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The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Receipts from customs at New York. (search)
China. The December number of Blackwood's Magazine contains a history of the several embassies that have been sent to Great Britain by China. In the course of that article, the writer lets fall certain expressions, from which we are enabled, we think, to read the future of the celestial empire with a tolerable degree of accuracy. He comments with great and just severity upon the barbarous murders perpetrated by the Tartars upon the helpless captives who fell into their hands during the late war. He recalls the repeated violations of treaty obligates of which the Tartar Government has been guilty, and he hints the policy of taking the part of the rebels, who are the nave Chinese, expelling the Tartar dynasty, and of replacing it by one which shall be genuine Chinese. In the few paragraphs which the writer in question devotes to this part of his subject, he foreshadows for China a fate identical with that of the mighty Empire of Awrungzebe. When the restless ambition of Du