The perfect Minister of old times paid apecinl attention to the arts of war. He advised 1 how to'extend the He held abroad the name of China to there was thus peace within our borders and rebellion did not dare to rai {te hend without them, There are always foes on the watch, gazing intently like mild beasts awaiting their opportunity to apting. To be always on his guard to int the occurrence of auch an opit merit of ti results of his rule: were years, not mil 1874 Japa our thither afew thousand undisciplined troops nine vessels, of which two only men-of-war, the rest being merchant ips chartered from for Tronelnds were aa yet unheard of, With much fu empty parade they entered our territory, and for a wonder achieved a certain A sum of is. 60,000 i Had they had scarcely anticipate ong after laid their hands on Liuchiu and turned that kingdom into a Japanese Ken. Still we never stirred a finger, and Japan could scarcely believe her eyes. In 1882 the revolution broke out in Corea. On that occasion our ships and soldiers were tore order 'y, by which exch and it was "greed future should trouble there waa to be prelimin ry diplomatic interchange of views before troops wer: des-atolled to the spot, In our compl japan saw nothing worthy of admiral but merely an evidence of weakness. have now had ovr sailors murdered at but. a link in " chai od. Japan, in Form ident would never 3 had we spoken the mai should not have been worsted in Corea; had the Corean affair been tied on the basis of international law, this Nagaaki affair would never hi A there are other far-reach:
ices of our weakness towards Japa for.that the French would not now be ig the Tonquin frontier nor would hgyé laid Burmah at her feet alter " sing Sill iti no use ersing over spilt milk; we must bestir ourselves to do better in future. I have bren seven years resident in Japan 4 am intimately acquainted with her internal economy. She is a goodly apple rotten at the cure," with this qualification that even on the surface the goodliness i Her uary is by no powerful as is commonly supposed. The Tokio eon was lately reduced by 5,000 have been proporti over the country; and the ships number only about a dozen all told. Of these but two are ironclads and only ten altos: are of use as Sighting ships; the resi old and untrustworthy. The whole naval-force only numbers 7,000 men and many of these are imperfectly drilled, The army numbers 32,000 including the combatants, 'The revenue is scanty, taxation presses most on people, who hat of-in consequence. Everything is ily taxed, especially tobacco and What r 0 is, goes chiefly towards providing the interes: on foreign loans, the principal of which has 1 been' repaid to -my knowledge. Paper money is universally used, and were Japan acting judiciously the police incited the people against the Chinese sai result we know. We have put up wi much from Japan, and it is time Eh taught her "lesion, Our Government is strong enough to act without advice or aa 100,000 troops let 20,000 or 30, with fi Station two Nagasaki and two at Kobe to protect our nationals; let the strait between Corea and Japan be guarded by six more, while the remaining five Wo shall thus have Japan in our grip, the voice of our negotiators will be atrong-thened in the debates to follow. They have sensible statesmen 1 Japan who will appreciate our jo and will that the day for bullying talking past. They will return Linohi they will repent of their wrong-doing Corea, they will punish condignly peccant Governor of Nagasaki and his brutal police, they will compensate our il-treated sailors, and defray the ex-penges of our diplomatic negotiatora; the recent treaty will be amended clause by clause to anit the requirements of justice, and peace betwee be assured for the do not act somekh: of constant occurrence) that we our territory devoured piece-neal towards the NE. in Corea, towards the SE. and Amoy." Let people vf this Ewpice of ours wait and a whether these words of mine are an idle utterance.—(Condensed from the Shen Pao of Sept 30th).
should not be sures ulated yesterda teh of a Ci to Corea—ori ure of an Isl of the rumours, is but asi
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