China, from a national point of view, lis like a circle of broken segments. There is a great deal more cohesion among the different portions of the transoceanic empire of Great Britain, and much more mutual altruism than there is among the Eighteen Provinces China. These are bound together by a love for the ancient character, which has come down to them all, and are tied together by the modern queue. Therefore that a certain policy is followed on the Yangtze is no reason why, and no guarantee that, it is accepted on the Pearl River. Perhaps the solitary telegraph wire, that assured precursor of modern civilisation, which creeps up hill and down dale, will do something to correct this unfortunate condition of national affairs. The railways, when they are completed, will do yet more.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.