The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-12 00:00:00

THE PROSPJ

An evening paper quotes private letter from
Peking in support of the assertion that Mr. BUR-
LINGAME'S " roving mission" may be overvalued as
showing the disposition of the Chinese to extend a
hand of fellowship to the West.
" A stupid mistake was made when the Queen received
Old Pin, who is a nobody to begin with, while his suite
were simply charity boys, the scouring of the streets, fel-
lows who rank " with but after" my servants. Even the
present Burlingame mission, though more respectably con-
stituted, is unworthy of the countries to which it goes. It
is quite a hole-and-corner thing, made up as a sop to
Cerberus. Not a hundred people in Peking (I am exact
in the figure) know of its existence. The general impres-
sion here is that we foreigners pay a large yearly tribute
to the Emperor to be allowed to live in the Delectable
City. None but the officials are exempt f rom this delusion,
and they sedulously keep it up amongst the masses."
This is the old and readily recognized cry by men
who have lived in India and China. Those who
attach so much importance to the rank of the
Chinese are the persons who treat it with least
respect on personally coming into contact with that
rank in China. When an Indian, a Cingalese, a
Chinaman, or a Japanese get out of their own coun-
try, the know-them-well-men exclaim, " They are
mere nobodies at home !" If the Chinese and
other nations treated the English in the same
way, refusing to receive any but those of high stand-
ing, China would be swept of Englishmen from Pek-
ing to Canton. We recollect the exclamation of an
Affghan Chief, who made this very remark as
regards India. He said—" These Feringhees, who
lord it over us here, are nobodies in their own
country," and the Chineie would but be repaying
the English in their own coin if they did send
in their Embassy people who had no elevated posi-
tion at home. Though Englishmen of rank will not
go to the " Delectable City," the diplomatic busi-
ness of the country must be carried on, and
as it can be done, at least as well, by men who
are not nobles, and is thus done, the Chinese
would be unreasonable to raise such an objection.
As rank in China is not hereditary—is not separated
into castes—and is almost wholly official, it is the
office that makes the man. Both the Chinese En-
voys associated with Mr. BURLINGAME held high
official rank in China, civil and military ; and that
few people in Peking know of the existence of the
mission may be due to the harried way in which it was
got up, advantage being taken- of Mr. BURLIN-
GAME'S departure to carry out a notion which pro-
bably had been for some time working in the
Chinese mind. The writer can assert that the general
alleged impression in Peking, that foreigners pay
a large yearly tribute to the EMPEROR to be allowed
to live in the " Delectable City" was not the idea
held there when he was in that capital. One
would suppose that these very citizens of Pe-
go seen the Sum-
king
Palacehad not
extending a h ort timefor
of the hills in flames—nor Tien-tsin at the
head waters of the navigation of the Peiho, and to
the Capital, the most important town in the Empire
held by a foreign garrison, who turned people out
of their houses to make room for their horses—
broke down the city walls for a short cut to their
parade ground, and ran lanes through blocks of
buildings to furnish the soldiers with better com-
munication. The Chinese Government is as little
likely to forget these facts as are the people of
Peking, that the father of the present EMPEROR,
who is himself a mere child, died almost in exile—
a fugitive from his capital from these very barba-
rians. Yet this man states that the general im-
pression at Peking is wholly at variance with
these facts. He panders to two English prejudices
—the one hitting at the rank of the Chinese portion
of the mission, which he can do with impunity, as
his countrymen know nothing about Chinese
rank, while he is aware that the blow will tell
severely ; and the other by bringing up old
notions of the Chinese about barbarians, which
creates in the English mind the impression that
the mission is a deception, intended to throw
dust in the eyes of the Western Powers. It
certainly will be no fault of these newspapers if this
" roving mission be overvalued ;" and judging
merely from their tone—for we know nothing of
the manner in which the mission has been received
by the British Government—we are surprised
the Ambassadors prolong their stay in London, con
sidering they must have business almost as important
to transact with Russia and other countries, and
that the main object of the mission has been ac-
complished in America.
