The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-28 00:00:00

(From the New York Herald.)

The Hon. W. B. Reed, Philadelphia, will shortly
leave this country on a most important mission. He
goes to China to represent the United States during
the contpst which has just been begun with the
Chinese and the maritime Powers of Europe. It is
understood that Mr. Reed owes hisuppointment in
some respect to the recommendations of Robert J.
Walker, whose intimacy he at one time enjoyed,
and though formerly acting with an opposite party,
whose views on the subject of the development of
our Chinese relations he is believed to have shared
from the beginning.
Mr. Reed's mission, though in point of nominal
rank beneath that of France and England, will, in
all probability, be far more important than either
in its practical results to commerce and eivilsation.
At the time of writing our news from China is en-
veloped in some obscurity ; it is not possible to say
exactly what is the condition of affairs in that part
of the world ; but, in the absence of authentic evi-
dence, the story of the conciliatory attitude of the
Emperor of China must be received with caution.
But we are more inclined to place credence in the
report of a forcible opening of the ports of Japan
by some English ships of war. This is really a
likely occurrence. No doubt the English comman-
ders in the' Pacific—like Sir M. Seymour—have
been instructed to stand no nonsense, and have
availed themselves of the first pretext to bring the
Japanese to their at nses. But with regard to Chiria
we have no reason to state anything with certainty
except that a state of hostility exists there, and is
likely to last.

Mr. Reed will go out to that region not to make
war, but if possible, to gain admission to the great
thoroughfares of Chinese trade, and. to obtain a re-
ception for himself or successor at Pekin without
fighting. Whether be can succeed in doing this can-
not be predicted with any certaitity, though the
Chinese seem to be favourably disposed towards us
as a general rule, and may offer us facilities which,
until bad!y beaten, they may refuse their enem'es.
But Mr. Reed•may not improbably fill a more im-
portant station still as umpire between the comba-
tants. He is the most likely person to be chosen,
and should he be competent fur the p6st, he may
absolutely find himself giving the law to both sides.

THE 'RUSSIAN BAIL-ETA YROBBERY

SCHEME

The Nord of Brussels says :—" The systematic
and interested hostility of speculators and news-
papers to the Russian railway scheme has hitherto
had no other effect than to show more clearly
than ever the immense advantages which the
shareholders, as well as Europe and Russia,
will derive from• that vast enterprise. The shares
are everywhere so much in demand
_that it is to
be expected that the applications for them will
be far from being satisfied. Even in Austria, in
spite of the tactics of the Austrian pres., public
opinion is favourable to the undertaking ; the
journals of Pragun' and a letter from Vienna, in the
Cologne Gazette, state that large sums have been
subscribed in all the Austrian empire, and particu-
larly at Vienna. The Ostdeutsche Post, which at-
tacks the enterprise with some bitterness, and me-
naces the shareholders with the miasma of the
Putrid Sea, fogets that 'Russia is not Austria. If
Ruisia; with the immense fertility of her soil, is
even now, when the benefits of capital and the
spirit of enterprise are unknown to her, the most
productive country of Europe, what will she be
when capital.and enterprise shall have accomplished
for her the miracles which they have effected every-
where else ?"

We have already reported the telegraphic news of
the rettirn of cold weather at St. Petersburg. Advices
dated the 23d inst. remark :—" Winter has suddenly set
in again, with snow. Yesterday there were 11 degrees,
and to-day 4 degrees frost, with the wince at north-west.
There has been a drift of ice in the Nev 4 yesterday and
to-day,"
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