Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-12-06
THE GAZETTE.
MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1858
CHANGES IN ASIA.


There is scarce any thing more worthy
Of nole in the present ASH CT Of the world
than the breaking up OF Oriental conserva-
tism. Within lew years past changes have
bon introduced and relations with the Powecs
vi Cblistendom esta6lished-sitber vo!unta-
~ or compulsive-which look like the be-
g,nning of new condition Of society and poll
Iy IN Asia.
In Persia-for long time past decliu-
Ing PJwer-great reforms are taking place
Since the dismissal from Office OF Sadrazin
Mira Aga Chan, the Shah has been regIs-
ting the finances and recognizing the army
upon European footing. Several efficient
European officers have been engaged to teach
tue use of different firearms to the Persian
army. Gen. krisoh, former Austrian OH
Ger, is organizing the artillery; Col. Bar
bara, aNeapolitan, is instructlns the cavalry
and guard of the Shah; while number OF
French officers, who were engaged ty Feruk
Chan on his last visit to Europe, are likewise
in the military service. line reforms OF tie
present ruler of Persia extend not only TO
military but to the entire government OF the
country. European ideas are invading that
ancient monsrchy, which has remained Tor so
many ages in the same imperfect stage u
civilization.
The progress of Eastern Russia is one OF
the remark able pbenomena Of the present
tine. Siberia has been civilized by the ex-
lies sent tbitber, and by voluntary emisra-
ton from Russia, till nearly four out OF tie
five million iuhabitants Of that region are
Laropeans or of European descent; more tor
luua,e than their western kinsmen in this,
that there is not serf among them. %
their southern frontier the Russians have
been slowly but steadily encrCachlng on the
Tartar provinces. They have gradually ah-
soroed and changed the character OF al
most the entire province of Msntchooria.-
Russian cities, manufacturing towns and
traders posts are sprlnging up on the 0suks
of the Amoor as they spring up III our est
ern country.
Whateveser doubts may be entertained
by SOM, of the opening of free intercourse
between China and the civilized world, one
thing is certain, that there never has been 80
strong desire on the part of the nations OF
Christendom to break through the barriers
she has set up against the intrusion Of for
eirners, as there DOW is. All the rest OF the
world seems to be conspiring against China
auQ her probibitory system. Ravaged aud
weakened as that country is by civil wars.
she must be fortunate indeed II she can long
Withstand the assaults of the power VI the
whole trading world, bringing their naVies
to open her ports ut the cannon's mouth
Treaty after treaty is extorted from her, each
treaty probably to be made the sui Jcct Of
new misunderstanding, which will 10 fol-
lowed by a demand for larger concessions.
We may presume that it will not be possible
for CHINA long to escape being dragged into
If thoea inHnences ~ hieh ran
idly changing the character OF the East.--
Whether a frser intercourse with China
would be of any benefit 10 our own country,
except 10 mercantile point OF view, and
whether the commercial advantages might not
be more than counterbalaDced by certain
moral miscblefs, are pOibts which we Will
not stop to discuss.
japan, so long closed to ell nations but the
Dutch, and hitherto little known to the Euro
peau world, is opened to the commerce OF
Cnristendom, and diplomatic Intercourse Is
promised With the Powers whose vessels she
admits to her ports. If We may believe the
favorable accounts lately given OF the people
of that country, they are more likely to be
contaminated than made better by their H.
tercourse with the people Of Europe and
America-else there 10 no truth IN the maxim
that evil communications corrupt good man
ners. We have already seen, in one OF the
journals, a philantbropc expression OF sor-
70. for the virtuous Japanese, whose fate pro-
baby is to be corrupted by the coitaelon OF
Europeao vices.
Meanwhile tue Arab race in Northern Al
1lc4 sees the remains of Saraceu civilization
gradually becoming merged 10 tho clvIllza-
tioo of Europe. It's not probable that France
viii remain content with the provinces she
now possesses in that region. TnnIs and
Morocco, if her system of Algerine clvlllzl.
tion should prove 10 any degree successful,
will fall mex. under her power. Egypt Is
becoming Europeanized-an Arab province
governed by European il tluence-sn arena
on which French and English enterprise
ere coEteDding Tor the mastery. 10 lu'Xey
the discgnteu,s Of the Mussulman popula-
ton, and the ourrages they have Committed
on the Christians, are caused by seeing The
progress of Frark influence, and bys consci'
Uu.nees of the danger that the CHRISTIANS
NAV become their masters and lawglvers. All
over Western Asia the useful and ornameu-
tai arts, in those forms in which they were
pr,ctised by the Saracsns, are passing INFO
di.use. The Arab women OF jericho wear
French ard English cslicoes ;tbe looms OF Man
chester weave cotton stuffs Tor the Mosems
ofD.msscus. French manufacturer 90 With
their workuen into Syria and set up mile
on the streams that fJw down from Lebanon.
The Indian peninsula, as soon as the re
bellion Of the natives is fully queled, will
become, under the new Organization OF Its
government, more unlike than ever to what
il was under it's Oriental rulers. The Eng
lish have obtained new station in the waters
that part Persia from Arabia; they have sell
zed the upoccupied island of Perrin, com,
manding the mouth OF the Enpbrates, and
will make it the resort of their fleets. Every
where the power OF the West ia agerandiSing
Itself; every where the power of the East
wanes and passes into deosy.-Ne" York
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