ART. I.--CUBA AND THE TRIPARTITE TREATY.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

ONE comprehensive glance at the horizon of international politics, is sufficient to satisfy the political reasoner, that he lives at a period in the world's history which has, indeed, no real prototype. Upon the old continent, a peace of two hundred years' duration, as profound as the eminently tame and tranquil disposition of the Chinese character could render it, pervading too, the oldest and largest empire on earth, has been suddenly terminated by the outbreak of a revolution which promises to effect an abiding and a radical change in the relation subsisting between the Asiatic powers, and in the whole progress of Asiatic events--a result as uncertain in its extent as momentous in its consequences, but which cannot fail to make a deep impression upon human affairs.