The sudden recall of the Chinese students was a painful surprise, not only to the boys themselves, to their tenchers who have from the first taken o great interest and pri their progress, and to their American cla mates, but algo to the New England families and towns in which their bright faces, cour-toons monera and evident eagerness to Team ong since made them favorites, 0 all int gent well-saw in the establishment of the educa.
Mission a proof that an enlightened and.
ited policy was henceforth to prevail in the courses of the great government of eastern Asia, Cho regret at what has hap. pened is lightened by a belief that the Poking authorities have acted hastily, upon gcoss misrepresentation of the facts First and last, our own Bourbons have given us a grent deal of trouble, Unluckily,
Tt is found Mi countries, [ts esser Bourbouismn. fant confined to any one country. love of the old because it is old, the new because it is new, an iuhability to take in novel ideas or adapt itself to changed conditions, a stupidly persistent effort to put the brakes on thiy forward-spinning world. And Bourboniom is. precisely the same unter miandarin's button ax under a atovepipe hat equally offensive nud equally incurable, The Chinese Lourhona were compelled by the Law of their nature to make war upon Enucatioual Mission. It was a now thing. They did all they could to prevent the trying of thy experiment, They prophesied all manner of evil to flow from it. Thanks to the por-severing efforts of Yung Wing and the in Hueuce of that jaded statesman, the Viceroy Li Hw, they wore over ruled, and the Misviou was oatablished. Ever me it has been an eyesore to them-—an eye re and, we may infer from the result, target into the bargain. At last they have carried their point, for the time being atleest but how?
An apparently well-informed and trustworthy correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from ai 13th July, adliems that about 6 \d_a hill ngo, Woo Kit Logan to send back unfavourable and alarming reverts about the Mis Te was a mistake, according to Woo, things were going from bad to worse, any halfway attempt to mend them would be ineffectual, the only thing to be done was to fetch the boys back to China, Naturally, thave reports caused diaguietude at Peking, and about the firat of the year the ivaad of the Chinese legation in Wash Chin Lan-pin, was inuteucted to the matter. According to the Horal respondent, Chin Lau-pin made this oxtraordinary report Me, Woo ways:—" Although the boy have not learned all the wsoful atte and sciences, they hive already adopted all the d custome." From what Mr. Woo says I judge that this Mission sell be of more harm than advantage to the Chinese government, There is no need for the boys to stay longe for they have such beginnings of kaowle that on their return to China they can perfect themselves. I judge that the Mission should be abolished immediately."
The letter was printed in the Herald on 23ed Aug. If any of the statements made in it hiad been grossly inexact, if Chin Lan-pin had been mivquotod and misrepresented, we should have had the contradiction and corre tion before now. We may assume, therefor that both the statements and the quota fro substantially accurate, And it w the strength of these reports of Woo, thu: unreservedly and emphatically and Chin, that the Chi is order recalling the boys and discontinuing the Mission, Several questions suggest themselves. How did Woo find out that the boys hal "already adopted all the bad oustonis" of the Amorieuns, He ts said to he a scholar of high rauk, OF course be speaks the scholastic or literary loot, He oan hardly have obtsiued hie information, then, from confessions made to
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