The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-16
The New Treatiss with cAina.

The New treaties Win Vutma.
The Landon NsNs, In aspssniativs articison the
credit = be gives the new treaties announced 10
| have been made With China, says M
Az far ~ We canealisct from the very imperfect
materials before u the substance Oft these treaties
10 nearly ~ follows:-By the Treaties With France
and England, China has bound herself to pay cen
siderable ipdemnitiss to thess powers. Tho Chi
aese Government has. moreover, promissd that the
murder Of the French missionary shall be punish
| ed, and his punishment announced la the Gazette
Of pekin; but whether this has been made Treaty
stipulation does not appear. Russia has obtained
from chiss, BY the Treaty concIuded on the 18th
Amoor aud the formsrsboundAry line OF the two
Empires. In other respects the treaties which Chi
ns has concluded With ell The four Powers are
identical. NEARLY the whole" Of the Chinese km-
pirs 10 thrown open to commerce The laws
against Christianity are to be abolished. Mission.
aries are to be admitted s'every shere." 'Dipio-
matte agents may reside temporarily At Pekin."-
A Chinese Ambassador 10 to be sent to PAris.-
Whether Lord Elgin has deemed II necessary or
expedisnt to stipulate for q similar mission to
E1ndon we have yet TO learn
This 10 the sun total of our knowledge, and it
leaves ample verge for uneasy Questioning. "Dlp-
lonafc agents may reside temporarily at Pekin."
In other words, the Chinese Government has only
conceded to the Three Western Powers the pri.
vege of occasionally sending special Minister to
Pskin; the privilege OF maintaining permanent
Resident Mission there-vhich has long been
enjoyed by Russia--is still withheld. The Chinese
Government, In fact, have only conceded the
abstract principle that Ambassadors may, on Gers
tain occasions, be sent to Pekin; the question
whether, any special occasions, 1t may be neces
sary or expedient to send one, must In every case
be made matter OF previous negotiation. In
other words. the matter Of direct communication
with the Imperial Government-instead of with
officials ate the outports stands pretty nearly
where it did Again, missionaries to be
admitted everywhere" But will the Imperial
Government have power TO protect themg In
every province the local authorities and predomi
nent factions appear TO do pretty much az they
please. 1t Is not the Imperial Government alone,
but the whole ofthe learned, Z. Of the governing
class, tina; is inimicai to CbristiaDity.
Missionaries may, perhaps. be allowed to peue-
tr ate into every part of the Chinese Empire; but
them. every attack upon a Missionary will become
the source of new Misunderstanding, new nego.
tiations, new wars with China.
1t will be time enough to Congratulate ourselves
on the extension Of tur trade with China when We
know what additional ports have been thrown
open. It is ouy ''nearly the whole" Of the Empire
that is sad to have been 'thrown open to the trade
Of the West" Lastly, we are still entirely 10 the
dark az to what stipulations have been made re-
specting the retention or evacuation Of Canton by
the French and English forces. VIII the sample
indemnity" granted to England cover all the losses
incurred by our merchants through the wArlike
operations consequent On the wretched quarrel
about the lorcba Arrow
The New York Herald publishes letter from
st. Petersburg, giving history of the treaties
just concluded between Russia aud China. 1t
says:
1t appears that Gen eral Mouravieff concluded
treaty With the Chinese on the 10th of May, In
Mongolia, by which Russia became undispnted
mistress Of the Atnoor river. and that Count Puti-
attn has made another at Tien-sin, by virtue Of
which all the hsrbors Of China are opened tc Rus
sian trade, and she has quietly succeeded in OBJ
tanning the same commercial privileges won by
Eugland and France after a costly war.