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I No. 495. Sept. 17, 1859.] THE LEADER. ...
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I There is nothing- so revolutionary , because there is nothing in eternal progreSs-DR ., _^ o _, D . « THE CHINA DISASTER . fpHE Chinese war which overturned an English - * Parliament and furnished Lord ' _Fnlmerrtbn with a signal triumph , was supposed to have ended prosperously in tie treaty _^ negotiated by Lord Elgin , who returned to this country either in the coSviction that his work was done , or that the re- mainder of it was sufficiently dubious and unplea- sant to bp most comfortablv lef t to other hands * But _aH p _^^^^^ o _^ _i _reH _^ _SS ; lations with _flTe " Central Flowery Land" have . been rudelv dispelled bv the news of the reborn- mencement of _^ nostilSies and 6 f _levere defelfc in- _S _^^^ S _^ _f _l _& S rf the Chinese , _Although not in good faith , cannot fairly be described af treacherous . Under compulsion insufficient to break their traditional pride , and against which they protested , they agreed to re- dive our ambassador at Pekin , an _5 wSen the time came for his advance up the Peiho river towards _Sn _^ otciIiS _ht 4 ™ 1 _^^?^^ obseauious official _^^ J to wefcomo his arri _' val _okl _S _^ S _^ ffi £ on to re _^ erected and the mouth of the river _stronMv booS and staked _across . ° Under { hese chcu _^ stances and netinnr under the advice of Mr Bmce _AdinirnlHofe hnmediatelv _detemi ? ned to 1 _^ _0 _^ t _^<^^^&^^^ I _Sifficulties before him or the means at his disposal , M c * He _thono-lit _nmnw rn _Rsqimi p that _tho batteries ' 1 were of So c _? nseauenco _JHc may Imve bonde ! 1 wended to look _afthem throuTJ _inycliS but 1 he took _^ 0 _Ss to ascortS thf niinCS _oTiruns i ? hey momite _^ rthe _ISS _^ h of 3 * X _™ c ° ? ged i in their defence . It was enough for him to _fluuist M » his shins forward in bull-doffa ? _roo-anco and worse I ? han _TlUdog _^ i _^ e _£ _^^ p _^? aWo d _^ t _M He found _himsolf nssfiilnd bv a tremendous fire I _iS'STSilfSSJi
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_^ vj-f t _± _^ _S _^^ S _^ ± _tS h _passin" attention . We have not behaved as _^^ _itt _^^ _lZ _^ V _& _Z were a mixture oi _vjuas erwn no ir _^ u _~ , = v ger . Such conduct is never , to be commended , _| d towards an oriental people is more than usuallv foolish There were two courses _before us _ e { fher to submit to the insolence and trade restrictions which the Chinese thought proper to annlv to us and to hold the doctrine that we had sons will believe that the _peace-at-any _. price plan _iSfisM _^^ _£ _^^^ f _^ _ltot _^ _S _^^^ because it was not superscribed _* _s a petition , and the Chinese authorities would not even touch it . r _« _ifti 7 _ron + _aJn Fllmt iiftpred similar imperti- _™ ** and cSmXinedthat all the communications _^^ Si _^^ t _^ cW _Sf _tS _^ Sr _ihe _^ _rS _GoVermnent di _^^^^^ form _pf address , and the Chinese in consequence ordered that all _comimmlcation should cease After this , squabbling and fighting went on until 1841 , when Iveshen agreed to a treaty , which within a few weeks was disavowed at Pekin , and the war began again . As the main object of this war was an improvement of Chinese manners by practically convincing the most obstinate , ofpeopte ¦ that the English would and could force them to a _respectfuL Ihi e of conduct , it was an _egreg ious act of" K _^ when Canton was m our power , to permit ifc to be ransomed for 6 , 000 , 000 dollars—a proceed- _™ g * hat maintained among the turbulent citizens of _' that place the delusion that we were an nferior race and dared not go with _. n their sacred wals J" 1842 our forces reached Nanking and there Sir Henry Pottmger negotiated the treaty of that name , but the impression n \ a . _dcu P on _^> e _Chinese was known to be