The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-07 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE.-THIS
EVENING, PROMENADE CONCERT, conducted by
Mr. Manns, of the Crystal Palice. Concerts commence at 8.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HA YMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B, Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
A CURE FOR THE HEARTACHE.
♦fter which, by desire, THE CONTESTED ELECTION.
Kr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mr. Buckstone, &C.
And A KISS IN THE DARK.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.

TIES T VENING, the new drama, entitled HOME
TRUTHS. Messrs. G. Melville, J. G. Shore, F. Matthews,
Miss C. Lec'ercq and Mrs. Charles Young.
To be followed by the new Petite Comedy, entitled
GOSSIP. Messrs. Ryder, Meadows, 11. Bland, J. G. Shore;
and Mrs. C. Young.
After which, Mons. Espanosa (Premier Danseur Comique),
will appear, with nadlle. Nariquita, assisted by the Ladies of
the Corps de Ballet, in Le Grand Pas du Dervish de Faust, as
danced by him 150 consecutive nights at the Theatre de la
Porte St. Martin, Paris.
To conclude with NURS EY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H.
Widdicomb, Meadows, H. Saker ; Miss L. Keeley and Mrs.
Weston.

NEW THEATRE - ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Sole proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs
B. Webster. .J. L. Toole, David Fisher, Paul Bedford. Stuart,
Blinn:3on, C. J. Smith, Eburne, Moreland; Miss Wooll;ar,
and Miss K. Kelly.
Followed by the successful piece of extravagance, called
DINORAH UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Messrs. J. L. Toole,
P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, Eburne; and Miss K. Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six—Commence at seven. Box-
Orlice open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor for bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

THEATRE-ROYAL LYCEUM.-
Sole Lessee and Dire tress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, a new Vaudeville Comedietta, called
THE KEY UNDER THE DOOR-MAT. Messrs. James
Vinninv,, Job Rouse, Am ; Mesdames A, 11. Hatton and Julia
St. George.
To be followed by the new Drama Fantastique, entitled
PARIS AND PLEASURE ; or, Home and Happiness.
Principal characters by Messrs. W. Lacy. J. Vining, J. John-
stone, F. Villiers ; Misses Julia St. George, Hudspeth, Kate
Saville, A. Burdett, and Madame Celeste.
To conclude with the Farce ot PULE PHENOMENON IN
A SMOCK FROCK. John Buttercup, Mr. Rouse.

ROY AL sT. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. The nearest Theatre to Chelsea, Pimlico, and West-
minster, the Park being open to carriages and foot passen-
gers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING, THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM.
After which TH HI CHATTER-BOX. Messrs. Barret, Bra-
zier ; Mesdames F. Matthews, Murray, and Eliza Arden.
After which, THE WLNTERBOTTOMS. Jeffrey, Mr.
Charles Young.

To be followed by the new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled
THE SWAN AND EDGAR. Messrs. Barrett, Francis
Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Clara St. Casse, and the Corps
de Ballet.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d; Pit, ls. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six; perform
ance commences at 7.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Westminster-road.

Sole Lessee—Mr. William Cooke, his Farewell Season.
THIS EVENING, the highly-popular and prosperous
Drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., caIIedGARIBALDI; illustrat-
ing the pri,cipal events in the Life of the Great Italian Ge-
neraL Supported by Mr. R. Vhillips, Ennis Belmore, Ray-
mond, Miss Kate Carson, &c. —The Novelties in the Circle
will consist of the most exhilarating displays of Scenic Horse-
manship —Re-appearance of the peerless horsewoman, Miss
Emily Cooke, in brilliant and classic poses on a swift Steed—
Full Stud of Ileautilul Horses—Scenes in the Circle by John
Henry Cooke, Herr Hartz, the Devil Rider ; Misses Clarissa,
Rosina, Francisco. and La Petite Eleanora—Wonderful Per-
forming Elephant—Comical and Extraordinary Parisian
Dogs and Monkeys, from the Cirque l'lmperatrie,e, Paris.—
Gymnastic Professors —Facetious Clowns.
To conclude with a laughable Farce called CLEAN YOUR
BOOTS.

