A corres; a Japanese student in America, With respect to the recall of the ts, there is a division of opinion, lat some say they will be sent to England, France and Germany to learn mil tary and naval tactics, others say that their sojourn among' foreigners was thought to be subservient to the introduction of Christianity into China, and lest a political innovation shoutd be effected in the Flowery Land, they were ordered to return. Most probable of all these is that last year an officer from China arrived at Hariferd to inspect how the students were learning what they were sent there for, and found to his surprise and disgust—as ho thought with a pure oriental heart. that the students had cropped off their pig-tails and attired themselves in foreign costunies. He immediately communicated to the Chinese Govermuent that the dents were all relishing the republican it of America, and should be recalled, No doubt, these toilers of Western civilization were sent to acquire Western knowledge and then to return China and act as leaders of their brethren and to awaken them from their lethargy. True the Chinese Government is generous in educational matters, and allows all the students thirteen or fourteen years for studying abroad, besides being taught in C! i first time the Government announced its intention for sending students abroad, there were no candidates from among the respectable classes applying for appointments, consequently the present students, almost all of whom were intorpreters in the open ports, were appointed come hither Such "being the case, their conduct is very unworthy, and.in fact they are not at all fit for military and naval study, These students, we hear, when political matters, and like topics of high senso are talked of, go to sleep and do not pay the least attention, A Chinese official belonging to the educational com-advertised that no shop-keepers were to sell goods to the students on credit, and at the same time declared his irresponsibility for any loan contracted by them. We pity the Chinese government that they committed such an error in selecting the students. To maintain the country free from coercive measures of the European Powers, it is important to select able and send them to foreign countries where they can acq) complete knowledge of Western civiliza tion. For our own part, we Japanese students will do well to assist the Chinese students i 4 up the same hill of Western science, It will not be zood for us to despise them.—Japan Herald,
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