The New York herald., 1869-09-15
THE BURLINGAME TREATY.
English Reports Of the Iaiperisl Policy at
rck,n-M~. Ross Brownies Position.

Iron the London Tunes, Sept. z.
II will be remembered that yesterday week we
published very extraordinary telegram from Hong
Kong. II contained two principal statements-one
that The Pekin government defnItivey refused to
ratliy the convention concluded by Mr. BuriinVame
in us name with the United States, and the other
that the American Minister in China mad enphati.
cally denounced Mr.. Buflingame's policy. Tie for.
mer part OF the telegram was less surprising than
the latter. IL was an experiment for China to ap-
rimenial--iiowever Indispensable under the
actual circumstances 0l the empire-to select a
foreigner for ths novel ONCE. The capacity. more.
over, Of Chinese statesmen for raising Nrous ques-
tions as TO the meaning OF their own compacts with
other countries has been tested former occasions.
tleiy they undoabtsdly possess IN discovering the
naws In q treaty negotiated on their behalf by an
circumstance that the people In whose favor the
provisions were happened to be the adopted dtplo-
mats own countrymen would naturally supply an
rowly and jealousy. The latter part OF the telegram
was iess comprehensive, but STILL taken by itself,
hardly incomprehensible Ihe zeai OF convert. y
Chinese Ambassador ia a convert on large scale.
Recent information, however, OF more
undoubied authenticity c0ntradcts the more serious
OF these teleeraphic statements We are enabled ~
assert that Prince Kune has Ia no way repndiated
United states. IL there has been delay tue exchange
OF the formal raiiUcations IL has arisen only from a
desire TO bring 10 point drst the negotiations with
the European fowers 10 which the Mission Is equally
accredited and from no plan or eyading the engage
ments made IN the name OF thc empire. II does not
the intelligence could have been set forth fully
than ordinary teegfaphic limits allow, its dubious
ness would have probably been seen from the first.
This the price We pay Tor the manifold advantages
Of telegrapnie communication, that the color aud
circumstances which furnish moaDs ol testing the
credibility Of report cannot be gwen The latter
| portion OF the telegram is more likely to be tue.
| According to It Mr. Ross Browne, the American Min.
ister IN China, has emphatlcally denounced Mr.. Eur
| l1Dgames policy ''as evidence OF the Chi
| nese ditlnclinaiion TO progress" lie ap
pears to have taken the same opportunity to
InveiPh against the British policy also on
the ground that equality In the relations
OF the foreign Powers with the Chinese government
was impossible AT present. ana that yieidiag atti-
tude on their part would tend to produce war. But,
In the first place, the final view the United states
government might choose 10 take Of o treaty Is has
negotiated with China must be OF much less import.
anCe to the other treaty Powers Than the question
whether or no the Chinese governments can be
trusted when II asthorzes envoss TO negotiate for 1,
abroad; and In the second place, there Is, alter all
nothing TO show that tho United States Minister IN
denouncing the treaty agreed to by his government
mas been utternS any but MT. Ross Browne's private
sentiments with the frankness an American citizen
minister VI wi, ga epps0f' Wy aaetrlAS @a'