Far be it from me to mike injurious deductions, or ref-tences as to caure and effect; it may be that the circulation of expresses in Chinese re purchas-e and sale of mules is subversive of the very execllont control and discipline in the port, of which the shooting of a Consular ware man, the fung on a pilot boat, and similar lite!e episodes are mere exceptions that prove the rule; or that the arrival of a Briti-h oticer ab a Trea'y Port occupied by the Russian authorities fur the benefit of all concerned, and in the interests of peace and commerce, for the purpys: only of purchasing mules, partakes too much of the nature of a fairy tale from the Muscovite point of view, or that it is not in,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.