Mobile register and journal., 1845-11-10

All the courts Of law in the city were closed yes
terday. No business was done ut tho Recorders
o. Com. Times.
AHEAvY HAuL-A circular from the Office of
the chief of police, New-York, suites that the trunk
taken from the Railroad Depot at Rochester ron.
timed money 10 tine amount oil $50 600. IN Western,
Eastern, and Northern bills. The Buffalo Pilot has
traced out losses To The amount Of 25, ISL sustained
IN that city. The heaviest sufferers are X. II. Sey-
mour & Co. $l0,0O0; o. Lee g. Co $500; A.
ID. Paichn 81 800; American Exchange Bank Of
New-loik, 81 geo, and various lesser sums.
Our Circuit Caurl is now sessiuu, and business
is rapidly disappearing from the docket, under the
prompt and energetic administration Of Judge Bragg
The prospect is, that the docket will he cleared
during the ,erm The criminal docket, with the ex-
ceptiun OF two which set for Thursday, on
ly occupled the Court day and half. Judge b.
is emDhaically business Judge and is winning for
himself golden opinions' with the bar, and with
the people Of The county River State Review.
MR.. CUSHING'S LECTURE ON CHINA.
The Lecture OF the Hon. CALEB CUSHING, before
The Boston Mercantile Library Association, ON We'd
nesday evening, Is thus skeIched in the Boston Mer-
camille Journal. Though, mere sketch, il presents
many points great interest, and will be read with
avidly, us the result ole well directed aud close OBJ
servaon, under opportunities rarely presented TO a
visitor among the Celestials.
Mr.. Gushing, in commencing his lecture, warned
his audience against any disappointment that might
he experienced he should proceed in his address,
as, from the nature oil his theme covering such an
immense field for comment. he should necessarily be
trie and desutory in his remarks. The yastness OF
his subject, the thousand details connected with 1t,
the topics of Importance and interest upon which he
must touch, would exclude all use of rhetorical
ment, aud his audience must content themselves with
IA plain recital OF facts.
TO an European or an American, continued the
lecturer pst landed IN China, every thing appears
strange., He finds himself not only the anlipodes,
physically speaking, but AT The anlipOdes m moral
sense. lie sees around him countless myriads OF men
in a strange garb, and with general appearance I'M
like to all that To which he has heretofore been ac-
sustomed. He observes the most studied nnlinrmity
among the various classes, and the progress OF every
thing winch falls under hts observation, so slow aud
UNMARRIED, strikes him in singular contrast with
our own changing manners and locomotive speed.
A thousand things admontsh him that he is IN Il
strange land lie hears the constant sounding Of
gongs he observes Dnumerable boats on the rivers,
the dwelling places Of millions Of Chnese-carts
moved on land by calls, well as boris ON the wa
ter. If The pilot looks to the compass IL direct his
course upon the deep, he looks the pointing OF tue
south pole If he receives letter he finds il written
in lines running from top hoItpn OF the sheet, read
from right IN lett with the date at the bottom of the
elter-nO phAbet being used, but ldographic char
acers. The mourning, Instead OF being black, as
is whiened with substance, correspond with
| other portions of dress. He sees the placed
on the cup, instead OF The cup on the saacer-shut-
lie cocks played with the feet instead o the bands
| ladies' feet compressed instead OF their waisis-
leaves of a book of and trimmed ON the back-a
person swimming strikes his hands vertically and not
horizonally--ihe Top of the head sha,ed-and when
riend meets YOU the street, he does not shake
your hands, but shakes his hands at you-ihe infant
~ armed with untchlocks The cavalry with the bow
and airow-and Colonel III the head oi his regi-
ment not uaretuenIly braudishrg fan instead VI Il
sword. He viii moi only these exterior forms
| of difference, hut viii learn that nobility rs not IN
heited from the farther by the son, but athtr, il
one may speak, by the farther from the son--goot
deeds rejecting back upon a remote ancestry. Cor
rupiDn Of blood, for crimes committed, affects an
ces!ors long since dead and gone, though il does moi
necessarily affect poslerity. All these ihlngs vii
strike one, upon cursory view; hut II is just ia
treat The subject in different manner, injustice
will be done to II great and polished people.
