25 MARCH 1865, Page 3

As we supposed, Sir Rutherford Alcock has been appointed Envoy

Plenipotentiary at Pekin, in succession to Sir F. 'Bruce. We trust the Regent of China will like a change everybody else is certain to approve, and is prepared to observe treaties a little more strictly than heretofore. If he dots not Sir Rutherford Alcock will he quite prepared to make him, and has fought Taoutais at Shanghai and Daimios in Japan quite long enough to know how. The appointment will, we believe, either consoli- date British influence in Pekin, meaning by " influence " the power of guidance, or produce another war, and the first result is by far the more probable of the two. We congratulate the Daimios on their liberty, and the -Mandarins on having found a master.