New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-16

| beet qualities Of the American article. Still the
o'' rser quality of lrdan cotton cultivated by the
cheapest labor in the world cannot fad IN the long
| run, 10 depreciate the value Of Governor Wses
niggsrs. fear the chiyalrous Southron viii live 10
see his chattel selling at $500 instead 81 81 600
which be dreams Of realizing by the extension Of th.
peculiar institution north Of Mason and Dixon's line
The news from the East is rather gloomy The
Chinese are rot yet sufficiently civilized 10 make
war in the approved and protracted way of the late
Russian campaign where the object was TO do as
little harm TO the enemy possible, to attack him
at his strongest military point Ia spare his CONNER
csl towns ard 10 take the greatest not 10 STIR
up the national feeling Of the Poles and Finsnders
AGAINST their tyrant The Chinese are quite incor
rect in their mode of warfare. Disguised
chants ard passengers, they spike the guns OF the
English shps they burn their stores at Hong Kong,
and rise in rebellion az those settlements where they
ouinumbsr the English. Rsjah Brooke's settlement
al SSsrawak has been DESTROYED BY such outbreak
If Chinese patriotism. and he and his agents driven
cut of the colony. The Rsjah, however, put him
self al the head Of the savage DyShs and Maays,
and the offending Chinese community, women aud
children included, amounting to 20uO persons were
nut to the sword BY the civilized Rsjah, who had
tsken his degrees at Oxfofd. and was knighted By
the Queen Ii is feared that similar riots putting
the lives snd property Of many Englishmen in jeop-
sry msy be- reported by the next mail trom several
other po!nts Of MALAYSIA, perhaps even from Siuga-
pore sn~<St is we'll known that the secret society
of the Trisds, which has Its ramihcatons IN the
whole Eastern Archipelago and even IN California,
is centerrd az Canton and receives It's or
ders from that rOtous town, which now,
elatrd by Sir Michael Seymours retreat, boasts
If having expelled the foreign barbarians, and
dreams Of the utter destruction of the English power
in China. Lord Palmerston is fully aware Of Sir
John Rowrings bunder IN beginning war with in
sufficient forces, and creating patriotic excitement
i l. 4 l..sI
a great war. Still II cannot now be helped, aud
Lord Elgin's instructions will probably go further
than originally intended. The English driven into
awar Of ccnQuest and China viii probably have 10 pay
the costs by the cession of the large and important
Island Of Formosa. Let me here observe that Your
witty Boston correspondent is mistaken in transfer
ring Thomas Moores structures on Bowring 10 the
late Joseph Hume who never was scholar, aud
would not have understood the ghost Of Mtlades-
Rowring the Benthamte, on the other hand, ia "a
Greek scholar, and liked to quote Esch!hs by help
ing himself to Greek bonds. He was known as the
SECOND best friend of Greece, while Joseph Hume was
the best friend and Tom Moore did not fail likewise
to immcrtaize him as the " BoRfsman Of Greece
10 whom Greek scrip is Potiphars wife, etc.
The English papers which know little Of China
and Chinese law, often insist upon reciprocity IN
respect TO the intercourse with the Chinese; and.
pointing To the unrestricted immigration Of the Chi
ncse 10 British settlements claim the same right
grafton is regarded as felony by Chinese law to ba
punished by exile Any Cbnaman leaving his coun-
try tor more than three wears fortets has right to
ret,irn though, in fact, this IL not enforced. tor
bribery has become the peculiar institution of this
Celestial Empire and the officials do not care to en-
force the law against emigration whenever the re-
turned Chinaman brings money from foreign coun-
tries ard shows his deyOtedness to the laws BY shar-
ing his profits with the Mandarins.
The Neuchatel affair is virtually terminated. and
the Prussian schemes of gaining influence in South
ern Germany have again been checked tor while.
Switzerland will now be acknowledged under its
amended Federal Constitution by a solemn European
act Of diplomacy, and this advantage outweighs tho
modification the Republic has 10 undergo. BY hay-
ing TO buy what was her own.
The minors about the intended abdicaton OF the
King Of Denmark have again revived, and as II is
certain that he is tired of his crown, he may really
carry out his intention of retiring from business.
The Russian railway scheme finds no favor either
Mt the London Exchange or on the Paris Bourse,
but the Roman railways are taken up by the Roman
Catholic priests and converts. A. p. C.