New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-01

Narcotics beroues as II nav the great entrep"t
of Asiatico- European commerce. + rance cdn o'1i'o
no large, direct pecunary proht from tne oP'nHis
| of China. What she at present proudly noPrs -
| the extension of the French name and frrnch
idess-r.lgious ideas and civilized deas-to new
! quarter of the world. For If our world Is Z" oe
measured by the number of on-dwslling souls, ahd
not by old absurd geographical llnes. China better
deserves the title than Europe, which Is not q
quarter. even in area. Newspaper writers cannot
indulge in the luxury Of marginal and foot notes, SO
hook the following, with brackets, to the body oi
the text. According tc Professor Dletslei ol prr,
lin University in his recent paper read before the
Academy of Sciences Of that city. the Whole pum-
her of souls or bodies now on earth "a l,2-3
millions Of whom. or which. Europe sustains but
212 minons-the American quarter, oy tne way,
holds but 50 of whom less than hall MAKE up Tue
count of our country which We are So apt Ia thihA
of as the world par excellence. But extracts rom
tie memories of the Russian eccleslastlcal mission
at Pekin lust translated and published here IN that
valuable periodical La Rerm Gtrmaniqnc show
that according 10 the best attalabe authorities on
/ the subject the population Of China numbered
/ over three hundred and sixty millions IN lcl2
I Now to unhitch and go on. The French bind the
/ Chinese by treaty to admit them and their ideas
into the country. French missionaries - even
/ French Protestant mlssionaries-are TO haye Tree
/ access and right Of speech-that Is. of propagand
/ Christianity and enlightment, the Church and the
principles of 80 may now invade China. That IS
/ the conquest over which the faithful and the Vol
tairans, l. 'Uniesrs and La Presse, equally exuit.
| What offensive bosb, CANNON blatherskayte, IL
/ this The words are vulgar. but so IL the thing
such utter cant. While these French force upon
the Chinese their preachers OF novel. irritating
doctrine NJ Cherreau, Preect Of the Department
of La Sarthe, sends out TO all executive officers in
authority under him a circular order regulating
their treatment of colporteurs (book peddlers)
/ from which the following is an extract:
~ should add in accordance with Instructions OF
the Minister Of the Interior that in all Departments
like ours where small part Of the population pro-
fesses the reformed religion the Protestant Bibles
are to be put in the same category fdss,pHsesl with
works contrary to the doctrine held by the majority,
and consequently Of nature tn canse certain rrlta-
ton. There is reason, therefore, 10 exclude these
works from coportage'
II is true that since the issue Of this circular
last July. which has been much commented on, the
same preiect has put forth another, III which this
logical gentleman declares that, despite his hrst
statement Protestant Bibles are not to be re-
..esrded az irritating works" Now. in the first
place. the unadulterated Bible, without note or
gloss. is work eminently calculated to irritate
the minds (irritcr les eSpru) OF the populations;
in the next place, the object of the first circular
was plain and definite, to check the hawking OF the
same: in the third place. the object OF the follow
ing circular is to quiet the irritation caused out
side the department of La Sarthe by the pubhca-
ton of the irst in the fourth place, note that the
first circular really is, the honest project says
I in strict accord with the circular of the Minister
of the Interior, and with an explanatory article
that appeared some months ago in the Monaeur,
of which spoke at the time in sufficient detail: IN
the fifth place note that the principles of - secure
religious liberty, and in article |. OF the present
ruling Constitution of France, are recognized,
4" confirmed and guaranteed AS the basis OF the
I" common rights (droh paJiic) of the French; In
the sixth place, which is at some distance from
the preceding places, note that all enlightened
Europeans, the French foremost among them, con-
demn and despise the duplicity of the Chincse;
: in the seventh place. observe that the essen:ial
elements of the setting, practicsl constitution OF
France being equality, and herded, level sameness
in the mass and thorough, systematzed centraliza-
tion gathering TO one sole controlling head chief or
knob (yulgally sounded 40 nub'o individualism
and Professionalism of any kind is antagonistic and
necessarily revolutionary; eighthy, Louis Nspo-
leon. being h man of shrewd observation, sees
this ninthly, he acts accordingly, and, therefore,
does oppose and prevent. ~ far AS is safely pos
sble all increase and propagand of Professionalism
in religion, for the same reasons that he opposes
a ID suppresses il IN literature, IN speech, and the
press
Ii is too late in the age to apply the Chinese
method to French Protestanis. They cannot
be burned. staked. served with Cayenne. But
in spite OF the underlined principles of - and the
loose, confused laws on the matter, they can be-,
and are. vtry effectively prosecuted by subordinate
officials, with restrictive ordinances of various
sorts and under various political pretenses.
Note, in all places, that religious prosecutions
have almost invariably, in old Rome under Dloce-
tian in Spain under the lnquisltiOn, IN Mdssachl-
setts under the orthodox Puritans, and in England
under the established church, been carried on I'M
der political pretenses.
Last month in the town Of Maubeuge, IN the
north of France Protestant congregation was
broken up and part of its members marched on a
Sunday from their place of worship to the town
iail You may read an authoritative account of the
whole affair in letter published in the Journal des
DeJats, on the fourth and fifth Of this month. The
final proceedings of the civil authorities IN the case
were according to our American notions OF rlgh
end law, as gross a violation of justice as vigilance
committee or iyncbng mob was ever guilty Of
But such is the state of the law in France that, al
though the congregation honestly believed that they
had obeyed all its requistions and had endeavoreC
to fulfill in advance of their meeting for the worship
of God all its preliminary ormalities, it is almost
certain that the tribunals ofustice, e the law trl
bunals viii and nast hold the Project and his sub
ordnates harmless, who first drove this congrega
tion into prison and then drove them out OF It
without warning and without trial.
Such are the French, proud Of their superlorit.
over the Chinese, with their eonsecrated principle
of 80 and their arrogant pretension OF being at th
, head Of modern civilization. Such ia the Frencl
Catholic Church, with its pretended Christian zea
and charity. Let us, o American democrats, fire.
and equal pure Protestant Christians, very umbl!
and unctuOusly thank God that We are not as they
Let us cast up our thankful eyes toward heaye
at such an angle as that the line of vision shi
quite oyershoOt the backs of three and a half nj
lions blacks bent in bondage. Let us pray for IN
, conversion Of the French, and that the Tract -