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by the discovery that the "Barbarians" (80 the old chronicler writes) were reluctant to sell them, and that the cost was mus exorbitant." Then as to opening up those "immense new markets," there by mer chants quite as authoritative as the former Peking Professor, and they have told us things less pleasant than he would have us listen to. Therefore, though Dr. TENNEY be an undoubted authority on China, his auditors or readers had better beware of rjoicing prematurely.
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practical repudiation, had been pressing | Chinese as a nation, and that by advertise- Chins all along the coast; so Peking, seeing ment of the part taken by Amerion, it that she could score a point rea lily, fell in¦ should be turned to the particular advan- with BURLINGAME'S play. Peking wastage of the United States. We do not beside; jealous of the province, and was desire to affix this charge to Ameri », or already plotting to increase at their expense, American people, or the American the prestige of the capital. A grand Miss Government, 8.8 8 whole. But it is sion was accordingly" organised of which unfortunately the case that such senti- BURLINGAME Was to be the hea-1, an∙l which meats have been uttered by a certain was to proclaim to the world from the section. Unfortunately the nation &i a Chinese standpoint the brotherhood of the whole thinks that it is too great to need nations. BURLINGAME knew his own coun- having now and then to have recourse trymen better than he did the English or
to the teachings of history; but upon a the Chinese, so put in the forefront the moment's consideration of what has goue Shining Cross," which under his auspices|bfore, we feel confident that we have only was to be raised on every hill in the to direct attention to the filse note, to Flowery Land. For China the mission was ensure that the entire nation will rise an a maguificent success, and not only relieved one man to cast aside the slur thrown on her from present pressure, but enabled her | it by some unworthy citizens. to smile blandly
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desirous that she should put her household | BRITISH SHIPPING MOVEMENTS. in order :-in fact the hand of time as far as she was concerned was put back at least half a century. The truth of BurlingamE'S promises as far as the United Sares were concerned was soon found to be negative, ¦ and the Chinese Exclusion Act was one of its earliest sequences,
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The removal from Liverpool to Bouth. hamp of the torminus for the bigger trans-Atlantic steamship lines his set the financial an Iother papers to work discussing reasons for the change The immediate aspects of the affair are Liverpool's loss and Suthhampton's gain, and people not particularly interested in the prosperity of the two places merely hope that the change will ultimately benefit British as against foreign shipping enterprise. With respect to Liverpool's loss, the Economist is concerned for the effect upon the Marssy Docks and Harbour Board, which has dɔne so much to adapt the north western port to the modern requirements of steamer lines, 'The same No cry to power-journal says: fully affects a Chinese crowd as that of
The Chinese, as we have said, are not only adepts in the art of bribing, in the science of which they are easily pot master, but they have aft iined equ'il rank in the art of rece ving the bribe. No people can 80 blindly and gracefully receive a douceur,
and so readily pledge their entire soul for the fulfilment of their obligations, wt the full intention of forgetting the whole thing five minutes afterwards. So the Chinese are by no meins deficient in benevole ic- towards their own kind.
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(Daily Press, 27th February.) Although the United States have been in clese communication with China for con- siderably more than a century, it is curious to observe how little either the people as such, or the Gwernment as a whole have come to understand the people of the Far East. The rule does not of course apply to individuals, many of whom at all times have gained to a remarkable degree the trust and confidence of te people of China, but only to the nation in its collective capacity. Perhaps it is that bribery is carried on in China to an extent unequalled in any other part of the world, and has in consequence ben reduced to a fiue »rt, but. it is certainly the case that all the attempts of the States to ingratiate their country icto the good graces of the Chinese Government
and people, by offering what doubtless) seems to them better terms than their neighbours, have been quietly but fim rejected. Even as early as the times of the Factories at Canton, though repeatedly the American residents attempted to recall to the memory of the Chinese officials how very much less exacting they were in their chiu minz," "save life," vet the China- demands 北 ...er, unless there were
man's philosphy tells him that his feeling of benevolence have to be exercised with something to be womentarily gained, in-
deaf variably turne}
to these caution. Should the cry come froin a protestations of enhanced brotherly love. drowning man, he has to remember the Probably the reason was that ther saw them spirits of Hades whose perquisites are the to be mere balderslash; and recognised that drowned, and pausa to consider whether at bottom the American was just as exacting, he
their certain renge. | ance for having interfered with their and just as determined to have his way as
So the other. When subsequently Lord ELGIN rights.
