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medium of exchange leaving the touch or purity of the Silver a mother of debate

کومیت بالی

every transaction," it

must not be overlooked that this

System

barbarous

grandm

otherwise,

answers its end indifferently well

far as the Chinese themselves are concerned, and it has in its favour simplicity and long established rise_ Recommendations in the Chinese

over estimated.

mind not easily Ignoring this, Mer. Kinder hav been further led, apparently by Something which passed in conversation with Mr. Wade, to conclude that the wish of the Chinese for come coinage such.

as that proposed.

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exciété as as

is

fart. I have no besitation

Saying that there is nothing of this

kind existing. On the contrary, the

great difficulty in the way of amy

a

Currency

effort to introduce a Silver in Chine arises from the fact that the want of it has not been fett by the people for whose benefit it is ostensibly designed: and that the Imperial Government has a strong conviction, well or ill-founded, that

-immediate necessity

adoption.

extensive

exists for ite The Chinese have a

very

paper currency which in many of the larger lities, and in Teking experially, meets all their wonts, and is in their opinion probabl