Sone additional information has reached us about recent events in Corea, It appears that for some time past Mr, Yaon Shi-kai, the Ohinese represent 6 in Soon! has been carrying things with o very high band, and us intorferred in every poasibl the affairs of government, anid, frequently threatened the King th dopusition, making his position that of every adviser and official intolerable, and he has often menaced them with threats of bringing a large force from Chit When this had gone on f and the King and hie Ministers i conte and their por would have been surprising had they not looked about for help danger. hey were, in fact, driven to ok aid somewhere, and there is no probability in the King, and some of his advisers, having tried to bargain with Russia, We have not heard that any sotual communications were opened between the Corean Court and the Russian representatives; they may have been; and, if they were, the brow beaten King and hig friends cannot he much blamed, Russia ie always near at laud when such events are going on as those which have been transacting in Seoul under the direction of Mr. Yuen; her fleet, is we may say, within bail, and, for her own objects, she would rejoice if appeal from the King gave ber a legitimate opportunity of interfering in the affaire of the Kingdom. The end of such interference would, to say the least, be very unsatisfactory to China and Japan. It we suppose that after Russia bad re the King of Corea from the bullying of Mr. Yuen, she contented herself with keeping the Court and nation in a state of tutelage, and taking to herself the most eligible port for a naval station, with-some adjustment of iuterritory, we shall probably understate the results of her being called in as a Shi friend.: Bat even if the consequences wore less than these, in what position would China then find herself among She would have lost ber stan ig and the reputation which she gained by the resolation and reasonableness whioh she displayed during the troubles with France, Of course, it would be open to her to endeavour to prevent the intrusion of Rassia into Corean affairs, by fores of arms, But she la not the least likely to do that. The rulers at Pekivg know quite well that their official finances and tle condition of the people require country shall rest for some ye after the expenditure which the greement with France involved them The expenditure which would be incurred for an expedition to Coren would be too much for the Provincial treasuries in their present deplenished condition, And then, there is the Rus-jan fleet and a Russian expedition to Corea from the north, to be taken into account. These were all possi month ago, and we are inclined to think that the dangers to the peace of this part of the world which lately sprang up were altogether owing to the conduct of the Chinese Representative at Mr. Yuen Shi-kai, Within elf, and among the ooantry coast people near the Onpital Mr. Yuen Shi-kai created such a strong anti-Chinese feeling, that when Li Hang-chang sent over a body of sold somewhere between three and handred mon—the Corean population refused to allow them to laud, and they wore taken back to Port Arthur, the place from whence they hind come. Thus, the intolerable Chi representative, who had threatened the King with dethronement by Chinese arms, had to see the force he bad called for sail homewards, without being allowed to land on the shore of a coun. try, which his Emperor claims as a tributary. The position cannot have been a satisfactory one to Li Hung-chang and the Teung-li Yawn; it was in troth as andiguified, in a small way, as they could have been placed in by the people of " despised natio It is the first fruit of Mr. Yaen Shi-kai's recent conduct; and it will be well for China if care is taken that there shall be no more of the same kind. It is pretty certain that Li Hung-chang has now been made throughly acquainted with the trae state of affairs in Cores, and the necessity for a complete change being made in the conduct of Chinese offal iked. A wenk country like Corea vires the interference of ambitious neigh-bona, and such a place as Port Luznretf tempts such @ country as Russia, und it should appear a serious condition of affairs to Chinese statesmen, when parting with a commanding position on their coast appears to the Curoans not to be too much to give for relief from the degradations flicted on them. If Chiva doe not which the Chinese Rep
soon repair her recent errors in her de 6 with Cores, it may be that other foreign oonutries, besides Russia, will interfere, so as to safeguard rheic interests in these parts and in the
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