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With reference to the accompanying paragraph from the "Globe" newspaper dated the 21st instant, it may be worth while to point out that Hong-Kong is not the only place where the native inhabitants live, in part, under native rule.
When she
Russia affords an excellent example. annexed the left bank of the Amur river, in the year 1858, the Chinese authorities claimed that some of the territory on the left bank should remain under their jurisdiction.
This claim was, for various reasons, allowed, the following account describes the position of affairs to-day.
The territory, occupied by these Chinese subjects (Manchurians chiefly) extends for 44 miles along the Amur, from the confluence of this stream with the Zea river, as far as the hamlet named *Nizmenna", and this territory extends to a distance of about 14 miles north of