so _W . _^^^^ P _^ they would keep the treaty entirely and in good _™ « _Jw _* _T * X _%£ r _*^^ Canton , our relations with the Celestials were fur _* ° m sati sfactory , and Lord Elgin ' s treaty ought not to have been regarded as settling our right to go > Pekin , _became we were a long way " from having convinced _eithei' the . people or the Court that submission to what we considered reasonable requirements , was their only . afo course To attempt to visit their capital against their _^ w . sh with a force sufficient to irritate and insufficient to compel , wa 8 no part of wisdom , and we hope when Parliament reassembles that the _responsibility of _* hi * _™ a _™ scheme will b _« fixed upon tho right _shouldera . Wo _bLouW also like to know whether Mr Bruce or Admiral Hope or anybody else in China was authorised to recommence war if tho Fekin Journey was opposed If the _CWnoso 1 _^ i _^ ttod oul % BU 1 P 3 lnto tn 0 1 eiho with an appearance of _ss _& _.-siraaasiSftasstSR
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3 , _^ 5 _^ . £ & if _^ E _^ £ fer the steain of Souchong to the _smoice oi gun _^ urwhi _. e a _« u rins ti e mOTeaesir e t ven ge a r or the thirst for military conquest and fame , it is or tne _" ™ rst ior """ _" y _^\ _J _. _Ln nf _noeketin" -deimpossible to entertain _** _£ idea o _^ ° _^^| _° e feat ; and we find ourselves in the unhappy neces sity of having to _prepareJ to win victories we > . hML much rather be without _^^ _Jj _^^ _JSj _, stances let us demand of the _Governments some and concessions that we shall now _^ be com P _^{ f a * ° _- _^^ _IF _^^ ei _^ _S of our best _nM _*^ t "" f _^; _S 1 _^ a _f _^ French It is some satisfa qti onto ftnd that ° _^ * _«™ _£ . neighbours are quite willing to join in sending naval and military schoolmasters to the Chinese , and ih _. K _^ _Se _^ _p _^ _Smmish tlie mu _& al irritakeep up . - ' ¦ - ¦ ' ' _.
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. x _„ y JQN THE GREAT _EASIERN EX _LUblUW Size has always been reckoned an element of the subiiinc , afld when the Great Eastern , after long delay and misfortune , was pronounced _comply , and floated inajesticaly down the Thamesi , dwarfthe river by her size , every eye that boheldthe vesse _] destined to be rather an ocean city than a _^ ft _^ f sa _^ staction at SQ t a _trimn p b of human skill . Eager brains _£ _, bus Cfticutating the services she would renr der to civiiisation , ami how she might be the forerunner of a racc o ' fmarinc giants striding between distant lands as firmly as _ofofd the Colossus did across the entrance to the harbour of Rhodes ; _audite universal exclamation was , in the words of Longfellow __ " ? _AA _^ _ZZ o ' er our _iCai _, ' a" & with thoe . " As she passed the thickly-inhabited banks of the river , where human habitations arc crowded in quttint confusion , old and young came ov > t to rend the air with their acclamations ; the _saiois ni tae stream hailed her as the _^ _r _t _^ _fhatw ever set afloat , and the Essex rust o in JU 8 ion * ; . v swmnp 3 stared , gaped and fancied old Oaptam Noah P _reappearedand J _^ _- _^ _jyw voyage to his , strange haven on the top o A . » Column after column in the _uiuiy jouumia chronicled each movement as i hough detailing the _,. incidents of a royal progress ; _. _anS as one quality . aftcr another was dfsp ayed in full P _«^« t » on . . doubts vanished , and _nubfio _^ t _»^ n _^ 22 not % o _ddoiftro tho _^ inphan ana J V »» J c _^ c _* monster to be a lnitfo success . ¦ _.-J ' . _"; u "" * . _* those ashore _™* _«^™^^&?^ _] , cr irOn walls , that _gross ami _nicxuu » um « _- .. « v _^ _iWE £ » : _i- 'S _^ _ssjij
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1859, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/sldr_17091859/page/13/
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