The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-07-13
From the N. Y. Times.
The Fate OF Asia.

All those gentlemen whose appelations end in
acknowledgements ethnos aphers, geograph
ersshoud feel peculiar interest in the present condi-
lion and promise OF that eldest continent OF the elder
world. Asia is actually devoured by it's chill en-.
Men are bu lis at work al demolishiny their primitive
home The cradle OF nations they knocking to pieces
Tor kindlng wood, that may go 10 inf me their own
bilious qnarres Less than three hundred years ago
Russia treated lis infant appetite Siberia that vast
region at the north, where the disciples of Boodh, the
Dalai Lama, and Jesus Christ, now blended 10 fel-
owshp. mineling their orisons TO their deilies and the
Gar The reign OF Catharine III witnessed renewal
OF the spirit OF Asiac annexation. Towards Persia the
Russian boundary has advanced thousand miles since
HE days OF the great Peter Persia, indeed, is
ishmus between the two invading oceans OF British and
Russian The prominent and almost the only seat
OF diplomacy the continent is Teberan, where the
voys of her British Majesty and Of The Gear wrese for
bits oil the crumblng monarchy. each jealousy resisting
the rayenous cravings of the other. England has par
cuar objections 10 seeing the Russian frontier confront
her the shores of the Undue Then 10 Syria ard
AS the less the spiritual authority now arrogaed by
the Gear essentially conquest of the whole OF those
historic climes; for if strong and vigorous States OF
Chgsendom obliged to watch The encroachments of
foreign spiritual influence with apprehension, as inter
eIing with their political unity how much greater must
be the danger for Turkey, political body in The last
stages of decepude IL was, moreover, but few years
sine Napier laundering at the gates Of Beyrout
Al the south England is eating into the continent like
sizeable rat into rich old St!ton cheese The Indian
peninsula has been seized, kingdom by kingdom, prov
nce by province town by town. Much of the approp
alton has been effected by force and arms-much by
busy intrigue and management. The friendship OF the
Eng shnan has probably been more mortal than his
bayoneis happy device has been employed TO render
po'en aes smaller and larger tributary the honorable
East India Company; and any deficiencies in the prvy
purse produced by tribute heavy have been yener
ousy and even lavishy, supplied in the way Of loan.
the payment OF which is eventually secured by seizure
OF tie debtors domnions Could any thing be more Just
Is il not the law OF civilized communities that obligations
TO pay shall be enforced upon The property of the den
quenls The conquest and anne ration of the Funjaub
were The work OF yesterday. To-day we learn that
large slice OF the Nzams territories has been secured for
the culture OF cotton chiefly. Birmah is in process Of
absorption Its more important provinces have already
been annexed. China tapped IN 1882 and exposed
to host OF civlizng and Chris,ianizng Influences in
GLIDING million pounds OF opium per annum preparatory
TO more conclusive treatment The ante ndane empire
Of the suo and moon is actually in a state of gaop
ing dissolution. What damage it does not in a suc-
da spirit ipfic upon itself will be left for the ready
hands of the foreign traders British, American, Rus.
stan, who stand in patient waiting, to gather the frag
menls, and reconstruct tributary empires for themselves
As for the islands about the shores, they long ago
parioned among the nations of the wes-D Dutch. Span
sh, Portuguese and Engsb The Japan archipelago
are LETT alone and only left because lie jealous
has EXCLUDED those commercial beginnings OF ruin which
have swept away all their companions Even now The
design definitely formed for their subsection ot,.u
With any respectable map before The reader. and red
line marked about those portions OF Asia not invaded by
Europeans and actually appropriated in OF ap
popriaon some idea may be formed Of the minu,eness
and worhessaess Of all that is m sborginsIly Asise
Trade and policy are no less mighty conquerors than
Alexander or Genghis Tamerlane. That they work
hardly less rapidly, the history OF hundred years dem
onsirates and their work stands forever Another
fury, and the plains of Tariay WILL perhaps, offer the
only exception the universal presence OF the Frank.