Whon to these qualities untiring industry nnd ha bitual self-denial were added, there was no wonder Chinamen prospored, particu larly in countries like Australia, Now Zealand, and America. Besides, the Chinaman never took to extravagant liv ing, and never got drunk ; in fact, dur ing the whole of the speaker's 15 years' residence, he had only seen ono China man drunk. The exception was namod Oats-eye, and he had boon for several yean on boird a man-of-war. It wm true that they ofton got jovial in the evening, from the effects of drinking a liquor distilled from rice, which wan some what similar to whisky, l)iit^hc> wore essentially a most sober racM. '' mon. Rice was their staple food, no nattor liow much money they possessed. The wonlthi* Chinamen were, however, vory fond ol| lavishing money on curios, antique, bronfse, porcelain, drawings and paintings, as men of money among onrsolvos uHimlly do. He was not thore as a Chinese advo oate, and therefore did not want to koop anything unfavorable to thorn in the back ground. It was usual to speak of China men an being a nation of semi-civilised or soini-barbarous people, but anyone taking the trouble to thoroughly investigate tho matter, would find that they wove in a marked degree mentally cultivated. The uneducated Chinaman, though ignorant, yothadan intolligont command of his facul ties, and oould bring thorn to boar on any subject brought under his notice Ho (the speaker; hnd had considerable ex perience of the uneducatod pronlo of tho oounties of Berkshire and Buckingham shire, England, and he could affirm that they would not compare with tho lower and uneducated Chineso classos. Tho Chinese had a literature seoond to none in the world, if the Christian element wore excluded, and as to tho quality of that literature he could speak, having read their classics, and ho considered that in no respect did they fall short of those of Greece and Rome. When it was con sidered that those classics had furnished the intellectual life of the Chiuoio nation for over three thousand years, everyone must be prepared to admit that there was something lasting and substantial in the literature of China. Thero were nine classical works in existence lxifore the time of Solomon, and the people owed all their intellectual advancement to the study of those works. 