The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-20
FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

LONDON, April I'd, 1858.
Interesting, if not important will be the true de-
hnition of the news from the Old World for the
present week.
From the East we learn that Sir Colin Campbell
was expected to have fought the great and finabat-
tie with his barbarous enemies, before Lucknow,
about the oath of February.
From China also the news is of considerable i'm
porance. Canton was in full possession of the al
lied forces, and if any want to read romance of
real life, let them go letter, filling six immor-
tai columns ofthe Times, of March 3Oth. Its from
the Gown Correspondent of that journal, and it
gives full view of the Cantonese and their suualid
barbarian life under the reign of that beast and ty
rant, Governor Ieh.
In two years that brutal fend has massacred
"eXecuted" 900 victims. Some were beheaded
and some sliced to pieces with knives. He could
not catch a certain rebel general because he ran
away, but he seized his wife. She was stretched
naked upon of these internal instruments shaped
like n cross, whether in contempt of the symbol of
Christianity or not the writer does not inform us
land by chs order her flesh was cut from her body.
Her breasts were first cut off. then her fore
head was slashed and the skin torn down over her
face, then the feshy parts Of the body were sliced
away. There are Enyiishnen get dlire lchO SdU this
done ~ Does any Christian man woman sftcr
this, wish to cry out 'spare the poor Chinese? No!
Let John Bull and the Frenchman Jonathan and the
Russian, looking and approving, lay on and spare
not They execute by beheading, using heavy broad
sword, a farmers boy chips off the head of a
carrot or turnip. "Untl they can, with their heavy
swords slice great bulbous vegetable as thin as we
slice cucumber, they not eligible for their Of
hce Three seconds head suffice. In one minute
five eXecutoners clear off 100 lives" They are ar
ranged in rows. "a blow from behind forced out
the head and neck and laid them convenient for the
blow" "There was succession of dull
crunching sounds-chop, chop, chop, chop. No
hl,Nt- Il
slayers educated to their work" Fancy com
pany of athletic, pracised men, labOring all day,
and many days together, at this work of death !
Seventy thousand lives in two years! ''Live skele
tons, not men," were the tenants of horrible dens
used for goals, and in the same were carcasses OF
the perished, half eaten by rats, and stencil
like the blast from the internal regions. We
readily believe the statement that mo man who
saw that sight will ever forget it." "Never were
human senses assailed by more horrible stream of
pestilence." The Mandarin ailors wanted to know
what all the fuss was about. and wondered why
they could not do what they liked with their own.
And we are told by this Canton letter writer, that
''within period dating from the commencement of
the present troubles, six Europeans, four English
men and two Frenchmen, have found their deaths
in those dreadful dens." And will they not be
avenged? Let British cannon and French bayonets
give the answer. One sailor (English) told them
(other prs0ners) stories, and amused them 'tll he
grew tired, cried and talked of his friends far away"
When word came from Pekin ''their heads were
The other prisoners knew it poison, for they
all died in frghtfu agones but two, who threw up
the draught. These were afterwards strangled
and the fowls that fed upon the vomt died. These
fowls were permitted to live in the goals to devour
the vermn that covered the prisoners Were
there ever such tales of horror told. ''These
horrors which one mind cannot convey to another,
and such we saw again and again during these two
days'-days occupied in visiting the prison.
Some of the remarks of this correspondent are
not very fiattering to our American Minister, Mr..
Reed. He seems to have attempted to ''dodge,"
and when Lord Elgin and Baron Gros, British and
French ambassadors, wanted to have a conference
with the Russian and American Ministers, Mr.. Reed
| and his Secretary of Legation were both myster-
ously absent on some projected or pretended visit
to the northward. But seeing that the business
would be done at any rate by the representatives
of the three other great powers, if he absent
Mr. Reed turned up like May chicken after the
! hawk has flown over. Except that, all appeared
cordial and frank on the part of Mr.. Reed. Ii
seems that "every act yet done by the belligerent
allies is now adopted and approved by the two
hitherto neutral powers" They all to proceed
to Shanghai, "and there if possible make gene
raj treaty."
