fa copy of a work entitled Treaties between the Empire of China and Foreign ta r Britannic Majesty's Legation at Peking, and published at the several which have been abrogated and others which he volume is well printed and bound and reflects great credit on ruth-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 loss portion of the vations Regulations which have been suecessis cod upon during the last sixteen years, and the recently concluded 250 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, tind place in the work, as the French Treaty of 1844 and the United States Treaty of the same year; also, the Emigration C: ion 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 hias been published, and it reflects considerable credit upon the enterprising ofice 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. siter negotiation, for semi-private se: others have scon the light in the columns of newspapers, and othe have been recorded in European publications such as the British ant Foreign Sate 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 i ¢ been from to time concluded to China with other nations, have now been collected and printed at the North Herald o it volume of some 250 pages. The large number of copies which have been subscribed fur beforehand proves that dhe ally: at Consulates, Legations, and Customs Ottices, and we have no doubt it will be found a necessary aclers. There are some documents in it which will bye-and-bye call for especial notice. In ize the book, the subscription copies of which will, we understand, be distributed nest week, as quickly as ti C, Herald, We acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the much needed volume, "Treaties hetw of China and Foreign Powers, &e.," which, under the editorship of Mr. W. F. Mayers, Chinese' Socretar gation at Peking, has been published at the Nurth-China Heruld ofice. 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 ailations actually in force, from the Nanking Treaty between England and China signed in 1842; and a complete compen the provisoes under which the international relations of the Chinese Government are conducted are now within reach, hole 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-east must have it, if they would know the precise terms of their residence and trading in China,—Shanghai Courier & Evening Gucetto, The Treaties between the Empii The Nurth-China Herald Office; London: Trithner and Co.—This work, to which we ly directed attention, will supply a want nich felt at the present time. It collects together all the treaties between China and Foreign Powers, and thus maces it easy to r-for to our actual position upon any given point, which it is impossible t. in without consulting other treaties ¢s in some cases we are entitied to more than is expressed. in our own treaty, by virtue of the most 'U nation clause. The pres ut collection gives, in addition to the different troatis, the various regulations and has also Agreement, now under of the Government. ie Eutherford Alecek's Convent'on of 1869, and the Cheloo London and China Express, "NORTH-CHINA HERALD" OFFICE, Suaxcust, June 1878.
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