The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1850, Page 1

NO. 5706. MORNING EDITION----MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1850. TWO CENTS. standing, pad atthe sudd i he decrees him a. pall the sums in which he has fined, which are not yet pai the steps he may have | crees by which he lost The late Chin-kwan-ts' who died of a spitting of in the highest terms. During several years he had | full to excess; the gentry and the common been remarkable for his at i talents had attracted the attention ot the late Em- | the sightof t “DOUBLE SHEET. Ynteresting from the Chinese Empire. «Approaching Revolution among the Celestials. THE AMERICANS AND THE OPIUM TRADE. MOVEMENTS OF NOBILITY, ws of his death his | or hear of his fate, there 1s not one who will not | Dolphin arr, ed @ Cumsingmoon and seized | sbout to be precipitated, it is in every way desira- Thea extremely moved; | shed streams of tears, drawing long sighs, with a bra two ve, tele: they, with the Chinese crews, | ble that it should neither be ponies com- | The recent davelonetente taal ne the and directs that | stricken heart. were carried 1’ Maceo, where “one of the men | promised. Sooner or later this question of slaye- | fraudulent management of the State ank at Mor- afferent times been The foreigner at Au (Macao) had made mi was discharged, a* he proved to be the brother of | ry will force iteelt upon the American people with | ris, and other similar institutions in other States of be remitted, and qhat | of his right, and had done evil; he had lusted the jor atten ding the abip.” The two eap- fearful emphasis. The dangers and ditliculties | the Union, very naturally suggests the propriety of m being hereby can- | om house, jad set fire to temples, and burned | over to the authorines of F order of | weak or temponzwg concessions, calculated to | bankin x ‘ images; he had encroached upon houses and | Commodore Geimnger, that the | faver or uphold the extension of slavery, The The great bank ebarter of this State is the a a cabinet minister, | land; had broken open graves and destroyed the re- Cay, be we British outieete: they were | firm determination of Congress to limit slavery, | ral re te law of 1838. The people have Poe iy , is also spoken of | mains of the dead ; the measure of his crimes was | brought here by the captors, ia company of TH. M. | within ste existing boundaries, would be the most | adopted at in the new constitation The old safe- le Columbine and the steamer, Phiegethon. | mereifulas well as the wisest step that could be 9 fund banks are wheeling into line as rapidly as to business. His | were all soraged as them} they were intolerable in | Lieut. Page and acting Liewt Fox, of the Ameri- | takem in the interest of the slave-owners iem- | their chartersexpire. Jt cannot be deamed inop- e powers of heaven and earth; and | cao pe icrgenree before the or magietrate, eelves, However recklesa or desperate may be | portune, while the banks of our neighboring States , observing that his | the willages adjoining having been, moreover, sub- | on the u and stated tae circumstances | the eflorty of the Southern States to protong the | are breaking down and ruiming hundreds and thou- restored, [the de- | the omen, he. bed demolished the imperial cus- | tured junks, crews, and (ils yer thet surround it now, can only be avymented by | directing pubhe attention to our own syatem of ec it being «! honesty became daily more! conspicuous, had ap- | jected to the imposition of an unjust tax, the gent- | connected with the semare. reign of slavery, it isa doomed institution. Itcaa- | sands, to suggest what we deem important features 0 him Chinese Pres: vil Office, hoping to avail Our aavices from Canton are to the 29th of Oc- | Since his death his Maje: of the Board ot Ci- | ry and elders of thirteen of them had made a joint | — Thet the American commodore should bead over not subsist,fae a vast anomaly, ia the heart of aci- | 1n our system. ‘The creat conservative principle, If of his services. | representation of these things to the Governor-Ge- | his prizes to the Brivsh, or that the Acwencen | vilwed ead demecraue commuaity. It must ultie | which, for twenty years, has upheld, and still suse has been much affect- | nere! and the Governor. wir excellencies could | Minster to Chinn (who resides at Macso) should mately cease, euther by voluntary emancipation or | tains, the safe and healthy actyon of our system, 19 ed by the perusal of a mei jal in which he had | see no good means of arresting the calamity, | sepetion such en act, — an explanetion vielent insurreetion. Denounced vy Christianity as | the stern mandate of our law, “ that no bask shall “ tober. Our extracts will be found of considerable The detatls of the movements of the “Emperor and his cabinet are quite curious. fe puaparss, aplpeaes correspondent complains that newspapers pre- paid in New York to ne address have ereriiel, ugh he has received letters posted at the same This is not a solita re he asks, “if the New begged permission to retire, and he now accords | which inersased like a fire, burning every day | which we cenoot give. him the posthumous rank i apparent, deputes certain Of the imperial tamily | vlan for its restraint, until to sacrifice, in his own stead, to his manes; directs | posal of Pau-tsiun, who secre! that the fines due by him be remitted, and his steps | tricts to bind themselves by an oath, sheddin lost restored; and extends the imperial protection | their blood before beaven,ana to his posterity, whose proj titles are to be con- | epgeged to ensure thats pertost security throughout | schooner, which carried part of a cargo sup- free State, and the leg sidered and reported upon thé Board of Civil | the whole (of their un: € 4 aflar” was «io- wet, repudiated by political ecomomy as unprofit- | issue negotiable paper payable on time.” Our po dian to the heie | more fiereely than before ; they were without a ther American, aud it was for the Amerean | able conlined cate States of a vast continent | hav been to eradlanie aneninaee post oe hey ee ear to the pro- pmissioner to adjudicate himself, or hand over with a free population, extending and multiplying | tem. As early as 1529, the issue, by banks, of any tly moved some pa- | the twe prizes to the Chinese government. Akeu om every side, it cannot , as an isolated 1 bill e note not payable on demand, without interest, . ’ an American shymaster—the quay, un the midst of sueh a prolific oad aviventu- | was positively prohibited. Here lies the safety of appealing to it; and | owners of his veseel are Amereans—and his tous civilization. ‘Phe admission of California as | the stockholder and ty public. If our courts, bya 1 ition ot elavery in | manly and firm tone, adwinister this law, and our 0 appre Now this was | pored to have been purchased from jorates, ai) future States of the would raevitably | legislature do not swerve in maintaining it upon projected about the time of the Tsing-ho, im the | (which the American naval officers believe to compel the Southera slaveowners to meet whe ques- | the statute book, we are aafe trom bank explosioas. MILITAR summer (May,) but there was no opportunity, of | huve been piraticalily taken im the first place.) Was tion of emancipation by tenely and well matured | If the geprl influence ot judicial exposition shall vention be all humbug?” putting the question to us, «he says, because we stated some moaths ago that we had ied to the Postmaster General in Lon- subject of the convention. We did so, having now received aa answer, the corres- lence, is subjoined. Wath such assurance, fol- wing upon the notifieation issued both by the Postmaster General of the United States, and by the Posunaster of Hong Kong, our corres, must be a pattern of patience to use no term then * humbug” to the detention of papers for which money has been tuken under false pre- tences. We would advise him to make a monthly complaint to his own goveramens, through its Com: missioner in Chine, unl the evil is tully remedied. We can preseribe nothing more likely to prove ef- The Board of War havin; en desired to con- | which they could avail themselves, until the Mo- e Board of Revenue, and member of the | dark, Shin and Kwoh, and five others from Chau- | could not summons Captain Eadioott before bum; South mey threaten, they are too conscions of | thereon the rights and interests of the stockhol Censorate, especially directe examine a charge | chau-iu, went deep into the tiger's den, with shar, i preferred against certain d cipals and accessories in ac! continued embezzlement an his Majesty to confirm their King-chun and K’ai-ling-ah, ayment of the troops, and nds in the treasury, to the are, in the first place, compel money they have made; the lati punishment of degradation, 100 oo, and transportation to a n tf i under the American flag. The polhce magistrate preparetives. As to the nullification or dismem- | harmomze with the intention of the tsiun, a Vice-Presi- | fub, (middle of August,) when (one evening) about | of Hongkong could not go into the ease fully; he — berment of the Union, though the Hotspurs ef the | power, there willbe no conilict in pra > and ” ders ; p | he could not trace the Echo's cargo to it final des- Weeknees to venture rashly wpon such ruin. Wath- | can securely repose. Let no evasion of tis law, gol eflicers, as prin- | Weapons concealed about them; and they stabbes | timation; neither could he issue « warrant to search out the Northern States the Southera would be | by the banks of this State, occur, and the billholder of gross and long. | the commandant (head of soldiers) and took away | the Ruparell, For Captam Endiectt’s complete powerless. They could neither raive arevenue from | end the stockholder will be safe. The prohibition versation, pray | his head and left hand; while his follower, who | exoneration ull this was required ; and though Mr. slaves nor find sailors nor solders for defence | of promises to pay at a future day, and the obliga- nces as follows:— | was nding with him, being also wounded, fled. | Hillier dismissed the case, a disagreeable umeres- or commerce. Slavery has been their curse—st | Won to pay on demand, without interest, prevents arged with short | They then hastened back to the villages, the young | sion remains, which might have bera 6 ved hed bes paralyzed their soduetry—extioguished ali | running intodebt—represses the spuit of speculation riation of the | and old men of which rejoiced (lit. patted their | the American Commodore and Commimsonerdone enterpase—lumited the growth eod enteebled the | and wild schemes. ‘There canbe no purchases in int of 900 taels, | stomachs ) Who could have known that Pau-tsiun | theirduty. Itis not usual foram American com- ewergies of their white population. The com- | cotton—no commercial operations—no wild aad in- to disgorge the | and Chau, the son of an officer of rank. had, with | modore to hand over hie prizes to the efficers of mereval resources of the North are essential to | ordinate dealing in exchange. In 1538 this great thus escapesthe | the faces of men the hearts of beasts; that they | a foreign power; part of the cargo was Lost India Whatever prosperity can be soared