We acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of a copy of a work entitled ' Treatis coen the Empire of China and Foreign Powers," edited by Mr. W. F. Mayers, Chinese Secretary to Her Britannic Majesty's Legation at Peking, and published at the North-China Herald office, Shanghai. Among various treaties gi i al which have been abrogated and others which have never been ratified but which are historically interesting. The volume is well printed and bound and reflects great credit on the publisher.—Daily Press.
We have received from the North-China Herald office of a copy of the Treaties between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers" just published by our contemporary. The book is convenient in size, neatly and strongly bound, and consists of no less portion of the various Regulations which have been successively agreed upon during the last sixteen years, and the recently concluded than 230 pages. It contains all the Treaties that have been concluded between China and Foreign Powers, together with the greater Treaty between Japan and Corea. Several instruments, though not now in force, find place in the work, as the French Treaty of 1844 and the United States Treaty of the same year; also, the Emigration Convention of 1866, and the Articles of Revision negotiated in 1869 by Sir Rutherford Alcock. This is, we believe, the only complete work of this kind that has been published, and it reflects considerable credit upon the enterprising office in question.—China Mail.
Many of our readers will have felt, at one time or another, the inconvenience of not having at hand for reference a copy of such and such a foreign Treaty with China. Several of these had never been printed. Others had been separately printed after negotiation, for semi-private use; others have seen the light in the columns of newspapers, and others again have been recorded in European publications such as the British and Foreign State Papers, compiled in London by Mr. Edward Hertslet, or in the Archives Diplomatiques, the corresponding Parisian work; but for all general purposes they have remained. virtually inaccessible. Under the editorship of Mr. W. F. Mayers, all the several treaties and agreements which have been from to time concluded to China with other nations, have now been collected and printed at the North-China Herald office in a convenient volume of some 250 pages. The large number of copies which have been subscribed for beforehand proves that the work will be especially welcome at Consulates, Legations, and Customs Offices, and we have no doubt it will be found a necessary book of reference by many private readers. Therd are some documents in it which will bye-nnd-bye call for especial notice. In the meantime we merely acknowledge the book, the subscription copies of which will, we understand, be distributed next week, as quickly as they can be prepared.—N.-C. Herald.
We acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the much needed volume, Treaties between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers, &o.," which, under the editorship of Mr. W. F, Mayers, Chinese Secretary of H.B.M.'s Legation at Peking, has been published atthe North-China Herald office. Since 1860, the editor tells us, no attempt has been made to bring together the greater Portion of the various Treaties and Regulations which have been successively agree upon since that period. The object of the present volume is to supply in a form adapted for easy reference, all treaties and regulations actually in force, from the Nankin Treaty between England and China signed in 1842; and a complete compendium of all the provisoes under which the internation relations of the Chinese Government are conducted are now within reach. The whole are bound in a well-printed, compact volume, with an elaborate index of subjects, which will render it most useful. All foreigners in the far-cast must have it, if they would Amow the precise terms of their residence and trading in China.—Shanghai Courier d+ Evening Gazette.
The Treaties between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers. Shanghai: The North-China Herald Office; London: Triibner and Co.—This work, to which we have already directed attention, will supply a want much felt at the present time. It collects together all the treaties between China and Foreign Powers, and thus makes it easy to refer to our actual position upon any given. point, which it is impossible to ascertain without consulting other treaties as in some cases we are entitled to more than is expressed in our own treaty, by virtue of the most favoured nation clause. The present collection gives, in addition to the different treaties, the various regulations agreed upon from time to time; and has also Sir Rutherford Alcock's Convention of 1869, and the Chefoo Agreement, now under consideration of the Governmerit.—London and China Express.
"NORTH-CHINA HERALD" OFFICE, Suaxcuar, June 1878.
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