Corquer;" Capt. Absolute in "The Rivals Orlando in "As You like it ;" as Romes, and in similar characters, Mr. Bellew is possibly unrivalled, but in the higher ranges of Shake | sperean tragedy he is simply discounted, and as a reciter, without the adventitious aids of stage effects, his appearance in simply a forlorn hope.
COUNT POPOFF" AS A POET.
We append the Count's poetical effusion-lost sight of amongst other papers for over six months-verbatim et liberatim and without
comment-
FEMININI GENERIS. Through many a land and clime a ranger With toilsome steps I've held my way
A lonely unprotected stranger
To all the stranger's Hils a prey.
While steering thus my course precarious My fortune still has been to find Men's hearts and dispositions various But gentle woman ever kind.
Alive to every tender feeling, To deeds of mercy ever prone. The wounds of pain and sorrow healing With soft compassion's sweetest tone." No prond delay, no dark suzolcien Stints the free bounty of her heart She turns not from my sad petition But cheerful aid at once imparts. Formed in Benevolence of Naturo Obliting, modest, gentle, mild, Woman's the same endearing creature In courtly town or savage wild. When parched with thirst, by hunger wasted, Her friendly hand refreshment gave How sweet the coarnest food, has tasted What cordial in the simple wave,
Break down.
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Summa nummarum-Gṛand Total. Woman's the Stranger's greatest blessing From sultry China to the Pole.
Porow, M.B.-My poetical talents are limited, and form generally only short yet sweet subjects, as Love and Money,
LATE TELEGRAMS.
ROME, May 6th.
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies to-day, the motion by the Radical narty in favour of the evenuation of Africa was rejected by a large majority.
WASHINGTON, May 6th. The Grand Jury at New Orleans has refased to indict the men who were arrested in connection with the lynching of a number of Italians, giving as its reason for throwing out the Indictment, that the juremen before whom the murderers of the Chief Constable of New Orleans were tried, were equally divided in their opinion for and apainst acquitting the accused, and that some of them were suborned. The Grand Jury also add that the lynching was a spontaneous set of the people, and that it would be difficult to fix guilt upon any individetis,
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A fact specially to be remembered in the career of his dynas y is the inclusion among its subjects, wants the end of the Filth Century, of the K'itan, a savage race, who were one day to run a course upon much the s-me lines, as the Toha's own. Farlous wars meantime were waged all through its term; third and fourth-rate rivals, Chinese and barbarians, sprouted and died, one might say, within its bounds and the Northern Wel, as in contradistinction to its contemporaries south of the Great River, had never an easy time of i it. Yet it outlived three of there Chinese contemporaries until it was subdivided into Eastern and Westem. Then at last its name disappeared without honour, in the old way, and the Sul dynasty, in par, pace more collects the whole of Chios, under one name. In 6t8, the last of the Tul.abdicated in favour of a victorious general, the first emperor of the Tang. Among the events which made the Tang remarkable, there are two eminently noteworthy. One is the affirmation of the system of literary examina Hons-not is Introduction; for examinations wern of older date. The other Incident, which in a country so moralised by Confucian tradi- tions is scarcely credible, is the regency of the Empress Wu, one of the ladies of the harem of the great Tai Tsung; she was taken to wife after he died by his son..and successor, upon whose death, in 684, she imprisoned his heir, and surping the supreme power, ruled with rigorous ruthlessness for some twenty years. She has given female regencies in China a disastrously bad name.
