journal is filling a much-needed want; it has been supplying the Court and Ministers with correct news from the Treaty ports and from abroad. Every item possessing political importance or affecting the interests of China is translated in an accurate and neat manner from a large number of newspapers published in China and abroad and in this manner is an educator of the ideas of the much defogged and conceited mandarins of Peking. Chinese mandarins will thus be able to see themselves as others see them, and the articles on the future of China in the foreign papers must have been regular eye-openers to the officials, It is a pity that with the illimitable opportunities possessed by the vernacular papers published in Shanghai and Canton, the editors and transators of these papers neglect to publish translations of the leading articles of foreign newspapers which so freely discuss the rtitioning of China, her needs, wants and future status, if the Imperial dynasty does not conscientiously and strictly enforce reform in the empire. For all these native sapers, especially those published in Shang-ai are eagerly read by the high mandarins of Peking, and if the editors will but know this, their papers seem to influence the former more than. they' would. 9 parently e to themselves. This education has been unfortunately left to the youngest of all native newspapers, whose influence is limited by the censorship exercised over it by ELE. Sun Chia-nai, ex-Imperial Tutor.
28th May.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.