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that the Cantonese are being impressed with , the idea that , though the mandarins inay not be able to meet us in opea fight , they are likely to be more than a match for us , in the long run , by virtue of cunning and diplomacy . The heads of the Yeh party , now at Fatshati , have determined to inflict cruel punishment on all the Chinese who have been guilty of aiding foreigners ; and Pihlwei helps them m carrying out this cunning design . I saw numbers of men in the Canton pr isons who , tliere is no moral doubt , have committed no other crime ; and most of them had been tortured by having the anklebone smashed to a jelly with large bars of iron , or
their fetters driven into the leg . A few days ago a number of our Coolie corps , or men employed by us in carrying , disappeared . One of them , who contrived to escape , gave information of their having been imprisoned by PiKkwei ; and when released by interference of the Commissioners , some of them were found to have been , flogged almost to pieces , while others had had red ,-hot -wires run through their feet . This , you will say at home , afforded an excellent opportunity for the Commissioners to come down on the Chinese Governor ; but not so ; the Chinese are too acute for that . Eirst , it was explained that the Coolies had been caught plundering . When
it \ vas said that even then the native authorities ought to have handed them over to the Commissioners , the answer was , that the Coolies had not their jackets on , and never said anything about their employ . To this it might have been replied that they are of a peculiar caste , speaking a peculiar language , scarcely intelligible to ttio Cantonese , and that almost all the men of that class in Canton are in our employ ; but , no doubt , other excuses would have been invented ; Talk of the moral effect of ou . r occupation of Canton ! it will be more than neutralized by the Chinese finding we give them no adequate protection from the cruelty of their
own rulers . Having the power of imprisoning and torturing , these rulers can prevent their subjects complaining to the foreigner by the terror of their rule , the use of their " spies , and the innumerable false pretences under which they and their agents can take shelter . It is extremely difficult for a foreigner ' here to procure a "Chinese servant . I took one , a young lnd ^ up with me froth Hong-Kong ; and the first time I asked him to go through the streets along- with me , he did so quite willingly , but no threats or persuasion could induce him " ' to repeat the experiment . And ibis state of matters is beginning to tell upon our
own safety . Last evening , a soldier , oue of our . police , was cut down , though accompanied l > y others ; and at this moment I have just been disturbed by hearing brickbats thrown over the walls of the yamun for the purpose of striking the sentries walking within . I should not lie in the least surprised if a number of Braves were secretly brought into the city , if all our police were cut off some fine evening , and if the yamun itself were attacked by niglii ; , when , in the darkness and confusion , the superiority of our arms would not be felt . I am sorry that it is impossible for me to write more before the mail leaves , but shall soon return to this important subject .
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AMERICA . Tub alleged outrages committed by our cruisers on American vessels supposed to be engaged in the slave trade continue to excite warm discussion in America , and Beem to promise a painful subject for international disputations . The United States Government has given orders to all tho collectors of Customs to report all outrages committed by the British in the Gulf of Mexico ; and directions have been issued for fitting out the frigate Saratoga at New York nnd tho brig Dolphin at Boston for the strengthening of tho Gulf squadron . Ihe New York press has commentedi on the acts of our cruisers with considerable warmtli . Tho President has demanded explanation from England and Spain in connexion with this subject ; and th « Colorado , which left Norfolk CU . S . ) on tho 12 th ult ., has specific orders for the home squadron to stop theso interferences from any quarter whatever . Three frigates , also , have been sent to the scene of operations . " Several new instances of tho bonrding of American vesaqja by British cruisers , " says ; the . New York Times , « are reported . Captain Foulkcs , of the ship Tropic Bird , states that on tho 2 nd ot May , -while on his passage homo from Port-au-Prince he was brought to and boarded l > y tho British gunboat ''^ P ' . , Por fired a gun , when Captain Foulkes ran up his colours and kept on his course ; two other ^ . ^ ? ? ™*> « shot passing over the stern of tho if ££ I Onhoaving-toan officer from the Jasper tlTfook T ? ' ^ l lkined tll » t that vessel was on SS . it altmJrs ' *< l suspected this one . Captain Foulkea avas compelled to sho ' his papers , and the
officer then left , threatening , however , to fire into the ship if it filled away before he left , which threat was disregarded , and nothing more happened . As to the case of the bark "W . H . Chandler , Captain Gage explains that he was boarded by an officer from the Styx , but that the conduct of that personage was not so ungntlemanly as has been reported . Captain Bawley , of the brig Martha Gilchrist , reports having been boarded , while lying in the harbour of Sagua la Grande , by a boat from a British vessel , but adds that he experienced no disrespectful treatment other than the fact of the visit of an armed force . " According to another account ,
Captain Loring , of the American brig Wingold , which arrived at Boston on the 16 th ult ., reported that on the 30 th of April , ^ after leaving Sierra Morena , he was fired into by a British cruiser . One of the balls was buried in the mainmast , close to the captain ' s bead . This vessel was afterwards boarded by a fully armed boat ' s crew , who insisted on examining the brig ' s papers . A party of marines from an English cruiser has ransacked the plantations at one of the Cuban outposts in search of Bonzal negroes . The captain of the port is to be tried for not resisting the search . Several other cases have also been detailed .
