25th November, THE proposed tariff for textile goods, which amount to about sixty per cent of the import trade of China with foreign countries, has been accepted by the principal importing nations, and by Sir Robert Hart on behalf "f the Chinese Government, I This monument to the industry and ability of the merchants whose enterprise. and resourcefulness are sometimes as ignorantly as they re superciliously decried, has been wnup by a Committee of the China Association in conjunction with the American, Germun, and Japanese importing merchants generally; and it is unnecessary to point out how much its adoption must lessen the labours of the Tariff Com-
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