The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-06-10
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.


AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
The Canada brought dates from 10 10 ie,"o'o
country to the llih of April inc'us'Vs, ioa'
which il appears thar the American' French
and English ships Of war on the coast nave ~
the urgent REQUEST OF the Emperor ana upo"
reouisitiou from the Chinese authoI'"eS' oo"
aen,ad n guard Nankin, Shanghai, ana the
month of The great canal against the rebels
IT,. .ssoc;a,;on OF the American feet In this
enc acement has excited the alarm OF the Lon
don Times, and it warns the Americans OF the
Danger thew will incur should they follow in
tho foo,s,sps of Great Britain and appropriate
the Chinese Empire, in an article from which
we select the following paragraph:
"Itisa rather suspicious circumstance that
inst now. when their very smait missionaries
have given the Americans more intelligence of
the nature and progress of the rebellion than
our British representative and merchants were
ever likely TO do, that they have in those wa
tiers the largest armament ever seen in the East
xnder their flag. What if the army, apparent
ly intended fos the chastsement of Japan and
the opening of Jeddo, should really have an
other object-to hold the balance of Chinese
parties, and TO slip in at the right moment and
grasp the prize? The Times adds: The
possession Of an India would break up the
federal Union as surely-as immedIately-as
the conquest of Europe destroyed the old con-
stitution Of Rome"
We hardly think the Times can be serious In
its suspicious of the intentions OF our govern
ment in sending strong naval force 10 those
distant seas, or that the Union is likely to IN
cur any danger from the annexation OF Emma.
In the meantime its predictions with regard to
the state Of things which would arise from the
consu NINA ton of such scheme, are not to be
taken with quite so much faith as the prophe-
cies of holy writ. 1t has tried its skill fire.
queniy, heretofore, in the same line of vatici
nation, and we do not know that it has ever
hi the mark on single occasion. As long
ago as the war Of 1879, it was in the daily habit
ofregaliug its readers with signs of the near
and inevitable destruction of the Union, and tine
return of old Georges re5ellious subjects to
the bosom Of their incensed, but forgiving pa
rent. From that period to the present day, its
now spread over surface of forty years.
Yet the Union stands as firmly now as it
did in the beginning, its strength having been
not in the slightest degree impaired, either
by the traitorous surrender Of part of our
territory to the British authorities, or by the
Imaginary hostility of the Louisiana Gre
oles. or by the Missouri controversy, or by
South Carolina nullifcation, or by the an
nexatioa of Texas, or by the Mexican war,
or by the conquest of California and New
Mexico, or by the antislavery proceedings at
Boston and in Exeter Hall, or by any of the
thousand and one accidents, either of which,
the Times has sworn by all its Gods, would
be sufficient to smash it into a thousand frag-
ments. 1t stands, and it will continue to
stand, even though it should be mad enough
to annex the entire "Flowery Kingdom" and
tnroW I'D South America for balance on this
SIDE OF the water. 1t is very easy for an edi-
'or' s''i"s in his easy chair in I,ondon IN
overthrow constitutions and destroy States
upon paper. Ii is rather more difficult to car.
~ 1t out IN actual practice, as we should have
thought John Bull would have discovered, at
least so far as zee are concerned, many years
ago, for he has been, in one way or another en-
desv ,ring 10 destroy The union of the States
ever since it was formed.
Every just man has reason to rejoice that
even in this world, retrbutive justice does not
always sleep, aud that great national crimes,
sooner or later, bring down upon the perpe-
traitors punishment so palpable, that all the
earth can read. When England declared war
upon the helpless Chinese because they did
NOT choose to poison themselves with her
no
in the power of people SO weak and 80 friend
less. Ii we may be allowed to form iudg
ment upon the subject from the remarks of the
Times, she has already begun to discover her
mistake. The American Missionaries, who
have behaved civily and kindly to the iphab.
tants, nave, 1t appears, transmitted 10 their
country far more certain intelligence with re-
gard TO the progress of this rebellion. than
either British representatives or merchants are
ever likely to obtain. 1t is not difficult to as
sign reason. The Chinese detest The En-.
giish on account of their atrocious Injustice
and cruelty in the war which they made upon
them, and now, when England stands in need
OF all the information she can get upon an i'm.
portant subject, she finds it impossible TO OBJ
tain any.
Ii is manifest that the Times ia seriouslv
alarmed lest the Americans obtain degree of
influence in the councils Of the Chinese EN-
pre- which may prove fatal to English int.
rests. Thus far, it has cause for alarm, and
we hope the occasion will be improved in such
manner as 10 prove that it has not been
groundless. Now is the time for America TO
acquire preponderant influence in China
Inc chinese are already well disposed to.
wards u.s. On all occasions of business they
prefer our ships, and our merchants, to the En-.
g'isn. Let this good feeling be cultivated with
tne utmost assdaty, and there is no estimating
the results to this country. Direct anne Ration
M'oi course, dream Of the London Times
Dut we may easily effect species of annexa-
1on which will be far more beneficial TO u.s.
Inc Times is evidently alarmed, and apparent
y With just cause.
DEATH OF AN EDIToR.-Mr. N. G.. Palmer
associate editor ofihe New York Times, dice
m he L. a. H.I..