28rd January, THe last that could be brought against the January issue this " Joarnal " is that it is jejune or uninteresting. It is packed with If her methods were less gentle than those which we found effectual with the neighbouring Empire, it must be admitted that she was driven to the use of force. opinion, always displayed conspicuous forbearance. After one of her Ambsssadors had boon rejected +t Peking because he refused to kneel, and after her Superintendent of Trade had been ordered to leave Canton because he wrote the name of England on " level with that of China and refused to srscribe his dispatch with the character pin (or ping "it was declared by special dee: hat all Manchus for time unending should belong to one of the eight banner corps and receive a emall monthly stipend." The result was that "in a generation or two the race had degenerated into a lazy band of parasites who, in the absence of a strenuous life, had lost all the cunning and the warlike skill which had brought them a great Empire." The Manchu garrisons scattered throughout China have similarly degenerated. The rich land in southern Manchuria was soon taken up, despite imperial prohibition, by Chinese immigrants, and "at the present day matter, and the Editor, Professor more than. pvinety per cent of the Leavenworth, the honorary secretary population in the southern half of of the Association, has been very for-Manchuria is Chinese. In the nortunate in the special articles*he has sword. Her moderation in taking nothing them half the Mongols are west secured. oe its columns, His own but x rocky islet, where she might have numerous and the Manchus occupy taken the whole empire, ought forever to in which he touches Phot on the Editorial Notes" occupy nine pages, second place; but the Chinese are allay the suspicion of territorial aggrandiscment. Should there be some dey working their way in rapidly." rapid success of the new currency Pieces of broken China lying at her feet, It must be remembered that Man-scheme in: the Philippines, whereby she will stoop to pick up some of the churia is as big as France and Ger-forty millions of depreciated currency' best; but she has done her utmost to many put together. In the southern-have been taken out of circulation avert such catastrophe. Great Britain most part it is like the rocky land of deserves, therefore, to be looked on as the and replaced by the new currency Vermont; the great garden which ex-mainstay of China's independence. based on a gold standard, all in tends five hundred miles from the eighteen months, without any serious; This is a valuable antidote to the/Liaotung Peninsula to Harbin is jar with the natives, There are venomous version of the same events|like the rich grain belt in North notes on the honour recently conin Mr. Cheater Holcombe's " China's Dakota known as the "Red River ferred on Mr. R. S. Gandry; on the Past and Fature," of which a cheap Val "and from Harbin northward veteran Dr. W. A. P. Martin, "the fore-edition has just been published mit is like the grassy plains of Western most American in China on Consul London, in conjunction with Nebraska, this refers to the eastern J. W. Davideon; and on Mr. Morse's fanatical work by B. Broomball} portion, The western half is moun-recent "important contribution to called "Britain's Sin and Folly."|tainous, and with its heavy virgin economic literature." Mr, Secretary Dr. Martin justly expects tat] forests, resembles the pine-clad hill Hay is commended in an able article'
'America will continue to maintain|districts of Oregon. No wonder' the for his consistent support of the her role as a making Power Russians longed to get possession of doctrine of the integrity of China, in the Far East; but there is aut. with the open door, a doctrine which] si significant hint in the last six words} We have not room to make further is fully supported by Great Britain of his last sentence, which runs: jextracts of this most interesting and approved by Japan, and which "Ju days to come she is sure to have lecture; it should be read in its Professor Leavenworth proposes to 'a word to say when groat movements entirety, The account of the annual christen the "Hay" Doctrine. There: disturb the peace of China, The|meeting of the Association follows, is a note on the urgent need integrity of the Empire she will/and this number of the "Journal" measures for the improvement of the certainly maintain, if the govern-closes with a reproduction of much river, "or Shanghai will sink to the ment be worth upholding." interesting correspondence, desert of Gobi." Trademarks, the ad-ition of a caravan town in the!
The admirable lecture on Manchuria, given by the Hon. J. W. mission of Chinese to the U. 8., the Davidson, acting American Consul-
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