We in America receive our language, and unor
tunately too, many of our ideas, from Europe. We
speak as il we the descendants of the oldes
| nation the globe-ol history as complete, II tina
history is ours-oi our civilization the unique dt
of civilized socetyof the first voyage 10 India Al
discoveries, as if the eemng millions OF China hat
no existence Till discovered by Portuguese naviga
tor. He, the lecturer, would not speak Of Chinese
civilization alone, but also of lis high antiquity
| China had for ages cultivated the arts, literature
and the sciences.-The language Of Conlucius, the
contemporary of lIerodolus, is now the yernaculal
tongue Of that great people. The discovery OF gun
powder, and Of the maj ner's compass, the manuiac
lure of silks and porcehins, the invention OF the
printing press, and even tho circulation OF bank
notes, had their day in China, centuries ago The
lecturer did not know Of any thing that was not pos
s-ss.L ~ ,i.o fEhioso tte historJ vf e"
rope, except the steam engine.
Our world "China,'' as designating the land Of
the Chinese is unknown 10 their language, and is o
Portuguese orr in MIR. Gushing here gave The three
names by which the Chinese designate their country
and also The English translation Of them, which, he
said, were quite faulty Two Of them we've ransla
ted, one the "Cenlral Land, the other the "Cenra
Fowery Land"-lhe third escaped our The
Chinese Empire consists oftwo great classes of PEG
ple-lhe Chinese, who nhabit eighteen pravinces Of
China proper, and the Tartars, divided in the Man
| chou, Mongol Tartars, sc. Ii has been estimated
that China contains population of35O 900 600 soul;
| by many this estimate is doubted, but tlose who
doubt concede population 1850 900, 900 deducting
ad h6itum from the taken by the Chinese them
| selves. A slight analysis Of the facts in the case
will put an end to all speculation. One will see il
China a vast multitude of human beings, all active
and Industrious.
A comparison of the territory Of China, its elm
ate, its laws, customs and habits of the people, with
those Of other naiona, will soon convince one that
| the empire is the Of a vast population por'
ton of China lies in the tropics, where two crops
4 are easily produced every season. No beasts oil
burden are TO he in southern China. All trans
poraion is carried on the canals, or on the backs Of
| men. The boats ON The canals are tracked by men
no horses to be seen, except what are in use
for the Tartar cavalry and but few bufaloes, which
are used for poughng some peculiar soils. These
facts prove that the country is capable of supporting
IA dense population. II is not the case in China, as
| in this coumtry--they have not TO produce in one
crop sufic support them the year round or TO
sustain beasts of burden. that consume us much as
men of the agricultural products of the country
The land is one entire cultivated garden, except the
large grounds Il. for the burial Of the dead. These
facts would leave nothing to deduct from The estimu
ton OF the Chinese as TO their own population.
But there are others. The ubsieni0usness Of the
Chinese is one. They also eat cats, rats, dogs, &c
There is an Immense emigration constantly gsing
forth In southern China there are more productile
articles Of fruit Than in almost any other section Of
the G lobe. 1--WE under stood MIR. Gushing To say
thai he banana produces as 1873 10 Of our wheat,
and Al to l Of our potatoe
To recall to mind the population of Europe, will
serve 10 dispel any doubts one may entertain as To
the correctness OF the estimate Of the population Of
China China covers large space as Europe,
| and why not contain large population!-il The
nomadic reg oil the north are sparce IN popula-
ton, the tropical regions Of the south should make
up for the deIiciency-if Europe is capable of sus-
tanning 25O, 900 900 Of people. why China lar
ger popuaion, possessed Of super Tor advantages TO
Europe! To II European, accustomed 10 look AT Eu'
rope divided into 65 distinct governments. with II
population of but $50 600 900, the idea Of coun ry
under government. with population oil SoO,-
900 900 is perfectly astounding.
When we consider tile facts Of The immense popu-
aion of China, that its government and laws have
existed for centuries, we come to ask, what is The
of and Vh Al the principle oil lis