The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-30 00:00:00

" Bella gerent alii, red to felix Austria nubs."

To manufacture is our necessity, to produce is China's
privilege. Be it our humble task to work up her produce
into fabrics; to supply local deficiencies in her favourite
food, and to clothe with blue integuments the nether
portions of her teeming people. This is the true interest
of the two counties, and any little gentle compulsion

tending thither wards will be to the ultimate good of both.
3. The disturbances caused by the rebellion.—This is
a really important difficulty, and must be in some way
removed. I hope our commercial men do not propose
to themselves to postpone active business in China until
the roads shall be macadamised, gaslights established in
every city, and rural police walk up and down the banks
of every canal. China always has been and always must
be a country of frequent revolutions, secret societies,
and powerful robbers. In all forner times, whenever
some great event lights up for a moment the historic
gloom in which the common people live and suffer, we
find all these influences strongly working. Chinese so-
oiety then comes out like tbat of a drop of stagnant
water seen through a microscope. Water lions are de.
vouring the smaller ugly things, which in their turn are
feeding upon the still smaller fry, and thus downwards
to infinity. In 1224 years China, so famed in the West
for the solidity of her institutions, has undergone
15 changes of dynasty. So ancient is this curse of
turmoil tnat the oldest known vase, attributed by Chi.
nese writers to a period long before the birth of Christ,
bears upon it as an inscription an aspiration for " Ten
thousand years' rest from violence and troubles." The
founder of the Ming dynasty in 1368 was a servant at a
Buddhist monastery, who joined a vagrant band of ma.
rauders. Whenever anything occurs of historic import.
ance we always find that some bandit had a hand in it.
The land was always full of them. When the Tartars
possessed themselves of China one of these bandit chiefs
had just possessed himself of Pekin, and the last of the
Ming race had just hung himself. In 1635 the interior
contained eight separate rebel armies, each with its
leader, its set of grievances, and its appetite for plunder.
It was a pirate who drove the Dutch out of Fermosa ;
the son of a "celebrated pirate" who helped the Can-
tonese to defend their city against the Tartars ; and it

is a pirate who the other day destroyed the Portuguese
piratical fleet at Ningpo. In all ages and at all times
China has been coasted by pirates and traversed by
bands of robbers.

SAVINGS BANKS.—The annual returns made by the
savings banks in the eastern counties exhibit generally
satisfactory results, and show either that the benefits of
such institutions are more appreciated by those for whom
they were intended, or that the condition of the working
classes has enabled them to gradually extend their de
posits. In the Cambridge Bank 500 new accounts have
been opened during the year ending Nov. 20, and only
340 have been withdrawn. In the Sleaford Bank the
deposits received have been 9,4881. 6s. 10d., while the
sums paid to depositors, including interest, have
amounted to• 8,4111. 14e. 3d. At Boated there has
been an increase of 1,082 depositors during the last ten
years, and of 6,2091. 2s. ld. in the amount deposited
At Louth during the past year 299 new depositors have
opened accounts, 11,1161. Bs. 11d. have been deposited,
and 9,817/. ss. 3d. withdrawn.
SHOCKING MURDER AT OVIER-DARWEN.—On Sunday
evening an unprovoked act of violence was committed
by Adam Berwick upon John Marsden, both of Over-
Damen, near' Blackburn' which resulted in the death
of the victim in less than 24 hours afterwards. The
deceased was a powerloom weaver at Mr. Walmeley'e,
and about 46 years of age; Beswiok is a collier at the
Satiny Bank Pit. Both the men were neighbour.,
living at a place called " the Sands," in Red Earth
Mount. For some time past an angry feeling had
subsisted between them, owing to a dispute respecting
some poultry. On Sunday evening Marsden (the de-
ceased) had occasion to pass Beswick's dwelling, as
he was proceeding to his own home, when his infu-
riated foe rushed out armed with a poker, and dealt
him a blow upon the head which felled him to the
ground senseless. Berwick left his victim in that
condition, and quietly walked bank to his own house.
The deceased was conveyed home, and Mr. Wraith,
surgeon, called in to attend him. The poor fellow,
however, was in a dying state. and all efforts to
rtlease him were unavailing. On Monday evening,
at half-past five o'clock, he expired, leaving bebtua him
a wife and a large family. On Monday morning,
after the occurrence had been bruited abroad, Beswick
was taken into custody by police-sergeant Atkinson, and
brought before Mr. Shorrock, magistrate. He appeared
much dejected in spirit, anti during the brief examina.
tion he fainted. He was remanded till Wednesday
(this day), when he will be brought before the county
justices at Blackburn. This deplorable affair has cam('
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the shape of a beautiful pocket communion service.. *The
rev, gentleman has also received a handsome present
from Lady Morley, in memory of hie preservation from
the wreck of the Amazon.
The Minister of Commerce in Prussia has charged a
commission of scientific men and engineers to ascertain
what inconvenience may Le caused by atmospheric influ-
ences in the transmission of telegraphic despatches, and
to propose a remedy.
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oFirtmoNoculidayS,neve TRAM—The Paris Oonstitu.
in an article signed "P. Dubois,"
throws off the mask on this subject ; boldly defends the
system which the French Government have adopted of
purchasing negroes on the coast of Africa and carrying
them to compulsory service in the French Antilles ;
argues that in no other manner can prosperity be
restored to them ; and ridicules the opposition of the
English philanthropists. From this manifestation on
the part of the leading Government print of France,
the deplorable inference is that Lord Clarendon's re-
monstrances have utterly failed, and that the revival of
the African slave trade by the Emperor of the French
will be persevered in. What will Lord Palmerston say
nowt—Daily Noes.