for H.E. and for H.E.'s Master would be for them at this critical junction of China's history to put their country willingly and entirely into the hands of Great Britain for general and thorough manipulation and management. In this way notanly would her riverine ditliculties be speedily overcome, but there would be some ground for hoping that China's integrity as a nation would be permanently and profitably secured. As things are at present we in "the Wild West "—bythe-by, a note has been made of this new and descriptive title of western China obtained from your columns—turn with trembling eagerness to your piges to learn whether China has been gobbled up by European vultures, or continues to linger on in a state of senile decrepitude. What is going to happen? Can you tell us?
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