The sensible and moderate letter in reference to the Opium trade that we publish this morning will elicit the sympathy even of those who consider! the indictment against the trade not fally proven. The writer, who frankly declares himself nti-opiumist" of Tong standing, is wire enough to see that the effect of over-protestation is of righteousness and of ber sense of justice towards Indis, by patting period to the trade, Any diminution of that period will come as a result of a conviction that Chis sincerity hae haa its source, in dark places. Very sppositely, simoltaneonsly with the arrival of thie letter to which refe came an "appeal of the schools at Tientsin teel is sot out fally. It "An Appeal from China's Stodente to the British Nation," evidently with the intention ing the impression that a spontaneous emanation Chins. There is, how-.oce that the "appeal"
ion of " person endowed with a mivimom of jadgement and maximum of irreepoosibility. Where trath is not soppressed, fact comes near fied. A few quotations will "Opium continues to come in from abroad and we cannot stop po "The Viceroy (of the Two Kuang) has now resigned, because he was not able to protect his people " (against the black poison" from India.) "If you could only see the thousands to-day who are being rained by Opiom io China T (why I7—Ea.), am sore you would my, not another peand will we force (sic) China to buy." It is not worth while to give farther quotations. The "ay " would be beneath notice, were it not for the fact that it is intended for consumption by those in England whose prepossessions will incline them to accept it as the embodiment of trath and despair,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.