2nd December, Tue "St. James's Budget," a weekly London journal fairly well printed on somewhat. inferior paper, whose merit is that it gives a very complete compilation of the news of the week, begins an editorial note on the first page of i's issue of the 25th of October with the words: "Can any trath come out of Shanghai? The question is one prompted by experience, but we do not intend to imply any disrespect of the special correspondent of the 'Stindard,' who forwards thence the terms of a new Manchurian Agreement which, he tells us, has been negotiated between Russia and China." We might ask what the Editor of the "St. James's Budget" dues intend to imply by his question, if it is not disrespect; but
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