Few, if any, who have had experience in China during the last. ten years, will dispute my assertion that, for young men who will study with the view' of pursuing " cer career away from their native land, offers an exceptionally rare field for and honor. To be practical, I may at Peking will offer manent positions, that of Se tion and Chinese Interpreter, assured that our Consulates will hereatter be item to capable ma made the language of the country their st To those who prefer a commercial life, there will be a number of opportunities open, as both merchants'and bankers there recogn: daily the necessity of independence from the Chinese shroff or treasurer, on whom now they must chiefly depend.
The Foreign Chinese Customs which already Harvard has four grad one who after about twelve years! ser now A Coonnissioner, in the enjoyment of salary of nearly £2,000 per annum, and three others, who have made such excellent pro-i i guage and in duties, as to profession, China, it is my Il prove the mea \ctory country ind honor. road of but eleven miles running from Shanghai to Woosung, in China, is but the opening weilge, it anonly believed, to vast lines across that pire, equalled only at present in our ow:
and this fact should stimula who will follow the profession of rivering, to study for fame in that in opening up by the is, and railroads, that is-well known that China is as rich in morals as is our own favoured country loyment of an English expert elds of Formosa, and the constat tion by qualified to express an opinion, that the Chinese must and. wil employ foreign mining engineers, should be sufficient to induce some to learn the language with the determination of pushing their fortunes there, To the Law School of Harvard, China pres for a most Incrative practice. Already do the lawyers at Hongkong and the treaty-ports in China, now mostly London barristers and solicitors, realise the value of their Chines business, and feol: greatly the want of felligeat and howorabl language in ti
offices. And as may well be expected that those who may advantageously go out from thi country, where the profession is so crowded, to one where its honors'are as yet 60 lightly competed for.
Having pointed out that in visiting China, young men may find many opportunities for furthering their interests in at in doing so they will extend point of view, it is not to be the means of commu ion between the Western world and a large portion of the human race, which is uow practically exclu. ded from the family of nations—an honorable office. Moreover, there is in Chi untouched field for th tific mau, and for many others, well attract many minds, apart from the consideration of emolument; for they would find an unexplored country and an unexplored literature, both: of vast extent; and altboagh in science we should teach, it is far from improbable that we may in the atte be-able ourselves. to-acquire some valuable empirical knowledge which has com frou a remote antiquity.,
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