Wie letter from a Chinese correspondent at Tientsin which we print this morning, to toss aside the sucked rinds if she thinks fit." So she has, if she carries out her engagements with them first but what class of servants does she expect to get in the future, if they know that they will be thus unceremoniously "tossed aside" as Captain Long has'
Tséng's death: there is nobody now in Peking who takes the least interest in it, or cares the least what becomes of it. For the moment there is no foreign question pressing on the attention of the government at Peking, and the party that asks only to "stand on the subject of the resignation of; been? jon the ancient ways" has got the upper Admiral Long, is an able defence from But our correspondent's letter is hand. The indifference that the Viceroy the Viceroy Li's point of view of the founded on a complete misconception.
Li displayed the other day at the de-action of that official: whether it is Captain Laug was neither a naval in-' struction of a large part of the railway inspired or not we have no means of, structors nor naval adviser to Admiral is a sign of the times, Since the Mar-knowing, but we would prefer to believe Ting. Tudeed ina quite recent number quis Tstug died, there is no one to that it is an honest expression of the! of the Peking Gazette he is called the urge the country forward: he himself writer's conception of Admiral Long's "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" of th afraid to do much, but his influence position. It is founded, however, on a Peiyang squadron, When at Lord Salis- was on the right side, The outlook complete misconception: it is kinder to bury's solicitation he consented to rejoin uow is as unpromising as it can_ be. call it that than to say, as we should the Chinese service, he stipulated and Even the most ardent admirers of the have to do if the letter were inspired, agreed distinctly with the Viceroy Li that Viceroy of Chihli must be a little misrepresentation.
Our correspondent he was to be in all respects Admiral'T'ing' shaken by the duplicity he has shown begins by claiming, as he has a perfect equal, with "the say," 4 it is called in; in Admiral Long's case; a duplicity ight to do, that the Chinese side of the commercial parlance. The whole ex-; which he and his Admiral Ting will ease should be heard before the final ecutive was to be in his hands, but both not improbably regret before very judgment is passed; and his defence Aduiral Ting, to save "the face" of; long. amounts to this; that Captain Long Ute Chinese, was to bu Wis uumimal never was appointed Admiral in the equal. All orders from the government;
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.