BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. DLXVIII. FEBRUARY 1863. VOL. XCIII. CONTENTS. PROGRESS IN CHINA.—PART II., 133 CAXTONIANA.—PART XIII., 149 NO. XIX.—MOTIVE POWER (_Continued_). HENRI LACORDAIRE, 169 LADY MORGAN’S MEMOIRS, 188 A SKETCH FROM BABYLON.—CONCLUSION, 205 OUR NEW DOCTOR, 223 POLITICS AT HOME AND ABROAD, 245 EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, 45 GEORGE STREET AND 37 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. _To whom all Communications (post paid) must be addressed._ SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH. BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. NO. DLXVIII. FEBRUARY 1863. VOL. XCIII. PROGRESS IN CHINA. PART II. THE TAEPINGS AND THEIR REMEDY. It would have required many cycles of Cathay to bring to the councils of the Court of Pekin the enlightenment we have alluded to in our last Number, if the populations over which it ruled had not threatened to outstrip the Government in the adoption of European ideas. Petty sedition, which had always been acknowledged in China as the expression of the will of the people, suddenly assumed an alarming form, and threatened to subvert not only the present dynasty, but, what was of far greater importance, a much venerated constitution, the result of the collective wisdom and experience of twenty-five centuries.