PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF THE CIIINA QUESTION.
THE great importance of " the Opium War " question, not only as respects the national honour and interests, but as it affects the existence of the present Government, induces us to reprint from the colonial Gazette of the lath of last December, a paper evi- dently written by a master of his subject, in which those who wish to stop the war will see how to accomplish their object without offence or injury to anybody, excepting only the Ministers who have got the country into this mess. We present it to our readers as a practical suggestion, which meets every intrinsic difficulty of the China question. Those difficulties which, being of a personal nature, are foreign to the question itself, relating only to the " two -
eyed peacocks' feathers " of' certain lords, were naturally over- looked by the no-party journal from which we quote. The plan here suggested is precisely in accordance with the principle laid down by the Duke of WELLiNorors, in the only statesmanlike do- cument proceeding from the British Government to be found in the volume of Papers relating to China.
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