Before the T'ang were fairly laid in the dust, in g 6, there had cropped up a thick growth of mushroom independencies, each at the lowest a principality, all scrambling for a share of the great estate; and on the heels of the glorious house there followed besides, in quick succession, a series of dynastic houses known to China as the Five, Minor Dynaarles, that were anything but glorious. Three of them were founded by Turks, or other foreigners, and all so absurdly shortlived, that one can hardly understand how they aver came to be rated as holding the com- mission of Heaven at all. The To-ba had towards the end of the fifth century accepted the allegiance of the K'i-tan, or Khi-tan, otherwise Khi-t'ai. To do justice to the doubtful aspirate in the second syllable of this latter variation of the name, western scholars came to write Khi that Thence it dilfted into Kathay or Cathay, In Chinese the name of this people reads Kbi tan, or Sle-tan; or the north, Ch'i-tan. It was through the Khitan, probably when their country and Russia were overborne by the Mongol, that Chica first became known to the Russians. They still speak of the Chinese as the Kitajski, while the Mongols call them Kitat, There had siready been, atuncertain dates, divisions amongst them, and emigrants; but, pure or hybrid, they reappear under the Tang, and so plague that house that, at the end of the seventh century, we find it entreating a Turki khan of might to co-operate with it against them. The khan's conditions are onerous. The Tang get the better of them at first, in fair fight. Then follow negotiations, treachery, rupture, asrassinations, unill, as the safest policy, the emperor of the Tang consents to recognise as khan of the Khitan the murderer, of a khan who had just received investiture from the said emperor. For one of the recurring contradictions of this joyless narrative is the profession, and, to a certain extent, the reality, of feudal subordination to the Son of Heaven as suzerain, coincident revolts and ware notwitstanding. From the act of condescension just referred to, it is plain that the nationality, Bad separated themselves, and had originally eight tribes, of a far larger adepted a federal constitution of republican or oligarchical character. One of the presidents, or archons, by name Yels or Ydlat Apaoki, whose forefathers, taking advantage of the difficulties of the expiring. Tang, had annexed much Tang territory, had refused to vacate the presidentship when his triennial term of office SIR THOMAS WADE ON, CHINA.
expired, and so had brought the other seven confedemto tribes down upon him. Unable for the time to hold his ground, about the At a meeting of the Society of Arts on the end of the ninth century, he withdrew his tribe 21st April a paper was read on China by Sir from the confederacy to the tentory that had been taken from the Chinese, where he grew Thomas Wade, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. Sir A. D. and prospered. As soon as he was strong enough, Lyall presided, and briefly introduced the be absorbed the common domain of the seven, lecturer. Sir Thomas Wade's paper was a rivals, and, in 916, assumed the title of Awang ti follows:-
the first emperor of a dynasty which he You shall be spared the herols, the semi-styled Liao, after the fatherland of the race. By heroic, and even the earlier portion of the historic annexing the possessions of other tribes, and age, that is, from the days of Noah, say, to the of Turki and Ni-chin, and more Chine etenitory days of Pisistratus; but I must ask leave to take as well, the Lino had already acquired an estate you back for a moment to about sc. 338, at far from contemptible when, in 936, the son of which time the last of a long line, the ruler of Apaoki was invited by a northern borderer of the original Central State, a kingdem not more untraceable pedigree, some say a barbarian, who considerable in dimensions than one of the pro-
was ambitious of setting up as a head of a vinces of modern China preper, yet, in virtus of dysante house, to suppress the second of the his divine commission as Son of Heaven, the Five Minor Dynasties, in order that he might Accepted suzerain of the princes round him, was himself found the third. This aspirant, from dethroned by one of these latter. The super, whose hand, however, the pulse was snatched having possessed himself of the kingdom of the sway, had, during his short ́reigs, repaid the fallen sovereign, as well as of the Bafs of his Liso champion, on demand, for his king-making follow vassals, alxin number, proclaimed himself service, by the concession of a monstrous section Awang #f, the august ruler. He upset their of north-eastern China; and when in 951, the ritual, and be burned their books, although he great Sang replaced the fifth and last of these bad mercy upon the literature of divination and ephemeral pigmies, the Liae had been for some medicine. But he welded together, for the first years at home in Yen, the present district of time, in one block, some three-fourths of that we Peking. The court of the Sung meanwhile was new call China Proper ; and he built the Great fixed, perforce, at Pien, the modern K'al-fund-fu, Wall, or connected together various existing on the south bank of the Yellow River, works of the same kind, for the purpose of excluding the Hunis.
NEW YORK. May yth. The Chillan Government have declload to accept the terms offered by a congress of the Insurgent leaders for the restoration of peace.
An unsuccessful attempt has been made to d the leading members of the Chilian Ministry, bomb having been thrown into the street in Valpirates where the Ministers were assembled.
