From THe "Nonru-CurA Dar NEWS," or Ocroser 17, 1869 de French charge d'affaires at Peking, has been Count Rochechouart, Writing a letter to the "Journal: des Economistes on. the subject of Chinese Sheervations" on. the conditions of in which he makes sundry Chinese society which, we regret to say, place our Celestial brethren in a much less favourable light before the World than the account given by Mr lin game. He says, for instance, that the adulteration and other cheats in reason of the approach of a band of rebels for instance, the copper coins faM heavily in value, owing to their great weight, the Mandarins have a pleasant way of levying the taxes by silver standard, just as if the United States Government were, when gold was h, to levy its taxes in paper estimated in gold. He says that it would. never "do to abolish the Consular jurisdictions sin trading ports, and submit the Europeans to" the jurisdiction of the Mandarins, who, he Says, possess too few moral qualities, and are too ignorant, to make it possible to entrust them with the duty of doing justice between Europeans.
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