The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-12

now hold alo0t from all reugiOus oD5ervances
ON account of the selfish discords and petty |
jealousies of the churches II the clergy of
the various Protestant congregations will only
unite in burying their differences and in rails
ing the common flag of Christianity we will an
swer for it that they will combat the influence
of Rome more effectively than by levelling |
abuse against her priesthood or by sending |
round the hat for the evangelization OF Paddy. |
The Difficulty In the China Expedition
Must Englan nd Code tho Lead to France!
The Chinese difficulty - likely to prove as
serious question for the present British Cabi-
net to encounter as it can well manage.
When the first news Of the repulse at the
mouth Of the Peiho was received, the British
journals were clamorous for an immediate de-
claration of war and the fitting out of Vast ex-
petition to chastise the deceitful Chinese. The
government organs were loud in proclaiming
the determination of the Cabinet to act imne-
diately, and the only calculation apparently
required to be made was, how long it would
shores Of China. Now change seems to have
come over the spirit of the British Cabinet Be-
sides sending out a few hundred tons of ball
cartridge from Woolwich, by the overlandroute,
not a step towards new China expedition has
been taken in England, and singular mystery
shrouds the intentions of the government The
press, too, has considerably altered its tone,
both as regards China and as regards the
new dispute with the United States. 1t
is beginning to be considered that
both the English Minister and the Admiral
were too precipitate in their movements, al
though it is still insisted that the crafty bar
barians merit imperiously a condign punish
ment
While this is the course of things in England
in France something quite different is going on
Although the French envoy to China was little
more than spectator at the battle of Taku,
Louis Napoleon has selected his General for
the East in the person Of General Wimpffen
and it is announced that five thousand troops
of the line, fifteen thousand marines, and
large force of ships and gunboats are already
preparing for the expedition.
There is contrast between the spirit of
these movements on the part of the two go
vernments which is heightened by another
circumstance No word has been said in Eng
land of sending troops from there to China,
but it has been frequently intimated that the
government would draw those required from
its abundant resources in India. The Bombay
Gazette, received by the last mail from that
quarter, states that, to guard against c0ntin-
gencies, Mr.. Bruce, the British Minister to
China, had applied to the Governor General
Where are they to come from? 1t asserts
that ten thousand men are on the point of leav-
ing India and the army itself is rapidly dis
solving away. The Bombay Telegraph pre-
sumes that the force to be despatched from In
dia will be for the most part composed Of ma
tives, as to take away any great number Of
European troops would be impolitic, if not
dangerous. 1t laments at the same time that
Jung Bahadoor has not been true, as he might
shave entered Chinese Tartary and added many
handsome province to" the Nepaulese do
minions. These suggestions are all very well,
but they do not solve the puzzle where the ele-
ments of an English expedition to China are to
come from.
Not but that England has abundant resources
if she chooses to put them in play, but that this
cannot be done without the authority Of Parlia-
ment. And there lies the rub. The British
Cabinet does not find itself in situation to 60
before Parliament and ask for the authority
and money necessary to carry out the Palmers-
tonian policy in China. 1t is o coalition Cabi-
net, and is not unit on the China question.
The Manchester school has never approved
Of the war in China, and Mr.. Miner Glib
son threatens to resign if Palmerston in
sists upon undertaking to break the
Mr.. Disrael are very sore at having been bam-
boozled into continuing Lord Elgin, Palmers-
toms appointee, in the China mission and then
naming his brother, Mr.. Bruce, to succeed him,
thus perpetuating Palmerston's policy there.
Both the tories and the Manchester men are
therefore likely to oppose the Cabinet if it asks
for what is necessary to continue that policy in
China; and Palmerston threatens if they do, to
dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country.
Thus the internal difficulties Of the British
Cabinet are preventing the action Of that GO
vernment in the China question, and forcing
it to wait for something to turn up. If this
were the only point of discordance in the Cabi
net, the Manchester men would commit great
error in going before the people on the war
question with China. They would certainly be
beaten in the elections. But we suspect there
is more than the China question behind. The
liberals are probably getting tired of being rid
den like packhorse by Palmerston, and are
disposed to avail themselves of the present OPP
portunity to get rid of coalition which re-
duces them to nonentity by keeping them out
of the opposition ranks, and giving them no
weight in the Cabinet.