23 NOVEMBER 1850, Page 1
The wars narrowly escaped in Europe call to mind the
actual " state of war," or something very like it, in the far East—the remote Celestial Empire. It is difficult to penetrate the " Chinese wall" ' • but the scraps of news which come over the Imperial ram- parts to the outer barbarians do seem to indicate movements against the authorities, and perhaps the reigning power, that if not politically significant, are socially interesting, simply from their vastness. Banditti fifty thousand strong would be a revolution- ary horde " in Europe.
