The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-28 00:00:00

allowances for a very bitter, but a very natural,
feeling. With the future course of trade, however,
this mission has nothing to do. If the ALMIGHTY
has so created this world that the best and shortest
road from Europe to China is across the American
Continent no nation can alter the decree, and they
may well submit without murmur to the inevitable.
It will be many a long year, if ever, before the
United States is able to supplant English cottons
and cutlery in the markets of China, and what the
people who now inhabit the earth have to do is
to make the most of present circumstances,
leaving coming generations to adapt themselves
to changing conditions. It is in this spirit alone
that the , Chinese mission should be received
in London. The Standard, in an article marked
with more than usual bad taste, on Wednesday,
asked what had it come to do—when months ago
the Treaty it proposed to make with the Western
Powers was published to the world. The less Eag-
land says about her generosity and forbearance to
China the better, for the Standard is open to a bitter,
a killing answer ; but it would be wise in the British
Government to make no mistake about its position.
It might be supposed, on reading this and similar
articles, that the mission is to England alone,
though it is but one of many counixies. In Europe
it is sent to France, to Germany, to Russia, as
well as to England, and although a failure in Lmi-
don would materially les3en its utility, that very
failure would enhance its success elsewhere. 'The
astonishment and indignation excited by England's
conduct in this matter in the United States is re-
flected by the delight and exultation among Euro-
pean nations. " Here is a fine sample, say they,
of English liberality—of English Free-trade ; here
is the best proof of what we aver, that an intense
selfishness dictates English foreign policy, covered by
that most hateful cloak—hypocrisy." A persistence
in this narrow-minded jealousy would more than
anything help to alienate the United States and to
isolate England, and already, with a crow of exul-
tation, the Patric, sneering at this instance of Eng-
lish narrow-mindedness, invites the Embassy to
hasten to Paris, where, in a country of broader views
and more enlightened policy, it will meet with a
very different reception. Supposing it acted on the
advice, her MAJESTY'S Government would be placed
in a position of isolation far from enviable. That
Government may rely upon the fact, that hence-
forth they will have to meet China in the Council
of Nations, and shape their course by the laws of
International Comity. They may prefer sending
their mandates to the EMPEROR'S Government
through a Resident, but they will find an open,
unshackled commerce better answer their purpose,
and in a free competition they need fear no rival.
We believe that the mission will. be followed in
China by measures highly important to trade, and
that one of the first of these will be a reduction in
the import duties. When the newspapers which
have adopted so ungenerous a tone begin to learn
' the objects aimed at, they will see that the mission
in the highest sense represents the Progressive Policy
in China, which at this moment is of more value to
• England than to all other nations combined.

lIIISCELLINEO US NEWS.

( From the Anglo-American Times)
NEW YORK, Sept. 12.
The state of the South is a cause of grave alarm,
as it seems to be approaching the phase of civil
war, and it is even difficult to guess whether things
have not already crossed that boundary. The
list of horrors would merely shock, without giv-
ing your readers any further information than
that the outrages appear to be nearly balanced
between blacks and whites. Stories are fly-
ing about concerning solicitor Binckley and the
end of his charges against Commissioner Rollins.
The latter has named all but 7 of the 25 supervi-
sors of the revenue, but the Secretary refuses to
appoint them. Mr. M'Culloch and Mr. Rollins
had a conference on the Bth instant to effect, if pos-
sible, a compromise, but Mr. Rollins commenced
by demanding the dismissal of Solicitor Binck-
ley, which the Secretary declined, and things
reverted to the status quo. The investigation
of the charges is postponed till the 15th, and
District-Attorney Courtney is to act for the Go-
vernment. Mr. Rollins's place makes many months
water, and Mr. Woodbridge is among the hungry
applicants, and he has rushed from defeat in Ver-
mont, to, he hopes, success in Washington. Ili is
so far successful, at least if the rumour be true that
the President has promised him the place when he gets
Rollins out. The situation, however, is a strange
one, as it appears that the Commissioner can hold on
until he is satisfied with the appointment of a suc-
cessor and defy the President. Among the minor
appointments is that of Charles C. Dame, of New-
buryport, to be collector of the Fifth Massachusetts
District, vacant by the death of J. C. Browne, of
Salem. The official statement of the vote in Ver-
mont, last week, is not yet made public, but the
following figures are substantially correct :—Page,
Republican, 40,988 ; Edwards, Democrat, 14,023 ;
Republican majority, 26,965, or, in round num-
bers, 27,000, not quite as large an increase over the
majority of last year as at first supposed. The
Republicans anticipate a great triumph in Maine,
on Monday, putting down their majority at 25,000,
and some even go beyond these figures. There can
be no doubt that affairs are getting on satisfacto-
rily for the Republicans, who have lately experi-
enced a wonderful increase of confidence. Speaker
Colfax is expected back in Washington on the
18th, to be ready, if necessary, for the extra session,
which as yet is not decided upon. The Speaker
gives a terrible account of the outrages in Colorado,
and he came near to having his own hair raised,
requiring a baud of friendly Utes to escort him to
Denver, within twenty miles of which city the
savages carry their operations. The great scull race
for the championship of America and s2,ooo,between
W. Brown of Portland and 11. Coulter of Pittsburg,
came off at the latter place on Wednesday, and re-
sulted in the victory of Brown, who made the fastest
time on record. The coroner's jury in the case of the
Van Orden family, who perished in their burning
dwelling on Belle River, Canada, last week, have
returned a verdict directly implicating Captain
Moses Robarge, Van Orden's partner in the mill
business. The conversion of John Allen, " the
wickedest man in New York," has furnished our
papers with something to say. The religious
journals have wept over the reformed sinner, and
likened the case to the prodigal's return ; but many
of the others have sneered and laughed. Ile has
announced his conversion and led in prayer : his
example appears to be generally followed, as
people have come out of viler dens, and
flaunted themselves as " wickeder" still. There's
the sailor Tommy Haddon -- there's the soldier
Brown—and there's Kit Burns—each worse than
the other, now getting their respective dens into
order for prayer-meetings, in which the Methodist
and Baptist clergymen join, believing a genuine
conversion to be wrought.

The Republicans of Massachusetts regard the
election of William Claflin, as Governor, as a
matter of course, and the Democrats have given up
all hope of carrying the State. Governor Bullock
declined the re-nomination, and Dr. Loring having
been with withdrawn, Lieut.-Govervor Claflin was
nominated with acclamation ; Joseph Tucker, of
Lenox, defeating the candidate of the prohibi-
tionists, Whiting Griswold, for Lieut.-Governor.
The rest of the ticket is the same as last year, the re-
nominations being accepted without the formality
of a ballot. In the history of Massachusetts only
three Lieut.-Governors have been elected to the
higher office, and William Claflin, if successful, will
be the fourth. His predecessors in this honour
were Samuel Adams, Levi Lincoln, and Marcus
Morton.

Boutwell has expressed the opinion
that there was no particular advantage to be gained
from a meeting of Congress on the 21st instant, and
he therefore advised the assembly of a quorum to
extend the recess. By cable we learn that his advice
has been acted on, for the quorum assembled on
that day, and without doing any business the recess
was prolonged until the 16th October.

Au editor of a leading American newspaper, de-
termined to give his countrymen a little wholesome
advice, got from a New York hotel a few of the
orders sent from the rooms of residents who pre-