The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-23
our REtArIons WITH CHINA.

Probable E3sct OF N Amsrfcan Fleet IN
Chinese Wets.s-s.PPesed Fsts q 80
lsh.sshss Vsly ~ correspondence London nnssl
Of employment 70 many men whom late circumstances
have rendered unit for the 6s Of peaceabs and orderly
citizens wi fear food China wsh dsspess.s ch.r.c
ready sufficiently disturbed country Meanwhile,
probably in anticipation Of such an event. -
dignity Of III" the United States in these seas,
The American government sending DIM out meet NEE.
treated the American national representatives sfh M
concealed dislke and iUt1nce', scsh cnfcrpa
result partly due the inability Of the States TO sustain
officials TO whom hitherto been conded the honor OF
their flag The consuIs rule have been drawn from
ns d S o. ARE nave no dob a Se
majority Of able and conscientious mon they have
In many ways betrayed want of familiarity with oicai
routine which, in the eyes Of the Chinese, unpardona-
be Perhaps nation In the world Possesses eabo
rate government service the Chinese and therefore
1es % Sss who has
spent twenty years Of his life in official situations Of
gradually increasing Importance Is looked upon a.
something inexcusable than deliberate In
suit With missionaries the case Is still worse. They
10 shang priests and SUCH beneath the notce OF
with consular and diplomatic powers, these gentlemen
have not always forgotten their former calling; but
have the contrary carried the pulpit with them into
the yamen and endeavored 10 "speak word In season.
the surprised and disguised officers with whom they
have been celebrating some important secular point
Naturally enough the Chinese regarded the English and
French fleets in the light or agents the suppression Of
the rebellion, and the absence OF any American memoir
at the time severely commented upon, and has
since been frequently discussed Now that the imme-
date arrival Of naval squadron is announced the man.
darins ask what the use of IL is seeing that the re-
Of American armed vessels will have tendency 70
still further lower the popularity Of the citizens and
officials Of the United ststes, but doubt eU s,oAs
sOiu vitness extraordinary change IN the muu dpto
matte relations of Me ton countries neat rst
Burgevine whose capture at Annoy while attempting
join the rebels Changchow, has already been an
Consul formally demanded his rendition, In accordance
with the favored nation cascs Of tho British and Amer
treaties, bat met with abrupt refusal "Bur
gevine's guilt,n said the Official who answered the
despatch s Of the deepest dye and the province Of
Of .hst province he must 20 for examination Accord
ngly II reported thal his arrival at Foochow no
had been Immediately despatched overland to Soochow
be brought face to face with Ia Fua The horrors Of
such journey during the heat OF summer and no
doubt In conveyance little suited to the requirements
Of an invalid, can hardly be magined Judging indeed
by the treatment which Chinese prisoners are sub
jected their way from station to station the cruel
ties heaped upon them the bad and insufficient foed
supplied the rags whcrewh they are clothed the in
suits TO which they wantonly. IL seemed
highly improbable that Burgevine would ever reach his
wa; 70 the suapr,so o. every
arrival at the provincial city but further stating that a.
L. TO whom he was to have boen conveyed, had in the
interim been ordered TO Nankin to act az Governor
General Burgevine had been sent forward to the latter
city Ihdre nosc rasn b. bclieve that Bsrgevie
reaced S0cchoiD, but ether erscWed arUsd tie
route IT, indeed, he left Foochow. Be this as IL
may his arrival Mt Soochow reported. the
American Consul General wrote strong despatch TO the
Governor demanding Burgevine's surrender and signi
cantly limiting that when the feet arrives fragrant
breach Of treaty spulatons will not be forgotten To
this reply vouchsafed, and therefore, although
present the Consul General powercss to enforce his
claims tho win probably arrive when the solu
ton Of this and other knotty points will be conhded to
the skill Of tho naval commandment chief. 4
From the Liverpool Post, Sept. 19l
The cessation Of the In America ia hardly so likely
suppose TO SOW Americans broadcast over the
whole surface Of the gObs but the American govern
ment have resolved TO send fleet to China II Is quite
evident that there viii be considerable opening for Yam
kee enterprise aud that future cAarces Cairo H
be affected ~ riUdlyy than has hitherto been the case
We told that till now the Americans have been re-
garded by the Chinese hnt below and that
of this has been the class Of people TO whom
their Official business has been committed The Amer'
consuls have either been aGcrs ssionares, and
for neither have the Chinese any great respect They are
very bureaucratic people. Official life Is with them
profession which Il Is general ambition 10 be
well placed and in which work and rise for twenty
years before they rsc dignity corresponding with
thai Of the consular Office. Consequently they rather
look down upon persons who have just been promoted
from trade TO this important function When the Ane-
rican feet arrives 1t WILL doubt d. much. as he ndrat
arrangements If the Ineyicdns generally d. to fnvornb'y
impress the Chinese 1t least with the Importance ana
dignity Of the nation.