his hidding, have been detained. The son. and brother of the captives, accepted in their defiult by their subjects as son of Heaven, illes sah; his capital K'ai-fung-Fu on the Yellow River, is abrodoned and the court of his discredited family, thencefon diftinguished in chronology as the Nan Sung, of Southern Sung, after more than one trial of a resting. place, finally halts at Hang-chan Fu, in Chef- kiang, in 1129. But the old tale repents itsell The evilised Goth is no match for the warlike Moor. As in the case of the Line, and scores of other ci-devand barbarians, the acquirement of the graces of a gentle life proved to be, politically, Fat without its drawback. Subjects such as theirs could only be kept in hand, and enemies restrained so long as the Kin were feared, and this they had ceased to be. Early In 1914 the Mongol, once their subject, and at the moment their confederate in war against other Tartars, had to be bribed, by the offer of a princess in marriage, to withdraw his demand of surrender of their northern capital itself. But though agreed to, in the summer his capital, Peking, is none the less invested by the same, Mongols, and in 1ars they are la occupation of the city,
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They were but a corps of the mightiest host that mankind had seen in movement: In 12c6, if not earlier, the Tidmujin, whose head quarters were at Carakorum, on the banks of a river flowing from Mongolia, through modern Siberian territory, into Lake Balkal, had been proclaimed Jenghis Khan. In his less pros prious days he heard a bird cry tsinghis, or something like it, and had accepted the circumstance of good omen. This Bruce-like legend is the Chinese explanation of his title, which, howeven others say was assumed at the the Mongollans over forty years of operations, would submit to him as readily as they done to instance of the chiefs assembled, when he was first recognised as Khan, after important successes
And whatever their faults, it must be allowed the Manchus, Mongols, and Turks. against his neighbours. Kin wang the Kin indiquant heaven, were also against them. Fortions, tendered the thanks of the meeting to the that the fates, or, as the Chinese would say, an The Chairman, in a few appropriate observa- dynasty is extinct. In the south, the Nan found themselves as litle advantaged by dire between the years 1113 and 1333. no fewer lecturer for bis paper,
Sung tion of their Mongol allies against the Nüchin
than eight Sovelgns had occupied, or claimed to Kin, as they had been by their appeal to the the last of this house that was still to rule in occupy, the throne. In 1333, Te-huan Timur, Kin, in 1118, to recover for them the lands China, after some perilous plotting and counter appropriated by the Khi-lan Lino who again plating, in which he was played with as had themselves been set up As Chinese proprietors. From the demise of the Kini, in twenty-eight years; a poor creature to begin shuttlecock, succeeded to the throne. He reigned 1235, we have war with the. Mongol and peace with, and his stars shone darkly over him, His with the Mongof, and rebels against the Na term bad barely commenced when plagues, Sung making terms with the Mongol. At last terrible in degree but not preternatural in eba- Kublai is left master of the field.
ensthquakes, and Inundations, began to agitate racter, flights of locosts, dearth fatal to millions, shed. the minds of the Chinese, already ill-disposed towards an alien government which had been steadily losing caste..
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Sir Thomas Wade briefly acknowledged the one remark in reference to what Professor compliment, and said he should like to make Douglas-had said-as-regards the facility with which the Chinese accept a new rule. He (Sir, Chinese history had proceeded with gaire so Thomas) should not admit that the order of tranquil a flow as Professor Douglas bad implied. There had been no change of dynasty, in part or whole, without a fearful expenditure of blood-
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TO LET.
The Sung Dynasty, founded in 960, is held in
be the secret of the continuity, so to speak, What he (Sir Thomas) considered to name to have lasted 379 years, counting from
of Chinese Administration first to last eighteen, sovereigns. In 1265, the
newcomer had not, introduced new ideas. was that the fourteenth of the line, dying without issue. was succeeded by a nephew and adopted son of
The Mongolians, although they were bar- middle age, but weak and debauched, who
I shall submit to you here a free translation barians, became civilised and followers of of certala comments of a native historiographer Manchus prepared for the conquest of China by was entirely governed by an ambitious favourite,
Confucius, Both the Mongols and the as debauched as himself, named Chia Ssu-tan, upon the true significance of the portents 50 His confidence in this minister was at first taken note of by the multitude. I shall, at the a long study of Chinese literature, and changed unbounded, and Chin Sm-tao, knowing how much his master loved pleasure and bow little
same time, beg you to observe his obligations to hardly anything. He differed also with Professor a memorial presented, n.c. 140 by a celebrated Douglas in his remark as regards the change he liked business, in order to keep himself in minister of the Han dynasty to his Sovereign, which would be in store for China in the event office, continued to conceal the internal wounds who, at seventeen, was just commending his of her conquest by a foreign Power, for the foreign of the empire from him; speaking peace when
