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and obstruction, they will greatly retard the progress of their country, and probably embroil it once more,
sooner or later, with several
chief European towers. If
on
of
the
the
other hand, the future rulers of China adopt what is well-known to be the policy of their ablest Statesman at the present day, Li Hung Chang, and regard as one of the lessons taught by the recent war the expediency of entering fully into the comity of nations, of introducing fiscal
and
N
and administrative reforms into
the Imperial and Provincial administration, and of developing The vast resources of the Empire
then the painful by railways, then the
in
experience of the French hostilities will not have been suffered
observe generally that
vain.
I may
the fresh experience of every day
the views expressed in
confirme
my previous despatches
on this
on
x" subject, and especially in N. 89 of the 23rd February ultimo, which should be read together with
this
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