An additional scrap or two of news from China corroborates
two facts hinted at before, but not adequately conveyed by the last Indian papers,—that the supplementary treaty concluded by Sir HENRY POTTINGER has in some way been garbled; and that the Americans are busily at work in the market that we have opened. The French, too, are coming. America has yet to show her ca- pacity for establishing a permanent footing in foreign countries ; France has shown her incapacity ; but both countrics can make trouble, and English officials must be wary. "Be just, and fear not." As to the garbled treaty, the assumption is that Sir HENRI POTTING= signed it under some deception by A mistranslation: but if there is any garbling at all—for the authenticity of the tale is very doubtful—it has yet to be shown that it has not been per- petrated since the act of signature. Those who would garble be- fore must be quite capable of forging afterwards. In any case, however, the public will need to be assured of the energy, vigilance, and tact of those who manage British affairs in China : no man who cannot steer his own course among them, unbaffied by the shifts of the Celestials, should be suffered to remain a day.
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