The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

No. 16,248. LONDON, THURSDAY EV ING SUN, SEPTEMBER 12, 1844.

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CHINA.

We recce. ved on Monday, via Calcutta, ad; ices fr )as
China to the ,6th of June. Trade was then very d.
The English con.:lnunitY were living in terror of an o et-
break amongst the
yop,ulace, both at Canton and no lg.
Kong; at the latter inn:.f:e the guard of Marines
tioned at the British Coi:ces establishment had 1: eon
considered insufficient for seem jtY; .and although tine
Marine establishment had been iruirt.,Q9o3, so great • Ar,
'the apprehensions entertained by the at,!.`korities of ih cir
danger, that a guard ship had been sent fot to 1„1.1w..r )02,
to lie off the city. Admiral Sir Thomas C,l( 1-Iralic: ar-
rivei at Hong-Kong on the 4th ultimo. His i Ycelle, icy
Keying, the Imperial Commissioner, reached C, 'law) on
the 3d of May, on his way to Macau, to bid adi,ti to Sir
rottinger. It was understood, however, that It eying
had another object in view, namely, to make arra.•,,
ments for the visit of the American Ambassador, :17 fr.
Cushing, to Pekin, whither he was about to proci ed,
with a view of negotiating a treaty of commerce m ith
the Imperial Government. A letter, dated Macao ;he
6th ultimo, says—" Ktying, it is supposed, will be a Ao
to satisfy the wishes of the American and French Co It-
missioners here, and prevent their proceeding furtl
north; which is very desirable, as the people at Chus tn,
Ningpo, and Shanghae, have got it into their hell Is,
t,Nat the French and the Americans have combined to
drwe the English out of China, and last rccoun
were removing their valuables into the country a' td
placing :their money in secure places." The Mandari
were doinc. what they could to allay their apprchensio Ls,
' but to little inurpose. The French frigate Aleznene h:
visited Chusan,' and left again for the Yang-tze. Kear g;
and Admiral Coc,il(rane having at the same time wiilkir.m ft
the English vessels .')f war from Shanghae and NisoTo,
had confirmed them in belief that their fears were A- II
-
ibundetl; business was c:...nsequelitly at a stand at 'the
three northern ports. The i7rench, having little or 'zto
trade with China, of course Mirk.' nothing to lesebylterp-
ing the country in a ferment ‘l4tl,- their pompous eu-
bassies. With the Americans it is-
ci:
he hoped that Mr. Cushing will finish his negotiatio.ta
there with the Chinese Commissionem• His doing so
may induce the French to do the same ; but.' if they go
north to show ofl their formidable fleet at ev;ty foreign,

port, little trade, it is to be feared,' will be rime any-
where except Canton, until they return and leay..A'th 34,
waters. The French Ambassador had not arrived. Sir

Henry Pottinger, it was expected, would leave Ch.:nib
about the 15th of July, in the steamer Spiteful for
port.—Bombay Times of July 24.
TRADE OF AMOY.—The Friend of China says:-
" That though the nearest of all the new ports, Amoy is
the one of Which we hear least. There is a constant
communication kept up between this colOny and ant
port, by Messrs. ekrdine, Matheson, and co.'s opium
vessels, but there is a mystery thrown overall ,`be move.
ments :7f:heir ships engaged in the illicit trade, v.'bick is
not to be cenetrated ; they come and go without mei%
passenger, or even the ceremony of intimating their
arrival or intetilleJ departure to the harbour-master.

Like the phantom ship tif the Cape, they pass to and fro;
and nailing more is knovn. The great proportion of
the legitimate trade with Amoy has consisted of cotton
wool and Straits' produce. .in 'cotton piece goods, for
the first five months after oper6ng the port, the groi4
amount of sales did not exceed 35,000 dollars ; of cotto4
twist, 52,000 dollars; woolens, 14,000 dollars. In el
article of import, with the exception of opium, for ti e
first year the amount will not exceed 1,000,000 dollar .
The exports, sol far, are trifling, being rather und. r
30,000 dollars."

LORD ELLENBOROUGHS REC, L."
The following comments upon, and explanation of,
Lord Ellenborough's recal, are from the Englishman,
his Lordship's own organ in Calcutta. The self-defencq
of the Governor-General against the Directors is at least
curious : _ .