The only arguments put forth in a tangible
shape against the work the Chinese desire to
accomplish were given by a writer in the Times,
and we showed their value in a late issue
of this paper. Objection such as the notions
prevalent among the coolies in Peking, and
the button of the Chinese portion of the Mission,
are childish, and betray a prejudice so poor, sup-
ported by reasons so puerile, as when widely cir-
culated will make JOHN BULL change places with
JOHN CHINAMAN as the Celestial Idiot, and there-
fore, however much inclined to act on these no-
tions, we would recommend the English Press not
to give them publicity.—Anglo-American Times.

A coloured member of the Harvard law school
recently attempted to enter the "assembly," when the de-
mocrats of that august body sought to bar him out by re-
pealing the clause of the constitution, providing that any
member of the law school is eligible. They did not suc-
ceed, and Mr. Ruffin goes into the " assembly."
Professor C. U. Shepard, of Amherst, with a
party of his scientific disciples, and six other students,
visited the Chester Massachusetts emery mine on Sept.,
19. Professor Shepard claims, with Dr. Jackson of Boston,
the discovery that the mine, first opened as an iron mine
contained emery. He has found many choice specimens
there, among them several sapphires.

( Prom the Anglo-American Times.)
Next Tuesday will be a great day in America.
The State elections of Vermont and Maine, of Ore-
gon and Kentucky, and the Territorial elections in
Idaho and Colorado were but the skirmishers put
forth to feel the enemy's strength, and force him to
expose his position. But on Tuesday will come the
shock of solid columns with a square fight and a
clear issue. The manoeuvring and the subterfuge,
the feints and pretences, will then be of no avail to
disguise defeat, or avert results. It is just possible
that the contest may be so evenly maintained that the
relative position of the combatants may not be ma-
terially affected, when the final issue will be delayed
till the beginning of November. But we believe
this to be a highly improbable contingency, as
American political contests at the polls are apt to
be decisive, and the chances are that Tuesday will
settle the question, who is to rule for the next four
years in the United States.
Indiana, strange to say, is claimed with con-
fidence by the Democrats. That Ohio should be
is not surprising, but that party seem to calculate
with most confidence on Indiana. Pennsylvania is
by both admitted to be the Key State. Even the
Tribune last Saturday week, in enumerating the Elec-
toral votes which are certain to be thrown for GRANT
and COLFAX, does not include Pennsylvania, though
it does Indiana and Ohio. It certainly states that all
its advices leave no moral doubt of the 26 Elec-
toral Votes of that State being given to GRANT and
COLFAX by a popular majority of not less than
20,000, and, it adds, that the verdict will be known
on the 13th October. We see no reason to change
the opinion we last week expressed, as the position
has not changed in any material way, unless the
popular feeling in the North be excited by the in-
telligence from Camilla, Georgia, of which the Re-
publican papers naturally make the most. It is not
easy to gauge the true measure of anger and alarm at
this news, nor will it really be fully known till the
vote is cast. The indignant howl of the Republican
papers may partly express a genuine feeling of the
writers, and partly be foigaed to create that feeling
in the States about to vote. But it cannot be
doubted that a dread did prevail before the extreme
action of the Democrats in Georgia was known, and
it is reasonable to suppose that it has been greatly
intensified thereby. It is probable that Pennsyl-
vania has been chiefly affected, and it is known that
Philadelphia, not many weeks ago, would have
given a Democratic majority; while now the City
at least is regarded by the Republicans as cer-
tainly theirs. Weighing the tone, the facts,
and the arguments of the Radical press against
those of their opponents, our own opinion is
that GRANT and COLFAX will be elected almost
to a certainty, and that the next Federal Legisla-
ture will be Republican only in a lesser degree
than the present. The signs are too numerous and
marked to be mistaken. The seeds of dissension
have shown themselves perniciously in the Demo-
cratic ranks, while the Republicans, if we may ex-
cept such cases as the opposition of Massachusetts
to General BUTLER, are united on the main issues,
and still more so on their candidates. Again and
again objection is raised to Governor SEYMOUR by
those committed to his support, as well as to
General FRANK BLAIR, while the former does not
even pull with the latter, and one of the gravest ob-
jections to SEYMOUR himself is that he was the main
supporter of another candidate who stood en a
platform wholly opposed to that of the Democratic
party. lu itself, this is a pretty kettle of fish,
which our readers will readily believe has not the
elements of cohesion, when it begins to boil. The
essential difference between the tickets is that the
Radicals in face of depression and gloom would
have rallied with a dogged obstinacy around
their standard-bearers, whilst the Democrats
under the same circumstances appear inclined
to turn upon their men and ask why arc
they in the post of honour. GRANT derives
strength from his place in the national mind,
