Tue Chinese character is unchanged. This might seem a hard proposition to prove to any one who, to-day, for the first time, should seo this Foreign Sottlement of Shanghai, and on this ground only, form his opinion. The wharves and buildings, the streets and vehicles, the steamers, gas-lamps and lines of telegraph, certainly present an appearance of great change from anything on this Wham-poo flat, 20 or 30 years ago. Yot when one looks into China proper, with the same old ideas instilled, the same customs followed, the same books taught throughout the empire, as in centuries gone by, it is easy to see that the minds of the ruling class, which of course affect all others, are mould= ed still as nearly as possible in the same shape as they have been for ages past. And hence, too, it is easy to see why the Chinese Mandarins of today should be unchanged from those of thirty years ago, and should entortain the same conceit of themselves, the same feeling of exclusiveness, and' the same aversion to foreigners as when no steamer's paddle, screw or scream, disturbed the quiet of these waters, or the primeval domain of the "fang shuey." But not to dwell on general statements or inferences, Jeb facts speak; and particularly let the Tientsin mas-sacro give its testimony of horror and of blood, in proof that the Chinese eliaracter is still "nuchavged. Since' the
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