New-York daily tribune., 1859-09-27

yard.srms Of British masof.wsr. II vooi1 b 8
refreshing and sautay :pectsce --tAae OF doses b..
butsoced Villains With the countsnaacss a oGrss sd
the apparel OF buifoops swiogng in the sight Of he
popuissios Terror must Be struck, BY one messs q
The other and We have already had more thcs saeeee
to- y.ss &. rsb Isi SsS s she @ SUPERIOR "a
ought 10 be their na,t,rs. The hest thst csa
be attempted is to capture Pekip whlls bold psl
icy were sdopted, the oonascation n Eeslsuv q
held Calcutta make /. the center Of our ulks Esss.
trade compensate ourselves for the influence Of Rnsss
on the Tartar frontiers Of the Empire and Lay the bss
Of Q new dominion"
Now. from these rawlings Of Palmereoa's pse-
men, let me return 10 the facts and, ~ ar - il 10
possible with the present meager informstios, ~
to unrsvel the true bearings Of the uatc~ard
event
The first question to be answered 10, whetAsr.
on the supposition that the treaty OF Tcn-tsin Sup
ulates for the immediate access to Pekin OF tAs
British Embsssador, the Chinese Government have
committed an infrsction Of that treaty, wrua8
from them BY piratcL war; in withstandins The
forcible passage BY British squadron OF the PeAe
Riyeri As will be seen from the news conveye4
BY the Overland Mail. the Chinese authorizes hs4
objected, not to the British mission to Ps kim bat -
the British armament ascending tho Peiho. TAey
had proposed that Mr. Bruce sh,ud travel By land.
diyested Of an ar rmament which with fresh reoss-
ection Of the Canton bombardment, the CeleseaAs
could but consider the instrument OF invssoe.
Doe, the right of the French ambassador to 10
side at London, involve the right Of forcing
the river Thames at the head Of An armse
French expedtioni 1t must certainly be allowed
that this Interpretation put by the Britsh -
the admission to Pehin of their Embssssdor, sounds
at least as strange as the discovery made By them
during the last Chinese war, that in bombsrdinG
the town of an Empire, you are not wasing war
upon that Empire itself, but only exchanging Local
hostilities with one Of its dependencies. In answer
to the reclamations Of the Celestals tho British
had "takep," according to their own state
ment, "every precautioa to force, if necessary.
" admission to Pekin," by ascending tho Peho
with rather formidable squadron. Even il bousd
to admit their pacific Embassador, the Chinese
were certainly warranted in resisting their armed
expedition. In thus acting they did not infringe
treaty, but baflled an encroachment
In the second instance, it may be questioned
whether, athoughthe abstract right Of legation he'd
been accorded to the British BY tho treaty Of Tsa-
tsin, the actual enjoyment of that right had. for
the present, at least, not been waived BY Lord
ElRini A reference to "the correspondence relss-
ing to the Earl Of Eigin's special missios to
/" China, printed BY command Of her Majesty" win
convince every impartial inquirer that, first, tho
admission to Pekn of the English Embassador was
to take place not now but at moro rs~ots per'S<:
secondly, that his right Of residence at Pekin was
aual6edby various clauses and, finally that tho pc
remptory article Ill in tho English text Of the
treaty, relating to the Embasssdor's admission.
was, OF the request of tho Chinese ENJOYS, altered
in the Chinese text Of the treaty. This discrep-
aucy between the two venions of the treaty 10 sd-
mtted BY Lord Elgin himself, who, however, Wa.
as be says, " compelled by his instructions to re-
quire the Chinese to accept as the authoritative
" version of an international agreement, text Of
which they did not understand syllable" Can
the Chinese be impesched for acting on the Chinese
text Of the treaty, instead Of tho English one.
which, according to Lord Egin's admission. some
what diverses from the correct sense of the stp-
| ulation 2"
| In conclusion, will state that Mr.. I. Chisholm
Anstey, the late British Attorney General at Hong
Kong, formally declares in Q letter addressed by
him TO the editor of The London Morning &ar:
The treaty itself, bs it what it may, has been
long since abrogsted by tho violent acts Of the
" British Government and its subordinatcs, 70 tho
extent at least of depriving the Crown Of Gress
Britain OF every advantage or privilege con leuod
"by the treaty"
Being on the ono hand harasssl By tAs Isdisu
difficulties, and on the other hand aiming Tor ths
eysntusIity Of European war, England is IlksIy
to incur great dangers from this new Ohinsss
catastrophe, probably Of Pamerstons own esok-
ing. The next result must be the break up VI u
present Administration, whose head was the authos
of the last Chinese war, while ito principal members
bad passed vote of censure on their preseut chie(
for undertaking that war. At all events, Mr.. Miner
Gibson and the Manchester school must ether
withdraw from the present Liberal coalition, or, .
H thing not very probable, in unison with Lord john
| Russell, Mr. Gladstone and his Peelite colleagues.
l compel their chief to submit to their own policy.
GREAT BRITAIN.