New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-23
THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE %. 1856
INTERVENTION.

England toucnlnR tne present civil disputes III
China Great Britain is sadly afraid that thu
American armed vessels at Hong Kong have
been beforehand with her in replying to tht
young Emperor's call for aid, and she is evi
IDENTIFY jealous that France or America hay,
been applied to at all until she had first beer
consulted.
England finds it impossible not to ask what
good the Emperor of China has ever done to
her that should make her enthusiastic in his
cause
In the opium quarrel England says she got
some concessions, to be sure, but she mourns
that she had to divide them with the rest of the
world; SO she expresses little faith in the Tar
tar Dynasty, though it has been strongly fixed
for more than two hundred years, and goes on
to declare that for long time it has been a
question with her whether :" the intolerable bar
barism of the dominion, that suppressed the
energies of three hundred millions OF the human
species, and imprisons them within their own
land, was not itself case for interference in
order to establish more enlightened and, In .
deed, more righteous rule"
We're we to entertain like sentiments, and
apply tneUl 10 CuDd, Nltu Whde hols hOllVi
would England listen and protest.
In what is England apprised of the &c intolera-
BILE barbarism" of the present dynasty Of China
In any other thing than that she refuses monopo-
lies in trade to British commerce; Have any
one of the three hundred millions Of this great
people cried out to her for succor' Is it as if
the Cuban creole asked for aid from the tyranny
of far off foreign oppression?
The Empire of China has, indeed, far more
than three hundred millions of the human spe-
cies in her governmental care Do they not
increase and multiply as if the blessing OF
Ephraim and Manasseh were over and around
them, that I" they should grow into multitude
in the midst of the earth" Is not the patri-
archal Government of China the oldest of the
world In SO far as precept and morality
lead. setting aside the holiness of divine in
spiration, the doctrines of her Confucius and
those of our Saviour 60 hand in hand together.
In agriculture and horticulture, China is be-
yond all other nations In the chemistry OF
soils, in the application of suitable manures
to planting, she is far in advance of Eng
land or Germany. In the mechanical arts, as
adapted, for example, to silks and shawls,
France cannot compare with her. In monu-
ments Of human toll she can show her walls,
her canals, her roads and her controlled river
courses, and proudly ask if the monuments Of
Egypt or the road over the rocks of the SimploI
show in greater degree the adaptation of human
means to human ends. For industry, the Chi
nese find no comparison with member people
must 60 to the bee or the beaver for illustration
Of their ever ready instructive imitation and
toll every leaf of tea she exports passes through
more hands than the manufactured pin or nee
die of Connecticut. In arithmetic, in carving,
in printing, in poetry, and in all the arts OF
peace, her people are high in attainment; and as
to that wealth which is represented in the pre-
cious metals, she has in her territory more than
one-third of the silver upon the face of the
globe
They have singularly pure and religious doc
trines, and it grieved them in their early inter-
course with the English, that they found g these
barbarians possessed of so little morality, and
eager to prevent their corruption from spread
ing within their walls, they shut their gates
against them, but yet they philanthropically
offered to send some of their own wise and good
people to London, upon a missionary visit, for
the improvement of the British Empire. 1t
is q pity that the excessive conceit of the
English did not allow them to accept this kind
ness; they might have profted by the lesson.
England consoles herself in this wise--we
quote from the Times
"For our own part, however, we cannot see
vn,,ch do uuop nf nit thar Franco mr. Amprina ayn,.
gaining peculiar ascendancy in Chinese poll
tics, or ultimately doing there what we have
done in India. The possession of an India would
break up the Federal Union as surely and as
Immediately as the conquest of Europe de-
stroyed the old constitution of Rome. On the
other hand, France has proved abundantly that
her genius is not adapted for foreign dominions.
She is too imperious, too ostentatious, too ex-
acting, and too bigoted to govern barbarians
at the distance of the world-a process which,
above all others, requires the gentlest possible
touch on the reigns Of power"
The gentlest possible touch SO it may be,
but it is always a touch upon the raw"
We are sorry to see that our press is follow
ing the mere copy of an English press in the
side they take in the intestinal troubles of
China. 1t is a mere warfare for this or the
other family supremacy in Office, touching no
principle of government in which we are in the
least way concerned. The present monarch has
always been firm in refusal of English preten-
sions, and for this alone England would have,
if she could, another Cabinet in place, and this
is all
But our text was simply to show the utter
hypocrisy of Great Britain in giving out from
her trumpets sounding phrases of sympathy for
the rebel in China, when like tones from an
American voice in behalf of an oppressed Cuban
would be visited with the holy indignation of all
Exeter Hall.
But Bull need not to have his attention dis
turbed by China, for he has quite enough to do
to keep Australia for six months longer in his
power and Ireland also requires his attention,
for though he may keep her soil, it looks very
like just now as if all the dwellers thereon were
about to depart from it, shaking off the dust
from their shoes as they go.
THE LM.aGLNaRY LNSURRECITON
The insurrection, as it is called, which in the
imagination of some our vigilant police and Of