We acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of a copy of a work entitled Treaties between the Eny re of China and Foreign Powers," edited by Mr. W, F. Mayers, Chinese Secretary to Her Britannic Majesty's Lezat a published at the North-Ghina Herald office, §i Among various treaties given, it contains sev ed and others which have never been ratified but which are historically interesting. ud and reflects great credit on the publisher—Daily Press.
Wo have received from the Nurth-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 than 230 pages. It contains all the Treaties that have been concluded between China and her with the greater portion of the various Regulations which have been successively eyreed upon during the last sixteen Treaty between Japan and Corea. Several instruments, though not now in force, find p ich Treaty of 1844 and the United States Treaty of the same year; also, the Einigi tion 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 stich 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 n 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. There subscription copies of which will, we understand, be distributed next week, as quickly as they can be propared.—-V-0, Herald, are some documents in it which will bye-and-bye call for especial notice, In the meantime we merely acknowledge the book, the We acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the much needed volume, Treaties between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers, &e.," which, under the editorship of Mr. W. F. Mayers, Chinese Secretary of H.B.M.'s Legation at Peking, has been published at the 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 tinder which the international 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-east must have it, if they would know the precise terms of their residence and trading in China.—Shanghai Courier e: Ecening Gazette.
The Treaties beticeen the Empire of China and Foreign Powers. Shanghai: The Novth-China Herald Office; London: Triibnor and Co.—This work, to which we have already 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 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 adilition 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 Government.—London and China Express.
"NORTH-CHINA HERALD" OFFICE,
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