Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1853-09-22

tho opium has eonribassd the present revolu
ton by the exhaustion Of the treasury The people have
always been ready to adopt whatever improvements the
Jealousy Of their Tartar rulers permitted them to mport
and appears the authority Of Jesuit and other wr
tiers two hundred ago that aversion to change not
original element Of the Chinese character We shall have
without any end the great rivers before long,
with Chinese neers aud with Chinese engines. The
amount OF internal travelling In China Ia sich, that
assured by those who have managed to penetrate into the
ntcrsr that there continuous OF travellers
horse foot and filters from Canton the great
wall, some fifteen hundred miles-n many parts so
crowded TO impede another and 10 the
tain passes numerous to leave traveller out Of
sight Of others before and behind Among these long
lines of merchandise What a OF railway tnifcl-
Our children may China much network OF rail-
ways England itself This Is not mere speculation on
the possible consequences Of chang" for it u evident that
the successful insurgents disposed 10 invoke the aid
the tyannics bgotry OF the Mantchoos the latter
always disposed rely the xedncss Of their insu-
tons IL Is felt that the cectus way to seal the
exclusion OF the Tarars aud prevent them ever getting
head again in China Is to rcvolutonzc the country
much possible and far a. consistent with strict moral
code That our relations with China will DO without
trouble do imagn for the religion Of the
queror u one which claim identical with our
own but at all events very injurious and unnatural state
of thngss removed the Chinese population no longer
Imprisoned within its walls and shores aud we shall
no longer be stopped at the Threshold of the empire
THE GRAIN TRADE OF oDESSA-THE FLEET SENT
Dispatches from odessa, August H. state that business
brisk. and prices still looking up Corn continued
demand for Italy and France and there large arri
walls of grain from Ghourks. From GslAi1, August % il
reported that 20 vessels laden with corn at
Slna unable get several having been detained
four months Tor of lighters had their cargocs heated
400 vessels were outside the bar Prom St Petersburg
the commercial accounts were unchanged. Some con-
siderable supplies OF Slow had been detained in the nte
rior, which had hardened the London market The
port that the export OF grain from Wallacha pro-
hibited, is not correct
We mentioned that the Russian squadron sent to
watch the of the American mission Japan,
consists Of Pdds SIS guns; DHa 10 guns aud the Tos
toek guns. Alter remaining Hong Kong for week
no dato is stated-the Jdlds and Fosfock pro-
coed in search of the American feet which supposed
to be ut the Loochoo Islands waiting for the Pohdlon
daily expected thera. The editor of the Friend Of China
has been board the Pdias, and "The Russian
sent by America to Japan but has Instructions to
cooperate with America If necessary and Rus
share of the advantages expected to be derived by
opening commercial intercourse with that Of tho ia
pancse country. The Russians say that their Emperor
thought OF sending embassy To Japan long before the
Americans did" The editor further remarks between
Russian America and the most northern paris of Japan
there is STILL aud for long time has been, trade
and it in unreasonable to find his Imperial Ma
jssty desrous OF improving and regulating it on such
terms as may be obtained by other Governments
From the London Globe
But speculation on ac Russian movements is not
fined Japan. The probable destination of the
squadron the mouth Of the Seq en river Sometime
SINCE finding himself troubled with the Tar,ars dwelling
there the then Russian Emperor ceded China that
of country north Of Pekn, through which the Segalien
River winds it. way IL is very fine country inhabited by
race OF independent habits or its lies the island
OF Segaen which, with the advanced rocks Of Kamtscat
ka, bear OF the sweep of the ice coming down from the
North Pacific and keep open only the mouth Of the
Scgaen, but the strip of leading down between the
mainland sud the Islands OF Npon and Japan to the
Yellow Sea II is said that Russia this territory
back sgain, and if she docs the why is obyousl
GA the Khan Ola Mountains shch form the boundary line
OF the two empires, Tar from Irkutk, there
iorts-ons held 10y Russia, the other held by China
Through the pass which these forts command the great
trade between the countries is carried by this pass
China is supplied with fur, Russia with But recently
Siberia has become much important province OF
Russia IL is peopled by active race aud its trade has
greatly increased Siberia however, port; its
many northern rivers dcbOuch only into the eternal ice OF
the North Sea, and the sole port Siberia could have is the
mouth OF the Sogaen.
This speculation looks probable the face of H. and il
il strengthened 10y the peril Of the Chinese Emperor who
might al this crisis be Induced celc the saen district
or II he will NOT Russia least IS in position possess
herself OF the Segaen River