If there is one thing calculated to make the foreigner hopeless of a bright future for China, it is the conceited assumption of wisdom, com-
anything beyond their own immediate circle, bined with the most deplorable gen displayed by a number of the Chinese writers in the native newspapers of this Colony. Many of these persons have mixed with Europeans here for a considerable number of Fein, hate more, or less knowledge of the language, have had an abundance of Boglsh books of all kinds a heir rma ing themselves by ecquaisted in short, have ample 0 unity of
with our institutions and practices; but not-Withatanding this, and in face of the fact that,
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