According to a Shanghai telegram, the British Government has sent a message to Li Hang-chang to the following effect It is absolutely necessary for China that the Emperor should recur to Peking as soon as possible. This measure will prevent the partition of the country. Upon arriv:
at Peking His Majesty will be} furnished by the atiies with' sufficient eds. The leaders of the Boxers and rioters are to be handed over to the -esentatives of the Allied Powers, Tne following note is fromthe " Japan Mail Perhaps ths most remarkable discovery jo ror made in Ameriet was the diminutive of horses found recently near a great sks in the wills of Wyoming. The tiny qutines, though less than two and a half feet high, were perfect specimens of fully niture horses. Exact images of fine horseflesh as sven to-day, theyjwere novertheless smaller than any pony living at present. Amazement filled the minds of the scientific men who found the little rumals. Thousands of them inhabited the shores of the lake, yet they have never been found elsewhere. Perhaps some choice food peculiarly adapted to their needs grew only along its shores. It is doubtful if they were ever ridden by man, and certainly " human of normal size would never have attempted to bestride so small creature, If dwarfs rode upon the lillie pation steeds, no traces of their presence lave yet been found, Tue "Japan Mail" prints a summary of an interview granted by Miss Macdonald, daughter of H. M. Representative in Peking" toa member of the staff of the Asihi." The fact that Miss Macdonald is somewhere about six years old accounts for the following; statement which closes the summary When the tire of the Chinese slackened, the beleaguered folks organised a social entertainment to: keep up their spirits, and
Empress Dowager, no other kind of food feasted upon the water-melons sent by the or drink being available.
Tae following isa rather'amusing extract from the Japan Times"
A big water-fall is reported to have been lately discovered in the solitude of the Kin-zan range in Mugi district, Mino province. The inhabitants of the place are said to be much interested in the discovery.
The mental Teondition of inhabitants of a solitude who did not know that they had a big water-fall round the corner deserves study.
A waiter in the ' Morni Post" of Gth ultimo says Mr. Bright used to urge with equal truth and earnestness in the House of Commons that there was yo such country as Indis, and no such people as the Indians. Great Britain has yet to learn that there is no such country as China and no such people as the Chinese, a fact which comes home to the traveller when he hears natives of the northern and southern portions of the vast Empire conversing with one another by means of pigeon English.
Yet we must remember that there is a solidarity of all counted as Chinese, and if natural causes are allowed to operate, of all Asiatics, against Europeans, From the recent aggressions and prttitions, Greit Britain has been excluded, for Weihaiwei is politically and strategically useless, and was taken averas a mere sham counterpoise, to lull the motion into the belief that we were playing our part in Chiva. The acts of Russia and Germany raised the present storm, When it subsides, if we are not to be practically extinguished along a coast on which we were till recently almost supreme, we must obtain the dominant position in the Yangtze Valley, and in the southern Viceroyalties, and join hands with the French in the development of such hinterland as can only approach the sea through Tonzking. If no stronger line is taken than that pursued from 1895 to the present day, the whole of the Chinese trade, which Great Britain created, will inevitably be lost to her, together with what remains of her prestige in the Far East. Only the House of Commons labours under any illusion as to the value of Weihaiwei, No one out of Great Britain doubts the immense importance of the acquisition of Port Arthur, or that in the action of Russia really is to be found the explanation of the sudden upr ing of the Dragon which was thought to be dead.
A recent issue of Hearth and Home' has the following notice of Mr. Chas. Heidsieck's generous contributions to the sick and wounded in South Africa and elsewhere. Me. Heidsieck's new brand "Cuchet Imperial, " many cases of which he has presented' to the French Bos; ship out here, should become very popular in China, Hearth and Home" says The arrival in London last week of Mr. Charles Heidsieck, of Rheims, brought to our shores a geutlemnan who has contributed most liberally to many of the war charities. He is the senior partner of the famous Rheims firm, who own the brand of champagne familiar to lovers of good wine as Charles Heidsieck. Mr. Heidsieck can trace back his ancestral line to a date even
discovered the secret of making sparkling far remote that the monks lid but just wine, He entered at an early age the firm of which his father (also Charles Heidsieck) was head, and by a remarkable aptitude for business and hard work, soon made the reputation of the brand renowned throughout the world, He is familiar with' a number of languages—a most important thing for a champagne shipper—and ho acquired his knowledge of these tongues, at first hand, each in its own country." Indeed, ho isan officer on the staff of the French army, and is oficial interpreter for the Eastern division, He has always had a great sympathy for England as his pleasure ground, and this, no doubt, has inspired his generosity to the war charities. 'To all the Government hospital ships, the 'American Ladies' hospital ship Maing, the Princess of Wales' hospital ship, the Prince Christian's ambulance train, many of the field hospitals at the front, and to Netley, has Mr. Charles Heidsieck freely and openhavdediy sent his famous wine: he has also been most generous in contributing the several big bazaars and other turms of aid for the sick and wounded, either sending a donation in kind or a valuable cheque.
Gotrens will be interested in knowing that Messrs. Anderson, Anderson, and Anderson, of St. Paul's Churchyard, London, have invented an improved machine that makes it perfectly feasible to ploy a golf match ina room. "The Daily Express" gives the following account of match played on the 2nd ult. between J. H. taylor, the open champion, and J. Braid of Romford Something quite new in "ye ancient and Royal game of golf" was witnessed in
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