2th Aug.
Axove the many perplexing problems which confront the newly rescued Ministers, the foremost is the question of their own future residence. They may, indeed we hope and trust they will, come down to Shanghai for a time, to receive the congratulations and heartfelt sympathy which they and their fellow-prisoners so greatly deserve, but they can only make Shanghai their permanent abode if our port is to become the administrative as well as the commercial capital of China. There is no reason in the nature of things why the centre of trade should not be the centre of empire—London is an obvious illustration—yet it is true that even in Western lands there is a tendency to keep the two apart. In China, moreover, quite other considerations Hosanna, oh Hosanna! Hearts that grew We do not forget the cruel ex- enter. To qualify for the honour of Sick with the agonies of hope deferperiences of others. The stories of being the chief seat of government, red, suffering which have reached us from q Chinese town must at least have Faint with the long vicissitudes all parts—losing no jot of their attained to the dignity of a fu city, of strife, vivid reality by reticence in the and should by preference be a fw that Quicken to ecstasy and beat anew. telling—have not left us unmoved. has served, at some time or other, as One same supreme desire their Our sympathy and our indigna-an imperial residence. Shanghai pulses stirred, tion are strongly aroused, our ad-possesses neither qualification. She Lo, it is come and is a tree of life. miration goes out unrestrained and is monely a hsien, and has never been willing to those who have suffered 18-8-00. even visited, as far as we can dis-insult, torture, and that death which cover, by any of the long line of SvasTiKa. is martyrdom—for a cause. But Chinese Emperors. But if'we are to therein is no reason that we should by precedent, the choice of a not rejoice when those that were capital is limited indeed. Omitting,
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