On Friday morning we published the suggestion of a Correspondent that foreign residents in China should com= bine to place on record some suitable taemorial to the man whose name is as flitch revered by the Chinese people, from the highest to the lowest, as by his own countrymen. That some such step should be taken no one, we should think, is likely to dispute; Shanghai could do no greater honour to itself than by paying honour to the memory of General Gordon. Much difference of opinion, however, will no doubt be found to exist respecting the exact form that such a memorial should take, The erection of a monolith, something after the style of that which already de in commemoration of Mr, A. R. margary, would, no doubt, be a fitting and graceful tribute to departed worth, and this suggestion is likely, on the fage of it, to meet with most favour. But there are two considerations to which we invite attention before any definite proposal is submitted to the public for approval, In raising monument to a dead man it is only right and proper that the character of the man we seek to honour should be taken into account, and, in a measure, consulted; and it may fairly be ques. tioned whether one so utterly solfdenying and self-effacing, 80 indifferout to praise or blame, and fall of so stern a sense of simple daty, as the Into hero of Khartoum would attach much weight to the "storied arn and auitunted bust." In the second place it would be well to find out something about General Gordon's survivors. If ang of his near relatives are in straitened circumstances—and we know that Gordon cared absolutely nothing for money, and never saved a penny—it would not be out of place to consider how far, consistently with delicacy, we could impart @ practical and utilitarian form to the contributions we propose should be raised, Chat the more immediate relations of General Gordon will be pensioned it is scarcely possible to doubt; that, however, need not tie our hands in any way, still less need we regard such a probability as relieve ing us of what is, ina very speoinl sense, a duly, The Chinese will beyond question erect a Memorial temple to their dead friend, and it ie right and just that they should do so. With that we have nothing personally to do. In the meantime, therefore, we invite suggestions from such of our renders as may feel interested in the subject, and, pon the forma. tion of a Committee to adopt the re. quisite measures, shall be Lappy to take obarge'of any subscriptions (hat may be sout na, and to acknowledge their reosipt in our calamus, 'I'he long friendship which subsisted between General Gordon and certain members of the Proprietary of this paper constitutes, in our view, a sufficient ground for our coming forward at this time, and proposing to render such protance to the cause in haud og may lie within our power,
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