Kreyor Undy Li and'son, Mr. and Mrs, Hi spent in intimate intercourse with Chinese officials of all grades and of every shade of national opinion. Both, too, might expect and should be content to be smitten friendly and reproved; for an impartial retrospect of inter. national relations must inevitably call. up frequently recurring pictures of niutual wrongs. According to the known capacity of the man, would, of j needs, be the width or narrowness of the political insight we should expect him to display; but however small a credit ho might have with us on this account we should be dismayed to find him treating the related affairs of Dancing and Balls in India and in England..
England and China in a parochial spirit. And in trath we read with nothing short of dismay an article on Communoral Tables of 417 Silk and Cotton Exports, Share Quotations england, 12 Hankow, Ban Frauicisco, y, 13) Yokohanin, Teotin, 201 Foochom, Hongkon oct, 20 Nagasaki, is Latent Mail dates in England, from China, Sea cA} teat soe 2 Day of monte, bail; 2. malta:, Force from 1 to 12, The Future of China, conceived in bree cisely this spirit, and contributed by the late British Consul at Shanghai to the September number of the Conteme porary Review. A British merchant presently engaged in the China trade, or recently retired from it, might perhaps be excused were he found discussing in terms of approval poli tical changes of the utmost gravity, which, with more than questionable sagacity, be should consider likely to
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