'reign "Showers of bland" says my historian, Power would immediately introduce new ways, there was no race. The Mongols who, as early Tung Chung-shu, writing about 1630, and which would completely upset the Confucian as 1260, had formally constituted theniscives, in showers of hair (or feathers), are things so organisation. The grand secret of the stability the north, a Chinese dynasty by the title of Yuan, unusual that they must be accounted super of the country and the continuance of its rule is were all the while steadily absorbing the southern
natural. We are told by Tung Tru (Tung the homogeneity of its education, and the centre empire. In 1475 this feeble ruler died, and was Chang-shu) that when the Government (literally principle of that education which is obedience. canonised as Tu Tsung. He had left more sons
the State family) is straying from the right path,
If to-morrow a foreign Power was to conquer than one, and Chia Sau-tao, in spite of the heaven will first visit it with calamities extra. China, or a number of foreign Powers, it would opposition of all the rest of the administration, ordinary, that it may be reproved. If It have immediately have forced upon it a Christian contrived to place the younger son, a child of not the sense to awaken to its duty, heares will civilisation, which, in accordance with our pro- four years old, upon the vacant throne, with the cause then to appear prodigies extraordinary, fession, we must admit would be very advant empress dowager as repent. The Yuan, who that it may be stricken with terror. If it agcous, but which would result in the utter bad at first desired not to extingulab the Sung, still be without the sense to reform, and its destruction of the existing order of things, better than the half. Negoitations therefore brake reier have before hirs this evidence of heaven's territory, subject to this or that Power, without were beginning to feel that the whole would be demoralisation go so far that, although the From that day she would cease to be China, and down, and Chia Sae-tao, who was with the army,
would become nothing but mere portions of
wrote to urge the empress dowager to take to out of love for him, he, alas i making light her ships. She refused; but in the course of a ite visitations, and reposing in unconcern, fearing-
the vestige of her former civilisation.
Professor Douglas said he agreed with Sir few months, the execrated minister having been nothing, and regarding what he should consider Thomas, and desired to modify the views he had in the meantime murdered, to the satisfaction of warings of high heaven as but trilles proper to expressed. What he meant to say was that everyone, the lady, as she found her armies the order of nature, inquires not of heaven by they had such an extraordinary power of absorb beaten and her servants many of them changing what means these evils may be averted; then, ing foreign bodies that went into the country sides, prepared herself to become even less than is day is piled on day, and month ie linked to that they really appeared to go on unmoved by a vassal, and despatched a high officer to the month, the wrath of heaven and the resentment the contact of outside Powers,.. Yuan general, already at the gates of her capital, of the people grow to be such, that, until he be with a tender, out-and-out, of her allegiance as more, there will be no end of either. Ab! THE great value of Scott's Emulsion of Parelect to rent. a subject1 Ten of the princes of the family when heaven utters a waming, can it be that it Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wasting had been allowed by her to repair to different shall say what is untrue" points of the coast, and the force accompanying noteworthy are the reflections of the first Emperor ment from D. C. Freeman, Sydney, Aust:
Scarcely less Diseases is shown by the accompanying state-
south, and the elder prince, a lad of eleven, was Yian, bim to whom the above warnings had attacks and gradually wasting away for the past them carried on the war against the Yun in the of the Ming upon the death of the last of the "Having been a great sufferer: from pulmonary declared Emperor in place of the child, who, with been sent; and upon the proposition of certain two years, it affords me great pleasure to testify the Empress, was in the hands of Kublat. But of als Chinese ministers that Maltilipali, grand- that the above medicine has given me great relicí, the Yuan were too strong upon land, and the son of the Yuan, who had just been taken and cheerfully recommend it to all suffering in a young Emperor, being compelled to put to sea, prisoner, should be immolated sacrificially. The similar way to myself. In addition I would say cruised wearly until the unhappy boy, tossed capture of Maitilipall was an incident in the that it is very pleasant to take," Any Chemist and terrified by storms, died, sick and worn out. ever-recurring frontier trouble. On occasion, they can supply A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd.), agents And new, their Sovereign being no more, eves showed that they were equal to assumption in Hongkang and China.