The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-08


railroads progress under the fostering care of
The Board Of Directors at the rate of fifteen |
miles in fifteen years, and on the education Of
their population the magnificent sum of three
farthings per family is annually disbursed.
This description also applies, with more or
less force, to the results of her rule in her |
North American, West Indian, and Australian
colonies.
The course pursued by the British in China
presents so exact paraAel to that which mark
ed their encroachments in India, that 1t is i'm
possible not to arrive at the conclusion that
their object is either to possess themselves of
some of its richest provinces or to establish over
the whole of the empire protectorate which
will secure to them exclusive commercial advan-
tages to the prejudice of other nations. They
have obtained firm footing in the Chinese
territories, and from their settlement of Hong
Kong 1t will be seen that they will soon begin
to dictate terms to the two great parties which
are now struggling for ascendancy in the Ce-
lestial empire.
That the origin of the revolution which bids
fair to overthrow the reigning dynasty ! 8
traceable to British influence, must be appare II
to every one who has noted the progress Of
events in China for the last twelve mon rs.
English missionaries have evidently been the
prime instigators in the movement but al
though q semi-religious character has for that
reason been given to IT, there can be no ert Of
mistake as to the political motives that krst set
it on foot The unequivocal manner swb;eh
the sympathies of the British agents ARD resi-
dents in Hong Kong and Canton are .yprtssea
in favor of the revolutionists renders Il evident
that they are only waiting for aia' prable on
portunity to carry out to its fill results the
policy that won them India, an6 u mt NAV VI /
win them China and Turkey, for he ~ also Great
Britain has obtained foothold.
Yes the protectorate Of Turk n 1tw Fnrland
and France is now an establish ea fact. With
all the purism of the former, sd her affected
repugnance to the propositions or the Gear. she
is now in the fruition of what Ans been long a
fayorite object OF her ambition t-the security of
the route to her Indian posse ssions To attain
this she would at any tim e have breved the
risks that she is now incur dinp: Int q decent
pretence was wanting to ju sify any movement
towards 1t, until the encr' Gchmentslof Russia
OPPORTUNITY furnished it. Now that she has
set foot on the SOIL OF turkey, she will keep
it firmly planted there :, in the onality of
protector as long as she has "a copart-
ner, IN the quality OF owner and mistress as
soon as she has quar- rilled with or amicably
disposed OF her ally and killed Off by slow
process 1.-THE SICK ma ~ whom she has under
taken to cure Her lireot interests as connect
ed with Egypt and e. thirst of universal doni-
Mon, render these events more than probable.
Undismayed by tn .spectacle of the ill-goven-
ed and suffering J masses that she has already
brought under ne sway, she will consummate
her conquests by the addition of the whole or
part Of the Ott man territories to her Asasic
possessions. VI It'll the day Of her decadence
sets in, she WI II never appreciate the great
moral lesson &C ,nveyed in tie reply of the poor
Hindoo suppl ant to the Ghaznavide conqueror
Mahmoud. IN complaining to him that her
son had lost; his life by robbers, in a remote
part Of his ne wly acquired territories, the Sultan
answered til Att was impossible for him to enforce
the laws in such distant corner of his king
dom. why, then" spiritedly replied the
bcreaycd another, do you take countries that
you canrlot govern and for the protection of
which you must be answerableat the day OF
| Judgment"
| AFFAIRS II MEyICo.-Late advices from Mex
leo are even more contradictory than usual.
BY one account we hear of Examinations and
great rcioicings in the capital, in honor of the
| victory won by his Serene Righness" over the
rebels at Coquilla. Another version of the story
! "a A.,
der his command, attacked the enemy, eight
hundred strong, Ca small detachment under Villa
really which retreated in admirable order before
Fuch superior numbers, with the loss of only
single man. The news of the victory" twill
be observed, is received altogether through the
Ds0r,o Official, the government organ in Mex
leo. From all other sources of information,
mcagre as they are the alleged victory is fatty
denied.
1t seems to be an established fact that the
country along the Pacific coast south of the
capital. Is in an organized state. of insurrcc-
ton, ready to rise the moment that success
shall have crowned the arms Of Alvarez. The
object Of that wary cheftain is not to risk a
pitched battle, but rather to tempt Santa Anna
to pursue him into the wild INFAMOUS dis
tricts where, with an inferior force he can ad-
vantagoously keep up a guerilla warfare AMI,
with little loss to himself. gradually cripple
his fee. The skirmish Of Coquilis, and the re-
treat Of Nillaroal with the view OF joining the
main body. are presump!ive evidence that the
Whole affair was previously planned by Alva-
rez, and successfully executed by his ally.
When it is remembered that the government
troops are comparatively unacquanted with
The country-that during the summer months
disease will thin their ranlss-that the health
OF the Dictator himself is declining, aud that
his purse is empty-it must be confessed that
even the news of a victory, were it true, affords
no ground for belief that the instruction has