'A soxewnar sketchy article in the Quarterly Review, for April, on thie history of the efforts of the Jesuits and their followers to propagate the Clivistian religion in Japan, is so far satisfactory as showing that, in many quarters, public attention is being directed to the Far East. Commencing with the first attempts at the propagation of the faith in India, the article gives a slight sketch of the career of Francis Xavier, from the time of his arrival in Gon to his death at Sancian, on the coast'of China. The curious circumstances under which the Portuguese Government undertook to support: the missionaries are alluded to, and throw a strong light over the proceedings of these people in the Fast. It was only the other day that the conduct of the Portuguese in Barmah was commented on in these columns. In India, their sway.was hardly better; they had gained the hatred of the potty Princes and people of the Northern part of the Indian peninsula, while the rising rivalry of the Spaniards alarmed
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