New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-14
RUSSIA IN CHINA,
We extract Eom the As-.ssr- dc "a PT,se tbs 81
loving ie,,e. fTrG Csias, dated early IN Decs.bss:

We extract Eom the As-.erv DE- Ia PTsye tbs 81.
loving lt,,e. f1m Csiss, dated early IN Decs.bss:
Iii, COW known .. Mscao that Rrssia after ,.sx
ana nsrseysripe sete las usf obtained Il peksa -
oper;ng Of the eve po'ts fer al Der soips Ths y
r,snlt OF Great importance. Russia has very ex.eufvs
dealings with China BY IsDd and By TIE terms OF .
tre,,y usde in l12s tie town OF kiakhsa. paced o.
the fiopers OF both empires, seryee IS me ers'ps
their commerce. The frsc ct that place hes sssamsa
consider able deyelopu ent with tendency 10 tsna
ipc,ease Russs DESTROYS of giving greater sondiy 70
her posi,iOn in China has obtained the prisiis Ct
having leRstioo at Pesin, which favor saassa or
no other rover; but o. setoff against these edvea-
tsees, the Government OF the Celestial Empire hae a.
ways refused to Der vessels the opening OF the hvs
ports into which the ships Of othsr nations as admit
ted The Russian commerce. therefore has sIwaye bsea
exclusively carried on by land During the Eastern
War Admiral Psnentpe who commanded the RussiaA
etfosts TO obtain treaty 10 place his country on The
seine footing as the most favored nations in mari
tine Point of view. He would probably have suc-
ceeded al that period If the had not parayzed his
mes otaiiops. The object he then pursuing hss,
then cav been recently attained, and al hough aS
s,I ignorant Of the conditions the fact itself certain.
The recent events at Canton, and the policy thN
France ard England seem DESTROYS OF pursuing N
Chins, give special interest 10 the sdvaatarW
lust obtained by Russia. That power hencetorta viii
sssuredly have crest weight IN Chinese aairs snd ~
sdop the same line Of policy, the object Of which V -
obtsin from the Court of Pekin defnitive treaties -
lar may depend.
On the 9Th Of November body of insurgents fol-
lowed accompanied by numerous bands OF robbers.
who for months past have be ravagng the province
of XIV apg ST. tcok possession OF the city OF koutlta,
where they committed every kind OF excess The tu-
pera troops not being in force at that point, were I'm
able 10 assst he inhabitants In Europe Il is impossible
to conceive the anarchy prevailing at great nun-
Der OF places in the Celestial Empire. Robbery
organized there q formidable scale. The Govern
inert poweress to suppress IT, for want OF the neces-
sary strength and authority. The Mandsrins order
numerous executions but these do not fall upon tbs
robbers but rather harmless mendicants, on peor
houseles wIetches whose heads the MandaIns cut or
that they may be presented as those OF formidAosa
brigards 10 the gaze of the Emperor
The Niceroy of Canton, ieh, one OF the mcst cruel
and odious men that can be met with anywhere, hs4
a cynical system of his own lie maintained In the
city certain number Of the most AFFECT beggars, auA
whenever any audsoious robbery had been committee
being too weak and cowsdly to venture on srres'ing
the as assins be fixed upon dozen or so OF these Deg
CARS whore heads he caused to be taken on, Were
upon ne would write word to the Emperor that fright
full me had been committed but that the act had I'm
medatey met with IFS reward for its perpetrators bad
been aIrested by him and punished with DEATH 1t 70
by gross snd repeated lies of this description that the
Mandarrs constantly impose on the Emperor, VINO Is
never enabled TO learn the truth And therefore every
one who has lived in China knows that whstever to
be done must be done in his immediate presence aud
in the very hesrt of bis Empire. This truth Cannot be
repeated too constantly in Europe, If We would have
the affairs of China properly understood there. .
The grand instruction that of Tae-Ping. stu holds
its ground in the Province OF kiang. Sou ana mas ioa
headquarters at Nankn. We may for the future Goa
cider that city as lost to the Emperor his authority
there will never be re.estabshed. IL Is impossible
under such circumstances to display greater ncapacy
than has been shown by bis Generals. The insurgents
have fortified the Yspg-Tse Kiang. and the mouth Of
the river can no longer be entered by the Chinese fleet
AT the date of the latest news, Admiral Seymour wa
still at Canton. lie had established himself there u
such wsy as not to be haras ed in the positions which
the Tartar troops had abandoned He had sent for the
frgate Minden; be had sent 70 Hong Kong th1
Winchester and the Coromsnde, to Whampoa th<
Sibyl and TO Shapghae the Pique and the Hornet hs
had taken the g. measures at the request of the Engsi
Copsps who required them for the protection Of theu
country men. The Admiral, before undertaking an,
operation intended waiting for the fresh INSTRUCTION.
| from I.o pdon which he bad cent for.