by China is definitely fixed. Seven hundred Chinese teachers, Doctors. M: ters, and Bachelors of Arts are to proceed at once to Russia to begin teaching the Chinese language and literature to the unenlightened serfs of the White Czar. The Russian churches throughout the vast dominions of the Emperor of all the Russias are to be converted at once into Confucian temples. Confucianism is such a pure and tender religion that it will not bear transporting across vast oceans or over arid steppes and even if it and the Chinese Janguage were taught to the Russians in China, they—the Russians—on returning to their own country would have forzottea both the language and religion of Confu-cits, hence the above arrangement. The Russians are going to don the costume which was in vogue in China in the Mongol or the Ming Dynasty and not that of the great Pure Dynasty as formerly reported. 'The yue we will therefore not adorn the Russian cranium—the cult will resemble that in vogue at present in Corea or that of the Taoist priests, the hair being fastened in a knot on the top of the head' by means of a bodkin. In order to prove the trath of these rumours, now so current at the capital, it is only to proceed to the Russian Legation to observe the transformation which has taken place in the costume of its members. After it paid it was found that the chan; t been introduced but is shortly expected. And such a subjugation of the Colossus of the North is not remarkable, for have not Tartars, Mongols, and Manchus in turn seized the Dragon Throne and in every case has not the conquered Jed their conquerors captive?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.