The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-05-08


Gers sno Sanders Het,ios and Hart, are not the
cot Oh ofhciai eeieotoos calsul. ted to resiae
peace TO the party here, or confidence to the oou-
nunity. We wish the Presdeut ADD his Cabinet
coulc have heard the opioioDs of the people Of
all parties Of THE city. tcuohng these appoint
monte, on the day tue sstooisbiog news was re-
ceised ia town. But the I'D niuietfatioa will her
10y OIL bye There Is storm Ia the horizon
These appointments are Dot goiog through The
United States Senate as easily as they were thrust
upon the Cahtoes There ia bad seather bre wing.
aud there will be some ugly squalls among the
democracy on or before the meeting Of Congress
What should the COoquerors In China Dop
The Hon. William b. Reed, of Philadelphia,
our newly appointed Commissioner to China, wus
in the city tie other day, gaining information in
reference to the views Of our Chinese merohants
He will leave in the course Of next mooth for the
scene of his diplomatic labOrs. IL is said that be
has already received full instructions from the
government as to the oou-se be is to pursue.
We notice by the European papers that some
Journalist has obtainetf note Of Lord Eign's
instructions and tAst they amount 70 demand
for free entry 70 slaa instead Of five, and
for permission fox an English s"collegev of FIVE
diplomatists at Peksa. Other demands are mon
toned, such as the. right Of having q military
guard for British Consuls In the eight ports; but
these are the principal points
Now If the Journalist who published this mo-
morandum be rightly informed. the instructions
to Lord Esin reject very little credit on the
British government For, practically, the open
ing Of eight ports will be very slight improve
ment on the opening of five, which folio wed the
treaty of 1916. At the time that treaty was exc
cuted, it was expected that all the newly opened
ports would be the seats Of foreign trade
equal to that of Canton. Events have shown
the fallscy OF this expectation. With the excep-
ton Of ShsDghae, none Of the new ports have
ever been worth considering, a. place Of trsAs
Annoy, Foo-cbow add Nlugpo are hardly evW
visited by European or American vessels; AID
we believe that lstteriy, the foreign Consuls ct
these ports have Dot deemed It necessary to ~
side permanently ct their poesa All the fostlgi
trade Is done through Canton and Shanghae, and
would continue to be done at these ports, tvA
though the Chinese should admit us 10 every kWa
and village on their sea coast.
IT. indeed, such river ports as Nankin are b.
cluded among the eight for whose opening Ltsl
Elgin il directed to pross, then there would be
some reason In the application II the Eogiish
intend to prosecute hostilitles until they are ID
mitted TO the cities On tho great Rivera then ne
objection can DO taken 10 their po}lcy-ston .
commercial point Of view. But the language a
our European Contemporary does not, on the fAee
Of II, bear this Interpretation. II appears 70 ~
ply 10 seaports on the seaboard only.
The only seoasae thing that can be done In ths
way Of extending asd improving our relAseus
with the Chinese will be to obtain from their r.
vernment ample liberty to ascend aud trade On
their great rivers, 90 fer a. they arc navigsb}e.
ard to sell In their country, wherever buy
e1s can DO found tue goods, wares and pro-
duce Of the United States aud Europe. We take
It that In respect Of the neoesaries Of life tho
Chinese want nosh'sg Of ua They can elotAe
themselves In homemade stufs which are far
cheaper tnan our cheap goods; they can live roy
ally on two cents worth Of rice per day; family
can be respectfully maintained, In most parts Of
China, for FIVE cents day. What the Chinese
want of us, aVd shat they will take-if they are
assailed Ia the proper manner-sre railroads,
steamboats,, telegraphs. steam machinery, aud
generally, the products Of industrial ingenuity,
such as India rubber goods &c, &c. The To-
connective contrivances are likely 10 be tbs best
card Even the Philadelphian Is less OF q travel
Ter than the ChinaUan; the travelling caravsm
on the high roads are couple Of miles long and
follow each other at distance OF six to ten
miles; the passage boats form fleets such as even
we can hardly alize; yet, the fastest travelling
arrangement in China does not exceed five miles
an hour, and the sleeping hours must even then he
deducted from the t~cnty-four. Tne mails are
carried on mems backs, between cities Of which
New York would only be a common ordinary
sized ward Yet the ChiDaman II highly intelli-
gent and intensely commercial person; he would
see at glance the advantages Of cheap, rapid
and regular locumotion- lie would realize the
telegraph in an Instant
These, and oar manufactures generally, are the
articles we want to send 70 China, and the right
TO peddle them up tn. Blue and Yellow rivers,
and especially in that big city on the latter which
IL said to contain eight millions of iuhabltastS
would be worth whole ward full Of colleges"
at Pekn. TITS would really make the war with
China benefit TO com rerce and civilization
This might help TO introduce the Chinese int
our fsmily Of nations But II all tho fighting n
to end ia tho opening Of some more useless 300
potts on the coast, ADD the imprisonment Of five
Engiishmen at Pek'n. after the fashion OF the
Russians who are copnned there for FIVE years at
n time under the same diplomatic pretenoc, no
thing In the world wilt come of Il but dsappont-
ment and trouble.
MoRs MoSIsu WANTED ron OuR HoCsx.--We
perceive that Mr. Belmont, Charge at the Hague,