Sennor po Roza has on reason to be proud of the success which has ultimately attended his negotiations at Peking. For the first time Portugal enters the charmed circle of the 'l'reaty Powers, and if the treaty is not exactly in accordance with the protocol signed at Lisbon, it is quite as efficient for all] I practical purposes. The Consuls of portugal will no longer carry on their work on sufferance, as they have hitherto done; the claims of Portuguese sitbjects can no longer be ignored on the ground that treaty relations between China and Portugal do not exist. Generally, the treaty follows the lines of the treaties made by the other Powers with China, and there is a special article by which China recognises Portugal's right to dominion and_ possession in "Macao." The word "Macao" is used by itself, the vexed question of the dependencies of Macao being left in abeyance. It is the question of these dependencies that has caused the long delay in the conclusion of the negotiations, and Senhor Roza has done wisely in deferring for the present, the exact statement of how much territory "Macao" includes. A mixed delimitation commission is to be appointed, as our Peking ce indent stated the other, day, to settle the boundary line between Macao and China, and until the conelusions of this commission are accepted by both parties, matters are to remain in statu quo. This, we learn from the North, is the gist of the treaty, and by this Portugal practically gains everything that was arranged at Lisbon. If the frontier commission should disagree as to the line, or if either China or Portugal should be unwilling to accept the boundary agreed upon by the commission, matters simply remain as they are now; and however discontented the Viceroy Canton, may be with the present pouitios; and anxious to restrict the Portuguese to the occupation of Macao in its strictest sense, he cannot move in the face of the eearged treaty. Senhor Roza has had a hard battle to fight, and must have felt discouraged more than once, as he found the T'sung-li Yamen, at the instance of HE. Chang Chi-tung, trying to back out of the agreement which they authorised Sir Robert Hart's agent to conclude at Lisbon; but he has been patient and persistent, and has been aided by his colleagues, whose sympathy has been accentuated by his personal qualities, and we congratulate him on the success that has crowned his efforts, and cannot but allow that he has amply merited the handsome reception given to him on the 11th inst. by our Portuguese fellow-resident:
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