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

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ROYAL praNcEss.s THEATRE.
Under tho Management of Mr. C!-:arles Kenn.
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THE SUN.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1858.

THIS EVENING will be presented ShaUpere's Play of TUE
MERCHANT OF VENICE ; Shylock, by Mr. C. Kean ; Portia, by
Mrs. C. Kean. Preceded by the Farce of DYLNG vOR LOVE.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Leases and Directress, Miss Fwanbor,ugh.
THIS EZENING, the Comedy of COURT FAVOUR : sfipported 11
Mcisrs. Emery. Delfml, Poynter, Turner, -1,1i.6.6 M. WiliGn, Hughes,
and Mrs. C. Melville. After which, HUNTING A TURTLE: by
Messrs. Belford, Dart. Turner, J. Clarke, and ldiss Ji. Wilton. To
conclude with RAISING THE WIND: by Messrs. Belferd, 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 Seleetions from all the
popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS , CHORUSES. GLEES, DUETS, Sze.,
viz.:—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badsey, Miss Brliaell, Miss Ray, Madame
Bartoletti, Miss Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
Herr F. Jonghmana, Mr. Llenshaw, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling,
error Antonio, E. L. Mine. Mr. Badzey, Senor Tirol', Mr. Cozens,
Mr. Sell, Mr. Barnard, and Mr. St. Albyn. Mr. John G. Fords,
and E. W. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks ; harmonium,
Mr. Courtesy; Director, Herr P. Jongbnio.r,s. Commence at seven
'clack preeisoly. Suppers, &C., until twelve o'clock.

THE WEXTIIER—Sus OFFICE, AUGUST 21.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
60—highest since noon yesterday.
35—lowest this morning and during the night.
60—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 29 83.
WIND, North-Westerly; rather fresh, with heavy rain.

CLOSE OF 'I HE 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 ipterminahle war with China is
suddenly, completely, and most satisfactorily ter-
minated. And while a new guarantee is thus affbrded
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-
tow 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
STRJUBBNZEE. _ _

A treaty, it appears, has actually been concluded
with China—a treaty formally arranged between the
representatives, on the one hand, of Queen VICTORIA
and the Emperor NAPOLEON, and ou 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 au indemnity. So
that, a little time longer, and the Londoners will
have the gratification of beholding waggon-loads of
Sycee silTer rumbling and creaking through the
gates of the Bank of England, to be passed ulti-
mately through the melting-pots of the Mint,
and 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
SOVEREION.

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 DERBY'Sparty opposed
as strongly and 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 Jolts( BOWRING, came under
discussion in the Houses of Parliament. We
oui.2elves thought at the time upon this mat-
ter cinte differently. And our opinion upon
this question has remained from first to last un-
changed and UnC•hangeable. The DERBY Party in
the meanwhile havn;.7, long after the war with China
had commenced, succeedfd to the responsibility of
QutZN'S Government, they
holding the reins of the
frankly accepted the war, the original embarking
upon which they thernselves 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 tbe 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. The 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 YEE' ? Could not Lord MALMESBURY
secure us a momentary glance of him here
in London P— before sending him back to
that native lm.nd 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 io some snug little room at the
South Kensington Museum would surely be prefer-
able to an ignominious subjection to the bastinado,
or to as 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 between the Ireland
of the present day and that of a dozen years since, when
the mysterious disel;se attacked the chief support of
the labouring population. The gentry were, as a
general rule, embarrassed, oppressed by judgments
—which in Ireland had all Cle force of mortgages—
but far more so by family set.tlements. The nomi-
nal owner was necessarily oppose 4 to his eldest son.
The entail prevented him from improving his lands,
which would be wholly for the ben `fit of the only
rovided for.
one of his numerous family fairly p
Whatever he could keep was naturally set' aside for
.he benefit of his younger children, who were hrought
up as ladies and gent lemen, without the means of nitiin-
Aaining their positi( in after the death of the father and
provider.
This ras the case of a provident
careful man, not c and
la spendthrift and profligate. In
co 'wtnon justice to a large proportion of his children
he vas deterred fr.)m improving the estate for the
bene, 7,,` of his heir a t their expense.
This vas sufficietnlY bad,
but it was far worse in
c imprudent men, with encumbered
the case ch estates.
However k. ;ndly dispot.Nd, they could
not only not

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