GOVERNMENT, which was created by the announcement of China's cession to Russia of the "'usufruct" of Port Arthur and talienwan has become reatly intensified during the past week.
Saturday there was only one London daily paper which did not more or less severely censure Lord Salisbury and his colleagues for what seemed to be the failure of their Far Eastern policy. And the Conservative papers were for the most part the strongest in their condemnation, for it is among the Conservatives that the Jingo party, or "war at any price" party, as their opponents now call them, is mainly to be found. Up to the present we have had Tittle information from the members of our own Government as to the effects of Russia's latest acquisition and our policy in regard to it; but last night we had assurance from Mr. Curzon in the House of Commons that Russia had given a guarantee that both Talienwan and Port Arthur would be open to foreign trade in the same way as other ports in China. On Tuesday Mr. Balfou- is to make a statement in Parliament on the whole question and as soon as papers in regard to it have been placed on the table there is no doubt that the Opposition will institute a lively port. debate on the question.
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