New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-27
THE NEW CHINESE WAR.
rhe N. Y. Tribune

Correspopdence OF Inc ~ J. Inouno.
LONDON, Sept. l3, 1859.
At the time when England was generally con-
graduated upon the eItortion from the Celestials
of the treaty of Tien.tsn l tried to show that,
Russia being in point of fact the only power bene-
fitted by the pirstical Anglo Chinese war, the COM
mercial advantages accruing from the treaty to
England were rather nugstory, WHILE in political
point of view, 80 far from establishing peace, that
treaty on the contrary, rendered resumption 81
war unavoidable. The march of events hiss fully
confirmed these views. The treaty Of Tien.tsin has
become a thing of the pact, and the sembance Of
war.
Let me first state the facts as reported by the
last Overland Mail. The Hon. Mr. Bruce, accom-
companied by N. de BOurboulOD, the French Pleni.
potentiary, set out with British expedition dos
tined to ascend the Peiho, and to accompany the
two ambassadors on their message to Pekin. The
expedition, under the orders of Admiral Hope,
consisted of seven steamships, ten gun-bOats, two
troop and storeships, and several hundred marines
and royal engineers. The Chinese, on their part,
had objected to the mission taking that particular
route. Admiral Hope, consequently, found the
entrsce Of the Peho barred by boOms and stakes and
having stayed for nine days from the 18th till the
25th June, at the mouth of that river, attempted
its foreible passage, the PenipOtentsries having
ioined the squadron on the 10Th Of June On bis ar-
rival of the Peiho River, Admiral Hope had made
sure of the Taku forts, rszed during the last war,
having been rebuilt-a fact which, be it said en- pas
sant he ought to have known before, since it had
been officially announced in the Pekin Gazette.
On the 25th Of June, while the British at.
tempted to force the Peihop sssage, the Tsku
batteries supported by Mongol force Of apparently
20, 900 men, were unmasked, and opened destruc-
tive fire on the British vessels An engagement on
lard and water took place, resulting in the utter
discomfture Of the aggressOrs. The expedition hsd
to withdraw, after the loss of three English vessels
of war, the Cormorsnt, the Lee, and Plover, and
with loss of AGA killed and wounded on the part
of the British wbila of the GO Frenchmen preseot
IA were killed or wounded. Five English officers
were killed and % wounded, the Admiral himself
escaping not unhurt After this defeat, Mr.. Bruce
AID NJ. de Bourboulon returned 10 Shanghae, while
the British squadron was to station of Chinhse,
Ningpo.
On the receipt in England Of these unpleasant
tidiDgs the PslmefstOnisn press at once bestrode
the British lion AID unanimously rosied for whole
sale revenge. Tie London Times, Of course, a.
fected some dignity ia its appeals 70 the bloody
instincts Of ito coantymsn but the lower clsss Of
Psmerstonian organs were quite grotesqus In
acting the part Of Orlando Fuioso. Lister, for
instance, 10 The London DAILY Telegraph:
"Gfeat Britain must attack the sesboad Of Chins
throughout A whole extent, invade the caP11 eipe.
the En- peror from his palace and pos,ess heIef OF
material guaranty against future aggression. we
mus cato any drsgon-deoorated official VINO
pr<umes TO treat our national symbos With contuney
Every one Of them (the Chinese Genssals)
uus. be hanged aa . pirste and homicide to "