" We are inclined to believe that no papers, which aro
likely to be published, either by the Government or the
Court of Direct n-s, will throw any more )fight upon the
real motives of this measure than is visible et present.
Of course, the papers will contain the alleged, the os-
tensible reasons. It is not unlikely that the generel
policy of Lord Ellenborough's government may ii..Nyu
afforded occasion for objection and remonstrance. It is
not difficult to point out measures which admit of rer-
sons for disapprobation ; and it is not improbable that
such disapprobation has been expressed in very stror:
terms, if, for no other reason, for the sake of affording
a handle for the removal of the Governor-General, which'
it seems was contemplated and proposed eight months
before it took place. But we do not think that any one,
who has been an attentive observer of Lord Ellenbe-
rough's career, will be misled by any such pretext oit
the part of the Court of Directors. Lamentations over
the fallen Princes of Sinde ; cries of affected philanthrope
on receipt of the Gwalior dispatches, come with an ilt
grace from those who bore without a murmur .Lor t
Auckland's invasion of Affghanistan, of which they had
declared their disapproval, and who even urged upon Met
to retain a little longer the high .office which he hail
tilled so much to their satisfaction. The difference is nt
in the measures, but in the men. The Company ex-
ists only for and by patronage ; in it they live, are
move, and have their being. This object next the'r
heart has been cruelly outraged by the present Governor-
General. His very first step on his arrival caused dismay
in Leadenhall-street. It was well known that the privatia
secretary of the late Governor General held the patron-
age of India in his hands, and rumours were not unfre-
quent that a sort of family compact existed, by whicls
the influence of the Court would continue to bear direct!),
on all Indian appointments, from the resident at a fo-
reign Court down to a lighthouse-keeper. Rumoue-
elio stated that the late secretary had been stronglr
persuaded to remain, to hold under the new Govern(
the same situation, with the same authority. Great.
then, was the disappointment in certain quarters, when.
another name was publicly announced, and greater still,
when applicants for office, holding letters from highi:-
influential quarters, were told by the great man himself
that he looked upon such recommendations as so many
pieces of waste paper. But loud was the murmur of
disappointment, when it was publicly announced that.:
the rule of the new Government was to appoint the.
fittest person who could be found to fill a vacancy, with-
out regard to connections or solicitations. When, its
addition to this, it was seen that no near relationship%
with Leadenhall-street would be allowed to screen men.
from the consequences of official misconduct, and that;
the day was over when proved unfitness for one public
situation was likely to be rewarded by appointtnoet to ki;
better, great was the cry of despair, and every :mail
went loaded with complaints of the neglect of just claims
(i. e. of connection), and of the appointment of men P.
coveted situations, merely because they had done their
duty. Such a state of affairs could not last. Leadenhall-
greet was agitated as it had not been since 1832. Thee
Tories, whom it had so steadily supported, even in their
adversity, were reproached with ingratitude ; and at last
the coup (fetal was resolved on, when remonstrance was
found unavailing. _ _

" The Indian civil service is notoriously the apple of.
the Company's eye. It has been lamentably shorn of its;
Advantages ; it is no longer the life of undisturbed ease
and great emolument, a bleb it once was. Still it has it
prizes, and is that branch of the public service which the
Directors have ever reserved for their own family con-
nections and immediate friends,:- ,What then could be
more offensive to them, than a public declaration that the
Governor-General would always'ilook upon service its
the field as the highest claim to reward ? What more
alarming than to find, in conformity with this declara-
tion, lucrative civil appointments bestowed upon the
military men ? Besides, it is well known that plan
have often been in agitation for making military service
necessary step to all public employment, except judi-.:
Aal, in India. Might not the present Governor-General
just the man to carry such a plan into effect ? What
then would be the consequence if the India Board were
to find out that judicial appointment might be very welt
filled by English barristers, and that the patronage of
the army ought to be vested in the Queen ? Some fine
morning the Directors would wake, and find themselve 4
with no appointment to give away, except those Of
chap'ains and pilots. Now, we do not say that any plan
of this kind was mature 1, or even contemplated by
Government ; but there were abundant indications of
a tendency hostile to the
patronage of the Directors-,
and they have taken the alarm accordingly. We do not
think that they have mended their position by their
move. They have, as the Ministers say, incurred u.
heavy responsibility. But they have done worse ; they
have agitated ; they have set people to work, to think about
the East India Company ;'and their defenders already
admit that it is an anomalous institution, meaning, we
suppose, an unprecedented one. The members of a close
corporation should have remembered the maxim—
Quieta ne noyeas, which is peculiarly applicable to mono-
polists.k Do they think that they will notdpenrotevdo
setetn;
quiry by such an extraordinary andjulon
hostility
p.
indichtiyveosittahtees‘mrear3Trt
clever,N ay,dvoetrl;3 active,expect
and t o escape
somewhatth e v
whom they have offended? Have they forgotten that lie
s y eight
We m
repeat,eastti
he
would go home armed with information collected on the;,
spot, and likely to be used with a perseverance and as
ui eloquence,ay p propose
wille
for
g venosmall
their discomfiture?
then, that the Duke's term gross indiscretion,' appears
. I;
to us to apply admirably to the Company's measure
wss just one of those cases, when it is better to bear the"
ills you have, than to fly to others that you know not of:
A fit of temper or of sickness, might have done for therm
what they have taken upon themselves to do ; and be -
sides, they might have calculated upon the chapter of
accidents at home. At the worst, it would only have
been necessary to bear a short period of suffering, with
the chances of naming a successor suited to their par-
poses. Now they have caused an appointment Mlle's
shows clearly which way the wind blows. The policy
approved by the Duke
will assuredly be carried out by
his nominee. The ascendancy of the military is morn
marked by this appointment than by Lord Ellenho-
rough's declarations ; arid we greatly mistake if the
Company will not very soon make the discovery, that
though the blows at their authority may henceforth be
made with a polished sword, instead of a rough file, yet
that the steel will pierce d,eper, though the wound in-
flicted may not be so painful."

PROVIDING AGAINST A RAINY D Ay.—A young
stealer of umbrellas by wholesale has been committed
for trial. The boy, whose name is William Booth, i 4
only fourteen years of age, and comes from Hull, where
his father keeps a lodging-house. He had been collect- •
ing umbrellas in the neighbourhood of Canwick and
Branston, and has been committed for taking one front
the house of Thomas Quip. lie took it down and said
it wanted repairing, and although the children in the
house told him it did not, and that he must not tako
it away, he first cut the wire and let the bones down,
and then bore away his prize. Those umbrella collectors
sell the whalebone for 16d. per lb.—Lincolnshire Chro.
nicle.

We regret to learn that, owing to the state of his
health, Dr. Chalmers is under the necessity of re-
luctantly declining theinvitation sent him by the elders
and deacons of the Free Church in Glasgow, to addre6s
them on the subject of the Sustentation Ewa—Guardian.

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