The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-05

Inc. 1864 10 ~ ososs =. ,.s,oa., :, ann
1855 .'...... 81 ,6l6, 800 81 ,065soo tO,4s9
The return Of exports To the United States not being
comp,ete for the year 1866 ended with the 30th OF
June, we have used IN the comparison Inc Amer,can
returns for the year 1865, whe the returns of the
exports to Cheat Britain are for the year ended June
30Lh, 1856.
CONTRAST BETWEEN THE ELsM AND AMHERST
MISSIONS.
From the London Times, March IT.
The announcements appearing to the effect that
new PieuipoteDtisIy had been appoints to proceed
to Pekin, and that the last statesman entrusted with
seem almost 10 imply that diplomatic intercourse
with China was transacted once only in genera
ton, and that we were now about to repeat the en-
terpse which produced 30 little results forty years
since. The coincidence, no wever, is merely super
fetal, for in no points do the two OCCASIONS re.
semb'e each other. Since the embassy of Lord AM
herst to the Celestial Empire, whole relations
with that Power have undergone q change, and
are DOW da'ed almost entirely from the treaty
OF 1912. Tbas settlement, int Gect,ve In SON,
respects a. 1t now appears, represented little less
than revelation in the relative positions OF the two
countries, and the Court of PekiD, instead OF dis
its OVID, was iaia to confess itself vanquished, to
open It's ports, and to pay heavy triDnte to the
cOhquerer We NJ longer addIess the Chinese 60
vernment with the views formerly entert aimed, bat
con estimate accurately it's claims, iss resources,
apd its power, as compared with our own
We sincerely trust that Lord Egin may
find the means OF reviving recent impressions of
our rover without any repetition Of the seventies
which accompanied them, and that be may be able
to enforce his gumebts rather by the tecrrs Ut the
old war than the results Of peg one. Our demands
are still TOR reasonable treatment and nIthiog
more. We desire no corquesss in China-Sn TACT,
IL would be- pIepos erOus 10 thick Of establishing
ourselves territory already too small for its popu
latiOn.
rgE WAR MOVEMENT IN INDIA.
SDgapore (eb. 81 correspondence Of the London News
a dO Nm IN
something like quiet, the Chinese 3en8 afraid OF the
great military preparations that vera maze to pun
lsh them ii they carried out their threat Of exteY
rDinating the European residents The dagger,
however, Will continue 30 long the war lasts in
China.
PROSECUTIONS OF CHRISTIANS IN COoBrN.cHrNA.
A letter from TouranDe Cochin Cbios) of the 7th
December Estates that the King Ian Due was acting
with increasing tyranny towards his subjects Chris
tians or iufdels. The 100000 Christians of the
AnaIote empire their fourteen French bishops and
their numerous missiona les, have no longer any
hope except Ia the good offices Of France. TIE
idolators themselves rejoice more and more at the
presence of the French ships in the roadstead OF
TouIanpe. MopsienOr Pelitrin was on board the
Caprcieuse at the above date, and hs1 been 80 for
several Gays before. His Eminence had incurred
the greatest danger in arriving at that place of re-
fuge.
pASGER OF rHE ENGLISH RESIDENTS 1T CANTON.
The LoLdon Post obseryes:-ln % midst of
hostile and treacherous population M barely one
hundred miles from Canton-on- e the vilest of
Chinese cisies--the English must always be prepar
ed to act on the defensive, and to consider sef-pre
servation as the first Ia of nature.
COMMISSIONER YxHs CHARACTER IN CHINA.
An Ednburg correspondent of the London Netcs
writes:-ln China Yeh is not regarded by his own
people as hated tyrant, or dealer ia heads which
be Tops off inGiscrimnately for his own amusement
a. Rrandise menu. Do people in general, and es-
pecialiy thinking and determined prople like those
Of Canton, admire such ruler or are hey likely n
stand by him in the season of trial. when merely
holdiog ba,k would ruin him and rid them of him
for ever?