The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-22
BY an arrival at New York yesterday we have
European advices TO September IL.
ENGLAND.
The London "Times" ON the Chinese
Mission.

TIE London Times oil the 11th inst. has what
itcalls q glance at the history of British rea
tions with the Chinese Empire during the last 81
years. The article proceeds:-But, indeed, 1t is
to something beyond leniency that the present
Government Is indebted. When we crushed the
TaepiDg malcontents, we literally delivered il
from the jaws OF ruin. And hoa has 1t repaid
the services rendered? Has effect been given to
a single clause of the treaty that could be wrig-
gled out OF? Has q siugle cause of complaint
been redressed? The dispatches OF our repre-
sentatives, past and present, tell the same tale.
Verify it would seem as if the Chinese diploma
fists we've masters of the situation. They laugh
to scorn our treaty. They inhict upon US
severe disaster. They then, jockey us into
quelling native rebellion. They again laugh
our treaty to scorn, and, coolly ignoring
their Indebtedness, contemptuously give US
the Ego-by as principal and leading power in
their fereign relations. They send a mission
with the ayowed object of rendering as far nuga-
tory as may be possible the right OF access to the
interior, acquiescence iu which they feel they
can no longer evade, and which, though forming
the leading provision of the treaty of lieu tsn,
has tor some reason or other been left practi-
cally a dead letter for eight years. The Chinese
Government feels too weak at the moment to
resist as in days gone by;lt resorts therefore to
article and csiolery. IL we can for the time
sent, and can be haply coaxcd into waiving the
right, as in the case of access 10 the city of
Canton, it nurses the hope that with time may
come strength its intent being stealthiy to
turn the interval to account in poisoning
the minds of the people far and wide against
us, so that il, and when, we do attempt to
avail ourselves of the surrendered prlvile ge, we
may meet a population arrayed in fanatic hos
ti]ity. It designs to repeat on larger scale the
policy prosecuted so successfully for nigh twenty
years at Canton. Aud il we do not take care,
there Is little doubt of Its success, in which
event the conflict will not be with the Govern
ment, as heretofore, but with the people as well
as Government. The Chinese rulers are actu-
ated by the mistaken views which bound their
very narrow horizen. They are our adversaries
from ignorance and fear, and such they will
continue so long as we fail to furnish them with
the experience needed for their enlightenment
and conviction. Progress is our necessary ally;
she alone can provide the needed experience by
which the statesmen OF Ch ma are to be moved
onward. And hence policy OF negation on
our side is totally lnadmissible. The duty of
guidance devolyes upon us; 1t Is utterly unsafe
has of late been the case. The people, on the
other baud, are animated by totally different
disposition from that ot their rulers. They have
uniformly evlnced the greatest trlendIiness to-
wards foreigners and where a different temper
has manifested itself 1t has been traceabe to Off
clal prompting. Sufficient prominence cannot be
given to this important truth. The people are
eager for intercourse. and no reason exists, so
far as they are concerned, why China should
not be thrown open tomorrow to unrestricted
intercourse. The permission proclaimed would
be hailed by them with delight. We have now
to recover the ground lost. We can effect this
by simply telling the Chinese Ministers that if
they wish for war we desire peace; that we per-
ceive plainly the drift of their present diplo.
macy to forestall our attempts to form a friendly
with their subjects; that we mean
to nave our treaty carried into effect without
further delay, and that consequently we shall
decline to sign any clause or clauses calculated
to convey the Eotion that that determination
has been relinquished. Ii we thus act now, the
Chinese Government, being too weak to show
its teeth, will acQuiesce, and there will be
peace. II we do not and we allow it time to
ai"na'e the people, our intercourse will grow.
for grow it must, amid contests that must lead
to conquest, since all means of persuasion and
coercion short OF that will have been exhausted.
TURKEY.
Admiral Farragut i'm the ROsphorus.
The London Morning Post says the Franklin,
Urited States frigate, left the Bosphorus on
Saturday, August 20, for the Mediterranean, but
before going was the scene OF an incident
which, through no fault OF Admiral Farragut
memory OF her visit. On Thursday deputation
of enthusiastic Greeks, headed by Mr.. Samart.
zidi the editor OF the Etdtp0h0s, went off to tbs
frigate to present an address. more HeLtentco to
the Admiral. Before the officer on duty could
announce their presence at the bottom of the
gaDgway, some of the party commenced flnging
copies OF the address lin English and Greek)
Though the ports and up on the deck among
The crew. At the same time, parcel contain
ing i've hundred copies of the document was
sent aft to the Admiral's cabin. 1t contained
Of course, an enthusiastic appeal for sympathy
with the Cretan movement, which was described
as war against ''grievious oppression" and, in
expressed hope that the United
States would assist in liberaing "thisNhistorical
country" (Tarkey in Europe) from, etc. Mr..
Morrie, the American Minister, happened to be
with the Admiral at the time, and 1t Is said, at
once remarked to him that whatever
might be his private feelings in the matter, he
could not receive such an address without In
tecency towards the Sultan, by whose hospi-
va in fha Rnc
phorus. The Admiral felt the force OF this
of the address which had been thrown
On board 10 be collected and returned
10 the deputation, which was all
his time below in its boats awaiting permission
% ascend the ships side. He also sent word to
he party that he could only receive its men,
Ders as private individuals, aud not as a polit-
cal CON mlttee of any kind. They were then
admitted and presented to the Admiral. who
received the whole very courteously, but with
)ut any political remark whatever being made
4 fter a brief INSPECTION of the ship the party
eft apparently much gratided with their visit.
News OF what had passed, however, appears to
nave reached the Minister OF Police for on
evening Mr.. Samart2idi and two ether
members of the deputation were arrested and
conveyed to Stamboul. The legality OF this
proceeding was more than doubtful, as not only
FeIe the parties Hellenic subjects, but their
)nense, II any, was committed under the Ameri.
,an flag. They were still kept in durance, not
the protest of the Greek Legation;
,ut their immediate release was expected.
GENERAL NEWS.