-[Advt. although there was still a third brother living of the offensive: the surest pledge of a nation's his Chinese adherents would most of them have independence; and thus came that the young gone off, every one to his own home, but for the prince of the Yuan fell into their hands. In the CHINA Coast meteorologiCAL H° spirited remonstrance, of Lu Slu-Fo, a staunchthird year of Hung Wu, the first reign of the patriot of the ancient texture. A force of 300,000 Ming, 1371, a Chinese force moving upon a city men-Chinese armies run rather on a Xerxes held by the Mongols beyond the Great Wall, estimate was still kept together, Chang Shih- learned, from some prisoners taken en route, chieb acting as generalissimo and high admiral that Tobuan Timur was just dead, and, pushing But notwithstanding the valour and freethought on, captured nearly the whole Mongolian court i of this loyal adherent, in a campaign fasting the heir of Tehuan Timur alone escaping some months, the Yulan continued to gain ground, The seals of state, and
other articies and after a hard action fought off the coast, at forming part of the Imperial regalia of no great distance from Hongkong, bir losses the Sung, which had become the prize of the Telo... were such that he was minded to carry off the Mongols In 1279, were now recaptured by the Nagasak Emperor, whom he had for some months kept Chinese. A few weeks after the prisoners arrived Shangha affoat, to a safer station. But this move was at the capital, and among them was Mattilipall, Amy As might
have been anticipated, where therestoully opposed by Lu Siu-fu. Escape from the the young Mongolian prince whose sacrifice bari was so little of community of interest, there was enemy's fleet seemed scarcely possible. Lu been desired by the Emperor's ministers, He focu the nenthers and southern courts ne long continuance of friendly relations between Slu-fu accordingly first of all, drove his own
asked his advisers whether when the heroic Viera Peak But the wife and children into the sea; then, accosting dynasty of the Yin, otherwise the Shang, wa Mac former, the Khiten or Liao, came gradually to his Sovereign, he said, "The dishonour which overthrown (8 C. 1122), Wu Wang, Its destroyer Tolbow............ Pay, in a decling of manliness, the usual penalty befel the Emperor whose reign was Te Yu (the and successor, had done this thing? The Halphons... of contact with a softening civilisation. The infant brother corijed away to Kublai Khan) was ministers could not say. Said the Emperor, It Manfla avengers were the Nu-chia, er Nü-chik. There extreme. Such dishonour must not recur in the was true that in ancient times this bloody rite, Cape St. Ta are some half-dozen variations of their name. person of your Majesty. And he thereupon performance of which bis ministers were recom The rise of the Ni-chin, after their subjugation took the Imperial boy on his shoulders, and merding, did exist, but that he could not bring by the Liao, is not altogether dissimilar from plunged into the waves with him. In our first was himself to give effect to it. It would suffice if that of the Lino themselves. The latter, although with China, 1819-42, we had experience of acts the Prince Maitilipall were brought before hina in their day of conquest they broke up the N- of devotion somewhat similar. Now the In his ordinary Tartar costume, and that, when chin kingdom of Peihal, had not succeeded in
The Sung were to more, and the Yuan gathered a Chinese dress had been substituted for it, ke extending their authority ever more than a the Empire together once again as one 1 theft should then return thanks for the favour shown of its people. Towards the end of the capital in China being Khan Ballk, the citadel him in other words, de homage as a servant.” deventh century arose a Nu-chin, by name of fortress of the Khan, the Cambalu of Marco But I must close. The story of the Ming, and On the demise of the Han dynasty ho Vangko, the brother of their hereditary chief, Polo, whhis easy range of the site of modern of aning, even il succestors, the Tsingy, re 420, succeeds a period as distinguished in who had the genius to provide his people with Peking. By substitution of the latter for reigning, even if summarised, would carry me romance as in history, that of the Three States an organisation, civil and military; and, in 1107, or Kingdoms, one of which is but the wretched the energy of the Lian being already on, the independent power was more nearly extinguished their predecessors the claim of China to be an
far beyond the bounds of time assigned me. remains of the Han's all to be superseded, half wane, this man was applied to by the then than ever before or since. But this second-rate Thomas Wade on his interesting and able Co
Professor Douglas, after compliments to Sir A century later, by the Chin or Tain, which starts emperor of the Liao to put down a rebellion for position was not to last long, and for any tem sketch of the history of China, said there was at least as sovereign of the entire empire, him. He consented to lend his ald, and porary abatement of dignity Chlaa might sustain one part which impressed him very much, and pho This dynasty endures after a sort till the detached a N-chin warrior, Okuta by name, beginning of the Fifth Century, while side by to do the work of the Liao; Okuta having left her helpless, the country may be said to overthrowing of Empires and upsetting of
