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Ir. Ward in a friendly manner, in the hopes of inducing out in fact with (No. 1.) Lord MALMESBURT'S
him to act as mediator. I really admirable, temperate, most explicit, and

Mr. Ward's position is one of considerable difficulty ; nor
do I see, after our unsuccessful attempt at the Peiho, that
any course was open save the one he has adopted. He has
Kted cordially and frankly in the spirit of his declarations
to me at Hong Kong ; and it is a matter of satisfaction to
me that his concert in our previous proceedings is a strong
argument in favour of the line of conduct pursued by M. de
Ji3ourboulon and myself.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.

(Enclosure 1 in No. 11.)
Memorandum.

The, Toeywan left this anchorage on Wednesday morn -
ing, 29th June, about 11 o'clock, with the parties bearing a
letter addressed by me to the governor-general of this pro-
vince. After going north along the coast about six miles,
they discovered junks' masts over the land, and upon ap-
proaching' within four miles of the coast, it then being high
spring tide and only 10 feet water, and able to find no other
channel whefe there was deeper water, they steered again
to the northward, and went five miles farther north.
Where the junks were seen there was supposed to have
been a small stream of water. This point was guarded by
three forts, and there was a village in the neighbourhood.
:;It could not be approached any nearer for want of water.
-A2)out five miles north of the forts another village was
sw, to which the Toeywan was enabled to approach within
law and a half, having then nine feet at half tide.
I herewith attach a tracing of the route of the Toeywan.

No. 12.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO MR. BRUCE.

Foreign Office, Sept. 26.

sir,—TS have received and laid before the Queen your
despatches of the 30th of May, Ist and 14th Of June, and
sth, 13th, &yid 15th of July, the first three giving an
account of your proceedings up to the time of your depar-
ture from Shanetao for the mouth of the Peiho, and the
last three containing a report of the events ss hick occurred
on your arrival off the Peiho and of your subsequent return
to Shanghae.
The events of the first period are clear and free from all
obscurity, and I am happy to convey to you her Majesty's
entire approval of your communications with the Chinese
commissioners, and of the firmness with which you resisted
their attempts to dissuade you from insisting upon the
strict fulfilment of the stipulations of the Treaty of Tien-
tsin. That treaty provided for the exchange of ratifica-
tions at Pekin on a clay not later than the 26th of June of
the present year, a time so nearly at hand as not to admit
of any further delay.

Yon were enjoined by the instructions given you by the
Earl of Malmesbury, on your departure from England, to
insist upon being received at Pekin, and to refuse to ex-
change ratifications at any other place. You were fur-
ther informed that it might be advisable before your
departure from Shanghae to send an intimation to Pekin
of your approach, and to request that suitable arrange-
ments might be made for your honourable reception at the
mouth of the Peiho, and at Tien-tsin, and for your journey
from that place to Pekin. You were informed that the
Admiral in command of her Majesty naval forces in China
had been directed to send up with you to the mouth of the
Peiho a sufficient naval force, and you were instructed that
unless any unforeseen circumstances should appear to make
another arrangement more advisable, it would seem de-
sirable that you should reach Tein-tsin in a British ship-
of-war.

Your conduct, therefore, in insisting upon being re-
ceived at Pekin and in proceeding to the mouth of the
Peiho, was in strict conformity with your instructions.
Upon arriving at the mouth of the Peiho you were placed
in circumstances of great difficulty, in selecting the course
you were to pursue, you were obliged to found that course
mainly upon presumptive evidence.

In these circumstances you had to weigh contingencies
upon which no safe calculation could be made. I can only
say, therefore, that her Majesty's Government, without
being able in the present state of their information, to
judge precisely what measures it might have been most ad-
visable for you to adopt at the moment, see nothing in the
decision you took to diminish the confidence which they
repose in you. _ _

Her Majesty deeply regrets the loss of life which at•
tended the gallant though unsuccessful efforts of the Brttish
and French forces to clear the passage of the river. But her
Majesty has commanded preparations to be made which
will enable her Forces, in conjunction with those of his
Majesty the Emperor of the French, to support you in the
execution of the instructions which will be hereafter ad-
dressed to you.—l have, &c.,
(Signed)

T. RUSSELL.

ROYAL ENGLISH
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the manaveraent of Miss L. Pyne and Mr.W. Harrison
THIS EVENING, DINO R A H. Messrs. Santley, H.
Corri, St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Misses Pilling, Thirl-
wall, and Miss Louisa Pyne.

OPERA,

Conductor, Alfred Mellon.
DIVERTISSEMENT. Mdlles. Lequine, Pasquale, ?fer-
mi, and Mons. Vandris.

Commence at 8 o'clock.

THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
THE LOVE CHASE. Constance, Miss Amy Sedgwick.
After which, a new Farce, entitled THE RIFLE, AND
HOW TO USE IT. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Rogers,
Mrs. B. White, Mr+. Wilkins, and Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
And HALLOWE'EN.

