The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-21 00:00:00

HE C.HINESE MISSION.

Mr. ANSON BURLINGAME, with the Celestial En-
voys, left New York on the 9th inst., and intelli-
gence has reached us of the arrival of the Java
at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, with, we
presume, the Embassy on board. People are
beginning to ask themselves in the United States
what has been accomplished further than an im-
paired digestion to CIIIN'TAJEN, SUN TAJEN, and
the rest, who, not being cunning in barbarian diet,
did not know what to take and what to avoid.
Our yellow-faced visitors grew more yellow-faced
during their residence at Boston, and there was a
visible internal disturbance, perhaps produced by
the fermentation of the 501bs. of grapes daily,
acting on the pastry. Looking beyond the bril-
liant series of entertainments the Embassy has re-
ceived in the most hospitable country on earth, the
citizens desire to see something practical accom-
plished, but this is absurd. A nation of 300,000,000
is not moved in a day, and what creates the sur-
prise, mixed in England with grave suspicions, is
the rapidity with which Mr. BURLINGAME has re-
presented them as moving. That gentleman, him-
self an American, naturally spoke in his native
country in American fashion, and, as every word
he said was weighed in England, the result has
been to increase English suspicion of the Mis-
sion. This has most pointedly found expression
in the Pall Mall Gazette and in the Spectator. The
English believe the Chinese to be subtle, deceptive,
and keen in diplomacy. They are, it is thought,
endeavouring to neutralize what England gained
by her vast expenditure on the late wars, and they
have, according to the English idea, secured Mr.
BURLINGA3IE either as an ally or as a dupe. Al-
though Mr. BURLINGAME gave utterance to " tall"
sentiments, as is customary with Americans on
these occasions, he is in no small degree justified
by the events he described. Extravagant as it may
appear, there is truth in his exclamation, which has
been sneered at, that " it is the occident and the
orient for the first time in electric (=tact ; it is a
mighty revolution." He means the effect of the
more recent Western civilization acting on the
ancient and effete civilization of China. The turn-
ing point of Chinese policy dates from the period
when the Western Powers established their En-
voys in Peking, and, therefore, in personal
communication with the Government of the Em-
pire. 'When the Western Ministers became
acquainted with the Chinese Executive, they
found they were dealing with shrewd, intelli-
gent men, but with the ideas of a past and
bygone age. On the other hand, the Chinese dis-
covered that the barbarians were highly cultivated
intellectual beings, with a civilization in advance
of their own, and with very exalted notions of equity
and morality. This was the electric shock to which
Mr. BURLINGAME alludes; for it led to an amalga-
mation, the one ceasing to fend off, and the other
ceasing to effect their entrance by brute force. The
late Sir FREDERICK BRUCE was at the bottom of
this reform, and his successor in the task is Mr.
BURLINGAME. What China owcs to BRUCE may be
gathered from the fact that the foreign trade
of the Empire rapidly rose from $82,000,000 to
$300,000,000 per annum. After he was established
in Peking, lighthouses were erected on the coast,
steamships multiplied, many Europeans and Ame-
ricans were brought into the Civil Service, and a
school was established in the Residency at Peking

to qualify them for the posts. WHEAToN's "Law
of Nations," being translated, became a text-book.
and the University to which we-not long ago alluded
was founded at the Northern capital, through which
every three years 11,000 Chinese pass examinations
in modern languages and sciences. It is because
the English cannot believe this extraordinary
conversion that they regard the mission with dis-
trust. Punch, or some facetious journal, calls the
Embassy "Ministers Very Extraordinary to the
Courts Everywhere," sent by what BUNSEN desig-
nate 1 " A Mummified Intelligence." Those who
investigate the history of the. Chinese can si'e no
grewer cause for surprise in this sudden onward
movement than in the almost equally sudden check
the mental activity of that people experienced some
centuries ago. It is 2,-100 years slice they disco-
vered the properties of the magnet, a score of cen-
turies has elapsed sines they commence 1 the use of
gunpowder in their fireworks, paper has be al ma-
nufactured for eighteen huudre 1 years, and books
have been printed for half that period. Thus far
they advanced—when, as if petrified, they remained
exactly in the same position, century after century
rolling away, and generations coming and going,
with the same idiotic vacancy of expression, leth-
argic, sensual, voracious, and with the one idea of
perpetuating the same condition. That they succeeded
in this for so lengthened a period is the, real mar-
vel ; but the signs are abundant. that Nature would
permit it no longer. The most desolating rebellions
known on earth have within late days almost de-
stroyed the empire. The finest system of water
carriage has fallen into decay. Cities once the most
populous in the world are now in ruins, and the
armed opposition the Chinese offered to their Western
enemies was the subject of derision and contempt
among civilised nations. Yet the Chinese are in-
telligent and industrious, tolerant, and, for an iso-
lated people, singularly free from prejudice, given
to study, and generally educated ; and in this lies
the groundwork for their regeneration. Working
on such a basis, Sir FREDERICK proceeded with his
reform, and attached the highest officials by a strict
observance of every promise, and a sound, com-
mon-sense decision on all disputed points which re-
commended itself to their judgment. The English,
in truth, cannot realise the Chinese position. When
the British and French forces advanced on Peking
it was difficult to persuade the Mandarins that
the capture of the city would not be followed
by plunder and indiscriminate massacre. The
SOVEREIGN fled, abandoning his empire in pre-
ference to risking his precious person with the•
barbarians. Let the English imagine the revul-
sion which would naturally follow in the minds
of an intelligent body, when, instead of acting as
they anticipated, the Western barbarians withdrew
without levying a cent or injuring a citizen. For
all their supplies they paid extravagantly, and
the subjugated people beheld them come in their
imagination as wolves and go as sheep well shorn.
What was it that dictated such extraordinary and
unlooked for conduct ?—must have been a question
wandered over by many a Mind ilia for many 3
day, and from Sir FREDERICK BRUCE came the
answer—" Free trade and labour are wealth, not
robbery—knowledge is power, credit and prestige
are strength; work, trade, learn, and you must be-
come a very powerful instead of a very feeble
people." Is it surprising that the lesson backed
with the practical examples did not fall unheeded
on Chinese ears, and that they should desire to turn
over a new leaf, and no longer attempt to resist the
march of civilization against which not only are
they impotent, but which they can see will bring
blessings, not curses in its train. Yet. the English
cannot understand the plain moral of the teaching
and regard one of its effects, Mr. Buutalloa3ll:s
mission as a piece of chicanery. Indeed it is the
old story of people who allow themselves to get a
bad name, being considered incapable of doing any
good. We regret that the two English statesmen
who best knew China are no more, for it is now
that the want will be most felt of the late Earl
of ELGIN, and of his brother, Sir FREDERICK BRUCE•
—Anglo-American Times.

