The total suppression of piracy, the sti mulus to cultivation and regular industry in the Archipelago, the diffusion of British merchants and settlers, and the chargement of the prolific fields of inter-communication and direct commerce.will alike conduce to the advancement of the native tribes, and to the increased demand for British manufactures and trade. What a vast expansion do we even find in the fields for commerce in the East, at the present time, as compared with but a few years ago. Siam, Japan, and the whole of the Chinese Empire, Man chooria, and the Amoor river district, are now open to British trade. Four ports have been opened by the Butch in the Moluccas, and at Macassar. In* stead of being restricted to Manilla, we have two other ports open in the Philippine. The little colo nies of Laburn, Sarawak, and the extensive Dutch possessions Celebes, the Philippine Island, and Borneo, are all expansive fields of commerce, open ing up wider channels for our enterprise, and more fruitful marts for our purchases and consignments. If we take Singapore as an index of the progress of Eastern trade, we shall perceive how much may be done in a brief period, especially With the enlarg ed area opened to us, the increasing civilization, and the extended movements of shipping in the Eastern and China Seas. In a quarter of a century, the Straits Settlements have doubled their population and trade ; and Singapore, the great commercial 'en trepot' of the East, increases its commerce at th » rate of nearly a million sterling a year. One thousand square-rigged vessels, and from two to three thou sand native craft, now annually enter at Singapore, and the entire native and other tonnage employed in the trade of the Straits Settlement is from 800,000 to 1,000.000 tons. The prospects of future trade are dazzling in the extreme. Japan, Siam, Cochin* China, the Chinese Empire, and the Eastern Islands are the countries that will furnish the elements of this new commerce. China has a population of a million and a halt on her sea coast alone ; but we are now also admitted through her rulers to the in terior. Japan, with her population of 50,000,000, has recently, by treaty, permitted free intercourse with her people, highly advanced in civilisation. Siam is progressing favourably in the development of extended commerce. 