Show OF chini the arct blousing to atal ablit ty A w the vast progress of china in years isget in a striking light in an article which under the title of the march the mongol bus been contributed by air W 11 dunlop ti a number of the asiatic quarterly w and reprinted in form air dunlop dates atio new movement itom lie gome time after the of abo tapping rebellion when the chinese govern incite first the imperial maritina cuscona Cu slona which under lie wie and control of hir robert hart the Idi cral of baa 80 remarkable a develop limit it is significant of the of atio chinese aliat they prece ived the advantage to be denied fruia the lalive collectors and trustworthy in their places the experiment ai justified liy a large and immediate rise iu the revenue bruni customs duties abich ha ever since beau steadily a considerable part of the having aceb in lighthouses aag the immense of has now ono pr the bet lighted curits in the world it iia sign of the new spirit that the euvera men I 1 that there havo been erected during the last year ortho many thou canda of of wires radiated through the empire it i bow po gible to telegraph tron iLdon U peking or chung principal town of the richan a fertile provinces of uw a bundre tl icile sit llie interior of the country the of the th inece telegraph is weare told eiling at a rata alich inay even audieri can g t is dittl cult aej news airily elower eliut against this has t be set a lystel of in tamal water alie tata coast trade in foreign built veseli veo eli outward and inward amounted in 1880 to the enormous eiju or seventeen tous here again the cherese are welt of the to be derived from employing im eigners only a certain portion of the lor commerce of the within of die ini erial cui but this reached in hillier to amount of lbs lb 0 abill a alien ne that china pio peris fiti mated by the imperial tilli the fleo istance of the best to have a population of souls the only prad ical obstacle to a trade of startling between chuitt and lle outride world seefus to be the old kikui system of int ereal transit deeo notion 0 which may be derived froni he fact that the great west river arnde route between canann and leae a dia tanca of liine hundred amiles is paid to have run alie gauntlet of nearly one hundred customs barriers the governments however haae hown of being alive to tah evil which already mitigated to same extent in the teeth of by allowing the likin charged in certain cases to be 0 by a fixed payment for a travail tra uail the improvement in the system defense is still more striking atri king huge arsenalt arse nala under foreign direction are springing up in various directions and the vast army of china is being gradually mip plied with weapons of the labeet while great battalions are drilled and disi by european ere the navy already coasts of twenty six men of war borne of them large and powerful ironclads iron and about one hundred llie arsenals 0 the empire referring to the notorious industry an d enterprise if the chinese abroad mr dunlop when the subjects alne celestial empire enjoy under the new and more enlightened policy the same privileged and at biome as a alton led to them abroad there will no doubt aa to what tatow batow the bower of the future iu the far baat of asia the writer of the the march of the mongol is very far from being on asiatic attains who thinks that the solution nf the eastern fuestion nu estion as far a russian in asia is con corned will one day bo in an anglo chinese alliance |