by the South. | principle was re-enacted, with edditioaal guards for ws of the bam- | should have treacherously inveigled Kwoh to the | cotton, it is true;, but this proves wothing. Amerie As an independent consederstion, they would | the security of the bill-holder. Under this law no ce of 3,000, | City, with promises of rank as his reward; that they | ean houses sell such produce es well as Botsen; be without everything that constitutes national | issue of notes, unless payable on demand, and by law to be awarded to those who embezzle the | should have writtea to Shinaletter which caused | but whether imported by British or American strength Exporting the whole of their produce, | sreured by @ pledge of State stocks, can be issued funds of a treasury in their charge. K’ai-ling-1u’s | him to surrender himself to the magistrate of | merchants, 1t was no doubt taken from some ua- whet could they do without a eon 1s a Worse case. Board of Punishments, to be sent to Worling-ah was privy to the mise chun, was oflered « share of his prot e Still, as he did not him, the Board, o Gexenat Pest Orrice, Loxnvon, July 31, 1849 our letter of the 2ist May at the Postmaster ot Hong Kong bas since received instructions with respect to ‘the convention lately concluded between Great Britain and the United States. Newspapers addressed to or reeeived from the United States, wg ip trausit througd the United Kingdom, Sin— With reference to He isto be hi last, I beg to inform you 1) pining that the pt al navy, | by any bank. Under the idea of dealing in bills for their | cf exchange, the free banks, in 1839, attempted aa reea of | evasion of this law by iseuing excha: over to the | Shun-teh, to be by him delivered into the charge of | fortunate Chinese junk. It has been adverised in or how would they provide a defence destination. | the magistrate of Pwan-yu? Why was he sab- | a local paper; a proper form has thus beea complied seabord, without | the time re uct of King- | jeeted to examination betere 8d Courts succes. | with; but thatthe owner should be found was eo the North! The threat of dusmemberment is | at a future dey. Our late [Supreme Cou but had not | sively? His head was then exposed, his life being | improbable that te expense might have beeasaved. an ivle vaunt, which neither their means wor | such issues illegal, and that corporations under rm against | forfeited for the one he bad taken. ‘To pacify an ‘e would not be understood as casting euch re- their interests would let them pat im foree. ‘To | the general banking law were prohibited by the hment pre- | console the minds of the barbarians, their Excel- | flections as afiect their integrity upon any *ne; the arrest the extension of slavery is a policy as | reetrsiving sets from issuing any note not regis loss of three steps, and removal | lencies have wrongfully slain the innocent: but will | case is a most serious ove, and had the Ame- just aod humane on the part of Congress towards tered with the Comptrolier. In affiravance of 80 from his post, 1s not sufficiently severe, request | the minds of mea incline to submission? And | rican officials acted in a more independent and the slave os to the troe States. ‘The whole civilised | selutary a doctrine, aud to give it a more efli- are new chargeable with a British r scribed by law, o} R and with a rate of 44 each } All such newspapers are also oc: United States rate of 1d each. oa t America.—I am, sir, your obedivat servant. CHAKLES JOHNSON, For the Seoretary. "To Andrew Shortrede, Erq , Hong Koug. APPROACHING RBVOLULION IN CHINA. Dr. Gutzlafi, the greet Chinese traveiler, has laid tails of the state of China before the He confirmed the © extentof the popula ‘iowery Land.” ‘ The area of China proper 13, it, seems, about re miles—about three-tifths of the ex- ussian empire, or two-fifths of the size ulation is said, at present, to 3 and this it is ropean understanding. with the space occupied, it 13 not so ex- e aa, at first sight, it appears. for about twe and one-third acres of share to each person ; and in England and Wales, the ave- rather lese—about two acres per head. that, in some provinces of the empire, the ulation returns give an avera, persons to the square mule. ‘us, our own county of Lancaster had about 80 that he be degraded. , Sab-lien, who snouldhave known, fromhis share | lages sit by , : in the duties ot the principal, of his g but who | own order who has played fast and loose, is it to | shoulders of others, either to save their friends, meviteble solunon of thisderk problem of American has been, ‘to all appearaace, blind a ulso to be degraded. ! Ching-liang and Siang-chung, privy to the fact | chau-tu, will be disposed to make no more of this | ficials would have only fulfilled theengazementsof _ is the necessary prelude to avy serious er earnest that the principal had for may years continued to | Matter? We teur that they will be hard to appease, | their country with China. There are peculiardifli- device for ite ultunste abolition. The eaferee- omit reporting the decease of bannermeny and iili- | The example of the late Governor-General, Keying, | Culties,.t istrue,as regards Americancitizensengag- ment of the terms of the Wiluiot proviso ia the ta- ; RS who dealt leniently in the case of [wa i ing vp such death vacancies with their p a“) ) names, as they did not either inform against him, | might have been followed. How should the bar- | American Consul at Canton is senior partner - 7 1@ tistical Societ: lose two steps of rank, but are retained im their | barians of Au have been the wiser (had another | firm which owns Captain Endicott’s