Glasgow Courier. — 1859-09-29 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

CUINA.  - ( Frost the Overland /Primed of Chine, of Awing 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 return of the French and English ministers to Shanghai. We have intelligence from Shanghai to the 2l of August, but in connexion with these painful matters nothingelof Majesty'ssnsteamer rh(r'rUi Cruiser and gunnce boats Starling and Forester still remain in the gulf of Pechili, the rest of the defeated squadron being at anchor principally off the entrance of the Ningpo river. The American plenipotentiary, Waril.is still on board the steam ship Powhattan, in the gulf of Pechili, and is RI unlikely apparently to obtain a ratification of the treaty made by his predecessor, Mr Reed, as either Mr Bruce or K. Rourbollon 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 are in the background, and that it WAS by their aid our repulse was effected. Still there is no proof of this that we Imow of; while a French I traveller from St. Petersburg to Shanghai, via Pekin, asserts that the members of the Russian mission are treated very cavalierly by the Pekinites, and hardly dare to show themselves in the streets. . .  Admiral Hope Itas; been sufferiiiieeverely from his wounds, and it is said will have 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 undesgone from r-^h an in, only be conceived. Hill I - are spoken of by , rest pity is expresst _ Si his expedition so far as it affects himself. Captain Vansittart died of his wounds on the 17th ultimo, even before the mail left China. The other officers who were wounded are said to be doing well. There has been a serious emute at Shanghai, in which several foreigners have been killed, and others wounded, among them being Mr Interpreter Lay, who is in a precarious position, his assailant having ripped up his abdomen, whereby the bowels protrude. 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 place, they deem any report of fighting which they receive 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. (Prom the Overland China Mail.)  From the north of China no further new; of importance have arrived in regard to the unfortunate affair at the month of the Peiho. There is no certain intelligence u to the movements of the American Minister; and to it is more than likely that he has gone on to Pekin. Capt. Vansittart has died from his wounds, and Admiral Hope Is said to be in a precarious state. No further details received go to qualify the statements made in our last overland issue. • But important intelligence of another kind 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 not 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 to 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 Ilwashana were so slighter,' by Mr Bruce refusing to see them at Shanghai that Prince Senn-ko-linidn, the head of the war party, was raised to influence. Now there are indications that the brutal outbreak and assassination at Shanghai will be treated in a manner calculated to increase the evil from which it sprung. Between the coolie and the coolie trader it is a matter of six of the one and-half a dozen of the other. There is occasionally fraud on both sides, and there may, very rarely, be eases of kidnapping. It is too provoking to have our safety in China endangered by the quarrels of a few loose Portuguese and French on the one side, with lying, gambling Chinemen on the other. In spite of the ridiculous noisemade about a few individual cases, the benefits of the traffic are largely in favour of the Chinese; and therefore, since they choose to 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 coolies in the Gertrude, would be to commit one of those weak and ill-judged acts which always lay the 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 the stomachs of a few of the respectable foreigners resident there, they will be sure to find other engagements in which similar means may be useful. If 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 to carry against foreigners.