Stage Manager, Mr. R. Phillips

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.—
EVERY EVENDIG.—The Music of Verdi's Opera o'
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con.
certs).
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And a Grand Se'ection from Meyerbeer's new opera 01
DINORAH.

Comic Vocalists -Messrs. Geor,.,c,e Hodson (the Irish Come
dian and Mimic), W. T. Crltchfteld, and E. W. Mackney.

Several interestinc Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
ROSA BONHEUR'S celebrated PICTURE of the HORSE
FAIR is now added to the already magnificent Collection of
Paintings in the Canterbury Hall Fine Arts Gallery. The
gallery is open from 9 a.m. till 12 p.m. Admission, Six-
pence.

THE WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, DECEMBER 7.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
51—highest since noon yesterday.
41—lowest this morning and during the night.
47—this day at noon.

BABolumEn-30.
WtarD, South-Westerly ; light, with fine weather now.
Rain in the morning.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins DAY.—Morning, 11h. 36m.—Afternoon, Oh. Om.
To-monnow.-Morning, 12h. lm.—Afternoon, 12h. 25m.

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TilE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7, 1859.

Mr. BAZLEY, 111. P., is an advocate of economy
and a strenuous advocate also of peace principles,
and Mr. BAZLEY has just offered to the Mayor of
Manchester £lOO as his subscription to the funds
now being collected for the purposes of National
Defence by the local Volunteer Rifle Association.
It is precisely, we take it, because Mr. BAZLEY is
an ardent champion both of peace principles and
of economy that he proffers for this apparently belli-
cose end this munificent contribution. According
to the Holy Words of the Sacred Volume, it is " the
strong man armed" who " keepeth his house ! "
Simply for this very reason, that we want to pre-
serve peace, we ought to be prepared for war. It
is because we wish to render invasion improbable
that we are all of us just now, heart and soul vi et
arras, or, as JACK says, " with a will" bent upon
putting ourselves forthwith and keeping ourselves
permanently in a position to repel it—upon the mere
hypothetical notion of its ever being again attempted.
History, remote and recent, compels us to the
use of that unpleasant dissyllable " again "—pecu-
liarly unpleasant, to say the least of it, in the ears
of Englishmen. For have we not solid and sub-
stantial memorials (memorials solid and substantial
even though crumbled down into picturesque ruin
by the influence of nearly one thousand years) of
the last great invasion successfully accomplished
by a foreign army under the conduct of a kingly
and heroic adventurer ? An invasion so success-
fully accomplished, in truth, that it survives in his-
tory and local tradition in two epithets constituting
the most signal attestation of its completeness.
The scene of the battle being signalised as if
in pre-eminence over all other battles that have been
fought either before or since by the name of BATTLE.
The victorious leader surviving in the annals of the
country he there and then won at the point of his
daring sword by the supreme and distinguishing
name, style, and title of THE Conqueror ! Looking
to a period more within reach of popular remem-
brance—looking at that memorable crisis in the
affairs of Europe which inaugurated the commence-
ment of the present century—have we not a tole-
rably vivid idea still left to us to this day of the
formidable character of that stupendous threat of
invasion directed against the coast of England from
the opposite borders of the Channel by the mightiest

Genius for Battle that ever this world has witnessed P
Have we not ?—Answer yet—

" Ye proud heights of Boulogne, once the wonder of war,

Where the legions of triumph their banners unfurled,
When the brave from all quarters, Alsace to Navarre,
Crowded there with Napoleon to conquer the world I"