The Senate , on the 18 th ult ., unanimously adopted Mr . Seward ' s resolution for inquiring into the facts in question . The official correspondence is published . Secretary Cass demands a discontinuance of the searching of American vessels , and says that any damages arising in the matter are expected to be compensated by Spain , or that she is to interpose -with Great Britain . The Government has addressed Lord Napier on the subject , and Mr . Dallas has received instructions to demand compensation for the outrages , and to insist peremptorily on a cessation of them .
The Senate Committee of Ways and Means , after conferring with the Secretary of the Treasury , has determined to bring in a bill authorizing a loan of 5 , 000 , 000 dollars , in lieu of a further issue of Treasury notes .:. .- ¦ '¦ ¦ ; " . ' ¦ ¦ -,- . -- . . ¦ / . . ;" . ¦ ; ¦ The advices from Kansas contain reports of depredations committed by a large body of bandits . Mr . Henry William Herbert , a literary man of some ability in New York , has committed suicide by shooting himself . His father was Dean of Manchester , England . Previously to committing the act , he -wrote a long address to the press of his adopted country ; also one to the coroner . Domestic differences appear to have prompted him to self-destruction .
The accident on the Lafayette and Indianopolis Railway caused the death of the conductor , fireman , and engineer . Nine persons have lost their lives by a fire at Chicago . A possibility appears to be opened of a peaceful settlement of the Utah question . The United States commissioners have proceeded to Salt Lake City , to confer with the Mormons , who are reported to be ready to receive them in a friendly spirit . Another rumour is , that the
greater number of the Mormons have left Utah . General Juarez has fled from Colima , Mexico , alarmed by the threatening aspect of affairs , and lias taken up his head-quarters at Vera Cruz . The revolutionists under Vidnurri arc achieving great successes ; but the whole country is in a state of anarchy . Trade is paralyzed , and the roads are infested with brigands . The French consul , in charge of the Spanish consulate at Tainpico , has sent to General Concha , requesting a frigate with which to menace Garza if he continued to fire on the
town . Captain Judkins , of the Royal Mail steamship Persia , has been arrested at New York for an alleged violation of the Customs' Laws , in having , in obedience to tho quarantine regulations , refused to allow a Customhouse officer , who was onboard , to go on shore until the vessel was discharged from quarantine . Some interesting- items of Californian news are reported by the San Francisco correspondent of the Times , who , under date April n ) tb , writes : —" Vancouver ' s Island is about to get a , very unexpected addition to her population from California . A bill to prohibit the immigration of negroes , and to place the coloured people now in the country under rather severe restrictions , is on its passage through our very enlightened Legislature .
The coloured people , not wishing to submit to the degradation of this law , in case it passes , have determined to abandon a country which refuses to afford them ordinary protection ; and have resolved to emigrate to the British possessions , where they hope to enjoy a freedom and a securit 3 r churlishly denied them by their own countrymen . The same bill prohibits the immigration cf Chinese , nnd debars those already here from working in the mines after six months from its passing . This monstrous measure has , I believe , passed both Houses , but hits not yet become law . Perhaps the Governor may smother it . But this is doubted by persons who know his sentiments . " The slave boy " Archy , " whoso ense has already been mentioned in this journal , lias been set free by tho judiciary officer of the Federal Court .
