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London, England, 1858-08-10 00:00:00

customers, and the celestials seek to obtain the best
of every bargain, getting as much specie and taking
as few commodities as possible. This is a very good
system, if it can only be maintained, but as that is
impossible, it is found that, as in everything else,
"honesty is invariably the best policy" in the long
run.

The Chinese, however, cling to their protective
policy. Nor arc they satisfied with imposing enor-
mous transit, and export, and import dues ; but they
strive to keep their customers at a distance, and carry
matters with a very high hand indeed—even to the
extent of disregarding the most solemn treaty obli-
gations. Their policy seems to be one of passive
resistance, which they continue to the utmost possible
extent. Remonstrances are despised—mild measures
are but little better; and the only "virtue" they
recognise is that contained "in stones." When all
the arts of diplomatic humbug are exhausted, then,
but not until then, can they be induced to come to

fair terms.
This view of the Chinese character is strongly
illustrated by the proceedings since the commence-
ment of the present war. YEll treated every com-
plaint with the most profound contempt, returning
verbally civil answers, but obstinately refusing t o
concede our just demands. He brutally sacrificed
Mr. COOPER, and any other foreign devils that could
be entrapped into his hands—not only sanc-
tioned, but planned, and commanded the intended
poisonings at llong Kong, and held out until the
bombardment of the city, the taking of his palace,
and his own capture. When it was ascertained that
he was really a prisoner in the hands of the English,
his acts were repudiated, and himself degraded from
his rank. It was attempted to be shown that the
sole responsibility attached to the fallen Commis-
slower, but still satisfaction could not be obtained by
any means. Canton was too far from Pekin to per-
suade the Emperor to lend an attentive ear to the
demands of the Plenipotentiaries. They might
be worn out by exhausting procrastination and
useless forms. Even their arrival at the mouth of
the Peiho could not bring his Imperial Perversity to
reason. The capture of the forts was scarcely more
effectual. The demand for the appointment of a
2..u1y qualified officer authorised to treat on the basis
put forward by the Earl of ELGIN and Baron Guos,
was treated with indifference, until the gun-
boats had advanced without serious opposition
to Tien-sin, within eighty miles of the capital
itself. Matters were thus coming too close
to be pleasant. The necessity was at last acknow-
ledged, and officers, said to be of the very highest
rank, have been appointed to negotiate, invested with
titles which the interpreter described as :conveying
full powers !
But something more than the "description" of the

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The following company of Vo-
calists are engaged for the performance of Seleetions from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS , CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, &C.,
viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brunel', Miss Ray, Madame
Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
Berr P. Joughaians, Mr. Renshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling,
Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badzey, Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens,
Mr. Uell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. Yanin, John G.
'Porde, and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmo-
nium, Mr. Courtnay ; Director, Herr P. Jonghmans. Commence at
seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, Sm., until twelve o'clock.

The able pamphleteer of whose political brochure
entitled " Phases of Politics," we have already
written more than once in these columns in terms of
well-deserved commendation, has recently given to
the public a clear resume of the " Session of 1858,"
under the suggestive title of " The Ministry and the
Parliament!'" Mr. LnaDRICK does little more in
this his second pamphlet than enumerate suc-
cinctly the different measures of reform
introduced and carried by the DERBY Cabin-et since
the period of its abrupt and most unexpected forma-
tion. Yet the mere catalogue of those measures
amounts, in truth, to nothing less than an elaborated
panegyric upon the Government.
After some half-a• dozen pages of preliminary
comment upon the course pursued respectively,
during the past five months, by the Administration
and the Opposition, the writer takes into account
in succession, under separate headings, seven or eight
different departments of Her MAJEsTy's Govern-
ment—demonstrating in regard to each how much
has been done conscientiously and comprehensively.
Firstly, under the head of the Foreign Depart-
ment, it is observed how the Earl of MALMESBURT
scattered to the winds one after another the serious
difficulties, many of a complicated, some of a really
formidable, character bequeathed to him by the Earl
of CLARENDON, his immediate predecessor. Ho s the
new Foreign Secretary answered the despatch of
Count WALEwszi—re-establi,hed upon a surer
basis the jeopardised Anglo-French Alliance—
arranged the difficulty with the Court of
Naples, by ordering Mr. LYONS down from
the north to the south of Italy—extorted the libera-
tion of the two imprisoned English Engineers—
secured £3,000 to them by way of compensation—
amicably settled with the United States the delicate
and long-agitated question in regard to the right of
search—obtained full reparation from the Porte
for the Belgrade outrage—took immediate steps
for the expiation of the Jeddah massacre—pre-
pared the way for the happy settlement at last of
the entangled affairs of Montenegro—and, while ac-
complishing all this, brought the difficult problem of
Consular Reform to a solution the most complete
and satisfactory.

