Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-02-13
Correspondence Of the National 1n,elligencer.
Highly Important from Europe.

New York, January 80.
We startled and amazed this morning by
news of the utmost Importance. which has crept
silently almost 10 our wharves. IN Il packet ship.
only twenty-five days from Liverpool. Great
Britain is crowned with success IN arms beyond
what human ambition, it seems to me, could ever
have dreamed of. | mourn not, though, II she
bears her honors with humility. The and
substance of the news Is this:
The complete success IN tie objects of tho
British expeditions to China.
The offer of The Emperor 10 ;rea, with Admiral
Elliott, either at Canton or Nngpo. The promise
of indemnity of three millions sterling, the Is
land OF Chusan to be held til II is paid The
disgrace Of the High Commissioner Lin. a re-
ported forcing Of the Bocca Tigrs, and attack up
on Canton.
The Cabul and Afganistan war is also termi-
mated. Dos, Mahammed. after another defeat, is
in the hands of the British. The Betooches
beaten every where. Khe;al occupied by the
British. In short, the British omnipoten, in
India.
Nor has the British arms less success in Aft
ca, for Mehensit Ali seems bu, British vas
sal.
Such news rs this electrified London. Tories
and Wings unite in defving the success of the
Ministry their luck, the Tories call it, their
gcniuS, the Wings. Never, though, was there
such lucky administrator of Foreign Afflirs as
Lord Palmcrston,
The effect upon the markets were electric too.
Tea fell seven pence sterling per pound IN sin-
gle day, which fall will rum many in London.
and take million millions iron, the buckets of
importers in the United Sates. East India cot
ton also had rise. The funds, of course were
delighted with such intelligence. There is no
doubt, though. to speak more gravely upon the
subject that the first importance is secure stea-
dness IN commercial affairs. Long protrac,ed
and distant wars were of nature 10 unsettle eve
~ thing.
| have not room nor time to write out for YOU
the abundant details of this great intelligence
from over the The overland mail brough,
the news to London but it frs, reached there via
Paris in telegra phc despatch from the Consul
Marseilles. There is doubt Of The correctness
of the Indian news; and the only doubt there can
be OF the Chinese IS the unsettled charac-
be of some double handed effort on the par, of the
Emperor.
The facts to China are these; The attack
upon Chusan by the British created such a CON
sternauon, with the subsequent movements to-
wards Pekin, that the Emperor. as it seems. be-
came frightened, and deeming discretion the bet
ter par, of vaor. sent his third in rank to treat
The Emperor dsavowes his knowledge of the
dongs of the Commissioner Lin, and promises Ia
put him upon trial; and to the rest of the ne.
gotIation. said 10 be going o. all we have % saw
is. that the Emperor promises three millions .,er-
ling--,he British 10 hold Chusan or some other
island till i, is paid. In The meantime, by shin
wrecks and by excursions into the country seve--
al EngIishmen have fallen into The hands Of The
chinese. who treat them kindly, a nd promises ,o
give them up when Chusan is given up The