ship, these infamy of countenonemg au institatioa so abhor- offices, under the “ severe law againet impt in officials,” their offence being one aflectia public service ; while Hing-ching and Kang having listened to an offer of part of the h none had as yet passed their han dear led aie 99 and — from offi jer the same law, their offence being one i ; 4 ; Soil gaeanle Merten nen ecnenned > and they | him, who shall swallow the most (or the fastest). | geged ina trade which he is bound to suppress, guine enough to hope that the staterraen of Aue- | 6 ate are not to be allowed to count theiradditional steps | 1» the of grace. Kang-lang has, however, heredivary | thew enmity rank as a field officer of a certain grade, and ae one-half ot his hereditary allowance . b for nine years, being three years for each step of | Change of language and teelings with the E, redation ; it 18 therefore recommended that he | lish, we are between the horns ef a dilemma -ot Australia. The amount to 367,000. ec of more thaa But, by the last cen- e though the pas and scholars of the thirteen vil. | straight forward manner, end not shirked their world is interested ia the movement that seems | cacious eflect, the act of the 1th of May, 1840, looking on, because it is one of their | duty en any consideratiou, nor shuflled it oa the to be epproeching the commencement, at least,of an <d the issue of notes or post bills a misde- punishable by fine and imprisoameat deaf,” is | be supposed that those of the clan of Shin, who | or to save trouble, it would have been more satis- wlavery To deprive the slave States of every hope of h systems (the free und safety fund) are vn by legislative enactments and judi- to an issue of billsand notes, aud evi- Jences of debt, payable only on dem: Ia thes principle lies our safety. Tne history the ture constitution of every new State, would, at aay onsylvamia Bank ot the United States ous | furnte an Impressive commentary upon the evils and disastrous effects of the post mote system. ‘That benk borrowed money in every State of the Union, and in el! parts of Europe, upon its enor- ve of post notes sod post bills, until its rs senk a capital of $35,000,000, aad brought have lived for generations in Fabkien at Chang. | factory to Captain Endicott’s friends nd the of- | extending their polineal power to maimtain slavery, han’s -chuh-ki, | €d in the opium trade; in the present instanc rate, exonerate the great republic from the o iety | been caused to suffer instead of the real criminal?) | difficulties are enhauced; but the Chinese know rentto the humenity and ewilizauon of theage. We the Men say of the Governor General, that he hag | all the circumstances connected with the Cumsing- — chell look with intense interest to the proceedings gz, | made bumself terrible by the exceilence of his | moon opium fleet, just as weil as weknow them; of Congress om this quessdon; and, judgeng from ty, counseis; but the truth is, that he fears the bar- | and if we overlook the notorious fact that the gen- the etrragth of the tree sou party ia the Louse of " : ‘are | barians as he would a tiger, while our own people, | Ueman who once had the honor of representing Kepreseaiauves, aad the resoluwan to carry out | © rand min neon ditors and Khold- on the other hand, he regards as flesh, which he | the United States, and sull holds a consular ap- 118 policy manilested by the ven the d ers. We venture the rigon, without the fear shares (with those without,) who dispute with | poimtment from that government, is deeply en crais throughout the North and Weet, we are saa | of Huthtul contradiction, that in every instance of e ons bank failure, a disclosure of its offa.rs ir rage at him, men are gaashing their teeth; | they have their reasons for sileuce. Under any tice will eo moderate and guide the coaflict, that | bes exh’ upon an issue that they cannot abide uader | circumstance, the responsibility of setling “the neither the peace of the Union aor the mterests of | ol hecs to p»y on time trae policy re- . i fair’? reall. quires that oar courts should confine all our banks Cumsingmoon affair” did not fallupon Joha Bull j humanity may be compromuwed by o Peeult ee a OU Sora leaad, the taimiary restate oft their eberters, and the general banking iaw.— lt the penal and prohibitory statutes shall be admin- dete vd without “tear, favor, aflection, or the hope $ & the seme heaven with him. Now, the barbarians of Au having an inter- | legitimately,—and in future we beg that Uncle Sam look after his own erring babes. | eit the pay, but that the degradation be remit- 6 of ume they will surely mike advances } .t . were | ™ fore appt our fair borders, as the silk worm eats its way. | TRE American, Congress. sual tne Stavery telore | Ieoorder Sheree an accused ann sities sh aputions Prince Mien-siu, the general officer under whom as, when the disease was but onjthe surface, | (prom the Manchestur (Evening) Tiwas, Dao 19.) by Coptain Forno, currency of post notes and post bills, this State ppened without his being | #4 eur people were so fortunate as to hold the he question of slavery in the United States is Mr. Whw s tant, moy hope to evjoy as sate a currency as any peo- square mile ; not to speak of Middlesex, which 600, or of Surrey, which has Itis also to be observed opled parts of Cnina are on en penetrated by Europeans, are well known to be very fertile, and in every way rd a large amount of whabitants. The Chinese returns of the tax, as used ia rice cultivatioa, all these things had hi aware of it, 18 sentence . ‘ but as his offence is public, as was also that of the | Chu tnd