interpreter will be required before we withdraw a
single vessel from the commanding position assumed.
The ratification of the EMPEROR must be personally
given to the terms agreed on at an interview with the
Plenipotentiaries. Anything less will in perfectly
useless. The Celestials have shown an extraordi-
nary inclination to wriggle out of all their engage-
ments, and we must profit by the lessons already
received. " They now," the telegram tells us, "con-
tinue to consider the proceeding as something
between peace and war, but not quite either," and
the people " supply provisions of excellent quality
cheaply."
It now remains to be seen whether Lord ELGIN
can improve our position. Nothing but unbending
firmness will succeed. Should he show the slightest
symptom of yielding on any point, his efforts will be
comparatively useless, and the costs and expenses,
and, what is more, the golden opportunity, totally
sacrificed. We trust that it will not be so, but that
the Plenipotentiaries will prove themselves fully
equal to the magnitude of the occasion.

His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the
Countess Bernstorff entertained the Duke William of Meck-
lenburg-Schwerin, 0:e Earl of Malmesbnry, and a select
circle, at dinner, at Prussia House, last week. His Excel-
lency and the Countess left town on Thursday, on a visit to
the Marquis of Salisbury, at Hatfield House.
The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by the
1 Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford and Lord Ronald
Leveson Gower, left Liverpool early in the past week in
1 his grace's yacht for the north of ticotland, via the Cale-
donian Canal. The Duchess has proceeded to Dunrobin
Castle, N. 8., from Trentham.
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, with the
Marquis of Lore and family, arrived at their villa, at
Campden-bill, Kensington, on Friday, from a tour of the
spas iu Germany. On Saturday the duke and duchess and
family left town fur Inyerary Castle, Argyllshire, for the
winter.
The Earl of Afalmesbury, as Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, will accompany her Majesty to Berlin,
and remain in the retinue of the Queen until her Majesty's
return at the end of the month.
PRINCE ALFRED'P THOUGIITYULNESS.—Mr. Petley,
Master Commander of the Black Eagle, Admiralty straw ,
yacht, has just received a case of raathemauical instruments
as a present from Prince Alfred. The present is accom-
panied by a letter from his Royal Highness, who refers to
his recent cruise in the Black Eagle, and hopes that the in-
struments will be useful to Mr. Petley. Among other
matters, his Royal Highness states that he has forwarded
a knife for Truelove, the boatswain, as he had net forgotten
that he had lost Truelove's knife when they were out in a
Inat.