Commence at 7.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, the performances will commence with
(11th time) a new Drama, by J. Oxenford, Esq., entitled
IVY HALL. Messrs. IL Bland, H. Widdicombe, Frank
Matthews, Graham, Garden; Mrs. Newberry, Mrs. Weston,
Miss Kate Saville, and Mrs. Charles Young.
To conclude with a dramatic tableau in Watteau colours,
by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled LOVE AND FORTUNE.

ROYAL

VEIV THEATRE - ROYAL, AD ELPHL
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj. Webster.
Open for the Winter Season.
THIS EVENING will be performed THE WILLOW
COPSE. Luke, Mr. B. Webster ; Hulks, Mr. David Fisher ;
Augustus, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Staggers, Mr. Paul Bedford.
Followed by LODE AND HUNGER. Mr. David Fisher,
Mr. Paul Bedford, C. Selby, C. J. Smith, Miss K. Kelly, Miss
Laidlaw.
To conclude with ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS. Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Chas Selby, and Miss Kelly.
Doors open at half-past six--Commence at seven. Box-
Mike open from 10 to 5. No charge for securing seats,
nor fer bills of performance. All fees to servants of this
establishment are strictly prohibited.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE
Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, new comedy, THE WIDOW'S WED-
DING, support ,d by Messrs. S. Emery, Barrett, C. Young ;
Mesdames Katharine Hickson, Murray, Arden, Manders, &c.

New Ballet Farce, MAGIC TOYS, in which Miss Lydia
Thompson, Clara St. Casse, and a numerous Corps de Ballet
will appear.
To conclude with VIRGINIUS ; or the Trials of a Fond
Papa.

Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, is. The Box-office opens
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at half-past six ; perform-
ance commences at 7.

()YAL STRAND THEATRE
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough
1)
THIS EVENING, THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN
EGGS.

After which THE GREAT RUSSIAN BEAR; or, An-
other Retreat from Moscow.

Followed by THE VERY LATEST EDITION OF THE
LADY OF LYONS.

Commence at 7 o'clock.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.—
EVERY EVENING.—The nusic of Verdi's Opera of
MACBETH (now first made public in England at these Con-
,erts), the extraor unary Violin Performances of the cele-
irated Infant DELEPIERRE FAMILY, and the usual
'Vocal Concei t.

Comic Vocalists - Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic), W. 'P. Critchiield, and E. W. Mackney.

Several interesting Picttires 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.
Will shortly be produced, a Grand Selection from Meyer-
beer's new opera of DINORAH.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 6

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
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59—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day at noon.

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THE SUN.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1859.

At length we are in possession of all the in-
portant particulars relating to that unfortunate
disaster upon the Peiho—consequent upon the
tairupt and lawless rupture of the Treaty of Tien-
t:tin by the Chinese themselves. The _London
Gazette of last evening has given the whole of tl.e
correspondence seriatim, verbatim et literatim. The
documents consist of twelve seperate despatches, with
a variety of minor, but some of these very im-
portant enclosures. The whole collection of
papers will be found in their entirety, and
therefore to the monopoly of very many of our
columns, in the earlier pages of our publication of

tits evening. They begin, these official documents,
(as they ought to) with—the beginning. They set