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STATE OP TRADE . This condition of trade during the week ending laat Saturday did not materially dift ' er from what waa reported of tho previous -week . Tho Whitsuntide holidays in ooino degree intorforcd with business . in mo 3 t places : but
a hopeful feeling pretty generally prevails , notwithstanding much present stagnation . Most of the manufacturers of woollen fabrics in the locality of Hudderafield are running full time , and are chiefly engaged on goods for the autumn and winter trade . At Belfast , business haa increased , wages have risen , and the retail dealers , as a natural consequence , have obtained better custom ; and , at Dublin , greater activity prevails . A communication from Sheffield mentions a curious fact . " Perhaps , " says the writer , " the most notable thing connected with the trade of this locality is the constantly increasing demand for steel , to supply the place of ' crinoline' in the expansion of ladies' dresses . For some time past there has been a large trade in the manufacture of this description of steel for the country and for export to the Continent , and now every mail from America brings orders for the same material 16 meet the requirements of the ladies of the United States . From the limited amount" of machinery here for rolling the stell to its requisite thinness , great quantities are sent off in a partially completed state to be finished in America . The stocks there are so far unequal to the demand that the agent of one Sheffield house in the steel trade recently -wrote that they were ' bursting for more crinoline steel , ' and requested that it should be sent by steamer , instead of the usual less expensive mode of shipment by sailing vessels . With some firms here it is a serious question whether , in the endeavour to satisfy this demand , it would be prudent to erect machinery specially adapted for the purpose . " The general business of the port of Loadon continued , active during the week . ending last Saturday . The number of ships reported in-ward was 266 . The number cleared Outward was 114 , including 19 in ballast ; and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 71 .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow arid unchristiau feeling is to be condemned whicti regards -with jfealou . sy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion : of the iiumaii race but that to which itself telongs . ¦ ¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦ •"¦ . ¦ : : / ' . '¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ " " - ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' . X ) e . Aenold . . . ' ' '"' . ' - . . '¦ ¦ ' . ' - ¦ . ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ FRANCE . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦' . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ' :. ' ¦ ' - An infamous act of celebration was perpetrated on Thursday week by the officers in garrison at Versailles . Lieutenants Eoge and Hyeniie " , the two persons concerned in the duel with 51 . de Pene , were on that day summoned before the Juge d'Instruction at Versailles , to be interrogated oil the subject of the encounter . After the examination , they were entertained at a banquet by their fellow officers . " The Colonel Commandant , " says the Daily News Paris correspondent , " met them as they came out of the Judge ' s office , and escorted them to . mess-room . The band played during dinner . The two honoured guests sat on the right and left hand of the colonel . At dessert a toast was drunk ' to the health of the conqueror and the future success of the cause . ' " Both were seconds in the duel , and M . de Hyenne was afterwards a principal—the one who inflicted the two wounds . The profligate wickedness of the banquet almost exceeds "belief . The Minister of the Interior has addressed further instructions to the Prefects on the subject of the sale of the landed property of the charitable establishments in Fiance , which materially modify the effect of his previous circular . Tlie French officers appointed to form part of the mission to Persia have received orders from the Minister of War to prepare for their departure . They are to report themselves to the General commanding at Marseilles by the 7 th June at the latest . Marshal Narvaez , accompanied by M . Marfori ( late Mayor of Madrid ) and Brigadier Heiiriquez , arrived in Paris on Sunday morning . ' The Pairio . announces that M . do Lamartine ' s saddle horses were sold last Saturday at St . Point , and that the furniture of his chateau of Monceau is shortly to be sold to satisfy one of his creditors . The Courri . v daLyon denies the truth of the assertion that the sentence of death on Lieutenant dc Mercy , who killed a brother ofticor , has been commuted . The Tribunal do Commerce of Nancy , acting against the generally received opinions on the subject of the usury laws , has just decided that a private banker is justified in lending at a higher rate of interest than six per cent ., when the Bank of France raises its discount beyond that limit . The screw transport Loire , which recently sailed from . Brest , with convicts for Cayenne , had on bonrd Rudio , the confederate of Orsini in the attempt of the 14 th of January . The Emperor ' s health is said to be somewhat doubtful , owing to the gradual yielding of the spine , which occasions the necessity of support in walking . Triat , tho professor of gymnastics , is about to try on tho Emperor his system of " regeneration by tho renewal of the oxhausted fluids , " in which mngnctism id reported ta have a large share . A convention has been concluded nnd signed between the Governments of Costa Kica and Nicaragua on tht one part , and M . Fdlix Uelly , acting on behalf of M . 1 VI Millaud and Co ., of Paris , on tho other , relative to the concession of an intcroceanic canal by the river Sai ; Juan and Lake Nicaragua . M . de Losseps has arrived in Franco from Constouti-
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No . 428 , June 5 , 1858 . ] T H E X . E A D E R . 537
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Leader (1850-1860), June 5, 1858, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2245/page/9/
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