which the campaign and his own want of magne-
tism have only tended more clearly to display. His
personal character, his fame as a General, and his
honour as a man have been bitterly assailed, and the
result has been to make every American know the
truth of what before they had felt assured that he
is among the few Generals of the century, possess-
ing some of the highest qualities with which men
can be gifted. Hal it not been so, GRANT and his
fame would have vanished like a balloon; for the
tests by which a candidate for the Presidency is
tried demolish pretensions and mere display, if
they do not even deprive the individual of the re-
putation for many sterling qualities he really pos-
sesses. It is amusing to see GRANT written of as
a " mere successful General," as if it did not take
the best man of the nation to make a great, success-
ful General, the post by far the most difficult known
to the world. The Northerners are a reasoning
people, and they believe in the honesty, good sense,
moderation, and ability of the Republican nominee.
They hold the nation to be indebted to his military
genius, and although as regards certain qualiti
they could not have selected in the Union a man le
calculated to arouse enthusiasm, he is in truth a tower
of strength to the Republican party. The masses
think that his election will have a quieting influ-
ence on the South. Personally, the Southerners
do not object to him ; on the contrary, they admire
and rather like him. There is a secret feeling
abroad, too, among the Democrats, that GRANT'S
proclivities are more Democratic than Republican,
and no President will ever have taken possession of
the White House less committed to opinions than
the great Northern General. SEYMOUR'S political
antecedents, on the contrary, form a source of
weakness to his party ; and although he is highly
popular in New York, the Western farmer is for
the most part a hard-headed animal, who will argue
the question out in his own mind, and obstinately
vote according to his conclusions. Doubtless some
will be affectedby the desire to shake off burdens by
paying the nationaldebt in greenbacks, and by their
aversion to negroes. But these are too shrewd men
not to know that the first savours of dishonesty,
and the second of an unworthy prejudice. State
rights they are conscious can be maintained even if
threatened in any State except those which had
openly rebelled. On the whole, there is reason for
concluding that the Republicans will eventually win
by an overwhelming majority, although the struggle
may be hard on Tuesday. If Pennsylvania, as we
have all along said, votes the Republican ticket, the
cause of the Democrats is next to hopeless ; but if
it votes the Democratic ticket, Pennsylvania must
be strongly backed by Ohio materially to damage
GRANT'S chance, and even then a square fight would
follow. But should the three States combine on
the Democratic side, our readers will know that we
are all abroad, that the Republican sources of in-
formation are unreliable, and that SEYMOUR and
I BLAIR are the men.
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A telegram from Bremen states that the postal
department of the North Confederation has concluded with
the North German Lloyd's a treaty establishing the sys-
tem of post-office orders between the North Confederation
and the United States of America, through the North
German Lloyd's.
It was officially declared at Paris last Sunday
that the French financial agents have been instructed to
favour the circulation of Pontifical coinago, as the Pon-
tifical Government will immediately join the monetary
union.

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properties of Du Barry's health-restoring nevalento, Arahica
Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings
it has already received from Invalids whose position had been
deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope,
whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of
unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette do
Midi," July 25th :_." Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy
Father
dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta
Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal.
It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and
his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We
extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of
the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint,
wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation
all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in-
tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lord
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Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' yspep
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No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia,
nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms,
sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No.. 46,270: Mr
James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs,
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Ex-President Roberts of Liberia arrived in Bos-
ton, Sept. 21, having landed at Baltimore on the 17th. Ile
will stop in America until December to look after the in-
terests of the Liberia College, of wbida ho is now presi•
dont, and will visit several of the New England colleges
to obtain information in relation to their management.
