The Northern News. — 1898-10-08 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.  Telegraphing on Friday the NM.% oorresporident of the "Times " says :—Chang Yin Hums, the special Chinese Envoy at the Queen's Jubilee, and the most prominent Cantonese in Chins, the Minister who negotiated both the Anglo-German loans and the Japanese ocauseroial treaties of 1896, whereby .11 nations benefit, was yesterday stripped of all his °flans and banished to Chinese Turkestan. The decree of banishment acquits Chang Yin Huan of oomplioity with K-1121ff Yu Wei, but convicts him vaguely as crafty and treacherous. The true reason is that he was a powerful supporter of the party of the Emperor. His downfall 111 regarded as adverse to British influence in Pekin. The " Speotator " hopes that Lord Salisbury will instruct our representatives to keep steadily aloof from the turmoil. It is by no means certain that the Tsar, who attends closely to Far Eastern affairs, will be greatly delighted at the virtual supersession of a legitimate autoerat by a Palace intrigue-Tsars have not always loveci Grand Dukes or Grand Dukes Tsars—nod even if he is interference in Chinese revolutions is not our role. Our concern is with what the rulers of China do, not with who they are. If we " reetore " the Emperor or any pretender to full authority we must help him to govern China, must protect him from all foreign and domestic foes, and must veto or promote his reforms, the curious kind of Christianity" perhaps included. We must in fact if not in name govern China, and the job is too big for men of sense to undertake. It would in the end require an army, for both the Russians and the insurgents of the South can approaoh Pekin by land, and where are we to find the nisoemary farce? We have been adding province to province for fifty years, we have just asserted dominion over new territories on the Niger and the Nile, we are the objects of innumerable Jealousies and hatreds, and we may yet have to fight with our whole strength for an Empire not yet half consolidated. Under such circumstances to attempt to play Providence on behalf of the 300 millions of China would be something like madness. If we need our power well— that is, strove to secure for the people honest mandarins—we should earn the hatred of the official olass and have no more support from the hundreds of millions of peasants in their green villages than we have in Egypt, and we might use some of our power very bielly. Egypt is a little place with no mines and a neoemity for State railways, but China is a continent full of minerals, Deedless endless canals, and with such a population that railways would return 10 per cent. Within three months of the enthroning of our candidate Pekin would be full of speculators ravening for "concessions," attaching themselves to parties, bribing influential men, declaring that the refusal of any demand, however monstrous, implied the "waning of English influence built in, with such expenditure of lives." They are doing t now, but what the scene would be then we shudder to imagine. If we have rights in °hies let us defend them even by force if need be, let us keep trade open as far as in us hest, but let us keep out of that smelling oesepool of intrigue, bribery, and murder upon which rise and sink and roll the Palace politico of Pekin.  The New York correspondent of the " Standard " telegraphs :—lt is stated that the Navy Department will order two of the warships forming part of the United States squadron at present at Manila to uoceed to Chinese watere within a week. The " Standard's " hope of American support for British policy at Pekin has been given much prominence in the newspapers, and has elicited no signs of dissent. The authority for the report of the death of the Emperor of China is inadequate to convince either the former Amerioan Minister to China, Mr. Denby, or the present Minister from China to the United States. Mr. Conger, the American Minister now at Pekin, reports that up to the present them is no muse for alarm. The Odessa oorresrpondent of the same journal telegraphs :—The steamer Komiloff, belonging to the Ruseian Steam Navigation and Trading Company, of this port, has been taken by the Government on permanent c.harter at a cost of 18,0011 routlss per month to run hntween Vladivostock and Poq..A.rthur. The Kom:lotf is i fast vessel, well &dented for transport of troop. Two more steamers will shortly be placed on the same Far Eastern line at the expense of the Government.