and &. C&C. QAZK K—Per Ai num, Taels 12; Six Months, Taels 6.; Three Months, 3.50—ail payable in ad vance. Credit price, Tls. 13.15 per Annum Subscriptions will be considered as renewed unless siotice to the contrary be given before the expiry of the current term, Sone three months ago the Rev. Timothy Richard published in the Messenger the following summary of the Regulations for the residence of missionaries in the interior issued by the Chinese Government in the Viceroy Li Hung-chang's book on Foreign Relation:
1.—That no land in the interior is to be sold to foreigners as such on any condition whatever.
2.—That land for mission purposes can be sold if it is clearly stated in the agreement by whom it is sold and that it is for the use of the " Chinese Christian Church,"
3.—That before this can be done the local magistrate must be first consulted and, after he has satisfied himself that the' people of the place have no objection, then he may permit the sale.
4—But whenever a man sells or rents houses or land to a foreigner without consent from the local mandarin, he is to be at once seized and punished for it.
Mr. Richard points out that according to these Regulations, the missionary's right to reside in the interior depends on the good will of the mandarins and people, and not on the MPreaties. This, we believe, is accepted by the older missionaries in China, as it is by most of the foreign Ministers and Consuls, but Mr. Richard adds that the representatives are unanimous "in claiming from the Treaties three things at least, viz: (1) the right to propagate Christianity throughout the Empire
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