The McLraiths have arrived, and purpose leaving this port early next week for Suifu, They carry the wheels of their bicycles in a kang, and the rest. strapped on to a horse, thus being able to exhibit then when wished in the various yamens, where they put up. For being American citizens, they are farnished with a passport giving them the rank of a Fu, thus enabling them to avoid the filthiest inns, and entitle ing them at each hsien city to a gift of silk equivalent to their expenses to the next haven, as also to a Chinese banquet, which Inst they seem so far greatly to enjoy. Thus the glory of the 7,000 bicyclists who assembled to see them off at Chicago hangs round them still. Bat on the whole, although so much honour to the enterprising advertising agent of a bicycling firm, as well as newspaper correspondent, seems a little out of place, it is perhaps more reasonable than the ordinary passport given to English subjects, assigning them Precisely the same rank as travelling pedlars and no more, and thus in intention and beforehand exposing them to what must seen like slights and insults to those who are at home not accustomed to so subordinate a position. We look with especial interest at Liv, or Leo as the Meliraiths call their Boy, " Boy of many steamers and lately the Ciingico, as what Leo does not know can hardly figure in the forthcoming book upon the "Inner Life of the People of China" and what Leo tells will. We feel that the book may contain many statements new to old sidents, and Leo in the ted jacket" as an author and sure of his Public becomes Ziajn a Chinese red waistcoat he looks innite an. interesting character. Even as telligent, whilst, performing the humble services of the table, unaware of the fashion after which his views-of life are about to be proclaimed to all between the four seas. 'I have perfect confidence in Leo," says the correspondent of the Inter-Ocean. And we hope Liu may continue to merit this, whilst far from boats and steamers ho conducts his employers across Lord Salisbury's valley of Yunnan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.