A Year in China - And a Narrative of Capture and Imprisonment, When Homeward Bound, on Board the Rebel Pirate Florida #233327

The great rebellion which, for fourteen years past, has raged in China with such prodigious waste of human life, is now brought to an end. The empire, delivered from this danger and this drain upon its resources, may now turn its attention solely to the arts of peace. Report ascribes to the present Govern ment a disposition to allow entrance to the ideas and improvements of European civilization. The country has been opened to the teachers of Christianity, and there are signs of a willingness to adopt new and bet ter modes of intellectual and moral training.