. William H. Seward's travels around the world. al enemy. The prestige of Great Britain throughout the world, even onthe European Continent, is derived chiefly from the dominion andthe influence she wields in the East, and the commerce which re-sults. This commerce, again, is the essential support of the manu-factures which are the basis of the prosperity of the English Britain, therefore, wisely spares no care and no cost in main- THE HALL OF SCIENCE. 139 taming not only a diplomatic force, but a naval predominance, intlie East. India, China, and Japan, are her proper theatre. In
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. al enemy. The prestige of Great Britain throughout the world, even onthe European Continent, is derived chiefly from the dominion andthe influence she wields in the East, and the commerce which re-sults. This commerce, again, is the essential support of the manu-factures which are the basis of the prosperity of the English Britain, therefore, wisely spares no care and no cost in main- THE HALL OF SCIENCE. 139 taming not only a diplomatic force, but a naval predominance, intlie East. India, China, and Japan, are her proper theatre. Inthis great national policy she necessarily encounters rivalry andresistance. She has appeared in China more than once as anenemy, and proved her power, as well to destroy as to protectand save. It suits her interest to be here now as a magnanimousfriend, like the United States. Long may the two nations remainin that accord ! November 1th.—¥e have just come from a visit to the for-lorn Hall of Science. The Church of Kome has been perse- iPSi. ANCIENT OBSERVATORY, OP. HALL OF SCIENCE. vering in its attempts to Christianize China, but has left there,thus far, only monuments of its failure. One of them is the Ob-servatory, otherwise called the Hall of Science. The greatProtestant Reformation in Europe was, as every one knows, fol-lowed by a hardly less remarkable reaction and revival of theEoman Catholic Church originating in the inspiration of Ignatius 140 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. Loyola, and conducted chiefly by the Society of Jesus which hefounded. In 1680, the Emperor Kang-Hi erected on the wallof the Tartar city an observatory, committing its construction and•superintendence to Jesuit professors, with a munificent procured in Paris, Venice, Genoa, and London, bronze astro-nomical instruments, the most perfect that science had at that timesuggested, and of stupendous magnitude and magnificent instruments, set up in the open air, and th
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