The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-11

None are more able to argue and strike the reason
than the Chinese scholar. Read that wonderful
letter OF that Jacobin Robespierre-the statesman
Lin-when writing to the Queen, in which he says
:" 10 seek ones own advantages by others injury is
a01orrent 70 mans nature, and opposed to the ways
OF Heaven" and using many arguments, the Ian
guage OF which Webster or Burke would not have
bushed at. 1t would he amusing, were it not so sad,
TO read the opinions of some Of the Coughs aud
Hankins who lecture on the effects of the drug. Let
me copy pitby paragraph from letter Of February
1854, from statements made by King Shan, distin-
gmshed scholar OF Nankin, IN 1886 -
At first the smokers OF OPIUM merely wish to folio
the Of the day. but in the sequel the p,soa akss
enest The la IL oecomes fixed sleeping smokers Sl
IKE cepes lean aud hsggard as derl Sach tas
injuries Goes t, fe It throws whole families In %
rnin every kind OF property and destroys
bimeei' Tteie cannot be gresNr evil than tb!s. In
CON PERSON with arseni, it teatod TIE
p''s'n, hr these who tmoke the drug ae Injured Ia
many Ways 1t exha1s& tat animal spirits hence tn .
youth VII. smoke shortea their days aud those Id mid
mpesss me regular performance Of hasinsfs-t vases
tne hesh ard blood flesh is gradually way aud
COM umed hom the robust who smoke, and tasr skia
Gown IKE bags The faces Of the weak who smoke
are Dhck ana cadsveons and their bones nsk ID
bllets OF wosd l. renders the per.oa III favored
flows from their and ,csrs ffe "a thsr syes ~
very bodies pu rid and rotten II promotes !, csu,
y II cAoovers secrets /. viola.es laws It stacks
vAp, y ces,roys hss-whsn he has paved sl else f,r
opium eWii pal has wife and sell his daughter.
Powerful language He even beats Pollok when
describing pleasure. This position, l imagine, only
describes the delirium tremens of the day. When q
man sells ms bones to the doctor and his soul to the
devil: ano'her Of their learned men says that the
first effect is not felt, but after little
The constitution gives way, the iatsr'o. gradually
deosyf theusancstf and msgg,ts ga.w tbs In
tesnss their faces bec7e dis :olore thsi tseh ola
their ears their recks SINK n their thIoas p.oruds
and their whole frame is ma eful as that of ghoss de-
VII ano m hne they continue t, buy th'i: baoe until
death overtaAss them In the as. OF taking
have introduced these two paragraphs to show
the style OF composition, and what arguments
were laid before the Emperor, when the discussion
was at its height. No wonder the old man stood
unnerved at tie appeal, for he had lost son-a IA
vorite boy-who smoked himself to death. II
he could not keep it out of the palace it certainly
would be difficult to shut it out Of the gates Of the
empire.
The drain of silver from the nation during the
last thirty years, had there been no teas or silk
in return, would have been some six hundred mil
lions of dollars
In memorial to the Emporer, the Chinese show
the drain from the Imperial treasury to have been
from
1923 to 1881, 1874 900 600
1901 w Icof,. 2SUOu, U00
1854 10 1855. .......,..... ......... 40 900 900
and even If the former was exaggerated statistics
show that the latter average is about the annual
outlay at the present time. The question Of whether
China could have taken more cottons and imports
from England or ourselves had they not expended so
much for opium, is problematieal.
From what can see you might as well keep back
the waves Of the sea (Which Sydney Smith, when
he first introduced tina. amiahle lady Dame Par.
tingtOn, to the world, failed to do) as to stop the
use of opium. When segars are abolished and to-
bacco IN any form is not used as standardization
Intoxicating beverages are swept from the races Of
the earth-when slavery is no more and the world as
pure as when created, the opium trade foreign and
domestic, may prove abortivc but until then doubt
if all the books which are published, arguments
which are advanced, and laws which are enacted
kpnninu ont fE
The natives have got taste for it; and If they can
not get it from India, they can cultivate it in any
quantity in their own empire Some confidently
assert that even now they produce 900 chests
per year; and as the love of it increases in spite of
the government, they will continue to raise it or
import it from those who do. The East India Com
pany have the credit Of all the iniquity but SO long
as they continue to derive $ls,OO0,OOO revenue per
and Buncom editorials? But China does not take it
fast enough, for even now they have and are estab-
fishing retail shops over the Indian Empire, and the
beautiful rice fields and fertile lands OF Hndostan
must give way for the growth Of the POPPY after
sufficient have been left for the food Of the nation
AS question OF broad and liberal philanthropy
England once expended some 800 100000 in abol.
lshlEg west Indian slavery. l wonder il her be-
nevoence will ever reach the East Indian Continent!
Parliament may consider it, We will wait little
longer.
In letter from Singapore think I alluded to the
rather startling fact that almost the whole revenue
Of that island Of the companys was derived from the
sale of the license to the opium farmerssome $780,
600. Take the traffic away from the commerce of
China and some of those beautiful palaces where the
merchant SO Hospitality entertains the stranger,
would have to close their DOORS Even now the trade
is not what it was; fortunes are not made in one
successful operation, years ago. Then most eve.
ry roll was strike; but of late years it is difficult
to get spare. There's no use of abusing those who
deal in it; you may well blackball the rumsell.
or. There's not so much difference as one may ina.
CINE. Holland gin, on the North American Indian,
or Patua or Molina on the Asiatic-each carries de-
struction with excess. If you blame one, blame
all-and don't save your correspondent for his first
foreign venture was shipment of four tons of
the precious stuff in the old ship Eliza Warwick to
China in ls46, an invoice squeezed out of cerkshp
salary in Boston firm, (of sixty dollars,) and If
those who now trade in it are not more successful
than was, they will never make their fortunes for
it almost made me bankrupt besides getting severe
rebuke from my commander-in.chief for INDUCING
at my early time of life in the opium trade! think
it only justice to state that the shipment oud have
been successful had not the drug entirely evap
Grated before it reached Canton.