It is by a recollection of that all but attempted
invasion of England by NAPOLEON—it is by a recol-
lection of that triumphantly accomplished invasion
by WILLIAM ofNormandy, thenceforth called by way
of particular and resplendent distinction (among all
conquerors) THE Conqueror, par excellence—it is
by a remembrance of Ruch conspicuous and shining
facts in the history of the past, that England is
justified, if she needs justification in arming herself
to the teeth defensively, in preparing herself

agarinst any and every possibility, in doing this
mor cover alike upon sea and upon shore, in regard
to tile army and in regard to the navy, in the per-
fect ing of her artillery, and in the multiplication of
her Rifle Volunteers ! In prudence, in reason,
—upon the merest dictates of common sense and
rational forethought she is impelled to this by her
knowledge of the one: simple and notorious
fact that confronting her is a power supreme and
irresponsible save before GOD and before Posterity,
the awful power of 36,000,000 of human beings
gathered up into the grasp of one powerful, and
resolute, and inscrutable intellect, ready to be
lawn ched,at any moment,whithersoever that imperial
Dictator wills, with the thunderbolts of war latent
in an army of 600,000 of the finest soldiers in
Christendom. This powerful ruler of 36,000,000
of Frenchmen has but very recently, we must re-
member, arrogated to France the glory and the pre-
rogative of making war when she so pleases " for an
idea." The approaching recurrence of another First
of January affords us a vivid reminder of that last
New Year's Day, which demonstrated strikingly
enough the accuracy of that simple asser-
tion. Englishmen seeing these things, knowing
these things, unable to shut their senses to the
recognition of truths thus patent, as the phrase is,
to the whole of this present generation, English-
men, we say, not unnaturally reflect under these
circumstances that a new " idea" may suddenly
spring to life—and that that new idea may be—
what was accomplished not much less than a thou-
mud years ago byIVILLIAm, what was threatened not
much more than fifty years ago by the great NAPO-
LEON--7the Invasion of England ! Therefore, Eng-
land is arming—England is increasing her insular
defences—England has taken to herself once more a
Channel Fleet—England is mustering, far and
wide among her busy population, an
,improvised
National Guard, called by the more modest title
of Rifle Volunteers. To what end ? In order
that she may, if possible, put such " an idea " as
this out of the head of her Imperial ally ; or, what
w-ould be better still, prevent its getting in there; or—
which for the sake of humanity, let us hope may never
be the case, for then, in that solemn contingency,
would certainly come the tug of war, as surely as
when Greek met Greek—that in the event of an
invasion, England at least may be prepared for the
emergency ! Taking to this end,as the motto for the
banners of her Rifle Corps, the old heroic motto of
the NAPIERS—

" READY, AYE READY !"

The midnight of our Cabinet Dictatorship is
past, and the dawn of an approaching session is
seen here and there. The Premier, by far the ablest
man to encounter the diplomatists of Paris, cannot
be spared, because the grave questions which will
be discussed at the opening of Parliament will need
his presence at home. Lord COWLEY, therefore,
competent to little else—witness his miserable per-
formance in the business of the Conspiracy Bill—
wdll Parisian Clerk to the Cabinet at home, and
will by the telegraph and despatches be kept as
well up to the mark as may be. Anyhow Reform
can hardly get on at home without that prince of
Reformers, Lord PALMERSTON.

Then the Financial Reform meeting at Liverpool
—this, too, is in anticipation of the early meeting of
P arliament, which surely means to do some-
thing when it thus " takes time by the fore-
lock." The Liverpool gentlemen intended
a little wholesome instruction for Mr.
GLADSTONE; who, we may be sure, overlooks
none of their lessons, but who, we may be equally
sure, thinks his doubts of far more consequence than
their assertions. Who will certainly not be dis-
posed to tax property and let income go free when
he addresses a house of which by far the greater
part are men of landed property. Who will not
even, we fear, redress that grossest of all our fiscal
iniquities, the almost entire exemption of landed
property from taxation ; the succession duty turn-
ing out to be the veriest hoax possible, to be
called a legacy duty at all. The Liverpool Finan-
cial Reformers are, however, a reminder to Mr.
GLADSTONE and the nation that he and we must in
a few weeks stand face to face.

