The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-22

The letter of our correspondent at Shanghai,
which we have commented on at length in another
column, is eranently suggestive, and we commendit
to the earnest attention of our readers.
Advices from Pernambuco to the 21st uit. have
been received. The markets were unchanged and
there had been arrivals from the United States.
That dreadful scourge, which seems to have be-
come periodical in certain sections of our country
the cholara-has broken out at West Baton Rouge,
La. Accounts from Baze, Honduras, to the 2sth
ult state that the disease still prevailed at that
place.
James Quinn, who killed woman nameo Wig
gins Last 4all by splitting her skull with an axe,
suffered the extreme penalty of the law at Wilkes
barre, Pa. Emulating the bravado of majority of
malefactors of the day. he met his fate with perfect
unconsern and without making any confession.
Important from China-What Is Our Govern
ment About:
We call the attention of the government at
Washington to the letter which we publish this
| morning from Shanghai. 1t is interesting in
many particulars but especially in regard to
the intrigues and designs of the English in the
Central Flowery Kingdom.
1t will be remembered that Hon. Humphrey
Marshall, our late Minister to China, was taken
very roundly to task by our newspapers, some
months back, for favoring the Imperial govern
ment when every body supposed that, from the
republican principles of his own country, he
shonld have sided as heartily as possible with
the revolutionary Chinese republicans. But
our letter from Shanghai explains all this very
satistac torily. 1t appears that the British
agents in China have sympathizei with the
revolutionists because they have had great
ultimate object in view, and that the American
resident merchants and disappointed attaches
(of various sorts) took sides with the British
because their immediate mercantile n.erests
were concerned in the business. Mr.. Mar
shall, therefore, was left to pursue his own
course, and abide by the consequences. This
however, had nothing to do with his
recall, except SO far as it may have ex-
pedited it. He was, however, bound to give
way to some hungry democrat; and there were
too many hungry ones to think for moment
of sparing the whig Commissioner to China.
His successor is Mr.. M'Lane, of Maryland,
promising young man, who has been to Califor-
mia, a fine stump speaker, pretty sharp Mary
land politician, as far as the little plots of a
Congressional district may be concerned, but
so very amiabe in his disposition that we sus-
pect he will fall into the hands of the Philistines
the moment he enters upon his diplomatic func-
tions. He has o sort of rowing commission, we
believe, and is perhaps instructed, as far as
may be perfectly safe, to sympathize, co-ope-
rate with, and recognise the revolutionary
party, under the deluson that it smacks some
what of liberal and Christian principles.
Our correspondent shows that this is all kum-
bug, and that the object of the British emissa-
ries in encouraging the revoutionists is to upset
the government with the reasonable expecta-
ton that such state of confusion and anarchy
may follow as will leave no other alternative
to England than the establishment of CONNER
cial protectorate over the whole empire like that
Of the East India Company. Hence the busy
movements Of Sir George Bonham at Shanghae,
and thereabouts. If that port does not, on the
establishment of peace, fall into the hands OF
the English, it will not be their fault; nor will
it be from any excess of vigilance or sagacity
on our part in preventing it.
When we consider that cur increasing CON-
merce in the Pacific since the gold discoveries
in California have suggested an enlarged sys-
tenn of commercial exchanges with China.
upon the basis of neighborly reciprocity, and
the establishment, to this end, of steam lines
between San Francisco and the Chinese sea-
ports; and when we consider that the Chinese
government and people are more favorably in
clined to the American than to the English
barbarians, we may well inquire what is our
government abouts Why was it that Commo-
dore Perry refused ship to our Minister for
an official visit to Pekin with the view of a
valuable treaty with the Emperors On mo-
ton OF Mr.. Stephens, of Georgia, the House of
Representatives have called for the official cor
respondence of Mr.. Marshall and others during
his sojourn in China. Let us have it. Perhaps
it may be useful to Congress. II will certainly
be interesting to the public, as showing the
exact condition of our relations with the
Chinese down to the sailing of Mr.. Marshall
from the country. 1t will also enable us to
form some tangible judgment upon the pros
poets Of the mission of Mr.. MLane.
Now is the time to strike Should this En-
ropean war be made a short war by the ener-
getic movements of England and France, and
should they come out of it triumphantly they
have given us to understand that they will
next see to the regulation of the balance of
power upon the American continent. Aud
why not the whole Asiatic continent just as
wei! What is to hinder them from checking
thc advance Of Russia in the East by a protec
torate over China, if they vanquish Russia ii
this contest? Nothing except the tact ana sa-
gacity required from our Ambassador to de
feat the projects, in the meantime, Of British
emissaries in China. Let IA, then, sec exactly |
where we stand. Let ne have the correspo, |
dence touching the diplomacy OF Mr. Marshall |
while in China, Why note