Secondly, in regard to the Financial Department,
we are reminded How, in spite of his having to
encounter the difficulty of a deficit of £4,000,000,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, nevertheless,
contrived to lay before the House of Commons a
Budget in every respect so unobjectionable that it
was passed swiftly and quietly through Parliament
without one solitary amendment. _ _

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The Union says that the Rev. Thomas Castle
Southey, who was so harshly treated by the Bishop of Chi-
! the-ter at St. Paul's Church, West-street, Brighton (one
of the high places of Tractarianistn), has been presented by
the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford, to the
important living of Niton, in the Isle of Wight, where there
is such a dearth of Catholic-minded priests.—[Not very con-
solatory to the friends of Protestantism in the island.]
Archdeacon Allen writes to the Times recommend-
ing the general establishment of penny banks. In his own
agricultural village of Press, Salop, the experiment for four
months has been successful :—" The receipts on the first
day were only 3s. 841.; but the next week the deposits
reached £3 Is. Last Saturday the amount paid was
£4 14s. 4d. Our total amount reaches £37 116.5 d. from
seventy-five depositors, of whom thirty-eight have laid up
enough to be received as fundholders in the nearest Savings
Bank, each deposit reaching ss. being transferred thither.
A layman is the treasurer. Attendance is given for one hour
every Saturday evening."
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the offi-
cial residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down-
' ing-stt eer. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Derby,
the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Mar-
quis of Salisbury, the Eat' of Hardwicke' Mr. Secretary
Walpole, the Earl of Mahnesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton,
Gen. Peel, Sir John Pakington, Lord Stanley, and Lord
John Manners.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
offr.!e from the Governors of the North American Provinces,
and from the Governors of the settlements on the %Vest
Coast of Africa. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-
office, yesterday, to the Governors of Ceylon, Mauritius,
Hong Kong, Labuau, and Malta.
The Government has, on the recommendation of a
s consisting of Lord John Russell, Lord
M.P., decided on the purchase
picture of tie House of
Elcho,peciai andc 1 bar.t e
C linghatn,
of Sir George II ay ter's immense
Commons first assembled after the passing if the Reform
Bill. Apart from consideration cf the subject as a matter of
art, this picture undoubtedly affirds one of the greatest and
most important collective series of por,rait records in exist-
ence, and it is to be hoped will soon be deposited in some
place where the public will have an opportunity of referring
to i t.—.A t hence te • -
TIIE LONG VACATION.—This day (Tuesday) the
long vacation commences and will continue to the 24th
October. The origin of the vacation was to enable parties
to assist in getting in the liarve st, but now it is used to en-
able attorneys and solicitors to get in their harvest, in the
shape of bills of costs.

Thirdly, under :the Indian Department we find
brief but notable record of the skill with which
Lord STANLEY, the youngest of our administrators,
has recently effected the destruction of the Double
Government, and the substitution in its place of an
organisation, unmarred by the blemishes incidental
to the successive schemes of Lord PALMERSTON and
Lord ELLENBOROUGII.
Fourthly, in respect to the conduct of the Colonial
Department, the pamphleteer directs especial atten-
tion to the magnificent enterprise with which a
statesman new to office has inaugurated his career
as an administrator : that by which Sir E.
EULWER LYTTON has created a new and noble
colony in the instance of British Columbia. Asso-
ciated with which great labour of conqtruc-
lion there is the judicious exchange effected
recently between our own and the French Govern-
ment, the exchange upon the coast of Africa of the
Tespective possessions of Albreda and Porteadic-
-there is the project of a new postal contract
-for the conveyance of the mails by steam
to Australia—there is the West India Encum-
bered Estates Bill, moreover, a humane mea-
sure based upon the act which has worked so admir-
ably during several years past in Ireland. Il
Fifthly, in relation to the Legal Department ;
ifir'lethly, to the Home Department ; seventhly, to the
Irish Department ; and eighthly, under the joint head
of Education and Board of Health Department—Mr.
LENDRICK enumerate; a memorable variety of bene-
ficial and ameliorative measures—amounting in all
to very nearly half a hundred altogether. Forty-
'eight are here indeed distinctly specified by name,
owe of them, in their origin and bearing, being care-
fully analysed. To crown all, it is sententiously
remarked in the closing paragraph that out of the 115

