An intimation was, some little time ago, given in these columns, to the effect that the Subscription List ial Fund was lying for signature Colony. Pressure of other mat-line notice, prevented a more lenge thened notice of the subject at that time; but it would not be right that it should pass without an appeal being made to the well-known liberality of the residents in Hongkong and in China in regard to a matter in which it is certain that all will willingly Participate provided attention.
it be sullicieutly prominently brought to their already known, the original idea of this subscription was simply to get up a memorial to Mr. Gibson's memory, 4o that the felings of the residents in El ith Fespect to his action during the trying times which preceded the close of his earthly career, might be recorded in a permanent manner. Since that scheme was sct on foot, it has currie out that the untimely death of t his mother and sister who were dependent straightened circumstances, The gross injustice which Me. Gibson suffered at the hands of the Home Government, and. which at the time was commented upon not only in these columns, but in those of almost every paper in China, is fresh in the recollection of the public. That and worry thereby caused hastened Mr.
death, there appears unfortunately no room to doubt; and it will be becoming for those who have been all along sensible of the injustice which he suffered, to demonstrate their conviction ins way w will beall the more forcible in that it will testify no less to the gor it heart than to the sound. neas of their Unjust censure was passed upon Mr. Gibs mply because, in a tan ful and mest spirit, he did not flinch to carry out what was is undoubted duty, and because, under trying cie-he was forced to take a course of action was passed on Mr. Gibson, public opinion on the Chins gestion, at home, has undergone a murked change, ne disingenuous pretensions of what is now deaignated by one of the most weighty and careful weekly Is as the " Burlingame Bubble," have gradually to be appreciated on their trae merits; and slowly, indeed, but still surely, free discussion has, as is always the cave, cleared up many errors which were made when the China question was first brought be fore the notice of the public. Probably in another year—perhaps even souuer-—the fallacy of the whole,
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