[109] A similar proposal to establish a Russian protectorate over the members of the Greek Church in Turkey is thus spoken of by Lord Clarendon: "No sovereign, having a due regard for his own dignity and independence, could admit proposals which conferred upon a foreign and more powerful sovereign a right of protection over his own subjects." [110] pp. 35-37. [111] From the latest Parliamentary Paper, containing the correspondence between the Indian and English Governments on the subject of the negotiations with China, it appears (sects. 43-50) that neither the British nor Indian Government has any objection to the ratification of the Chefoo Convention. The _difficulty is to get the other Powers to agree_. [112] Sir Evelyn Baring. Financial Statement on India for 1882. [113] A late medical missionary. [114] Brereton, p. 50. It appears, however, that there are 6,000 Christians already in Japan, the result of fourteen years' preaching. [115] Intense dislike to foreigners and foreign intercourse was an ever-present reason for condemning a drug which, more than anything else, kept the gates of the empire ajar to the "foreign devils."--_Opium Question Solved._ [116] Comm. on E. I. Finance 1871, Q. 5831. [117] The same who has lately been in correspondence with the leaders of the Anti-Opium League. [118] Comm. on E. I. Finance, Q. 5834. [119] _Ibid._, Q. 5817. [120] _Story of the Fuh-kien Mission_, p. 188. [121] Capt. Hall, _Nemesis_, p. 375. [122] _Story of the Fuh-kien Mission_, p. 252. [123] _Times_, Aug. 22, 1882. [124] _Times_, Aug. 22, 1882. [125] _Times_, Aug. 22, 1882. [126] Brereton, p. 68. [127] See minute by Sir William Muir, Feb. 1868. [128] Speech at Newcastle, 1880. [129] Malwa bears a duty of 650, but the consistence of Malwa chest is 90-95, of Bengal 70-75. [130] Owing to bad crops the revenue from opium _has_ considerably diminished in the last two years, but the present (1884) crop promises exceedingly well. [131] 1882. [132] Consul Medhurst, 1872. [133] Sir Rutherford Alcock's paper before the Society of Arts, p. 225. [134] Justin McCarthy, _History of Our Own Times_, vol. i., p. 181. [135] Parliamentary Paper, 1882. [136] The organ of the Society. [137] Sir Wilfrid Lawson on the Egyptian War. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Footnote marker [52] does not appear in the original text. The placement is a best guess based on the spacing of the text. In footnote 102, the symbol representing "therefore" has been replaced by [therefore]. Punctuation has been corrected without note. The following misprints have been corrected: "potitical" corrected to "political" (page 52) "are are" corrected to "are" (page 59)