The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-13 00:00:00

THE WAR IN CHINA.

We must not, therefore, attempt again to deal
diplomatically with the Chinese till we have made
this incorrigible and faithless race pay the penalty
of their treachery and faithlessness. Such an ex-
ample is pre-eminently necessary now in order to
teach these men that treaties must be maintained,
and to the letter fulfilled, no matter what the con-
sequences. To seek to violate a treaty by war is
bad enough—to seek to violate it by snares and
stratagems is a height of iniquity happily now
only exhibited by unchristian and barbarous
tribes. All the Powers of Christian Europe are
concerned in seeing that these barbarities of the
Chinese towards England and France be speedily
avenged. With the exception of the Quaker race
at home—

" Steady patriots of the world alone,
The friends of every country but their own"—
there is not a man in France, in Germany, in
Italy, or in America with a sound heart in his
bosom who does not wish to see these perfidious
barbarians fittingly chastised for their abominable
perfidy.
It is no answer to say that the Emperor of China
is not his own master, that his will is overborne by
an official class, corrupt and putrid to the core—it
is no excuse to urge that this official class is some-
times also acted on by the lowest and vilest rabble.
Such excuses might avail if we had no commercial
relations with these barbarians. But when the
immense magnitude of our commercial relations
with China are considered, all palliations of these
enormities are unavailing.
The necessities of England, of Europe, and of
civilisation, compel us to trade with China for tea
and silk ; and it behoves us, in pursuing a commerce
profitable to China and necessary to the comfort of
European millions, to curb the vanity, hatred, and
exclusiveness, as well as to chastise the perfidy, of
these Asiatics. Our imports of tea increased in a
few months, in 1855, from 44,000,0001b5. to
81,000,0001b5. In the same period our imports of
silk increased from 737,0001b5. to 4,992,0001b5. pro-
ducing a revenue of £6,000,000. Our exports from
this country and India to China have also largely
increased ; and it behoves us, in the interests of our
commerce and of the civilisation of Europe, to exact
an immediate and ample reparation for deeds equally
perfidious and barbarous. It is fortunate that the
noble lord who was in office in 1857 is again in
power, and that he has also availed himself in the
Cabinet of the services of Lord Elgin, who is
thoroughly aware of, for he was a party to, all the
negotiations.—Morning Post.

RAILWAY INT LLIGENCE.

INVERNESS AND ROSS-SHIRE.

The prospectus of this scheme is before the public,
capital £123,000, in shares of £lO each. For the
present the extension is limited to the town of
Dingwall, but we have no doubt that at no distant
day railway communication will be carried as far
north as Tain. The length of the proposed line to
Dingwall will be about 181 miles, and it will
traverse, as stated in the prospectus, districts ad-
joining the Bauly and Cromarty Firths, pass
through the site of the Muir of*Ord Markets, close
to Strathpeffer Spa, will communicate with the
extensive back country of Strashglass and Strath-
conan, and will come into immediate contact with
the highways leading on the one hand to Easter
Ross, Sutherland, and Caithness, and on the other to
Skye and the north-west of Scotland. It will join
the Inverness and Nairn Railway-at Inverness, and
by means of this line all the districts will be con-
nected with the railway system of the kingdom,
with the Caledonian Canal; and with the harbour.
of Inverness. The Master of Lovat is chairman of
the proposed company, and the provisional com-
mittee includes the names of all the landed proprie-
tors along the line, with that of the county mem-
ber, Sir J. Matheson, Bart., and those of the mem-
bet s for the Inverness and Wick burghs. In Ross-
shire active measures for carrying on this important
undertaking have already commenced.

THE BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The
Indus left Southampton yesterday with the Bombay and
Australian mails. She took 104 passengers, and specie to
the amount of £1C3,193. Among her passengers NVW,e, Sir
Pt &ithampton G. Bowen, Hon. E. Stafford, Captain. Moulougavii, and
Lieutenants Rimington and Ritchie. Th
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