To the Editor of the Sir,—Thé, long expected publication of the Tientsin Blue Book has at last'taken ace, and in certain quarters an impression arisen that the British Charge d'Atfaires has been found to have turned out otherwise than was expected, and to have placed the nation he represents in an honourable and favourable light, before the eyes of the Chinese Authorities. I am sorry that'I cannot endorse this view. It seems that after a long period of self-delusion, one or two truths have dawned on the mind of Mr. Wade. He has managed to seo, fifty years after everybody else had seen it, that it is wise to be firm in dealing with Asiatics. This fact occurred to Lord Macaulay when Mr. Wade was in his perambulator, and has been an axiomatic truth with the majority of foreigners familiar with the East. With regard to the murder of Sister Louise ho seems, however, tohave been asblameworthy as he was always supposed to have been. Instead of his sympathy and indignation being stirred to their depths by the fact of a countrywoman having been brutally tortured to death, he seems to have thought that it was his primary duty to see that her -wrongers obtained no punishment from En-Hier'Majesty's Government would raise any lish hands. He did not suppose that
separate issue on that account if the Government of France accepted the arrangement on behalf of the other Sisters—two of them Belgian and one an Italian." True to the instinct which taught him what poli-ey would accord with the Home views, the British Representative gave the hint, as it were, to the Foreign Oitice that they need not be under any apprehensions of his remitting home any recommendations likely to cause trouble. Mr. Wade knew that at this peculiar time the advisers of the Queen are prepared to submit to any
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