which is so characteristic of the British Jegation in Peking, and although the fate ofall who attack the circumlocution office has overtaken him, we cannot but hope that his zeal and pre-eminent abilities will ensure him a high position in the service. The Kueichou officials appear to have taki the situation exactly. As soon as the rumour spread of Mr, Litton's disgrace, the Kueiyang authorities refused to carry out the terms of settlement. In a letter received from there to-day, Iam informed that nothing has yet been done in the way of punishing the guilty officials who planned and connived at the crime. The village headman, although condemned to dear for his share in the murder, has not yet been arrested; indeed, no attempt has ever been made to arrest him. fins nod been carried out, The proclama-property was to be confiscated, but this tions issued by the Governor are a fraud, and the fact of the matter is, nothing has yet been done in the way of punishing the Feal murderers, and nothing will ever be done until there is a revolution in the British diplomatic methods of dealing with this rotten and corrupt Empire. The Governor of Kueichou knows perfectly well that Consul Litton was removed from Chungking for bothering the British Legation too much about the murder of "poor missionary, and under these circumstances it is not at all likely that the Chinese officials will do anything more in the matter. The execution of the two miserable wretches who were hired for the deed is a mere sop to justice. The real culprits are still enjoying the satisfaction of having brought to grief one of the most able_and energetic men in the British Consular Service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.