The Sun. — 1859-09-27 (London, England)

CHINA. (FroKz the Oveiland Friend of Chida, of Aug. 10.) In our last report hence (Hong Kong) we told of the repulse of the English and French forces from the forts at the entrance of the Peiho river, and the consequent rctnrn of the French and English Ministers to Shanghai. We have intelligence'freni Shanghai to the 2d 'of August, but in connexion with these painful matters nothing of any moment has since occurred. Her Majesty's steamer Cruiser and gunboats Starling and Forester still remain in the gulf of Pcchili, the rest of the defeated squadron, being at anchor principally off the entrance of the Ningpo river. The American plenipotentiary Ward, is still on • board the steam ship Powhattan, in the gulf of Peehili, and is as unlikely apparently to obtain a rAification of the :treaty made by hi. predecessor, Mr. Reed, as either Mr. Bruce or M. Bourbollon those 'concluded by the Earl of Elgin and Baron Gros.  Of the Russians not a word is heard; but it is still supposed that they,ttre in the background, and that it was by their aid our repulse was effected. Still there is no proof of this that we know of; while a French traveller from St. Petersburg to Shanghai, via Pkin, asserts that the members of the Russian mission are treated very cavalierly by the Pckingit's, andhardly dare to show themselves in the streets.  Admiral HT° has been suffering severely from his wounds, and it it said willhave to invalid. His medical attendant, when probing the partially closed wound in his hip the other day, discovered and took out a link and a half of the Plover's smoke stack stay, which'had been driven in by the Russian shot. The agony which the brave man must have undergone from such infliction can only be conceived. His Excellency's gallantry and .cudurance are spoken of by all in the highest terms,  and the sincerest pity is expressed for the result of his expedition so far as it affects himself. Captain Vansittart died of his wounds on the 17th ult., even before the mail left China. The other officers who were wounded are said to be doing well There has been a serious enieute at Shanghai, in which several foreigners have been killed, and others wounded, among them being Mr. Interpreter Ley, who is in a precarious position, his assailant having ripped 'up his abdomen, whereby the bowels protruded.  In the south of China all is quiet, and, apparently, likely to continue so. As we said at the time the news of the repulse first reached us, neither Chinese authorities nor Chinese people are disposed to believe that we have been defeated unless we ourselves assure them of it ; for, in the first placd, they deem any report of fighting which they reeeive from their countrymen as of the usual stamp, viz., one grain of truth to nine of falsehood ; and in the second place, the fact of the northerns being able to do what they could not, implies a superiority which they are not ready to admit.  THE OUTBREAK AT SHANG!(AL (From the Overland China Mail.) Important intelligence has been received from the north. The Chinese there, and at Shanghai in particular, have always been regarded as models of quietness and meekness as compared with those of the south. Even they, however, have now broken out into rioting of a serious character, and killed or dangerously wounded several Europeans, among whom we have to mention, with deep regret, Mr. Lay, the head of the newly-organised Chinese Customs Service, who has been wounded so severely in the abdomen and elsewhere that he is scarcely expected to live. This riot is said to have arisen from the kidnapping of coolies for the French vessel Gertrude ; but the master of that vessel asserts that the Chinese on board attempted to rob him, and he was compelled to fire in self-defence. Both stories are about equally improbable, and their truth or falsehood is of no consequence to the conclusion to be drawn from this affair.  Sooner or later the truth must come out in regard to China, that the foreigners there have chiefly their own stupidity to blame for the hostility of the Chinese. Kiying, the most faithful and intelligent friend of our interests in China, was compelled tc commit suicide by the Imperial Court because—and we make the charge with pain—he was so slighted and set aside by Lord Elgin's mission that the Imperial Court was led to believe he had been deceiving it as to his knowledge of and interest with foreigners. Kwei-liang and Hwa-shana were so slighted -by Mr. Bruce refusing to see them at Shanghai, that Prince Senn-ko-lin-sin, the head of the war party, was raised to influence. Now there are indications that the brutal outbreak and assassination a t Shanghai will be treated in a manner calculated to increase the evil from which it sprung. Between the coolie and the coolie trade] it is a matter of six of the one and half a dozen of the other. There is occasionally fraud on both sides, and th4e may, very rarely, be cases of kidnap ping. It is too pro-voking to have our safety in China endangered by the quarrels of a few loos,Portuguese and French on the one side, with xambling Chinamen on the other. In spit( bf the ridiculous noise made about a few individual cases, the benefits of the traffic arz.) largely in favoui of the Chinese; and therefore, since they chose t( make it an occasion for riot, we should be justified in closing it altogether. But to do this at the present juncture—to dismiss, as we hear the French minister threatens to do, most of the coolie; in the Gertrude, would be to commit one of those weak and ill-judged acts which always lay th( foundation of future trouble. If the Chinamen of Shanghai are.to be loosened from their engagements and. allowed to pocket the benefits, by the somewhat simple expedient of ripping open th( stomachs of a few of the respectable foreigners resident, there, they will be sure to find-other engage: ments in which similar means may be useful. they are allowed to escape with impunity, or an approach to it, they will probably have recourse to that gentle pressure whenever they have any other point which they desire too carry against foreigners.