oth May. We are glad to know that H.M.'s Minister to Peking, Mr. O'Conor, has stated that he will have much pleasure in recommending to the most favourable consideration of Her Mujesty's government the memorial of the Lientsin Council of landrenters against the alie~ nation of one half of Victoria Park, Tieuitsin; and there should be every reason to hope that the memorial will be successful, for the case of the Council is a very strong one; so strong that we wonder what arguments Mr, Marshall could allege in recommending the government to put their half of Victoria Park up to public auction. The only argument mentioned is, that the community is not wholly composed of British subjects, and this the Council are quite right in characterising as wnsound. The community of Shanghai is a cosmopolitan one, and yet the British government presented it with four field guns complete, and continue to make grants of ammunition to it; but Tientsin is much more of a British community than Shanghai is, for, as the Tientsin Council point out, though there are foreign residents and foreign landrenters in the settlement, they are only a small minority, "they are all subject to the British Land Regulations, have the same duties as the British, and pay the same taxes towards the maintenance of the settlement, and their war vessels contribute in greater proportions than their numbers demand, to the defence of the settlement during the winter season." In fact, the British Concession at tientsin is administra tively a British colony, and the foreigners who come to reside in it accept the British regulations, and their presence should no more be allowed to divert the bounty of the government
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