And bend having been already in the hands of the Russians since 1806. A new war with Persia at length extended the territory of this gigantic State beyond the Araxes, and as far as the Ararat; and at the peace of Turkmanchai, in 1828, the province of Arran was acquired. even at the present time Russia has not yet relinquished her endeavours, but is advancing with gigantic strides into the very centre of the Old World. At this moment, too, she is in Central Asia. Since commerce throughout the world has attained undreamt-of proportions, since steam has ploughed the briny ocean, since rails of iron have brought the remote nearer and caused distances visibly to disappear, thinking politicians can no longer overlook the incalculable bearing which the powerful development of a State must have, when it can at the same time offer one hand to the most ancient of cultivated empires-China counting thousands of years since her first existence-and give the other hand to the modern civilisation of Western Europe. It is, therefore, not an unprofitable task to examine. the events of recent times, and also to consider the nature of the newly-acquired Russian territories, and what advantages they may bring to Russia, and what influence her warlike operations may probably exercise over the States of Europe lying nearer to us.1 CANSTATT, March 1873. THE AUTHOR. 'Two books, which I should have liked to have used for the compilation of this work, have unfortunately not come to view; they are J. and R. Michel's The Russians in Central Asia,' London, 1865, 8vo, and J. MacNeil's 'The Progress and Present Position of Russia in the East.' 0.00 1.07 2.13 3.20 4.26 5.33 6.39 7.46 8.53 9.59 10.66 11.72 12.79 13.85 14.92 15.99 17.05 18.12 19.18 20.25 21.32 22.38 23.45 24.51 25.58 26.64 27.71 28.78 29.84 30.91 31.97 33.04 34.10 35.17 36.42 37.30 38.37 39.43 40.50 41.56 42.63 43.70 44.76 45.83 46.89 47.96 49.03 50.09 51.16 52.22 53.29 54.35 55.42 56.49 57.55 58.62 59.68 60.75 61.81 62.88 63.95 65.01 66.08 67.14 68.21 69.27 70.34 71.41 72.47 73.54 74.60 75.67 76.74 77.80 78.87 79.93 81.00 82.06 83.13 84.20 85.26 86.33 87.39 88.46 89.52 90.59 91.66 92.72 93.79 94.85 95.92 96.98 98.05 99.12 100.18 101.25 102.31 103.38 104.44 105.51 4.39 4.83 5.27 5.71 6.15 6.59 7.03 8.79 9.23 9.67 10.11 10.55 10.99 11.42 11.86 12.30 12.74 13.18 13.62 14.06 14.50 14.94 15.38 15.82 16.26 16.70 17.14 17.58 18.02 18.46 18.89 19.33 19.77 20.21 20.65 21.09 21.53 21.97 22.41 22.85 23.29 23.73 24.17 24.61 25.05 25.49 25.93 26.36 26.80 27.24 27.68 28.12 28.56 29.00 29.44 29.88 30.32 30.76 31.20 31.64 32.08 32.52 32.96 33.40 33.83 34.27 34.71 |