text:  For what are _consuls?_ They have no power of communicating even with the provincial officers: or if this should now be conceded they have none with the government at Pekin: and may we not fear that the Chinese will continue to force away gradually by effectual but invisible obstacles the trade from the ports now ostensibly opened to us?" The gentleman from whose long and very able letter we have quoted this paragraph takes a somewhat disheartening view of the treaty and its probable observance and consequences