The anxiety in regard to. Rossia and the Chinese question has shown itself ina multitude of questions to Mr. Curzon in the House of Commons, and the terms of the agreement by which China has bound itself to maintain the integrity of the Yangtze Provinces have been: eagerly awaited and strongly criticised. "It must be confessed, however, that. the guarantee which Great Britain has secured from China on this France obtained with regard to the south-int is quite as definite as that which western provinces. But the importance of Sir Claude Macdonald's dispatch embodying the guarantee has been discounted to some extent by the amusement occasioned by an azing. little joke perpetrated by some one in the Foreign Office. In the middle of the dispatch, as it sprinted, in the Paris: mentary Paper issued yesterday, Sir Claude appears suddenly to diverge from his sub-1d ject in order to criticise adversely his own grammar, or rather the grammar of a person Whose name has been rendered by the nuters as "Sir Claude Mnddonald." Un-Rrtunately the critic himself falls into an error of grammar quite as bad as that which he condemns, for he refers
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