Pamphlets, too, are beginning to appear on
ontr table—one is just now lying before us,
published by E. STANFORD, on " Manhood Suffrage,'
by J. R. STODIIART, Esq., the object of
which is to describe a plan by which every
man may have a vote, yet only thirty-two
members be returtied under the auspices of the
million. It is this. Someboroughs, it is presumed,
will be disfranchised as notoriously too small for
separate representation. The writer would take
thirty-two of the members, and give them one
each to thirty-two districts, into which he would
divide the whole kingdom. In these districts every
adult male should have a vote ; even those who had
a vote for the old constituency having a second
vote for the larger one. Thus, the good influence
of intelligence and education is to be preserved in
the election even of these people's members, while
yet the predominance of operatives' votes shall en-
sure the return of workmen's members. The con-
stituencies would nuiaber more than two hundred
thousand voters, and therefore, it is presumed, be
quite inaccessible to bribery. The plan is one de-
signed to secure the return of some working-class
representatives, while it shall equally secure
all constituencies s from being swamped
by the numerical superiority of the work-
ing! classes, under Universal Suffrage ! The
scheme certainly does not want ingenuity and
plausibility. All of us confess that it would be
a great advantage if a few of the class of men who
spend their energy in organising strikes, could find
their way into the House of Commons, and there
learn their real standing ; but no plan yet proposed
would effect this without endangering the too
general supremacy of the lowest class of voters.
The plan now suggested has one fatal objection, it
is a deviation from the old system—therefore it
would not be listened to for a moment by Whigs or
Tories.

Sir J. E. WILMOT, also, is again calling atten-
tion to his proposals of last year in letters to our
contemporary, the Daily News. He is afraid of
swamping the county constituencies by ten pound
householders, and therefore proposes a £2O county
franchise, with a few additions from small lease-
holders and copyholders. For boroughs, he would
prefer rated occupiers. The Ballot he does not
like, but thinks with Sir JAMES GRAHAM that it
has been too much discussed and pressed to be let
alone—his proposal is an optional ballot ; that is,

no ballot at all. How a writer of his great intelli-
gence and strong common sense could suppose that
the advocates of the Ballot would accept such a per-
fectly futile proposal, is wonderful. What would
he think of an optional ballot in his club ? Would
he not at once object that if it were not wished to
offend or grieve certain parties, he must, while
open voting was permitted, vote openly for them
or for their candidates—that the intimidation of
personal obligations, or of connections, would com-
pel him to show his vote. In regard to bribery,
the briber would ask for nothing but an optional
ballot. Sir J. WiLmoT, after all, cannot trust real
freedom of ejection. He sees, however, the time
for action is coming, and he is amongst the early

songsters.
And to-day—indeed while we write—the friends
of Parliamentary Reform are assembling at the
Guildhall Coffee-house for discussion as to their
plan of action. We only hope it will be a Re-
former's,not a mere ministerial plan. If to keep in
PALMERSTON be the only object, their councils will
certainly be divided and resultless. We do not,
indeed, want to turn him out. Let us, by all means,
have his Reform Bill, and see how much better it
is than the one which Lord DERBY would have car-
ried through the House of Lords as well as the
House of Commons. But when Reformers meet as
independent men they should meet to enlighten
ministers, not to send them to sleep by promises of
easy aid.

This evening, also, the Ballot Society opens its
London campaign at the Whittington Club. We
hope the meeting will be an effective one, and the
precursor of others. This is the Reform much
more wanted than any other, and which would lead
to all others that are desirable. The list of speakers
is one which shoild interest the metropolis, and
will probably attract a large meeting.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGIIT.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, DEC. 6

REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT

The Fairy steamed into Cowes harbour at 12 o'clock this
day, and her Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the royal
children landed at the Trinity-wharf, and proceeded in
their carriages through East Cowes Park to Osborne.
.

THE FLOATING BRIDGE.—The steam bridge to connect
the two towns of East and West Cowes commenced run-
ning on Thursday. It has given universal satisfaction.
It is only one minute in making the passage across the
harbour. Carriages and horses are ferried over for one-
fourth the sum charged by the old boats, and in less than
one-tenth of the time.

