Tae sentence passed upon the Rey, Sergius Sultan for assault and system matic embezzlement of funds la undoubtedly a very lenient one. Accord. ing to Chinese Inw, by which he is supposed to lave been tried, he was liable to receive severe castigation with the bamboo; while lad he been brought before an English tribunal upon English soil, a prolonged term of imprisonment would have been considered no more than his jast dae. But the circum. stances ander which he was apprehended wore of a peculiar nature. There seemed to be no formal prosecutor at whose instance the arrest was made—we spank now of the charge of embezzle. ment exclusively—the Rey. Charles Judd having only consented, we believe, to appear against him at the request of the police and in the interest of public justice, None of the witnesses were sworn, and there was some shrewdness in the prisoner's refusal to recognise the right of a Chinese magistrate in Shanghai to cross.question him about what he was alleged to have dono in Austral Bat for all this the public are deeply in. debted to the police for the service they have rendered in stopping the career of one of the most plausible swindlers that have ever come to China. Ibis easy to understand the somewhat enthusiastic welcome accorded to Mr. Sultan by the clergymen and consuls whom he duped. There are few more interesting chapters in the history of Christian mins than that which deals with the introduction of the Nestorian form of Christianity into China daring the ently portion of the T'ang dynasty, he celebrated Nestorian Tablet of Hei-an Fa is certainly one of the most valaablo relics of sutiquity that hava beau found in the empire, Many are the pilgrimages that have been made by Christian missionaries, of parentage and other, to K'
Fa to investigate the remains of the Chinese Jews; and now, when a real live Nestorian, armed with the highest certifientes from Bishops and Patriarchs, an undoubted native. of Armenia, and able to discourse fluently in Latin and Syriac, presents himself on a similar voyage of discovery to the seat of the old Nestorian triumphs in China, it is no more than natural that he should be received with open arms by the clergy. The impression he seems to have made on the occasion of hia
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