New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-18

The same time, 10 10 doubt possible ths. his hope
may not be realized snd at any rate, sppseheoo
thai her Hoje,tys Government raj e<s-Te sass our
Fmbasssior phep he proceeds 70 Ten fsiE, re sno-
named NV an ts.posing force Under tne.e crcum-
starces would venture 70 submit for yorT Exeeien-
ey's eonsd alton whether L would lot be eIpedent
10 concentrate ct ShsBghae a. the earliest eonverier,
period, sufficient feet Of gln-bOa,s for .ks ssTrtee,
a. Mr. Brlce's arrival IN China cannot long be &c
leved have etc. ELGIS and KISC ARDiNE.
"TBE EARL OF MALNEsBuRY 10 The EARL " ELGIS'
"FoREIGy OFTIcE, May :, 1883.
"MY LoRD: have received your EIceil,ncys 1is
patch of the 7th of March 1859 and have 70 inform
5oa ,ha. Der Msestys Government, approve OF the
note, Of which copy therein 1ciosed, and winch
y0uI ExoeAeDcy snDouIced to the Imperial Comm e
sioner that ber Msjestys Government would 10. lnss
upon the resit.nce Of Ter Msesys NJ as.er being per-
Manertly fixed st PekiD.
"Her Msjesty's Government also spp-oye of your
h0vtng suggested to Rsar-Admirl seymour the.
fee. Of gunboe:s should be collected AZ Shsognss II
0'''i ~ ''SPa aa, "i ID D'' ~ MALMEssUAYo
Lord Elqin. then. knows beforehand thst the
British Government VIII desire thatl.s brother,
Mr.. Bruce, be accompanied by :. an Imposing
force of "gunbOats Up the Pelho, and be or
ders Admiral Seymour 10 make ready for this ser
vice" The Earl Of Mslmesbary, IN his dispatch
dated Mag 2 approves Of tie suggestion intimsted
by Lord Elgin to the Admiral. ne whole CORE,
spoDdence exhibits LORD klgin as the master, and
Loro Malmesbury as the man. While the former
constantly tales the initiative and acts upon the IN
structons originally received from Pimersson,
without even waiting for new Instructions from
Downing street, Lord Mslmesbury contents him
sell with INDUCING the desires which ME impe.
rious subaltern Anticipates him 10 feel. He mods
assent when ElglD states that the treaty beng NOT
yet ratified, they had not the right 70 ascend any
Chinese river; he mods assent, .nen Elsin thinks
they ought 10 show much forbearance toward
the Chinese in regard 20 the execution Of tue
= urftta 70
P,kn; and, nothing daunted be mods assent when
in direct contradiction to his own former state
ments EleiD claims the night 70 enforce the pas
sage Of the PehO by an " imposing fleet OF gun
boats He mods assent in the same way that Dog
berry nodded assent TO the suggestions Of the
sexton.
The sorry figure cut by the Earl of Malmesbury
and the humility Of his attitude, are easily under
stood if one csls 10 mind the cry raised "a the adj
vent Of the Tory Cabinet, by The LONDON Times
and other influential papers, as to the great peril
Threatening the brilliant success which Lord Elgln,
under the II Instructions OF Palmerston, was about
to secure in China, but which the Tory Administra-
tion if for pique only, and IN order TO Justify their
vote of ceDsure on Pamerstons Canton lombard.
ment were likely TO bhtfie. Mamesbury allO we'd
himself 10 be- intimldaied by that cry. He had,
moreover before bis eyes and in his heart the fate
ofLord EllenbOrOugh who bsd dared openly 70 coun-
teract the Indian policy of the noble Vlscouot, and
in reward for his patriotic courage, vas sacrificed by
bis own colleagues of the Derby Cabinet. Conse-
quently Mamesbury resigned the whole Initiative
into the hands of Elgin and thus enabled the latter
to execute Pslmerston's plan on the responsibility
of bis official antagonists, tue Tories. IL is THIS
same circumstance which for the present has put
the Tories in a very dlsmS alternative as 70 the
course TO be taken in regard 20 the PeihO affair.
Either they must sound the war-trumpet with
PamerstOn. and thus keep him in office, or they
must turn their backs on Salmesbury, upon whom
they besped such sickeniDg faEteres during the
Last Italian war.
The alternative is the more trying stree the
impending third Chins war is anything but popular
with the British mercantile classes Ia lc57 they
bestrode the British lion, because they expected
great commercial profits from l0rcible opening OF
the Chnese market. At this moment, they feel,
on the contrary, rather angry at seeing the fruits OF
the treaty obtained all at once snapped away from
their hold They know that affairs look menacing
enough in Europe and India, without the further
complication of a Chinese war on grand scale.
They have not forgotten that IN 1851, the imports
of tea fell by upward of - millions OF pounds that
being the article almost exclusively exported from
Canton, which was then the exclusive tneater OF
war AID they apprebend that this Interruption
of trade by war msy now be extended 10 ShADghae
ard the other trading ports of the Celestial Empire
After first Chinese war u1dertsben BY the English
in the interest of opium smuggling, and secoad
war carried on for the defense of the lorehs of
pirate, nothing was wanted for climax but q war
extemporized for the purpose of Fostering China
with the nuisance of permanent Embassies a. Ts
Capital.