pvouictin on oes ofp inst lb auh Improvement of our pio in 3 our ier wat ltineree athesnd wih the the fee, for teeepon of communications, nan, 30 Of TO OUR READERS, this he first Christmas number of the North. China Herald and the last of the year 1860, we cannot resist the tempt tion to turn aside from the beaten pith of 1 fei expressions more congenial to this Joyour aeason. "AL's ting. when. more off the coil of time to give place to a ney. Year." The season Invites both to.
Tum we to the posi Keospeative and a prospective glance pect exciton un-surprise White but half a dozen years ego were nought but toggling cottages and bade pow large and. rapidly increasing, emporium of commerce, ie timphant énatence of the enterprise and indomitable energy of the Anglo-Saxon Let us look onwards Andie needs it of prophecy to enable us to wee ports behind, and will soon he the first Shanghae trap leaving er sister
port in China, and ultimately attain auch present the exclusive polly of the Chinese eon moe. ase in' Shanghao than shoe being dw pict Scarely be restrdaed ing 03 surely. thougt slowly" and can
The Anglo-Saxons are amongst you yo celestial! the edge of the wedge is si already inserted and will not til Eh vis laid open to ite very centre, ay rom Leo-tong to Tong and from Chekiang to Thibet, west yminodities are used, westerncivilicopied, and western influence felt, see nothing presumptuous in such en assertion as this.
Let but 0 suffi of time be allowed, and the causes are al-realy at work which must surely, unco such a result, When wee i ever aeon that a weak enslaved nation ike the Chinese, however erous, could long prio, Steg a "intelligence of Anglo-thin the enter We speak not the language of onl presumptious boasting uly do aelnowledge tat Providence In wove ants nation re but as a drop in the bucket, Who roiseth up one and casteth other. peak of Anglo-Saxons not as the cient Not amply as-Yoicunents In His bunds whose minion they do ut ful rod will" prevails si is ati ting, when more qn "ut we return 4o for ton years longer bean Sangh, et But hen heart i rasa towards he im, high pritlgled manngenieht wen tothe dee influence ofthe cop ale and valued Conwuly andthe rear even we nov calaba, ate added Shanghae of 1860, wil not Know Ill all the subsidiary kindly Indaences home and early associations, we aeed make, no a} palogy for so doing, Exprsslons Hor sympathy which perhaps at of 1860, There fs another subject on which we must bop the indulgence of our renders, we menu the character and success UG. Herald. and cordially. reciprocated language Christmes, Circumstanced ea we a come mon with our readers are—denizeay 2 foreign Tond—surounded by' millions Jggnorant of our great Christmas event a strangers to- out Christina Joy, there it something of peculiar power in the com memoration of thin season. With What prominence does it mark the wide chasm which yet separates the millions of China from we! Also! poor souls! no Christos dawns.upon thet heart,.ot-cheets- ther hhomest" How strongly docs ie draw the band that binds together our little Christian community! Which of us does not fol this communion in Chiistas joy to be no common bond." Strangers: are ina strange land, but we have acorns mon Christmas, and who does not feel friend to be more his fiend, his neighbour to be more his neighbour? better who oes not feet his eoldnens, or estrangement, or jealousy, or anger, the sad informity of our nate, give way before the cal induce of happy Christmas Who of us does not feel ea duty, nay a relief to. grasp by the hand the brother whom mistake o misunderstanding may have separated from hit fora short season and asso hit that he is till " brother If we look back nurabers of our journal the most pro-eminent object that meets our eye is ti Tong, very long, list of faults and perfections, We ourselves ate'painfilly conscious of thole existence, and it wold be the merest affectation to imagine they
We frank had escaped the nate" of our readers, ly confess that we have not yet nieated the standard we have raised for ourselves: -We offer in extenuation all we can,—the horry.and confusion incident. to the commencement of any new work, and our own inexperience, Another prospective glance fills us with hearty Gratitude to the numerous staff of cor {ributors and correspondents who have {generously come forward to auras We cannot but be sensible that we have bboen peculiarly favoured in this respect, and to all cwt worthy friends we tender our public acknowledgements and than The history of our- journal hitherto strengthens our conviction that in Shanghae there are ample local materials for a Journal like ours. With all the imper-lotions of pur weekly issu, we xh po to many lacs and sateer of Tet trid valuable peatiaton gradually ope up, we halve lia sone ita Then last, not last, what a strong Aitional link'to the mighty claim of hear fand affection that binds us to our Father-each returning Christmas! were almost worth. a. voyage to these eastern shores to feel its power! There lives not the babished man whose heart not inesistibly drawn towards his home made amore a patriot than before! Hoppy, happy, Christmas! that brings back With Teereative. power the joyful ays, the affectionate embrace of loved "breaking: ip and going hose of early ones, perhaps long dead, the bright en—Mhe! more sober though not less joyous {oyments of home ingle or broken op, visita of older days, the happy" gailerag brothore ad slstere wiser ate rats refreshed and the. Tome. fre side!
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guilty" woan—in-thy bunny deguest Heir the Dotry od Deere of] vith thought ea svech so melting: sven nobling! stony in influence ides "Be wone might every ann loves to feel Our Heart la fall and we vould thong swe-tay not longer indigo In lik Werend with no-unmeaning com Rita with strong and fervent tht al "regdera my enjoy aright mere) Christina Aap chord, Bre ana chord,, Ere ander un hor ofthe Kay Hal ited out paper withthe ud" Honey ough we might
piles of the Overtand Nal and make ours Norlh-China Herald.
And now to Took onwards, what shall our journal be? We know what it ought to be. "To be entitled to the name. The Sharghae Paper-—to be worthy to be re-larded as the representative ofthe public of our enterprising andntlligent community, to-meet the wants of our Subscribers-—t ought to be noted forthe variety and-corectnese of itp ataisties and. reports, for the Muni ud faithfulness ofts exposure ofall abuses, it ought tone: the able: pioneer inthe ferent Dranchga of commerce WHTCK Wil pen up in proportion as knowledge of the- wants anil resources of China. reases, and, the instigator and eet of deep research and: enlarge invent the manners, customs, and polities of the curious people amonget whom we: live, We cannot say: of our fo be, that, it shall te, Dut do say, what it ought (obe, that we will sire: with alt might Yo make it..-And if we continue to reccive, the liberal aid' we have: eccivd, we-do indus thie hope, that, the North: Chit Herat of 1851 ill not know it. self of 1850," - 4 Oot i oe Wi ale ana at Chess and happy New. Year.
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