In reference to. the movement now been made to obtain, if possible, an improvement inthe currency, it ae been remarked "The idea is all very good; and if we ca to Hongkong for the purpose of improving the Chinese currency, then by all means make the effort; but we didn't, We came here to make as many dollars as possible i the shortest time, and then to getaway. The a you advocate will never come in our time, The Chinese will go on chopping dol-Iara, say what you may." This appears to us rather shallow argument, and amounts to a begging of the question; whilst at the same time we are willing every allowance for the natural impar thence which is here displayed. We would hardly have Englishmen other than a little impatient during the early days of their Chinese experience. It would argue an absence of some of those qualities by which many of the best of them are distinguished, and which have tended to make Britain' what, she in to-day The quiet equanimity and undisturbed. possession of many of the older hands ix, not always the result of growth in grace,
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