The advices received from China officially must have a tenor
somewhat different from those which have reached the. public, since they are evidently regarded as being more favourable. The published reports simply give us the details of the occur- rences which were narrated by the last mail. The Government, however, has transmitted orders for ten thousand troops to be despatched from India for China, under command of Major- General Sir Hope Grant ; and the report of any troops to be sent from England has for the time at least subsided. It must, therefore, be anticipated that the difficulty in China will be sur- mounted without any reinforcements from Europe. Since the published reports present no grounds for any such calculation, the official reports, we say, must be of a different and more en- couraging tenor. Our own advices from China tend to show that there were some rather serious mistakes in the first attack, while all the commanders, English, French, and American, are acting in a spirit of hearty cooperation. The suggestion that Russians are acting with the Chinese—although partially cor- roborated. by the appearance of some of the dead bodies—may be explained by the fact that in the North we encounter the Cal- nines, and also, probably, by the fact that many adventurers from the Northern settlements of the Russians in Siberia and on the Amoor may have wandered as volunteers into the Chinese service.: just as we find Yankees, Greeks, and Englishmen, in all quarters of the globe, acting as the agents of all Governments and all conspiracies.
