Lord Wolseley writes the following bosh in the Review of Reviews:—"'The Chinese are the coming ation. The Chinese will, 1 think, overrun the world, The battle of Armageddon will take place between the Chinese and the English-speaking races. There will be, L assume, another war between France und Germany, and it will be about the bloodiest war or series of wars which we have seen in Europe. But, some day, a great general, or hasgiver, will arise in China, and the Chinese, who have been niotionless for three centuries, will begin to progress. They will take to the prfession of arms and then they will hurl themselves upon the Russian Empire. Before the Chinese ar.nies—as they possess every military virtue, (hi-yo!) are stolidly indifferent to death,' and capable of inexhaustible endurance—the Ruseians will go down. Then the Chinese aru.ies will march westward. They will overrun India, sweeping us into the sea. Asia will pelon; to them, and then, at last, English, Ame: ricaus, Austealiaus, will have to rally for a Inst desperate conflict. So certain do I regard this that I think one fixed point of our policy should be to strain every nerve and make every sacrifice to keep on good terms with China, Chinois the coming Power. The people—intelligent, active, ingenious usurious that at twelve at night you can hear the hammer of the smith in the forge—havo for the last 300 years been ruled by the simple method of having all the more active, capable, and progressive heads shore off by their Tartar rulers; that is a simple, literal fact. The government of China has been carried on by the method of cutting off every head of more than average intelligence, activity, and energy.
You have no idea of the massacres that were carried on as part of the regular government of the country. When Com-ioner Leh was asked whether it was true that he had, in three years, beheaded 60,000 men, he replied 'Oh, surely many more than that!' So long as this system prevails, Chinese progress is impossible. But these rude Tartars will not always be able to control the nat Another Moses might change it, or 'a Mohammed, or a Napoleon, The whole system very uenrly went under thirty years ago, when Gordon saved the Empire, From the point of view of humanity Gordon did right, but the case was by no means so clear as some people imagine. The Tae-pings very nearly overthrow the Tartar dynasty Their chief not only declared that he was a Christian, but always styled himself in proclamations as the Uterine Brother of Jesus Christ, and was a progress sive ruler. He abolished opium-smoking ud showed himself in many respects in advance of the Gorernment, But there were no constructive capacities in the Tae-pings. They destroyed every place over which they passed like a crowd of locusts. Iw nking, and frow there to
to obtain informa ing the rebel-Hankow, 600 miles up the Yangtze Kiang, lion, so that the British Government be better able tu decide which side support." Lord Wolseley would do well w er the Latin device, Ne star soipew leave the Chinese alone, about whom he evidently knows nest to nothing. " Mail.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.