CHILI. 



CHINA. 



Of the nitrate, 200,000 quintals (of 100 In October last it was reported in Colombia 

 pounds each) were sold by auction at Valpa- that a treaty had just been concluded betweer 

 raiso, in March, 1880,f or account of the Govern- that republic and Chili for the submission to 

 ment of Chili, at from $3. 75 to $3.85 per quintal, arbitration of all questions in dispute between 

 As for the guano, it is to be sold for account the two countries. The arbitrators were to 

 of the Peruvian bondholders, but subject to a be chosen by each party, and, in case they did 



royalty of 1 2s. per ton to the Chilian Govern- not agree, the matter was to be referred to 



ment. The yield to Chili, from the nitrate of the President of the United States. It was 

 Tarapaca, will also be in the form of a tax, the also stipulated in the compact that all the oth- 

 aggregate amount of which, in the opinion of er nations of America should be invited to be- 

 the most experienced, can not exceed $600,000, come parties to it, so that in future there might 



a sum perhaps sufficient to defray the costs of be no possibility of such a war arising as that 

 the new province (in the now probable event existing between Peru and Chili. The city of 



of Chili's ultimate success in the pending strife) ; Panama was the point selected for the meeting 



but " other means must be sought to pay off of the representatives of the different countries 

 the war debt." which may accept the invitation and wish to 



Referring to the " Annual Cyclopaedia " for join the compact, and the end of 1880 or the 



1879, where the amount of the national debt of beginning of 1881 was the time named for the 



Chili, on December 31, 1878, was set down at conference to take place. 



$63,182,544, we reproduce the following sched- The military and naval operations of the war 



ule, published in London, in 1880, for the same will be found in the article PEEU in the pres- 



period : ent volume. 



1858, 4* percent, foreign $7,774,000 CHINA, an empire in Asia. Emperor, 



ome I'iW!!*! Kwang-Su, formerly called Tsaeteen, born in 



15OO. o DOIHC O.UUJ.UU ) - rrr t+ T /~*i ^ T 



1865,6 " home i,38,ooo I 8 , a son of Prince Clvun, and grandson to 



i8<56,7 foreign 5,604,6;o the Emperor Tau-Kwang, who died in 1850- 



mill " ho r mf n ::; ::;:.:;::::::::::::: rS he succeeded to the throne misrs. The area 



" foreign.!!!..!!! "... 5,068,500 of China proper, according to Behm arid Wag- 



1873*6 " home ilP'sS ner ' s "^evolkerung der Erde " (vol. vi, 1880), 



foreign.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ii^BOO is 4,024,690 kilometres; population, 405,000,- 



foreign 6l ?f?^? - The area of the dependencies is estimated 



187?; 8 home!!! BJw'aoo at 7,789,060 square kilometres, with a popula- 



1878,9 " home 3.900,000 tion of about 30,000,000. The aggregate area 



Fioatin^Tbtin d is n 7S dOS &08&480 of the whole Chinese Empire may, therefore, 



1 - be estimated at 11.813,750 square kilometres, 



Total -...$77,654,238 w ith a population of about 435,000,000. The 



It will be observed that the old three per cent. om "y writer of note who estimates the popula- 

 debt is not here represented. These loans have ^on of China proper considerably below the 

 for the most part been invested in the follow- above figure, is the missionary, S. Wells Wil- 

 ing, and are mainly guaranteed by mortgage : Hams, the author of " The Middle Kingdom," 



Valparaiso and Santiago Railway $17,316,84292 ^ ho ' ir } a communication to the secretaries 



Southern Railway 9,366,845 82 or the American Board, expresses the opinion 



Talcahuano'a'nd'Chillan Raiiwa 6 OSo'lJ) 8 th&t the disastrous c * vj l wa 'S which have taken 



Oille Blanco....................**"./.*.*.!'.*". '65i,'oi)0 oj place in China have reduced the population of 



The Cochrane. Blanco, and Magallanes 2,5)7,151 24 China proper at least to 340,000,000. A letter of 



ThfExhibSnoTisis'.'.' eS 5? ? ish P Ride1 ^ th e head of the Catholic Church 



Valparaiso Lyceum 269>T7 03 in Corea, states that the so-called "Neutral 



Valparaiso Xtom-Ho'use " i 7?7402 52 Territor T " between China and Corea has now 



San Jose '.'.'.'.'.".'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.".'.'. ' 22,25000 *>een occupied by the Government of Corea. 



.Trrr-- The Bishop says (" Annals of the Propagation 



1 of Faith," 1879, fifth number) : " The land 



The total value of the exports for 1879 was through which we travel has been inhabited 



$36,620,226, and that of the imports $22,- only for a short time. A few years ago it was 



740,000, against $29,727,825 and $25,322,011 avast desert which separated China from Co- 



respectively for 1878. rea. The Chinese Government has sold the 



The post-office returns for 1879 show the land, and to-day small new dwelling-houses 



following figures: 7,572,987 letters and 10,- maybe seen everywhere. After the inhabit- 



000,000 parcels, newspapers, etc., against 6,- ants had felled and burned the trees, they tilled 



632,110 and 8,800,000 respectively in the year the land, which soon will be fertile. This tract 



previous. of land contains about 13,882 square kilome- 



To the remarks in our volume for 1879 on tres, and the Corean Government possesses 



the subject of public education, we have but upon it several houses." 



to add that, of the total expenditure of the Recent accounts of the population of Peking 



municipality of Santiago, the capital of the re- continue to be widely different, varying from 



public, in 1879, namely, $1,355,682, $49,423 500,000 to 1,650,000. The population of the 



was for schools. treaty ports is estimated as follows : 



