The Chinese authorities in Kashgaria are in considerable dread of the Russians, if we can rely on a letter from Yarkhand publi ed by our Lahore contemporary. The writer is a Mr. Andrew Dalgleish, who arrieed on the 8th of September ut Old Yarkhand, where he is engaged in dispose ing of a quantity of merchandiso—an undertaking which fairly entitles him to be considered 'a pioneer of commerce." Writing on the 30th of September he says that he had only disposed of half of his caravan, the market being ' very low and profits small," and consequently he should have to winter in Yarkhand and return in the spring. Such an oxperience is not, however, new to Mr. Dalgleish, who "spent some winters here in the time of the Amir," who returned in 1877 from my three' years' sojourn in this country, half a Yarkandi," and who, truth to say, seems perfectly ab home among the present occupants of Yakub Beg's el territory. Tt appears ho has been received with marked favour by the Lo Shi Governor of all Kashgatia, who re Yarkhand. The Amban in que
mind. He plied Mr. Dalgleish with ques-to be aman of an enquiring stun of tions about India and England, and was naturally sceptical on hearing' that man could go from Yarkhand to Chi vid Ladak and India in eighty or ninety days and a letter or telegram in much less time." His mentor goes the length of saying that "now he knows that he can reach China in two ways, he might be brought
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