The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

ENGLAND AND PERSIA.

We learn from Paris that the treaty between

England and Persia has arrived at Teheran.
The ratification will not take place for five or

six weeks:

BERLIN, TUESDAY, APRIL 14.

At Copenhagen, yesterday afternoon, the King
of Denmark accepted the resignation of Herr von
Scheele as Minister for Holstein, and as Minister
for Foreign Affairs.

The Cracow Czas, which is very good authority
on Russia matters, states that the St. Petersburg
Government is rapidly increasing its forces on the
Caspian, Aral, and Baikal seas, and on the Amour.
The Polish correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette
says in his letter of the sth inst., " The approach-
ing concentration of the corps now in the Govern-
ments of Woronebch, Tambow, Pensa, dr,c., on the
Caspian, is in connection with events which are
gradually developing themselves in Asia."

Private letters from Madrid, of the 10th inst.,
state that Lord Howden, in concert with the Mar-
quis de Turgot, is doing all that mortal can do to
prevent hostilities from breaking out between Spain
and Mexico, as, from the latest and purest informa-
tion, it is ascertained that there is a plan of the
United States to make a diversion on Cuba in the
event of war.

CHINA.

The Moniteur de la Flotte publishes some further
details relative to the war in China. The Chinese,
it is said, are at present making formidable military
preparations, which are not to be despised. Since
the attack on Canton, the Chinese have executed
enormous works on the Pei-ho, a river which falls
into the Yellow Sea, and by which a communi-
cation is maintained with Pekin. That river is
now barred in 22 different places by dams built
of stone, which completely intercept the navi-
gation. These works are regarded as a curiosity.
Moreover, the three branches of the Pei-ho ca-
nalised by the Emperor Kia-Kang, in 1817, are cut,
and the course of one of them, the lu-ho, has been
turned off into the lake of koho-tchi. When an
army invades the Chinese Empire, the principal
means of defence is to let the waters of. this lake
overflow the country. This system of defeuce,
efficacious against an enemy, but most disastrous
for the coun try, was first used against the insurgents
in 1852. The city of Pekin is consequently-per-
fectly safe from an a' tack either by land or sea, and
the Emperor will in any desperate circumstance be
protee ed by the fanaticism of the people, who will
stop at no means to destroy foreigners. A circum-
stance has lately demonstrated the truth of this
fact. The British ships proceeding to Canton have
been in the custom of taking fresh water at Wham-
poa from a small river which falls into the Tchou-
kiang. It was remarked that the sailors using this
water lately have been attacked with colic, and
after a careful investigation it was discovered
that the water was poisoned by. the , Chinese.
They employed for this purpose the itrunk of certain
trees, which, after being prepared for the occasion,
impart a deadly poison to the water. The Chinese
are naturally malignant, and their wickedness is
still increased by their fanaticism, which is beyond
descHption. There is but one way to subdue them,
and that is to act on their senses, and to terrify
•hem by a display of force and by a maritime de-
monstration on a grand scale, such as is about to be
accomplished by the British Government. It
appears, moreover, that some of the wealthiest
mandarins in the empire propose to revise the
great commercial company founded in 1759 by.
Tsong-Too. These great dignitaries, through per-
sonal interest,
are h'ghiY favourable to an arrange-
ment with the Engl sh, notwithstanding their war-
like manifestations, and as they are in direct coin-
municakion with the members of the Nuy-Ko or
Cabinet Council at Pekin, they can bring their in-
fluence to bear directly ou the Emperor's advisers.
The revival of the company founded in 1759 will
render it itnpossibl ein future forthe Chinese Govern-
ment to violate at will its treaties with foreigners.
The Moniteur de la Flotte concludes that an
arrangement of the difficulties at present existing
between the Chinese and English is perfectly pos-
sible. For this purpose the British Government
have merely to adopt the only means efficaci
o
u
s
with the Chinese character, which is to make a
formidable demonstration on ,the coast • of the
Chinese Empire.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

The ilioniteur contains an Imperial decree
making several nominations of judges of civil tri-
bunals and of advocates-general and procureurs of
various courts.
T
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the
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Chinesei. n g
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The Co
tionsh on
the7lstitt;ulttiin°l.)alitieeiroeffesulrts
of
" A few English regiments will easily account fur any
number of troops that may be accumulated on any given
point by the mandarins. A squadron of gun-boats,
armed with heavy artillery and drawing little water, will
ascend the rivers with impunity, and destroy without
much risk the small number of fortresses where the
Chinese may attempt to renew the resistance which
proved so fatal to them in the first war at Cha Pou and
chindciang.Fan. Still, the war may be a protracted
one ; the mandarins, reckless of the lives of the
will not submit at once ; but in defini-
tive
Britain will not lay down her arms
popul population,
without having reduced to reason this race, so absurdly
proud, which bas for so long a period, and in spite of
repeated warnings, presumed to keep Europeans at a
distance and to iegard thew as barbarians of the west,
and which has paralysed the progress of commerce and
civilisation in the most extensive empire of the world.
Whatever opinion may be entertained of the proceet-iings
of Sir John Bowring and of Admiral Seymour, which
savoured very slightly of diplomacy, a higher interest
now calls upon all civilised nations to ardently des re
the complete and speedy triumph of the British expedi-
tion. Great Britain has declared war ; but in reality
the contest lies between Europe and America on one side
and China on the other; let, therefore, the struggle com-
mence, for the entire Christian world is invited to share
the fruits of victory."
BOURSE, April 14.—The following were the last
quotations

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