Iwait-tsing, a hundred villages and more, | the dark and doubtful issue that awaits the inevi- above named Ching-liang and Siang-chan, it quested yo they be cond - = pe | steps, according to the oportit ie instead of paying the fine. ere FINANCE AND WORKS. ime te a i Ge He ut 700 juare mile it these’ densely the sea coast, have to de fined a year’s pay; | CY inst them, the patri clubs of Tsien-| every year becoming more aad more ominous of pie'en the face of the cartt i A I notes issued in contravention of the law of e- | Sent forth their patriot soldiers in large numbers, | table struggle between the Central Government fiom California, where by long toil he had a a eahd wathe tandvel oul jemned to loove a ceriaia | 84 emg the foreign meuncus at the North | and the Southern States. Three times in the evough to make hun ture steps poe TO ngs Ape all Mod must owt Hl "Troops ee “ istinction among | history of the Union has the peace of this great with a light heart at the joyful f nue #0 to pronounce thei. There is uo real, but the m > ‘Troops, al’ cite pee | many | confederation already suffered from the shock or the time of the robbery, he was © Pet | only an apparent, hardship in this. If the holder seas, them came on es, penetrated far | hostile imtercst# and passions arrayed against on board of the steamboat Empire States his state | Co. td snecresfully urge his ignorance and inao- Yang-i-teang, Cluef Superintendent of rivers and | Ctheer cepable of fo! o's lan Wervapeh be, Rng each other on questions of domestic policy, as80- room was entered, bis trank Seohen @ aad he | cence in his favor, thedaw never could be enfore- an sere of such land to each living are assured that, in the southera d provinces, itia any chi e two crops of rice, one of wheat, the same land, in a single h arable suriuce of Eng- Wales is said not to exceed 10,500, which gives little more than half we have also to provide for about horses and cattle, and 8,000,000 sheep this government (which extends over the 4 three provinces of Kangra, Nyanrkeruand Keang | sr" bemmmees they branded shat Weapeat, | the republic. And wow, another content, si,) presents a supplementary memorial to the tok | and what cre i 6th month of 27tn year (July | were the t asthe Wei-tang, where there are two military stations (for th ciated with this foul stam on the institut ot despoiled of the glittering heap that Stad ft - ve and meets 2 determined and seeming! as Open to amicable Vietiny By they gain, after ull, So often | Compromise than ‘ll former ones, appears 10 thus quickly te cust day® | ed. Banke will evade the laws, if they can fiad er and exposure. The — any one te help them. By such issues, it coins its y believe that hve all had | eredit, and derives a revenue from a fordiddea hy lute fragment | source. LHe who takes such forbidden paper gives u 7 roops of government defeated, leavin: \- and August, 1847,) his predecessor, Pwan-sih-ngan, | their coatsof mai flinging away thaiy balwaee, | guilty offs Unions shvinetoty, ot least ho tee hed en . --" fous [AR we, sueouangoaneet, and Sian be at had reported that the rushes on the marsh known | So they took six of money, and they set q ‘One of fest questions that will, in all proba- | pouch the gh O° ab hy - gel ays ° TH apo roe be ee. nee oF th 4 ¢ five port#and #n island, and they begged | pility, ke brought tor discussion before the new — particles i a agers like old fai one aa y worth, waleas 1 can 0, 00, de> jection ot none ree naa) wosre fer peace, that they have cyl _—— an- | Congress, ia h ip clamente at the Hesoset dinceed Pend, e labored in the 7 pee’ frm gold or silver, at the will of 4 A ‘ u neve | between the Northern and Southern States ‘ne crossed the ocean with b ‘ol ion Hwamgan and Hai-ning had visited the spot in lost so much of diga: Weil may the neighbor- | introduction of a new tree State into the Union qoenad the shores of hu own i ‘ TO AEF meg Ke fl acer > aypeme a4 In China, they kee any deseription ; even their dogs they make serviceable as food ; and their swine are oa such garbage as evea they cannot con- uman sustenance in any more direct man- | Dr. Gutzlafi’s description of the financial aflairs of the empire feads to the conclusion that China is approaching # crisis very simtler to that whieh has in and again heralded the political revolutions 1 it eeems that the reveuue is raised tenurely by two taxes—those upoa ice grounds and ealt; and that during the last six or seven years the produce of these taxes has falica off to the extent of nearly one-third of its previous Dr. Gutalaff attributes thi content ef the people—a feeling which has always jew horses, 4 bo Sd the gutumn, and had reported that at the tion 2,667,600 trusses had been ee d, increase on former harvests &f 1,133. 606, and that | for we cannot hide our at the right station there was a similar increase. ‘These two men, withal, {These revert to the crown, to be employed in | the superiors ot Chuen-chu, public works, particularly as a sort of gabion in | the «Fighting Nations,” ( the moles constructed to stay inundations or repair Kingnien, superintendent of silk manufacture] for the crown at Su-chav, taels allowed for the purchase of material and pay, probed ment of wages im his Geparmeat, he has expeaced, | parts, to arbarians of the ‘est laugh us to scorn, it sta- | ing Stotes despise us, ng 42 | North, South, East, courts of this State are bound to ator ever hard the penalty, or severe the loss. I balance between his porsession; pretared = 5 aggre meet ny a b ry —- . epresentatives there is an act round from his happy to fied that a ing he test suf- and Koch, tes | democratic orkty in tavor of anutterexclasion of 4 dresty blank, 8 parsing soem, oe The pri dene te ie ar otnnatte haa ye oa + slavery from all wew States thatmay herealierclum — soners are strongly suspected of the robbery; tt i jae of the ‘soundoess of our banks—they look te rd, here- | iseion eed epee a “ i of the goverament for protection—they can only be eoeeen, ‘pate—no mat at ma ja edminictrati " to them ; | or population—all t Sunes erochatiig represented, yootected by @ just aletration of the laws. to whom | and have, consequently, the same power to aanul of 3 tt control the measures of the lower House. Whilst nin «ll | the House of Representatives, therefore, expresses ing treasure has reports that of the 30,000 | this is addressed, when they matter, must make it de the darkness of those h 4 come peo he * Je in the year 1548, no more than 9.089 tacls. The | afer them, to the end that none may in any wise rok oooh wre Lael Te dame tata ava: = nar im the great desert ofthe Weat:— balance is therefore spptied to the repayment 12 | surrender ‘himself to gevernment. The track of | Gr icy of the Union, the Seuate is the expe- Bourn oF Sax Dina, part of a debt of 40,053 taels incurred by this es- | the foremost wheel can be seen. Beware Be- | Ciel protector and conservator of the separate, T® Fronipa Ixpians,—We leara by a private | ‘4, August 20, 1849 blishment in IM7, which had been remitted by ware! 4 ae ‘and Prete of the individual States. letter of late date from Tome, that Capt. Casey. hae oscarred ng-hiun, Governor, prays for a postpone- We would odd thes Shin was a man who had ¢ slave-holding States have had their bed gone out to meet the Indians in coaneil, tele between a ans existed to some extent, and bas of lite yea stimulated by the m: ment of the day by which the return of the extra by the peop villaia, his ardor was expenses of the grain transport rhould be sent in | the rainbow; he was worthy the name of « patriot. cordance with a decree of | Alas the 19th year of Kiaking (1S14.) [This extra ex- | puler, penee is said to be caused by the transshipment of | have been betrayed and slain! Truly is it lamen- the grain Into smaller vessels bired en the spot, | table. when the water in the grand canal is too shallow to admit of the parsage of the government grain | THE CUMSINGMOON APFAIR—THE AMERICANS AND the tree LT juoks fully laden are reloaded, and the hired boats discha: Tk COURT ‘The Emprror was to pay ther (not his own moti et inability of the govern rotect ite subjects from plunder, either by ‘obbers in the interior, or by pirates oa the coasts, but which was never opealy and thas ly expressed, in a refusal to pay taxes herever au Overwhelming turce was not at band ul the issue of the wor nd gave the people to understand that the Emperor was not invinciole. the last budget was some £15,090,000 sterling ; asthe government has no credit, having at times illustrated the value of its piper promises to pay by answering “bearer oa demand” ‘with the paternal bamboo, the resources commonly resorted to in such cases in the western world are | for the autumn, wn The deficit oa } pe has directed Ming-h the vice-preetdents of the Board of Civil Orfies, to perform the sacrifice due to the Spirit of Light | Of the Ameri (This ceremony | Sash pear poy hed = peror’s reign (1813), when | lived with him vince, and snow the mother of ae- | 1 ns , the the White Lily facuom assailed | Yeral chiliren. Akeu tsa shrewd, intelligent wo- | Uaion, should any measure comprommeing pete ol his palace. The present Emperor killed | ™?> © struck dead by most remarkable result of these financial ities, and the consequent «mbdarravsment of hy rance of somet “the government, is very like a demoe people. The mumeipal instita : resting upon groups of ten tumilics, again grou. 19 etieds, una la thousand, muct tT form, those common in this couorry a tho years ogo; and it 4: statement, that these means of organizing a to the dectees ot 1 spari two, end ope Ww: we already been made wan-tsium, cabuset minister, lately decease Emperor —the “elders and Chin-how-tez’, next brother of ths ¢ * of each district meeting in council, and | ordered to be presented by the Board of Civil U1 in concert with hke assemblages elsewhere, iently old, that his Majesty maj wide whatever imperial if y sik f | flee, when sui | show bim favor. An audience was given to four Princes, Pau- cheng, President ot the Board of War; President of the Board of Civil Office; Choh-ping- -communtsan tien, Mimister of the Cabinet aad Saperintendant ( affected by anarchists nearer home, that “the of ihe Board; Tih-tang-git, President of the Board | (uit cleor; but it ta prec and the rick richer every of Works and Pih-tewe: social ills are to be cured by a f the commuaity.”” ee wetting ide caterer lepets tegulations eapecially dishke. With ‘staat, we are told, are also apparent, Jar and more dangerous character— ing preached from the text so Board ot Revenue; the bution of the wealth o! ‘nab In short, the politics of the celestial empire were | 1 now bearing a very of other cooatries, in which a central despotism has, ander our owa eyes, fallen into irretrievable ruin betore a financial deticit. THE MINIETRY AND MAGISTRACT. s [¥rom the Soneboesen . made epecia heaton Lm be Po the cnneeaen. ‘The leave was given up: usual, at the | taels of « person of his department, and of having to make the | given bribes to this Governor, be brought to Peking . sty Contrasts with the conduet JUDICIAL APFAIRS—MRTROPOLITAN counts, | we inserted ‘by Congress 1m the Law brought net an u organied rv jun bey r | chaw-shin, Governor