Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-13
CHINA Modified.
FROM rnE LoNpoS SPECTATOR.

FROM THE LONDON SPECTATOR.
Among us there are strange events; continental
uons the ups and downs Of empire the flight of vast
numbers across the Atlantic and Pacific in search Of gold
but an stranger than these is passing nearly
noticed in the eastern hemisphere. We amazed at
the exodus from Irelandthe going out of the Celtic
populations bm rhat Is that to The goiRg OIL Of the Chinese
people The stationary empire in motion at Lasts the po
pulace of the Celestials moved by common impulse
swarmng into the goldbearng regions Of the ousdest
barbarans? Nearly hundred years ago, GOLDSMITH
treated the Town to the imaginary experiences of China
in England: had he lived in day he might have
learned the actual impressions of of the Flowery
Land and MoNrEsouIEU might have personally tested
the truth of his remark, that the Chinese e
peple le Plus fonr6e dc Ia t 1t is no longer miracle
to see Chinaman of breezy breeches in any latitude.
They have broken the bonds Of habit and gone FORTH and
are now in every land They in the islands of the
Pacific they in Australia; they sit down in the
cities on the western Of South Americas they colo
nze portions of California; junk has anchored in
the Thames, and live Mandarin figured at the Great
Exhibition
few facts will illustrate this notable migration Of
people who have been singuarly home keeping
Hitherto according to Mr.. McCulioch Chinese emigra
ton has been mainly from the province of Foken, oppo
site Formosa and has consisted of exploring and
trading parties than permanent absentees Thus the
Chinese for several centuries worked the silver and da
mond mines of Borneo and visited Ceebes But the
of the emigration have extended and embrace the
neghboring province Ii remarked by Mr.. Asa
Chimney in explaining his projected railway from the
monntic to the Pacific that the slandsn the latter
eo,rded set for thesurpps population OF China
nei he that ts would s~aem
ard occupy these islands. They have oaetrippe the
expectations OF Mr.. whitney; they have occupied Cali
fornia with detachments of their myriads Four years
have suced to bring nearly thirty thousand Cinnamon
to San Francisco; 10 find them writing letters to the
ne and raising villages named after the chief
towns of their native land In 1913 there in San
Francisco only two and one from China by
the end Of lSi9 these had increased to nearly 800
and two women; in 1850 they numbered upwards Of
900 men and seven women; in 1851 this number had
increased to 1900; and by August 1852 there had
rived altogether in that year 10000 Cinnamon making
grand total in California of q 500 but allowances for
deaths and further mgratons reduced these TO 81 05S
men and twenty These emigrants from the
Canton River, and the rising port of Shanghai They
live and work together, Chiefly in the mines showing
that their old habits Of acting commercial middemen
have been broken through.
This enormous Chinese migration is portentous sign
of the great activity of the world Here is the reign of
Confucius coming end here is Mongo element to
minge in the composite Yankee character here is
tive enteprsing astute population for Polynesia open
ing up endless vstas for future The Western
Pacific win vet see great historical people its shores
The share Of England in this striking change, in this
mobilization of China is obvious. We have not only
opened the Canton rivers for ourselves but for the Chi
nese Mccartney Amherst Pottinger have delivered the
people from the bondage Of ages and like all other
tons the Chinese consciously mingng in the march
of the world towards unknown and unlocked for desnies
The Americans have continued what began they too
visiting China, but friends coercers and how
ever any Chinese philosopher might mstrus the
which entered Texas in such friendly guse be would find
some difficulty in persuading his counrymen to give up
the golden intercourse the ground that at distant
date China might prove to be to America what India is to
England.