LARGE FARMS. —ln Champaign County, Illinois,
there is a farm, seven miles by six in size, and containing
23,000 acres. This is a stock farm, and most of it has
been reclaimed from prairie grass and sown to timothy
and blue grass. The present owner is Mr. John Ale"
ander. The late owner was Mr. Sullivant, who has sold
out and taken a farm of 40,000 acres in Ford County,
On the Alexander farm are 4,000 cattle, 5,000 acres of
corn, several natural and artificial ponds, and miles and
miles of hedge. The cattle are divided in herds of
about 500 each. Another farm in Benton County Ow
tains 26,000 acres. It is well watered. There at°
groves of planted trees on this farm. Forty-two miles
of board fence inclose 13,000 acres. Seventy Tailes
of Osage orange Ledge are on the place. There
are 4,000 cattle on the farm. Four years ago
was an unbroken prairie. Close by this farm aro o'l
others, ono of 12,000 acres, another of 8,000, and ma°Y °
from one to three thousand acres. These statements re
call descriptions of the days of the patriarchs and of the
immense family possessions of wanderinc, tribes on tb,..e
plains of Asia. But these ancients never dreamed of la'
actual wealth of these " cattle lords.' In lowa, iadialt%
and Texas there are also enormous farms, devoted to t.
raising of stock and the production of corn. Before taus
war the Allen property in Virginia, on and near the Jaaleor
River, was noted for its ample dimensions. The 014:130
was a young man, and he reckons his landed possessloi)oo
by the square league. One year ho raised about 100,
bushels of wheat. New York, Commercial Advertiser.
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Births. r 011'
CROOKES —On the 19th inst., at 16, Talbot-road, Tll.ll
park, the wife of Francis Crookes, Esq., of a son* the
Hovth—On the 17th inst., at 35, Acre-lane, BriNtol3l
wife of P. S. Hovil, Esq., of a son. t
HENRY—On the 18th inst.. at StrathedenH vouso, J'u•l
gate, Mrs. Mitchell Henry, of a daughter.
Marriages. 41,biter°
DAVIES—LAMBERT—On the 17th inst., at St.
Church Two Mile Hill GloucestershireT• 11
•
Esq., M.R.C.S., of Gloucester-roa'l,• Bristol, to °
Matilda, youngest daughter of Chas. Lambert, tl°4l
Fillwood House, St. George's, Gloucestershire. hood
WHlNAm—BitowN On the 19th inst., Robol, tor
Church, Kingston-vale, Joseph WI of Sotdirdi
ton, to Mary Ann Ellen, youngest daughter of
T. Brown, Esq., of Kingston-hill,'d Surrey.
Deaths. tra.
CUinst., at 72, Margaret-stree ,
RRIE—On the 17th
Currie, aged 68. oper'
DAWSON—On the 15th inst., at Standing Stones, Co
laud, Vesey T. Dawson, arrister-at-law, aged ttapat
FISKE—On the 15th inst., suddenly, at Dawlish,
Henry Fiske, of Williton, Taunton, aged 76.
e Odin.
HOPE--On the 18th inst., at 11, Gloucester-p'w, "', 00'
burgh, Eliza,beth, oldest daughter of the late Rig'
Charles Hope, aged 72. Deo,
LEO—On the 14th inst., at Stuttgart, Liernuo3u
Esq., late of Manchester, aged 71. Nor
LAWRENCE - On the 16th inst., at Beulah Villa, WV'
wood, Wm. Lawrence, aged 74.

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