo-Saxon race, or in regard to those of the human
family generally.
Nothing, certainly, could be more entirely wel-
come than the news borne to us from China, and
announced through the columns of the Moni-
teur of this morning. According to these tidings
the war in that quarter of the globe has, indeed, been
brought to a happy issue betimes; and this, more-
over, without resorting overmuch to the powerful
arguments of the cannon balls and bayonets placed
at the command of Admiral SEYMOUR and General
STRAUWEEE.
A treaty, it appears, has actually been concluded
with China—a treaty formally arranged between the
representatives, on the onehand, of Queen VICTORIA
and the Emperor NAPOLEON, and on the other, with
those of his Celestial Majesty the brother of the Sun,
the Moon, and all the heavenly constellations.
In obedience to this treaty the ports are to be
thrown open, fairly, permanently, and without any
further irritating impediments. The Christian reli-
gion is to be insured perfect toleration by the Chinese
Government. The foreign consuls and diplomatic
agents :of the two great Allies of Western Europe
are to be admitted to the Imperial city of
Pekin, and are there to take up their residence
as among the recognised institutions of the
land. Appended to all which comes the
gratifying supplementary intimation, that England
and France are each to receive an indemnity. So
that, a little time longer, and the Londoners will
have the gratification of beholding waggon-loads of
Sycee silver rumbling and creaking through the
gates of the Bank of England, to be passed ulti-
mately through the melting-pots of the Mint,
awl stamped in thousands upon thousands of
shillings and sixpences, crowns and half-
crowns, florins and fourpenny bits, with that
ever-charming effigy of our beloved and gracious
SOVEREIGN.

Obviously the Government have been here,too, in this
matter of the China war, as usual energetic and de-
termined. It was only the other morning that The
Times was imagining to itself the possibility, or
rather, according to its view, the exceed-
ing probability of Ministers endeavouring to
bring to a premature and unsatisfactory close a war
they avowedly disrelished from the commencement.
The event shows that the spiteful conjecture was, to
say the very least of it, in every way erroneous. It
is true undoubtedly that Lord DlBBY'Sparty opposed
as strongly anti resolutely as a party could do
the declaration of war with China at the period
when that affair about the lorcha Arrow, and Mr.
Consul PARKES, and Sir Joss is BOVIRING, came under
discussion in the Houses of Parliament. We
ourselves thought at the time upon this mat-
ter quite differently. And our opinion upon
this question has remained from first to last un-
changed and unchangeable. The DERBY Party in
the meanwhile having, long after the war with China
had commenced, succeeded to the responsibility of
holding the reins of the QUEEN'S Government, they
frankly accepted the war, the original embarking
upon which they themselves had protested so strongly
against. They could not possibly have done other-
wise, as loyal statesmen and administrators. But as
we have said, they not only accepted the war but they
accepted it frankly. With what energy and resolution
they have furthered the interests of this country in
these remote regions! We now recognise they could
not by any conceivable chance have arrived at a
more happy conclusion. Tie war is done with,
and done with, to us and to our Allies, on
terms signally advantageous. Peace is restored
upon conditions opening up to France and England
a new field for the development of their civilising
energies, and to the Chinese themselves the prospect
of securing hereafter many of the blessings result-
ing from a barbarism, which has been productive,
among other things, of the Steam-Engine and the
Submarine Electric Telegraph.
Meanwhile, what is to become of old blood-money
Commissioner Yzu ? Could not Lord MALMESBURY
secure us a momentary glance of him here
in London P— before sending him back to
that native land of his, the land of tea
and crape, his welcome to which will probably
be some very frightful condign punishment. A per-
manent residence even in some snug little room at the
South Kensington Museum would surely be prefer-
able to an ignominious subjection to the bastinado,
or to an inclosure half sitting, half standing, half-
stooping, in one of those fiendish cages appro-
priated by the devilish laws of the Celestial Empire
to great political criminals.

Great indeed is the difference beiween the Ireland
of the present day and that of a dozen years since, when
the mysterious disease attacked the chief support of \
the labouring population. The gentry were, as a
general rule, embarrassed, oppressed by judgments
—which in Ireland had all the force of mortgages—.
but far more so by family settlements. The nomi-
nal owner was necessarily opposed to his eldest son.
The entail prevented him from improving his lands,
which would be wholly for the benefit of the only
one of his numerous family fairly provided fur.
Whatever he could keep was naturally set aside for
_he benefit of his younger children, who were brought
up as ladies and gentlemen, without the means of main-
taining their position after the death of the father and
provider. This was the case of a provident and
careful man, not of a spendthrift and profligate. In
common justice to a large proportion of his children
he was deterred from improving the estate for the
benefit of his heir at their expense.
This was sufficiently bad, but it was far worse in
the case of imprudent men, with encumbered estates.
COLIN not ouly not
However kindly disposed, they

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