COWES AND NEWPORT RAILWAT.—The work is pro.-
seeding most satisfactorily. A great many men are em-
ployed. One vessel has already discharged a cargo of mils.
The tunnel under the Newport and Mill-hill-roads will be
commenced next week. The Cowes terminus is to be
within a few yards of the steamboat pier. The railway is
to be continued from Newport to Ventnor, Sandown, and
Ryde.

HER MAJESTY AND THE ROYAL FAMILY.—Her
Majesty, with his Royal Highness the Prince Consort and
the junior members of the Royal family, attended by the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, arrived by special train
at the Royal Clarence Yard at 10.50 a.m. yesterday, from
Windsor. Her Majesty, on alighting from the train, was
received by the principal military and naval authorities of
the port, and a guard of honour of the 86th (Royal County
Down) Regiment, with their band and colours. The Royal
party immediately embarked on board the Fairy, Captain
the Hon. Joseph Denman, and left for Osborne, receiving
the usual Royal salutes from her Majesty's ship Victory,
in harbour, the saluting battery or King's bastion, and her
Majesty's ship Fawn, at Spithead, the crews of the men.
of-war, together with the Thetis (Prussian frigate), mann-
ing their rigging and cheering as the Royal yacht steamed
past. _ _ _

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale are about to honour the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland with their company at Trentham, Staffordshire.

The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli
have left Hatfield House, where they have been on a visit
to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, and have re-
turned to Ilughenden. Manor, Bucks. _ _

We regret to announce the death of Lord William
Keith Douglas, youngest brother of Charles, fifth Marquis,
and John, sixth Marquis of Queensberry. He represented
the Dumfries district of burghs in Parliament for 22 years,
and was in his 77th year. _ _ _

Mr. and Mrs. German Reed return on Monday
evening next to the Royal Gallery of Illustration, after a
very successful tour through the provinces. Their enter_
tainment consists of " Our Home Circuit," and "Sea Side
Sketches," in which several new characters are introduced.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO ST. GEORGE'S
HALL, LlVERPOOL.—Yesterday afternoon the Countess of
Derby, accompanied by the following distinguished visitors
who are at present guests at Knowsley, visited St. George's
Hall, for the purpose of hearing the great organ :—The
Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe Weimar, Lady Con-
stance Grosvenor, Misses Egerton, Lord Otto Fitzgerald,
Lord Loughborough, Lady E. Stanhope, Mr. F. Stanley
and Mr. Russell. Mr. W. T. Best, the organist, played se-
veral pieces, including Mendelssohn's Fifth Organ Sonata,
Prelude and Fugue by Bach, and Handel's Hallelujah
chorus. Mr. Best had subsequently the honour of being
presented to the Prince and Princess, who expressed them-
selves highly gratified with his playing, as well as with the
qualities of the noble instrument.

