London, Nov. 9. Atthe China Association dinner Sir Charles Dudgeon, who took the chair, referred to the present crisis io China. He dwelt upon the danger of the abject surrender of the Government to the popular clamour as encouraging impossible demands.
He also referred to the extreme danger unless a trace is made between the combatants, that may lead to the combatants getting out of hand and attacking foreigners and foreign interests, leading to complications of which none can foresee the consequences.
Referring to the opium campaign in China, ho said that the traordinary revolution which had been witnessed would have been impossible except through the people themselves. He concluded b logizing the late Sir Robert Hart work,—Reuter.
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