THE CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW. No V. OCTOBER 1876. ART. I.-THE OPIUM TRADE WITH CHINA. 1. The Friend of China. The Organ of the Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade. (Published by King, Canada Buildings, King Street, Westminster, and by Partridge, Paternoster Row.) 2. British Opium Policy, and its Results to India and China. TURNER. (Published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co.) THE Gazette and the Essay, which are named at the head of this article, are the publications of the Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade with China. They belong, therefore, to an avowedly propagandist literature, and must challenge the suspicions which are sure to greet all propagandism; but they are named here because they at least have the important significance, that an old and familiar scandal, long suspected, long shrugged out of court, has at last succeeded in making itself heard and felt in a definite and energetic shape. A Society has been formed, which has resolved to see the scandal through; a literature has been started, which is determined to secure a sifting of the charge against England. The question, then, is not to be repressed; it is gaining, not losing, life; it is coming forward publicly in the House of Commons, and in the press. It may be well for all men to consider what they are going to do in this matter. It may be that some people will be surprised to see the introduction of a subject such as the Opium Trade with China into the pages of a Church Review. It has become so easy for us to separate Church and State in idea, so natural to |