SITTINGS OF THE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.
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appointed
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1--Irthe_court will sit on Monday next and again on the 30th
•n.forfobail cases and motions. Among the recent peti-
tionerseouci ieopdnufoi
PUBLIC
LtSitlicer
101 Vi HEALTH.—The
ii William
L(a,
hearingNE infrNtiNio—va
Privy Council certain pativers which were by the 20th Public Health, which has • ' • •
just been printed, vests in the
21st Vic., c. 38, vested in the General 80.. id of 11e2aA0Itiletilt andoonnd
also certain other powers for the protection of the publici
geTmnahje:rn.Bart., whose
to secure the efficient performance of i.
health. The Privy Council 13 now empowered to
vaccination,
tegu-
latious
and may also direct inquiries respecting the t
health, and is furt'aer authorised to a
officers. The reports under the act by tile uptieeloiiiC its 1 oplifiulli public
are to be laid before Parliament. Proceedings fur penalties
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and most accommoda- under the Vaccination Acts may be taken on ,ha complaint
The Chinefe are courteous,
a any registrar employed for the registration tf births,
tint enemies. They are quite satisfied with the deaths, and marriages, public vaccinator or (.fficer a,ii,jaspect of "grim-visaged war," and have no desire to risedt by the board of goo:Along, and by the overseers, and-
ie cofis of such proceedings are to be defrayed out of the
introduCe its serrible realities. If the authorities common on fund of the union, or out of the porr-ra•es of any
pas ~t,:4llleotitnucbldeit ianl:lholniot union. The, act which is to be cited
can eap4ire an
unfortunate prisoner they will put
, is to continue in force
Lim to , Leath with the most deliberate and cold- until the Lt of August next. '
lins.:ls3.e”n I,l;lieedsp"eEakleecrtoiofitihof Member.:
blooded c rueity. Nor have they any objection to
laslt'aticEt
ofLitAmsTlateACT. OF THE LATE SESSION.—The
1 during the Recess Acs;,l(
poisoning , 111 a gland scale. Their " mildness" does
not proceed,: front any respect for the sanctity of Commons(!r e
it =l7O;u:n and
ated
torn e t.n-
leo issuet3 his warrant during the re-
who accept offices whicflrsvaaccactertiUiroffisecaet;
31urnan life.:. But. however fiercely their quasi
• braves" notification is to appset
ma ended your to look, they have no no- i plit)t•tteheloanultno tiesS)tetaelter,iwhehiacht
not to apply to the
ion of fightiL g in thc manner of the outer barbarians ! 1.
txceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds.
s
.--band to ha 'lad and ft;r4 to foot. They consider dis- SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the week
• ending 7th August, the visitorsi have been as follow :
retion as pre '.-eminently " the better part of valour "
' On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, 3,427;
7, 1 will neith ex make nor resist any attack that can ,' on Monday and Tuesday, free evenings, 4,489. On the
classes stand aloof from any contest.
; three students' days (admission to the public, Gd.), 791;
erf,..usly ends tiger their own precious persons.
Wednesday, 92 ; total, 8,799.
The' ordinar. y' RAILWAY SABBATH DESECRATION IN HOLLAND.—
one students' evening,
Trade i s their summum bonum—the accumulation of Th 3 Communal Council of Amsterdam has._ petitioned. the
ief, if not the sole '
1310llars % 'be cb - 9 object of their t a stop tot he running of excursion
~ T, 'le barbarians" are good ready-money railway companies o put
t3riaiinnisstoeur
soufatdhaey..lnterior to employ his influence with the
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Government Divisions which have taken place in the
iliouse of Commons since the change of Administra-
ftiou, the Ministry have had majorities in 110 And
this is the Cabinet which was regarded but yesterday
'as a Cabinet merely upon Sufferance

* The Ministry and the Parliament. A Review of the
:se,,sion of 1858. By William Edmonstnne Lendrick.
;.Second Edition. Bvo. pp. 32. T. and W. Boone, 1838.

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THE SUN.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1858.