In the interior of China the term Middle Kingdom, Ff [if], seems to have some show of appropriateness, for te imperceptible morements of events indicate that here we are near the hub and far from the dizzy rim of hubbub, whirl, and change. Weeks have passed and' we do. not even know whether Italy has established aguatter sovereignty at Sanmén Bay, or whether England has annexed Honan and catablished come more "treaty ports" 2 thousand miles from water, and France has flung her flag high among the Southern Clouds (Yunnan), and the kings of Abyssinia and Dahomey have received their due share in the general game of grab. Poor old China! "Where the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." These must be uneasy days for the honour able old Indy at Peking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.