Latest Mail dates in Bugland, from China, [Nation Clause. Hitherto that article has provided that any contracting ronment and its subjects " will be allowed free and equal participation in all privileges, immunities, and advan. tages that may have been or may be hereafter granted to the Government or subjects of any other nation." Hence forth we may expect to have a stib tion forced upon us that the contracting Government and its subjects " will be expected to surrender and relinquish all privileges, immunities, and advan-
Long May 3} received June peaaay Moir Sene uh, OE acred upon some other Government tages now granted that may not be and its subjects which may here. sidence, on the 26th instant, li th This ai what iNaterz, native of Altenbruch, Germany, aged 39 years, it amoaute to in plain English, and utter disregard of existing Treaties Yet this what Corea is now doing towards Japan, and we repeat our assertion that she is doing it at the instigation of Cb It is to be regretted thnt the United States should have consented to so high a tariff that arranged for the, Shufeldt Teeaty. Not only will it baruper trade very seriously, but it will be used by Chins as a precedent of levying higher daties on foreign commerce here; it is for oar own interest, putting all other considerations aside, to prevent ite being forced upon Japan, and the interest of all of us to teach Corea at the outset that she cannot break a Vreaty, even at the behest of Chinn; If so dangerous a precedent were once admitted the troubles to which it would open the dyer would be practically endless. Some day, perhaps, Corea will mine ® reaty with Pera or Brazil, obtain from' it the right' to levy duties ut 80% ad valorem, and then xppenl to the mercy of Kugland, Germany, and the United States, begging them to forego the advantages they lad formerly secured and to sub. wit to a triple increase of taxation. This would only be the logical result of any concession that Japan may make to Corea at the present juncture; and. we therefore hope that the former country will be supported by all foreign Powers interested in the maintenance of their own legitimate Treaty rights, Bat there is another view which may be taken of this matter, and, if we mistake not, a very important one, Instead of commercial intercourse withthe West being regarded as a means of increasing the national wealth, it is louked on simply as a source of Government revenue, The benefit aceraing to the people from such commerce is entirely overlooked, and consequently it is taxed lo as heavy an extent as it will bear, Now we think it may be taken as proved that this Goverumoutal effort to get money
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