sets back the hand on the dial of progress, and indicates some ut the difficulties which beset the path of the reformer in this dark lend, The censor who memorialised against the club represented it as desirous of establishing " parliament and subverting the Government, and denounced it as revolutionary and treas-nable. Hy" is a friend and fellow-townsman of Wong Tung. lo, and there is reason to believe that the memorial was inspired by the latter. He is no friend of progre+s; he has the ear ut the Emperor, and will selfishly use all his influence to obstruct all progress and prevent any change. The memorial urged that the leaders be handed to the Board of Punishments and their property he confiscated. Wong is, next to Prince Kung, probably the most infuentixl member of the Grand C-unoil. When the memorial came before the council, Prince Kung, after reading it, a-ked for the opinion of the Council. Not one spoke. He is reported to have called a second time for an expression, and then to have said, we will not punish them, bur only suppress the club and its organ, which was done. This action of the Prince way be taken perhaps as indicating that he is friendly rather than otherwise to this movement. - But he has been described as "sulky and indifferent," and no wonder when the vicissitudes of his career during the last decade are recalled Age and infirmity, the hatred and jealousy of bitter enemies, and the cruel treatment a corrupt and bigoted government, have unfitted him for what a younger man might do in his position, if he could read wright the signs -£ the times.
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