, 1860-11-22

The Governor has made haste to publish
such part Of the dispatches from the Peiho as
they think fit to be generally known. Su far
Us The military and naval achievements are con-
ceFned they arc most satisfactory. The most
perfect harmony reigns throughout the expe-
dition- Sir Hope Grant and General de Mon
| tauban arc like brothers In command; Sir
Hope Is eager to report show cordially and
sincerely onr French niles hare co-operated
with us, and what admiration hc feels for their
gallant conduct In the field" He Is also for.
ward to testify "what q yaluable and efficient
colleague he has found In Admiral Hope.''
! Everything is under the happieot auspices, and
tho Official seal is now set to oar CORRESPOND
ent's more interesting detail Of the eyents
Our Sikh horscmen have proved their superb
ority over the Tartars, and our Armstrong
guns have proved their superiority oser every.
thing tubular in that part Of the world Sang
/, ko-lin-sin has realised the fact that he deals
with an enemy against whom bows and arrows
are Of no avail. One lesson, the battering down
Of one fort, has been sufficient. China
llcs, open before Us. Tho tactics Of Mon
tauban would have placed the Tartar
army between the European bayonts and
the muddy sea; the more 1nercifu1 strategy Of
Sir Hope Grant left the country open to their
flight; but for the Tartar Prince and his army
! the milder lesson has heen enough. They are
+; dispensed In panic. Those great Notifications
| on the south side fell without blow, and the
i impedimcnts in the river have been removed
| in q single night, the great Notifications ut
| Tien.tsin have been evacuated while the Euro
I penn troops were yet ut diatancc, Sang-ko-
| lin.sin, that redoubtcd hero, has gallopcd fight
AWAY without awaiting the explosion Of asinglc
Armstrong shell, and, avoiding Tlen-tsin, has
gained pekin with q hundred followers. There
is no further hope, for the Chinese Govern
mcnt in military force. The people, rs usual,
directly the Mandarint are chased away, thronr
about Us In multitudes, driving their oxen and
sheep into our camp, showing full confidence,
our cavalry galloped on to Tien-tkin as quickly
rs the gunboats could steam up the rfycr,-
Thence to Tungchow Is 90 miles, hut with my
iEable rivers and with broad hghwa;s. "In
chich.li," says Dc Guignes, ''lhe roads arc
broad and shady and very dusty" and 1t is but
Q promenade to Tungelow, whence the broad,
twelve miles long avenue, with its marble
bridge, SO celebrated by Mccartney, conducts
direct to Pckln. VIII The Tartara muster for a
last fight Under the walls: 1t is not very like
~. 6ang-kQ1in*in, II he would not fight the
South Forts or tho Ticn-lsin 1ntrencGments,
ont Of him. General Grant aud Admiral Hone
have force that can go anywhere and do any-
thing, and all China lies flat before them, with
uninipedcd rivers and broad highways, with
willing people and an utterly disoFgnnized
enemy.
China, then, Is lurnblcl. Not 60 Every.
thing is subducd, 'pntter atrocan antu,t;u
Catonis." The old Mandarin spirit at Pckin
is Us ohstingto Is eyer. What caro- the Alanda-
rims at the capital for few hundred people
Killed down On the sea coast? They nrc In fhc
habit of hearing daily Of first-class cities being
utterly depopnlated by the Tai-pings, and i
have lost heart, but they hare othcrresources.
They have read our House Of Commons de-
bates, and they know TINT this army will never
come mp to them. They are cure that they
have only to do what they did two years ag1,
will have got rid Of a11 thei- trouble for another
two years. They have only got to t'sign any
thing" as the Viceroy offered to do tho other
day when threatened with rccommcncemcpt
ofthc bomhqrdm4cnt, and they will at once be |
freed CT all these fmpoEtuhate Ha1barsans.
They arc little astonishcd, no doubt, TO ind
TINT We really arc, as they say in their inter
cepted dispatches, such astounding fools as to |
say beforehand what We are going to do: but |
they arc not about Themselves to do violence to |
all Asiatic traditions by following our example.
Alter We had broken into their intrcachcd |
camp, and on the very afternoon Of the morn. |
Ing on which We had stor1ned the PciAo Fort. |
these truthful Mandarins had placarded 1itn-
tsin with tho uexs that the barbptiaps lad been
utterly beaten, and were then suing for peace. |
That somewhat forced Interpretation Of IT, |
cent esents was undoubtedly favored In some
degree BY the alacrity with which Mr. Harry
PaIkcs hurrics of, whenever he sees bit Of
white handkerchief upon the end of q bamboo,
to know What 1t means, and whether there is
anybody inside who really wishes to treat.
Not quite without encouragement from these
rather impolitic manifestations OF an fmpa-
thence to be again cajolcd, the Mandasins drop
again into their own free and easy etyle. They
arc glad to find that the war is at an end thcy
beg Lord ElSin not TO bring many war shius
up to Tien'tsin; lest he should alarm tile peo-
pie. They assure him that the Emperor has
commissioned public officer to meet him on
his arrival at Pekin, to discuss matters with
lim,-=a1l tle old moves Of which the Chinese
diplomatic gDnlc consists are being played OFT
calmly and sodatsly, lust as II ttnrc was not
q British OF French soldier on the soil Of
China- No doubt Pekin has long since been
placarded With most glorious victories, and If
Lord Elsin should visit that cnpital with bis
escort Of horse, lie will pass In, m Lord Ma
cartncy, who also had an escort Of English sol.
d1ers, passed In. to the tune Of "Subjucatton
or, "See tie slave If China
comes" Confident as these Mapdafins arc in
[hc weakness Of Europeans Ii ma&tcrs OF d.
plomacy, they have not evcn now surrendered |
one poipt, Of even eondesccnded to make |
reference to tho demands made In our alti,na-
|an, Their rea1. unbrpkep obst1nacy appeat5 |.
It this moment, u usual, admirable In their |
let's. The "lceEoy, when he signed capitu-
alton, intimated plainly that lie WINS efgninr
Ills OWL degradation, and Sang.ko-liu4iu no
sooner arrives Mt pek1n thon he has hIs pea- ,
.ock's feather taken from him, and ia disu1Ias-
ID from every post of honor. The Manda.inx I
1uI6pe their old policY and fulu ererv ana | :