The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-14
THE CELESTIAL EMBASSY.
rhe Chinese EnvOy's Report ON England.


The following is the translation of despatch
from the Chinese Commissioner, at present i'm
Epgland, TO his G0vernment:-Pin-ta-n, Com.
missioner from his Celestial Majesty to the Bar
barians of Europe, a Privy Councillor. a Member
of the Board of Etiquette, Senior President of
the Council for Foreign Disputes, to his High.
mess the Prince Of Kung. Having been required
by your Highness to send such reports as may
seem TO be worthy of attention, from time to
time, in these distant parts, hasten now to re-
port that l have in safety landed in this, the
country Of the English barbarians and am llv-
ing in the Capital. am informed that, even as
his Celestial Majesty deemed 1t prudent to retire
from Pekin on the approach OF the barbarian
officers, so also has the Queen of these people
retired to place in the country, on hill by a
river, where she will be safe from us.
In the same way 1t is said that the heir appa-
rent has also left the capital and betaken him
self to private house, where he may be secure
from any danger from presence. Major
Brine, who is sent to wait on us, says that the
Queen and Prince are not gone away from fear,
but that some horses are running about near the
house to which the prince is gone. This is evil
IDENTIFY to deceive us, for the barbarians do not
shoot horses, and ii it was only to see them,
why should they not be made to run in the capt
tai? We have however, tried to reassure the
Prime Minister that there is no occasion for
fear. But these English seem to me to be very
timid race. Your Hlghness, perhaps will
hardly believe me when ! say that the COM
monest word to hear is 'panic, which, / am
told, means foolish and groundless fear. In
every place where we go we are sure to be met
by this expression. have asked Major Brine,
and he says that il is great fear about not
having money enough and that great bank
has been making q great squeeze" They are,
indeed an odd people,
II there is not money enough, the experience
of the Celestial Empire, as your hiehness knows,
points, necessarily ta4 to "squeezen but IT, the
again, find great fear among many Of body
OF what are apparently Taepings but here
called Fenians. ] have asked to be shown their
camps, or taken to their army, but then l am
told there is no camp and no army. Then | say.
"0f what, then, are you afraid r' and / am told
that it Is in another country that the Tapping
Fenians are, and that something might haOpen
in that country 10 disturb the peace. 1t must
be bad Government, unlike the strong one
under your Highness which can thus trembe at
everything. Then | am told that there is q
great fear among some of The great council that
they will lose their seats at the governing board.
1t is difficult to understand this question, as
there seems to be much division on the subject
AS far as can understand there are two parties
in this State One is the party under Lord
Bright Russell. He is in power, and he does
not want to give it up; and there is another
patty under Lord Derby, who has the curious
custom of running very fast along a piece of
grass once year near the capital, amidst the
cheers OF his people.
This ceremony we were too late to see, which
l much regret. Now, the one party want to
divide the seats of the other party, and as l am
told that seat IS fine palace in the country,
the party OF the running lord do not want 10
lose them, and therefore they fight amongst
themselves and with the followers of the great
Lord Russell. I fear that | have not made the
matter very clear to your Highnes; but it is
very trivial matter, as no one but the rivals
themselves seem to care for it. Reform is the
name OF the palace where Lord Bright Russell
lives, but it appears that the servants of Derby
have often tried to get into it. The barbarians
here seem to be weak in other ways. As far as
/ can learn, there is great commotion in States
near here. 1t is SAID they are going to fight, but
| am unable to understand what they are going
to fight about. l have written to the great Lord
Russell to ask, but he has not yet ans wered me.
am told that England will have nothing to do
with it; but this seems to me to be untrue.
If she could send troops and ships all the way
to Pckin to fight, she must surely fight here
when she is so close. So | said to Major Brine,
but he told me that the policy of the Govern
ment was non-interventon-that is, that they
did not interfere with other nations. This is
evidently untrue, or they would not have bom-
barded Canton or burnt Yuen-ming-Yuen. 1t is
plain to me that in England now everybody is
very much AFRAID of everything, and that we
have been led into paying too much attention to
what she says and does. would suggest to
your Highness that it would be good policy to
threaten to send a fleet OF junks to blockade the
Thames, should you have any difficulty in the
future with the English Ambassador at Pekin
If YOU can prove to the barbarians that you are
in earnest you will conquer, for their Govern
ment has never yet been able to persuade others
that it is in earnest about anything.
what the Celestial Embassy Witnessed
tn the British Parliament.
From the Pal Mall Gazette, June 2.
the House of Commons witnessed remarkable
scene, which must have rather disturbed their
previous conception of the collective Wlsdom'
of a great country. For more than an hour a
large gathering OF gravelooking gentlemen were
engaged in hooting, bowling, and groaning,
while an excited little man was seen wagging a
grey beard and ecsticulatine wildly, while every
now and then, as the storm around him partially
lulled he was heard shouting disointed trag
ments OF sentences at the top OF his voice.
The Oriental visitors probably learned from
their interpreter, that this was Mr.. Whalley
discoursing about Fenlanlsm ana the rope,
and must have been rather puzzled to know
whether it was q terror of the irish or hatred
of the Pope that caused such discord. Possibly
they fancied that when the yelling ceased the
business was over, since they went off as soon
as the comparative silence OF single member
addressing quiet assembly was established
There is no say ing, lndeed, how long the dis
order might have continued, had not Sir Percy
Burrell interrupted Mr.. Whalley by a suggestion
that the Speaker should count the House. The
Conservative benches were cleared almost in ar
instant, and there was also partial retreat iron
the other SIDE possibly in the hope that botl
Mr. Whalley and Reform mlebt thus be escaped
The Speaker, however, under the circums auce
1t being obvious that there were fan more thai
forty present-declined to count but appealed
10 Mir. Whalley in terms which scarcely dis
guised rebuke, to spare the House continu
ance of such an unseemly scene. After this, In
member for Peterborough had suthcien
sense of decency ana reason not to per5eyere
OF course in such case, the House had n
power to reduce Mr.. WhalleY 70 silence, thoug
they could prevent his being heard.
We cannot hello thinking that, after decides
protest against the time of the House bein
wasted Nv any idle motion, members shonl
nave designed Themselves with dignity to tn
inhiction of Mr. WhalleY's turb!d n0nsens'
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