GORDON ON FRANCE AND CHINA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1978, 12 March 1885, Page 4

GORDON ON FRANCE AND CHINA.

A writer in the Pall Mall Budget says that in a conversation about twelve months ago with fJcnoral 'Got don, the lattei made the following remarks eon corning the prospects of a Franco-Chinese w,\r : — The Chinese will not go to war As foy their ability to annoy the French, in case wai should break out, you will lvmembei that I gave them advice which I still think is good. Let them not fight the French in open field, but harass them by night attacks, tiusting to the hun, the climate, and the exhaustion of the cunpaign to weaken their adversary That advice is as good now as when I w rote it, although some people took it as a joke. France could not do China much harm. The Chimse care little unless the French take Pekin with much more expense than they care to incur. The Chinese, moreover, would equip privateeis, any number of which would be furnished them by Amirica, torpedo boats, &c, &c, with winch they enn do a great deal of mis chief. As for the Chinese, I belies c they are the coining race. They are destined to overcome the woild and to occupy it It is written, "In those latter days people «.hall be without faith." This will be fulhiled in the domination of the eai th by the Chinese, who are strictly without faith. It is difficult for me to belie\e that any Christian nation can so far fall away from belief as to " become entncly without faith." It is to ue accomplished by the Chinese overrunning the world. They are upright and industrious, and will establish hongs in London instead of exporting their tea by deputy — by agents, and before long they will gradually absorb the commerce and wealth of the world. Li used to tell me, w hen talking about the railways and telegraph, " We will have telegraphs, because they are the ear, and it is well to hear ; but we will not have lailways yet." " You push us now ; but you will find, perhaps, that we will go too shaip for you some clay." And so they will ! Could you see the Chinese merchants established in the gieat Euiopean warehouses the re^t of the woild would pass into the lunrls of China." "Itis a bad lookout for us," I said. " Yes," said he, " but there it is ; and it is coming."

A chuvtv old bachelor says that Adam's wife was called K\e because when she appeared mau's day of happiness was cliawiug to a close. Jonfs : 'Hallo Smith, haven't seen you for a week, been sick ? You ought to to take a holiday. ' Smith : ' Just got back fiom one, and ft el exhausted of course. A few days' work m the office will settle me all light again. ' Said the Due d' Orleans at a reception in Paris, 'Theie is nothing more beautiful than a lovely woman sleeping. ' 'Yes smilfd M. Tallyrand, 'provided she does not talk in her sleep. 1 Discovery of a Stalvptitk C'avk — The discovery of a \ery line stalactite cave near Tumut, New South Wales, is reported by the local paper. A party started from Tumut to pay a visit to the Yaiungobilly Caics. As some of them were walking along at the foot of the gieat limestone terrace, which runs noith wards from the caves, one of them noticed, half-luden l>y shrubs, a small opening in the iock, which he took to be a wombat hole, and lie ctawled down the aperture, the other following. It was a work of some difficulty, but after sliding down a sloping bank for some little distance, the explorers were able to stand upon their feet, and lighting their candles they found themselves in a giand ca\e filled with large stalactites in all their pristine beauty. At the far end of the chamber, cut in the rock, wns the name " Ben H.i 11," and bc-ide it were the initials "A. il. J." No other inscriptions weie found, and it seems within the bounds of possibility that the secret cavern might at some time have been the hiding place of the notoiioiiB buslit anger. Having taken a ha^y look at the place, the explorers returned £o their frknds and communicatrjl the discovery. Five of the party then entered the cave, when the extra lignt revealed some beautiful chambers below them, only partly visible thongh a large chasm in the floor of the apartment. Mn Sai-a in San Fraxcisco.— The first of George Augustus Sala'c two lectures was delivered to a crowded audience, in Plate's Hall, on the 11th Feb., and a more entertaining and instructive lesson upon many points of modern history it would be difficult to imagine. Although entitled " Personal Reminiscences," it was entirely free from that egotism which so often characterizes lecture?, and which, in such a lecture would have been not only very pardonable but accepted almost as a matter of course. From begining to end the audience was fascinated with the fine language, the finished sentences, the teeming illustrations and the modesty of thy speaker ; and when, with unerring skill, he rapidly sketched, in the most graphic manner, wordpictures, now of a magnificent wedding or coionation, now of a sombre funeral or a lying in state, the most frivolous must have readily confessed th.it something else was necessary besides the mere possession of pencil and paper to make a «peeial correspondent. Sala's tribute to Eng'ind's virtuous Queen must have been gratifying to the many Englishmen who naturally flocked to hear their countryman, and it showed them that he was not afraid to vindicate the character of a noble woman who does not always receive the most generous and manly treatment at the hands of her fellow-craftsmen in this country. As one after another the lecturer marshalled the great men he had seen and apoken to, described their personal appearance and happily hit off the characters with sparkling anecdotes, one could not but confess that the life of a journalist, thongh fraught with danger and hardship at times, nevertheless has piivileges which few others can enjoy. The British spirit of the lecturer came to the fore when, in referring to the disasters in Egypt, he spoke in touching terms of General Gordon's sad fate, and declared that, sorely pressed as the English are now, they had been in worse plights before, and had no intention of throwing up the sponge. Speaking of his friend Lord Wolseley, he assured Englishmen that he was a man in every sense, and one who would thoroughly uphold British interests and be worthy of the long line of British Generals- a sentiment which met with that deserved approval whicli a man is sure of when, without boasting, ho speaks well of his •wn countrymen in a foieign land. 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