Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1845-11-06

ses, traces of a high civilization may
be found. The Iuxuries Of the table
consists Of bichede mer, sharks fms,
and edible birds nests, the latter the
highes. cost article Of food in China
The food Of the Tartars is game, whnR
is roasted and servedsup whole, while
the Chinese is served in small dishes
Their drinks are tea and spirit
distilled from rice. Many of the drink
ing vessels now in use in the United
States, are copied from the Chinese.
Commercially speaking, China is
complete in herself. She raises her
Dread stuffs, except some little lice
which she imports. She has tea, silks,
materials for utensils of roma wood, ,
coal, precious metals, SC. Her COM
msrce was changed by the course of
the Opium trade. which is very preju-
diced to China. 1t would soon how
ever, have been changed by the intro
duction of cotton, large quantities of
which, Of the raw kind, she imports
from the United States. She also
imports the manufactured article from
the United States and from Great Bril-
tain. The use Of machinery is pro-
hlblted in China. The trade, whether
it goes direct from this country
or from Great Britain, greatly ben
e6ts Us, perhaps 6-7ths of British man
ufactured goods consist Of American
cotton.
What will be the ultimate effects Of
this change of commerce on the Chi
nese themselves. Two hundred and
fifty millions people, up to this time,
have manufactured their own articles
now ours will take the places of their
own fabrics, and of consequence large
numbers of men will be thrown out Of
employ. In China, as IN the United
States, they have no vast West to re-
tire to, no immense fields of agricul-
tural occupations to employ them when
their means Of livelihood fail them
These things being so, must produce
~sant misery and perhaps political
agitation, throughout the efnPfc.
The hostility of Chinese toward for
eigners was origionalIy simply disre-
spect, and did not degenerate into hate
until the conduct of foreigners had
become so outrageos as TO forfeit the
good esteem Of the people. The Chi
nese saw shemselves surrounded by
other Asiatic nations, vastly their infe-
riors in every respest-they naturally
looked upon them with disrespect, al
SO upon foreigners who visited their
land. The early trading voyages of
the Portuguese were rather piraticlal
expeditions than commercial specula-
tons. The expulsion of the Chris
tains from China, is also connected
with the subject OF the hostility of
the Chinese towards foreigners. We
are naturally led to ask how monarchs,
wise and liberal as many ofthe Chinese
monarchs have been have prohibited the
practice Of the Christian religion in
China, when all other religions aretol-
Grated. At first foreigners were well
received in China. Marco Paulo and
others had high employment under
goyernment-there was no objection
to their penetrating to the interior of the
country Great numbers of converts
were made BY the early Christian mis-,
sionaries What has effected a
change in all these things' :, The mis-
sionaries INDUCED in bitter contests
among themselves, on articles Of
| fai!h--fiIrious controversies were
carried on, and violent pamphlets
| published. From the teachers OF ie
| ligion the contests spread among
| the converts end excilements
| and agitation We're the consequence,
To prevent domestic commissions the
Emperor interposed his authority, and
it is the belief of Mr.. Gushing that &c
! prevent internal troubles was the only
motive operating upon the Emperor 70
exclude Christians from China. Mr..
Gushing urged the missionaries 10 take
warning from the past, 70 cease then
quarrels upon minor articles Of belief,
| and to unite in the one great work oil
the redemption Of the heather. Mr..
Gushing said, ~llhough this vast empire
was open to commerce, literature and
religion, too sanguine expectations
must not be eEtertained-the progress
of The Chinese is slow, and vast multi
tudes are 10 be effected. IL the effects
of the change Of commensurate pacific,
the benefits to the world will be great
-iflnot'so, and evil commissions ensne,
the spirit Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT will again
| take hold ofthe Chinese, and foreign
invasion will be the consequence. The
Tartars have several times overrun A.
and carried their conquests even to