Star. — 1830-04-29 (London, England)

NEWS FROM CHINA.  It appears, by letters which have lately reached this country in the private ship Fergusson, that two points of consider. able importance had been conceded to the foreign trade by the Chinese authorities at Canton. The first of these was, exemption to the Hong merchants from the ruinous extortions (under the name of fees) to which they had been subjected on their appointment, and which had naturally prevented candidates from offering themselves for the situation. In this manner the total number of licensed machants had been gradually reduced to seven, and a monopoly, already too severe, became nearly intolerable. The second concession was the compulsory recall of the elder Hong merchant, Chunqua, more famed for nis abilities than his integrity, who had retired from business, and taken occasion, at the same dine, to abstract from the firm to which he belonged the larger portion of its capital, some of which was the property of European and American merchants. It appears that all the European interests in China were concurrent in their representations to the haughty and exclusive government, not excepting even the Americans, who had, for once, departed from their usual vulpine policy. By the last accounts, an adjustment of dif. ferenees might speedily be expected. Temperate, and at the same time, determined negotiation, seems really to be the only rational mode of dealing with the Chinese ; unless, indeed, we are prepared either to deprive them by force of their territory, or to adopt the infamous expedient of the free-trade zealots—that of taking our chance in a contenting traffic ; which (it must be observed) is calculated to bring along its own just punishment, by breeding up a desperate race of pirates, ea/led by the Portuguese of Macao Ladroner, who have already carried terroralong the southern coast of China. A party of these desperadoes, in the year 1816, captured by stratagem a small American ship, named the Wabash, laden with opium, and anchored close to Macao. The whole crew were murdered. These little facts are dexterously concealed by the freetrade party when they produce their hearsay evidence, some of which, it appears, has been drawn from the respectable purlieus of Wapping. Such arc the authorities that are to influence our national Councils, while we are to disregard the following strong opinion of a distinguished foreigner (uninfluenced either by interest or spite,) who has made th.e Chinese the study of his whole life :—" Je suis convaincu que le commerce fibre, accordt, aux vaisseaux Anglais pour la Chine, ne tarderait pas de faire firmer Canton aux Europiens." The opinion, in his late work, of Mr. Peter an American, who resided eight years in Canton, is to the same effect.  Letters from Madrid, of the 16th instant, mention `the departure of the King and Queen of Spain for Aranjuez. The same letters state that the talked-of Protest of the French and Neapolitan Ambassadors against the abolition of the Salic law in Spain, never took place ; that, on the contrary, the King of Naples had been one of the advisers of that measure, and the French Ambassador had expressed his full concurrence in it, previous to its publication.