of Shan-si, Ay officer 4 | ry Mr Cathoun and the Zoathern delegates protested incapable and corrupt. He had taken | ott ft moet vehe odacuon of euch | bribes to the amount of 14,000 taela, and connived | that a clause, ate nghta. The extortion and violence of his police | first probibition will be opposed aod retinue; the Emperer therefore directa that y the Southern Senutors, not only as aa ine eh hee for a month's | aud a prefect in his government, already degraded om. having borrowed upwards of 1000 Eight high officers were chosen, as request of the Bosrd papectiog of in the month (the 70 ‘Su. ebun, Governor, recommends that Pang- yuen, late seting chief magistrate of Shang-ho, be to his raok, and restored to his rank and office the amount | of the fixed and surplus rates (levied to meet lose caverd by melting the siiver in whieh the if the treasury) having been smnade good within the term aveigued to the parties up the arreardue by the first m tet would pot have been suspei int in & representation, each onwe on the other. of Civil Oilice, '# chosea to fill appountments of this Governor o! ng part ot the proceeds of the salt di- | first to inform Oapta which would have reverted yo hitmeclf, the jeok feet Kere ed rate we lodged be applied to the satisfaction of rear | fi friendly motive. States of the Union that might be tormed out ‘what to the crown: aed directs that a be meso On the 17th of that morth—ten days after she | of the territory north of a certa PT 1 o0 the guereatore ry ood to him as to whether thie offieer had been seen at Tren pabk—Aken at pod 30 mio., was made on the admission im towards the public on the part of « © Fa us Comsingmoon with her two vessels with | siurt into the Unions, in 1821. The obvious inten | if in even one of ite departments of winly, te r conduct of Liang-ngoh-hat so much lese in degree toan that of theone now | oil, fieh, dye stufle, We ; ax other heavily degraded, that he desires the former to retura | junk were in company. | From their appearance, | any direct interference with the ri |< aad and bestows oa him | Captain Jameson, of the British opium receiving | dependence of any existiog States rank. wishing to (hrow 1 heme trom hie however (emeteted. Pwan-she-ngan, one of the four chief miarsters, |, ow account of protract . His majesty decrees that he shall coa- tinve in office, ead take two oaths farlough Cho-tevn, formerly one of tne prracipal memori+ aliats against the oviam trade, aod more reeea'ly » revarned thanks for miument aean Geder secretary ia the gra- pom the currency 4% ‘King bven, of he body gnard, son of Keying, ws wal favor appownted a expectant of a me. jan ofhee of the 5t the la'e Coing-keng. Beard of Ceremow er, wal, juecor says, afterenu. | second merating the ditieren: @reles risen, that be wae most diiueat in the dispateh of puble business, nod fully equsl to the daues thee, oriovghe had repeatea'y been to hopes that he would F to retura to his post. at President of the aga whieh he mad When « man who has a villain for the’ myriad devert, right; when pattorw: Seeeeeels i the Senate, and though vastly inferior a > Bs project of inducing them to leave the ss | and to join their brethen in the West wealth and population to the free States of the : th and went have alernpe bees powertulesough ived at the sppeigeed place, he walied the policy of the more popular branen of ‘be ome time, but the Serinoles wot appear . = a lature on the subject of slavery. This in he left. He had not, however, wacecded oa = has now, however, assained 4 much more bie way back more then thirty miles, when be was agpect than on aby toriner occasion; for Yreraken ay a teade. Wee See em that the mS » strengthened by political amal. ( pane a raed te Ny on : £ i i z tt at he chanced not to find a more illustrious nd that, teken at a disadvantage, he should K at ii ey Fes] W vater deepe | THE OPIUM TRADE mation with the democrats of the North and When the water deepe my 5 a (From the (hiue Mail, Oot. 29) ert, has in the recent elections acquired a supre- able srengument ‘tees decisive to render it omaipoter ie feeved fas Pass’ B here og The pubiication in a contemporary of the deposi- Ms isi ‘ tions taken before Mr. Hiller, removes some deli. | tae lower house at Congress. They have ac they would not emigrate willingly. T , “tae Boat of | cacy felt in alluding to this matter; and although | ely determined Mgidly to enforce the Wilmot TY yee ninole ‘chicte that it A i ‘ + “Oo ir” Proviso, and admit no More States into the Uowa hort fe ihe arrival of tea from Ngaa- | Wt Will run over * Cumsingmoon affair very der the ebsciute | Of » Florida, a short time ago, to coater ‘Hatemout, briefly, vt twell be mtelligibl th cot upon conditions that render al .) * consump: | briefly, we could not well be intelligible without | vot ee of slavery smpetative in the writtea om fo join tetris vious Ween Sed inet pel Ser etewen the 200 ng the names of those concersed. i Constitution uf every ew SMS, hn Ming Pe eck. ae sibilities a ye n Against this policy the Southern States have be them in council. They were afraid, it is precured (as was then commen enough with fo: pot poate eey J aeperwen yh my < ng been seoently made by the Serunobes, that icignere) a Chinese girl named Akeu; she has fieauon, ‘aod threatened a disuremberaient ot Whoever mention one of | place aunually i | wtervention in t thovld be pumshed rights of any future States to freme whatever do in her | Mitetie institutions they ¢ hoose, be defiaitely saace Jan. 12. coxdition. For some time past she has been tra- | Wosed by Congress, | tie why vere na mealee f | dung tothe