Mr. lloberts, who is of unmixed African blood, was born
at Petersburg, Virginia, and when a boy followed the
occupation of drayman. He went to Liberia at the age of
eighteen years, at which time he did not know his letters.
He was never a slave, his mother being a free woman and
his father a slave.

Robert Lincoln, son of the late President, was
married in Washington, Sept. 24, to Miss Mary Harlan,
daughter of Senator Harlan, of lows. The wedding was
a private one. Mrs Abraham Lincoln was present.
The Envoy of the United States at Columbia
had a formal interview with President Johnson on the 23d
Sert. The President, in replying to the address, urged
on the attention of the Minister's Government the advi-
sability of the ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien,
and the willingness of Americans to help in such a work.
General R. E. Lee and family have arrived at
Lexington. The General's health was much improved by
his visit to the mountains. We regret to state that his
wife and daughter are still in delicate health. Captain
Maury, who is a professor in the college over which Gen.
Leo presides, is said so to have devoted himself to politics
during the time ho held a scientific appointment at Wash-
ington,that his successor in the office found that the branch
of a tree had grown across the lino of sight of his tele-
scope. It is to be hoped now, in the quiet of the college,
and with the example of the great General before him,
that a man like Maury, who ought never to have allowed
anything to interrupt his scientific researches, will prose-
cute them as earnestly as of yore.
It is said that the Wards and the Paris crew of
St. John's will row, Oct. 21, for sl'soo a side; but where
is not stated.
L. H. Grinnell, late Acting-Lieutenant United
States navy, has been appointed overseer of the Japanese
navy under the Southern Government.
The Japanese Commissioners sent to the United
States to purchase vessels of war, and who recently re-
turned to Japan in the ram Stonewall Jackson, have fled to
San Francisco, it being unsafe for them to remain in Yo-
kohama during the 'resent political disturbances. The
authorities of the Southern faction have threatened to de-
capitate them if captured.
Passed Midshipman John M. Hawley of Spring-
field, with eleven of his comrades of the late graduated
class at the Annapolis Naval Academy, have been ordered
to join the South Atlantic squadron under Admiral Davis,
whose station is at Rio Janeiro, and sailed for their desti-
nation in the steamer Mississippi on the 23d Sep+. The
remainder of the class have been ordered to different
naval stations, and six of them aro to repsrt to Admiral
Farragut. The class numbers some eighty members.
Major Bowen, of Washington, instituted a libel
suit in the Supreme Court against a Conservative evening
newspaper which has printed him twice as the "wickedest
man in Washington," and otherwise slandered him. Ile
claims $25,000 damages.
Miss Louisa Lander's life-size marble statue of
Virginia Dare was to be sold at auction in Boston. Miss
Lander is a sister of General Lander. Tho statue was
finished by her in 1860 at Rome, and shipped fro .e Leg-
horn, hut the vessel was wrecked on the coast of Spain,
near Palos, the town whence Columbus sailed to discover
the Now World. It was subsequently abandoned by the
underwriters, but, being recovered, was purchased by the
sculptress herself. The original cost of the statue was
$6,C00.
Mr. James Finlay, acting for Messrs. Allsopp
and Sons, of Burton-upon-Trent, has issued a circular,
addressed to the shareholders of the Liverpool Royal
Bank, in which he makes grave charges against
the late directors, and gives notice that at the meet-
ing to be held on the 19th instant he shall move a
resolution to the effect that " proceedings be taken in the
name of the bank against the directors, to make them re-
sponsible for the breaches of trust," and " for such other
acts of misconduct as may appear from the reports."
The Siamese twins have arrived in Paris with
the object of severing their long connection. The opera-
tion will be performed by Nelaton.
