New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-19

persona. Tbss ct nearly cotemporanssu, ns.s..
Of toe Royal Geographical Society, snLPb,.!
and Mr.. Crawford, both persons k,owa b, g..
books and their residence in the East took NJ.
tage Of pretended geographical cOmmunicsso,,s
iDsinuate apologies for the opium trade. Mr.. Cn,
ford oenteuded, on the authority of Sir Benin.
Brodie, that the use Of opium Is less njars.,
than the use Of ardent spirits on either Chm.
or British, whence he jumped to the coax.
sion that tho opium traffic is quite ,,.-
cent-in fact, 3 great piece of humanity 70 u.
Chinese; philanthropical operation-mucA ..
suppose like that of some Of our advertising .o;r
dealers, whose great object would seem to IA
if one can trust their advertisements =.
much to turn penny, honest or otherwise a,
themselves, as to protect their fellow f,o,
being poisoned to death BY other peoples bad =,
and drugged brandy Sir +. Davis says dips =
Mr.. Crawford as othe comparative effects Of opipv
and spirits; and also to Mr.. Crawfords other s,,.
session, that il is the business Of the Chinese .,l
not of foreigners to suppress the Chinese 1s Of
opium; and that, as the Chinese, since the IA
war (wsged against them, be il observed, becsuu
they did attempt TO suppress the opium traffic, "a,
took the only ehectual means to do it,, bad viz.
tually abandoned the prohibition of it, and allowed
il TO be publicly used aud traded in, therefore d
would be a great piece of impertinence in for.
egners-in fact, decided intermeddhng with I'd
domestic affairs of the Chiaese-to leave Of sst.
ting the laws of China at defiance by smuggling L
into the country
Chinese Evaneeization Society. The Repor. Il
the Secretary read at the meeting-and the ams
is true of the late Report Of the American Board d
Commissioners for Foreign Missions--seems to pg.
good deal of reliance upon the alleged respect ior
Christianity and the Scriptures which some &c.
counts have represented as prevalent amorg tie
Chinese rebels. But even if these accounts were
more distinct and reliable than they are, an &c.
quaintance with Chinese history would show that
they ought not to be too confidently relied upon v
forebodiDg the triumph of Christianity. This hg
no means the first time that the Christian religion
has been mixed up in Chinese hoshlities ard civil
connections The famous Ching Che-Long, who
with his son Ching Ching Kong, well known to
Europeans by the name of Coxinga, maintained
himself for some time after the Tartar invasion Oi
l644 in the southern maritime provinces Of China
had been, previous to that invasion, in the GER
vice of the Portuguese at Macao, where he act
only acquired vast fortune, but had also become
convert to the Christian religion, which, after hi,
assumption of the royal authority was quite fash
ionable at his court. These Christian Chinese
princes or rebels as the new Tartar Government
called them, were speedily expelled from The
continent, but they succeeded in establishing them
selves in the Island of FOrmosa, where Coxnn
maintained himself for some forty years as master
by means of his fleet, of all the neighboring seas.
1t was thought at that time that Christianity bad
gained firm foothold among the Chinese, Jet
nothing came of it; and it may very likely be the
same with the alleged Christianity of the preseu!
rebels