New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-30
SIGNING OF THE TREATY OF TIES-TsIN.

Correspondence OF The London Times
TIES.TsIS, River Pei-ho, China, june %, 1853.
stream of sedan-chalrs poured from the city into
the yamuD, and the Chine secretaries Mr. Wade and
Mr.. Lay could be in their floating residence bnsi-
ly comparing their manuscript treaty with officials
deputed for that purpose by the Imperial Comms-
siOr.rs. Al O'Clock in the evening Just Rs the sun
beg n 10 throw stroIg shadows athwart the narrow
streets and the hot day succeeded by the delicious
ey eniIg OF this latuoe the military guard of honor
fe in on the bank of tle Peho, just above the point
where the Great Canal joins the stream. The Royal
Engineers under CAPT. Lambert, r. f., the Royal
Marine Artillery of the Sampson and Furious under
Lieut.. Mott and the marines of the squadron COM
manded by Major BOye Of the Calcutta, constituting
q force Of 100 men. we're divided into two bodies,
preceded by a band of music: and in the intervening
space arranged long stream Of 30 sedan chairs,
and large body of naval officers in iui dress. A
lttlr later the French and English squadron of gun
boats, l3 in nnmber, simultaneously dressed with flags
and manned aTIns-a holiday which called forth
shouts of applause from swarms of Chinese whose
shininng polls and jet.bAck tails lhrongei the banks
as far a. .he eve could reach. Directly the sedan
chair in which the Embassaaor seated made its
appearance the procession started. The French
sailors cheered, the English responded in that deep
bass which make British hurrah so different to
that of all other nations, and the glorious strains of
" God save the Queen =, by the united bands Of the
allies pealed over the waters of the Peho and
Great Canal. and reechoed from the timeworn bat
Elements Of this ancient city a. If It's old walls re-
ioiced in the glad tidings Of the better and more
active future about 10 dawn upon China. Marching
down the bank of the Canal the procession crossed
by a bridge Of boats to the side which
the city stands, and then passed along the river
bank, until the open plain was reached beyond the
southern wall. Engishmen, i : very evident, were
never intended 10 be carried about in sedan chairs
any one doubling such an axiom had merely 10 look
on the hot and uncomfortable looking mOrtals boxed
ND IN the wake Of our Embas sador-it was unneces-
sary 70 ask them. for all looked and felt If they
would give the world To be allowed 10 get out and
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with the dignity becoming so great en- occasion.
The only people who did not appear inclined Ia suffer
mart yriom on behalf 1f the dignity necessary in full
dressed officials We're those youthful officers who
had 10 walk Tor lack sedan chairs and without de-
sirpg our countryuen to conform 70 the rigid ceremo-
pes laid rown by the Board Of Rites. il must be ac-
knowedged that tne palDg OF dog tail, or catch
inc" peihoric Chnanen IN tie wind, by yivacous
uilsipmen or engineers of gunboGis accorded but i'll
with the presence OF the representative Of Her Ma
iosty.
Pns,pg over mile Of plain, which was az level as
atable aid bounded ony blythe horizon the procession
proceeded to Nd isolated yamun or joes-hou-e, which
had been visited by Lori Elgin the day negotiations
commenced June u. The crowds of Chinese thinned
of a. the distance iron the city increased. and those
who were prese Mt cYdd their attention between Gu.
riosiiy 70 the bGrbarans and in catching ocasts
f,r their next days neal. during the last fortnight
All Tep-tsin have ben eating locusts in q roasted
state, baskets full o: them al every corner;
iiilrant yepders shcIt Locusts fine fresh locusts e.
all day long; every brd and spanows are a. imperti-
psIt here as elsewhere may be seen with locust in
his nouth. Gunboat, report scres ofdrownei locuss
having been floating in the river, yet there no
dn,i, Htion Of them, ani with all this prodgious num-
ber of insects swetoing herbage and crops off
the face of the province ci Cheslee, the natives 2
not complain as if il wss an unusual visitation The
sup went down the procession swept TO the tune Of
Bonnie Dundee rUund the angle Of the Temple of
the GLORY of the Oceai" and entered its southern
portal. Like the major portion Of such edi6ces in this
neighborhood the Temple stands on an artificial mound
Of earth raised some fifteen feet above the level of the
adjacent plain as if To avoid nundations. -Four walls
facing most accurately 10 the four cardinal points Of
tie compass in ,osed and hid from view an of
ground, covered with series Il temples and porches
rich with ornament ard elaborate painting, tastefnlly
nterspersed with open courts containing ne trees,
OF the few natural productions the Chinese have good
taste enough 10 properly appreciate. The grand en-
trance faced 10 the south. AMI a. i number Of manda
ms aud Chinese band received the precessoD and