is to go on, as at present, developing her trade with China, leaving the Chinese, as regards government, strictly to themselves, A word about Russia. She has pursued aggressive policy in the East, and is steadily for fifteen years a qui ty but persistently pushing forward. She has no trade worth speaking of in China. What she wants is an outlet eastwards, and I think there is no doubt that she will soon obtain some isolated ports on the Pacific seaboard."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.