with famiue,
like di- was trying against all the powers of ex- lemma stares him in the face: pers nally as clusion inherent in Chiun, to make his way concerus himself and his associates he to Peking, it is on record that the American follows the divine command to increase Minister, Mr. WARD, did ncludly get and multiply; philosophie :lly as regards there; but he had to submit to the indig the pire at large he is an ultra-inal-
China with, thusian. nty of being boxe up in a cart
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peopled, and elevated sides, so that he found it utterly famines come by the decree of Heaven to impossible to see the country through which remove the surplus. He is not. denf to the he passed, or even to hold a conversation feelings of humanity to relieve the di with the people around him. Cunract ristressed, and he ein feel grateful even to tically the Chinese never disposition to offer better terms to the American Minister than her did to Lord ELGIN. They lookel upon the entire episode, in fact, as merely part of the game, as something they themselves would prob- aby have tried on were they in a similar case, but they steadfastly refused to see in it any, even the slightest, cause for pratitude; and the day after the Treaty was signed were just as willing to hol nob with
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foreigners who come forward spontaneously to help his afflicted countrymeu. there is another side to the question; he does not love the foreigner, and he is intensely jalous of anyting which would increase his influence, and if he thought that his anxiety for famine r-lief precede || from any such motive, he hul rather that his countrymen should per sh by whole- sale than that the position of the foreigner should by such mensures be improved.
are quite willing from the Chinese point of view, to acknowledge that all that has been done by the Fautine R-lief | Committee hitherto has been
“The withdrawal of these four mail vossola
from the Liverpool and New York service does not, of course, mean that the connection of the White Starline with Liverpool will be severed. The weekly passenger service from Liverpool to New York will be maintained by th• fouc magnificent twin-screw vessels Ballio, Celtic,
Cedric and Arabic, the only change being in th→ day of sailing, which has ben alt red from Fri- day to Thursday. The Liverpool and Boston passenger service, the Australisa service and the regular weekly services of live stock and org› steamers will be maintained as heretofore. At the same time, the loss which will result to Li- verpool from the transference of the mail ser vice to Southampton will be considerable. A very small proportion of this loss will fall upon the Dock Board, and it may be estimated that the decrease of tonnage dues will not exceed £25,000 per annum. The fluancial position of the board is one of great strength, and it may bé pointed out that for the year ended July 1st laat there was a surplus of £139,392 after meeting working expenses and all interest charges on the boar.l's debt."
There are various explanations offered as to the reasons pro-nptin; thể chang, The desire of first-class passengers to have the option of a continental or English port of arrival not ton widely separated—such as the P. & O. and N.D.L. and other Eastern lines afford-has anggested that in some way the new scheme is intended as a further reply to foreign competition. But in that ease it comes somewhat tardily, the com. Lord ELGIN as with the other. In lat
peitin for th first-class trans- Atlautio this utter want of preterent al good will,
traffic having been acute for the last ten where all were al ke distasteful, has been
years. In this connection there has to he
the not only remembered one of the most distinguishing features of
co-operation of the China's relations with the Foreign Powers. spontane us, but bas ben done from International Mercantile Marine Company A more remarkable instance of the same purely disinterested motives. The sub- and the two chief German lines, dating determination
in exhibited was
the scribers have conceived that they were from 1902, of ANSON BURLINGAME :
b v BER. sufficiently rewarded LINGAME had been United States Min-good actually done to their fellow beings; ister at Peking, when the bright idea and have not raised a discordant note.
unse
struck bim that he could play off America against England, England, disgusted at the bad faith with which China, white pro- fessedly keeping her treaties, bad winked at or even suggested to the provinces their
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But with the usual want of understanding on the part of a section of the American pale comes a suggestion that they should utilise the occasion to evolve a mercenary feeling of gratitude on the part of the
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ao fer which the combine guarantee dividend of six per cent apon £1,000,000 of the share capital (being one-quarter of the amount On the other hand, the combine receives sum then existing) of sach of the Germ in compaõies the equivalent of any dividend in excess of 6 per cent upon the capital sums named which may be paid by sach company. Under this agreement the International Marcantile Marine
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