most dignified instructions—dated Foreign office,
March 1, 1859—addressed to Mr. BRUCE, then pro-
ceeding on his momentous mission to China, as her
Britannic MAJESTY'S Envoy Extraordinary, and
Minister Plenipotentiary. They terminate with
(No. 12.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S no less admirable,
because in all essential respects equally temperate
explicit, and dignified rejoinder—dated Foreign-
office, Sept. 26, 1859—addressed to Mr. BRUCE in
acknowledgment of his despatches descriptive of
the Envoy's advance (according to instructions)
from Shanghai to the mouth of the Peiho, and of
the disaster which there befell the British expedi-
tionary force from the sudden unmasking of the
secretly-armed Chinese fortifications. The case is
sow as clearly put before the world as lan-
guage well could put it. And so put, it
will serve for us at once as a signal vindi-
cation, before Posterity and before Christendom,
Nothing, really, in its way, could well have been
more carefully detailed, more minutely categori-
cal, so to speak, than Lord MAL3IESBURY'S instruc-
tions to Mr. BRUCE, in his character as Envoy to
Pekin. That minister is there enjoined by the
Foign Secretary, in the first place, upon his ar-
rival at Hongqieng, to supersede Sir JOHN Bow-
RING as Chief Supz,%rintendent of British Trade,
making " arrangements for transferring the gene-
ral direction of British affairs in China to Shang-
hai at which port it is to be carried on until such
time as circumstances shall admit of its being per-
manently established at Pekin." It will be ob-
served particularly that Pekin is the goal which is
held in view throughout this remarkable despatch, as
under any circumstances, Mr. BRUCE'S immediate
.
under some (contingently) his permanent, and
under all, his ulterior destination
First of all, however—before entering upon
this point, Lord MALMESBURY enjoins Mr.
BRUCE as follows—" You will not remain,"
says he, "at Hong Kong longer than is
absolutely necessary, but proceed to Shang-
hai on your way to Peiho." And his lordship adds
—" Her Majesty's Government were fully prepared
at once to carry out the provision of the Treaty of
Tien-tsin, which admits of the permanent residence
of a British Ambassador at Pekin ; but the obser-
vations on this point, which Lord ELGIN has so ably
laid before them, coupled with the fact that the
French Government, on considering Baron GROS'S
reports, have arrived at the same conclusion, have
determined Her Majesty's Government, for the
present at least, to fix at Shanghai the residence of
the British Mission, and only to require that it should
be received occasionally at Pekin." The one remain-
ing delicacy in the diplomatic situation growing out
of the treaty of Tien-tsin is, there, in those few but
sufficient words clearly defined. " But," says Lord
MALMESBURY—having defined thus distinctly the
one remaining delicacy in the diplomatic situation
of affairs between the Western Powers and the
Chinese Government—" But you will be careful to
make the Chinese authorities at the capital and at
Shanghai distinctly understand that her MAJESTY'S
Government do not renounce the right of perma-
nent residence ; and, on the contrary, will in-
stantly exercise it if at any time difficulties
are thrown in the way of communications be-
tween her MAJESTY'S Ministers and the Cen-
tral Government at Pekin, or any disposi-
tion shown to evade or defeat the objects of the
Treaty." There was obviously from this no over-
weening confidence in the mind of the English
Foreign Secretary as to the security of our new rela-
tions with the Chinese. To understand this, how-
ever, yet more clearly, it is only necessary to mark
well the prescient words that follow. " Her MA-
JESTY'S Government," wrote Lord MALMESBURY,
on the Ist of March last, " Are prepared to expect
that all the arts at which the Chinese are such
adepts will be put in practice to dissuade you
from repairing to the capital, even for the pur-
pose of exchanging the rat cations of the
Treaty; BUT"—now let these words be here most
carefully noted—" it will be your duty firmly, but
temperately, to resist any propositions to that effect
and to admit of no excuses ; and you will say that
the effect of any persistence on the part of the
Chinese Government in throwing obstacles in the
way of your arrival at Pekin, and of the presenta-
tion of your credentials to the EMPEROR in per-
son, will be that her MAJESTY'S Government will
insist on the literal fulfilment of the Treaty, and
establish the Mission permanently at Pekin."
There is the very contingency to which we have
already referred. Insisting then upon the
necessity for the Envoy requiring point-
blank an honourable reception at the mouth
of the Peiho—Lord MALMESBURY observes,
" The Admiral in command of her MAJESTY'S
naval forces in China has been directed to send up
with you to the mouth of the Peiho a sufficient naval
force ;" and even adds the recommendation that the
Envoy should, if possible, proceed to Tien-tsin in a
British ship of war. Later on in this despatch the
Foreign Secretary remarks—" Although you will
insist upon your being received at Pekin, and will
refuse to exchange ratifications at any other place,
and will further decline to make any compromise
in regard to the time of your stay in the Chinese
capital or the frequency of your visits to it, her
MAJESTY'S Government are willing to leave to your
diiscretion the duration of your stay on the first
occasion." From this it will be seen that Mr. BRUCE
had discretionary power simply as to the length of
his first visit to Pekin—but as to his going there
at once, he was to insist upon that under
any and every circumstance ! So resolutely
bent, however, was the Foreign Secretary in en-
forcing upon the Envoy the absolute and imperative
necessity of his admitting upon no single pretext
whatever of anything bearing even the shadowiest
semblance of an indignity to the British Crown
through its diplomatic representative, that Lord
MALMESBURY even goes so far as to write thus :
" Perhaps the best method of putting a stop to any
attempt to impose upon you in this respect, will be
that you should distinctly declare that you will
withdraw at once, even from the Presence Chamber
of the Sovereign, on the slightest appearance of a
disposition to treat you, and the office that you
hold, with disrespect." At the very mouth of the
Peiho—was there no disrespect in the booms and
stakes, and the insolent messages from underlings,
and the lawless gun fired as the signal for the mur-
derous cannonade opened upon a handful of men
by 20,000 bombardiers lurking there in
infamous ambuscade to welcome the advent
of a friendly ambassador ?
No wonder, remembering the great crimes
perpetrated by the Chinese upon the Peiho,
and seeing what were the explicit instruc-
tions given to Mr. BRUCE by Lord MILmEs-
BURY at the time of the Envoy's departure
in March —no wonder, we say, that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, in his despatch, dated the 26th of this
last September, should write in the name of her
MAJESTY—" Your conduct in insisting upon being
received at Pekin, and in proceeding to the mouth
of the Peiho, was in strict conformity with your
instructions." His Lordship adding._ sc Upon
arriving at the mouth of the Peiho you were
placed in circumstances of great difficulty. In
selecting the course you were to pursue you
were obliged to found that course mainly upon pre-