The text of our recent Treaty with China has just
been published. England agrees that decennial missions shall be sent from Burmah to China to present articles of local produce, the members of the minions to be of Burmese race. China agrees that as regards the government of Burmah, England shall be free to act as she chooses. A Delimitative Commission is to mark out the frontier between China and Barmah. England is to countermand her mission to Thibet ; but China is to consider arrangements for facilitating frontier trade between India and Thibet. The Treaty is another instance of how dogged is the persistence of China in all her claims of sovereignty,—a per- sistence only equalled by that of the Papacy. China never has got, and never will get, anything out of her claim on B nrmah ; but she would make any sacrifice rather than resign it.
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