New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-01
THE FRENCH IN CHINA.
From Our Own Con spondent

From Our Own Con spondeIt.
PARIS Sept. 9, 1858.
The French are still rejoicing over their victory
in China. Not that they rejoice at the event as We
do at the success Of the Transatlantic Telegraph.
They do not explode in rocketty jubiation, nor pro
ceed through the illuminated streets by countless
thousands nor set fire to the Hotel de Ville They
have not let off single pack of fre-crackers IN
appropriate celebration of their Chinese conquest.
True, il is not SO important as the one over and
under the elements which so delights Us; but We
are an immessurably more exctable, expansive, de.
monstrative, frskier people than the French. The
proposition may SEEM at first glance, paradox;
il only depends ON how one looks at it 10 see It's
patent truthtulpess. See how our mobile popua-
tons skurried "a to California few years ago;
noe their mpe'uous eas toward Fraser River.
Talk of French fetes. What Of them can compare
With the great religious ete that you celebrated for
months together last Winter, in New.fork aud
throughout the country What Feast of Pixies,
or Feast Of Eagles on the Champ de Mars equals
our ousdrennal political mass meetings and torch
Gvht professions! Talk of French excitement.
I,oes II culminate once a month in burned negro
or lynched white man Does It demonstrate IL
self in individuals with bowiekniyes ana firearms,
and in masses with hurrahs and cheers which for
volume and tremendousness are utterly snattainablc
by the Latin races No in these, as IN other re-
spects. We beat the French.
But TO return 10 what i was saying. They are
| in bich state os Boosting and sefgratulaton
/ the forced submission " China IL the civilzlng
conditions offered by them and the English The
! chief motiye-at least the put forward as Chief
/ If the French in undertaking the war was the
ayeneing Of their missionaries put TO violent deaths
by the Chinese. That it Was right for Frenchmen
IA propagate doctrines in China tending TO subyert
the established institutions of that country its
pr.yslent notions of family order and religion, is
/ understood as matter of course by every one
tbst ia by everybody of the 81 millions country.
man of the missona rles-the two hundred millions
Chinese bodies who understood the matter difie-
renily do not count. That was appropriate acton
in the ease 10 kil some thousands of Chinese who
had probably never seena missionary, BY way OF
ax.rc;snp vigilance on the other half dozen Cees
t;,ls who had. Mt different times, killed each
Christian white devil is also no matter Of question
uou many of the sectsries Of Boodh or calm con
,;cts of the phil0spty of konf,tee those dead mis-
.onaries turned before their violent decease from
their erroneous ways Ia those of righteousness
,ntness and peace is not nicely known. Fa
IN. psrent society that sent forth these martyr
p,sses for being rather strong than cautiously accu
rate in statistics. Neither II the humper oi slc'in
10 French Christian vengeance and the OFFENDED
English ciylzing opium interest, correctly sscer
tanned. When presiding Judge Mouiiieraa pro
nounc.d sentence of death, at ls-oudun, on Plerr
Michel he added in consolatory tone, the ~
preston of his hope that this would serve AS es-o
10 Pierre. The number of killed Cinnamon IL,
il chsrtably hoped, great enough to serve as
lesson in Christianity and civilization, teaching th
mmsl excellence Of the dogma and the santnr
benefit. Of the drug
Civ. the French the credit Of being toeFnb'