Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-09-30
The Commercial Consequences Of the Chinese



RsvoIutfon.
The London Times anticipates great results from
the revolutions in China, which opens to the light
the deep recesses of that ancient empire. 1t specu.
lates as follows:
Why, in couple of years, we shall all be gonp
to China. The last mail left Hong Kong on the
10th of July ard arrived here on the 9th of An
gus doing it in fortyeight days; and there every
prospect of the time being much shortened People
are tired of Europe that it is rallroaded hand
booked, and sopened upn the phrase is to its
back bone Moscow has been burnt; Petersburg is
a city of arsenas and palaces; Constantnople, We
have been lately told, is city OF wooden boxes
Athens is bad Herne Bay; Germany has been So
often secured out of its thirty years and its
cities have nothing to show Berlin is poor imita.
ton of Paris; Munich is in pieces fresh painted and
not yet put together Paris everybody has over
and over again and these are the best-the rest
are nowhere.
But there is something new in China-somethno-
genuine and undiscovered Ii is undoubtedly great
ancient, curious and original So in couple Of Years
we shall all be running 10 the Chinese Consulate in
Lea enhal street. Bucklersbury, 10 get our foreign
office passports UiSed by gentleman with small eyes,
high checked bones, and yellow skin, hut without a
tail, and dressed like everybody else in the city,
Those who don't wish TO be the pioneers OF the grand
stream of British tourists may wait another twelve
month, and Mr.. Murray will have by that time a
Handbook of China. OF perhaps Northern China 18th
Japan, and Southern China with The Indian Arch
peIego. column OF indomltable John Bulls, with
their carpet bags and in that unmisiakeabe Costume
which denotes the nation all over the word will force
It's way up all the rivers, over all the mountains, and
along all the canals till the great wall of China is
surmounted by British ladies' maids and English para
soils. What splendid hotels we shall have at Pekn,
and what ncessan jokes at the exploded pecuIlares
of Celestial cookery. In a few years every lad of
twenty will have done and will have his budget Of
stories of Chinese conrers commissioners, cabs and
custom houses. What letters shall we have COM
planning of hotel charges and impo>tons on travel
ers, for John Cinnamon is a bit OF a rogue, and so
like the majority of Christians that it is wonderful
why he is not of them In Ten years time we
shall know much more Of China than know
of Russia, or shall know within fifty years.
Then what country for railways, canals, gas CON-
panies water companies, and all sorts of Investments
The French Empire Again.
Our New York contemporaries again indulgng
in predictions respecting the duration of the present
French Empire. The Times thinks it decidedly ION
it's last legs. That journal says emphatcally that,
if distance of forty leagues was Put between the
army and the capital, there would be revolution.
But revolution where! Over all France! Not
at ALL revolution in Paris. that is, insurrec.
ton. We humby put it that this cannot fairly be
called revelation. Louis Napoleon may not choose,
perhaps to consider such enneute, if tempo.
rarily triumphant, as legal overthrow OF his au-
thoritv; for at best it would be but the call of the
! Partisan population to abdicate against that which
he has the approbative votes of nearly eight millions
He might, under such circumstances, prefer to re.
tire to important provincial town, and, by ma.
king it, for time, his capital teach Paris that she
was not all France. The borgeoisie would very
discover, in that event, that trade was dull and that
it. was losing concern to live in city under mar
tal law and tormened by instructions, so that
strange were driven away. In a word, IT Louis
Napoleon, in of successful insurrectiOn In the
capital determined to fight it out elsewhere, and if
the army remains true to him. we see no reason why
the wars of the League and Fronde should not be
rewa rded
Lor ;c bat,r fba nj
the nineteenth century and his ancestors in the six
eenth and seventeenth, than might be supposed
Burke, twenty years before the first French revolu
ton, warned the world that the ferocity of the
Partisan mob had not altered with time but
still, though latent. yrulent ever. The Sep
TENDER massacres confirmed his words in his own
life time 1t is popular error to suppose that the
Reign of Terror is a new thing in French history
Similar periods of prescription, similar alterations
of bloody factions, have marked various eras in the
annals of Paris The struggles between John of
Burgundy and the other princes of the crown, at "a
period contemporary with the INVASION under the late
P1antagenets, We're followed. in few generations,
first by the struggles of the League and, at latter
day, by the tumuts of the Fronde. In truth, Paris
has always been a turbulent city. The reason is
plain. In that capital, the national characteristics
of the Gaulish race are developed to exaggerations
forced, rs it were, into morbid vitality, by the
bed Of gregarious and stimulating habits. But
Paris is not France though type of it, to certain
extent, as also powerful and commanding leader
OF public opinion IN the provinces. In other times
rulers who were supported by the people at large
could do without the capital. Whether a ruler
do so now and whether Louis Napoleon is that ruler
are the questions to be solved
The problem of French politics is really profoun
der than the wise,acres of the press think. This
decisive OF prognosticang the future OF France
is proof of inflated ignorance, and not Of compe
hensve knowledge of the subject, journalists would
= have their readers suppose. The man. who should
predict eclipse, without preliminary calculation
of it. would be considered only charatan even
though he might happen 10 guess the truth But. in
orteIling the future of France, has as
many data in calculating eclipse. The only
8 fixed fact" indeed on which one even begin
this prognoscatng, is that if the Empire is over
fault say what will come next Will il be Reptile
Orleans dynasty the restoration of the old Bour'
hons Will II be a dictatorship, such really ex.
listed under Cavaignac, a virtual though not nomin.
al one such rs fourished under Barras? Will the
faubourg ST. Antoine be more quiet under monar-
chy, The faubourg 81. German TO plot under
republic? In word will Paris ever be any thing
hui turbulent For one doubt it,
; Meantime who has the best claim TO ruler Clear
y he who has most proof that he is acceptable to the
nation But France, not Paris is the nation. OF all
the men of the day, Louis Napoleon has the largest
vote TO show. We do not see, therefore how Amer
cans, who profess TO believe in the right of the ma
jo:iy, consistently denounce the Emperor ru
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