24th inst., Mr. A. GRaxpox to Marie, widow of J. B, H. Thorel.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 27th mat,, by the Very Rev. Dean Butcher, D.D., Tronas Henry Saxze, of Shavgbai, to Aarr Exaza, eldest daughter of Thomas John Brooks, of Clapham, London, No cards, the spread of the Nihilist doctrines far and wide, the hideous discontent and the acts of violence which disgrace the canso of liberty and make the advocates of absolutism more and more eager to carry out their policy of repression, The reason why Russia has, to speak in the phraseology of physicians, taken "the revolution fever so badly, is that the doctrines of change have not been allowed to evolve themselves gradually, but have been presented suddenly to a people wholly unprepared to receive them. Hence the ferment occasioned by the old and new ideas soothing in untaught and unbalanced brains. noteworthy that in this country there are constant indications of the presence of ideas resembling crudely and strangely the germinal seeds of revolution which are so fatally productive of mischief in Russia. be influenced by motives of a much higher kind and will be far more dangerous than they now are to the exist ing Government. The hope of the existing regime is the difficulty of the language also, and the apathy of Europe to Chinese affairs. These are safeguards which will not be soon broken down, and 80 we hope and believe that the strong revolutionary doctrines will filtrate slowly into China, and not come in with a rash and work the mischief that they have worked, and are working, in Russia. But China never will be shaken as Russia is being shaken, because she has a distinct intellectual and literary personality. The Chinese literature has many and grievous imperfections, but it is something to rally round and to fall back upon, China up to a very recent date refused to borrow anything from Europe, and
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