From an American paper, we gather that Mr. Anson' Burlingame died suddenly at St. Potersbirgh, Febraary 22nd. Minister Curtin takes charge of the remains, in connection with members of the Chinese Embassy. The body isto be embalmed and Tie in state at the American legation, and to be sent to America in charge of representatives of both China and the United States. Negotiations commenced with the Czar of Russia will be completed by the Embassy, and they, then return to China, It is understood that Mr. Burlingame caught a heavy cold which culminated in a gongestive "chill resulting in his. death. 'The California China Mail, writing on the subject says:—We must all, whatever be our views of what is know as the Bur-Tingame policy with regard to China, sin-corely deplore the death of the man' who inaugurated it. Anson Burlingame was the representative of a peculiar set of ideas, in which we may or may not concur; but he was also' representative American, and one of America's best and noblest representatives: His voluntary surrender of his diplomatic character so far as. regards official connection with the United States Government, and his assumption of a_similar one in the service of the Chinese Empire, did not alienate him from us, -and'there were not wanting those who believed that the good of the United States was his determining motive in making the change. We do not share in this view; Mr. Burlingame was actuated by a broader and a higher motive than the desire to benefit the people of any single country he looked, we honestly believe, to the of mankind; and though we cannot a that his policy in dealing with the Chinese question was in all respects a good one, there is little doubt but it contained a larger element gf pure justice and fairness than any that has yet been attempted. It is to be deeply regretted that he did not live to see it fairly tested. His death in the very middle of his great work must necossarily have the effect of greatly retarding the solution of the problem to which he was ving the best energies of a mind singular ited to. the work-—the herculean task of
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