the Editor of the The sincerity of the Indian Govern-he sincerity may be more open to qnettion, though for my own part I am convinced of it. The ability of the Indian Goveroment to carry out ite promises is undoubted, it has absolute control of the production and of the ex-ort trade. The ability of China to accomplish the herculean task to which she has pledged her honour and to has vet her band is quite fter. The is eight times as big as that of trade: the production is in hands, scattered over several ravinees; and, as has been proved in ibansi, can only be controlled with difficulty at the best and in the course of several years, In other places, for various reasons, there is far less progress, The fact is that the machinery for effective control, as effective taxation, of the native proda does not exist. Public opinion will do more than anything else, and the Sab greenest, (only medinod ta one or two details), hss a real value in keeping up the pressure of public opin ion. It is s real help to the genuine sufi-opiam movement in China, In the name of common sense, and of the have at heart, do not let os interfere from outside to out off the pressure which this agreement brings to bear on the officials and people of the provinces where at present the antiopium movement is weakest, Tam, oto, Peking, November 11.
Nonru-Onrma Dalny News.
8in,—Sensible people do not inter-fore with the dinner while it is belo cooked. When the cook refuses to got it ready to pot on the fire, and the cook's help refuses to make up the fire ready for the pot, the hungry man is wise to apply all the pressure he can to hasten the movements of the one and the other. But once the pot is on the fire, the wise man leaves it alone. The' parable illustrates the wisdom of letting the Opium Qoestion alone. The which 1g conducted out.
England, io order to per-wade the British people to demand the immediate suppression of the Indian Opiam trade, is s distinct attempt to interfere with the pot while it is on the the agitators are not careful, they will ruin the dinner,
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