WE continue to receive letters from the North full of the Russo-Corean affair, one and all of which point to the probable advent of very serious difficulties between Russia and the two Powers most interested in the preservation. of Coren's integrity aa a nation. It ie unnecessary xt the present janoture of the dispute to waste much time upon the conduct imputed to Herr von Millendorff, If indeed that gontlem lias been guilty of the treachery Inid charge from many quarters, own head will lie the consequences of his action. It is generally ved that the Dai In Kun will shortly be permitted to return to Corea and the day on which his Highness arrives in Seoul will probably be 'a dangerous ove for the vowly created "Baron." The King, by all accounts, la a man of almost imbecile timidity and weakness, and, we may well believe, has been little more than " poppet in the bands of the foveiguer who is accused of having sold his country to the Czar, But the ex-Regent of Coren is the bead and front of the Patriotic Party, and if ander the circumstances the Chinese Government deems it good policy to send him back to Corea—to use him, in fuct, very much as it has used the ex. rebel Liu Jong-fa in Tonquin—me see @ revolution far more serious than any of the outbreaks that have hitherto occurred in Soon!. In such a ease the position of Herr von Méllendorfé would be perilous in the extreme, Ho has al-braved one grant danger, supposing all we have beard is true—for what could be more audaciously courageous than to conclude a Treaty consigning Corea to the protectorate of Russin while the Chinese and Japanese gar-risens were atill in Seoul? Bat the contingencies of the future are infinite. ly graver, and auloss the capital is tunily invested with Russian troops it is difficult to see how any foreigner can be considered safe ander the ciroumstances that we are supposing. However, all this has not much bearing upon the actual point at issue, which is,—will China and Japan tawaly submit to an arrangement by which a defenceless country, conterminous with one and li immediate proximity to the other, passes under the dictation of a Power which las been long feared by both? We believe that they will not, and our oon. viction is borne out by every letter that we receive fromthe North. The assurance repeatedly revokes us tut the spirit of China has been really roused: that war. like measures are being concerted and bat troops are being-so tively massed upon such. pointe red most important from-a view. Further, we-are tuid thet the Inpinese and Chinese Gov-, ernments are upon a footing of mutual action of Russia in Corea does not form chief topic of thecouversations which take place almost daily between the Iapaneso Minister and Li Chung-tang. The United States has also an interest in the affair, The estublivhment of first-class Europenn Power itt the Paoifie would, we believe, onus the most serious dissatisfaction in Washington, and whatever may be the outcome of events there onn be little doubt that both Jupan and Chinw will have the moral support of President Cleveland's Cabinet in the grave polemic which there is reason to fear is now imminent between them and the Russian Goverumont,
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