But Braise 22 Yonah, enti, ey 8 Fasehom jengcons Naguat ment of the Porte, the lesser or second Eastern Question is concerned with Russia and the Government of Peking, a Power in many respects resembling that of the Sultan, To narrow the affair to the struggle for the possession of Kaldja is as idle as it would have been at the beginning of the Crimean War to have called it the affair of Silistria, The difficulty is one of vast proportions, as we see when we attempt to realixe the fuct brought prominently forward by a writer to the Times that Russian and China "have a common frontier for more than 4,000 miles Public writers at Home are compelled to notice the great importance of the re-appearance of the Chinese as a cou-siderable military power in Central Asia. The Chinese may be disliked, the Chinese may be ridiculed, the Chinese may be stigmatised as the non-progressionist. Power of the world, but they cannot be ignored. They are to have a voice in Central affairs, and that voice will be influential.
ADE Rested at Suse Avery careful and well-informed writer in The Quarterly Review has Force fron noted the fuct that the appearance of
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