Ow Monday Inst we drew attention to the neglect of their interests in China which English manufacturers and merchants at home have not unfrequently exhibites We gave one instance, and we #Mi that we thought such things were of rather common occurrence; and of that there is no doubt, Many English manufaetarors—we are not wilding to weavers and spinners 8a much us to those whose productions are not among: the ordinary articles of trade—eling to their old ways of doing business, and apparently think it rather beneath them to seek for orders, having also a oon. firmed, not to any stupid, habit of hold. ing to designs or qualities simply be. cause they are English, or they have been in the babitof making orusingthem, The memory of some of vue renders will go back tothe days when the Yangtxzo Kinng was first opened to steamboat navigation, and when it was uecewsnry to oblnin vessels of " kind not usually built, ut all events at that time, in England, For all practionl purpcaes the American river steamer with the walking-beam engine was the best suited to the trade of the Yangteze. Most of the merchants here being English, it wns natural that the supplying of steam transit' on the river should fall into their hands, and they eudenvoured to get boats on the' American model la hulls and engines built in Engian That was found to be impossible, na the Buglish builders would not go out of their way to use the Amerionn models, and consequently the providing of mau thousand tons of steamers and horse.
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