Tue article which reached us the Times w few duse ago on Russia and England in Asin? will have been read with keen interest and appreciation the writer in all his conclusion here are, however, few Englishmer who will not agree with its eucr,—namely, th high position! im. portance, quoad CI a, of the accession of the Conserentives to power, and the equal iinportnuce of close intercourse between this country and India, Whatever a mmn's views may be on loon! government, the extension of the fran chise, or the reform of the Inud lima, a few yenrs' experience of life in the Fa Exat is generally enough to mako a strong Conservative in all mutters of foreign policy; for in a Conservative Government he sees something like n guarnntes thut his rights will be reapeoted, that foreign interesta will be looked rifter, that the Foreign Office will be guided by a firm hand, and that the Governments of Eustern Asin will be denke with in a spirit of rectitude combined with vigour, And there enn, we believe, be no doubt that a Con. servative Guverntent is not only more apevted, bub more trusted, by Oriental Powers than a Liberal Administration, We have heard the romuk attributed If Chinn ever suspected of designs upon her territory such suspicions have long been a thing of the past. She is getting slowly to understand what is meant by niges on equal terms, and that rela-8 between States are not confined even by those who hesitate to follow to the old Confacian dogma of the: Chinese, we repeat, are begi grent State protecting the small one, That was the only idea which possessed of international whips; for the treaties entered into among themselves by the States of the Chou dynasty scarcely count, seeing that all were subject to a common euzerin, The only encroachment nimed ut by Great Britain is not territorint bnt commercial, This has at last been forced home to the convictions of the nese, who know that the exact reis the case with Russia, and who ow leo th tend of our being the is of Russi al nggrandisement. atthe expense of we—we, that is, in India who lave ® common ground for withstanding the schemes of Rassin, But any alliance based upon this common ground is we bee lieve li ible with a Radical Government in power at St. Stephe: Lhe Chinese do not trast the Liberale, while they do trast the Conser and know that tie Cor what the Liberals have Lord Dafferin on the subject of opium, tina De between his Government and may expect to see whut we have so long and earnestly desired, the jestatlishment, not only of friendly relations, but of solid polities! con fidence, between see that their i ts ure identical conmercinlly, and it is of the utmost importance Uint this doctrine be forced home to their convictions, Once let them be convinced of a trath, and they will act upon it, But much, if not all, deponda upon the continuance in power of Lord Sulisbury's administration, "The folly and madness of the Radical attempt to ignore foreign affairs," to quote the Times article once more, "and the grave dangers to the ovuntry if such action be taken, are only too evident when we have to deal with such a question" as that now insisting upon jonrattention, An alliance with China, based not on disintorestednens but on common interest, is the cheapest and most effective method of defending India; and that can only be brought a that she has n strong and united rument to deal with—n Govern-ut with w firm, clear policy, and word it is possible to depend upon auwaveringly.
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