On the departure of Mr. K. G. Abbott, Consul-
General of Persia, to take up the appointment of Consul-
General at Odessa, Mr. J. Perkins, Chairmen of the Nes-
torian Mission at Oormiah, Persia, forwarded to him the
thanks of the mission for the efficient protection extended
to them as American citizens and. Christian missionaries,
and for the sympathy he hal shown for the oppressed
people among whom they laboured. Mr. Perkins accom-
panied the resolution of the mission with a private letter
from himself, in which he says : —" As your oldest and
most obliged American friend in Persia I cannot forbear
also to tender to you personally my most unfeigned thanks
for the kind and efficient protection and the untiring aid
in various ways which we, as American missionaries,
without the succour of any political representative from
our own country, in this remote Mahomedan empire, have
so long received from you as her Britannic Majesty's
representative in Northern Persia some
of us for a score
of years, and myself much longer ; favours which impose
o a us obligations of gratitude which we have alike no
power to requite nor language to indicate."
Dr. Goold, of Dublin, who has lately arrives
from Cumberland Inlet, saw Captain Hall at Repulse Bay
in August, 1867. He had been successful in discovering
some further traces of the expedition of Sir John Frank-
lin. He had learned that Captain Crozier and another—
thought to be a steward—had died so late as 1864, in
Southampton Island, the head of Hudson Bay, to which
they had made their way in the hope of meeting some
whaler. Ho had obtained Captain Crozier's watch. He
had also learned that he would in all probability secure
further knowledge of the fate of the expedition—perhaps
find some records—in King William's Land. The people
there aro are unfriendly to strangers, and Captain Han
had made arrangements with friendly Esquimaux to
accompany him on an expedition—forcible, if neces-
sary—into the territory of those tribes, a fact indi-
cating that he had great hopes of obtaining some valuable
trace. Captain Hall had with him, when thus seen, some
five European attendants. It will be remembered that he
left New London in 1864, intending to voyage to the Arctic
regions, and leaving the ship in search of the Esquirnaux
country, from the shores of Hudson's Bay towards the
Polar circle, for traces of Sir John Franklin's company.
The New York World doubted the trath of these state-
ments, which raised the ire of Dr. Goold, who wrote to the
Herald that the editor of the World was a Copperhead, and
something worse.
TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.—The Washington
Star says:—Now that Mr. Everts has returned to his duty
it is expected that preparations will be made for the trial
of Jeff. Davis, which is fixed for November. It is thought
he will be tried this time or the case will be dismissed.
Mr. Colfax had an informal reception, Thursday
night, Sept. 24, of the New York Union League. He was
to leave for the 'West on the 26th. When Congress met
he was heartily congratulated by the Representatives on
the certainty of his election to the Vice-Presidency, and,
we presume also, on his approaching marriage.
JOHN KNOX.—Her Majesty's Board of Works
has just completed the re-causowaying of the Parliament-
square, Edinburgh, and on Wednesday a stone, brazed
"I. K., 1572," within an orle, was set to mark the burial
place of the renowned "Scots worthy" John Knox, over
whose grave the Regent Morton pronounced the eulogium,
"There lies one who never feared the face of man."—
Scotsman.
Mr. John Clark of Northampton, Massachusetts,
has purchased the Josiah Parsons estate on Bridge-street,
and intends it for the Clark instruction for the deaf and
dumb. The amount of land is nine acres, the price paid
$lO,OOO, and lie intends to present the property to the in-
stitution in addition to the $50,000 already given. The
present number of pupils in Gothic-street is 33, which will
soon be increased to 36. Miss Rogers returned to her
charge, and reopened the school.
The general committee of the Everett statue
fund have appropriated $lO,OOO of their surplus money to
the erection of a marble statue to Governor Andrew.
Thomas Ball has been selected as the artist, and will re-
turn to Italy early and October. The statue will be finished
in about two years, n accordance with a resolver
of the
last Legislature of Eastern Massachusetts, will occupy a
niche in the north-west corner of the Doric hall of the
State-house.

BOARD OF TRADE, Oct. s.—The Right lion. the
Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have
received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at
Washington, enclosing a copy of an Act of Congress, ex-
tending to the territory of Alaska the laws of the United
States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation.
London Gazette, Oct. 6.
A $5,000 United States' revenue stamp was re-
quired on recording in the Surrogate's-office the will of the
late Mr. Edwin Stevens of Now York. This sents a mo-
derate stamp duty, asqthe property of the deceased is now
estimated at $50,000,000, rather more than half of its real
estate. Ile has iNqueathed $650,000 for building and en-