3 ete are Events of the past few years have brought the West of China into some prominence. Szechuan and its adjoining provinces are no longer a quantity unfamiliar, in the geographical acquirements of outsiders. The missionary question alone has been more than enough to compel attention and induce criticism. Missions jof another kind have traversed the pr vince in the interests of the commercial Sorld and reported thereon in vane strains. The advent of the much-delayed steamer has falsified predictions and awaken-jed the prophets. There are questions of far-reaching import, if not of international magnitude, waiting for an answer in this hinterland of Szechuan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.