as the subject of an alien power, when the Sung that was that, although there had been constant Boras... side with it are to be noted alateen or saveoteen seen through the weakness of the Liao, very have been for the moment compensated by the dynastics in China, yet these great convulsions
Cape St. Jame minor powers, not contemporaneous ser co-shortly turned upon them on bir own account, restoration of something like a strong govern-hind been accomplished with the least possible ordinate, many of them bearing outlandish la 1115, he had got so far as to assert ment; a blessing to which it had been many years derangement of the administrative machinery, lasted at roddy, wo and was with thunderstorms, names of Huus or Turks, who have paid tribute himself emperor of a distinct dynasty, which to Chier in earlier days, or who have he dubbed the Kin (the Golden), and, in IT:7. governed, and had his heirs been of the same stuff, of the country. Disturbances and revolutions,
stranger. Kublai, had not only reigned but and the least possible discomfort to the natives-limet nduced to oral of the sea lo schot, unths and intermarried with the families of her emperors. he demanded that this, the Kin, should be These may be said, in general, to devour each recognised by his late employers, the Liao, In
might even now be rulers of the State of which he which would leave a country in Europe the other with tolerable expedition, until, on the 1118 his new dynasty was so recognised by the revolting from their Sovereign lords the Kin, or seemed to pass off'ta Chins within
had restored the integrity. The Mongols, after victim of bloodshed and horrors for centuries, confines of the fourth and fifth centuries, we come Sung, who were dying to expel the Liao from Ni-chin, were een combined for the nenes with period. The real reason of this, he thought, very short to the historical partition of China into two set the north of China, no matter by what means; the Nan Sung, against the said Kin, and the Kina that the Chinese had no personal loyalty to or empires, and north and the other south of the and expelled they came to be in 1134 by the expelled retreating, really, before the Mongols the
The collapse of Shih Hwang Ti's descendant, after twenty years, B.C. 207, is followed immediately by a general subdivision of his splendid inheritance, until the fragments unite again under the Han. Some four-fifths of modern Chinese know themselves be no other name than that of Men of Han. Its frontier troubles are never ending all the same. Tylbute, we are told, was sent from the Asiminas; which being feterpreted means, most probably, that merchants brought their wares for sale from some Asiatic province of the Roman Empire, and this constitutes the earliest known fatercourse between East and West.
Great River.
The first dynasty of the latter, styled Sung, holding its court at Nanking, then Klen-kang, followed in quick succession by four eskers. The former, founded by a native of what would now be called Inner Mongolia, the name of whose clan was Toba, came into life as the Wel. This fixed its head-quarters in Shan St, at or near the modern Ta-tung Fu. I specially produce the name of Toba, as being that of the first barbarian, orway alien, Imperial family, that established ftel in China on a grand scale, and with a certain promise of stability s of minor barbarian trespassers there hava boun undagi nad to spare,
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ad hoc, joined hands. into the Nu-chin country north of Korch from pract They knew him almplyasah | Hongkong, Observatory, 23rd May, 1891. At the fontance of Sung and the Kin, Sung, the N-chin which they originally came, and from which, to" | s
of dynasty how very slight the changes advanced against the Liao from the east. The the rorrow of the Ming, now about to replace were in the personnel of the administration of Sung were to have made a corresponding move the Mongolian; they are one day to retum the ment on the west. But the Sung were slow, Manchas. Meanwhile, the Emperor of the Nan to the lowest positions transferred their Provinces. Mandarins holding the highest and, โท a few words, the Ni-chin having arce Sung, relieved as he hoped of the Kin, haskervices to the new incomer. Men may come laid hands upon the Chinese dominions of the discovered, like the horse in the fable, that in and men may go, but Chua goes on Lao, refused to surrender them to the Sung. In his recourse to a too able auxiliary i avall fall for over. Although, as they had just been told, their dealings with the Sung their arrogance folie. The Mongolians have at once set about the Tobas, Mongolians, Manchus and other and rapacity exceeded all offence ever charged saddling and bridling their imbecile ally. Still, alleas had at various times occupied the throne against the Liao, uatil, in 1117, we find them powerful and ruthless as they were sceptre, as marching of homeward with two emperors of before observed, did not finally pass from the the Sung, father and son, who having submale-Chinese ruler until 1280 that is to say, that sively entered the camp of their enemy at counting from the exit of the Kiais 123; it com, make himself master of China, the Chinese
of China, they had been treated by the body of
the Empire as almost legitimate Buveraigner He thought that if a European conqueror were to
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