The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-09
SELECTIONS OF FOREIGN NE WS.
ENGLAND, RUSSIA, AND CHINA.
[From the London Times, Aug. a5.l

We suspect that the English public was rather sur
prsed than graed by the kind offices of the Russian
government in giving us intelligence of what
doing in the east of Asia. 1t is good to know that
diplomatic difficulties over and that we may now en-
ter into this land aboundng in silk and tea Our busy
men OF commerce will Immediately set their wits
working to organize commercial expeditions up the Yang
tse We shall probably ascertain whether the short
staple coons of the Chinese Deas cannot be adapted to
our looms.
A strong spirit of enterprise brdled little by the
recollection of disasters in that quarter fifteen years
old, will go forth eastward Manchester will shortly
have her correspondents at Wanchau Sheffield motions
will have penetrated to Pekin Nottingham laces will
compete at Sooclow and Liverpool will import sugars
from Formosa But commercial and political thinkers
will be startled in their calculations by this ugly fact
ST Petersburgh the Goth Of August had news from
the Pciho up to the 9th Of June Lodon has this
25th day Of August Of its own from the Pciho
later than the 4th OF june ST. Petersbugh therefore,
is nearly month in advance of month nearer to
Pekin than are. Fal
In these days, when intelligence is money, power do
minop life, month Is thousand years. Fancy the
effect OF rupture with Russia being known by Count
Putiatn month before it be known by Lord Egin.
Fancy the effect of crisis in the tea and silk
markets being known TO the merchants Of ST. Peters,
burgh month before it becomes suspected Royal
Exchange. politician merchant, who operates
with the odds of months early against him, like
savage with bow and concnding against prize
sergeant fresh from the Hyhe School Of Musketry or
like the same sergeant contendng against that coming
philosopher who is to kill his at twenty miles dis
tanco by the power of concentrated sunbeams.
Everything Is by comparison. Everything is accord
ing to the station held in the great onward race The
impatient lover who, separated from his mistress i'm
pored Jove TO 'annihilate all time and space" was
thought an unreasonable parsonage but nothing short
of this will FIJI the measure Of large desires If Puck
takes forty minutes to put gre round about the earth
Ariel will boat him out Of the field If he does It In two
throbs OF pulse When the Sirius thirty years since
steamed into New York harbo all the city turned out to
her, and the excitement tremendous a month
hence any Liverpool broker who should remain ignorant
Of the price Of cotton till he got II by of steam
ship would be placed in private lunatic asylum.
We must go on, on, We have proved that VIC can
annihilac space and time and having divuged the Sc
cet of capacity the inexoable necessities OF compe
ton seize upon u.s. and insist upon working up to
the full pressure of our power.
We have been beaten by month. II is not very easy
TO say how this has happened How IL be ttat
speed more quickly by relays of horses than by steam
and electric wires How it that the passage of pte