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signed yesterday.
very
By this
new
Treaty
France, after all her great expenditure of blood and treasure, has gained
little beyond what she might have secured through the treaty negotiated by M. Bourrée two __
and soarsely anything
years ago,
beyond what she had
actua
astually ~
scoured by the Fournier Convention
of last.
last year.
On the other hand,
it is certain that the late war
has materially strengthened the : Chinese Empire, by fostering
a
Common
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common
spirit of patriotion throughout
the nation, and by proving that ~
China is now able to
offer
a.
formidable resistance to a first- class European lower. It has __
been truly remarked here that the
ultimate result of the events
will depend
the last two
chiefly
Men in
years
on the character of the
of
authority at Peking. If they
should allow themselves to be
a semi-barbarous
puffed up by a
-pride, and if they should revert to the old policy of exclusivenees