west coast; but for how long, orto ed by r* oneame yom ou Gculooms, Cotumbta degter of Kenjin (mma ™ 4 | al — fr MP. meen, hag Iuabella for the forme! admission of that State into the bb Ates or tas Henne - be | the typhoon of September, I! | Vaton. peony. gurel address, dels | cote 7% Lungle. rehase From the tone and temper of the American press, : of ii ue oh of | it i quite obvious that both parties are thoroughly of Colombia College, bent upon # rigid and uncompromising entoreement of their reepective views. There can ve no doubt ta rigniem, VAtier aa troubled with those feelings of ¢ tion which Europeans attech to femal I ‘an-king, purchaser 4 Whet! er it wi =e - of —— asa nay —_ “p opinion Opum purchase the proces would gi ihe fr mil party a majority tn bot to tl ot \ O alleged houses that would eusble them to legalize the condi- {0 Tie imteren fallacy Maceo, before Mr. Hons of the Wilmot proviso. At present this proviso eee, firet, to the gh force dent, not of law. When referener, statutes college, aod, Shegae ons ad matte Piwe pond vt pny into the Penne NA fact that it has, at different Came, Union, this proviso, absolutely prohionive of ole Teter very, Was inserted by Congress in the la woth ‘a Vier President of the | statement made following day, to seven | Sturgis end © wu eaoav j hy ot ge yy } wourt Com e ° nd im opposition to Captain Endicot's | bequiertion f Tene, however, and the conquest oy watod's ‘Sorouar om pa during bis absence at Canton, Akeu | ef New Mexico, hus vastly added to the territories Bre Editor, ie not necessarily now-erctariag be- | red for Tienpahk with two boate—one | st the United States, and it may fairly be com Cause it does not, like the Nish naiveretion, to hers if, the other chartered for the | tended that the provisions of the Missouri com. j, worenthe en dete tee edateees. | was at Tienepahk when H. M. Str. | promise are applicable only to States 48 ‘There are an hundred Means whieh moy oe last month ; she Was the | Were comprised within the Union at the Time by sed byan adroit imetrmctor to bend youn oekyer of the character of | that Compromise was effected Now, that com- and, perhaps, anformed, to hee level of te | at anchor, though we fear | promise, prohibiting slavery in all the tatare grows belief, without ofealy tortering oll clevmee former Governor, as | evtton, cotton cloths, sugar, pepper, rice, eak ion of that compromise, on the part of Congress ormed res to het ihe extension of slavery, withor from the doctrines of “the chareh” re prety ere, even if no other effect i produced upon hem, to New | be, at least, made uncomfortably sensible, (ia the slavery was then established. Texas, New | diiributions of prenwume, for instance.) of bw ship Bombay, suspected that the str re we ; I I { Board of Punishments that Chang- ithe! rade rs sum sa ts. He lexieo, and one-half of the whole territory | tieal position t i Imagistrate of Lin-ya ia Gap ledlased ts ‘visit the foes in compaay with | of California, le unquestionably south of the hae | Sane tae val ps erased plasalp, thar it te th ws aclerk in the Board of | his shrofl and clerk, being apprehensive that they | « issourl compromise; bat oa what poss ble | the avowed teeton of one Reverend Professor | Sam leurs bet Trade, may be degraded and brought to trial, On | were there with evil Intentions. [le found Akeu | gr ean it be alleged that they are in aay | [ie Aum tieue, to effect the muarthage” of | shot dering 1h Ie the trial of another clerk of the Board of Works, | op board one of them, avd on taking off the hatehes | Way implicated in the proviswwas of that arrange- | 1) \« umole © with's ertain ge aainde cong: fom the ob it appeared that this magistrate had written hima | it was discovered that the cont was freghted | meat! The whole that vast territory tas | tee mt ousasd miles trom teen te eS oay ohare be come Sor private note, when corresponding with him oa ith cotton and After consulting with | been ceeded to the American Union, nearly thirty | ee eae und the bane. te t Noa, | {seppere Be te to make all speed fe the despatch | Capta and Willson, (commanders of re- | years subsequent to the Missouri comproause, and | ovet, dist this copvagel sien tad le tt the tree pe faring him « sum of money ifhe com | ceiving da was despatched to Hong- | 1 the property of the contederated States, sudject pen ‘ae ae fag hecteg uetng representation ef the Board, the Em- | kong, witha to Me Caldwell, Asaistant Su- | to whatever cond: the ceatral goverament and au oad pan Be fay -4 ry — —_ eo doute lowed him to be detached from his | perintendent of Police, informing hum of the aus | Legislature may see fit to insist upon in any futare =. p Byer he Mas oo aeons district to answer yy ot preterred agaiast him; | wetous appearance of the strangers, and the fact ee nehts and privileges of incor, welch, ean Gee pitrees Bony 5 Ried ae can bat his defence was of fabreation that a | that the women Akeu had arrived there with a | ton, determination of the Southern slave | Di bith feeutvea. y 4..1.. . his ~~ ae = bs one Sie a, eens te Mastei Ad wo “tas booty, pike | : we tion, de. strangers left; ec ' INGULAR PLACARD ADOUT wens, on ovr | Echo, (the joint property ns Endicott | territory of the bonsdary lee, a most Domestic Miscertany. “ " “annuus we sod Lapgie}) went one of Akeu's ves | audacious and um Lianes of the pro- Capt, George Tobia, one of the volunteers im the Ivte oe Pon cane coat, 0a 7 capitol, ot Baton Rouge, Le, ens completed | (le ar eure |e Onl OU = pegs cut FE) dete bie oteuee « comntry RARMARIANS contrary of cotton a the laws, of all who see | Macao. Ua jst, the