'The most influential daily paper of Can ton, has recently been attempting to rouse the' Chinese from their customary and fatal indifference, by bringing to their notice the plains and purposes of the insatiable Western mations, so far_as they concern China. We bring to the notice of our readers two leaders, the first of which pur= ports to he a translation of the will of Peter the Great.. After exposing, by a the perfidious treachery that obtains in its every caph, and point= ing out the failure of itali, beesuse Europe got wind of the existence of this will in ae, and 0 counter-checked Russia, the for tries to rouse Chinato the threatening danger by st she will now be attacked. leader deals with modern polities, and really talcly grasps the present trend of events. The editor a pears to he moved by a keen dislike of Eurwions, and viciously panders to the of the Chinese to distrust forcisners, by misrepresenting all the earlier intercourse between the former and the British. Yet, we can hardly wonder at that, the Chinese being what they are. The picture he paints in this second leader should rouse the people, and possibly will, But to w at? To a deeper and distrust of all Europeans. Itis impessible to croute any real harmony, whilst the most important "daily" of a great commercial centre like Canton, thus re~ presents all foreign nations as equally
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