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Per str. Paxtah, from tsin and Chefoo V. Grant, Blethen and J. no means prepossessing instrument, the Convention of Chefoo. Calmly looked at, after nearly two years' experience, the pretended advantages are fonnd to have vanished into thin air, and there is not a single clause in the entire instrament which any one with a knowledge of our commercial or political relations would regret to see expunged. By those unacquainted with the course of trade in China, the oponing of certain petty ports to foreign trade has been put forward as a con cession on the part of the Chinese Government, the effect of which, Lord Salisbury rightly perceives, is more beneficial to the Chinese revenues than to british trade at large. We on the spot, who are more intimately acquainted with the conduct of affairs in China than the Secretary of State for India, and who have sources of information more extensive than those possessed probably by the British Minister himself, are able to go further and say that the opening of the additional ports had been determined on by the Chinese Government prior to the Convention; and that the Police Court R. v, James Coburn Fatal Fall from a Verandah The Supposed Drowning Case Usirep States Covrt—Shu Hing v, M, Robins Mixed Court—Sundry Cases Currixes.
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