MR. JOHN S. RAREY.—This gentleman, last
night, gave the first of a series of five practical and demon..
strative exhibitions of his system of subduing wild and
vicious horses, at Allen's Riding-school, Seymour-place,
Bryanstone-square. The horse Cruiser was exercised in
the usual manner, and two other horses were severely
tested ; but Mr. Rarey expressed his regret that he had
hot had time to procure more vicious specimens. To re-
peat Mr, Raroy's observations 'nn his mode of treatment
would only be to repeat a thrice-told tale. The school was
pretty well filled, and the audience were much gratified.
HARROW SCHOOL FAREWELL TO THE REV. DR.
VAUGHAN.—Last evening nearly 2,50 gentlemen, Harrow
men and " old Ilarrovians," dined together at the Free-
masons' Tavern, to do honour to the Rev. Dr. Vaughan,
who has lately resigned the office of headmaster. The chair
was filled by Mr. C. S. Currer, as having been captain of
the school in Dr. Vaughan's first year. Earl Spencer, Vis •
count Sandon, Viscount Mahon, Viscount Hamilton, the
Hon. Chandos Leigh, the Hon. Reginald Capel, Mr. Abel
Smith, M.P., Mr. Ralph Erle, aneMr. Spencer Percival
were amongst the company.
THE EXTRAORDINARY BREACH OF PROMISE.—
This case, in which Julia Sarah De Winton Trowsdale is
the plaintiff, and Hugh Stewart the defendant, tried at the
Court of Queen's Beach, Dublin, on Friday last, before the
Lord Chief Justice and a special jury, was concluded on
Monday. His Lordship's summing up was in favour of
the plaintiff, and the jury, after an hour's deliberation,
brought in a verdict accordingly, with £5OO damages, and
6d. costs.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—At a meeting of
the Paddington vestry held yesterday, the Rev. A. Boyd
in the chair, it was unanimously agreed, on the motion of
Mr. Sewell, to accept the offer of the Great Western Rail-
way Company, to the effect that the total valuation to be
assessed on the company for the railway and all their pro-
perty in the parish be £20,000.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—The conference con-
vened by the Parliamentary Reform Committee will meet
to-day at the Guildhall Coffee-house, and as the result of
their deliberations we hope some definite and united action
will be agreed an amongst earnest reformers. We under-
stand that the extensive correspondence which has taken
place in reference to the present position of the reform
question clearly shows that any apparent inactivity is to be
accounted for by the general prosperity of the country, and
by unwillingness to prejudge the coming government Re-
form Bill. If this should prove deceptive or inadequate as
compared with the reasonable expectations of reformers,
there will be no want of agitation in the month of February.
The conference of to-day, we trust, will give practical di-
rection and encouragement to the reform movement through-
out the country.
THE NORWICH BRIBERY CASE.—NORWICH,
TUESDAY EVENING.—(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)—
The Town Council have decided upon stopping the inquiry
by 28 votes to 19. The Liberals will take further proceed-
ings.

THE ALLEGED BRIBERY AT BERWICK.—In addi-
tion to the writs issued by the Northern Reform Union, a
few days ago, against six of the leading supporters of Mr.
Marjoribanks at the last election, another batch of writs
has been served upon six other gentlemen, also prominent
supporters of Mr. Marjoribanks. The corruptionists are
now seriously alarmed, and they have endeavoured to tam-
per with some of the witnesses, but we are glad to learn
without success. 'We understand the Northern Reform
Union will publish a report in a few days, giving the rea-
sons for the proceedings which they have taken.—New-
castle Chronicle.

THE EMPEROR OF CHINA'S DECREE IN RELATION
TO MR. WARD'S MISSION.—The Pekin Gazette of Aug. 9
contained an Imperial decree, in which the mission of
.Mr.
Ward and its result are thus referred to :—" The American
Envoy, John Ward, kept his engagement with Kweiliang
and his colleague ; sailed to the port of Peh-tang, and
begged for permission to go up to the capital to present a
letter from his Government. We accordingly authorised his
admission into Pekin to present it, and having this day per-
used the letters addressed by the American Envoy, John
Ward, to Kweiliang and Hwashana, and laid before us by
those Ministers, we find the language so respectful, the
true-heartedness that has prompted them such, that we
have authorised the Envoy in question to present the letter
he is charged with from his Government to Kweiliang and
his colleague, whom we have sent to receive it. As regards
the exchange of the treaty, he ought properly to return to
Shanghai and exchange it there, but in consideration of the
long voyage he has made we (are pleased) specially to
authorise that the seal bo appended to the treaty, and that
it be delivered to Hangfuh to hand in exchange (for another
copy) to the aforesaid Envoy, that from the date of the
exchange there may be peace and commerce for evermore.
Thus do we manifest our great desire to show a nursing ten-
derness to the men from afar and our appreciation of good
faith and right principle. Let Kweiliang and llwashana
signify this our pleasure to the Envoy, John Ward, for his
information. Respect this I"