Each of the four powers has, as understand, sent
to Pekin general statement of grievances and de-
mands These four ambassadors are to send to the
Emperor at Pekin, asking him 'to dispatch to
Shanghai minister of high rank properly accredi-
ted, to treat for treaty, upon the basis of free
transit throughout China, under proper protection
from Chinese authority, permanent diplomatic rela
ty for losses and expenses incurred" And may
they get it all if they know it is the usual
opinion that every mans house is his castle, and
that all kings, emperors and rulers, keep every
body but their subjects out of their respective
countries if they please.
But see the duplicity of these same Chinese. In
| 1916, Lord Mccartney was sent as British Embassa
dor to Pekin, by permission of the Chinese Emperor,
and an 'audience" promised. The Embassador
rived 'out sde' of Pekin late in the afternoon and
was at once waited on by Minister of the Emperor,
stating he was ready for the audience. But my
lord plead that he and his suite were dusty, tired,
and travelworn, and wanted rest, and that they
would be ready the next morning. But no-then
! or never; and this made in such peremptory,
discourteous and undiplomatic way, that the EN-
bassy was obliged to leave or submit to such in
| dignites Government representatives could
decently put up with. In a few hours they were on
| the way back to the sea-coast.
| Here is pretence of treating when they will
not treat Let "villainous salt petre. bring them
to terms, and knock decency into their heads, ii it
! has no original seat there already. "ln some coun-
tries words represent facts, but this is never the
! case in China"
| Much of the arts and manufactures and practical
science and agriculture of the Chinese is worthy of
study and imitation by other nations. In cultiva-
ting the earth, in landscape gardening and in the
art OF arts, the procuring supply of food for an
immense population the Chinese are probably, un-
rivalled. Just by the walls of Canton sixty
acres of fish ponds. Certain carp (gold fish, Ang-
lice. in tanks held sacred by the Chinese.
The English, after the capture, evidently thought
these fish worthy of some good purpose; so they
caught them, broiled them, and put them on their
breakfast tables In that position the British OH
GERS admired them Inuchl There is something
about John Bull that is eminently practical.
| Talking of fish, and leaving the Chinese and their
prisons their diplomacy their josshouses, and sa-
! cred carp, am reminded OF some late intelligence
of the fish culture and breeding recently tried in
| France The experiments in propagatng and rear
ing trout in the waters about Paris have been emi-
| nnptlv cuncnssful- The same is true of salmon A
| few years ago fresh salmon brought in Paris from
! two and half to three and half francs pound,
! and now it can be bought there for a franc. The
art of producing food, the mystery of making the
earth yield her increase for the sustenance of count
less millions, the science of agriculture in all its
branches, is certainly very much in its infancy,
! among the occdentals, at least. The Oriental
tons are far in advance of u.s. and the English are
very far ahead of the Americans. Men like Mr..
Nicholas Longworth, D G. Brown, of the Agricul
tura Patentl Office; Mr.. Glover the late A. j. Down
ing, and scores and hundreds of others, the
most valuable citizens of the American nation. OF
course in the eyes of some, they not to be com
pared in usefulness TO some tenthrate Drawing
| politicians, men who do "patriotism' as trade,
and who are ready to serve the nation IN every ca
pacty, from Secretary of State to crossing sweep
! There is one of the advantages OF monarchy
begging the pardon of all you republicans-the fact
that there not one hupdreth part the number ot
politicians that you are blessed with in our ram
| PANTY radical, and excruciatingy Gree country.
| o for solitude, den, prison, deaf, dumb,
and impenetrabe refuge from the din Of of the
eternaly occurring, never ending, discordant mad,
heterogeneous campanoogian, bellicose noisv bru-
tai, bloody, denominations of \ ankee dOodledom an
American election. During one of them wish
NAV be sunk and fished up in the days of the old
republic of Venice.
'Oh for one hour Of blind old Dandolo,
The ocogenarian chief ByEantium's conquerng foe
remain,
In the honds of Ranuhcanism