His Execlleney Li Hung-chang will leave England to-day for New York; he expects to sail from Vancouver on September 14th and to arrive September 28th in Yokohama, where the China Merchants' s. Kwunglee will be waiting to convey him direct to Tientsin. Should this programme be carried out the Grand Old Globe-Trotter will be with us on or before October 10th.
He will find under water a large part of the province he governed so long, and the Peiho in some places a mere streak of damp sand, in consequence of which the willows along the Bund will be hung with the hnxps of a sorrowful foreign community. The Viceroy Wang has boon reduced three steps," because he did not prevent the overflow of the Yungting river; the provineial treasury is impoverished, and. extensive relief must be prepared for the sufferers from the floods.
All this is nothing new in China. Calnmities are the natural heritage of misrule in this country, and one public misfortune succeeds another as the inevitable consequence of official blindness and neglect. Many of these calamities are preventible, and the worst of them might be mitigated by taking the proverbial stitch in time.
But poor old China "like a wounded snake drags its slow length along the body politic is atrophied and has made no response even to the powerful stimulus of a disastrous war. It seems doubtful if there will be time to prevent the country can' be Obtained and foreed down the from dropping to pieces before remedies
protesting throat, Another great opportunity will. present itself to H-E. Lion his return from the West. If he is restored to power, will he rise to the occasion and apply his now experience to the improvement of his country? Will he bravely devote his remaining energy to the Herculean labours that stagger the senses of any would-be reformer of China? Will he call to his aid a class of men who will reverse old conditions and work for country first and pocket afterwards Age and infirmities may weigh heavily upon the returning statesman, but he has yet much mental vigour and'an unbroken spirit; if he has also the will and courage needed in China, above all places, by an Active reformer, he may organise and start the forward movement which may then be easily carried on by younger men.
There are signs in Peking indicating the preparation of the fatted ealf.—Peking and Tientsin Times, 22nd Aug.
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