Through their natural affinity for the Chinese and their connection with many of H.E Chang's pupils who wers educated here, the Japanese are thoroushily an fait of the Reform movement in Central and Southern China and are only surprised that it cannot give a better account of itself. The men who are at the head of it, are not fools. On the contrary—so Tam told—they are well-brought up, well-educated, intelligent men, whose courage and patriotism no one can deny, though of common senso and discretion they appear to have amon; the lot of them an extremely limite supply. What is very important in a matter of this kind,{they have at their backs a large number of wealthy merchants who are ready to give them substantial contributions in case they nct and act sensibly. Very many people in China and everywhere else would like to see them succeed and they have many followers, but unfortunately their organisation seems to be either as fissiparous as Trish Party or to consist of sections which, though they have the sume aims, do not act in unison and have never apparently heard in some cases of one another's existence.
THE AMOY TROUBLE, The fact that all the Consuls protested against the Japanese landing troops at Amoy makes yood many patrio's in this city smart. The Russians, the English and the Germans ein send troops to any part of China they like without string the consent of Jxpan to their intentions," say they, but Japan cannot even prepare send solilivrs to Amoy, where her interests are enormous, for Amoy is really the port of Formosa, without everyone. shrieking Shands off It is to the credit of the Japanese, however, that though thus repulsed, they keep on the whole—the cooler heads among them do at least—their temper. T heard one of them admit for instance that the Governor. General of Formosa acted hastily in making prepa s to send troops to the mainland, and acted without authority. But even they admit thas i of the gallantry anid, what is more praiseworthy fur, the self-restraint of the Japanese troops in Ninth China, the Christian Powers still nourish an arrigre pense with regard to the newly admitted member of their circle and are still influenced to a considerable extent—th ugh they may not show it—by those peculiar ideas in connection with Jap for which papers like the " Specrator" and senimentalists like Mr, Mitford and Canon McColl are notorious,
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