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country to this, and the 

 Chilian office similarly 

 to pay for the convey- 

 ance of its mails to the 

 United Kingdom. 2. 

 The land and marine 

 tariff not to exceed that 

 agreed upon by the 

 Berne Convention, the 

 rate collected in Eng- 

 land being 6d. for halt- 

 ounce letter ; 2d. for 

 papers not exceeding 4 

 oz. in weight; and 2d. 

 for each 2 oz. of books, 

 packets, and samples. 

 3. All the mails brought 

 by the English steam- 

 ers to any port in Chili 

 to be delivered to the lo- 

 cal post-offices, the con- 

 sulate post-office agen- 

 cies being discontinued. 



The Minister of Public Instruction continues 

 with unabated ardor and enthusiasm intro- 

 ducing improvements in the important branch 

 intrusted to him. One of his measures, which 

 justly deserves commendation, is a circular ad- 

 dressed to the rectors and professors of the 

 National Institute, in which he manifests his 

 desire to establish evening classes for adults, 

 where artisans may receive the instructions 

 they, stand in need of. The idea met with gen- 

 eral approbation, and it was decided that the 

 new institution should be forthwith inaugu- 

 rated. The public in general, and particularly 

 the working classes, highly approved of the 

 idea, and its author received the felicitations 

 of the press and the manifestations of the arti- 

 sans of Santiago. 



Institutes similar to that just mentioned 

 were to be established in all the provincial 

 lyceums. 



The new lycenm for girls in Valparaiso was 

 to be opened on April 24, 1877. Similar lyce- 

 ums for girls were about to be opened in Con- 

 cepcion, Valdivia, Serena, San Felipe, and Co- 

 piapd, and it was said that the example would 

 shortly be followed in Talca, Santiago, Chilian, 

 and Cauqnenes. 



Seflor Amunategui had sent a circular to the 

 provincial and departmental authorities, advis- 

 ing the establishment of elementary agricult- 

 ural schools. 



The amount expended on public instruction 

 in 1875 was $2,035,412, or more than one- 

 eighth of the entire national revenue. 



TheGovernment has decided that Chili "shall 

 not be represented in the Paris exposition of 

 1878, from motives of economy, the expense that 

 would be incurred being estimated at $30,000. 

 The news has been received with great regret. 

 Chili and Germany are perhaps the only two 

 nations of the civilized world that will not be 

 represented at that grand event. There is no 

 ddubt that this absence will be greatly preju- 



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dicial to us, and that Chili will lose a brilliant 

 opportunity of making herself known as a pro- 

 gressive nation ; but it is also certain that, to 

 figure worthily at the French exposition, a 

 considerable outlay would be necessary, which 

 it would be scarcely possible to face under 

 present circumstances." 



CHINA, an Empire in Asia. Emperor, 

 Kwang-Liu, formerly called Tsaeteen, born in 

 1872, a son of Prince Ch'un, and grandson of 

 the Emperor Tan-Kwang, who died in 1850 ; 

 succeeded to the throne in 1875. The area of 

 China proper is 1,554,000 square miles; the 

 population, 404,946,514; the area of the de- 

 pendencies, 2,419,300 square miles, and the 

 population 28,500,000, making in all 3,973,300 

 square miles, with a population of 433,500,000. 



The customs returns from the treaty-ports of 

 China for 1876 show a steady increase in the 

 foreign trade. There had been fluctuations, 

 of course, during the 14 years which were ex- 

 hibited for purposes of comparison, but the 

 gross result was that the total for 1876 was 

 two- thirds greater than that for 1664, as will 

 be seen from the following figures : 



The total for 1876 was swollen, perhaps ab- 

 normally, by the great rise in the value of 

 silk, owing to the failure of the European 

 product ; but even making allowance for this 

 exceptional increase, the figures compared fa- 

 vorably with those of any previous year. 



The share taken by England and her colo- 

 nies in this trade was more than three-fourths 

 of the whole, 118,867,000 taels, England alone 

 figuring for 56,141,000 taels, Hong-Kong for 

 41,843,000 taels, India for 16,801,000 taels, the 

 Straits for 1,463,000 taels, Australia for 2,378,- 

 000 taels, and New Zealand, South Africa, and 



