What the Anglo Saxon race have not colonized, she will, without in any way taxing men from work or wealth from productive employment, - she will have an army and navy all despised, The look out, assurance is of the most serious kind, and these changes will make themselves felt with increasing rapidity.
From the lower standpoint of foreign interests in China, one groans under certain aspects of these changes, but from the higher ground of humanity one ought to welcome them: welcome them or weep over them however, one cannot prevent or delay them.
I do not suppose that the loss of Opium Revenue or Cotton manufacture will bring down the British Empire, still I foresee dark doings and troublous times for many interests and for the land that is so dear to us whom fate condemns to so many years of exile.
I wish to heaven that England would take time by the forelock, and of herself stop the growth of Opium before...
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