PREFACE. I REGRET that the circumstances under which this little book has been written, have compelled me to write so briefly of the many important subjects on which it has been necessary to touch. Especially I regret having been able to devote so little space to the consideration of the extension of the sale of English manufactured goods in China, as I find-from a review in Fraser's Magazine' of a book entitled 'Home Politics, or the Growth of Trade considered in Relation to Labour, Pauperism, and Emigration'-that new markets are more imperatively demanded for English |