Tue Reuter's telegram that we publish this morning tells us that it is declared at Washington that the Powers are not yet agreed as to the amount of the indemnity, although China has offered 450 million taels. This haggling over the amount of the indemnity is not very dignified, especially as some of the claims seem inordinately large. Our Téngchoufu correspondent suggests in a letter which will be found in another column \that the indemnity should be reduced on condition that part of the amount waived should be used in establishing 1 provincial college under foreign control in each of the eighteen provinces. Our correspondent sustains his suggestion by really forceful arguments; but we would go even farther than he does. We would recommend that Great Britain should forego her share of the indemnity altogether—and we have little doubt that the United States would follow suit,—only providing that China should devote a reasonable sum to the extension throughout the Empire by colleges and schools of the knowledge of Western' civilisation. We do not need our share of the indemnity, and we know that the greater part of it will be wrung from the provinces which remained peaceful, and that much more will be wrung from the innocent people than will reach the Powers,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.