The Sun. — 1857-01-29 (London, England)

WILLIAM IV.—and at length, in the twentieth year of the reign of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen -VICTORIA, is found to De in want of we don't know what all, before there can be any possibility of her (even now) being launched ! Like men, like ships :as "The Immortal Bard " hath it—  After which, a new grand Christmas Pantomime, called ALADDIN AND THE WONDERFUL LAMP; or, Harlequin aind the Genii of the Ring. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Co. lumbine, Miss C. Adams.  at Canton. In the interior, not long after, a French missionary was barbarously murdered, and three others barely escaped with their lives, all in direct contravention of the last Treaty. Now, there does seem no conceivable reason why Canton should longer evade the fulfilment of treaties and agreements any more than the other four ports. One of them, Fow-Chow, wished to play the same game as Canton, but it was not permitted to do so ; and the result has been that we have had peaceful relations there, and both natives and foreigners have profited by our firmness. At Canton, on the contrary, forbearance has received the only interpretation which semi-barbarians, like Russians and Chinese, always put upon it—that fear was at the bottom. Hance a series of unendurable insults and injuries, till the English authorities apparently resolved that the next must be the last. That next was the boarding of the Arrow. Satisfaction was demanded. It was granted in the style which, if accepted, would only increase the radical mischief ; and Admiral SEYMOUR, most properly, we think, demanded that the haughty system, directly in the teeth of treaties and subsequent agreements, of refusing to foreign 'authorities direct intercourse with Chinese officials should now cease. Hitherto we must think the Admiral has acted with equal humanity and courage. He has destroyed nothing but forts built to protect violations of the treaty, and Government buildings belonging to the obdurate and really guilty parties. Canton, as yet, has been treated like Odessa. Apparently with the same results, for YEE( has set fire to the factories though we respected the Chinese private property. We must continue also to lay the same stress, as we have yet done, on the cordial acquiescence of the mercantile community at Canton in the Admiral's proceedings. Both public and private information show that all the merchants approve the measures taken. When we consider the extraordinary sensitiveness of trade to any interruption, this circumstance has the greatest weight. Merchants and traders generally are prone to bear with too much for the sake of peace and quiet. They are not the men for merely political wars or revolutions, except under the most pressing necessity. Think of the BRIGET and COBDEN class endorsing au Admiral's acts ! We may be sure when this is the case that they were indispensable ; that the interruption of trade itself was better than the continuance of injuries and insults which longer forbear• ance would engender. The time was come to put a step to all that—to demand that foreigners should be treated as equals of the Chinese ; at least that they should enjoy at Canton the reasonable privileges which they possess at the other Chinese ports, and to which they are entitled by treaty.  " And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe; And so from hour to hour we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale I "