The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-07

to he the blrqcst-braincd race in the world,
while facts are against II, for signs OF pro-
grcse are not wanting among the Celcstials
The most striking and significant OF these
b their progress over the giope. Onth
comnaratiyely recent times China was q
world within world. IT was rs nearly as
possible seli-contained, its Budhistic re-
iipion being the only thing It Is known to
have borrowed from abroad. The Chinese
knew almost MS little about, and cared about
as little 10 visit, the outer world as they
would had Il been different planet. This
IL totally changed now. From the chief
ports along the Chinese coast constant
stream OF emigration COWS, and has flowed
for many years. with the result. that next
To ourselves they arc now the greatest
colonists In the world. The climate OF
Further India, siam, Nalaya, and the vast
chain of islands, great and small, extending
from Sumatra 10 Australia, suits the Chi
naman admirably, and these are being
gradually pcopled by this obliQuc-eycd
Monaghan race. Rangoon, In British Bur-
nah, contains 10000 Of them; Singapore.
the great commercial capital Of Malaya, has
$4,000 out OF total population OF 9).OOo.
Java has 100000; while the Straits Settle
| ments, according TO recent traveller,
f" are now virtually Chinese colonies under
the British flag" They are not merely
numerous in the Malay Archipelago; they
are also influential, the commerce OF those
regions being almost entirely in thelr
hands. In Australia they have OBJ
tanned a footing, and can make fortunes
nj the gold-diggings by working ovei
| NJ EnrOnp1r
digger. That they are no mean competi
tors in the industrial race Is seen in Tho
restrictions put on their entrance into thu
Australian colonies. They have made then
way to all the chief groups OF Islands in TIT
Pacific ocean, and have now become TN in
fIuential element in the population OF thu
Sandwich Islands, where they are fast SUI
pcsedng the indolent natives. They have
crossed to the New World. and are
gradually spreading eastward from Cali
foruia and the Pacific slope. Here
they have shown themselves able, and, tC
Judge from the persecution they have
been subjected to, more than able, &c
hold their own against the Americans
in the labor market. The United States
owes TO them the construction Of the Cali
fornian section OF the great Pacific rail-
way, and il NJ. de Lesseps should ever sue.
coed in cutting his canal through Central
America. ii will most probably be by the
aid OF Chinese muscle. Cinnamon are now
also found IN the West Indies and British
Guiana; while it must not be forgotten
that they are spreading westward from
China into Thibet, Mongolia, and Asiati'
Russia. Many OF the Chinese return tC
their own land to spend the evening OF theil
DAYS, where no doubt the sight Of theil
wealth forms stimulant to further emigra
ton, while their accounts OF western
civilization, with its telegraphs. tele
phones, and locomotives, must gradual!
prepare their countrymen for the introduc
ton into China OF those Improvements II
communication. 1t is as great coionizins
power that China has very special interes
for this country, the reason being, as wa
recently stated by Sir Rutherford Alcock
that, "taking their numbers and our own
il did not require to carry ones views very
far into futurity to see that there would b'
eventually two races which would occupy
the greater part OF the world. One wa
the Englsh.speaking race, which hat
already filled North America and stretched
into the Australian continent and the sur
rounding islands, and would very sool
count up to 2O0,000,G00, and the other wa
the 100000 of Chinese"